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When shooting commenced in 2001, Metallica--drummer Lars Ulrich, guitarist Kirk Hammett and singer James Hetfield--was starting a new album, dealing with the resignation of bassist Jason Newsted and entering therapy with performance-enhancement coach Phil Towle. With its record label, Elektra, the band hired Berlinger and co-director Bruce Sinofsky (Brother's Keeper, Paradise Lost) to document the process with an eye toward turning the footage into an infomercial. "You know, sell some albums on TV," says Hammett. "We had no f____ing idea what we were getting ourselves into...
...frontman and sometime Harvard student Rivers Cuomo all did time by the Charles. But few would likely mention Jacob H. Slichter ’83-’84, whose years in the music industry have left him far from a household name—and yet, as the drummer for power-pop trio Semisonic, Slichter has left his own indelible mark on listeners’ minds...
...wants to achieve some of its grander dreams - like having a strong say in global security policy, something France clearly favors, or a common vision on how European social values can be married to world-class economic competitiveness - then all the big countries have to march to the same drummer. And that kind of deeper union is something no constitution, no matter how finely crafted, can create...
...There was nothing revolutionary in the lyric, except its daring to be mildly ribald (?Hey, mama, doncha treat me wrong/ Come and love your daddy all night long,? etc.). Nor was the notion of releasing a jazzy, largely instrumental number in two parts; the year before, drummer Cozy Cole enjoyed a two-sided hit with ?Topsy.? What was unusual was the four-part structure: three verses of piano, then four verses of blues patter, then the ?What?d I say? chorus, and finally two minutes of boy-call-and-girl-response foreplay leading to the orgasm of the ?What...
Though he had set out for New York City to make it as a jazz drummer, Ernesto Perez-Carillo Jr. returned to Miami when his father came down with Lou Gehrig's disease. In the midst of negotiations to sell the business, "something came over me," says Perez-Carillo. He persuaded his father to decline the offer and turn the business over to him. Ernesto Sr. died in 1980. El Credito's focus on premium lines paid off in the early '90s, gaining the company notice during the cigar boom. An article in Cigar Aficionado magazine sparked a flood...