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Hermosa Beach, California
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Hermosa Beach is a beachfront city in Los Angeles County, California, United States. Its population was 19,506 at the 2010 census, the city is located in the South Bay region of the greater Los Angeles area and is one of the three Beach Cities. Hermosa Beach is bordered by the two, Manhattan Beach to the north and Redondo Beach to the south and east. The citys beach is popular for sunbathing, beach volleyball, surfing, paddleboarding, the city itself extends only about 15 blocks from east to west and 40 blocks from north to south, with the Pacific Coast Highway running down the middle. Situated on the Pacific Ocean, Hermosas average temperature is 70°F in the summer, westerly sea breezes lessen what can be high summertime temperatures in Los Angeles and elsewhere in the county and help keep the smog away 360 days of the year. Hermosa Beach was originally part of the 1784 Rancho San Pedro Spanish land grant that became the ten-mile Ocean frontage of Rancho Sausal Redondo. In 1900 a tract of 1,500 acres was purchased for $35 per acre from A. E. Pomroy, the Spanish words Rancho Sausal Redondo mean a large circular ranch of pasture of grazing land, with a grove of willow on it. The first official survey was made in the year 1901 for the walk on the Strand, Hermosa Avenue and Santa Fe Avenue. In 1904 the first pier was built and it was constructed entirely of wood even to the pilings and it extended five hundred feet out into the ocean. The pier was constructed by the Hermosa Beach Land and Water Company, in 1913 this old pier was partly washed away and later torn down and a new one built to replace it. This pier was built of concrete 1,000 feet long, small tiled pavilions were erected at intervals along the sides to afford shade for fishermen and picnic parties. A bait stand was eventually out on the end. The Los Angeles Pacific Railway, a system, was the first railway in Hermosa Beach. A few years later it was merged with most all other companies in the region to form the new Pacific Electric Railway Company. The Santa Fe Railway was next through Hermosa Beach and it was seven blocks from the beach. The street that led to the tracks was called Santa Fe Avenue, in 1926, the Santa Fe Company built a modern stucco depot and installed Western Union telegraph service in it. The first city election for city officers was held December 24,1906, on January 14,1907, Hermosa Beach became the nineteenth incorporated city of Los Angeles County. Hermosa is a Spanish word meaning beautiful, Hermosa Beach is located at 33°51′59″N 118°23′59″W
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Hardcore punk
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Hardcore punk is a punk rock music genre and subculture that originated in the late 1970s. It is generally faster, harder, and more aggressive than other forms of punk rock, New York punk had a harder-edged sound than its San Francisco counterpart, featuring anti-art expressions of masculine anger, energy and subversive humor. Hardcore punk generally disavows commercialism, the music industry and anything similar to the characteristics of mainstream rock. Hardcore sprouted underground scenes across the United States in the early 1980s, particularly in Washington, New York, New Jersey, and Boston—as well as in Australia, Canada and the United Kingdom. Hardcore has spawned the straight movement and its associated submovements, hardline. Hardcore was heavily involved with the rise of the independent record labels in the 1980s and it has also influenced various music genres that have experienced widespread commercial success, including alternative rock, thrash metal, emo and metalcore. While traditional hardcore has never experienced mainstream success, some of its early pioneers have garnered appreciation over time. In 2011, Rolling Stone writer David Fricke placed Greg Ginn of Black Flag 99th place in his 100 Greatest Guitarists list, although the music genre started in English-speaking western countries, notable hardcore scenes have existed in Italy, Brazil, Japan, Europe and the Middle East. The origin of the hardcore punk is uncertain. The Vancouver-based band D. O. A. may have helped to popularize the term with the title of their 1981 album, Hardcore 81. C. Hardcore historian Steven Blush said that the term hardcore is also a reference to the sense of being fed up with the existing punk, Blush also states that the term refers to an extreme, the absolute most Punk. One definition of the genre is a form of exceptionally harsh punk rock, like the Oi. subgenre of the UK, hardcore punk can be considered an internal music reaction. According to one writer, distressed by the artificiality of much post-punk, lacking the art-school grace of post-punk, hardcore punk favor low key visual aesthetic over extravagance and breaking with original punk rock song patterns. One of the important philosophies in the scene is authenticity. The pejorative term poseur is applied to those who associate with punk and adopt its stylistic attributes but are deemed not to share or understand the underlying values and philosophy. Joe Keithley, the vocalist of D. O. A. said in an interview, in the vein of earlier punk rock, most hardcore punk bands have followed the traditional singer/guitar/bass/drum format. The songwriting has more emphasis on rather than melody. Critic Steven Blush writes The Sex Pistols were still rocknroll. like the craziest version of Chuck Berry, Hardcore was a radical departure from that
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Punk rock
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Punk rock is a rock music genre that developed in the early to mid-1970s in the United States, United Kingdom, and Australia. Rooted in 1960s garage rock and other forms of what is now known as proto-punk music, Punk bands typically produced short or fast-paced songs, with hard-edged melodies and singing styles, stripped-down instrumentation, and often political, anti-establishment lyrics. Punk embraces a DIY ethic, many bands self-produce recordings and distribute them through informal channels, the term punk was first used in relation to rock music by some American critics in the early 1970s, to describe garage bands and their devotees. The following year saw punk rock spreading around the world, for the most part, punk took root in local scenes that tended to reject association with the mainstream. An associated punk subculture emerged, expressing youthful rebellion and characterized by distinctive styles of clothing and adornment, by the beginning of the 1980s, faster, more aggressive styles such as hardcore and street punk had become the predominant mode of punk rock. Musicians identifying with or inspired by punk also pursued a range of other variations, giving rise to post-punk. At the end of the 20th century, punk rock had been adopted by the mainstream, as pop punk and punk bands such as Green Day. The first wave of rock was aggressively modern, distancing itself from the bombast. According to Ramones drummer Tommy Ramone, In its initial form, unfortunately, what happens is that people who could not hold a candle to the likes of Hendrix started noodling away. Soon you had endless solos that went nowhere, by 1973, I knew that what was needed was some pure, stripped down, no bullshit rock n roll. In critic Robert Christgaus description, It was also a subculture that rejected the political idealism. Technical accessibility and a DIY spirit are prized in punk rock, in the early days of punk rock, this ethic stood in marked contrast to what those in the scene regarded as the ostentatious musical effects and technological demands of many mainstream rock bands. Musical virtuosity was often looked on with suspicion, according to Holmstrom, punk rock was rock and roll by people who didnt have very many skills as musicians but still felt the need to express themselves through music. In December 1976, the English fanzine Sideburns published an illustration of three chords, captioned This is a chord, this is another, this is a third. The title of a 1980 single by the New York punk band Stimulators, inscribed a catchphrase for punks basic musical approach. The previous year, when the rock revolution began in Great Britain, was to be both a musical and a cultural Year Zero. As a Clash associate describes singer Joe Strummers outlook, Punk rock is meant to be our freedom, were meant to be able to do what we want to do. Scholar Daniel S. Traber argues that attaining authenticity in the identity can be difficult, as the punk scene matured, he observes
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Frontier Records
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Frontier Records is an independent record label, started in 1980 in Sun Valley, Los Angeles by Lisa Fancher, a former employee of Bomp. Records, and writer of the notes for the first album by The Runaways. Frontier Records first found success with the release of the Circle Jerks album Group Sex, the label went on to put out records by such bands as Suicidal Tendencies, American Music Club, Heatmiser, Redd Kross, Thin White Rope, T. S. O. L. Christian Death, and the Young Fresh Fellows, among others, the Avengers, and the Flyboys also performed. List of record labels Official Frontier Records homepage 2010 Interview with Lisa Fancher on Outsight Radio Hours
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I.R.S. Records
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Records was an American record label founded by Miles Copeland III and Jay Boberg in 1979. I. R. S. produced some of the most popular bands of the 1980s, including R. E. M. and The Go-Gos. His brother Ian was the head of a talent agency, Frontier Booking International, while his brother Stewart played drums for The Police, a band that Copeland managed. The Polices first album was released on A&M Records in 1978 with a hit single, Roxanne, building on success with the Police, Copeland convinced Jerry Moss, co-owner of A&M, to establish the I. R. S. division in 1979. Releases were distributed by A&M until 1985, by MCA Records until 1990, in 2011, EMI revived the label, as of 2012, the new label has Chiddy Bang and Foxy Shazam on its roster. In October 2013, shortly after the integration of EMI into its successor, Universal Music Group, Nashville, with Striking Matches, Marc Scibilia and Cowboy Jack Clement on its roster before being shut down once again in 2015. In 1985, Copeland brokered a deal to switch the labels distributor to MCA Records, under the agreement, A&M continued to release the labels pre-1985 catalog, much of which still can be found under the A&M banner. The last I. R. S release was All Set by the Buzzcocks, shortly after, Copeland formed Ark 21 Records. Records sponsored a monthly MTV show called I. R. S, Records Presents The Cutting Edge, hosted by Peter Zaremba of The Fleshtones. The series concentrated on bands that recorded for the label, faulty Products was the UK holding company for I. R. S. Records of the UK record labels set up by Copeland and it included Illegal Records, Deptford Fun City Records and others. Faulty Products was also an American independent record label and distribution company for other indie labels between 1980 and 1982, the label released The Polices debut single, Fall Out. Deptford Fun City Records was set up by Miles Copeland in the late 1970s as an outlet for Deptford, England bands such as Alternative TV and Squeeze. No Speak, also known as No Speak Records, was set up as an imprint of I. R. S. in January 1988. It released albums by Stewart Copeland, Wishbone Ash, and William Orbit, tribal America was a label run by Rob DiStefano that was distributed by I. R. S from 1991 until IRS folded in 1996. It concentrated on music, a type of electronic dance music. DiStefano went on to found Twisted America Records, I. R. S. s roster of musicians included The Alarm, The Bangles, Berlin, Black Sabbath, Buzzcocks, J. J. E. M. Renaissance, Stan Ridgway, Skafish, The Stranglers, Fine Young Cannibals, on the Charts was a 1994 compilation album that chronicled I. R. S
