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Baker, who once played with Sha drummer Jocko in a Boston surf band, The Pilgrims, puts entertaining above all else. He says that he gets jumpy and nervous before shows, from sheer eagerness to get on stage. And at the root of Sha Na Na'a success is this kind of feeling, combined with a real affection for the songs and routines that they perform...
...Sherrill encouraged gently, "but say 'lady' a little faster, Dave; she's a fast lady." He turned to the band. "Don't get loud there at first when you go into the five chord, because he is whispering something filthy to her." The three guitarists, drummer and bass player nodded, jotting down numbers and symbols on scraps of paper to indicate chords and dynamics...
...Houston session, when a take went well, Sherrill quoted the Bible: "And we know that all things work together for good to them that love God." But when the drummer spoiled a quiet ending by descending with a crash, Sherrill swore: "Goddam!" He then signaled a halt and went to his office to telephone his wife. "We'll be dubbing tonight," he told her. "Dave Houston can sing better than that. I'm going to get him a double Scotch and some food, then strip his voice out of there, put some headphones on him and record that...
...jubilee services in Geneva's austere medieval Cathedral of St. Pierre, the preacher who stood in John Calvin's pulpit was W.C.C. General Secretary Philip A. Potter, a West Indian Methodist and a black. When the cathedral organ was silent, Papa O'Yeah MacKenzie, a black drummer from Ghana who wore a leopard-skin jacket, played lively percussion solos...
...revealed the saddening fact that Dizzy Gillespie at age 56 is slowly losing his chops. This did not keep Dizzy from playing five tremendous measures at the end of "A Night in Tunisia," although Dizzy, in deference, let Faddis blow the famous highnote ending. Tenor saxophonist Stan Getz and drummer Blakely also were particularly strong...