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...father's interests were tremendous and wide-ranging," Thomas said, "In addition to his work in Chinese art he was a very accomplished watercolorist, sailor and classical guitarist. This taught me to appreciate the wide breadth of the music and art worlds at a very young age and for that I am grateful...
...permanently damaged. "It's pretty apparent for everyone who has been in the business," notes Charles Blanket, a New York City sound engineer. Commander Cody, a rock musician in the San Francisco Bay area, suffers from tinnitus, a ringing in the ears. So does Lenny Kaye, a journeyman guitarist who played with the Patti Smith Group. Singer and Bassist Kathy Peck, who had a gig in 1980 at a San Francisco nightspot called the Deaf Club, where deaf patrons danced to the music's vibrations, has lost 40% of the hearing in her right ear and wears a hearing...
...group Sweet Honey in the Rock opens up the set with a sweetened version of Leadbelly's Sylvie that nicely smartens up tradition, while Pete Seeger shuts things down with a tub-thumping rendition of Guthrie's This Land Is Your Land, with assistance from Sweet Honey, the revered guitarist Doc Watson and a chorus of school kids. It is Bob Dylan who builds the bridge into the present. His version of Pretty Boy Floyd, performed with acoustic guitar and harmonica, is filled with the fierce surprise of a man going in search of his past and, against all odds...
When Clay Tarver '88 elegantly sweeps his shoulder-length hair back with his hands and gazes silently into the distance, heads turn in the Adams House dining hall. Guitarist, basketball player and social studies major, Tarver is the closest thing to a sex symbol at Harvard...
...fall of junior year, Whelan and Tarver joined forces with guitarist Corey Brennan, classics grad student and former member of the hardcore band Meltdown. Drummer Chris Guttmacher ("with an umlaut over every vowel," says Tarver) joined the trio and they wrote "tons of songs in three weeks." All they needed was a singer to sing them...