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...synthesizing what he'd heard into his own style. "He sucked up influences like litmus paper," writes Peter Guralnick in "Last Train to Memphis: The Rise of Elvis Presley," the first book in a meticulous two-volume biography. "He was SERIOUS about his work. Whenever [Elvis' first manager Bob] Neal went by the house, he found him with a stack of records - Ray Charles and Big Joe Turner and Big Mama Thornton and Arthur ?Big Boy' Crudup - that he studied with all the avidity that other kids focused on their college exams. He listened over and over, seeming to hear...
...learn that he's been stripped of his 00 status. His quest for redemption and his effort to unmask the traitor take him into the arms of three women and the crosshairs of Gustav Graves (Toby Stephens), an audacious diamond tycoon bent on (what else?) world domination. (The writers Neal Purvis and Robert Wade had the good sense to ditch the small-potatoes bad guys of recent films, like the one bent on conquering the media sector.) Bond's trials, at the hands of both his captors and the agency that loses faith in him, reveal traits that fans...
Dressed in a dark suit and his signature brim-button golf cap, Eric Krasno emerged from backstage followed by Neal Evans and his brother Alan, both dressed in similar attire. The trio took their seats and within 30 seconds were jamming away, taking the crowd with them. The show would continue with this intensity through to the encore at almost 1:30 a.m.—the absolute latest that a band is allowed to play at the Paradise...
...band live is truly a privilege. The group’s talents are nothing short of amazing individually and as a whole. Organ player Neal Evans, who sat at the Hammond B-3, complete with revolving speaker, would routinely take solos on the upper register keys while holding down a completely independent bass line with his left hand. He has perfected the art of playing both parts simultaneously to the point that there is no bassist in the group and no need...
However impressive Neal Evans and Eric Krasno were, it was all held together by the funk, jazz and hip hop-driven beats of drummer Alan Evans. With a jazz-style grip on his sticks, he played with the intensity of a metal drummer, but with the touch of an old-school great. His energy was such that after the first song he shed his suit jacket because of the sweat he had worked up. In between songs, as he wiped his sticks down, he asked the crowd, “You all ready to get down...