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Capitol Records
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Capitol Records, LLC is an American record label which operates as a division of the Capitol Music Group. The label was founded as the first West Coast-based record label in the United States in 1942 by three industry insiders named Johnny Mercer, Buddy DeSylva and Glenn Wallichs, in 1955, the label was acquired by the British music conglomerate EMI as its North American subsidiary. EMI was later acquired by Universal Music Group in 2012 and was merged with the company in 2013, making Capitol Records, Capitol Records circular headquarter building located in Los Angeles is a recognized landmark of California. Mercer first raised the idea of starting a company while golfing with Harold Arlen. By 1941, Mercer was a songwriter and a singer with multiple successful releases. Mercer next suggested the idea to Wallichs while visiting his record store, Wallichs expressed interest in the idea and the pair negotiated an agreement whereby Mercer would run the company and identify their artists, while Wallichs managed the business side. On February 2,1942, Mercer and Wallichs met with DeSylva at a Hollywood restaurant to inquire about the possibility of investment of the company from Paramount Pictures, while DeSylva declined the proposal, he handed the pair a check worth $15,000. On March 27,1942, the three men incorporated as Liberty Records, in May 1942, the application was amended to change the companys name to Capitol Records. On April 6,1942, Mercer supervised Capitols first recording session where Martha Tilton recorded the song Moon Dreams, on May 5, Bobby Sherwood and his orchestra recorded two tracks in the studio. On May 21, Freddie Slack and his orchestra recorded three tracks in the studio, one with the orchestra, one with Ella Mae Morse called Cow-Cow Boogie, on June 4,1942, Capitol opened its first office in a second-floor room south of Sunset Boulevard. On that same day, Wallichs presented the companys first free record to Los Angeles disc jockey Peter Potter, on June 5,1942, Paul Whiteman and his Orchestra recorded four songs at the studio. On June 12, the recorded five more songs in the studio. On June 11, Tex Ritter recorded Jingle Jangle Jingle and Goodbye My Little Cherokee for his first Capitol recording session, and the songs formed Capitols 110th produced record. 133 - Get On Board Little Chillun - July 31,1942 - is a Freddie Slack/Ella Mae Morse/Mellowaires recording that might be the first rock n roll record and she has sometimes been called the first rock n roll singer. A good example is her 1942 recording of song which, with strong gospel, blues, boogie. Bone Walker recorded Mean Old World a pioneering example of the use of electric guitar. The earliest recording artists included co-owner Mercer, Whiteman, Tilton, Morse, Margaret Whiting, Jo Stafford, the Pied Pipers, Johnnie Johnston, Tex Ritter, Capitols first gold single was Morses Cow Cow Boogie in 1942. Capitols first album was Capitol Presents Songs By Johnny Mercer, a three 78-rpm disc set with recordings by Mercer, Stafford and the Pied Pipers, all with Westons Orchestra
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Hard rock
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Hard rock is a loosely defined subgenre of rock music that began in the mid-1960s, with the garage, psychedelic and blues rock movements. It is typified by a use of aggressive vocals, distorted electric guitars, bass guitar, drums. Hard rock developed into a form of popular music in the 1970s, with bands such as The Who, Led Zeppelin, Queen, Black Sabbath, Deep Purple, Aerosmith, AC/DC. During the 1980s, some rock bands moved away from their hard rock roots and more towards pop rock. Hard rock began losing popularity with the success of R&B, hip-hop, urban pop, grunge. Out of this movement came garage rock bands like The White Stripes, The Strokes, Interpol and, later on, in the 2000s, only a few hard rock bands from the 1970s and 1980s managed to sustain highly successful recording careers. Hard rock is a form of loud, aggressive rock music, the electric guitar is often emphasised, used with distortion and other effects, both as a rhythm instrument using repetitive riffs with a varying degree of complexity, and as a solo lead instrument. Drumming characteristically focuses on driving rhythms, strong drum and a backbeat on snare. The bass guitar works in conjunction with the drums, occasionally playing riffs, vocals are often growling, raspy, or involve screaming or wailing, sometimes in a high range, or even falsetto voice. In the late 1960s, the heavy metal was used interchangeably with hard rock. Heavy