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Relativity Records
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Relativity Records, often self-identified as Relativity, was an American record label founded by Barry Kobrin at the site of his company, Important Record Distributors in metro New York. Early on, as a label, Relativity released music in a variety of styles, including dance, jazz, punk. As it grew and became associated with Sony Music Entertainment, it more known for its popular metal. Although it was established in 1985, there is evidence that the brand began c.1982 as an in-house IRD label. In the 1980s, Relativity was mostly focused on music, including heavy metal. Releases in this genre were split among Relativity and its sister labels Combat and In-Effect Records, around 1992, the label went under restructuring and did limited partnership deals with two regional independent hip hop record labels, Suave Records and Ruthless Records in 1995. Ed. IRD became Relativity Entertainment Distribution at some point and this company was renamed RED Distribution when acquired by Sony in 2007. List of record labels Bessman, Jim
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Mercury Records
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Mercury Records is an American-based record label owned by Universal Music Group. In the United States, it operates through Island Records, in the UK, Mercury Record Corporation was formed in the American city of Chicago in 1945 by Irving Green, Berle Adams, Ray Greenberg and Arthur Talmadge. They were a force in jazz and blues, classical music, rock and roll. Early in the history, Mercury opened two pressing plants, one in Chicago and the other in St. Louis, Missouri. With the use of presses and providing 24-hour turnaround, they went into direct competition with major recording labels such as Columbia, Decca, Capitol. By hiring two promoters, Tiny Hill and Jimmy Hilliard, they penetrated the pop market with such as Frankie Laine, Vic Damone, Tony Fontane. Rather than rely on radio airplay, Mercury initially relied on jukeboxes to promote their music, some early Mercury recordings featured a caricature of him as its logo. In 1947 Jack Rael, a musician and publicist/manager, persuaded Mercury to let Patti Page record a song that had planned to be done by Vic Damone. The budget was too small for them to hire a second singer to provide the parts to Page. The company released a number of recordings under the Mercury label as well as its subsidiaries. In addition, they leased and purchased material by independent labels, under their own label, Mercury released a variety of recording styles from classical music to psychedelic rock. However, its subsidiaries focused on their own specialized categories of music, Mercurys jazz division had two distinct and important fathers. John Hammond brought his expertise and connections when Mercury bought Keynote Records in the late 1940s, and Mercury was the issuing company and distributor for Norman Granzs pre-Norgran/Verve recordings. Although both Hammond and Granz had departed Mercury by the mid-1950s, they established the company in the jazz world, by the early 1960s, Mercury was releasing jazz under the flagship label and was an early leader in the new stereo sound releases. Highlights of the early and mid-1960s included albums by Quincy Jones, Buddy Rich, Cannonball Adderley, Charles Mingus, Dinah Washington, Sarah Vaughan, Max Roach, in the early 1950s, Norman Granz started his own record company, Norgran, which later became Verve. In an ironic twist, both Mercury and Verve are now owned by Universal Music Group and Mercurys jazz library falls under the Verve division. Since the early 1990s, Verve has reissued many Mercury jazz titles on CD, often taking care to use original master tapes, in 1962, Mercury began marketing a line of phonographs made by Philips bearing the Mercury brand name. In July 1967, Mercury Records became the first U. S. record company to release cassette music tapes, in 1969, Mercury changed its corporate name to Mercury Record Productions Inc. while its parent Conelco became North American Philips Corp after Philips brought control of the company
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Black Flag (band)
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Black Flag was an American punk rock band formed in 1976 in Hermosa Beach, California. Initially called Panic, the band was established by Greg Ginn, the guitarist, primary songwriter and they are widely considered to be one of the first hardcore punk bands as well as one of the pioneers of post-hardcore. After breaking up in 1986, Black Flag reunited in 2003, Black Flags sound mixed the raw simplicity of the Ramones with atonal guitar solos and, in later years, frequent tempo shifts. These themes were explored further when Henry Rollins joined the band as singer in 1981. Most of the material was released on Ginns independent record label. Over the course of the 1980s, Black Flags sound, as well as their notoriety and they also played longer, slower, and more complex songs at a time when other bands in their milieu performed a raw, fast, three-chord format. As a result, their extensive discography is more varied than many of their punk rock contemporaries. Black Flag was and remains well-respected within the subculture, primarily for their tireless promotion of an autonomous DIY punk ethic and aesthetic. They are often regarded as pioneers in the movement of underground do-it-yourself record labels that flourished among 1980s punk rock bands, through constant touring throughout the United States and Canada, and occasionally Europe, Black Flag established a dedicated cult following. Initially called Panic, Black Flag was formed in 1976 in Hermosa Beach, Ginn insisted that the band rehearse several hours a day. Ginns brother Raymond Pettibon and SST house record producer-to-be Spot filled in during rehearsals, in the beginning, Ginn and Morris were inspired by the raw, stripped-down attitude of bands such as the Ramones and Stooges. Ginn has said We were influenced by the Stooges and then the Ramones, Keith and myself saw the Ramones when they first toured LA in 1976. After we saw them, I said if they could do it we could do it, I thought Keith would be a good singer and after seeing the Ramones, it made him think that he doesnt have to be some classical operatic singer. Chuck Dukowski, bassist of Würm, liked Ginns band, and eventually joined, forming a quartet with Ginn, Morris. The band held their first performance in December 1977 in Redondo Beach, to avoid confusion with another band called Panic, they changed their name to Black Flag in late 1978. They played their first show under this name on January 27,1979 at the Moose Lodge Hall in Redondo Beach and this was the first time Dez Cadena saw the band perform. The name was suggested by Ginns brother, artist Raymond Pettibon, who designed the bands logo. Pettibon stated If a white flag means surrender, a black flag represents anarchy and their new name was reminiscent of the anarchist symbol, the insecticide of the same name, and of the British heavy metal band Black Sabbath, one of Ginns favorite bands
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Redd Kross
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With the addition of friends Greg Hetson and John Stielow on drums, the bands first gig was opening for Black Flag. At the time of their first self-titled EP, in 1980, the band had changed their name to Red Cross, eventually, Hetson left to join the Circle Jerks and Reyes left for Black Flag. The album also contains nods to Jim and Tammy Faye Bakker, Tatum ONeal, not long after the release of the album, the group was threatened with a lawsuit from the International Red Cross and changed their name to Redd Kross, allegedly being inspired by Redd Foxx. In 1984, lead guitarist Robert Hecker joined the band, as Redd Kross embarked on tour in support of Teen Babes from Monsanto. In that same year, they were featured on the soundtrack of Desperate Teenage Lovedolls with their cover of the Brady Bunch Kids Its a Sunshine Day. Jeff and Steve appear in the movie, along with Robert in the sequel Lovedolls Superstar which the brothers co-wrote with Dave Markey, both movies are available now on DVD. In 1985, drummer Roy McDonald joined the band, in 1987, Redd Kross released Neurotica, an album reportedly influenced by Saturday morning cartoons and breakfast cereal. Although the album itself was successful, the label, Big Time Records folded. The band continued to tour during these years however, and in 1988, another cover collection, it included songs originally by Queen and Yoko Ono, and featured a cover of The Beatles Ive Just Seen A Face with lead vocals by guest Danny Bonaduce. The second Tater Totz album, in 1989, included Cherie Currie of The Runaways, a third Tater Totz album was released called Tater Comes Alive. A side project, Anarchy 6 had two releases, Hardcore Lives. and an only album Live Like a Suicidal, and was featured in Lovedolls Superstar. On February 20,1990, Redd Kross appeared on Episode 2 of the cult Public-access television show Decoupage with Summer Caprice. Former Red Hot Chili Peppers / future Pearl Jam drummer Jack Irons joined for the Third Eye tours, and appears in the video for Annies Gone. Brian Reitzell succeeded Irons as drummer in the band, and appears in the video for 1976. In 1991, Robert Hecker took leave from the band, the album Phaseshifter was released in 1993, with new band members Eddie Kurdziel, Gere Fennelly, and Brian Reitzell. The videos for Jimmys Fantasy and Lady In The Front Row were both shown on MTVs 120 Minutes. They toured on Phaseshifter for over a year, headling their own shows as well as tours supporting The Lemonheads and The Spin Doctors in late 1993, in 1995, Jeff and his wife, Charlotte Caffey, had a daughter named Astrid. In 1997, Redd Kross released Show World, produced by Chris Shaw, the band took an indefinite hiatus after the Show World tour, and their future was uncertain after the untimely death of guitarist Eddie Kurdziel on June 6,1999
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Bad Religion
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Bad Religion is an American punk rock band that formed in Los Angeles, California, in 1979. To date, Bad Religion has released sixteen albums, two live albums, three compilation albums, three EPs and two DVDs. They are considered to be one of the punk rock acts of all time. Bad Religion had built a following in the United States with their early albums before signing to Atlantic Records in 1993. They rose to fame that year with their seventh studio album and major-label debut Recipe for Hate. Shortly before the release of Stranger than Fiction, Gurewitz left Bad Religion to run his label Epitaph on a full-time basis, the band is expected to release their seventeenth studio album in 2017. Bad Religion was formed in Los Angeles in 1979 by high school students Greg Graffin, Jay Bentley, Jay Ziskrout, according to bassist Jay Bentley, Bad Religion started around November or December 1979, but no one can remember exactly. Greg Graffin wanted the year 2000 to be Bad Religions 20th birthday and their first public performance was playing 6 or 8 songs at a Fullerton, California or Santa Ana, California warehouse opening for Social Distortion. Their first official show was on November 11,1980 at Joey Kills Bar in Burbank, in 1981, the band released their initial eponymous album on the newly formed label, Epitaph Records, which was and continues to be managed and owned by Gurewitz. Also in 1981, the began recording their first full-length album. During the recording of album, drummer Jay Ziskrout quit the band. Released in 1982, How Could Hell Be Any Worse. was also distributed by the band under the Epitaph label, in 1983, the band released Into the Unknown, a keyboard-driven progressive hard rock album with a slightly slower pace. Almost all of the albums the band produced were out of the warehouse they were housed in without the bands knowledge. This incident, as well as band members increasingly divergent personal lives, soon after, Graffin reassembled Bad Religion with Circle Jerks guitarist Greg Hetson replacing Gurewitz, who had gone into rehab for his drug problem. Bad Religion returned to a mellower, rock and roll version of their original sound with the Back to the Known EP. Eventually the band split toward the middle of 1985, Bad Religion slowly reformed in 1986 out of the Back to the Known line-up when Graffin called Bentley and asked him to return. Bentleys response was tentative, but after being assured that the setlist consisted mostly of tracks from How Could Hell Be Any Worse and he agreed to return for one show, and ended up staying on because he had so much fun. A freshly rehabilitated Gurewitz was eventually convinced to come back aboard and this lineup recorded the bands third album, Suffer, which was released in 1988
