Word: rides
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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...BOTTOM LINE: Vocalist Perry Farrell continues the wild musical ride he began with his last group, Jane's Addiction...
...have sparse facial hair, in a pathetic attempt to emulate the Beat Poets, and want to take a year off to ride a motorcycle cross-country. In 1993? Get real; thirteeners would never do a thing like that. Not eco-friendly enough, and in this economic climate with the intense competition for jobs, a year off has to be strategically planned for maximum resume-enhancing value...
...over a swinging rhythm section. Trans-Island Skyway builds from a muttering bass line and ice-cool finger snaps to an exhilarating joyride that derives part of its thrill from the danger lurking around the next bend. When Fagen sings, "Strap in tight cause it's a long sweet ride," it's like speeding in a convertible with the top down...
Keno learned all about the system by hanging out in the subway dispatcher's office in Brooklyn, where he picked up the transit jargon and befriended motormen. Keno, stocky and stout, convinced one of them, Regoberto Sabio, that he was a 25-year-old motorman, and would ride Sabio's route with him. "He didn't show me an ID card or anything like that," Sabio later told a reporter, "but there was nothing in his mannerisms that made me think he was anything but another motorman." By riding with Sabio, Keno learned firsthand how to drive the trains, what...
...brought up with the masters and some of the tutors, and I remember saying that if tutors took the time to try and get involved in House life and to mix with various students at meals or in activities, complaints about the tutors using the system for a free ride would be almost extinguished...