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Salinas, California
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Salinas /səˈliːnəs/ is the county seat and largest municipality of Monterey County, California. Salinas is located just outside the portion of the greater Bay Area and 10 miles east-southeast of the mouth of the Salinas River. The population was 155,662 as of 2013, the city is located at the mouth of the Salinas Valley roughly eight miles from the Pacific Ocean and has a climate more influenced by the ocean than the hot-summer interior. The marine climate is ideal for the industry, grape vineyards. Salinas is known for its vibrant and large industry and as the hometown of writer and Nobel Prize in Literature laureate John Steinbeck. The land currently occupied by the city of Salinas is thought to have settled by Native Americans known as the Esselen prior to 200 AD. Between 200 and 500 AD, they were displaced by the Rumsen group of Ohlone speaking people, before this time, Monterey was the capital of California and had been under military rule after the signing of the Treaty of Guadalupe-Hidalgo at the end of the Mexican-American war. In the 1850s a junction of two main stage coach routes was located 18 miles east of Monterey and along the big bend of what is referred to as the Alisal Slough. Soon thereafter, in 1856, an inn called the Halfway House was opened at that junction in Salinas. The streets of Salinas were laid out in 1867, and the town was incorporated in 1874. The conversion of grazing land to crops and the coming of the road in 1868 to transport goods and people was a major turning point in the history. Dry farming of wheat, barley, and other grains as well as potatoes, irrigation changed farming in Salinas to mainly row crops of root vegetables, grapes and sugar beets. Many major vegetable producers placed their headquarters in Salinas, the camp opened on April 27,1942 and held a total of 3,608 people before closing two months later on July 4. Following World War II major urban and suburban development converted much farmland to city, the city experienced two particularly strong growth spurts in the 1950s and 1960s, and again in the 1990s and early 2000s. The Harden Ranch, Creekbridge and Williams Ranch neighborhoods constituting much of the citys North-East were built almost exclusively between 1990 and 2004, Salinas was also the birthplace of writer and Nobel Prize laureate John Steinbeck. The historic downtown, known as Oldtown Salinas, features much fine Victorian architecture, and is home to the National Steinbeck Center, the Steinbeck House, major development took place in the 1990s, with the construction of Creekbridge, Williams Ranch, and Harden Ranch. When annexed in 1963, Alisal was described as a large Mexican-American enclave, hispanic immigration peaked from the 1980s through the early 2000s. Mostly European-American neighborhoods in North Salinas, an expansion of the city built mostly in the 1950s and 60s
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Hard rock
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Hard rock is a loosely defined subgenre of rock music that began in the mid-1960s, with the garage, psychedelic and blues rock movements. It is typified by a use of aggressive vocals, distorted electric guitars, bass guitar, drums. Hard rock developed into a form of popular music in the 1970s, with bands such as The Who, Led Zeppelin, Queen, Black Sabbath, Deep Purple, Aerosmith, AC/DC. During the 1980s, some rock bands moved away from their hard rock roots and more towards pop rock. Hard rock began losing popularity with the success of R&B, hip-hop, urban pop, grunge. Out of this movement came garage rock bands like The White Stripes, The Strokes, Interpol and, later on, in the 2000s, only a few hard rock bands from the 1970s and 1980s managed to sustain highly successful recording careers. Hard rock is a form of loud, aggressive rock music, the electric guitar is often emphasised, used with distortion and other effects, both as a rhythm instrument using repetitive riffs with a varying degree of complexity, and as a solo lead instrument. Drumming characteristically focuses on driving rhythms, strong drum and a backbeat on snare. The bass guitar works in conjunction with the drums, occasionally playing riffs, vocals are often growling, raspy, or involve screaming or wailing, sometimes in a high range, or even falsetto voice. In the late 1960s, the heavy metal was used interchangeably with hard rock. Heavy metal took on darker characteristics after Black Sabbaths breakthrough at the beginning of the 1970s, in the 1980s it developed a number of subgenres, often termed extreme metal, some of which were influenced by hardcore punk, and which further differentiated the two styles. Despite this differentiation, hard rock and heavy metal have existed side by side, with bands frequently standing on the boundary of, other antecedents include Link Wrays instrumental Rumble in 1958, and the surf rock instrumentals of Dick Dale, such as Lets Go Trippin and Misirlou. In the 1960s, American and British blues and rock bands began to rock and roll by adding harder sounds, heavier guitar riffs, bombastic drumming. From the late 1960s, it common to divide mainstream rock music that emerged from psychedelia into soft. Soft rock was often derived from rock, using acoustic instruments and putting more emphasis on melody. In contrast, hard rock was most often derived from rock and was played louder. Blues rock acts that pioneered the sound included Cream, The Jimi Hendrix Experience, Cream, in songs like I Feel Free combined blues rock with pop and psychedelia, particularly in the riffs and guitar solos of Eric Clapton. Jimi Hendrix produced a form of blues-influenced psychedelic rock, which combined elements of jazz, blues and rock, from 1967 Jeff Beck brought lead guitar to new heights of technical virtuosity and moved blues rock in the direction of heavy rock with his band, The Jeff Beck Group
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Heavy metal music
