Word: gigged
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...bookstore called Passim. But the demand for folk music never died down, and they soon found themselves “forced into booking music again,” according to Smith. The Donlins were soon doing so well, they at one point turned Bruce Springsteen down for a gig...
...would be the definitive piano rocker in part because he was, in the music's infancy, one of its last. (The saxophone, primal ax of early rock, also went nearly extinct.) He worked under another disadvantage: A pianist, unlike a guitarist, couldn't take his instrument to a gig; at least back then he didn't. Janes ascribes some of Lewis' extreme behavior on the road to his annoyance at being given "some pretty bad pianos to play... A lot of the wild stuff he did on piano would be out of frustration because they'd give him pianos that...
...board--and for all members of its audit, nominating and compensation committees--to be "truly independent" and to "ask tough questions." But this should be spelled out further. Independent should mean more than someone who doesn't work for the company; it should exclude anyone who has a consulting gig or supplier deal or who has recently left the company--as the New York Stock Exchange recently proposed...
Martin S. Bell ’03 is an associate sports chair of The Crimson. Sensing that an internship with the Al-Jazeera television network would be ill-advised this year, the Winthrop House government concentrator snagged a summer gig with Sports Illustrated in the Greatest City in the World...
...next year called simply Fergie. The ex-wife of Britain's Prince Andrew has served as a correspondent for the Today show and host of a poorly received talk program in England, and has starred in Weight Watchers TV ads. She says she's a natural for the gig because she loves talking to people, whether they're famous or not. "I'm not talent, I'm not a celebrity, I'm not an actress, I'm just me," says Ferguson ever so humbly. The president of Universal Television, which will produce the show, says Ferguson is "the person next...