Word: rhythms
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...audience cross-legged down the JCR's length, with only a narrow aisle for the actors) has craned its collective neck as the scene flashes from one end of the long room to the other, the game is beginning to pick up, the dance takes on its own rhythm. And when Sands turns on the lights and announces, "The sceneshifts and so will we," and 60-odd people trail after him through the tunnels to the grill to perch on pool tables, they are no longer skeptical parents but entranced kids begging for more ride on the carousel...
...cast delivers it. Hanging onto a steady crescendo of comic tension, Andrew Atkinson as the reprobate Charles Surface and Michael Hasselmo as his dignified uncle-with-the-money square off over a Dunster pool table, drawing more and more delicious rhythm from the lines as they gain confidence...
...Rhythm Method--Ed Burke...
...guitarist named Alexis Korner reigned as rhythm-and-blues king of the London club scene. Not only did his gigs at the Ealing Club provide a backdrop for crucial get-togethers attended by various future Stones, but Korner himself unknowingly forwarded musical history by releasing a certain singer and drummer from his group, freeing them to link up with two young guitarists named Richards and Jones. "If things were as they should be, Alexis would be right at the top," Charlie Watts said some years later. "It was a lot different then. People used to come up on the stand...
...totally clouded over by drugs, debauchery, and disillusionment, leading ultimately to Brian's death and the rebirth of the others. Struggling to reassert themselves, the Stones were forced to confront a new problem: how to keep the act spontaneous and rebellious after more than a decade of two-four rhythm. The familiar events are all thrown in, but portrayed from new and interesting angles. The drug bust at Redlands, the tragedy at Altamont, the transition from Mick Taylor to Ron Wood, the triumphant American tours and the countless, faceless women--it's all here...