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Take the lead in song, "Loveland". Clindy Wilson's torch of a voice blends in with the thick, funky beat laid down by drummer Keith Strickland and guitarist Ricky Wilson. The result is a kind of trance, similar to producer Byrne's hypnotic work on "Remain in Light," certainly not as intricate or complicated, but more minimalist and celebratory. And it makes you want to move...
Police asked the Stompers, a local band performing at the party, to turn down the volume after receiving numerous complaints from neighbors. Boston Police spokesman Robert O'Toole said Sunday. When sound manager Kevin M. Marshall refused the request, police unplugged the sound equipment and arrested both Marshall and drummer Mark Cuccinello, O'Toole added...
DIED. Sonny Greer, 78, flashy, exuberant percussionist who was the drummer in Duke Ellington's original band, and played with him for 30 years; in New York City. "I gave him a line of jive that set him back on his heels," Greer said about his first meeting with Ellington. "From that time on we were tight...
...bizarre ending for this eldest son of an Albanian immigrant who had become a Chicago restaurateur. (Another son, Jim, followed his brother into revue and TV comedy.) Always restless and volatile, John sped through a typical Midwestern youth: football, rock-band drummer high school high jinks, a brief spell at the University of Michigan. Later, he married (and stayed married to) his high school sweetheart, Judith Jacklin. In the early '70s he joined Chicago's Second City troupe, and after playing in a Manhattan revue, National Lampoon's Lemmings, was hired...
...when then President Richard M. Nixon withdrew American troops from Vietnam, the sixties ended for Tillinghast. At about the same time, he switched from drumming to Poetry, because, he grins, "I realized that I had a chance of being a good poet, but I would always be a mediocre drummer...