Word: drumming
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...first four sounds heard - a drum slamming, "Bum. Ba-bum. Pow!" with the clock of castanets on the fourth beat - tell the audience that the music aims directly at pastiche, for those are the first four notes of "Be My Baby," the Jeff Barry-Ellie Greenwich song from which producer Phil Spector and arranger Jack Nitzsche created a sonic masterpiece for the Ronettes. (Martin Scorsese recognized the power of this opening: he used it at the start of "Mean Streets.") A few bars later, the first syllables uttered in the show - a cutting "Wuh. Uh. Oh." for the song "Good...
...pleases. At a very minimum the department could lay down, as a condition for future grants, that a ticker-tape parade through Harvard Yard be held for ROTC, in honor of its return to campus as an official student organization. If necessary, it would not be difficult to drum up support for a Congressional resolution backing this policy...
...Well, that’s rock and roll isn’t it? I suppose it’s an American invention,” said Gray. “Everyone expected us to sound like an indie band, and there we were with this massive drum kit and a percussionist—what’s that all about? The thing is, I never really liked the Smith’s and they’re sort of the classic English band. So we didn’t sound English,” Ball said...
...wack, the beats are fighting back,” Lif declaims on “Return of the B-Boy,” a seven and a half minute epic that morphs from a funky battle rhyme to a sparse drum-driven speed verse in which Lif realises that his greatest opponent is himself...
...Back then the Bush Administration was forced reluctantly into the fray to attempt a mediation. Vice President Cheney had toured Arab capitals in April hoping to drum up support for action against Iraq, and had been told everywhere he went that the Israeli-Palestinian crisis was a far greater, and more immediate threat to regional stability. That forced the Bush Administration to rethink its Middle East policy, first sending Secretary of State Powell out to literally rescue Arafat, and two months later the President called for Arafat's removal as the precursor to a quick-time march to Palestinian statehood...