The Bankhead Theater will welcome The 5 Browns, a classical piano ensemble, to Livermore on April 7, followed a few days later by two legendary bands, The Kingston Trio and
Bill Cosby
Revenge
Planes
During the second half of the 1960s, before he became a ubiquitous TV star and commercial pitchman, Bill Cosby was America s most popular and influential standup comic. Unlike the generation of Borscht-Belt funnymen that.
more » preceded him, Cosby didn t tell jokes, per se. Instead, he delivered colorful, tightly structured tales drawn from his experiences as a child and a parent, adopting a multitude of voices to portray the colorful array of characters who populated the Philadelphia neighborhood in which he grew up. Cosby s 1967 album Revenge is awash in bittersweet, hilarious accounts of snowball fights, scary monster movies, and youthful one-upsmanship. Scott Schinder