Word: weir
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...Dead continue to grow musically with Built to Last, which contains four songs authored by Brent Mydland, the keyboardist who joined the Dead in 1979. Mydland's work provides some interesting counterpoint to the more traditional Dead songs contributed by Garcia and Weir, though some of his offerings (e.g. "Just a Little Light") come across as over-synthesized, excessively popularized tracks that sound like out-takes from the Go to Heaven or Shakedown Street sessions...
...while the lack of a stand-out single does make Built to Last appear less commercial than 1987's In the Dark, the album does retain the dominant vocals and background instrumentation that have defined the Dead of the 1980s and set them apart from their psychedelic past. Bob Weir's "Victim or the Crime" is the exception which proves the rule on the Dead's newest release--this seven-minute, 33-second composition quickly devolves into a reflection back on some of the Dead's early tonal experimentation and instrumental jam sessions...
...potential consequences of rain-forest destruction became more widely known, saving the Amazon became the cause of 1989. In New York City, Madonna helped organize a benefit concert called "Don't Bungle the Jungle," which also featured the B-52s and the Grateful Dead's Bob Weir. Xapuri, the remote town where Mendes lived and died, has been besieged by journalists, agents and pilgrims. Robert Redford, David Puttnam and other prominent moviemakers have sought the rights to film the Mendes story...
DEAD POETS SOCIETY. Robin Williams is a Mr. Chips with a mission: to inspire his '50s prep school students with reckless passion. Like director Peter Weir, Williams is dead serious this time, donating his celebrity to an imperfect but valuable adolescent drama...
...behind all of this is the stellar direction of Weir. He may not have built St. Andrew's, taught Williams how to act, written the Beethoven symphony or given universal appeal to the age-old theme, but Weir's dexterity in pulling all of those elements together in Dead Poet's Society must be commended...