Word: combos
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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Stern Side. A burned-out cell block, still standing a decade after the riots, was replaced by a prisoner-built recreation building that has become the home of the Versatiles, an eight-man convict combo that performs at schools and other state institutions. Most important, the prison population has been reduced by 20%. Yet a truly professional administration also has its stern side. Guards, who had often snoozed in overstuffed chairs in the watchtowers, were now perched on high aluminum chairs and provided with M-l carbines and sawed-off 12-gauge shotguns in place of puny .22-cal. rifles...
...beats weren't hard to single cut. The Devils Disciples, blood-brother to the Hells Angels and the fighting arm of Boston hippy-power, had staked out their turf next to their mounts and squatted on the ground shining their Nazi helmets. Up near the Weeks bridge, a semipro combo formed the nucleus for what became an ever increasing circle of sound. There was a full set of skins, bongos, congos, a bass, sax, and crazy flutist...
...also one of the very few successful married couples in opera. Destiny, they feel, had a hand in it. Berry, 36, an alumnus of the famed Vienna Boys Choir, studied engineering after World War II, moonlighted as a jazz pianist and singer in a Vienna cabaret with a combo called the Melodie Boys. He was hopelessly inept at engineering, so his professor agreed to pass him only if he promised to give up bridge building for music. He agreed, and after three years of singing what he calls "walk-off" roles, he landed his first major part at the Vienna...
Diana Dew, 23, wears spurs, subsists on brown rice, and has a boy friend called Medulla Oblongata who blows oud for an acid-rock combo known as the Gurus. She is also, as of five months ago, a designer for the far-out Paraphernalia boutique chain. And so quickly do things happen in the mod, mod world of fashion that she has already been hailed as a major innovator, and last week was the hit of the show at Paraphernalia's Manhattan workshop...
Last week the band was getting an extra push from other recording outfits who have rushed yet new versions of Winchester to the stores. RCA Victor's group, the Palm Beach Band Boys, is actually a Manhattan pickup combo led by an RCA executive who croons while holding his nose. He must be doing something right...