Word: drummer
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...BABE, YOU'RE A ROCK STAR The ceiling on prices for groovy baby's wear is high. Bon Jovi drummer Tico Torres' line, Rockstarbaby, features backstage faves like leather jackets and pants. To look as hip as Ava, right: about...
...introduces herself to the caterer, to the caterer's assistant, to the guy who comes to clear the trash. "Hi, I'm Bonnie," she says, extending a hand. Tonight the entree is cod. It's an O.K. dish, but Raitt's ecstatic. "Try the cod," she tells the drummer, the bass player, everyone. "You gotta have the cod. This is the fish of the tour." The caterer beams...
...Metheny traded his acoustic for a hollow-bodied electric, drummer Antonio Sanchez and bassist Steve Rodby joined him and they launched full-bore into a frenetic Be-bop number. Metheny, in a musical stream of consciousness, let his fingers fly in electrifying perpetual motion. Then, after the applause died down and the remainder of the Pat Metheny Group took their places, the band proceeded over the next three hours to obliterate the memory of those ten glorious minutes...
...thickness and weight to it, guitars and bass frequently aligning along parallel octaves. “The Gathering Sky” for example, a cantering afro-calypso number, is less restrained live than on the album and revels in its own pure happiness. After shifting through three melodic themes, drummer Antonio Sanchez took a solo and built towards a frenetic climax where, with eyes closed, you would swear at least three or four percussionists were playing simultaneously. Keyboardist Lyle Mays adds sparse, brittle piano and in the middle of it all is Metheny...
...sexy vocals and building up to a frantic chant. The mellower “Back to the Earth,” featured a tribal call-and-response between Glabicki and other band members, with the audience joining in. About three-quarters of the way through the two-hour show, drummer Jim Donovan started a percussion improvisation that went on for over ten minutes, drawing in one band member after another until everyone on stage was part of one massive rhythmic organism. The concert peaked, however, with Root’s encore set, starting off with Mike Glabicki?...