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...Grateful Dead returned to the road last week without their keyboardist, who died in July of a cocaine and morphine overdose. But what really killed him? According to the group's lyricist in Rolling Stone, "Basically, he died of rock and roll and a terminal affliction of the heart...
This week the Kids leave home (everyone still lives with his family) for a five-month tour. Starr will show up only occasionally, so the fans, Donnie thinks, will finally learn that "Danny is a great songwriter, Jordan is a great keyboardist, that I am a drummer and singer and dancer." Four years ago, Jordan auditioned for Starr and got told, "Get ready to be great. You are going to be the biggest thing in the world." Replied Jordan: "All I want is a scooter." He got his wish, and then some. Just now, the New Kids on the Block...
...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...
...opening bands, the kids have stood shoulder to shoulder waiting for their favorite group. Finally, a short, well-built young man, his hair shaved severely around the sides, appears onstage. He grins demonically and defiantly surveys the crowd. Behind him a swarm of guitarists, horn players, a keyboardist and a drummer troop onto the stage. A drumbeat clears the air, and suddenly the band is cruising through the infectious opening rhythm of The Man in the Hat. The lead singer grabs the microphone and shrieks, "Heading for a meeting/ Across the frozen intersection/ On the night boulevard...
Prezzi Bomba!, a jazz-fusion-Tibetan-post-existential-oboe-playing group takes the stage tonight at Agassiz Theater at 8:00. Assistant Professor of Music Graeme Boone, who teaches a Core course on Jazz, performs with keyboardist John Rabinowitz, clarinetist David Rothenberg and drummer Marc David Carnegie. Tickets for this performance are $5, and they can be purchased at the door...