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The Weirdos
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The Weirdos are an American punk rock band from Los Angeles, California. They formed in 1975 and broke up in 1981, were active in the 1980s. Critic Mark Deming calls them simply, one of the best and brightest American bands of punks first wave. The band was formed in 1975 by singer John Denney and his guitarist brother Dix, initially using the band names The Barbies, the Weirdos were originally a 1950s-inspired hard rock and roll band that, like the Ramones in New York City, predated the UK punk scene. They wore us down and we just said OK, fine, were punk rock, similar to the Ramones. We came before the Sex Pistols and The Damned and they may have been our peers later, but we already had a set of songs in 1975 which were sort of Ramones meets Iggy Pops Stooges influenced punk songs. Well before any of the UK bands started cloning Americas punk sound, I always felt we were a true garage punk band. Denney claimed the name dated from the early part of the 1970s and referred to his countercultural short hair. In 1974 according to some left over hippies, I looked like a lobotomy, hippies thought I was weird, a few months later when we formed, the rest of the band got really short cropped hair too. We were all weird then, we were considered weirdos, by the beginning of 1977, The Weirdos were able to pack clubs as a headlining band. Known for their stage costumes and antics, the band helped shape the vigorous and experimental early Los Angeles punk scene. John Denney recalled, We had our own look, our own sound and it was apart from New York or London. We were staunchly against safety pins, we tried to parody punk rock at first and we did happy faces onstage as a joke sometimes, which was the exact opposite of what New York was doing. We were just thumbing our noses at everything, everything was a joke, punk was a joke, we were a joke. Nonetheless, we were serious about rocking. The Weirdos first release was a 7-inch EP, Destroy All Music and it was followed by the 1978 single We Got the Neutron Bomb, released on the Los Angeles punk label Dangerhouse. The band later released two 12 EPs in 1979 and 1980, the band were highly critical of some of their recordings and shady engineers, with John Denney characterizing the 1979-80 period as a big botch job marked by a series of aborted recording sessions. It was not until 1991 that a first volume of early recordings would be remixed by the band for release by Frontier Records as a compilation album, the Weirdos broke up in 1981
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Black President (band)
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Black President is an American punk rock band. It was formed in 2005 by Circle Jerks/Bad Religion guitarist Greg Hetson, the band was originally formed in late 2005 by Hetson and Paulson, who were joined by Jason Christopher on bass and vocals, Roy Mayorga on drums, and Christian Martucci on vocals. Mayorga was unable to commit to the due to previous commitments with Stone Sour. He was temporarily replaced by Wade Youman, and later by Ty Smith, Mayorga returned in time to record the debut album and has been permanently replaced by Dave Raun of Lagwagon. Since forming, the band has toured with Bad Brains, Guttermouth, the Germs, Suicidal Tendencies, on February 25,2008, the band announced they had signed a deal with Cobra Music. At the time of the announcement, Hetson had left the band, other members of the band cited Hetsons conflicting commitments with Bad Religion and Circle Jerks as the reason for his departure. Guitar duties were picked up by Martucci, reducing the quintet to a four-piece and their self-titled debut album was released September 16,2008. The band also filmed a video for the song Suspects, according to a MySpace blog post titled in the war room, the band recorded 14 songs total,12 originals, an alice cooper cover & a surprise track to be released early next year. The band came up with the name before Barack Obama had announced his 2008 run for the United States presidency. com Cobra Music
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Off!
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Off. is an American hardcore punk supergroup, formed in Los Angeles in 2009. The idea to form the band came after Coats had worked as producer on a Circle Jerks album which fell apart, during that time, Coats and Morris had written several songs together which they used to start Off. The group made its debut at the 2010 South By Southwest Music Festival in Austin. Off. s first Los Angeles show featured an art installation by Raymond Pettibon at a downtown warehouse space. The first release by Off. is a 7 vinyl EP called 1st EP and that EP, along with three more EPs, were later released as a four 7 vinyl box set entitled First Four EPs on December 14,2010. The collection contains sixteen songs and features artwork by Raymond Pettibon, in April 2014, the band released their third album, Wasted Years. Each of their albums has featured art by Pettibon and each is 16 tracks long. Anthony Kiedis of the Red Hot Chili Peppers has been one of Morris friends for thirty years. At every date on the Chili Peppers Im with You World Tour and he has also sported the hat in some of the bands music videos. Off. despite some backlash from fans, opened a few shows for the Chili Peppers during the tour. Morris said “I’ve known Anthony since the beginning of the Red Hot Chili Peppers, Anthony and Flea are my friends and if I want to go out and play shows with some of my friends, I’m going to. I’ve been playing music for over 33 years, and I have some friends that are in large bands. We could go out night after night and play to people who know who we are, and that’s all fan-fucking-tastic and those people may hate us, but maybe they’ll love us. There’s only one way to find out and that’s to do it. ”Keith Morris – vocals Dimitri Coats – guitar Steven Shane McDonald – bass guitar Mario Rubalcaba – drums First Four EPs Off, official website Radio Interview - Keith Morris Off
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Keith Morris
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Keith Morris is an American singer and songwriter known for his role as frontman of the hardcore punk bands Black Flag, Circle Jerks, and Off. Born and raised in Hermosa Beach, California, he formed Black Flag at the age of 21 with guitarist Greg Ginn and performed on the bands 1979 debut EP Nervous Breakdown. Shortly after leaving Black Flag in 1979, he formed the Circle Jerks with guitarist Greg Hetson, in 2009 Morris formed the supergroup Off. with guitarist Dimitri Coats, bassist Steven Shane McDonald, and drummer Mario Rubalcaba. Morris has also appeared as a guest vocalist on albums by other artists. Morris was born September 18,1955 and grew up in Hermosa Beach, Keith attended Mira Costa High School, where brothers Greg and Raymond Ginn were also students, and graduated in 1973. He then studied art and painting at the Pasadena Arts Center while working at his fathers bait shop. One of his co-workers at the shop was Bill Stevenson, a Mira Costa student eight years Morris junior who would go on to be a member of Black Flag. Kinda stuff, the kind of thing you get up to when youre young, if it was a good experience, then cool, if not, well, then it was just a real hard lesson learned. I was into anything that was loud and he became a freely opinionated and passionate fan of heavy rock and protopunk, and took a job working at local record store Rubicon Records. In 1976, Morris co-founded Black Flag along with guitarist Greg Ginn, ginns brother Raymond Pettibon and SST house record producer-to-be Spot filled in sometimes at rehearsals. After a number of changes, Morris recorded vocals for the first Black Flag EP Nervous Breakdown. He left the band in 1979, citing, among reasons, creative differences with Ginn. After leaving Black Flag in 1979, Morris founded the Circle Jerks, however, the Circle Jerks reunited in 1994, released their last studio album to date in 1995, and performed on and off until 2010, when they entered another hiatus. Morris stated in a March 2011 interview that Off. was asked to open dates for the Red Hot Chili Peppers. Morris has known the band for over 30 years and Chili Peppers singer, Anthony Kiedis, hat at every show on the bands entire Im with You World Tour including some of their music videos. In 2013, Keith Morris, Chuck Dukowski, Dez Cadena, Bill Stevenson and Descendents member Stephen Egerton, as of now, they are only touring. No plans of an album have been announced, Morris filled in for Red Hot Chili Peppers singer, Anthony Kiedis during one of the bands shows in the mid-80s. When Kiedis, who was off scoring drugs, failed to show up for the performance, Morris, who didnt know any of the lyrics, yelled and made up lyrics to the bands songs to get through the performance
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Greg Hetson
