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Ever since Living Colour broke through the color barrier four years ago and went on to pick up two consecutive Grammys for Best Hard Rock Performnce, growing numbers of young African-American musicians have begun jamming to a rock beat. Says Living Colour lead guitarist Vernon Reid: "Rock 'n' roll is black music, and we are its heirs...
...guitarist David Ryan-Harris. "We grew up among a lot of various musical influences, and we use them all." Lyrics in these songs deal with race relations and other social issues that reflect a consciously black sensibility. "A lot of rock is about coming of age," says Living Colour's Reid. "And one thing that's a definite, salient part of a black person's coming-of-age is dealing with racism...
...emptying rhetoric in art. Moore's art became "distracted" when "no energy pushed out from within." Harvard public relations (which has exploited the Moore in front of Lamont to full advantage) would probably wince in reading that Berger blames the cliched attitudes towards Moore on "so many blind glossy colour shots showing reclining figures with holes through them on cultural sites throughout the world...
Thursday: two members of Living Colour, guitarist Vernon Reid and drummer William Calhoun, have joined forces with acclaimed bassist Melvin Gibbs to form an all-instrumental trio, at 8 p.m. Tickets are $10 in advance and $11 day of show...
...have to put up with acid rain from Buffalo, Harvard professors who can't handle it when we spell "colour" as it should be in the Queen's English, Bob and Doug jokes, my Gov professor who suggested invading Canada, mockery if our sentences should trail off with a tell-tale...