metal took on darker characteristics after Black Sabbaths breakthrough at the beginning of the 1970s, in the 1980s it developed a number of subgenres, often termed extreme metal, some of which were influenced by hardcore punk, and which further differentiated the two styles. Despite this differentiation, hard rock and heavy metal have existed side by side, with bands frequently standing on the boundary of, other antecedents include Link Wrays instrumental Rumble in 1958, and the surf rock instrumentals of Dick Dale, such as Lets Go Trippin and Misirlou. In the 1960s, American and British blues and rock bands began to rock and roll by adding harder sounds, heavier guitar riffs, bombastic drumming. From the late 1960s, it common to divide mainstream rock music that emerged from psychedelia into soft. Soft rock was often derived from rock, using acoustic instruments and putting more emphasis on melody. In contrast, hard rock was most often derived from rock and was played louder. Blues rock acts that pioneered the sound included Cream, The Jimi Hendrix Experience, Cream, in songs like I Feel Free combined blues rock with pop and psychedelia, particularly in the riffs and guitar solos of Eric Clapton. Jimi Hendrix produced a form of blues-influenced psychedelic rock, which combined elements of jazz, blues and rock, from 1967 Jeff Beck brought lead guitar to new heights of technical virtuosity and moved blues rock in the direction of heavy rock with his band, The Jeff Beck Group
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Glam metal
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Glam metal is a subgenre of heavy metal which features pop-influenced hooks and guitar riffs, and borrows from the fashion of 1970s glam rock. Glam metal can be traced back to acts like Alice Cooper, Boston, Cheap Trick, Kiss, The New York Dolls. It was popular throughout the 1980s and the beginning of the 1990s, bringing to prominence bands including Poison, Skid Row, Cinderella, Glam metal was associated with flashy clothing and makeup. Poison, for example, had long shaggy or backcombed hair, accessories, metal studs, leather, Glam metal lost mainstream interest in the early 1990s as the perceived excesses of glam metal created a backlash against the genre. A factor in the decline of metal was the rise of grunge in the early 1990s, which had a stripped-down aesthetic. Musically, glam metal combines a traditional metal sound with elements of hard rock and punk rock, adding pop-influenced catchy hooks. Like other heavy metal songs of the 1980s, they often feature shred guitar solos and they also include extensive use of harmonies, particularly in the characteristic power ballads – slow, emotional songs that gradually build to a strong finale. These were among the most commercially successful singles in the genre, lyrical themes often deal with love and lust, with songs often directed at a particular woman. Aesthetically glam metal draws heavily on the rock or glitter rock of the 1970s, often with very long backcombed hair, use of make-up, gaudy clothing. The visual aspects of glam metal appealed to television producers, particularly MTV. Glam metal performers became infamous for their debauched lifestyles of drugs, strippers and late-night parties, sociologist Deena Weinstein points to the large number of terms used to describe more commercial forms of heavy metal, which she groups together as lite metal. Use of the derogatory term hair metal started in the early 1990s, Music journalist Stephen Davis claims the influences of the style can be traced back to acts like Aerosmith, Kiss, Boston, Cheap Trick, and The New York Dolls. Kiss and to a lesser extent Alice Cooper, were influences on the genre. Finnish band Hanoi Rocks, heavily influenced themselves by the New York Dolls, have been credited with setting a blueprint for the look of hair metal. Van Halen has been seen as influential on the movement, emerging in 1978 from the Los Angeles music scene on Sunset Strip. He popularized a technique of two‐handed hammer‐ons and pull‐offs called tapping. This sound, and lead singer David Lee Roths stage antics, would be influential on glam metal. In the early 1980s, a number of bands from across the United States began to move towards what would become the glam metal sound
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Record producer