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Greg Hetson is an American guitarist. He was born in Brooklyn, New York and has lived in the Los Angeles since he was 2 years old, active since 1979, Hetson is best known as the guitarist for the influential hardcore punk bands Redd Kross, Circle Jerks and Bad Religion. He is known for his high energy stage antics which people have coined the term The Hetson Leap and he was a founding member of and also plays guitar in another supergroup, Punk Rock Karaoke and the hard core punk band G. F. P. In 1980, Hetson abandoned his position as guitarist of the punk/alternative band Redd Kross to form The Circle Jerks with former Black Flag vocalist Keith Morris. Soon after, they released their debut LP, Group Sex, in 1982, The Circle Jerks released their second album Wild in the Streets. This album, while popular, did not sell nearly as much as their third LP Golden Shower of Hits, while Bad Religion was on hiatus, the Circle Jerks continued touring and recorded two more albums before breaking up in 1990. However, they reformed in 1994 and released Oddities, Abnormalities and Curiosities, their last album to date, Hetson would continue to play for both Bad Religion and The Circle Jerks. As of 2010, The Circle Jerks are on hiatus again, Greg Hetson was credited on Bad Religions album How Could Hell Be Any Worse. for playing the solo for the song Part III. After the release of Back to the Known, Bad Religion broke up for a second time, Bad Religion recorded their first three highly acclaimed reunion albums, Suffer, No Control and Against the Grain, before drummer Pete Finestone quit the band in 1991. Bad Religion replaced Finestone with Bobby Schayer, then recorded their next album, the album was completed in the spring of 1991, but the band was forced to delay its release until a year later. For the album, Bad Religion also filmed their first music video Atomic Garden, in 1993, the band left their original label Epitaph Records and signed to Atlantic Records, who released their next album Recipe for Hate. While moderately successful, this was the first Bad Religion album to reach any Billboard charts, the bands popularity grew in 1994 with their widely successful album Stranger Than Fiction, including their well-known hits Infected and 21st Century, which are often considered concert staples. Gurewitz was replaced by former Minor Threat/Dag Nasty guitarist Brian Baker and he returned to the band in 2001, the line-up consisting of Greg Graffin, Gurewitz, Hetson, Baker, Jay Bentley and Brooks Wackerman. Mike Dimkich is indeed helping us out right now, and we are genuinely appreciative, right now we are just looking forward and getting ready to play our shows. In January 2014, Bentley confirmed that Dimkich is a member of Bad Religion. In April 2014, Hetson tweeted that he is no longer in Bad Religion, Hetson plays guitar in the all star band Punk Rock Karaoke with Eric Melvin of NOFX, and Steve Soto of The AdolescentsStan Lee of The Dickies and original Goldfinger drummer Darrin Pfeiffer. Other notable past and recurring members have included Bob Mothersbaugh of Devo, and Mike Watt of Minutemen, Iggy and it was the first interactive live Punk Karaoke band since 1996. The band released DVD/CD set on MVD which has sing along with videos as well as an album featuring singers such as Matt Skiba, Dave King
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Lucky Lehrer
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Lucky Lehrer is a drummer from Los Angeles, California who was voted the best punk drummer of all-time by fanzine, Flipside. He was originally trained in jazz but most famously played in LA punk rock bands, particularly the Circle Jerks, Redd Kross, Bad Religion, Darby Crash Band and LAs Wasted Youth, Lehrer also appeared in three notable documentary films charting the punk rock music scene. He is the brother of LAs Wasted Youth guitarist Chett Lehrer, Lehrer also teaches drums, with notable students being future Bad Religion drummers Pete Finestone and Bobby Schayer. Lucky credits his early start to his mother, who died of cancer. I quit guitar after 6 weeks and she let me try the drums, years later, she said that all the racket in the house from hours of practicing drums never bothered her, Lucky remembers. They visited jazz clubs until his mother died, such as Jaxx, Vibrato and La Ve Lee and he attributes his innovative, syncopated style to his interpretation of jazz and Latin drumming in a crash collision with speed metal. Early inspirations include jazz legends Buddy Rich and Max Roach, later influences involve John Bonham, session and Flamenco drummer Joey Heredia, and teaching pioneer Murray Spivak. The kit features a pair of 10” and 12” Piccolo toms DW designed in conjunction with Terry Bozzio that are positioned in lieu of a floor tom, the standard mounted “rack” tom tom is 10” in diameter. For touring, Lucky uses a 24” diameter bass drum but prefers a smaller drum for recording, for live shows he uses a one-off prototype 13” diameter custom concrete snare drum by DW that was a personal gift from DW Senior V. P. All hardware is heavy duty DW, Lucky uses a variety of DW drum heads made by Remo. On the batter side of his drum, a coated Remo Powerstroke 3. DW clear Pinstripes on the sides of toms, and coated. He uses a Pinstripe on the bass drum, the front is a logo head by Remo with a special hole pattern developed by John Good of DW. The Lucky Lehrer signature Speed Stick by Ahead that is distributed by Big Bang Percussion is designed to be lighter to support faster playing and it is made from a composite material so that the stick lasts longer and performers can play harder. In 2013 Lucky disbanded a long association with Zildjian and joined the roster of sponsored Sabian artists and he added more cymbals both to his live and studio drum kits, currently playing Sabian 16” AAX X-Plosion hi-hats remotely mounted to on a DW x-stacker. He also includes a 10” Sabian O-zone on a kit featuring a 20” AA Metal X-ride and two 16” Sabian crash cymbals and 14” AAX Fusion Hi-hats
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Los Angeles
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Los Angeles, officially the City of Los Angeles and often known by its initials L. A. is the cultural, financial, and commercial center of Southern California. With a census-estimated 2015 population of 3,971,883, it is the second-most populous city in the United States, Los Angeles is also the seat of Los Angeles County, the most populated county in the United States. The citys inhabitants are referred to as Angelenos, historically home to the Chumash and Tongva, Los Angeles was claimed by Juan Rodríguez Cabrillo for Spain in 1542 along with the rest of what would become Alta California. The city was founded on September 4,1781, by Spanish governor Felipe de Neve. It became a part of Mexico in 1821 following the Mexican War of Independence, in 1848, at the end of the Mexican–American War, Los Angeles and the rest of California were purchased as part of the Treaty of Guadalupe Hidalgo, thereby becoming part of the United States. Los Angeles was incorporated as a municipality on April 4,1850, the discovery of oil in the 1890s brought rapid growth to the city. The completion of the Los Angeles Aqueduct in 1913, delivering water from Eastern California, nicknamed the City of Angels, Los Angeles is known for its Mediterranean climate, ethnic diversity, and sprawling metropolis. Los Angeles also has an economy in culture, media, fashion, science, sports, technology, education, medicine. A global city, it has been ranked 6th in the Global Cities Index, the city is home to renowned institutions covering a broad range of professional and cultural fields, and is one of the most substantial economic engines within the United States. The Los Angeles combined statistical area has a gross metropolitan product of $831 billion, making it the third-largest in the world, after the Greater Tokyo and New York metropolitan areas. The city has hosted the Summer Olympic Games in 1932 and 1984 and is bidding to host the 2024 Summer Olympics and thus become the second city after London to have hosted the Games three times. The Los Angeles area also hosted the 1994 FIFA mens World Cup final match as well as the 1999 FIFA womens World Cup final match, the mens event was watched on television by over 700 million people worldwide. The Los Angeles coastal area was first settled by the Tongva, a Gabrielino settlement in the area was called iyáangẚ, meaning poison oak place. Gaspar de Portolà and Franciscan missionary Juan Crespí, reached the present site of Los Angeles on August 2,1769, in 1771, Franciscan friar Junípero Serra directed the building of the Mission San Gabriel Arcángel, the first mission in the area. The Queen of the Angels is an honorific of the Virgin Mary, two-thirds of the settlers were mestizo or mulatto with a mixture of African, indigenous and European ancestry. The settlement remained a small town for decades, but by 1820. Today, the pueblo is commemorated in the district of Los Angeles Pueblo Plaza and Olvera Street. New Spain achieved its independence from the Spanish Empire in 1821, during Mexican rule, Governor Pío Pico made Los Angeles Alta Californias regional capital
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Oddities, Abnormalities and Curiosities
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Oddities, Abnormalities and Curiosities is the sixth and final studio album by the Circle Jerks, which was released in 1995. Oddities, Abnormalities and Curiosities was the bands only studio recording since their 1990 disbandment and 1994 reformation. The reunion of the Circle Jerks did not last, after several problems and guitarist Greg Hetsons involvement with Bad Religion, they split up again. The album is out of print, gibson later made a surprise appearance at the Circle Jerks performance at punk mecca CBGBs to perform the song with the band. The video for the song was featured on an episode of Beavis. The song Dogs lyrics are directly from the opening monologue of the film My Life as a Dog. The song and movie both reference Laika, the Russian space dog, having starved to death several months in space. This is commonly believed, but one of the Russian scientists responsible for the mission claimed Laika died after only 5 to 7 hours in space. The cover art is a photo of microcephalic circus performers Zip and Pip who were famed for their roles in the controversial 1932 MGM film Freaks
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Flea (musician)
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Michael Peter Balzary, better known by his stage name Flea, is an Australian-American musician and actor best known as a founding member of the rock band Red Hot Chili Peppers. Flea briefly appeared as the bassist for such bands as What Is This and he has also performed with rock supergroups Atoms for Peace, Antemasque, Pigface, and Rocket Juice & the Moon. Flea has also collaborated with artists including The Mars Volta, Johnny Cash, Tom Waits, Alanis Morissette, in 2009, Rolling Stone readers ranked Flea the second-best bassist of all time, behind John Entwistle. In 2012 he was inducted into the Rock and Roll Hall of Fame with the members of the Red Hot Chili Peppers. In 2014, Flea returned to acting in the film Low Down, Flea is the co-founder of Silverlake Conservatory of Music, a non-profit music education organization founded in 2001 for underprivileged children. Michael Peter Balzary was born on October 16,1962 in the Melbourne suburb of Mount Waverley and he is of Hungarian and Irish descent. His father, Mick Balzary, a fisherman, often took him fishing. When Flea was seven, his family moved to Larchmont, New York for his fathers career, Flea and his siblings stayed with their mother Patricia, who soon remarried to a jazz musician. He was first called Flea as a child for his inability to sit still. Fleas stepfather, Walter Abdul Urban, frequently invited musicians to his house, the family moved again to Los Angeles, California, where Flea became fascinated with the trumpet. He had no interest in music at the time, he idolized jazz musicians like Miles Davis, Louis Armstrong. His stepfather was an alcoholic, who eventually became involved in shoot-outs with police. I was raised in a violent, alcoholic household, Flea later said, I grew up being terrified of my parents. It caused a lot of later in life. To cope, Flea began smoking cannabis at 13, and became a daily user, Flea, who was then nicknamed Mike K the Flea, attended Fairfax High School, and was somewhat of an outcast due to his taste in music and sex fetishes. However, he soon met Anthony Kiedis, and after a brief confrontation, Kiedis recalled, We were drawn to each other by the forces of mischief and love and we became virtually inseparable. We found each other and it turned out to be the friendship of my life. Flea was turned on to music by Hillel Slovak
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Anti-Flag
