Word: singer
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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...Singer Steve Perry led the charge Friday night, walking out in a dark purple suit and dancing frenetically around the stage as the band went into "Dr. Bones," a lightning-fast swing song with a blistering piano riff at the opening. Perry's morbid lyrics clashed with the upbeat music: "Shake, shake, shake and rattle-rattle them Dr. Bones," but you almost didn't notice as Perry leaped about the stage. This was followed later by the sleazy "Here Comes the Snake" which highlighted the sexual undertones lie beneath the band's songs...
...singer's energy proved to be indeed nearly boundless, as he continued to dance, jump and even do splits throughout the entire set, singing all the while. Amidst their big swing hits--the current single "Brown Derby Jump," as well as "Ding Dong," "Daddy of the D-Car Line" and "When I Change Your Mind"--the Daddies interspersed their earlier work, often songs that were more ska or even punk than swing...
...opening bands, Ozmatli and the Pietasters, were both a pleasure to watch. Ozmatli mixed a Latino sound with bouncing hip-hop songs, while the Pietasters performed their usual repertoire, despite the lead singer's obvious (but good-natured) intoxication. Overall, the show was well worth braving the crowd that fills the Roxy every Friday on "Swing Night...
...highlight of the concert, however, came after intermission with the performance of Mahler's Das Lied von der Erde, his adaptation of Hans Bethge's collection of translated poems The Chinese Flute. At this point, Ozawa was not only conducting the BSO, but also two singers, Ben Heppner and Thomas Quastoff, who rounded out the tenor and bass-baritone voice parts. The work was divided into five parts that explored a different facet of Mahler's self-contemplation. In the first piece, known as the "drinking song," a man laments that "Dark is life, dark is death" and copes...
...this is not surprising to the average Rusted Root fan. By combining lead singer Mike Glabicki's lucid vibrato and earth-moving wails with the entire band's ethereal usage of percussion instruments, Rusted Root comes across as a deft mixture of the Grateful Dead, a Native American ghost story and perhaps more than a little peyote (even if it was smoked only by the album cover artist.) Translation: if one of Barbara Kingsolver's books was made into a movie, this music would be the sound-track...