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According to conventional wisdom in the music business, black musicians do rap and soul, whites do rock 'n' roll. So what to make of a group like Follow for Now? Their dreadlocks and fade-style haircuts seem to come straight out of a Yo! MTV Raps video clip. So do the lyrics to songs such as White Hood, their spirited diatribe against skinheads and other white supremacists. But the thrashing guitars and drum licks the five members of the band play on their eponymous debut album leave little doubt that their musical roots reach deep into hard rock...
Ever since Living Colour broke through the color barrier four years ago and went on to pick up two consecutive Grammys for Best Hard Rock Performnce, growing numbers of young African-American musicians have begun jamming to a rock beat. Says Living Colour lead guitarist Vernon Reid: "Rock 'n' roll is black music, and we are its heirs...
That legacy dates back to the early 1950s, when Chuck Berry and Little Richard first introduced white teens to the wildly exuberant sounds that eventually became known as rock 'n' roll. Even after the British invasion of the 1960s, black rockers like Jimi Hendrix, the Ohio Players, and Sly and the Family Stone danced back and forth across the color line. That ended with the disco era of the 1970s, whose slick, producer-driven, synthesizer-motorized tunes created a racial schism in pop music that has yet to mend...
...senior goalie Chris Miller, who was named to the Ivy League Honor Roll this week, Harvard must keep the Pathers' offense under control...
...Tears Roll Down is a collection that will please diehard fans and Tears for Fears New comers alike...