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A record producer or music producer oversees and manages the sound recording and production of a band or performers music, which may range from recording one song to recording a lengthy concept album. A producer has many roles during the recording process, the roles of a producer vary. The producer may perform these roles himself, or help select the engineer, the producer may also pay session musicians and engineers and ensure that the entire project is completed within the record companies budget. A record producer or music producer has a broad role in overseeing and managing the recording. Producers also often take on an entrepreneurial role, with responsibility for the budget, schedules, contracts. In the 2010s, the industry has two kinds of producers with different roles, executive producer and music producer. Executive producers oversee project finances while music producers oversee the process of recording songs or albums. In most cases the producer is also a competent arranger, composer. The producer will also liaise with the engineer who concentrates on the technical aspects of recording. Noted producer Phil Ek described his role as the person who creatively guides or directs the process of making a record, indeed, in Bollywood music, the designation actually is music director. The music producers job is to create, shape, and mold a piece of music, at the beginning of record industry, producer role was technically limited to record, in one shot, artists performing live. The role of producers changed progressively over the 1950s and 1960s due to technological developments, the development of multitrack recording caused a major change in the recording process. Before multitracking, all the elements of a song had to be performed simultaneously, all of these singers and musicians had to be assembled in a large studio and the performance had to be recorded. As well, for a song that used 20 instruments, it was no longer necessary to get all the players in the studio at the same time. Examples include the rock sound effects of the 1960s, e. g. playing back the sound of recorded instruments backwards or clanging the tape to produce unique sound effects. These new instruments were electric or electronic, and thus they used instrument amplifiers, new technologies like multitracking changed the goal of recording, A producer could blend together multiple takes and edit together different sections to create the desired sound. For example, in jazz fusion Bandleader-composer Miles Davis album Bitches Brew, producers like Phil Spector and George Martin were soon creating recordings that were, in practical terms, almost impossible to realise in live performance. Producers became creative figures in the studio, other examples of such engineers includes Joe Meek, Teo Macero, Brian Wilson, and Biddu
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Single (music)
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In music, a single or record single is a type of release, typically a song recording of fewer tracks than an LP record, an album or an EP record. This can be released for sale to the public in a variety of different formats, in most cases, a single is a song that is released separately from an album, although it usually also appears on an album. Typically, these are the songs from albums that are released separately for promotional uses such as digital download or commercial radio airplay and are expected to be the most popular, in other cases a recording released as a single may not appear on an album. As digital downloading and audio streaming have become prevalent, it is often possible for every track on an album to also be available separately. Nevertheless, the concept of a single for an album has been retained as an identification of a heavily promoted or more popular song within an album collection. Despite being referred to as a single, singles can include up to as many as three tracks on them. The biggest digital music distributor, iTunes, accepts as many as three tracks less than ten minutes each as a single, as well as popular music player Spotify also following in this trend. Any more than three tracks on a release or longer than thirty minutes in total running time is either an Extended Play or if over six tracks long. The basic specifications of the single were made in the late 19th century. Gramophone discs were manufactured with a range of speeds and in several sizes. By about 1910, however, the 10-inch,78 rpm shellac disc had become the most commonly used format, the inherent technical limitations of the gramophone disc defined the standard format for commercial recordings in the early 20th century.26 rpm. With these factors applied to the 10-inch format, songwriters and performers increasingly tailored their output to fit the new medium, the breakthrough came with Bob Dylans Like a Rolling Stone. Singles have been issued in various formats, including 7-inch, 10-inch, other, less common, formats include singles on digital compact cassette, DVD, and LD, as well as many non-standard sizes of vinyl disc. Some artist release singles on records, a more common in musical subcultures. The most common form of the single is the 45 or 7-inch. The names are derived from its speed,45 rpm. The 7-inch 45 rpm record was released 31 March 1949 by RCA Victor as a smaller, more durable, the first 45 rpm records were monaural, with recordings on both sides of the disc. As stereo recordings became popular in the 1960s, almost all 45 rpm records were produced in stereo by the early 1970s