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Anti-Flag are an American punk band from Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania, United States. The band is known for political activism, focusing on anti-war activism, anti-imperialism, class struggle, human rights. Anti-Flag is known also for their advocacy of political action groups such as Greenpeace. Most recently, the band has declared solidarity with the global Occupy Together movement, Anti-Flag was formed in 1988 by singer/guitarist Justin Sane and drummer Pat Thetic. During the bands early years, various guitarists and bassists moved in and out of the band, including Justins sister, the band failed to solidify, and it fell apart after playing just one show. In 1992, Justin and Pat reformed the band, now with Andy Flag on bass, a 17-song demo album called 17 Songs was released the same year. In 1996, the released their first album, Die For the Government. Andy Flag left the band in the summer of 1996 because of disputes between himself and Justin. For a brief time after Andys departure in 1996, Sean Whelan of Pittsburgh band the Bad Genes filled in on bass and it was during this time that Sean was also playing in another band with guitarist Chris Head, whom he introduced to the band. In early 1997, Pittsburgh guitarist Chris Head began filling in on bass, in late 1997, Jamie Cock took over as the new bassist, moving Chris Head over to second guitar, which he preferred. The current line-up finalized in 1999 when Chris Barker, also known as Chris No,2, replaced Jamie Cock on bass. In 1998, the released their second full-length release, Their System Doesnt Work For You. The album contained all nine Anti-Flag songs from the 1996 Anti-Flag/d. b. s, split album North America Sucks, as well as 10 new unreleased songs. The band decided to release the album independently, and Their System Doesnt Work For You became the release for the bands own A-F Records. In 1999, Anti-Flag released the album A New Kind of Army on Go-Kart Records/A-F Records, the album addressed topics such as abortion, political corruption, racism, fascism, troubled youth, police brutality, and unity within the American youth. The cover art page unfolded into a poster featuring the phrase Too smart to fight, in addition to this, the band had a disclaimer at the bottom of its album cover saying, Anti-Flag does not mean Anti-American. In 2000, Anti-Flag was invited to participate in Vans Warped Tour, during this time, the members of Anti-Flag met NOFXs Fat Mike, owner of the Fat Wreck Chords record label. This meeting spawned a friendship that would lead to Anti-Flags release of two albums on the label, in 2001, Anti-Flag teamed with punk music producer Mass Giorgini to record the album Underground Network, released on Fat Wreck Chords
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Dropkick Murphys
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The Dropkick Murphys are an American Celtic punk band formed in Quincy, Massachusetts in 1996. The 2004 single Tessie became the bands first mainstream hit and one of their biggest charting singles to date, the band is known for their loud, energetic live shows. In 2007, the band began releasing music through their own imprint label,6, giving the band their highest-charting album to date. The bands ninth album,11 Short Stories of Pain & Glory was released on January 6,2017, the band was named after Dr. John Dropkick Murphys alcohol-detoxification facility. The Dropkick Murphys, first started playing in the basement of a barbershop and soon began to tour. They received their first big break when The Mighty Mighty Bosstones selected them as the act for their 1997 tour in support of Lets Face It. After putting out a series of EPs, they were signed by Hellcat Records in 1997, in 1998 they released their first full-length album, Do or Die, which was produced by Rancids Lars Frederiksen. Lead singer Mike McColgan left the band in 1998 during the middle of a US tour with The Business, according to McColgan he wanted to follow in the footsteps of his uncle and join the Boston Fire Department, which he eventually would do in 2001. We apologize to anyone who was a fan of Mike as our singer, however contrary to popular rumor, Mike left the band because he is no longer interested in being a member of this band or the movement of which we are a part. The band goes on to explain that their music is serious to them. Even Mike felt that the band deserved a singer who was invested in the music. Mike would later return to the scene in 2003 as singer of the Street Dogs. Following McColgans departure, the searched for a replacement however were not having much luck. Barr went in to audition for the band, first performing a new song titled 10 Years of Service and was offered the job right away, Barrs first release with the band was the 19987 single for Curse of a Fallen Soul. On March 9,1999, the released their second studio album and first with Barr. The album featured more of a punk sound closer to that of Barrs former band, The Bruisers. The band gained their first mainstream exposure when the video for their single 10 Years of Service received airplay on the MTV show 120 Minutes, the band set out on a year-long tour to support the album. In late 1999, the band along with The Business, released a single titled
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The Offspring
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The Offspring is an American punk rock band from Huntington Beach, California, formed in 1984. Originally formed under the name Manic Subsidal, the band consists of lead vocalist and rhythm guitarist Dexter Holland, bassist Greg K. lead guitarist Kevin Noodles Wasserman and drummer Pete Parada. The Offspring went through lineup changes over the years, and Holland. The band is often credited—alongside fellow California punk bands Green Day, Bad Religion, NOFX, Pennywise and they have sold over 40 million records worldwide, being considered one of the best-selling punk rock bands of all time. To date, the Offspring has released nine studio albums and their first three albums for the independent record labels Nemesis and Epitaph earned them a cult following. Splinter was followed five years later by Rise and Fall, Rage and Grace, the Offspring is currently in production of their tenth studio album, which is due for release in 2017. The foundations for the Offspring began with guitarist/vocalist Bryan Dexter Holland and bassist Greg Kriesel playing music together in a garage in Cypress, at a party, and following a riot at a 1984 Social Distortion show, they decided to form a band called Manic Subsidal. Holland changed his role from drums to guitar, and the band was rounded out by singer Doug Thompson, marcus Parrish briefly joined as a second guitarist, however, no recordings were made at this point. After Thompson was forced out, Holland took over vocals, in 1985, school janitor Kevin Noodles Wasserman joined as a second guitarist, allegedly because he was old enough to purchase alcohol for the other members, who were under the legal drinking age. In 1986, after changing their name to The Offspring, the released their first single. They released the single on their self-made Black Label record company, an earlier version of Ill Be Waiting, which was then known as Fire and Ice, appeared on the long-out of print Subject to Blackout compilation tape, which was also released in 1986. Also in 1986, the Offspring recorded a tape, which received a positive review in Maximum Rocknroll magazine. Lilja left the Offspring in 1987 to pursue a career in gynecology, and was replaced by Ron Welty. After recording another demo in 1988, The Offspring signed a deal with a small-time label. In March 1989, the band teamed up with producer Thom Wilson to record their first album, the album was released in limited numbers by the label, only on the 12 vinyl and cassette formats, and was not released on CD until 1995. A six-week national tour followed, but Noodles was later stabbed during a performance at a Hollywood anti-nuclear benefit, in 1991 the Offspring teamed up with Wilson again to produce the Baghdad 7 EP and a third demo tape. This EP and demo were instrumental to the signing with Epitaph Records. In 1992 Thom Wilson and the Offspring returned to the studio to record their second album Ignition, the band went on U. S. tours with Pennywise and Lunachicks, and a European tour with NOFX
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Pennywise (band)
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Pennywise is an American punk rock band from Hermosa Beach, California, formed in 1988. The name is derived from the monster, It, from the Stephen King novel of the same title, between their 1991 self-titled debut and 2005s The Fuse, Pennywise had released an album every two years on Epitaph Records, a label owned by Bad Religion guitarist Brett Gurewitz. To date, the band has released eleven studio albums, one live album. By 2007, the band had sold over three million records worldwide, making them one of the most successful independent punk acts of all time. Pennywises current line-up consists of Jim Lindberg, Fletcher Dragge, Randy Bradbury, in August 2009, Lindberg decided to leave the band, he was replaced in February 2010 by Ignite singer Zoli Téglás. With Téglás, the recorded their tenth studio album All or Nothing. Lindberg rejoined the band later that year after Téglás was sidelined by a back injury, Pennywise was formed in 1988 in Hermosa Beach, California, by singer Jim Lindberg, guitarist Fletcher Dragge, drummer Byron McMackin and bassist Jason Thirsk. They released two EPs A Word from the Wise and Wildcard, each of the band members had played in other bands in the Hermosa Beach area and attended Mira Costa High School, except for McMackin, who attended Redondo Union High School. The group signed to Epitaph Records in 1990 and released their first album Pennywise, the album quickly circulated throughout the punk community, earning the band some nationwide recognition. Lyrics in the album endorsed a positive attitude, helping promote progressive ideals for Generation X. Lindberg left the band soon after the debut record. In 1992, The Vandals lead singer Dave Quackenbush took over on vocals for a stint to help with touring. Bradbury left the band and Thirsk returned to bass, Lindberg got married and returned to the group in 1992 in time for their second album Unknown Road, released in August 1993, an underground hit that established the band as a force in punk music. While the album did not chart on the Billboard 200, it gained Pennywise supporting slots on national and it contained 13 tracks and one hidden track, Slowdown. About Time, Pennywises third studio album, was released on June 13,1995 and it was their first album to chart on the Billboard 200, ranking 96. It also charted 55 on the Australian Album Chart, and produced one single Same Old Story and this was also the last album to feature Jason Thirsk playing bass throughout. In 1996, Pennywise began recording their fourth album, Thirsk left the band in an attempt to conquer his alcoholism. While initially successful, he relapsed and died from a gunshot wound to the chest on July 29,1996. Their following album, Full Circle, was dedicated to his memory, following Thirsks death, Bradbury rejoined the band as bassist and recorded their next album, Full Circle
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Greg Ginn
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The band announced another reunion on January 25,2013. He was born in Tucson, Arizona, since breaking up Black Flag, Ginn has recorded a few solo albums, and has performed with such bands as October Faction, Gone, Confront James, Mojack, and others. He also owns the Texas-based independent record label, SST, originally begun as a company called Solid State Transmitters when he was a teenager. Ginn was 99th on Rolling Stones list of The 100 Greatest Guitarists of All Time, Ginn is the older brother of artist Raymond Ginn, who goes by the pseudonym of Raymond Pettibon. Black Flag is an American hardcore punk band formed in 1976 in Hermosa Beach, the band was established by Greg Ginn, the guitarist, primary songwriter, and sole continuous member through multiple personnel changes in the band. They are widely considered to be one of the first hardcore punk bands, after breaking up in 1986, Black Flag briefly reunited in 2003 and again in 2013. Black Flags sound mixed the raw simplicity of the Ramones with atonal guitar solos and these themes were explored further when Henry Rollins joined the band as lead singer in 1981. Most of the material was released on Ginns independent label. Live LP Annihilate This Week live EP I Can See You EP What The, LP Paranoid Time EP Your Future LP October Faction live LP Second Factionalization LP Tom Troccolis Dog LP Lets Get Real, Real Gone for a Change LP Gone II – But Never Too Gone
