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He began using the name 'Big Dipper' the following year, at the age of 26. [3] As of 2018, he is based in Los Angeles. [1] He has performed at various LGBT pride and bear festivals, P-town, and San Francisco Bear Pride. [4] In 2019, he was a headliner at Washington, DC's Capital Pride. [3]
Big Dipper recorded a six-song demo, and one of the tracks, "Faith Healer", received regular airplay from local college radio stations. [4] Their first release was the 1987 extended play Boo-Boo , issued by Homestead Records (and by Demon Records in the UK ).
The pointer stars of the Big Dipper align with the North Star. In this song the repeated line "Follow the Drinkin' Gourd" is thus often interpreted as instructions to escaping slaves to travel north by following the North Star, leading them to the northern states, Canada, and freedom: The song ostensibly encodes escape instructions and a map ...
Two of the stars in the Big Dipper line up very closely with and point to Polaris. Polaris is a circumpolar star , and so it is always seen pretty close to the direction of true north. Hence, according to a popular myth, all slaves had to do was look for the Drinking Gourd and follow it to the North Star (Polaris) north to freedom.
Later that year, Shaw appeared in the sports drama Rocky (1976) as "Big Dipper" Brown, a rival boxer who taunts Rocky after being given his locker. [5] In 1978 he went to star in the war drama film, The Boys in Company C about United States Marine Corps recruits preparing for duty and their subsequent combat in the Vietnam War.
Big Dipper (band), a 1980s-1990s Boston alternative-rock band; Big Dipper (rapper), professional name of American rapper Dan Stermer; The Great Dipper, a 2015 album by Roy Kim "Big Dipper", a 1978 song by Elton John from the album A Single Man "Big Dipper", a song by Jethro Tull from their 1976 album Too Old to Rock 'n' Roll: Too Young to Die!
Craps is the second studio album by the Boston band Big Dipper. [1] [2] It was released in 1988 on Homestead Records. [3] [4] The band supported the album with an East Coast tour. [5] The band considered it to be a pop album. [6] Craps was remastered and re-released in 2008 as part of Merge Records' Supercluster: The Big Dipper Anthology set ...
The Big Dipper seen from Fujian. The constellation of Ursa Major (Latin: Greater Bear) has been seen as a bear, a wagon, or a ladle.The "bear" tradition is Indo-European (appearing in Greek, as well as in Vedic India), [7] but apparently the name "bear" has parallels in Siberian or North American traditions.