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Needless to say, when I read early last summer that camper Van Beethoven had split up, I was crushed. The guitarist, bassist and drummer had decided to make Monks of Doom a permanent thing. And the lead singer, David Lowery, was forming a new band...
Ever since Living Colour broke through the color barrier four years ago and went on to pick up two consecutive Grammys for Best Hard Rock Performnce, growing numbers of young African-American musicians have begun jamming to a rock beat. Says Living Colour lead guitarist Vernon Reid: "Rock 'n' roll is black music, and we are its heirs...
...central instrument for these musicians, but their riffs resonate with blues and jazz, reggae and rap, and all the other rhythms of the black musical experience. "We didn't watch MTV and take a little of this and that because it was hot," says Follow for Now guitarist David Ryan-Harris. "We grew up among a lot of various musical influences, and we use them all." Lyrics in these songs deal with race relations and other social issues that reflect a consciously black sensibility. "A lot of rock is about coming of age," says Living Colour's Reid...
...Leppard has gone through several recent tragedies. on New Year's Eve 1984, the drummer Rick Allen lost an arm in a car accident, yet three years later Leppard released Hysteria, an album which topped their previous album Pyromania. In January of 1991, Def Leppard lost their lead guitarist, Steve Clark, after a long battle with alcoholism. I didn't expect an album so quickly afterward, and I certainly didn't expect it to be this good...
...drummer, Johnny Koncz, must either be untalented, restrained or woefully bored. His beat varies little both within and between songs. The guitarist, Danny Hulsizer, however, is kept superbusy making noise. Sure, his strumming sounds fine in isolated spurts, but its constancy tends to overload the listener. This lack of gaps plagues many songs; empty spaces of silence often are as valuable as the music itself...