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Nervous Breakdown (EP)
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Nervous Breakdown is the debut EP by the American hardcore punk band Black Flag, released in January 1979 through SST Records. It was the labels first release, the recording was financed by Greg Ginn with proceeds he had earned from his mail-order ham radio electronics business, Solid State Tuners. Through Spot, then an engineer whom Ginn had already known from living in Hermosa Beach, California, the band found Media Art. The recording was supposed to be released through Bomp. Records, but the band felt that the label was taking too long to put the record out and it is commonly misconstrued that Spot was the producer and engineer of Nervous Breakdown. The initial pressing of Nervous Breakdown was 2,000 copies, Black Flag were able to use the record as a badge of legitimacy to begin getting live gigs in the Los Angeles area. The EP is still in print both in its form, as a 5 CD single, and as part of the anthology The First Four Years. It was also available at times as a 3 CD single, a 10 colored vinyl EP, all tracks written by Greg Ginn, except where noted
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Classical guitar
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The classical guitar is the member of the guitar family used in classical music. It is an acoustical wooden guitar with strings made of nylon, the traditional classical guitar has twelve frets clear of the body and is held on the left leg, so that the hand that plucks or strums the strings does so near the back of the soundhole. The modern steel string guitar, on the hand, usually has fourteen frets clear of the body and is commonly played off the hip. Examples of early guitars include the early romantic guitar. Classical guitar strings once made of catgut are now made of polymers as nylon. A guitar family tree may be identified, the flamenco guitar derives from the modern classical, but has differences in material, construction and sound. Todays modern classical guitar was established by the designs of the 19th-century Spanish luthier. Cultural baroque court music, 19th century opera and its influences, 19th century folk songs, Latin American music, thus over recent decades we have become accustomed to specialist artists with expertise in the art of vihuela, lute, Baroque guitar, 19th-century guitar, etc. Different types of guitars have different sound aesthetics, e. g. different colour-spectrum characteristics, different response and these guitars in turn sound different from the Torres models used by Segovia, that are suited for interpretations of romantic-modern works such as Moreno Torroba. When considering the guitar from a perspective, the musical instrument used is just as important as the musical language. As an example, It is impossible to play a historically informed de Visee or Corbetta on a classical guitar. The reason is that the guitar used courses, which are two strings close together, that are plucked together. This gives baroque guitars an unmistakable sound characteristic and tonal texture that is an part of an interpretation. Additionally the sound aesthetic of the guitar is very different from modern classical type guitars. However, they are considered to emphasize the fundamental too heavily for earlier repertoire, Some attribute this to the popularity of Segovia, considering him the catalyst for change toward the Spanish design and the so-called modern school in the 1920s and beyond. Some people consider it to have been influence of Segovia. It was the 19th century classical guitarist Francisco Tárrega who first popularized the Torres design as a solo instrument. Vihuela, renaissance guitars and baroque guitars have a bright sound - rich in overtones -, later in Spain a style of music emerged that favored a stronger fundamental, With the change of music a stronger fundamental was demanded and the fan bracing system was approached
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Posh Boy Records
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Social Distortion was one of many bands whose first recordings were issued by Posh Boy. One of the labels most successful releases was Agent Oranges debut, Living in Darkness, containing Bloodstains, Posh Boy continued releasing records into the 2000s, the most recent vinyl release being a 7 by the Willowz of Anaheim, California in 2003. Fields is a cousin marriage of actor and photographer Tim Considine. His identical twin brother Randolph Fields was the chairman of Virgin Atlantic Airways. His older brother Gifi Fields is a British fashion magnate and he is the father of Xza Higgins, CEO of Mommycon. Hollywood, Los Angeles, California, Posh Boy Records
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Penelope Spheeris
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Penelope Spheeris is an American film director, producer and screenwriter. She is best known as a film director whose works include the trilogy titled The Decline of Western Civilization. She has directed films, including Waynes World, her highest-grossing film. Spheeris was born in New Orleans, Louisiana, to a Greek immigrant father who owned the Magic Empire Shows carnival and was a strong man. Her mother was a taker for a traveling carnival. Spheeris has three siblings and a number of older half-siblings from her fathers first marriage. Spheeris spent her first seven years traveling around the American South and her father was shot and killed in Troy, Alabama after intervening in a racial dispute. The white man soon after returned and shot Spheeris father dead and she states that her fathers killer served no jail time, the mans legal defence apparently resting entirely on the claim that he was justified in murdering Spheeris senior as he was defending a black. After her fathers death, Spheeris and her three siblings moved with their mother to California, generally living in trailer parks with a succession of stepfathers and she spent her teenage years in Orange County, graduating from Westminster High School with a daunting ‘most likely to succeed’ label. Spheeris studied biological sciences at the University of California, Irvine, in Orange County, working as a waitress at Denny’s and IHOP, she put herself through film school. She majored in film and has a Master of Fine Arts degree in Theater Arts from UCLA in Los Angeles, Spheeris launched her career by producing short subjects for comedian Albert Brooks, many of them being highlights in the first season of the television series Saturday Night Live. Her first feature film was The Decline of Western Civilization, a rock documentary that she produced as well as directed. She later returned to the streets of Los Angeles and the rock scene in 1998 for the documentary The Decline of Western Civilization Part III. She was offered the chance to direct This is Spinal Tap, in addition, she worked as a writer for the television series Roseanne. In the 1990s, she directed Waynes World, a based on Mike Myerss skits from Saturday Night Live. The movie grossed over $183 million and became a popular hit and she directed the Waynes World music video work for Queens Bohemian Rhapsody, which earned a Grammy Award nomination. In 1996, she directed We Sold Our Souls for Rock n Roll, a documentary about the Ozzfest, produced by Sharon Osbourne, in 2006, she was set to direct the still-unfilmed Gospel According to Janis, about Janis Joplin. The Portland Oregon Womens Film Festival named Spheeris its guest of honor for 2013, the moving image collection of Penelope Spheeris is held at the Academy Film Archive
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The Decline of Western Civilization
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The Decline of Western Civilization is an American documentary film filmed through 1979 and 1980. The movie is about the Los Angeles punk rock scene and was directed by Penelope Spheeris, in 1981, the LAPD Chief of Police Daryl Gates wrote a letter demanding the film not be shown again in L. A. Another possibility is that the title refers to Darby Crashs reading of Oswald Spenglers Der Untergang des Abendlandes. In We Got the Neutron Bomb, an history of the L. A. punk rock scene collected by Marc Spitz. The film is the act of a trilogy by Spheeris depicting life in Los Angeles at various points. The second film The Decline of Western Civilization Part II, The Metal Years covers the Los Angeles heavy metal scene of 1986-1988, the third film The Decline of Western Civilization III chronicles the gutter punk lifestyle of homeless teenagers in the late 1990s. In 2016, the film was selected for preservation in the United States National Film Registry by the Library of Congress as being culturally, historically, the promotional poster for The Decline featured a close-up frame of Germs singer Darby Crash supine on stage with his eyes closed. Crash died from a heroin-induced suicide shortly before the film was released, bands included are Black Flag, the Germs, X, Alice Bag Band, the Circle Jerks, Catholic Discipline, and Fear. The Germs performance was replicated in the 2007 Darby Crash biopic What We Do Is Secret, in the late 1990s it was released on CD as well. It is currently out of print, Germs singer Darby Crash appears on the soundtrack album cover. He died shortly before the film was released, though the images for the film. Noticeably missing from the soundtrack is Nausea by X, which was featured in the film over its opening credits. Official website of the series The Decline of Western Civilization at the Internet Movie Database The Decline of Western Civilization at AllMovie
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Wild in the Streets (Circle Jerks album)
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Wild in the Streets is the second studio album by the hardcore punk band Circle Jerks. It was originally released on March 4,1982 through Faulty Products, in 1988, the album was remixed and reissued on Frontier Records. The title track is a song of the Garland Jeffreys song of the same name. Mike Ness of Social Distortion can be seen on the cover of the album, friedman – back cover photos Carl Grasso, Shawn Kerri – artwork
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Garland Jeffreys