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Poison (American band)
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Poison is an American rock band that achieved great commercial success in the mid-1980s to the mid-1990s. Poison has sold over 50 million records worldwide and has sold 15 million records in the United States alone. The band has also charted ten singles to the Top 40 of the Billboard Hot 100, including six Top 10 singles and the Hot 100 number-one, Every Rose Has Its Thorn. The bands breakthrough album, the multi-platinum Look What the Cat Dragged In, was released in 1986 and they hit their peak with the second album, Open Up. Ahh. which became the bands most successful album, being certified 5x platinum in the US, the popularity continued into the new decade with their third consecutive multi-platinum selling album, Flesh & Blood. In the 2000s, with the line up back together. The band began the new decade with the release of the long-awaited Crack a Smile. followed by the Power to the People album. The band toured almost every year to sold out stadiums and arenas, Band members have released several solo albums and starred in successful reality TV shows. After 25 years, the band is still recording music and performing, since their debut in 1986, they have released seven studio albums, four live albums, five compilation albums, and have issued 28 singles to radio. In 2012 VH1 ranked them at #1 on their list of the Top 5 Hair Bands of the 80s, Poison was formed in 1983, in Mechanicsburg, Pennsylvania and consisted of lead vocalist Bret Michaels, guitarist Matt Smith, bassist Bobby Dall and drummer Rikki Rockett. Michaels began his career with a basement band called Laser and, then, in 1979. In 1980, Michaels and Rockett teamed up with Smith and Dall to form the band Paris, arriving in Los Angeles, the group struggled to survive away from home with no family and no money, but the band was determined to make it. Poison promoted themselves up and made the rounds performing in the local clubs. During this period, Poisons manager negotiated a deal under which the West Hollywood club, at this time, Smith, who was about to become a father and was concerned about the bands future, left the band to return home to Pennsylvania. C. Although Michaels and Dall did not initially get along with him, Michaels, Rockett, Dall, and DeVille signed to independent label Enigma Records in 1986 for approximately $30,000. Their debut album, Look What the Cat Dragged In, was released August 2,1986. With heavy rotation on MTV, their debut earned the band tours with fellow glam rockers Ratt, Cinderella, the album ultimately sold 4 million copies worldwide. In 1987 the band recorded a cover of the Kiss song Rock, Poisons second album, Open Up and Say. Ahh. was released May 21,1988
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Flesh & Blood (Poison album)
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Flesh & Blood is the third studio album by American glam metal band Poison, released in 1990 through the Enigma label of Capitol Records. The album peaked at #2 on the Billboard charts and it sold over 7.2 million copies worldwide. The album spawned two top 10 singles, Unskinny Bop and Something to Believe In, as well as three other hit singles, Ride The Wind, Life Goes On, and Sacrifice, Flesh & Blood was certified Platinum in 1990 and Triple Platinum in 1991 by the RIAA. It has also certified by CAN 4x platinum and by BPI gold. The album was recorded and mixed at Little Mountain Sound Studios, Vancouver, British Columbia, Canada, with Canadian producer Bruce Fairbairn, the front cover of the album featured the Poison logo and album title as a tattoo on Rikki Rocketts arm. The cover was originally planned to have a different version of the tattoo cover that featured the tattoo after being freshly inked. This showed the skin as red and inflamed with dripping ink or blood and this cover was pulled though and instead a cleaned up tattoo was shown. The original cover was released for the initial pressing in Japan but was removed from all later pressings. The record’s marketing reflected the end of the extreme elements in Poison’s glam image, including its excessive make-up