It was in July , 1931 on a pass-the-hat gig in the South of France, that he first heard real American jazz.
With her shiny bright looks and bubbly personality (even in what looks like one of Jane Fonda's leftover wigs from Klute), she'd rake in the tips if she ever abandoned the FanDango Ballroom for one of those hat check gigs dreamed of as if it were a lottery win.
She merely acted as an intermediary when a colleague threw his name into the hat for the unpaid gig.
I like the way the name of the band is becoming more known but I can put my hat on after a gig and slip into anonymity".
Miriam Eusebio, 46, a theater director, wears a panda hat for a paid moonlighting gig at the Park Slope Food Co-op, in part because the basement is cold, and in part because she likes it.
Armed with new focus-grouped energy dome hats – and fresh off a gig at the Winter Olympics, before heading to SXSW and Coachella – Mothersbaugh and the rest of the gang met Motherboard in their west coast studio to talk music and push forward their ever-relevant message of cultural devolution.
In his 70s, Raducanu came to prefer, when not performing, the life of a genial recluse in his seventh-floor studio flat, a place crammed with records, books, pictures – and countless hats (a different one for each gig).
They're totally onboard with Le Bon's madcap vision, changing costumes halfway through a gig and donning matching mohair hats, which makes them look like fishermen on safari.
Now we have Hatwise Choice (Hat) to fill out the picture, a compilation of gig recordings and radio sessions.
The intergalactic gig for which he'd thrown his hat in the ring eventually went to somebody far more qualified: a former military test pilot.
"Since we're telling people in clubs - models - suddenly everyone on MySpace looks really pretty," recalled Mr. Anderson, who with his trucker hat and sideburns looks as if he could be gigging in a club himself later on.
