Word: quietness
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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...next morning, they forgot they were joking. Now, MTV Unplugged has become a '90s rite of rock 'n' roll passage. It's an easy way to gain some artistic respectability and seem down to earth all at the same time: go on TV and perform in an intimate setting, quietly strumming your aged and weathered guitar. Rod Stewart's done it. Neil Young's done it. R.E.M. and Arrested Development and Eric Clapton have all done it, and all have made some big bucks off the albums that were born from these quiet evenings with friends (save R.E.M., who haven...
...this happened, an unassuming David Murray made a quiet late entrance. Ambling up to the stage, he looked a little tired. He explained he'd been performing until late the previous night at Madison Square Garden with none other than the Jerry Garcia Band. But within a few minutes Murray had assembled his saxophone and begun to lead the musicians away. The two men led the group through various exercises, including Fox's compositions, the Thelonious Monk ballad " `Round Midnight, " and the Charlie Parker blues "Billie's Bounce." There was plenty of advice for the student musicians, sometimes technical...
...resident said that she was concerned about the increased traffic because the streets are "quiet and suburban type streets," and she does not want to see the nature of the streets change...
...need to rest, of course, falls prey to the call to minister. In a 12-day stretch last June, he visited John Connally in a Texas hospital, escaped to a quiet hotel in southern France to find the time and space to work on his memoirs, immediately returned to Texas to preach at Connally's funeral, flew back to France, then to California to conduct Pat Nixon's funeral, then returned to France once again, too tired to get much work done. "I found that this Parkinson's does slow you down," he says, "whether you want to slow down...
Until about 1:15 a.m., it had been a quiet night on Kirkland...