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Garland Jeffreys is an American, singer and songwriter, traversing the musical genres of rock and roll, reggae, blues and soul. Jeffreys is from Sheepshead Bay, Brooklyn, of African American and he majored in art history at Syracuse University where he met Lou Reed, before The Velvet Underground became active. Jeffreys played guitar on John Cales 1969 debut solo album Vintage Violence, in 1969 he founded Grinders Switch with Woodstock-area musicians including pianist Stan Szelest, guitarist Ernie Corallo, and percussionist Sandy Konikoff. Lewis Merenstein, producer of Van Morrisons Astral Weeks, produced one album before the band dissolved in 1970. In 1973, he released his first solo album, Garland Jeffreys, around the same time Atlantic also released a single, Wild in the Streets, that was not included on the album. Jeffreys wrote the song after hearing about a pre-teen rape and murder in the Bronx, dr. John played clavinet and helped arrange the song, with backing from guitarist David Spinozza, drummer Rick Marotta, the Brecker Brothers on horns and David Peel on background vocals. The next years saw a string of albums, five within five years, and this burst of productivity culminated with Guts for Love, a meditation on the challenges of monogamy and fidelity. After a break, much of it spent woodshedding, reading and researching, Jeffreys released Dont Call Me Buckwheat, devoted to the complexities of race in America. The title was triggered by an incident at Shea Stadium where Jeffreys, enjoying the game and feeling carefree, stood to go get a hotdog when a voice shouted Hey buckwheat, sit down. The casual epithet was a jolt and it spurred a number of songs including Dont Call Me Buckwheat, I Was Afraid of Malcolm. In February 1992, Jeffreys recording of Hail Hail Rock n Roll, Jeffreys was featured in the 2003 documentary The Soul of a Man, directed by Wim Wenders as the fourth installment of the documentary film series The Blues produced by Martin Scorsese. The film explored the careers of blues musicians Skip James, Blind Willie Johnson. Jeffreys was also featured on the cover of Beyond Race Magazine in February 2007, roller Coaster Town was voted a best of the year in the WFUV staff poll and audience poll. The album made numerous annual Best Of lists with NPR naming it a best of the year so far, the album won the 2012 Schallplatenkritik Best En Liste prize in the Pop Rock category and in 2013 Jeffreys was also awarded the Italian Tenco Prize. In 2016 he was inducted into the Long Island Music Hall of Fame, the Circle Jerks cover of Wild in the Streets was used in a commercial for Vans sneakers and can be heard in the 2012 video game Max Payne 3. Other TV and film placements for Wild in the Streets include Life on Mars, The Get Down on Netflix, on May 28,2012, at the Pinkpop Festival in Landgraaf, Holland, Jeffreys joined Bruce Springsteen and The E Street Band onstage for a performance of. And the Mysterians 1966 hit 96 Tears which Jeffreys had covered on his 1980 album Escape Artist, in September 2013, Jeffreys released the single Any Rain from his album Truth Serum on the LunaPark/Thirty Tigers label. The album was funded on PledgeMusic, co-produced by James Maddock and recorded at Brooklyn Recording and featured again Larry Campbell
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War (band)
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War is an American funk band from Long Beach, California, known for the hit songs Spill the Wine, The World Is a Ghetto, The Cisco Kid, Why Cant We Be Friends. Formed in 1969, War was a crossover band which fused elements of rock, funk, jazz, Latin, rhythm and blues. Their album The World Is a Ghetto was the album of 1973. The band also transcended racial and cultural barriers with a multi-ethnic line-up, in 1962, Howard E. Scott and Harold Brown formed a group called The Creators in Long Beach, California. Within a few years, they had added Charles Miller, Morris B. B, Dickerson and Lonnie Jordan to the lineup. Lee Oskar and Papa Dee Allen later joined as well and they all shared a love of diverse styles of music, which they had absorbed living in the racially mixed Los Angeles ghettos. The Creators recorded several singles on Dore Records while working with Tjay Contrelli, in 1968, the Creators became Nightshift and started performing with Deacon Jones, a football player and singer. The original War was conceived by record producer Jerry Goldstein and singer Eric Burdon, in 1969, Goldstein saw musicians who would eventually become War playing at the Rag Doll in North Hollywood, backing Deacon Jones, and he was attracted to the bands sound. Eric Burdon and War began playing shows to audiences throughout Southern California before entering into the studio to record their debut album Eric Burdon Declares War. The albums best known track, Spill the Wine, was a hit, Eric Burdon and War toured extensively across Europe and the United States. A reviewer from New Musical Express called War the best live band I ever saw after their first UK gig in Londons Hyde Park. A second Eric Burdon and War album, a set titled The Black-Mans Burdon was released in 1970. They finished the tour without him and returned to record their first album as War, War met with only modest success, but later that year, the band released All Day Music which included the singles All Day Music and Slippin into Darkness. The latter single sold one million copies, and was awarded a gold disc by the R. I. A. A. in June 1972. In 1972 they released The World Is a Ghetto which was more successful. Its second single, The Cisco Kid shipped gold, and the album attained the two spot on Billboard Hot 100 chart, and was Billboard magazines Album of the Year as the best-selling album of 1973. The next album, Deliver the Word contained the hits Gypsy Man and a version of Me and Baby Brother. The album went on to sell two million copies
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Golden Shower of Hits
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Golden Shower of Hits is the third studio album by the American hardcore punk band Circle Jerks. Despite the title, it is not a compilation album nor does it contain at least one song became a hit. The album was released on July 21,1983 through Allegiance Records and it was the bands last album to feature Roger Rogerson on bass and Lucky Lehrer on drums. Lehrer was fired from the group mid-recording of the album and John Ingram was hired to finish the recording, after their departures, the bands music would take a different direction on their next studio album, Wonderful. Critical reception for Golden Shower of Hits has been mostly positive, greg Prato of Allmusic gave the album four out of five stars and claims that everything you love about legendary Californian punkers the Circle Jerks is gloriously displayed on Golden Shower of Hits. The songs Coup dÉtat and When the Shit Hits the Fan were featured on the soundtrack to the film Repo Man in 1984, when the Shit Hits the Fan was re-recorded for the soundtrack with Earl Liberty and Chuck Biscuits replacing Rogerson and Lehrer. Friedman - photography Mike Dowd - design
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Cover version
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A cover version can also refer to a rerecording of a song by the original artist or performers under a different record company. Originally, Billboard and other magazines that track the popularity of artists and hit tunes measured the sales success of the published tune. Later, they tracked the airplay that songs achieved, some versions being more successful recording than the original song. Before the onset of rock n roll in the 1950s, songs were published and several records of a song might be out by singers of the day. The Hendrix version, released six months after Dylans original, became a Top 10 single in the UK in 1968 and was ranked 48th in Rolling Stone magazines 500 Greatest Songs of All Time. The term cover goes back decades when cover version originally described a version of a tune recorded to compete with the recently released version. The Chicago Tribune described the term in 1952, trade jargon meaning to record a tune that looks like a hit on someone elses label. Examples of records covered include Paul Williams 1949 hit tune The Hucklebuck, both crossed over to the popular Hit Parade and had numerous hit versions. In fact, one of the objects of publishing sheet music was to have a composition performed by as many artists as possible. In previous generations, some artists made very successful careers of presenting revivals or reworkings of once-popular tunes, musicians now play what they call cover versions of songs as a tribute to the original performer or group. Using familiar material is an important method of learning music styles, until the mid-1960s most albums, or long playing records, contained a large number of evergreens or standards to present a fuller range of the artists abilities and style. Artists might also perform interpretations of a favorite artists hit tunes for the pleasure of playing a familiar song or collection of tunes. A cover band plays cover versions exclusively. Some tribute acts salute the Who, The Rolling Stones and many classic rock acts. Many tribute acts target artists who remain popular but no longer perform, many tribute bands attempt to recreate another bands music as faithfully as possible, but some such bands introduce a twist. Dread Zeppelin performs reggae versions of the Zeppelin catalog and Beatallica creates heavy metal fusions of songs by the Beatles, there are also situations in which a member of a tribute band will go on to greater success, sometimes with the original act they tribute. One notable example is Tim Ripper Owens who, once the singer of Judas Priest tribute band British Steel. Cover acts or bands are entertainers who perform a variety of crowd-pleasing cover songs for audiences who enjoy the familiarity of hit songs
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The Association
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The Association is an American sunshine pop band from California. During the 1960s, they had numerous hits at or near the top of the Billboard charts and were the band at 1967s Monterey Pop Festival. Jules Alexander was in Hawaii in 1962 serving a stint in the Navy when he met Terry Kirkman, the two young musicians jammed together and promised to get together once Alexander was discharged. At the same time, Kirkman played in groups with Frank Zappa for a period before Zappa went on to form The Mothers of Invention. This led in February 1965 to the forming of The Men and this group had a brief spell as the house band at The Troubadour. After a short time, however, The Men disbanded, with six of the members electing to go out on their own, at the suggestion of Kirkmans then-fiancée, Judy, they took the name The Association. On drums, guitar, bass and vocals, and Bob Page on guitar, banjo, however, Page was replaced by Jim Yester on vocals, guitar and keyboards before any of the groups public performances. The new band spent about five months rehearsing before they began performing around the Los Angeles area, most notably a regular stint at The Ice House in Pasadena and they also auditioned for record labels but faced resistance due to their unique sound. Eventually, the small Jubilee label issued a single of Babe Im Gonna Leave You, in 1966 Fredericks turned the reins over to Pat Colecchio, who managed the group for the next eight years. Their national break would come with the song Along Comes Mary, Alexander first heard the song when he was hired to play on a demo version and persuaded Almer to give the Association first dibs on it. The song proved controversial thanks to the fact that Mary was street slang for marijuana, went to No.7 on the Billboard charts and led to the groups first album, And Then. Along Comes the Association, produced by Curt Boettcher and begun in Gary S. Paxtons garage, with vocals done separately at Columbia. Another song from the album, Cherish, written by Kirkman, would become the Associations first No.1 hit in September 1966, the group followed with their second album, Renaissance, released in late 1966. The band changed producers, dropping Boettcher in favor of Jerry Yester, the album did not spawn any major hits, and the album only reached No. 34, compared with the No.5 showing for And Then, Records, which had been distributing Valiant, bought the smaller label, and with it, the Associations contract. In May 1967, Alexander left the band to study meditation in India and was replaced by Larry Ramos on vocals and guitar. Ramos joined the band while Alexander was still performing with them after bassist Coles hand was injured by a firecracker, Alexander subbed on bass while Ramos played lead guitar, Ramos had previously performed with The New Christy Minstrels and had even recorded solo singles for Columbia Records. He went on to sing co-lead on two of the Associations biggest hit singles, Windy and Never My Love, with the lineup settled, the group returned to the studio, this time with Bones Howe in the producers chair
