Word: punks
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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Music provides Tarver with a way to express these contradictory backgrounds. Tarver describes Bullet LaVolta's music as somewhere between rock and punk, but "not hardcore"--somewhere between Boston underground music and the traditional rock music he listened to in high school. The five-person band avoids the standard Harvard band track of covers, playing only original compositions. Bullet LaVolta consists of a mix of Harvard students and local musicians. They may not make as much money as other Harvard bands, Tarver says, but they have developed their own style and gained a respected position in the Boston music world...
...based Powell Corp., which makes the coveted Powell-Peralta skateboards: "People who had power in the industry tried to make skating a Little League sport. But kids want skating to be their sport, not their parents'." Skateboarding languished until it burnished its outlaw image anew. Now "skaters are the punk rockers of the sport set," says Thrasher Editor Kevin Thatcher. But aside from a taste for heavy metal-tinged rock, this is a matter more of appearance than substance...
...Broadway version of Chess is daringly different from London's gaudy expressionistic phantasm. That show's chess matches are displayed on 128 video screens and refereed by a surreal punk; the production hopscotches from a Tyrolean resort to British boardrooms to Bangkok's red-light district, each cartoonishly evoked. Nunn took over in London, two weeks before rehearsals started, when the late Michael Bennett (A Chorus Line, Dreamgirls) was stricken with AIDS. Says Nunn: "By the time I came into the project, it was designed and cast, and the basic narrative decisions had been taken...
Looking around, there are all sorts passing by--scruffy old men, women draped in Indian beads, Bohemian looking young ladies in black, law students with notebooks, yuppies and a punk...
...hero, Julius (Kevin J. O'Connor) is a stuporous New York City punk in high-top Keds and a greasy leather jacket, who has just lost his job and wants to become a musician. Somehow he convinces a bandleader, Keith Burns (Buster Poindexter, a.k.a. David Johansen) to give him his "big break" if he can locate a reclusive acoustic guitar maker, Elmore Silk (Harris Yulin), who has mysteriously disappeared from the New York music scene...