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...team in his own image as a player--tough and selfless. When he became GM in 2000, Dumars brought a team philosophy to Detroit, but he didn't have much of a team to work with. The players he brought in were misfits elsewhere, but they fit perfectly in Motown. Dumars picked up big, Afroed Ben Wallace from the Magic and watched him develop into a rebounding machine. Point guard Chauncey Billups, dumped by five different teams, became the finals...
...tours become traveling carnivals of talent dominated by the Jukies themselves, but with a healthy accumulation of friends and guests to round things out. In fact, the Def Jux label is on track to become that most mythical of all labels, the community of artists, like Verve, like Motown like Elephant...
...DIED. JOHNNY BRISTOL, 65, Motown-record singer, writer and producer (Ain't No Mountain High Enough) who worked with Michael Jackson, Stevie Wonder, Marvin Gaye and Smokey Robinson; in Howell, Michigan. Bristol had more than 100 songwriting credits to his name, including Twenty-Five Miles, and he recorded a number of smooth bedroom anthems of his own, such as the 1976 hit Do It To My Mind...
...They create guitar pop with breezy melodies and humorous lyrics and remind us that songwriting can still be fun. A Wish for Fire, a trio of musicians with eclectic influences, creates what the band likes to call “romantic pop,” with tinges of blues, Motown, and of course, psychedelic rock. The band’s minimalist approach to music bares the songwriting underneath. International Pen Pal and The Casual Lean also perform. 9 p.m. Tickets $5; 18+. T.T. the Bear’s Place, 10 Brookline...
Except they are—and the most standard of their kind, at that. Everything they hate about guitar rock, its stagnation, reliance on overused cliches and reluctance to invent, is all prevalent in their music. If Stumpf really does like R. Kelly and Jay-Z and Motown as much as he claims, then this much should be obvious...