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...some sympathy for Eva (Patti LuPone) and to present her as something of a scrappy feminist. It begins with her funeral and ends with her death. In flashback, she flees from her barren pampas birthplace to glamorous Buenos Aires, arriving as the amorous baggage of a cornball bari tone guitarist (Mark Syers). She soon acquires a sardonic shadow, a one-man Greek chorus in the anomalous figure of Che Guevara (Mandy Patinkin). Che dogs every step of Eva's checkered ascent through calculated boudoir encounters and forays into stage, films and radio un til she meets, seduces and marries...
...afraid we'd get asphyxiated from the car fumes," Butch F. Waner, guitarist with the band, said...
...identity, no vocal personality, no musicianship. Yes, it is "cute" and "weird." The women wear "funny" wigs and the men wear white Oxfords and skinny lapels and one has a skinny mustache that is so "bizarre." Yes, it features some of the worst leadfooted drumming ever recorded. Yes, the guitarist couldn't play a ukelele. Yes, they have no bass player...
...your pleasure? A "steel pianist" who plays Beethoven's Für Elise on the cut-off top of a 55-gal. oil drum? Step right up. A conga drummer with a silver earring in one nostril and a red gem in the other, or a classical guitarist in top hat, tails and tennis shoes? Right this way. String quartets, punk rockers, brass quintets, bagpipers, country crooners, dixieland stompers, ad hoc duos of every string, woodwind and percussive persuasion? Just around the corner...
...Stephen Baird, 31, took to the streets during the antiwar crusade of the 1960s, and has been there ever since. A guitarist and dulcimer player, as well as a singer, he ranges out from his Boston base to cities and campuses across the country, carrying word of protest movements and food coops wherever he goes. His favorite cause is street music itself. He hopes for a grant from the National Endowment for the Arts to write a book about its lore, its leading lights and its legal problems. Balding, with thick wire-rimmed spectacles, Baird likes to work the same...