THE BEAT GOES ON

CINCINNATI-"New England" is one of those positively-inevitable rockband names that just as inevitably comes along 10 years too late to give the karmic wheel more than a slight nudge. Just suppose, the Beau Brummels had been wholly upfront about their homegrown-British Invasion ambitions back in '65, and had sprung themselves on us eager teens as "The New Englands!" (Surely they would've used the plural form in those blessedly pluralistic days.)