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Four years ago, the Beach Boys' drummer was sleeping in a garage in Hawthorne, Calif., a bleak beach suburb of Los Angeles, and sweeping out a laundromat to earn enough money to buy wax for his surfboard and Budweiser for himself. He had just been suspended from Hawthorne High School for starting a bloody free-for-all during a physical education class and getting drunk that night at a basketball game. After his suspension, he sullenly avoided high school friends at the usual Saturday morning surf spots and practiced elsewhere along the beaches south of Los Angeles...
...works. The director, always autobiographical, tries to place you inside the life he has been leading by showing the tense moments backstage in provincial theatres, or the long periods of boredom on trains and country roads. Very simple details carry the message, such as the contrast between the unorthodox drummer in the vaudeville company and the super-smoothy in a Rome nightclub...
CLASSHICAL PERCUSSION (Cambridge). Harold Farberman is one of a group of contemporary composers who, in trying to bridge the gap between classical music and jazz, have jumped with something of a splash into what is called "the third stream." A former whiz-bang drummer with the Boston Symphony, Farberman concentrates on percussion in his compositions, uses other instruments sparingly. In Evolution, a French horn appears briefly as well as a voice (Phyllis Curtin's). Progressions' percussion is punctuated by a flute. Impressions is said to be about painters, including Jackson Pollock, who would probably never recognize himself...
Giinter Grass, Litt. D. German novelist, playwright, poet, sculptor, graphic artist, drummer and chef. You have persistently and uncompromisingly sought to probe beneath the perplexing surface of German life...
...Maryland area, including a service that President Johnson and Lady Bird attended. In London, the Salvation Army has formed a rock 'n' roll street-corner group called the Joy Strings, whose repertory includes such numbers as We're Going to Set the World A-Swinging. "Our square approach," explains Drummer Captain Joy Webb, "wasn't getting us anywhere...