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...splits the stillness. Out of the half-light, the projected silhouette of a Piper Cub glides ghostlike across a side wall. Suddenly, sound track and silhouette become a screaming, whooshing jet that dives at the stage and disintegrates with a shattering roar in the midst of six musicians. The drummer roars back with a thumping beat. The guitarists twang away lustily. And, momentum building, voices wailing and all systems gogo, the Jefferson Airplane blasts...
...sado masochistic pornography, ranging from the Marquis de Sade to a book titled High Heels and Stilettos. Most horrifying item: a 17-minute tape of the screams and pleas of pretty Lesley Ann Downey, ending with a macabre medley of Christmas music, Jolly Old Saint Nicholas and Little Drummer...
...freak," said one bass player afterward. It was an expression of respect, for Rich has always been ranked by musicians as a drummer's drummer. They marvel at the fact that he never practices, has none of the calluses and bumps on his hands that other drummers have. Among rival stickmen, the admiration extends from old guardists such as Gene Krupa ("Buddy is the Maury Wills of the drums") to such new guardists as Elvin Jones ("His artistry is almost beyond belief"). But perhaps his most avid fans are symphony percussionists. "He's the world's greatest...
...irate bandleaders. On and off, through romances and rifts, he played with Artie Shaw, Les Brown, Tommy Dorsey (four times) and Harry James (three times), once even took a fling at being a nightclub crooner. Trouble was, Rich had and still has a low regard for bandleaders. "The drummer is the real quarterback of a band," he says. "Hell, Guy Lombardo might just as well be hailing a cab on the bandstand. None of the musicians look at him." The compulsion to say what he thinks has led the stick-thin drummer (5 ft. 8 in., 125 Ibs.) into...
After he turned 21, Kresge gave up teaching for selling. As a traveling drummer in tinware, he saved $8,000 in commissions by the time he reached 30. One of his customers was Dimestore Pioneer Frank W. Woolworth, to whom Kresge sold a sizable order of tinware. When Kresge noticed that Woolworth's 19 stores were profitably run on a cash-only basis, the traveling salesman thought he saw his future. In 1897, despite a financial panic, he used his savings for a half interest in stores in Memphis and Detroit run by another five-and-dime pioneer, John...