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Heavy metal is a genre of rock music that developed in the late 1960s and early 1970s, largely in the United Kingdom and the United States. Heavy metal lyrics and performance styles are associated with aggression. The first heavy metal such as Led Zeppelin, Black Sabbath. During the mid-1970s, Judas Priest helped spur the evolution by discarding much of its blues influence, Motörhead introduced a punk rock sensibility. Beginning in the late 1970s, bands in the new wave of British heavy metal such as Iron Maiden, before the end of the decade, heavy metal fans became known as metalheads or headbangers. During the 1980s, glam metal became popular with such as Mötley Crüe. Since the mid-1990s popular styles have further expanded the definition of the genre and these include groove metal and nu metal, the latter of which often incorporates elements of grunge and hip hop. Heavy metal is characterized by loud distorted guitars, emphatic rhythms, dense bass-and-drum sound. Metal subgenres variously emphasize, alter, or omit one or more of these attributes, the typical band lineup includes a drummer, a bassist, a rhythm guitarist, a lead guitarist, and a singer, who may or may not be an instrumentalist. Keyboard instruments are used to enhance the fullness of the sound. Deep Purples Jon Lord played an overdriven Hammond organ, in 1970, John Paul Jones used a Moog synthesizer on Led Zeppelin III, by the 1990s, in. almost every subgenre of heavy metal synthesizers were used. The electric guitar and the power that it projects through amplification has historically been the key element in heavy metal. The heavy metal guitar sound comes from a use of high volumes. Guitar solos are an element of the heavy metal code. That underscores the significance of the guitar to the genre, most heavy metal songs featur at least one guitar solo, which is a primary means through which the heavy metal performer expresses virtuosity. One exception is nu metal bands, which tend to omit guitar solos, with rhythm guitar parts, the heavy crunch sound in heavy metal. Palm muting the strings with the hand and using distortion. Palm muting creates a tighter, more sound and it emphasizes the low end
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Capitol Records
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Capitol Records, LLC is an American record label which operates as a division of the Capitol Music Group. The label was founded as the first West Coast-based record label in the United States in 1942 by three industry insiders named Johnny Mercer, Buddy DeSylva and Glenn Wallichs, in 1955, the label was acquired by the British music conglomerate EMI as its North American subsidiary. EMI was later acquired by Universal Music Group in 2012 and was merged with the company in 2013, making Capitol Records, Capitol Records circular headquarter building located in Los Angeles is a recognized landmark of California. Mercer first raised the idea of starting a company while golfing with Harold Arlen. By 1941, Mercer was a songwriter and a singer with multiple successful releases. Mercer next suggested the idea to Wallichs while visiting his record store, Wallichs expressed interest in the idea and the pair negotiated an agreement whereby Mercer would run the company and identify their artists, while Wallichs managed the business side. On February 2,1942, Mercer and Wallichs met with DeSylva at a Hollywood restaurant to inquire about the possibility of investment of the company from Paramount Pictures, while DeSylva declined the proposal, he handed the pair a check worth $15,000. On March 27,1942, the three men incorporated as Liberty Records, in May 1942, the application was amended to change the companys name to Capitol Records. On April 6,1942, Mercer supervised Capitols first recording session where Martha Tilton recorded the song Moon Dreams, on May 5, Bobby Sherwood and his orchestra recorded two tracks in the studio. On May 21, Freddie Slack and his orchestra recorded three tracks in the studio, one with the orchestra, one with Ella Mae Morse called Cow-Cow Boogie, on June 4,1942, Capitol opened its first office in a second-floor room south of Sunset Boulevard. On that same day, Wallichs presented the companys first free record to Los Angeles disc jockey Peter Potter, on June 5,1942, Paul Whiteman and his Orchestra recorded four songs at the studio. On June 12, the recorded five more songs in the studio. On June 11, Tex Ritter recorded Jingle Jangle Jingle and Goodbye My Little Cherokee for his first Capitol recording session, and the songs formed Capitols 110th produced record. 133 - Get On Board Little Chillun - July 31,1942 - is a Freddie Slack/Ella Mae Morse/Mellowaires recording that might be the first rock n roll record and she has sometimes been called the first rock n roll singer. A good example is her 1942 recording of song which, with strong gospel, blues, boogie. Bone Walker recorded Mean Old World a pioneering example of the use of electric guitar. The earliest recording artists included co-owner Mercer, Whiteman, Tilton, Morse, Margaret Whiting, Jo Stafford, the Pied Pipers, Johnnie Johnston, Tex Ritter, Capitols first gold single was Morses Cow Cow Boogie in 1942. Capitols first album was Capitol Presents Songs By Johnny Mercer, a three 78-rpm disc set with recordings by Mercer, Stafford and the Pied Pipers, all with Westons Orchestra
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Geffen Records
