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...rockers' driving, heavy beat sub sided. The roar of the synthesizers, the wailings of the guitars and the tom-tom tripping of the drummer were hushed as the chorus picked up a folk tune that sweetly blended, with no perceptible transition, into an Orthodox hymn...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Music: Lenin's Rockers | 7/20/1981 | See Source »

Inside my brain a dull tom-tom begins...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Living: A Great Way to Snub the World | 5/18/1981 | See Source »

...black evangelist was sewed up inside a tom-tom and starved to death while drummers pounded incessantly on the skin top. The bodies of several other Christians have been found buried up to their necks in sand, their heads swarming with ants. According to some reports, more than 130 native Protestant pastors and lay church leaders have been assassinated in the landlocked African republic of Chad since last November...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: CHAD: Death and Yondo | 11/18/1974 | See Source »

...Lettunich telephoned Trevino in Dallas and offered to pay his expenses if he would come to El Paso and play the home-town star in a "sociable game." Trevino. who was broke as usual, agreed to come, instantly. "I shot a 65 and 67 and beat him like a tom-tom. I turned him every way but loose." That earned Trevino $300 and the chance to become a teaching pro at Horizon City. The salary?$30 a week?did not interest him, but the prospect of more "sociable games" and the opportunity to hone his game...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Sport: Lee Trevino: Cantinflas of the Country Clubs | 7/19/1971 | See Source »

...kids jumping too. Look at the other group they just stood there. They were playing too complicated, too static, very difficult to get that off the ground." He turned to Waller "I really like it when you tap on the snare and do the tom-tom at the same time. Its really deep you know what I mean." Again the bewitching London accent...

Author: By Salahuddin I. Imam, | Title: The Jeff Beck Group | 7/5/1968 | See Source »

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