Word: tallent
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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...Billy Tallent is the lead guitar player who went on to lead a commercially successful rock group after Hard Core Logo broke up in 1990. Pipefitter is the mousy drummer content to let Dick and Tallent lead the band, and John Oxenberger is the introspective, recovering-schizophrenic bass player who feels like an outsider in the band's personal dynamics...
...story, Hard Core Logo revolves mainly around the tensions experienced between the various band members. Dick is bitter at Tallent for "going commercial," while Tallent sees himself more as baby-sitter than a friend for Dick's immature antics. Pipefitter tries to boost his own ego by picking on Oxenberger, who slowly relapses into schizophrenia after he loses his antipsychotic medication and the inter-group hostilities overwhelm him. Unfortunately, none of these problems ever seems compelling enough for the audience to invest sympathy in any one character, resulting in a film that is observed more than it is experienced...
...Bruce McDonald only lends to this sense of audience alienation. A large portion of the film is shot in a documentary style, sending a message to the audience that this is "real." The directors of the "documentary" even become part of the film when they begin playing Dick and Tallent against each other. Things get confusing, however, when McDonald uses cinematic slow-motion sequences and other styles which betray the intended reality. This is best illustrated in the scene where the band members trip on LSD. The discontinuity between the previous, documentary style and this hallucinatory, Easy Rider-inspired sequence...
...Harvard 000 200 100 - 3 9 2 BENTLEY AB R H BI BB SO Peters cf 4 0 1 0 0 1 Patten 2b 3 1 0 0 1 1 DeMartinis 1b 2 3 2 1 2 0 Hill if 4 0 2 1 0 0 Tallent ss 4 0 1 1 0 0 Pedroli rf 4 0 0 0 0 0 Hayes dh 4 0 1 0 0 0 Begley 3b 4 0 1 0 0 1 McGreenery c 4 0 0 0 0 0 TOTALS 26 4 8 3 3 3 HARVARD...
...Tallent, McGreenery; Doble, Parrot. DP: Patten-Tallent-DeMartinis. LOB: Bentley 4; Harvard 8. 2B: DeMartinis, Hill, Hayes; Carey, Woodfork, Vankoski. CS: Peters; Carey, Ralph. BENTLEY IP H R ER BB SO Serra 6.1 9 3 3 3 3 Mason, W 2.2 0 0 0 0 1 HARVARD IP H R ER BB SO Duffell, L 7.1 7 4 2 3 3 Marcucci 1.2 12 0 0 0 0 PB: Doble...