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...band's first gig last year, in the Adams House dining hall, captured Tarver's Harvard student and Boston musician identities. Full-time punks, local musicans, and Harvard's own punks-by-night-history-majors-by-day stood side by side to listen to Bullet LaVolta. Hundreds of students, local skatepunks, and die-hard Boston scenesters slam-danced beneath the portraits of John Adams. Outside on Mt. Auburn Street, crowds of fans in combat boots gathered to cool off between sets...
Send personal envoys to Wall Street to upbraid the worst of the speculators. Then just to gig them a bit more, refer in conversations to capitalists who are "too damned greedy." Make it stated policy that the job of the Government is to keep up the quality of American life and that concern will first be focused on the underprivileged, education, housing, conservation...
...Cosby is, as he would pronounce it, waaaaaay out front and still running hard. Already the most beloved and best-paid entertainer in America, he still works like a hungry journeyman: jetting from a movie set in San Francisco to a weeklong casino gig in Las Vegas to the taping of his TV series in New York to a benefit for black college students in Los Angeles. "Sure, sometimes I think I'm stretched thin," Cosby muses, pausing to pinch off the end of his Connoisseur Geant. "But I remember how my mother worked twelve- hour days cleaning other people...
...fledgling group remained slim--until the day Justice got a call from a freshman proctor. "She had confused us with the Ad Board," says Justice, invoking the episode from his memory. "We didn't have the heart to tell her otherwise, and besides, it was our first gig...
...whatever wax has built up in your ears.) Although their songwriting was not always consistent and they occasionally leaned towards camp, as in the really slow and fast "Because You're Mine," the Bullet LaVolta set came through with the power of a late Sixties Led Zep club gig, wrenched by twenty more years of frustration and anger...