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DIED. TRINH CONG SON, 62, wispy but uncompromising singer-songwriter whom Joan Baez called "the Bob Dylan of Vietnam"; of diabetes; in Ho Chi Minh City...
...This pathos was not borne from empathizing with the emotions driving their lyrics, communicated mainly through raspy, incomprehensible screams and howls, nor from the fact that Enemymine will likely not receive any major radio play from this album. I pitied them because, hidden behind the shrieks of the lead singer, I could hear and appreciate the potential this band exhibited in the quality of their instrumentation and variety of style. During the instrumental stretches, the majority of the music was that satisfying combination of raspy guitars and basses, pounding drums and crashing cymbals that one often craves during the stress...
...this one starts in the Playhouse before the story moves, Wizard of Oz-style, to somewhere even more messed up. The other one, The Pee-wee Herman Story, is what Reubens is calling "the adult Pee-wee movie" and has the tight-suited one making it as a pop singer, moving to Hollywood, becoming insanely famous and turning into a monster. "Pee-wee Herman winds up getting hooked on pills and booze. I'm not shooting up, but I wouldn't want young kids to see it," he says...
DIED. MAUDE RUTHERFORD, 104, the "Slim Princess" and Cotton Club singer and dancer who claimed to have introduced the Charleston to Broadway in the 1922 all-black revue Liza; in Atlantic City, N.J. Despite her considerable talent, Rutherford, who worked with Josephine Baker, was usually cast as comic relief, never the star...
Henry Rollins is no ordinary mortal. Not only does he still, at age 40, have a neck thicker than his head, he is the only man I know of to have successfully combined careers as rock singer in a respected band and as a standup man, as well as producing jazz albums, writing poetry and being interviewed more times than seems humanly possible. And he has been asked to give the Union Address at Oxford University this year. Not bad for a guy who still refers to himself as “the guy who makes those dick jokes...