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DIED. MEL TAYLOR, 62, drummer for the Ventures, who were known for the theme of TV's Hawaii Five-O; of lung cancer; in Los Angeles. The Ventures' classic Surf Rider was featured in the 1994 film Pulp Fiction...
...beach. He tried to get Eric Wilson, Sublime's bass player, to join him--"It's a beautiful day out there," Nowell said--but Wilson closed his eyes and pretended to snore. It would be the last time anyone would see Nowell alive. A few hours later, Sublime's drummer, Floyd ("Bud") Gaugh, found him lying on his hotel-room bed, dead of a heroin overdose...
...both the French-Canadian Cirque du Soleil, which was a creative consultant, as well as a Brazilian samba school. Yet the two songs were written by two distinctly American composers: Summon the Heroes by Academy Award winner John Williams and The Call to the Nations by Mickey Hart, the drummer for The Grateful Dead. For the national ceremony that followed, the music went to a moving gospel version of The Star-Spangled Banner by the 300-strong Centennial Choir...
...mellow sounds of the Furthur Festival, a touring concert extravaganza that will visit 31 cities this summer. Furthur--a reference to the destination posted on Ken Kesey's Merry Pranksters bus--features former Dead guitarist Bob Weir's countrified-blues group Ratdog as well as former Dead drummer Mickey Hart's percussive world-beat ensemble Mystery Box. (The lineup also includes Hot Tuna and Los Lobos.) Crowds at the shows range from teens to 60-year-olds, but most are under 30. Weir makes clear his new band is not trying to raise the Dead, but "if [fans] came...
ARRESTED. JIMMY CHAMBERLIN, 32, Smashing Pumpkins rock drummer; on a drug-possession charge; in New York City. Police said backup keyboardist Jonathan Melvoin, 34, died of an apparent heroin overdose in a hotel room the two had shared...