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Geffen Records is an American major record label, owned by Universal Music Group, which operates as one third of the Interscope Geffen A&M Records label. On March 23,2017, Billboard. com announced the label was relaunching with longtime A&R Neil Jacobson as President, Geffen Records was started in 1980 by music industry businessman David Geffen who, in the early 1970s, had founded Asylum Records. Geffen stepped down from Asylum in 1975, when he crossed over to film and was named a vice-president of Warner Bros and he was fired from Warner circa 1978, but remained locked in a 5-year contract, which prevented him from working elsewhere. He returned to work in 1980 and struck a deal with Warner Bros. Records to create Geffen Records, profits were split 50/50 between Geffen and the respective distributors. Geffen Records first artist was disco superstar Donna Summer, whose gold-selling album The Wanderer became the labels first release in 1980, the label followed it up with Double Fantasy by John Lennon and Yoko Ono. It was Lennons first new album since 1975, two weeks after it entered the charts, Lennon was murdered in New York City. As the 1980s progressed, Geffen would go on to have success with acts as Kylie Minogue, Enya, Quarterflash, Oxo, Asia, Wang Chung. This prompted Geffen to create a label, DGC Records in 1990. Geffen also distributed the first incarnation of Def American Recordings through Warner Bros. from 1988 to 1990, after a decade of operating through Warner, when its contract with the company expired, the label was sold to MCA Music Entertainment in 1990. The deal ultimately earned David Geffen an estimated US$800 million in stock, following the sale, Geffen Records operated as one of MCAs leading independently managed labels. Geffen Records would distribute releases on the new operations DreamWorks Records subsidiary, Universal Music Group acquired PolyGram in 1999, resulting in a corporate reorganization of labels. Geffen Records, along with A&M Records, was merged into Interscope Records. Although Geffen would continue to exist as a brand, it was downsized to fit into the expansion of Interscope. At the same time, international distribution of Interscope and Geffen releases switched to ex-PolyGram label Polydor Records, meanwhile, DreamWorks Records also folded, with artists such as Nelly Furtado, Lifehouse and Rufus Wainwright being absorbed by Geffen as well. During this time, DGC Records was also folded into Geffen, at the end of 2007, however, Geffen was absorbed further into Interscope, laying off sixty employees. In 2009, it was announced that Geffen Records had signed an agreement with the Holy See to produce an album of Marian songs, jimmy Iovine relaunched the Geffen imprint in 2011, moving its headquarters from California to New York City
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MCA Records
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MCA Records was an American-based record company owned by MCA Inc. which later gave way to the larger MCA Music Entertainment Group, of which MCA Records was still part. MCAs country division, MCA Nashville, is an active imprint of Universal Music Group Nashville. MCA was forced to exit the talent agency business in order to complete the merger, as American Decca owned Universal Pictures, MCA assumed full ownership of Universal and made it into the top film studio in town, producing hit after hit. In 1966, MCA formed Uni Records and in 1967 purchased Kapp Records which was placed under Uni Records management. In 1937, the owner of Decca, E. R. Lewis, chose to split off the U. K. Decca company from the U. S. company, companies if the emerging hostilities of Nazi Germany should lead to war – correctly foreseeing World War II. Lewis sold the remainder of his U. S. Decca holdings when war did break out, MCAs U. S. -based Decca Records kept the rights to the Decca name in North and South America and parts of Asia including Japan. U. K. Decca owned the rights to the Decca name in the rest of the world, after the war, British Decca formed a new U. S. subsidiary, London Records. During this time U. S. Decca issued records outside North America on the Brunswick, in 1967, Brunswick and Coral were replaced by the MCA label to release U. S. Decca and Kapp label material outside North America. Initial activity as MCA Records was based in London and MCA Records UK was formally launched on February 16,1968. Among the early artists on the MCA label, around 1971, were groups Wishbone Ash, Osibisa, Stackridge and Budgie, early MCA releases were distributed by U. K. Decca but it moved to EMI in 1974. In 1979, distribution moved to CBS, while the last releases in the 1980s were self-distributed, as the U. S. division of MCA Records was not established until 1972, the earliest U. K. MCA Records material was released in the U. S. on either Kapp or Decca, Uni label material was issued on the Uni label worldwide. In 1970, MCA reorganized its Canadian record company Compo Company Ltd. into MCA Records, in April 1970, former Warner Bros. Records president Mike Maitland joined MCA and initially served as Deccas general manager. Maitland was unsuccessful in his attempt to consolidate Warner Bros. Records with co-owned Atlantic Records which led to his departure from Warner, the three labels maintained their identities for a short time but were retired in favor of the MCA label in 1973. Drift Away by Dobie Gray became the final Decca pop label release in the U. S in 1973. Beginning the same year the catalogs of Decca, Uni and Kapp were reissued in the U. S. on the MCA label under the supervision of veteran Decca producer Milt Gabler. The first MCA Records release in the U. S. was former Uni artist Elton Johns Crocodile Rock single in 1972, MCA label used a black with curved rainbow design until the late 1970s. This design was inspired by the U. S. Decca label of the 1960s
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Roadrunner Records
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Roadrunner Records is a major record label that concentrates primarily on heavy metal and hard rock bands. It is a division of Warner Music Group and is based in New York City, the label was launched in 1980 in the Netherlands. Roadrunners initial business was importing North American metal-band recordings into Europe, in 1986, Roadrunner opened its US headquarters in New York City and later opened offices in the United Kingdom, Germany, France, Japan, Australia, Denmark, Russia and the latest in Canada. Early successes included albums from King Diamond and Annihilator, the label also handled early Metallica releases in the Scandinavian region. The end of the 1980s saw the release of two albums that are now considered classics of their genres, Obituarys Slowly We Rot. The 1990s saw the arrival of such as Life of Agony, Machine Head, Suffocation, Type O Negative. As the 1990s wore on, several of Roadrunners bands managed to make an impact on the mainstream, most notably Sepultura, Sepulturas 1993 album, Chaos A. D. became the first Roadrunner band to crack the Top 40 on the Billboard album chart. Type O