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Friday night at 8 p.m. pianist Oscar Peterson moves into Symphony Hall with guitarist Joe Pass. Neither is really coming out of moth balls, but the tickets still aren't a bargain. If classic jazz piano interests you (Cecil Taylor fans may be turned off by Peterson's stuff) then the $5 and up ticket prices won't affect...
...began seven years ago when the Longmuir brothers, Bass Guitarist Alan, then 19, and Drummer Derek, then 16, started a rock group called the Saxons. They rehearsed in their parents' tenement apartment. "They had the most patched-up bunch of electronic junk I'd ever seen," says Tam Paton, their manager. They also had, he recalls, "a freshness and an eagerness to please that were very appealing." A perhaps marketable, boy-next-door look, in other words...
Phoebe sees better times on the way. Recently she set up housekeeping with Guitarist Phil Kearns in Edgewater, N.J., overlooking the Hudson. Her new album will be mostly love songs. "I was a pretty depressed person a lot of the time," says Phoebe, "but I've gotten tired of sad songs. Lately I've just been unashamedly happy...
...they named themselves after one of the major spirits in the Indian cosmos: the eagle. During long sleepless nights on raw tequila and peyote, the young musicians studied. "There is a scene in Castaneda in which Don Juan tells him to walk until he finds his power spot," says Guitarist Glenn Frey. "After searching for hours, he collapses. He wakes up to find Don Juan, who laughs and tells him that he has found his spot. We all wandered around with different bands, but as the Eagles we have found our power spot...
...their fault, and the set is not to blame, either. Cool and Spanish. Zack Brown's set is an Escher like lizard of staircases and platforms: it seems much larger than it is, more stylish than Escher, and perfectly balanced. Director Richard Edelman uses waiters, bystanders and a flamenco guitarist to keep things moving on stage, and he does it well, but the odds are stacked as relentlessly as the bullfighting metaphors...