21. The band made front-page news and became a First Amendment cause celebre. 22. The band makes fertile, exciting music, and Drummond, a drummer, likes textural changes and charged improvisation. 23. The band made an album with producer Nile Rodgers, who had previously worked with David Bowie and Mick Jagger. 24. The band made numerous TV appearances. 25. The band is making it the old-fashioned way through concert dates rather than quick-hit video clips or radio play. 26. The band makes a big brawling sound that brings out the swinger in Clooney. 27. The band makes its decisions by consensus, over lunches and dinners or in the studio. 28. The group also gained ownership of The Casbah, the Fullerton, Calif., studio where the band made its earliest recordings. 29. These financial pressures mean the only money most bands make from touring is whatever advance their managers negotiate for merchandise sales. 30. This resulted in a story about how one small band made a big enough noise to force the industry to revise its guidelines, which it did on Tuesday. |