Negative became the first Roadrunner band to receive a certification from the RIAA, this was a Gold award for the 1993 album Bloody Kisses, the band also became the first Roadrunner band to receive radio play. In 2000, Slipknot became the first Roadrunner band to go Platinum, nickelback were also very successful on the label. Derek Shulman ran the label in the late 90s, beginning in 2001, Roadrunner was distributed by the Universal Music Group through a share of the label owned by The Island Def Jam Music Group. On December 18,2006, Warner Music Group signed an agreement to purchase a majority in shares of Roadrunner Records parent company and this deal became finalized on January 29,2007 after receiving regulatory approval in Germany. On June 11,2008, Roadrunner Records was voted as the Best Metal Label by Metal Hammer at their Golden Gods Awards, the award was accepted by Sharon Den Adel and Ruud Jolie of Within Temptation, one of Roadrunners biggest acts. However, Roadrunner has also accused of being a label only interested in current or trendy alternative music, reflected by their roster of mainly popular. One of the earliest names on the label, King Diamond, left the label due to alleged lack of support for the 1990 King Diamond release. In 2008, punk cabaret chanteuse Amanda Palmer was told by the label that wanted to re-edit her video for Leeds United to make her look slimmer. On April 6,2010, Palmer announced on her Twitter account that Roadrunner had dropped her, the most recent complaints about Roadrunner have come from one of the labels biggest bands Megadeth. Roadrunner Records was significantly affected by Warner Music Groups legal dispute against YouTube, most of the videos on their channel, however, are still viewable. There is even a disclaimer talking about Warners dispute right on the channel, on November 11,2010, Warner Music Group announced they had acquired the remaining of Roadrunners stock
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Montrose (band)
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Montrose was a California-based hard rock band. The band originally featured Ronnie Montrose on guitar and future solo artist, rounding out the original foursome were bassist Bill Church and drummer Denny Carmassi. He was also a member of the Edgar Winter Group, playing on the hit single Frankenstein from the best-selling album They Only Come Out at Night. This prior connection provided the band access to Templeman who heard their demos. The band, as yet unnamed and billed as ‘Ronnie Montrose and Friends’. Their debut, the Ted Templeman-produced Montrose, was released on Warner Bros in late 1973, Montrose was initially managed and booked by Dee Anthony. The first member to leave the original Montrose lineup was bassist Bill Church and he was replaced by Los Angeles-based vocalist Bob James. Seeking to further expand and change the sound, keyboardist Jim Alcivar was also drafted. The Paper Money rhythm section of drummer Denny Carmassi and bassist Alan Fitzgerald remained, the new quintet lineup of Montrose made their live debut in San Francisco at Winterland Ballroom on April 5,1975. At this juncture the group parted ways with producer Ted Templeman, Montrose released two more albums, the Ronnie Montrose-produced Warner Brothers Presents. Montrose. and Jump On It, produced by Jack Douglas, both albums feature Bob James on vocals and Jim Alcivar on keyboards. This period also netted Montrose their second highest chart position, with Warner Bros Presents reaching No.79 on Billboards Hot 100, during this period the guitarist also worked with jazz-fusion drummer Tony Williams. The bands debut, Gamma 1 was released in 1979. Hagar had many albums with top hits such as Your Love Is Driving Me Crazy, I Cant Drive 55, Heavy Metal and Theres Only One Way To Rock. In July 1985, Hagar joined Van Halen, in 1987, Ronnie Montrose formed a new lineup of Montrose with singer Johnny Edwards and drummer James Kottak, and bassist Glenn Letsch, who had replaced Fitzgerald in Gamma. This lineup of the band released one album, Mean, Kottak would later go on to join German hard rock bands Kingdom Come and Scorpions. Ronnie successfully battled cancer from 2007 to 2009, and beginning in 2009 had become more musically active, playing regular gigs. Notably, in 2009 Montrose performed at West Fest, the 40th Woodstock reunion at Golden Gate Park for a crowd of 70,000, a reunion of the original Montrose lineup was planned for a one-time performance at Sammy Hagars Cabo Wabo nightclub in October 2012
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Van Halen
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Jan Van Halen, born Jan van Halen, was a Dutch musician and the patriarch of the Van Halen family. He was the father of Eddie Van Halen and Alex Van Halen, Van Halen was born on January 18,1920, to Jannetje Berg and Hermanus van Halen, a butcher in Amsterdam. He had already made a career in music when in 1939, at the age of 19 and he joined the Royal Dutch Air Force and played marches for the troops until the country was occupied in 1940, forcing him to play propaganda music for the Third Reich. After the war ended in 1945, Van Halen emigrated to the Dutch East Indies, where he pursued his career and met his future wife. They married on August 11,1950 in Jakarta, Alex was born two months later in Amsterdam. The Van Halen family moved to Nijmegen, where Eddie was born in January 1955, in 1960, Jan played his biggest gig with the Ton Wijkamp Quintet, playing the Loosdrecht Jazz Festival. However, after hearing stories from her side of the family and they left in February 1962 by boat and moved across the continent by train to Pasadena, California. To complete their transition, they Americanized their surname from van Halen to Van Halen, in May 1986, Jan suffered a heart attack. He died due to the effects of alcoholism on December 9,1986 and his sons dedicated their 1988 album OU812 to their father, quoting This ones for you, pa. On August 4,2005, his wife Eugenia Van Halen passed away at the age of 89
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The Waboritas
