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Losers KEITH RICHARDS Calcified guitarist is upset Mick won't tour with the Stones. Keith had been practicing and was really planning to give it his all this time YAO MING The top Chinese player watches from his cramped dorm as shorter Olympic teammate Wang heads to the N.B.A. and decent housing EMINEM Britian's biggest toy retailer, Woolworths, pulls the rap star's doll from the shelves. The Flock of Seagulls playset is still widely available
Question: Name the six guitarists who have played with the Red Hot Chili Peppers. Answer: Hillel Slovak, John Frusciante, Arik Marshall, Jesse Tobias, Dave Navarro, and John Frusciante. Ok, I'm cheating, but it's still a fact that Frusciante has been the Chili Peppers' guitarist on two separate occasions; following founding member Slovak's death from 1988 to 1992, and once again from 1998 up to the present. Oft considered the finest of the Peppers' guitar players (or at least the best suited to the band's style), Frusciante brought an oblique, jazzy angle to funk in the same...
Frusciante's solo explorations are in no way reminiscent of Summer's own new age prog-fusion instrumentals, however, and a better reference point might be Blur's Graham Coxon. The quintessential Britpop guitarist surprised a lot of people with his lovely and overlooked (if somewhat slight) The Sky Is Too High in 1998. Similarly, Frusciante's brand new album, To Record Only Water for Ten Days, will confound anyone expecting a funk workout reminiscent of his day job. Like Coxon, Frusciante prefers to wind down on his own time, and in this case the results are 15 short, pretty...
Formed in 1992 by frontman Raine Maida and guitarist Mike Turner while the pair were studying at the University of Toronto, OLP quickly expanded to include bassist Chris Eacrett (since replaced by Duncan Coutts) and drummer Jeremy Taggart. The post-grunge band's 1995 debut, Naveed, was met with immediate commercial and critical success north of the border, and established the band's status as the pride and joy of the Canadian alt-rock scene. OLP's 1997 effort, Clumsy, avoided the dreaded second album jinx and, in addition to its quadruple-platinum status in Canada, led to the band...
This year, the band also welcomed new members bass guitarist Jesse Andrews '04 and assistant vocalist Malaika Butoyi '04; they incorporated them seamlessly into their funk juggernaut. Butoyi's rising and falling soulful vocals brought new depth to the band's voice. She and the other lead played off each other and the audience very well. Band cofounder Alex Scammon '01 says the band's goal is "to be irresistably groovy. To take grooviness over the top with overpowering horns and in your face attitude...