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Deutsche Grammophon's new release "Paganini for Two" with violinist Gil Shaham and guitarist Goran Sollscher advertises itself as "Italian Music for Violin & Guitar-Perfect Company for Relaxing at Home." Recently breaking Billboard's classical top 20 as well as Tower's classical top 10, this recording's success continues a trend in popular classical music which arguably started with the fuss over Henryk Gorecki's third symphony, and includes the more recent "international phenomenon" of Chant...
...actually the opening act, Doobious Leghorn. In just a five-song set, the five-member band covered the musical spectrum from R&D to heavy metal to a take-off of "Putt the Magic Dragon" that got everyone on their feet. "We play whatever tickles our fancy," said guitarist Dan Bernal, and we have a lot of fancies to tickle...
Last Friday's show was clear evidence that the band is once again on the up. They wasted no time getting started, opening the first night's show with a ripping "Llama" which featured an exhilarating solo by guitarist Trey Anastasio. The band slowly broke the jam down into the cacophonous sirens and vacuum cleaner sounds of N2O." As the noise subsided, Anastasio began to narrate the story of Colonel Forbin, the protagonist of the "Gamehenge" saga that continued throughout the first...
...built around seductive guitar riffs, and each one is performed with controlled frenzy. The lyrics are about being young and screwed-up, about having your hopes and dreams dipped in disillusionment ! and then swallowed whole like so many Chicken McNuggets. "My mother says to get a job," vocalist-guitarist Billie Joe sings on Longview, "But she don't like the one she's got." Even romance is, like, a bummer. On Sassafras Roots, Billie Joe makes the proposition, "I'm a waste like you .../ May I waste your time too?" Green Day's punk nihilism works because it's delivered...
...first concert as such (the band was previously called the Anything Family) and lead-singer Pakulski, guitarist Doug DeMay, drummer Zak Sitter and original bassist Kurt Rosencrantz (who has since been replaced by Arik Grier) were ripping through their set in the Adams House Junior Common Room. Fat Day can only play for half an hour at a time--their mind-bendingly frenetic pace precludes playing for any longer--and about halfway through the set, Pakulski announced that he was going to do something "a little bit different...