Word: fender
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...lapsed Presbyterian turned Unitarian, sometime TV scriptwriter and now itinerant theological investigator, has just finished a book, Expect a Miracle (to be published by HarperSanFrancisco next month). He was amazed by what he learned. "We all read these silly things, the man who saw the Virgin on the fender of his Dodge Dart,'' he says. "What I found, which is more interesting, is people you'd think of as very conservative...
...Buckshot LeFonque, Marsalis has concocted a veritable musical melting pot: a funk bassist, an electric guitarist, a latin percussionist, two keyboardists (one on Fender Rhodes, the other piano), a jazz horn section (trombone, trumpet and Marsalis on alto and tenor saxophones), a hip-hop drummer and a rap DJ, with intermittent help from a house rapper and three Caribbean dancehall rappers...
...pairs. "We worked with them to try to accommodate their schedule," says Thos. "We always invited them to spend holidays with us and got them presents." The Paines also never forgot that they were dealing with kids, not mature nannies. Like many couples, they have suffered their share of fender benders, missed curfews and boyfriend woes. "You come down and find people groping on the couch," Thos laughs. "If you can't handle the hormones, don't get into the program...
...stripped-down sound came only partly by design. "The day we were supposed to start recording, our equipment truck was late," Gibbons explains. He wound up jamming on a borrowed, primitive Fender Esquire guitar and a 1949 amplifier. The lyrics on Antenna also stick to the basics, concentrating on the pleasures -- and dangers -- of women and fast vehicles. Still, there are signs that the outlook of the band has mellowed and deepened since the days when it cranked out such adolescent anthems as Legs and Tube Snake Boogie. There's a brooding fatalism in Deal Goin' Down: "When the deal...
...doodled. The lower eyelid of a headlamp. A fender. A door window. A trunk. And wheels. Sometimes a teardrop, a spacecraft. Cars. Even hiding out behind the back desk of the third row wasn't enough to keep the Flint, Michigan, fourth-grader out of trouble, until an art teacher stopped by and became Tom Gale's first serious customer...