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The Waboritas is the name of Sammy Hagars backup band, though they are frequently and more recently referred to as The Wabos. They were formed in 1997 and have been ever since. Their only hiatus was during the Van Halen tour of 2004, the band also once included keyboardist Jesse Harms, known for appearances on several of Sammy Hagars previous solo albums as well. For a mid-2000s live tour after Jesse Harms departure, the band also included percussionist Gibby Ross, though not a member of the band, former Van Halen bassist Michael Anthony has made frequent guest appearances with the Wabos. Wabo member Vic Johnson is now part of the Mad Anthony Xpress, Sammy Hagar, David Lauser, and Michael Anthony also comprise the harmony-singing rock band Los Tres Gusanos, with whom Vic Johnson often performs as a guest. However, the Waboritas are still the main musicians on most of the tracks with guest appearances similar to the Marching to Mars format. Red Voodoo Ten 13 Not 4 Sale Live, Hallelujah Livin It Up, davidLauser. com - The official David Lauser website PinkVoodoo. com - Pink Voodoo, The official Mona website Vic-Johnson. com - The official Vic Johnson website
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Chickenfoot
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Chickenfoot is a rock supergroup formed in 2008. The group consists of vocalist Sammy Hagar, bassist Michael Anthony, guitarist Joe Satriani, due to consistent recording and touring commitments to the Red Hot Chili Peppers, Kenny Aronoff joined the group in 2011 as a touring replacement for Smith. While the band has not formally announced a breakup, in June 2016 Smith said that he had doubts about the band touring or recording again due to the schedule of each band member. The group has released two albums, one live album and one box set. Chickenfoots second studio album, Chickenfoot III, was released on September 27,2011, according to vocalist Sammy Hagar, Chickenfoot started off with me, Michael Anthony, and Chad Smith jamming at my club, Cabo Wabo, in Mexico. Then people started asking us when we were going to tour, make a record, so I said if we’re going to do this properly then we’re going to have to get a guitarist, so let’s talk to Joe Satriani. As far as I’m concerned he’s the best guitarist in the world, Hagar, Anthony and Satriani had previously collaborated in 2002 under the name Planet Us. The bands first performance together was in February 2008 at a Hagar concert in The Pearl Concert Theatre @ The Palms Casino Resort in Las Vegas, regarding the show, bassist Michael Anthony states, At that point, we knew the chemistry was there. It was so fun, and the instant gratification from the audience was great. We decided to take the step and see what we could do. It was just too much fun to pass up, during breaks in Satrianis touring schedule, the four-piece gathered in Hagars home to record demos, and ultimately recorded a full-length album at Skywalker Sound. The bands eponymous album, Chickenfoot, was released on June 4,2009. On its release date, Chickenfoot performed the single Oh Yeah, on The Tonight Show with Conan OBrien. Chickenfoot subsequently began touring in Europe and America, in October 2009, Smith reconvened with the Red Hot Chili Peppers to begin work on their tenth studio album, ultimately causing Chickenfoot to enter a temporary hiatus. Despite this, the band appeared on television once more to perform Sexy Little Thing. Smith stated, There will definitely be a window to work with these guys, I feel kind of bad – were getting offers all over the place, but Ive got to go back to my marriage this fall. Weve got this momentum going, and its organic and natural. It will happen when it happens, were in that position where nothing has to be forced – were lucky to have something thats just fun to do
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I Can't Drive 55
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I Cant Drive 55 was the lead single and first track from Sammy Hagars eighth studio album VOA in 1984. Perpetuated by a successful music video, it became a concert staple that continued throughout Hagars tours as a member of Van Halen. The song is a reference to the National Maximum Speed Law in the United States and it is the 100th song on VH1s 100 Greatest Hard Rock Songs. I was in a rent-a-car that wouldnt go much faster than 55 miles an hour, I was on my way back from Africa. I did a safari for three months throughout Africa, a really great vacation after Three Lock Box. I was traveling for 24 hours, I got to New York City, changed planes, Albany, had a place in Lake Placid at the time, a little log cabin, I used to go there and write with my little boy. Aaron, at time, went to North Country school when I was on tour. I would go there and see him and it was a really cool getaway. But it took two and a half hours to drive there from Albany, and I was driving from Albany, New York at 2,00 in the morning, burnt from all the travel. Cop stopped me for doing 62 on a four lane road when there was no one else in sight, then the guy gave me a ticket. And he said, We give tickets around here for over-60. and I said, I grabbed a paper and a pen, and I swear the guy was writing the ticket and I was writing the lyrics. I got to Lake Placid, I had a guitar set-up there, and I wrote that song there on the spot. The songs music video was directed by Gil Bettman, the video was shot on location at the Saugus Speedway in Santa Clarita, California. The songs video includes Hagar and his band being chased and jailed by the California Highway Patrol for traffic violations, the video shows Hagar driving a black Ferrari BB512i which is later tuned up by Hagars mechanic, Claudio Zampolli. Zampolli was driving the Ferrari during the opening shot, where the Ferrari fish-tails across the speedway. Hagar claims in the commentary for the video on the DVD, Hagar drove a 512, but a 308 was also used. Hagar claims it cost him $5800 to fix, a trial scene is presided over by a judge played in a cameo appearance by John Kalodner. The judges props were borrowed from director Robert Zemeckis, who had filmed the movie, sets were built and the video was shot during the summer
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David Lee Roth
