Word: vedder
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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Maybe PEARL JAM felt its campaign to become less popular was getting too successful. The grunge band, which maintained a no-interviews, no-videos, no-selling-tickets-the-normal-way frame of mind even before singer Eddie Vedder's appearance on the cover of TIME five years ago, seems to have relented. Not only has it released Single Video Theory, a home video of the band rehearsing for its current Yield album tour, but, horror of promotional horrors, a clip for Do the Evolution will soon pop up on MTV. The band released a statement about its new work, saying...
...also, after being lured into recording the sound track for The Last Temptation of Christ by the British rock musician Peter Gabriel, began attracting an international following. Besides recording the sound tracks of Natural Born Killers and Dead Man Walking (where he sang with Pearl Jam's Eddie Vedder), he continued to perform around the world. At sold-out performances, throngs would dance and whirl, some shouting "Ali! Ali!" and throwing money on stage where Khan sat, gesticulating only with his hands as his voice conquered all surrounding space...
...format has a special appeal to female listeners: it allows them to hear someone like themselves instead of, say, someone like Pearl Jam's Eddie Vedder. And record companies like it because women tend to buy more records than men. "Years ago, there used to be a stigma held by rock-radio programmers against playing too many female artists," says Bob Waugh, assistant programming director at modern-rock radio station WHFS in Washington. "Now there has been such an explosion of female artists and female-led bands coming to prominence that the perception has changed...
While Shuman sang with a rather pinched upper register and seemed to shout rather than sing--at times reminiscent of Eddie Vedder--he gave a thoughtful and well-acted performance. Corona had a lovely mid-range vibrato, along with some excellent breath control in tricky solos. However, Benaim, a splendid baritone who made another Dunster appearance as a soloist in the December "Messiah," stole the show with his gorgeous interpretation of the sinister machinations of four separate villains. He hammed it up, all the while supporting a richly textured, well-trained voice...
...kind of person who's slightly obsessive about my favorite artists. I scan newspapers, magazines and whatever else I can get my hands on for even the most esoteric scraps of information. Stanley Kubrick is tossing around the idea of moving back to the United States? Eddie Vedder got a new cat? Even though I keep my ear to the ground, I have the peculiar habit of going into bookstore and record stores for the sole purpose of scanning the titles of my favorite artists and authors. Even when I know damn well that a new work isn't coming...