Word: hendrix
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...latest graffiti appeared on poems signed "Grady H. Hendrix" and "Michael Penn." Penn is the name of a songwriter and the poem might be lyrics from one of his songs, said Constance I. Chang '93, AAA copresident...
From helping to tabulate ballots, I learned that in most houses only about one-third of the students actually voted. Furthermore, a considerable number of the ballots were always less than serious, writing in candidates such as "Jimi Hendrix" or "Neil Rudenstine," or noting that a candidate was chosen "only because he's in one of my classes...
...Woodstock, N.Y., became the symbol of the Age of Aquarius when it lent its name to a three-day love-in and rock concert featuring, among others, Jimi Hendrix, Janis Joplin and Arlo Guthrie. Though the festival was ultimately held 50 miles away, Flower Power devotees and New York City weekenders have since flocked to the once quiet community. But as Woodstock (pop. 6,800) has grown, it has run into some of the fiscal problems facing other towns and cities. Among them: paying off an $8.5 million debt to the local sewer district...
...even greatness guarantees that, especially for artists ahead of their time. Jimi Hendrix, Bob Marley, Little Richard, Sonny Rollins, the Talking Heads, the Supremes and the Who never got a single piece of Grammy gold. Some of Grammy's greatest hitters are heavy-duty worthies (Aretha Franklin has copped 15, Stevie Wonder 17), but it's also true, as Marsh points out, that "no one thinks that the Grammys honor artistry. People like Marvin Gaye, Bruce Springsteen and Phil Spector have all been disrespected by the Grammys, and so people don't take the awards seriously...
...Lobos has been together for 17 years, gigging at first, in the words of lead singer and co-writer David Hidalgo, "for a case of beer." Mexican American by birth, the band's original members took their initial inspiration from the guitar-monster music of Jimi Hendrix and Cream, the uptown scampery of the Stones, the folk-inflected harmonies of Buffalo Springfield. Mexican music didn't count. "We didn't want to hear that when we grew up," says Perez. "We wanted to hear James Brown...