Word: beading
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...highway for New York City. Our manager was driving, obsessively sucking and running his forefinger through his lips. We were practicing harmony in the back seat, Tina, our fashionable black chick singer, John, our Brooks Brothers law school lead guitarist, and me. I was the lead singer of the Bead Game, and we were on our way to our first gig. Our very first gig, and it was a biggie. Somehow it had been arranged htat we, the Street Choir, and the Central Park Zoo were to go to Vogue Magazine and be photographed before an audience of managers, promoters...
Harvard students have for years dabbled with rock music and its trappings but only recently have some genuinely competent home-grown groups emerged. The Bead Game is of this new breed of serious musicians producing good rock...
...Harvard students are invited to attend a mixer tonight (Friday, July 12th) in Memorial Hall, 8-12 p.m. --featuring sounds by the Bead Game, psychedelic lighting by The Rouffignac Electric Light Harmony and free re-freshments. Admission charge plus presentation of Harvard Summer School Privilege Card or Harvard-Radcliffe Bursar Card...
EARLIER THAT DAY Waller lounged on his hotel bed, fiddling with the volume controls on a radio tuned into WBCN. He is quiet, sensitive, faintly pleased. "What do you think of American white rock, Country Joe, the Grateful Bead?". "A bit tame isn't it?" and one suddenly realized that he was right. Waller said he thought English groups were so much more aggressive and alive, able to pick up the mantle from the great black blues and rock musicians of the past because their members are all from the same particularly troubled English generation that was born during...
Troy Fleming with his concerts is thus performing as much of a service for the musicians as for Cambridge's nascent community of free spirits. "Everybody's self-conscious," says John Leone, singer for the Bead Game, about the crowd on Cambridge Common; "they can't believe Boston's so cool that this could be really happening here...