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The Carpenters
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The Carpenters were an American vocal and instrumental duo consisting of siblings Karen and Richard Carpenter. Producing a distinctively soft musical style, they one of the best-selling music artists of all time. During their 14-year career, The Carpenters recorded 11 albums,31 singles, five television specials, and their career ended in 1983 by Karens death from heart failure brought on by complications of anorexia. Extensive news coverage surrounding the circumstances of her death increased public awareness of eating disorders, the Carpenters had three No.1 singles and five No.2 singles on the Billboard Hot 100 and fifteen No.1 hits on the Adult Contemporary chart. In addition, they had twelve top 10 singles, to date, The Carpenters album and single sales total more than 100 million units. Richard Carpenter was the force behind the Carpenters sound. An accomplished keyboard player, composer and arranger, Richard Carpenter was called by music critic Daniel Levitin one of the most gifted arrangers to emerge in popular music. In a period when music was dominated by heavy rock. Most of Richards arrangements were classical in style, with frequent use of strings and occasional brass, by use of multi-tracked recordings, Richard was able to use Karen and himself for the harmonies to back Karens lead. The overdubbed background harmonies were distinctive to the Carpenters, but it was the soulful, Karen did not possess a powerful singing voice, but close miking brought out many nuances in her performances. Richard Coles, a musician and broadcaster, commented, No singer is so closely miked up so unforgivingly as Karen Carpenter and that is frightening for singers because the closer the microphone the more unforgiving it is in exposing the weaknesses in a singers voice. Karens lower register was warm and distinctive, Richard arranged their music to take advantage of the qualities of said lower register, even if Karens full vocal range spanned over three octaves. Many of the Carpenters songs are in the keys of D, E flat, E, F and he also played the grand piano, Hammond organ, synthesizer and even the harpsichord with the band. In the recording studio, he often would overdub his acoustic piano parts with a Wurlitzer electric piano to thicken the sound, from the mid-1970s, Richard also used Fender Rhodes pianos. While touring, he often would have a piano as well as both a Rhodes and a Wurlitzer electric piano on stage for different songs. Karen was a drummer and initially only played drums. Before 1974, Karen played the drums for a number of their songs, according to Richard, she considered herself a drummer who sang. Although unwilling, she agreed to sing the ballads standing up front
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Tammy Wynette
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Tammy Wynette was an American country music singer-songwriter and one of country musics best-known artists and biggest-selling female singers. Wynette was called the First Lady of Country Music, and her best-known song, many of her hits dealt with classic themes of loneliness, divorce, and the difficulties of life and relationships. During the late 1960s and early 1970s, Wynette charted 20 No.1 songs, along with Loretta Lynn and Dolly Parton, she is credited with having defined the role of women in country music during the 1970s. Wynettes marriage to country music singer George Jones in 1969, which ended in divorce in 1975, created a music couple, following the earlier success of Johnny Cash. Jones and Wynette recorded a sequence of albums and singles that hit the charts throughout the 1970s, Tammy Wynette was born Virginia Wynette Pugh near Tremont, Mississippi, the only child of Mildred Faye and William Hollice Pugh. Wynettes father was a farmer and local musician who died of a brain tumor when Wynette was nine months old and her mother worked in an office, as a substitute school teacher, as well as on the family farm. In 1946, Mildred Pugh married Foy Lee, a farmer, Wynette grew up in her maternal grandparents home, which had no indoor toilets or running water. She was raised with an aunt, Carolyn Russell, who was five years older. As a girl, Wynette taught herself to play a variety of instruments that had been left by her deceased father. Wynette attended Tremont High School, where she was a basketball player. A month before graduation, several months before her 18th birthday, she wed her first husband and he was a construction worker, but had trouble keeping a job, and they moved from place to place several times. Wynette worked as a waitress, a receptionist, and a barmaid, in 1963, she attended Beauty College in Tupelo, Mississippi, where she learned to be a hairdresser. She continued to renew her cosmetology license every year for the rest of her life – just in case she ever had to go back to a daily job and she left Euple, her first husband, before the birth of their third daughter. That baby developed spinal meningitis, and Wynette tried to earn money by performing at night. Euple did not support her ambition to become a country singer, years later he appeared at one of her concerts as she was signing autographs and asked for one. She signed it Dream on, baby, in 1965, Wynette sang on the Country Boy Eddie Show on WBRC-TV in Birmingham, while working as a hairdresser in Midfield, AL, and this led to performances with Porter Wagoner. In 1966, she moved with her three daughters from Birmingham to Nashville, Tennessee, where she attempted to get a recording contract, after being turned down repeatedly by all of the other record companies, she auditioned for the producer Billy Sherrill. Sherrill was originally reluctant to sign her up, but decided to do so after finding himself in need of a singer for Apartment No.9, when Sherrill heard Wynette sing it, he was impressed and decided to sign her up to Epic Records in 1966
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Repo Man (film)
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Repo Man is a 1984 American science fiction comedy film directed by Alex Cox. It was produced by Jonathan Wacks and Peter McCarthy, with executive producer Michael Nesmith, Repo Man received widespread acclaim, was considered one of the best films of 1984, and has since achieved cult film status. Outside of Goffs, California, in the Mojave Desert, a policeman pulls over a 1964 Chevrolet Malibu driven by Dr. J. Frank Parnell. The policeman opens the trunk, sees a flash of white light. Otto Maddox, a punk rocker living in Los Angeles, is fired from his boring job as a supermarket stock clerk. His girlfriend leaves him for his best friend, depressed and broke, Otto is wandering the streets when a man named Bud drives up and offers him $25 to drive a car out of the neighborhood. Otto follows Bud in the car to the Helping Hand Acceptance Corporation and he refuses to join Bud as a repossession agent, or repo man, and goes to his parents house. He learns that his burned-out, pot-smoking, ex-hippie parents have donated the money they promised him for finishing school to a crooked televangelist and he decides to take the repo job. Otto soon learns that, as Bud had told him, the life of a man is always intense. He enjoys the fast living, drug use, car chases, hot-wiring cars and his old life is boring by comparison. After repossessing a flashy red Cadillac, Otto sees a girl named Leila running down the street and he gives her a ride to her workplace, the United Fruitcake Outlet, where they have sex in the backseat. On the way, Leila shows Otto pictures of aliens that she says are in the trunk of a Chevy Malibu and she claims that they are dead but still dangerous because of the radiation that they emit. Meanwhile, Helping Hand and its rivals are offered a $20,000 bounty notice for the Malibu. Most assume that the car is drug-related, because the bounty is so far above the value of the car. Parnell finally arrives in L. A. but he is unable to meet up with his waiting UFO compatriots because of a team of government agents led by a woman with a metal hand, when he pulls into a gas station, the Rodriguez brothers take the car. They stop for sodas because the trunk is so hot. While they are out of the car, a trio of Ottos punk friends, after they visit a night club, Parnell appears and tricks the punks into opening the trunk, killing one of them and scaring the other two away, allowing him to take the car back. Otto takes the car back to Helping Hand and leaves it in the lot, the car is stolen from the lot, and a chase ensues with all the characters involved
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D.O.A. (band)
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D. O. A. is a hardcore punk band from Vancouver, British Columbia, Canada. They are often referred to as the founders of punk, along with Black Flag, the Bad Brains, the Angry Samoans, the Germs, Negative Trend. Their second album Hardcore 81 was thought by many to have been the first actual reference to the wave of the American punk sound as hardcore. D. O. A. has often released music on Jello Biafras Alternative Tentacles Records, D. O. A. is known for its outspoken political opinions and has a history of performing for many causes and benefits. Its slogan is Talk Minus Action Equals Zero, the bands lyrics and imagery frequently advocate anti-racism, anti-globalization, freedom of speech, and the environment. Founder Joe Keithley is also the founder of Sudden Death Records which has released music by D. O. A. and several bands including Pointed Sticks. D. O. A. has its origins in The Skulls, an early Vancouver-area punk rock band that included future D. O. A members Joey “Shithead” Keithley, Brian “Wimpy Roy” Goble, and Ken Dimwit Montgomery. The bands first gig took place at the Japanese Hall in Vancouver on February 20 of that year, after which Harry Homo was sacked for an apparent lack of rhythm, a second guitarist named Randy Romance played briefly with the band in March 1978 before leaving. The band began playing frequently around Vancouver and added guitarist Brad Kent the following June and that summer, they recorded and self-released their first single, the four-song EP Disco Sucks. The single soon topped the charts of the University of San Francisco radio station KUSF and they played their first shows there in August 1978 at Mabuhay Gardens. It was during this trip that the band first met Dead Kennedys frontman, Kent was fired from the band in September and later that fall the band recorded and released their second single The Prisoner. In May 1979, the band embarked on their first North American tour, upon its completion they hired Vancouver journalist and activist Ken Lester as their manager. Lester booked another tour for them the following October, in the middle of which flew back to Vancouver to open for The Clash at the Pacific Coliseum. They soon after released their single, World War 3/Whatcha Gonna Do. In late 1979, they added second guitarist Dave Gregg, Keithley soon became dissatisfied with the bands performances with the new lineup, however, and Biscuits and Rampage both rejoined the band in March 1980. D. O. A. released their full-length debut Something Better Change on Friends Records in 1980 and continued touring the United States and Canada extensively. On April 22,1981 the band released their second album Hardcore 81, Randy Rampage was fired from the band on January 1,1982 and was replaced by ex-Skulls drummer Dimwit on bass. After a short tour of California, Chuck Biscuits left the band, Dimwit switched back to drums and Subhumans singer Wimpy Roy was hired as the new bass player and second singer, leaving Keithley as the only remaining original member
