British bass guitarist who, anchored the talented but volatile rock band the Who with his steady demeanour and superb musicianship.
Lenny Abrahamson's vinyl-black comedy Frank (Curzon, 15), gives Michael Fassbender an improbable test of his onscreen magnetism: as a volatile indie band frontman cracking up before he cracks the big time, he has to project tortured brilliance, emotional vulnerability and a not-half-bad Bowie-Reed drawl from within the confines of a crater-sized papier-mache head in the image of Frank Sidebottom.
Sipping a beer after a volatile set at the Greenwich Village club Smalls last month, he mused about Expansions, his first new band in 23 years — and the one he will bring to the Hudson Valley Jazz Festival next month.
They're much more volatile than bands.
(In his other life he leads a volatile jazz-funk band called Screaming Headless Torsos).
(Chinen) North Mississippi AllStars (Wednesday) "World Boogie Is Coming" (Songs of the South), released this week, is a definitive statement of purpose from this earthy but volatile blues-rock band, led by the brothers Luther and Cody Dickinson.
Allmusic reviewer Corey Apar spoke of "Fast Forward to 2012" as being an appropriate opening track that summarized a "display of the band's volatile persona; it launches forth in melodic hardcore mode before quickly dropping into death snarling and sludgy riffing".
March 17: The Vines burst out of Sydney, Australia, at the start of the decade with a brash, volatile sound that gave bands like the Strokes and the Hives a run for their neo-garage-rock money.
Whereas, high-k and metal gate systems allow low programme/erase voltages attractive for embedded non-volatile memories, the conventional band gap engineered SONOS (BE-SONOS) offers better high-temperature data retention.
The band was notoriously volatile, but songs such as California Dreamin' and Monday Monday are the epitome of sun-soaked, hallucinatory love vibes.
