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Mixing rap and folk, however, seemed doable, even natural. After all, Beck's family was artistically eclectic: his father was a bluegrass musician; his mother, who raised him in Los Angeles, played the occasional gig as a singer; and his maternal grandfather, Al Hansen, was a pioneering multimedia artist and colleague of Andy Warhol's. As a teenager, Beck traveled to New York City and got caught up in the music scene; later he hooked up with hip-hop producer Karl Stephenson and cut Loser. The song became an unexpected hit, he was signed by Geffen records...
...Seta and Nora Rothrock, proprietors of a site on the World Wide Web called Artists Underground www.aumusic.com) who invited the band to post a sound clip on their Website and participate in a live "computercast" concert. In September, Twenty Cent Crush made its cyberspace debut, playing a gig at L.A.'s Billboard Live that was piped directly onto...
Despite the global pretensions, Concert's first gig will be the $100 billion local phone network in the U.S. Hello, Baby Bells. Competition calling. The combination of MCI's hell-bent-for-market-share moxie and BT's muscle--Concert will have a cash flow of $12 billion--could wreak havoc in local markets, and that could be good news for anyone with a dial tone...
BORN: March 2, 1931, New Sharon, Iowa EDUCATION: Southern California Graduate School of Theology, Ph.D., 1993 FAMILY: Wife, Elaine; three children RELIGION: Christian MILITARY: Air Force, 1948-49 OCCUPATION: Television producer; Christian missionary POLITICAL CAREER: Sought Republican nomination for U.S. House, 1994 ADDRESS: 12918 194th Avenue KPN, Gig Harbor...
David Lee Roth, who could barely contain his joy at being back with Van Halen at the MTV awards last month, got just as emotional when he found out his new gig was temporary, circulating a histrionic open letter claiming he had been deceived. Most likely joining the band in his stead: Extreme's Gary Cherone, whose voice Eddie Van Halen has described as "like an angel...