Word: freaks
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...freak," said one bass player afterward. It was an expression of respect, for Rich has always been ranked by musicians as a drummer's drummer. They marvel at the fact that he never practices, has none of the calluses and bumps on his hands that other drummers have. Among rival stickmen, the admiration extends from old guardists such as Gene Krupa ("Buddy is the Maury Wills of the drums") to such new guardists as Elvin Jones ("His artistry is almost beyond belief"). But perhaps his most avid fans are symphony percussionists. "He's the world's greatest...
...pink oleo," a mystic, a pacifist and a lady-killer who bums around the countryside with a harpy seeking faith cures for her cancer. He gets to feel that he is something of a healer himself, and sees people who are not there. For a while, this unpleasant freak and sister Nellie attend something called "the Jago circle," "playing at vice" and "doing things the bourgeoisie don't dare," though what this could be is anybody's guess...
...McCANN LTD. LIVE AT SHELLY'S MANNE HOLE (Limelight). Infusing this album is that welcome but all-too-infrequent spirit -humor. McCann gives the injection willfully in She Broke My Heart (But I Broke Her Jaw), wittily in That Was the Freak That Was, and with downright homey good nature in How's Your Mother? For counterpoint, he gives his fans a sensitive and lyrical treatment of Young and Foolish, and a sort of half-pop, half-bop vocal on All Alone...
...craggy features of Presidents Washington, Jefferson, Lincoln and Theodore Roosevelt blasted out of the face of South Dakota's Mount Rushmore are world renowned. Less known is a rival of brobdingnagian proportions looming into sight on Stone Mountain, a freak outcropping of granite that juts 700 feet above the plains of Georgia, 16 miles from Atlanta. Subject of the Stone Mountain Memorial: the heroes and leaders of the Confederacy-Jefferson Davis, Robert E. Lee and Thomas ("Stonewall") Jackson...
Marichal's state of mind-and his 6-2 1960 record-might have been better if a back injury had not kept him out of action for most of a month. Freak ailments have been Juan's bugaboo ever since he broke into the big leagues. In 1961 he pitched his second one-hitter (against the Los Angeles Dodgers), but wound up with only 13 wins, ten losses when he was spiked in the leg trying to cover first base. In 1962 it was a twisted ankle that disabled him for 30 days-though he still posted...