and teased, girlish hair. Parts of the album reflected a darker, more serious side to the band, touching themes such as times and overcoming them, missing loved ones, long-term relationships. The fun side of the band remained intact, however, in dealing with sex, exhilaration from music or motorbikes. The meaning of Unskinny Bop, one of the bands most popular songs, has always shrouded in obscurity. DeVille later confessed that the phrase unskinny bop has no particular meaning and he invented it as a temporary measure while writing the song, before vocalist Bret Michaels had begun working on the lyrics. The phrase was used on the basis that it was suited to the music. The song was played to producer Fairbairn, who stated that although he did not know what an unskinny bop was. Flesh & Blood was voted Best Album in Circus magazines 1990 Readers Poll, while Something to Believe In was voted Best Single. The album was connected to three Metal Edge Readers Choice Awards in 1990, when the readers voted it for Album of the Year and Something to Believe In for Song of the Year. All songs written & arranged by Poison, Flesh, Blood, & Videotape is the second video compilation released by Poison, featuring the music videos from Flesh & Blood
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Rikki Rockett
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Richard Allan Ream, better known by the stage name Rikki Rockett, is an American drummer for glam metal band, Poison. The band have sold over 45 million records worldwide and have sold 15 million records in the United States alone. The band has also charted ten singles to the Top 40 of the Billboard Hot 100, including six Top 10 singles, richard Allan Ream was born on August 8,1961 in Mechanicsburg, Pennsylvania, the youngest of two children of Norman and Margaret Ream. He attended Cedar Cliff High School in Camp Hill, before founding Poison with vocalist Bret Michaels, Rockett worked as a hairdresser, lifeguard, dishwasher, Emergency Medical Technician and a suit salesman. Rockett was always a part of Poisons success featuring on every Poison album ever released. The tattoo photo featured on Poisons 1990 album Flesh and Blood is Rocketts right shoulder, the logo was already done a couple of years prior but he added Flesh and Blood in support of the title. The original album still has the blood running from the new tattoo though it was airbrushed out soon after its release. In late-1993, Rockett discovered that the then guitarist Richie Kotzen of Poison was having a relationship with Rocketts fiancee at the time, Kotzen was fired due to this incident. In VH1s Behind The Music, singer Bret Michaels said he never wanted to speak to Kotzen again, Rockett and Brian Cocivera joined forces creating custom built drum kits called the Chop Shop Custom Drum Company. After almost twenty years with Poison, Rockett released his first solo album, the album was a tribute to 1970s glam rock. He also guested on Britny Foxs Bite Down Hard, in 2004 Rikki founded the Brit Iron Rebels, a vintage and modern retro motorcycle Internet-based group dedicated to the British Rocker motorcycle culture of the 50s & 60s. On April 26,2007, Rockett announced the creation of Rockett Drum Works Inc and it is a drum manufacturing company, specializing in the creation of ultra custom drum kits, snare drums and custom accessories. Prior to setting up his enterprise, Rockett worked for Chop Shop Custom Drum and he departed after conflicting opinions with Chop Shop founder Brian Cocivera. Rockett recruited most of the staff from Chop Shop along with some staff members. In conjunction with the 30th anniversary of Star Wars in May 2007, Rockett wore a Star Wars patch on his vest in Poisons Fallen Angel music video and he said that his favorite character is C-3PO. On September 19,2007, Bosphorus Cymbals unveiled the Rockett Ride, in 2015 Rockett co formed a new rock supergroup the Devil City Angels with guitarist Tracii Guns, bassist Eric Brittingham and vocalist and rhythm guitarist Brandon Gibbs. Their self-titled debut album was officially released September 11,2015, in October 2008 Rockett married longtime girlfriend Melanie Martel. On July 14,2009, they had their first child, on March 2,2013, Rikki and Melaine welcomed their second child, a daughter named Lucy Sky
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Bobby Dall
