Word: band
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...cascading assortment of red, white and blue balloons and a 1940s-style band playing "New York, New York," revealed another side to Dinkins' campaign, and the candidate promptly switched gears to more traditional rhetoric...
When Oliver and Waldeck are not on the road together, they split up. Oliver now lives in Austin, and Waldeck's home is still Philadelphia, where he moonlights with a local folk-rock rhythm-and-blues band called the Roosters. Oliver spends many nights playing with Austin's Otter Space Band and many days presenting environment programs in Texas secondary and elementary schools. "We want to pass on our ideas to youngsters," he says. He also composes public-service jingles for cities and towns. One water-conservation message was titled "Please Don't Leave the Water Running When You Wash...
...might be mellowing in old age, Wednesday night the raggedy man of rock decisively laid those fears to rest. Singing before an odd mix of ties and tie-dyes at the Boston Opera House, Dylan stormed through a hard-edged set that emphasized his independence and uncompromising nature. His band was tight, his guitar sounded terrific, and he even threw in a large chunk of the old songs that made him famous. If this seems like a good recipe for a concert, it was. Sort...
...contrast, the opening act spent its 40-minute set proving that it should have stayed in Texas. Jason and the Scorchers played a number of painfully bad songs, all in the same chord, and the group left the audience numb with fear. This garbage band did its best to sound like outlaws of rock 'n' roll, but despite lead singer Jason's 10 gallon hat, The Scorchers more resembled Megadeath than Tom Petty. But their set wasn't a total loss; the guitarist had some mean tattoos...
...Manhattan to the Django Reinhardt and Louis Armstrong ballads of Stardust Memories to the brooding Schubert string quartet of Crimes and Misdemeanors, which premiered last week. For the sound track of Sleeper, Woody even went to New Orleans in 1973 and recorded himself playing with the Preservation Hall Jazz Band. (The old musicians there had never heard of Woody's films, and one of them, trombonist Jim Robinson, called him Willard.) He hopes one day to devote a whole film to "the birth of jazz...