Word: drumming
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...suggests a loss of faith in the council as an effective decision-making organization. That impression can only be combated by more of the long-term, down-to-earth research projects that made the council effective last year. Ironically, the time required to boost the council's popularity and drum up candidates and voters can only detract from such projects...
Some of Galveston's more hardy, or perhaps more foolhardy, residents went down to the beach as the storm approached to cast for "bull" drum, the big ocean fish that loves to feed in turbulent waters. Many homeowners hunkered down to ride out the storm. "If they're crazy enough to stay on the beach, then we're going to ask them for the names of their next of kin," said one frustrated police officer. Cornelia Ruff, 70, a retired secretary, said she was staying "to protect my property." Her home, built in 1894, has withstood...
...Village," which slows to a crawl before springing into a bouncy dance number, "586," and the clarion cry "I see danger, danger, danger," falls into the first category. Like "Temptation," "The Village" softens up the eternal beat by relying more on programmed keyboard rhythms than on electronic drums to propel the song. But the treatment seems forced and the not-quite-that-catchy hook is shoved down the listener's throat until getting a cold respite of the pulse-like drum beat, and a few clipped notes from a real bass...
...Lost in Space" is a veritable orgy of chants, raps, layered electronic drum rhythms and bass lines, and the now cliche but totally appropriate get-down-get-funky mentality. Buy this disk for the mindblowing radio single "Space Cowboy" and keep repeating it for a surprisingly consistent album of electro-funk workouts...
Almost 3000 years ago, a civilization of a few thousand dominated the Lower Mississippi Valley, building elaborate ceremonial sites and establishing an extensive economics system that included trading for lead and iron ore drum as far away as Illinois...