Word: gig
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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Well, there were at least 40, maybe even 50, at a Philadelphia gig a few weeks back. This represents an encouraging rise over the attendance in Richmond three days earlier. "We played to only about 25 to 30 people there," says Kurt Neumann, 24, the band's electric guitarist who goes by the name of Beau BoDean. Truly, things are looking...
...cheerfully caustic to his regular customers. His goal is to buy his own snack shop or maybe even a small restaurant-nightclub where the Great Pacific Jazz Band, the septet he has led from his piano for 20 years, can play. These days, they've got a regular Sunday gig in Encino. Sometimes Molly drops by to sing...
...first season, shows not only his affection for well-worn American work wear but also a witty and idiosyncratic eye for fabrication and shaping that make his clothes look as funny and funky and comfortable as something a bebop horn player might have worn in the '50s to a gig at Birdland. "I don't love any particular American designer," Onozuka says, "but I love American thrift shops, where you see something all crushed and hung up on a hanger as if someone had just taken...
...palace. The cash and valuables they spirited out last week and the property they bought with American aid should be confiscated and returned to the Filipino people. And if Marcos still feels he's strapped for cash, well, I'm sure he can always get a guest gig on Magnum...
Others may come to the Square to practice in front of an audience, to publicize a future gig, or just for fun. A recent graduate of Rensselaer Polytechnic Institute, Ed Bernstein likes to beat his conga drum along Brattle St. After finishing work at Digital Equipment Corporation. Bernstein starts searching around Paperback Booksmith for other musicians to join...