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...Alas, nothing quite so subtle. Upon closer inspection by a crack team of Crimson interns, it has become apparent that Sept. 11 was...(drum roll)...a Tuesday...
...lucky meeting. Luny was a self-taught drum-machine prodigy; Tunes was a skilled keyboard player, working on hip-hop-influenced instrumentals in a small studio he’d set up in a closet at his family’s home. Soon the friends were talking about combining their skills and the far-off, thrilling prospect of stardom...
...same league as his best work. The album’s greatest flaw is that it finds Prince following rather than setting musical trends. The album’s obligatory club-banger, “Black Sweat,” sounds like a Neptunes outtake: down to the minimalist drum machine beat and screeching synthesizer effects. Prince’s animated vocal performance deserves a richer melodic backdrop—the kind provided by a studio band, rather than studio equipment. Unfortunately, “Black Sweat” isn’t the only track on which Prince relies...
...Strivers Row,” Baker describes Lionel Hampton’s band at the Savoy: “Tripping on out to the floor as the tempo built, the drum pounding atop the bass line, then the trombones circling back to the theme again and again in long, dizzying loops, working the dancers harder and harder...
...that was recently taken from the N.P.F.L., Johnson posed for his own video cameraman and shouted to his troops, "Where is Taylor?" "Nowhere," the soldiers shouted back. After returning to his headquarters, Johnson, accompanied by a background quartet of two guitars, a Casio keyboard and a hand-held African drum, strummed religious songs on his own guitar. Dozens of soldiers joined in, dancing and singing, "Oh, I love Jesus, because he loved me first...