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Robert Harry Kuykendall, also known as Bobby Dall, is an American musician best known as the bassist for the multi-platinum selling hard rock band Poison. The band have sold over 45 million records worldwide and have sold 15 million records in the United States alone. The band has also charted ten singles to the Top 40 of the Billboard Hot 100, including six Top 10 singles, Dall had ambitions of studying law, but ultimately turned to music instead. He began playing guitar but switched to bass at the age of 15, Dall later moved to Los Angeles with Bret Michaels, Rikki Rockett, and Matt Smith to play with the band Paris, which later became known as Poison. Dall is the youngest of three children and he moved to Florida with his family for a short time, but relocated to Harrisburg when he was still young. Dall has two children, Zachary Brandon and Zoe Brianne, Michaels apologized later and stated, You may have just seen the last concert by Poison in its current formation. The altercation happened before the set ended with Talk Dirty To Me. After some tense moments and Michaels apology to the crowd including his explanation that like brothers, sometimes you have to air things out, the band did finish the set. There have been many conflicts within the band over the years. Deville at the MTV Video Music Awards in 1991, although that took place after the performance, the band took time out while Michaels continued with his solo tour. Look What the Cat Dragged In Open Up and Say. Ahh, flesh & Blood Swallow This Live Native Tongue Poisons Greatest Hits, 1986-1996 Crack a Smile. and More
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C.C. DeVille
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DeVille is the lead guitarist of the multi-platinum-selling glam metal band Poison. His work with the band has sold over 45 million records worldwide and he has also acted in both reality television and television drama shows. He starred in The Surreal Life season 6 and The Surreal Life, DeVille also formed a solo band in 1998 called Samantha 7. In 2015, DeVille was ranked at one by VH1 as the most underrated hair metal guitarist of the 80s. DeVille was born Bruce Anthony Johannesson in the Bay Ridge area of Brooklyn and his interest in music began at age two while watching The Beatles perform on The Ed Sullivan Show. DeVille began playing the guitar at the age of five after he was given a $27 Japanese Telecaster copy, at the age of 18, DeVille auditioned for and eventually joined the band Lace based in Boro Park Brooklyn, NY, which adopted a highly sexual, glam image. It was during time period that DeVille began writing the song Talk Dirty To Me. DeVille began studying music theory at New York University, but never completed his studies, instead, he moved to Los Angeles in 1981 and played in various bands, including Screaming Mimi, Lace Slip, and St. James, before auditioning for Poison. DeVilles audition impressed drummer Rikki Rockett and bassist Bobby Dall, DeVille refused to play the songs that had been given to him as preparation, and instead jammed with a guitar riff he had written. The riff, which would eventually be featured in the Poison single Talk Dirty to Me, DeVille co-wrote Poisons debut album with Bret Michaels, Bobby Dall, and Rikki Rockett. Look What the Cat Dragged In was released on August 2,1986 and it included the hits Talk Dirty to Me, I Want Action, and I Wont Forget You. Sales for the album topped 3 million copies in the United States, DeVille also wrote much of the material for Poisons second album, the multi-platinum selling Open Up And Say. Ahh. which was released on May 21,1988 and would go on to sell 8 million copies worldwide. It included the hit song Nothin But a Good Time, co-written by DeVille, in 1990, Poison released the multi-platinum selling Flesh & Blood, an album which was again largely written by DeVille. During this period, DeVille also performed guitar on Warrants hit song Cherry Pie. Asked to quit, DeVille left Poison and was replaced by guitarist Richie Kotzen, following his departure from Poison, DeVille joined a band called Needle Park and recorded Hey Good Lookin for the soundtrack to the Pauly Shore movie Son In Law. Samantha 7 was a band composed of guitarist DeVille, guitarist Ty Longley, bassist Krys Baratto. Originally the bands name was The Stepmothers, but the band was forced to change their name following a dispute with another band of the same name
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Life Goes On (Poison song)
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Life Goes On is a song by American glam metal band Poison. It was the single from their 1990 album Flesh & Blood. The song reached number 35 on the Billboard Hot 100, life Goes On is on the following albums. The lyrics were written after a girlfriend of CCs was shot and this is possibly why the solo is so immaculate and emotional. This song is considered a fan due to C. C. s guitar solo and is about trying to find the light at the end of the tunnel
