Word: rocks
(lookup in dictionary)
(lookup stats)
Dates: during 1990-1999
Sort By: most recent first
(reverse)
...denizens who work here include a European rock star and a co-founder of the Flying Karamazov Brothers, as well as a dozen or more Ph.D.s. Job descriptions are fluid: chief technical officer Ed Catmull, one of the true pioneers of computer graphics, now heads up the story-development department. "There aren't a lot of closed doors," says TS2 co-director Ash Brannon, 29. "I can't think of another place where people feel so free." Or so involved. Everybody at Pixar is a "filmmaker," including Greg Brandeau, who runs the 1,700 computer processors known collectively...
...probably somewhere down there in the basement behind your broken-down Betamax, a Rubik's Cube or two, and a vinyl copy of Synchronicity. Cue up a record, and let it play. Congratulations--you're a musician. There may even be a spot for you on the rap-rock Family Values Tour...
Disc jockeys, of course, have been around for decades. In the 1970s hip-hop founding fathers Kool Herc and Grandmaster Flash helped turn record spinning into an art. And rock acts--Aerosmith, R.E.M. and others--have long sought to bottle the lightning of hip-hop by collaborating with rappers. Today, though, something new is happening: more rock groups--from Limp Bizkit to Sugar Ray--are making deejays fully fledged members, on equal footing with the guitarist and drummer. A couple of years ago, being a deejay in a rock band was maybe the equivalent of being the backup vocalist-designated...
...Homicide was working as a hip-hop radio deejay in Los Angeles before he joined the pop-rock band Sugar Ray in 1994. At first he was a mere sideman--on the band's 1995 album Lemonade and Brownies; he's not even in the group photo on the back cover. Then again, the picture is a supremely geeky shot of the band riding on a roller coaster, so maybe being left out was a blessing in disguise. In any case, Homicide says, today he's "cut in on publishing and merchandising, and I'm a full-fledged member...
There are two schools of thought about the deejay-rock boom. The first school holds that deejays in rock bands are part of a new multidimensional wave of artists who, instead of composing with just notes, compose with whole chunks of songs. The second school of thought holds that people in the first school are what's wrong with education today. Says Jim Tremayne, editor of DJ Times: "It seems to me some rock bands are just trying to cultivate an air of coolness with the kids...