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Anachronistic? Defiantly. The blood on these guitars is Chuck Berry red. The production reverbs with the heavenly choirs, sleigh bells and mausoleum echoes of Phil Spector's wailing Wall of Sound. The lyric lines are long and chatty, with more pomp to the bomp. Bat II is the '50s, '60s and '70s, packed in steel and wrapped in Mylar. Or go back even further. Meat Loaf is not quite Jussi Bjorling, and Steinman ain't no Wagner, but in rock terms Bat Out of Hell II is a Gotterdammerung you can dance...
...than you could rhyme "niggaz" and "triggaz" (standard rap prosody) people were asking whether rappers -- especially those from the Thugs-'R'-Us subcategory called gangsta rap -- are too quick to use the guns they brag about in their songs. "Who is the man with the master plan?" asks a lyric by Snoop Doggy Dogg. "A nigga witta motherf-----' gun." Two weeks ago Snoop, 22, was charged as an accomplice to murder...
...Night Larry Kramer Kissed Me. Through Nov. 28. David Drake's one-man show about gay awakening and AIDS, which won the playwright on Obie Award. Lyric Stage, 140 Clarendon Street, Copley Square. Call 437-7172 for tickets and more information...
...Night Larry Kramer Kissed Me. Through Nov. 28. David Drake's one-man show about gay awakening and AIDS, which won the playwright on Obie Award. Lyric Stage, 140 Clarendon Street, Copley Square. Call 437-7172 for tickets and more information...
...memories from a perceptive, intelligent (if insulated) man, and have that potential which all autobiographies share: to make us more informed about how other people have seen the world. But the Merrill who writes like this is hardly as insightful, let alone as fun to read, as the lyric poet who wrote...