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Close your eyes and listen to Tony Toni Tone's graceful new CD and you may think you're hearing one of those sidewalk sale records. The Tonyies are lead singer and bassist Raphael Wiggins, his guitarist brother D'wayne Wiggins, and their cousin, drummer Timothy Christian Riley. They're all in their mid-20s, and this CD is an R.-and-B. tribute to the music they grew up with. My Ex- Girlfriend borrows the bridge from Sly and the Family Stone's 1968 song M'Lady. As another cut fades, Raphael sings, "Last night a D.J. saved...
...Beach Boys were nearly undone by Smile and by the eventual release of Smiley Smile, a much simplified version of the original that Brian's lead- guitarist brother Carl Wilson referred to as "a bunt instead of a grand slam." The seven albums that the Beach Boys went on to release between 1967 and 1972 sold something like a million copies, total. Wilson retreated, becoming rock's foremost eccentric, a kind of beach-bound Sasquatch; the band struggled on, often without his participation, becoming largely a nostalgia act, a confection for sentimentalists and California dreamers...
...creative resiliency, from the unreleased H.E.L.P. Is on the Way, with its self-mocking references to being overweight ("doughy lumps, stomach pumps, enemas too"), to the soup-deep sorrow of 'Til I Die. It also gives fair play to Carl Wilson's gifts as a writer and lead guitarist, and to the freewheeling lyricism of a third brother, the late Dennis Wilson...
...face behind abstract or monochromatic album covers and performed entire concerts without ever addressing the audience. The cult grew. After the release of 1989's Technique, the band dispersed into various spin-off acts, most notably Electronic, which was fronted by singer Bernard Sumner and former Smiths guitarist Johnny Marr...
...band's bassist and lead singer Geddy Lee, guitarist Alex Lifeson and drummer Neil Peart, observed as Kelley introduced a number of impersonation acts that roasted the band...