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...past is any indication, Kaplan's ability to sniff out the truth has not been infallible. Two years ago, the Star ran a story about the slide into homelessness of Peter Criss, the former drummer for the rock band Kiss. It turned out to be a hoax...
...crossover potential of the new aural hybrids is obvious on Mickey Hart's Planet Drum, a dazzling display of rhythmic virtuosity performed by the Grateful Dead drummer and a super group of percussionists from Nigeria, Brazil and India. Planet Drum, which has been No. 1 on the Billboard World Music chart for the past nine weeks, is a rollicking time machine, at once archaic and up-to-the-second, primal and technologically smart. In songs like Udu Chant, Temple Caves and Dance of the Hunter's Fire, the players coax a torrent of tattoos and flowing rhythms from a battery...
...playground," says Chris Wink, one of the three 30-year-old New Yorkers who formed Blue Man Group in 1988. Their backgrounds are as unexpected as the show. Wink, who used to write synopses of articles for a Japanese magazine, dubs himself a "disillusioned futurist." Phil Stanton was a drummer and an aspiring actor who met Wink when they worked together for a catering company. Matt Goldman, a high school friend of Wink's, got an M.B.A. and worked as a computer-software producer before joining the group...
...reached into my pocket and pulled out two quarters. Two bicentennial quarters with the proud-looking drummer on the back. This was a truly charmed day. I pulled the plastic open with a quick, sharp snap. I then slowly separated the sticky Zoink! from the white cardboard square, leaving most of the bottom of the cake sticking on the cardboard--to be licked off later. So far, they were just like real Twinkies...
...singing that made them a stellar attraction. "The vocals," Cole said simply, "caught on." There were several shifts in trio personnel over the years (Irving Ashby, for example, took over the guitar when Moore departed in 1947), and the group became a quartet in 1949 with the addition of drummer Joe Costanzo. But through it all, Cole was the guiding spirit and main draw...