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David Lee Roth is an American rock vocalist, musician, songwriter, actor, author, and former radio personality. In 2007, he was inducted into the Rock and Roll Hall of Fame, Roth is best known as the original and current lead singer of hard rock band Van Halen. He is also known as a solo artist, releasing numerous RIAA-certified Gold. After more than two decades apart, Roth re-joined Van Halen in 2006 for a North American tour that became the highest grossing in the bands history, in 2012, Roth and Van Halen released the comeback album A Different Kind of Truth. Roth was born in Bloomington, Indiana and he is the son of Sibyl Roth and ophthalmologist Nathan Roth and the brother of Allison and Lisa Roth. Nathan Roth was an eye surgeon who made millions via his practice. The senior Roth was featured on the TV show Lifestyles of the Rich and Famous in 1984, Nathan owned a 14, 000-square-foot home in Pasadena, California named Rothwood as well as a chateau named Bradbury. Several members of his family were surgeons, uncles Dave and Marty, and his uncle, Manny Roth, built and owned the New York, N. Y. establishment Cafe Wha. in the early 1960s, which featured performers such as Bob Dylan and Jimi Hendrix. At age seven, Roth got his first taste of business from the inside by hanging out at Cafe Wha. as mentioned in his book Crazy from the Heat. His uncle was one of Roths first guests on his radio show on New Yorks 92.3 Free-FM. After living in Bloomington, Indiana, and Swampscott, Massachusetts, Roth moved to Pasadena, California, while he was in his teens. He attended The Webb Schools in Claremont, California, and John Muir High School in Pasadena, then Pasadena City College where he met the Van Halen brothers, Eddie, during this period Roth worked as a hospital orderly. By the time Roth was in his teens, he was singing solo. Roth states this name was a reference to the red dye used in food at that time, including red candy balls, another Los Angeles group, Mammoth, occasionally rented the Red Ball Jets PA system. Roth was invited to join Mammoth as lead singer, in 1974, told that another act was using the name, they changed their name from Mammoth to Van Halen. Performing both original and cover songs, Van Halen eventually gained local success, becoming a feature at the Starwood Club. It was during their four-month stint there that they were first discovered, in 1976, Gene Simmons took note of the band and assisted them in producing their first demo tape. Although featuring many of the songs that would be included on their debut album
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Rock and Roll Hall of Fame
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The Rock and Roll Hall of Fame and Museum is a hall of fame and museum located on the shore of Lake Erie in downtown Cleveland, Ohio, United States. In 1986, Cleveland was chosen as the hall of fames permanent home.8 billion, the Foundation began inducting artists in 1986, but the Hall of Fame still had no home. The search committee considered several cities, including Philadelphia, Memphis, Detroit, Cincinnati, New York City, Cleveland was also one of the premier tour stops for most rock bands. Civic leaders in Cleveland pledged $65 million in money to fund the construction. A petition drive was signed by 600,000 fans favoring Cleveland over Memphis, on May 5,1986, the Hall of Fame Foundation chose Cleveland as the permanent home of the Rock and Roll Hall of Fame and Museum. Sam Phillips of Sun Studios fame and many others were stunned and disappointed that it ended up in Cleveland, the hall of fame shouldve been in Memphis, certainly, wrote Peter Guralnick, author of an acclaimed two-volume Elvis Presley biography. Cleveland may also have chosen as the organizations site because the city offered the best financial package. As The Plain Dealer music critic Michael Norman noted, It was $65 million, Cleveland wanted it here and put up the money. During early discussions on where to build the Hall of Fame and Museum, ultimately, the chosen location was along East Ninth Street in downtown Cleveland by Lake Erie, east of Cleveland Stadium. Initial CEO Dr. Larry R. Thompson facilitated I. M. Pei in designs for the site, Pei came up with the idea of a tower with a glass pyramid protruding from it. The museum tower was planned to stand 200 ft high. The buildings base is approximately 150,000 square feet, the groundbreaking ceremony took place on June 7,1993. Pete Townshend, Chuck Berry, Billy Joel, Sam Phillips, Ruth Brown, Sam Moore of Sam and Dave, Carl Gardner of the Coasters and Dave Pirner of Soul Asylum all appeared at the groundbreaking. The museum was dedicated on September 1,1995, with the ribbon being cut by an ensemble that included Yoko Ono and Little Richard, among others, the following night an all-star concert was held at the stadium. It featured Chuck Berry, Bob Dylan, Al Green, Jerry Lee Lewis, Aretha Franklin, Bruce Springsteen, Iggy Pop, John Fogerty, John Mellencamp, and many others. In addition to the Hall of Fame inductees, the documents the entire history of rock and roll. Hall of Fame inductees are honored in an exhibit located in a wing that juts out over Lake Erie. Since 1986, the Rock and Roll Hall of Fame has selected new inductees, the formal induction ceremony has been held in New York City 25 times, twice in Los Angeles, and four times in the Hall of Fames home in Cleveland
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Cabo Wabo
