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Examining the Bay Area output today, viewers will recognize strong affinities to later styles. Brown's dense canvases helped lay the groundwork for San Francisco's subsequent funk explosion; Park's blank-faced male nudes anticipated Eric Fischl's anxious, naked suburbanites. Much of the vigorous Bay Area brushwork was reflected, more than a quarter-century later, in paint- happy neoexpressionism. Despite some occasional heavy-handedness, though, the works displayed in this show are far more engaging than their irony-loaded grandchildren...
...Jerry Williams contribution on Journeyman is "Breaking Point," and it is easily the worst song of the album. So much synthesized funk is thrown into this track that Clapton's guitar can't even be heard. The vocals are multi-tracked, muddied and slurred, and the drums again completely overpower the song...
...little of the Stones' legendary entree. Theirs has not been an easy road. They were a hot club band on the East Coast, "really quite well known," as Mick Jagger says. "But they couldn't get a record deal because they were black and they weren't playing funk. They didn't fit into a category." A black band romping in the white world of hard rock is an anomaly (or, as the promo men would say, a hard sell) even today. Musicians may cross over a lot, but radio stations seldom do. Vernon Reid, 31, who plays guitar with...
Marley likes rap ("Yeah, mon. It's cool") but swears allegiance to reggae. Rap has proved to be a fertile source of inspiration for the ravishing Nenah Cherry, whose hit single Buffalo Stance dressed street sound up in supper-club clothes without sacrificing funk. Bobby Brown, the soul flash of the moment, made an album that sold more than 4 million copies and spawned three hit singles, marrying the sensuality of Marvin Gaye to the unearthly musical surprises of Prince...
Once in a great while, an automaker creates a car that sends rivals into a + funk and motorists into a covetous swoon. Right now that vehicle is Mazda's new MX-5 Miata, a curvaceous, two-seat convertible that is intended to combine the look and feel of mid-century roadsters with the reliability of modern engineering. The first few thousand Miatas began arriving at Mazda dealerships earlier this month, and sold out instantly...