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There cording vocals has changed dramat- page 88), a ubiquitous element of uahstry view extreme use of the gear tours combined to increase were 18 weeks when The Bill- ically since the days when the Su- today's studia experience. as "cheating," most acknowledge that, gross touring dollars by more hoard 200's No. 1 slot exceeded premes would in limited ikses, it's than 25% in 2000, with total half a million units, including stand in the studio as acceptable and attendance rising a less impres- five different albums that saw and sing a track commonplace sive but still healthy 14 %. again and again sampling instru- Radioheod Leads until the best of ments from a Korg Tina Turner, 7V Sync In Billboard Critics Poll the bunch was keyboard instead Are Top-Grossing Tours Vas. VIE chosen. "You of hiring a horn Peu. II Keep Me Hangin Player. BLACK LUND -THOMAS stsinnc million- plus -unit weeks, while On," indeed. Butthe practice More than $1.6 billion in the Beatles' "1" threatens to In these technology- reliant times, Pro Tools and its digital sisters is creating a dramatic turn in the concert grosses was report- become the sixth to do so. One achieving perfect pitch and adjusting allow a weal to be manipulated in any music industry: Major-label execu- ed to Billboard sister publi- title, 'N Sync's "No Strings the timing of vocal phrases are as number of ways, from the compres- tivesreadly admit that signing an act cation Amusement Busi- (Continued on page 98) easy as punching numbers into a cal- sion and equalization traditionally now is as much about star presence (Continued ou page 78) culator- literally, in fact, with digital achieved on a mixing console or out- ( Continued on page 88) board equipment to far more esoteric applications like pitch correction, the R creation of an entirely new timbre Even For &D Act Destiny's Child, time stretching, and even there After 40 Years, arrangement of audio fragments to 2000 Was A 'Jumpin' ' Year Garage Rock Is Still Roaring BY LARRY FLICK Women Part I," it was also a year BY JIM BESSMAN delic music era, not to mention the NEW YORK-Destiny's Child has spiked with the kind of internal NEW YORK-It was rock from the later punk and grunge rock move- an album still holding steady, at No. strife and change that often 'hood, spawned in places where peo- ments. 32 this issue on The Billboard 200 threatens the future of a promis- ple usually worked under a hood. Many of the seminal garage -rock after a hefty 73 weeks on the chart, ing act. Garage rock, like the '60s genre's groups were signed to local indie with domestic sales "Trust me, the name suggests, labels. Due to the approaching seven - intensity of what's emerged fro fragmented nature times platinum - happened t garages. It s of the '60s record but front woman l'± i cost on me," Beyon- there that young, business, these acts oncé Knowles é says. "I know usually mate teens were largely cr lizes that 2000 i 1 that we're fortu- gathered to form doomed to remain could have ended on nate to still be bands typified by regional favorites at different here. But then Paul Revere & the best, save for the noteodecidedly for the act. , again, giving up Raiders, the few national, most- Although it was ossnur s cnim Stande lls, the MARK LAMA, 6 LOS SIAM! JACKETS ly one -hit wonders a year that saw the opton. 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George Harrison: All Things' In Good Time "Let me in here/I know I've been here/Let me into your heart," pipes of country & western music. diior in MO: TIMOTHY WHITE sang George Harrison in the opening moments of "All Things Must The amazing thing about "All Things Must Pass" is that it áÉa,W.=aGrr Pose" his fast solo album, which debuted on the Billboard charts in had so many different bends of songs on it "Behind That Locked : ee swlw:"D e ers iate the issue dated Dec. 19,1970. Door" coots have been a country hit Era. s r«nco"miEoÿéó«:,miei:"a:e`;K:I Thirty yews later, "I'd Have You Anytime" (co-written with Bob Yeah. I think that was very much influenced by Bob [Dylan]'s ;"{'ñm'móë äib;"' Dylan) and the rest of Harrison's transcendent 23 -track solo project "Nashville Skyline" [1969] period. I actually wrote that the night (No. I for seven weeks, with three hit singles and sales of 3 mi0ton before the Isle of Wight Festival in [August] 1970. _wïsñ.rn1«1x.91 copies) is back in a newly remastered edition with five bonus tracks, W it a big decision to start the nib, with the song you including "I Live For You," the lovely, previously unissued ballad wrote with Dylan, "I'd Have You n.l Anytime." ea 1 .ssvillel from the original "All Things Must Pass" sessions. It probably was, because it goes, "Let me in here ..." [loughs]. The revamped "All Things Must Pass" emerges as promised (The And maybe sub cos iously I needed of support. I had Eric[Clap ?ELM obit White Paper, Billbomd,June 19, 1999) no part Ma long-term sched- ton] playing the solo, and Bob had helped write it, so it could have HMOs nw.t4a«m.rn eranoc«r, ie'm,n.r. ule of new music and enhanced reissues of Harrison's solo work, and been something to do with that. 1 7 .oe,w i ..61w.wlnaxn.n.l its arrival historesJan. 23 comes on the heel of the Beatles "1 "album The band on this album was the genesis of Derek & the topping the charts in AO countries as the smash of the season. Dominos. oc.s,.aievrúe.siMirá,'oáe".am« Harrison, Billhaanfs 1992 Century Award honoree, It Was! Because the very first session we did [on u'i;`e " uammilmmairlaava",.kóæ1: took a little time out from his own holiday respite to May26, 1970] was Eric and Carl ltadle, the bass play- Dmp discuss a remarkable body of work that has plainly er, and [drummer] Jim Gordon, and [keyboardist] w,c,eümr:co-áós"a"4ssoo never left global music lovers' hearts.