Musician December 1990

Issue No. 146

Cover: Slash photographed in Los Angeles, September 1990 by Aaron Rapoport/Onyx

07 Front Man
Ringo Starr The Beatle Turns 50.
By Bill Flanagan

Departments

08 Masthead
10 LETTERS Vais and Vai nots
15 FACES Deee-Lite, Brenda Russell, more
18 CHARTS If I Had A Hammer

20 Comebacks
Donald Fagen performing again, recording with Becke.- the return of the Dan of Steel.
By Matt Reswcoff

26 Jazz
Etta Jones A singer from the lost world of the black nightclubs.
By Celestine Ware

30 Noise Makers
Urban Dance Squad Metal + Rap = Dutch Funk
By Leonard Pitts, Jr.

42 The Waterboys Way
Mike Scott has been hiding out from the press for years-as the Waterboys went from a British rock band to an Irish folk group and back. We caught up with them in Wales and got Mike to spill his guts.
By Katherine Dinckman

50 Replacing The Replacements
Name three things Paul Westerberg would never do: (1) Go acoustic; (2) Quit drinking; (3) Break up the Replacements. Wanna bet?
By Bill Flanagan

54 Pixies Progress
Riding through France with an American rock n' roll group who are stars overseas, gods on college radio, and who would trade it all for some good old-fashioned hits.
By Mark Coleman

60 Cover Story
Slash: Surviving Guns N' Roses In the middle of recording their new album, the co-leader of America's most popular band bares his soul about the controversies that whacked them from the outside, the problems that kicked them from the inside, and how Slash's black mother reacted to Axl's "One in a Million."
By Mark Rowland

Working Musician

76 Guitar
Carlos Santana
Tips on speed and picking from a legend who has never stopped pushing his limits.
By Alan Di Perna

78 Drums
Andy Newmark
Getting in time, and learning to record live drums with machines.
By Rick Mattingly

82 Piano
Mulgrew Miller
Finding the right way to hear music can open the player to leaps of progress.
By Tom Moon

86 Bass
Dr. John Ciambotti
He gives the distinctive bottom to Carlene Carter and Lucinda Williams, he was bassist on My Aim Is True, he's been recording for 23 years-but in real life he's a chiropractor.
By Peter Cronin

90 Recording
The Cost Of Making An Album
From jazz to indies to rock superstars, time is money.
By Tom Moon

94 Performance Of The Month
Little Richard
The Georgia Peach comes home to Macon and raises the roof.
By Robert Gordon

96 Developments
Stow That Info!
How much musical information can you stuff in a small computer space--and how much'll it cost ya?
By Alan Di Perna

Departments (continued)

100 SOUND OFF! Luke Campbell
101 RECORDINGS The Wilburys minus one
106 SHORT TAKES Cure, Hendrix, more
113 Reader Service

114 Backside
Goatee Rock
Remember when chubby white guys in dickeys and medallions sounded soulful?