Word: becking
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...traps on Beale Street, the brothers lost their first bass player, recruited their huge, beatific friend Chris Chew and hit the road again, becoming mainstays of the Mississippi-Alabama-Georgia alt-rock circuit. They radiated so much talent, innocence and enthusiasm that an impressive roster of stars--Lucinda Williams, Beck, Warren Haynes, Al Kooper, Widespread Panic--have asked one or both to sit in. And as they developed a following and played longer sets as headliners, they found themselves opening up the hill-country sound with long, Allman Brothers-style jams. "It happened by accident," says Luther. "The music just...
...those Beck fans among you, he has an eight-track B-sides album (see picture on right) out in full release in Japan. If you want a copy without having to leave the country, you can get it by mail order on his website (http://www.beckdirect.com), but it's going to cost you $31. Ouch. Wasn't the Internet supposed to save us money...
...Juliette Beck, 27, is as close to a bigwig as the movement has, but even she feels like a tiny link in the wired cosmos of antiglobalism. An organizer for Global Exchange, a San Francisco-based human-rights group, Beck arrived in Washington fresh from a 20-city road show that was organized largely via e-mail. "We got housing and food for nine people on the road," she says. "The events and the nonviolence training and the political theater--the Internet made it possible." Beck, who planned to demonstrate in costume along with 20 others in her "affinity group...
...sounds like Utopia, like Oz's Munchkinland after Dorothy squashed the wicked witch and everyone jumped up from hiding to do a dance. "People are turning out because of the Internet--they don't have to be mobilized," says Beck. One motivator, oddly, is nostalgia, an emotion that the Internet accelerates. Events in Seattle cast an afterglow that continues to spread in the retelling. Kelly Vaughan, 20, a senior at Chicago's DePaul University, recalls sitting at her computer last November poring over e-mail accounts of the frontline action. She instantly relayed the news to a list of about...
...wanting things to exist is not a platform; it's an attitude. But it will do, at least until something more positive comes along. Beck, who's already thinking beyond Washington, has her eye on this summer's political conventions. "We need a plurality of ideas. More parties," she says. "We need to break up the two-party system...