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Dates: during 1980-1989
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ERIC CLAPTON: CROSSROADS (Polydor). Twenty-five years of mean guitar spread over 73 (count 'em) cuts. There's genius, passion and elegance here -- along with a fair bit of fluff...
...Antonio area, Clay was encouraged to take up singing, violin and cello as a child. In high school he abandoned music for basketball, became MVP of the San Antonio area and played on one of the top All-State Texas teams. He returned to music, and the guitar, when he discovered alternative music in Boston...
...Bullet LaVolta were planted four years ago when Tarver met Bill Whelan '88 in Spanish class and on the basketball court. "I was better at Spanish, he was better at basketball," Tarver recalls. The two talked about forming a band and Tarver taught his friend to play bass guitar. At the end of their sophomore year, both joined WHRB's rock department, described by one somewhat disenchanted member as "a collection of misfits and degenerates who share an almost psychotic knowledge of obscure music." There, Tarver says, he "learned about music from the point of view...
...quiet confidence crosses the line into arrogant rock stardom, and it is difficult to reconcile that image with that of the boy from San Antonio, Texas. Logue--who has lived with Tarver for three years--recalls the first time they met freshman year. "I was sitting outside playing my guitar, when Clay came and took it from me, without saying anything, and started to play. I looked at him and said, `That's pretty good, Clyde,' (that's what I thought his name was). He looked back, sneered and said, `My name is Clay.' I said, `Give me back...
Perhaps that is a good thing for the rest of us. The record has the shock of sudden intimacy and of irrevocable disruption, in great part because Childs often found herself singing Ricketts-inspired songs straight across the control room to the inspiration himself. Ricketts provided bass, guitar and synthesizer support and worked closely with Childs and Producer David Tickle on the album's overall production. "David helped me understand the groove," Childs says. His presence, and his occasional prodding, also forced her to struggle hard with her own feelings. "In Let the Rain Come Down, that person...