Word: fairings
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...Kletz 13 2 3 7 J. Gifford 13 2 3 7 C. Biggs 11 2 1 5 R. Johnston 13 2 0 4 A. Montalbano 13 1 0 2 T. Weinstock 13 1 0 2 S. Carls 13 1 0 2 H. Jackson 13 1 0 2 T. Fair 12 0 1 1 Harvard 13 17 15 49 Opponents...
Jagger and Richards have spent a fair part of the '80s separately pursuing extra-Stones interests, playing the Bickersons in the rock press whenever they were queried about the plentiful tensions within the band. It was tough to pin down, even when the sniping drew a little blood, precisely what the boys were bitching about. Keith wanted to tour, Mick wanted to cruise the night life; individual ambitions ran contrary to the good of the band. Whatever it was, it seemed likely that they had been together too long -- 27 years, to be exact. So when Slipping Away begins...
What matters is that the best of the music -- and the Stones made a fair portion of it -- blowtorches nostalgia away, enlarging the memory, terror and all. The music reasserts history, not sentiment, and makes the same tough demands on head and heart as more traditional literature. Says the writer and essayist Steve Erickson: "Rock displaced the impact of American fiction because it wasn't afraid to believe in itself...
What's happened already, and a fair, far time ago, is still happening too. There was never any cardinal rule about rock -- that was its only cardinal rule -- and it can't be written off or knocked off because, from its sheer quality and audacity, it has persisted. No rules, no predictable half-life. Rock may have become Big Business, but it still has no set agenda and no fixed address. Lots of names, lots of labels, lots of styles, and by now lots of history, some of it even proud...
...open for them on their new tour, the Stones have chosen hard-rocking Living Colour for a slot that has, over the years, taken on a fair amount of significance. Opening for the Stones has come to be not just another lucrative gig but a way for musicians (black) to break through to a larger audience (white...