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Whereupon the band discovered--you guessed it--that fame was more than it could handle. Says Frischmann: "The punk-rock ethos we started with got watered down." There were touring difficulties. "I think the final straw for me," says drummer Justin Welch, "was when we had just finished Australia, and I arrived home at Heathrow airport with my sandals on and it was snowing outside. That's when I decided we needed a break." There were personnel problems. Bass player Annie Holland, whom Frischmann describes as "the most punk rock of the lot of us," quit the group during...
...Pras") Michel made up the Grammy-winning hip-hop trio the Fugees, pounds out a rock beat, shifts to something funkier and finally settles into a reggae groove that sounds distinctly like Bob Marley's skittering Lively Up Yourself. Then Wyclef, who is more of a guitarist than a drummer, puts down his sticks and walks away laughing, like he just got away with something...
Just as the drummer is about to launch into yet another solo, the tall, gaunt, goateed Ellison sweeps down a stairwell to the side door of the auditorium, trailing a retinue of blond female publicists. He pauses a moment so that he is backlighted in the doorway, bending toward one of his attendants and asking if his wide forehead looks too shiny in this light. He acts like a rock star about to step on stage...
...Actually, the guys just wanted to skateboard. Moreno, 27, the son of a plumber (his dad) and a secretary (his mom), met Stephen Carpenter, 29 (now Deftones' guitarist), in junior high school when the two were drawn together by their passion for skateboarding. Later, Moreno and Carpenter, along with drummer Abe Cunningham, 26, and bassist Chi Cheng, 29, formed Deftones and released its debut CD, Adrenaline, in 1995. Deejay Frank Delgado, 29, who performed on selected tracks on the debut, became a member after the second release...
...listening to Metallica this morning in my office," Sen. Orrin Hatch told the band's drummer, Lars Ulrich, to guffaws. "Pretty darn good." The suddenly impish Utah conservative even downloaded a Creed album as the hearings kicked off, to show how easy...