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...Byrne, the Talking Heads leader who wrote and directed the movie and its music, and serves as on-screen narrator, tells us that in this part of Texas, "People here are inventing their own system of beliefs. They're creating it, doing it, selling it, making it up as they go along" - an apt description of the WWN ethic. True Stories (which landed Byrne on the cover of TIME) also has a wonderful pop score, including the all-time great group lip-synch, "Wild Wild Life...
...record out, they didn't want [you]. They wanted covers. They wanted you to play things that people know. I felt originality was the most important thing in rock." It was a feeling shared by the musicians the club attracted, who were searching for a place to play original music. "I felt very good about it, letting them do their own thing," he said. "In any art form, I think that's the most important thing...
...Shortly thereafter, Kristal decided to set that belief in stone: cover bands were effectively banned from CBGB's stage. "When I saw there were more and more bands that just wanted to play their own music, and there was no place to play, I didn't say they could play [original music], I said they have to play it," he recalled. "I think it made things more interesting - sometimes a little more agonizing, [but] sometimes more interesting." Interesting was an understatement: CBGB quickly became a scene in Manhattan; Mick Jagger, Andy Warhol, Allen Ginsberg and Paul Simon all rocked...
...helps candidates like the Senator show their personal side," said Obama campaign spokeswoman Jen Psaki, who agreed that talk show appearances can show a more jovial side of candidates who are constantly touting serious issues in campaign speeches. "The fact is he's funny, he listens to music, he follows sports. He's committed to changing the way we do business in America, but at the same time he has a side the American public would enjoy seeing...
...bass-drum beats, sudden silences and offbeat riffing. After his hugely successful quintet dissolved in 1956, following the death of his friend and band co-founder, trumpeter Clifford Brown, he tumbled into a severe depression. When he surfaced Roach pushed himself into new endeavors: agitating for racial equality, writing music for playwright Sam Shepard, leading an acclaimed percussionists-only band and irking traditionalists by giving a concert with hip-hop's Fab Five Freddy. Of his restless reinventions, he said, "You can't write the same book twice...