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...hour of the morning when many rock 'n' rollers are hitting the sack, the members of a hard-driving band from New Jersey are just unzipping their gig bags. "We rock at 7:30 sharp," says David Wish, the band's leader, founder and token grownup. Wish's group has a lot on its schedule: a run-through of a Carlos Santana tune, some funk and blues improvisation and a tutorial in stage presence. "Make a face like you're mad, like you mean it," Wish hollers over the din of nine acoustic guitars while windmilling his arm Pete Townshend...
Today’s waste audit, and watching (vicariously) a VHS tape found in the trash, labeled “Gig-1,” in the Cabot library (see Wednesday’s Crimson for explanation...
...against the wall for a long time, but it feels really good when you stop." Then he heard a shutter click--"Oh, this one thinks he's being sneaky, f______ c__k!"--and the mood shifted. "But should I be hounded because I don't see it's my gig to live up to what I do on the screen? I mean, that's what a lot of people hound me for, right? Because I won't become an icon or a block of wood and behave at all times like a movie star." Then: "I think the most interesting...
...together drew half a dozen other female students who dabbed on samples of lipsticks, blushes and eye shadows with sponges Kathryn provided. In an hour or so, Prickett sold $200 worth of products and pocketed 40% on most of it as commission. Not bad for a part-time gig...
...Desert Rose” (the last collaboration anyone can remember between American and Arab pop culture icons) featured the singer, some malaise on his face, fiddling with a digital camera in the back seat of a slick black car, driving through the desert on his way to a gig in a hopping and vaguely Arab dance club with his collaborator, Cheb Mami. This said it all: we were globalized, technological, well-funded and figuring out what to do with the rest of the world...