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Tommy was the drummer, the intellectual of the band who started as the manager and became the producer, running the sessions that created the first album for $6,400 in three days. (The studio used was in the rafters of Radio City Music Hall, directly across the street from where I write.) He created a streamlined, densely layered guitar attack that Chris Thomas got down cold a couple of years later on the mammoth Sex Pistols debut LP, "Never Mind the Bollocks...
...East Village. My wife (a punk rocker herself) recalls seeing him at 4 a.m. one night at St. Marks' Pizza, a woman under each arm propping him up, his eyes hidden behind red lenses. He didn't like drugs; he drank, finally hitting rehab along with the second Ramones drummer, Marky...
While his accompanying trio differs entirely from the recording sidemen, Scofield has assembled a dazzling array of supremely talented, if currently little known musicians who more than live up to his title of “the real drea band.” While the standout by far was drummer Bill Stewart, who matched Scofield’s intensity and complexity with dizzying dexterity and frenetic zeal, tenor player Seamus Blake and acoustic bassist Jesse Murphy also acquitted themselves admirably. Blake furnished lean and frequently blistering solos, with Murphy impelling forward the night’s proceedings with tight grooves...
...first thing you see is a huge white curtain covered from top to bottom with gibberish: TO KNOW TO KNOW TO LOVE HER SO. FOUR SAINTS PREPARE FOR SAINTS. A drummer fires off a stand-up-and-salute roll. Then the orchestra lurches into an off-center waltz (complete with a wheezing accordion on the oom-pahs), and a chorus starts to sing the words painted on the curtain, which flies open to reveal a dozen dancers in Spanish costumes prancing merrily in front of a backdrop that is an explosion of magenta and yellow. Hold on to your ticket...
...buzz on the Japanese soul-master is growing. According to The Roots drummer Ahmir "?uestlove" (pronounced "Questlove") Thompson, Kubota's authenticity comes across, even if he does not mesh with conventional ideas of what a soul singer should look like. "I'm one of those idealists who thinks soul music comes from the inside. I don't think you have to be black or raised on collard greens, fried chicken and cornbread to be part of the soul experience." He says that when the group first heard of Kubota, they thought: "Oh God?a Japanese soul singer?" They stopped laughing...