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...final track, "Change Your Ways," could be one of the most original rap songs of the summer because it uses (gasp) a real drummer, Tony "Funky Drummer" Walls. Despite LL's sappy lyrics, which sound like a rap version of "We are the World," Walls gives this song some life. Why hasn't anyone thought of using real drums before...
...example, when he needed insights on Hong Kong for his 1977 novel The Honourable Schoolboy, Le Carre devoted days to conversations with TIME Hong Kong correspondent Bing Wong. For The Little Drummer Girl (1983), set partially in the Middle East, Le Carre got useful background from Abu Said Abu Rish, a Palestinian journalist who at the time was office manager of TIME's Beirut bureau. Le Carre still treasures an unusual gift that Abu Said gave him -- a sword that once belonged to the Palestinian's father. "Have you ever tried to take a sword through security in the Middle...
...bands, the kids have stood shoulder to shoulder waiting for their favorite group. Finally, a short, well-built young man, his hair shaved severely around the sides, appears onstage. He grins demonically and defiantly surveys the crowd. Behind him a swarm of guitarists, horn players, a keyboardist and a drummer troop onto the stage. A drumbeat clears the air, and suddenly the band is cruising through the infectious opening rhythm of The Man in the Hat. The lead singer grabs the microphone and shrieks, "Heading for a meeting/ Across the frozen intersection/ On the night boulevard...
...which is in heavy supply aboard the other R.E.M. vehicles. He keeps a bottle of Evian water mixed with herbal powder close at hand and claims he can, as some animals do, anticipate earthquakes days before they occur. His house in Athens has no TV and no phone. Says drummer Berry: "The three of us are just as average as you can get, but Michael is obviously an unusual person. He is different. I don't know if he has hot water in his house even now. We would all be kind of boring if it weren...
Prezzi Bomba!, a jazz-fusion-Tibetan-post-existential-oboe-playing group takes the stage tonight at Agassiz Theater at 8:00. Assistant Professor of Music Graeme Boone, who teaches a Core course on Jazz, performs with keyboardist John Rabinowitz, clarinetist David Rothenberg and drummer Marc David Carnegie. Tickets for this performance are $5, and they can be purchased at the door...