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...longer apply. In purchasing the smaller, hipper and younger Triad agency, with 50 agents and its own show-biz clients, the Morris agency pulled off a snazzy triple play. With new talent such as screen stud Bruce Willis and hot-shot musicians Pearl Jam and the Red Hot Chili Peppers, Morris instantly juices up its soft film and music divisions, raises its celebrity quotient and re-establishes its place on the top tier of Tinseltown's talent brokers, along with International Creative Management (which represents Eddie Murphy) and Creative Artists Agency (Kevin Costner, Tom Cruise). In the recession-stalked entertainment...
What would it take to get this campus to a reasonable entertainment level? Ask for it. It's that simple. This might sound like a Ross Perot platitude, but if there's one industry that only speaks the language of money, it's the music industry. The Red Hot Chili Peppers might go on the cover of Rolling Stone naked, and Nirvana might go on the cover wearing T-shirts that say "Corporate magazines still suck," but if you pay them enough money, they will give a concert wearing in three-piece suits in the atrium of the Time-Life...
...collection principally is a sampling of their second, third, and fourth albums, Freaky Styley, The Uplift Mofo Party Plan, and Mother's Milk. These, plus the first album The Red Hot Chili Peppers (which is represented by only two of the 18 songs on Hits), represent the thrash element of their music, which became overidden by funk on Blood. Hits begins with "Higher Ground," a Stevie Wonder song made heavy (and worse), then moves into four songs from Party Plan...
...play the bass as a lead instrument. The tenth and eleventh songs are "Under the Bridge" and "Show Me Your Soul," a cut from the "Pretty Woman" soundtrack, which in addition to funky guitar and an incredible bass line has some of the Chili's wittiest lyrics: "I want to know more than your brain/ Yes I find you so appealing/ When you show me how you're feeling/ You, my friend, need not be kneeling/ Open up and start revealing...Show me your soul...
...those just entering the world of the Chili Peppers, waste not a minute before running out to by Blood Sugar Sex Magik. But for those past this initial step, and begging for more, the band has created What Hits!?--a great sampling from Freaky Styley and Mother's Milk...