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It is also a popular brand of tequila. All were founded by rock musician Sammy Hagar, the Cabo San Lucas location is generally considered to be one of the top three most popular nightclubs in town. But as opposed to competing nightclub/bar Squid Roe, Cabo Wabo typically attracts an older adult clientele with its rock music selection. Hagar, already a rock musician, visited the Mexican town of Cabo San Lucas in the early 1980s. Hagar joined Van Halen in July 1985 after the departure of its former singer, seeking a place for himself and his friends to relax and play music, he convinced the Van Halen members to partner in opening a large bar, restaurant, and performance space. Launched in April 1990, the cantina was initially a financial failure, under new management, the bar became popular with both locals and tourists as the town quickly grew into a major resort. In 2004, after plans fell through to open in Las Vegas, a third location was opened in Fresno, California in 2008, but had its license pulled by Hagar at the beginning of 2009. Cabo Wabo Las Vegas opened in The Miracle Mile shopping center at Planet Hollywood in November 2009, Hagar claims he coined the name after watching a man walk unsteadily along a local beach after a heavy nights partying. Using the towns nickname, Cabo, and shortening wobble to wabo he said of the man that he was doing the Cabo wabo, Hagar later used the phrase in his lyrics and title for the Van Halen song. In 1990 he hired Noel Vestri, an innovator in computer designs to design a logo for the brand. In the late 1990s, Hagar began selling his patrons a house brand of hand-made tequila he commissioned from a distillery in the state of Jalisco. In 1999, an importer from Napa Valley began to import the tequila into the United States. An instant success, sales rose from 37,000 cases the first year to 140,000 cases in 2006, several of the Cabo Wabo offerings have performed quite well at international spirit ratings competitions. For example, the añejo offering received three silver, one gold and one gold medal at the San Francisco World Spirits Competition between 2008 and 2012. Its reposado tequila received a score of 92 from the 2008 Beverage Testing Institute, in May,2007 it was announced that Hagar would sell an 80% interest in Cabo Wabo Tequila to Gruppo Campari, the worlds sixth-largest spirits company, for $80 million. Skyy Spirits of San Francisco, a producer and subsidiary of Milans Gruppo Campari, planned to market Cabo Wabo globally. Ruvo said Great Britain, Spain, Australia, Southeast Asia, Japan, Germany and Italy are considered key expansion markets for tequila. com Summary Page for Cabo Wabo Anejo
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Tequila
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Although tequila is similar to mezcal, modern tequila differs somewhat in the method of its production, in the use of only blue agave plants, as well as in its regional specificity. Tequila is commonly served neat in Mexico and as a shot with salt, the red volcanic soil in the surrounding region is particularly well suited to the growing of the blue agave, and more than 300 million of the plants are harvested there each year. Agave tequila grows differently depending on the region, Blue agaves grown in the highlands Los Altos region are larger in size and sweeter in aroma and taste. Agaves harvested in the lowlands, on the hand, have a more herbaceous fragrance. Mexican laws state that tequila can only be produced in the state of Jalisco and limited municipalities in the states of Guanajuato, Michoacán, Nayarit, Tequila is recognized as a Mexican designation of origin product in more than 40 countries. Tequila is most often made at a 38% alcohol content for domestic consumption, per U. S law, tequila must contain at least 40% alcohol to be sold in the United States. Tequila was first produced in the 16th century near the location of the city of Tequila, the native Chichimeca and otomí had previously made a fermented beverage from the agave plant, long before the Spanish arrived in 1521. When the Spanish conquistadors ran out of their own brandy, they began to distill agave to produce one of North Americas first indigenous distilled spirits. Some 80 years later, around 1600, Don Pedro Sánchez de Tagle, by 1608, the colonial governor of Nueva Galicia had begun to tax his products. Spains King Carlos IV granted the Cuervo family the first license to make tequila. Don Cenobios grandson Don Francisco Javier gained international attention for insisting that there cannot be tequila where there are no agaves and his efforts led to the practice that real tequila can come only from the State of Jalisco. Although some tequilas have remained as family-owned brands, most well-known tequila brands are owned by multinational corporations. However, over 100 distilleries make over 900 brands of tequila in Mexico, due to this, each bottle of tequila contains a serial number depicting in which distillery the tequila was produced. Because only so many distilleries are used, multiple brands of tequila come from the same location, in 2003, Mexico issued a proposal that would require all Mexican-made tequila be bottled in Mexico before being exported to other countries. The Mexican government said that bottling tequila in Mexico would guarantee its quality, on January 17,2006, the United States and Mexico signed an agreement allowing the continued bulk import of tequila into the United States. The agreement also created a tequila bottlers registry to identify approved bottlers of tequila, the Tequila Regulatory Council of Mexico originally did not permit flavored tequila to carry the tequila name. In 2004, the Council decided to allow flavored tequila to be called tequila, with the exception of 100% agave tequila, which still cannot be flavored. A new Norma Oficial Mexicana for tequila was issued in 2006, a one-liter bottle of limited-edition premium tequila was sold for $225,000 in July 2006 in Tequila, Jalisco, by the company Tequila Ley.925
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Fontana, California
