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...whose dense soundscapes alternately grinned and strained with near-violent anxiety. To date, that album is Animal Collective’s zenith.The band’s seventh album, “Merriweather Post Pavilion,” finds the quartet—temporarily reduced to a trio due to guitarist Josh “Deakin” Dibb’s hiatus—at the high water mark of their popularity, exploring a creative future that looks beyond the end that “Strawberry Jam” seemed to suggest. The album’s defining force...
...flying Buddy Holly. The second show ended at midnight. The musicians packed up their instruments and finalized the flight arrangements. Holly's bass player, Waylon Jennings, was scheduled to fly on the plane but gave his seat to the Big Bopper, who was suffering from a cold. Holly's guitarist Tommy Allsup agreed to flip a coin with Richie Valens for the remaining seat. Valens won. The three musicians boarded the red and white single-engine Beech Bonanza around 12:30 on Feb. 3. Fans flocked to the tarmac, waving and crying and asking for autographs. The musicians waved back...
...music; to classic one-hit wonder Jody Reynolds, 75, whose Endless Sleep had a suicide theme and haunting guitar thrum; to Eddy Arnold, 89, country music's chart-topping "Tennessee Plowboy" whose early career was managed by Elvis' Svengali, Col. Tom Parker; to Jerry Reed, 71, the Nashville session guitarist with the foolin'-around grin, who became a country star with When You're Hot, You're Hot, and played Burt Reynolds' rowdy pal in Gator and Smokey and the Bandit; and to Larry Levine, indispensible audio engineer for Phil Spector's Wall of Sound epics and the Beach Boys...
...DIED Guitarist and founding member of the seminal punk outfit the Stooges, Ron Asheton, 60, would often make waffles for his bandmates--including singer Iggy Pop--at the Fun House, the Ann Arbor, Mich., home where the group lived for a time...
...even on the printed page. On his participation in the Notting Hill Riot, Strummer observes, “It’s one thing to say, ‘Burn the cars and burn the ghetto,’ but you try setting a car alight.” Guitarist Mick Jones remarks about music, “Your sound is a reflection of your personality, you’ll always sound like you, no matter who you are. When I play you’re hearing my whole life.” No one could ever say it better...