Word: crowds
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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...that struck me aboutShellac is that Steve Albini is the spitting imageof George Stephanopolous. There's no two waysabout it. Steve announced that the venue waschosen "to keep money out of the hands of JohnLaw." Steve spouted other pretension, deadserious. Post-representational art is lazy, hesaid. He insulted the crowd. He insisted onconfiscating all recording devices in the audienceto prevent bootlegging. He bragged about the $800drum mics. He noted that he was old enough to bethe father of all the crowd's members, which isbiologically true, but pretty unlikely...
...between, the show was impressive: liverock in the afternoon could've been awkward, butShellac's energy and enthusiasm (for the music, ifnot the crowd) carried the day. Unfortunately, asthe concert wore on, I remembered why I didn'thaul out the ol' Shellac LP that often; theirsongs are too long on record, and played live,they often stretched out to unfortunate lengths.Too, the songs tend to be remarkably similar toone another, especially when they're all reallyloud. Shellac played for about an hour and a half;I was bored silly by the end, but I'd gotten myfive bucks worth. Shellac...
...Central Ward where the Newark riots began 31 years before. The Rev. William Hayes housing projects once stood on this site, but now half these dead buildings have been dynamited into rubble and the rest wait to collapse. When I arrived at the 17th Avenue bus stop, a large crowd milled around preparing to march in memory of the uprising victims. Soon a youthful marching band, followed by dancers and brightly uniformed Little League teams, led off the procession as I joined a loose group of residents, activists, and curious onlookers who walked behind...
...upstairs windows and front doors opened in the public housing townhouses as people paused to watch the commotion pass in the street. Feeling the crescendo of noise and emotion, the drums beat a little louder, drowning out and then leaving behind the sounds of car alarms, as the growing crowd crested the hill and we marched out of Newark's past...
Because the Cambridge crowd has a reputation for questioning accepted wisdom, public figures often decide to come to the Kennedy School when they want to re-open or revitalize a national debate...