Word: gigged
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Harrison was the baby of the band, and if the inner dynamic of the Beatles had been different, his age might have cost him his place in history. During the group's first five-month gig in Germany, authorities discovered that Harrison, at 17, was too young to be working in the Reeperbahn nightclubs. They had him deported. Guitarists can be replaced, but by then McCartney and Lennon were protective of their little brother--the Beatles were as much a fiercely insular family as they were a ferocious rock band--and a few weeks later the boys were playing together...
Harrison was the baby of the band, and if the inner dynamic of the Beatles had been different, his age might have cost him his place in history. During the group's first five-month gig in Germany, authorities discovered that Harrison, at 17, was too young to be working in the Reeperbahn nightclubs. They had him deported. Guitarists can be replaced, but by then McCartney and Lennon were protective of their little brother - the Beatles were as much a fiercely insular family as they were a ferocious rock band - and a few weeks later the boys were playing together...
...video form was dead. Finished. Stick a fork in it. The form seemed to lack the power to surprise or even to entertain. Musicians were making videos because they had to, because MTV was the new radio, because perhaps they had a couple of hours to kill after a gig on Saturday. Increasingly, at that time, videos were a thing to ridicule and even MTV itself was in on the mocking. MTV's since-cancelled series Beavis and Butt-head made fun of videos; VH-1's Pop-Up Videos seemed to say, with its very format, that videos weren...
...approaches a career in jazz with trepidation, it is mainly because he already knows how much fun working his way up the ranks while playing at various incarnations of Ida and Irving’s 50th Anniversary Party will be. Last year Danny got a gig through a friend to play at some convention having to do with malpractice. “I don’t know if they were for or against,” he says, but the conventioneers did commission three songs entitled Malpractice, Risk Management, and Loss Control...
...wasn't a costume to me," he explains. "I wanted to teach people Shaolin's traditions as they'd been taught to me. I wanted to do something real." Convinced that was no longer possible in China, Yan Ming slipped out of his hotel the night after his last gig, found a taxi and tried to tell the driver in his nonexistent English that he wanted to defect...