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Matt Kelly does not want to be like Limp Bizkit’s Fred Durst. The drummer for the Dropkick Murphys (the Boston-based Irish punk-rock band) spoke with me prior to a sold-out show at Avalon last Saturday about performing, stardom and “keeping it real.” “I’m probably not the best guy to interview,” he humbly warned in a Boston accent while resting his heavily tattooed arms on the table, “but I’ll try to answer intelligently...
Kelly emphasized the importance of family when he mentioned that a large part of the joy he gets from playing in the band comes from the respect he gets from his parents: “Fulfilling my fathers dream, he’s also a drummer, is important. The respect and the approval of my parents is a big part of what’s great about playing in the band...
...unnoticed, were it not for Hewlett’s trippy videos and their goofy characters. For, as far as their public image is concerned, those characters from the video are the band: 2-D, the Albarn character with spiky hair and a vacant smile, Russel the grinning, baseball-capped drummer, Noodle the 11 year-old Japanese guitar goddess, and the evil, scowling bassist Murdoc...
...Where the Streets Have No Name, Stay (Faraway, So Close) and Walk On from All That You Can't Leave Behind achieve the impossible?becoming meaningful to millions of people?precisely because they are beautifully vague. "Bono did something recently that he probably shouldn't have done," says drummer Larry Mullen Jr. "He did a book as a favor for a friend of his in Ireland that 'explained' all the lyrics. I think that was a mistake because one of the most valuable things about his lyrics is that you can adapt them to any particular situation...
...downs of a relationship between two college students: she eccentric, he naive. Kwak has turned it into My Sassy Girl, an esculent entr?e billed as a romantic comedy. In fact, it's harder to categorize: the movie is absurd, bizarre; it beats to its own peculiar?and somewhat indifferent?drummer...