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Fontana is a city of 203,003 residents in San Bernardino County, California. Founded by Azariel Blanchard Miller in 1913, it remained essentially rural until World War II, when entrepreneur Henry J. Kaiser built a large steel mill in the area. It is home to the largest of the San Bernardino County system libraries, a historic theater, a municipal park. Fontana also hosts the Fontana Days Half Marathon and 5K run and this race is the fastest half-marathon course in the world. The United States Census Bureau estimated Fontanas 2013 population at 203,003, making it the second most populous city in San Bernardino county, the name fontana is Italian for fountain or water source, being in close proximity to the Santa Ana River to the west. Fontana was founded in 1913 by Azariel Blanchard Miller, within a few years it became an agricultural town of citrus orchards, vineyards and chicken ranches astride U. S. Route 66. The Fontana area was transformed during World War II when Henry J. Kaiser built one of only two steel mills west of the Mississippi River outside the city limits. To provide for the plant workers health needs, Henry J. Kaiser constructed the Fontana Kaiser Permanente medical facility, in the 1950s and 60s, Fontana was home to a drag racing strip that was a venue in the NHRA circuit. Mickey Thompsons Fontana International Dragway was also referred to as Fontana Drag City or Fontana Drag Strip. When the Ro-Val museum closed, the vehicles were sold to Bill Harrah, a Nevada casino owner and automobile collector, who placed them on display in the museum located at his casino. As of the 2000 census, the city had a population of 128,929. There are also deposits of similar age from Etiwanda Creek on the western edge of the city. However, the northern and southern edges of the city are formed by the much older San Gabriel and Jurupa mountain ranges, the Jurupa Mountains are composed primarily of Cretaceous and Paleozoic-era rocks, as are the San Gabriels, which also include even older, Proterozoic formations. The most prominent of the San Gabriel Mountains visible from Fontana is Cucamonga Peak and it is estimated to be capable of producing earthquakes approximately of magnitude 6. 0-7.0. The citys listed elevation, measured from the northeast corner of the intersection of Upland Avenue and Sierra Avenue, however, the highest elevation within the city limits is approximately 2,600 feet, in the northernmost part of the Panorama neighborhood of Hunters Ridge. The lowest point within the city limits is approximately 840 feet, at the intersection of Etiwanda and Philadelphia avenues and this difference in elevation is due to the southward slope of the Lytle Creek alluvial fan. The city is affected by the strong, hot and dry Santa Ana winds as they blow through the nearby Cajon Pass of the San Gabriel mountains. Fontana can also be hot in summer, well over 100 degrees Fahrenheit
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Fontana High School
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Fontana High School is a secondary public school in Fontana, California in the Fontana Unified School District. Fontana High serves grades 9 through 12, Fontana High School is the Home of Steeler Pride. Students are provided opportunities for personal and group achievement in an environment designed to nurture personal, social. Fontana High School is committed to preparing students for their futures in the 21st century. A product of the Southern California post war boom, Fontana High was completed in September 1952, in 2006, a riot broke out following a fight between two students at a school pep rally. Six students were placed under arrest and thirty-four other students were suspended by the school district, there was no significant property damage or injuries, though a teacher was accidentally struck by a police bean bag round. Beginning with coach John Tyree, and continuing under coach Dick Bruich, the Steeler football team was almost as well known for the traveling rowdy fanbase, which followed the team en masse throughout the season and into the playoffs. By the 1990s, the days for the team had faded. The reality of a downturn and a continued population boom led to demographic shifts. The addition of new high schools split the talent base and the fell on hard times – enduring a prolonged string of losing seasons. Cody Masters - Executive Chef, Food Scientist, Nutritionist. vnsports. com
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Southern California
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Southern California, often abbreviated as SoCal, is a geographic and cultural region that generally comprises Californias 10 southernmost counties. The region is described as eight counties, based on demographics and economic ties, Imperial, Los Angeles, Orange, Riverside, San Bernardino, San Diego, Santa Barbara. The more extensive 10-county definition, which includes Kern and San Luis Obispo counties, is used and is based on historical political divisions. Southern California is an economic center for the state of California. The 8-county and 10-county definitions are not used for the greater Southern California Megaregion, the megaregions area is more expansive, extending east into Las Vegas, Nevada and south across the Mexican border into Tijuana.5 million people. With over 22 million people, Southern California contains roughly 60 percent of Californias population, located east of Southern California is the Colorado Desert and the Colorado River at the border with Arizona. The Mojave Desert is located at the border with the state of Nevada while towards the south is the Mexico–United States border, within Southern California are two major cities, Los Angeles and San Diego, as well as three of the countrys largest metropolitan areas. With a population of 3,792,621, Los Angeles is the most populous city in California and the second most populous in the United States. South of Los Angeles and with a population of 1,307,402 is San Diego, the second most populous city in the state and the eighth most populous in the nation. The counties of Los Angeles, Orange, San Diego, San Bernardino, and Riverside are the five most populous in the state, the motion picture, television, and music industry are centered in the Los Angeles area in Southern California. Hollywood, a district within Los Angeles, gives its name to the American motion picture industry, headquartered in Southern California are The Walt Disney Company, Sony Pictures, Universal, MGM, Paramount Pictures, 20th Century Fox, and Warner Brothers. Universal, Warner Brothers, and Sony also run major record companies, Southern California is also home to a large homegrown surf and skateboard culture. Companies such as Vans, Volcom, Quiksilver, No Fear, RVCA, some of the worlds biggest action sports events, including the X Games, Boost Mobile Pro, and the U. S. Open of Surfing, are all held in Southern California. Southern California is also important to the world of yachting, the annual Transpacific Yacht Race, or Transpac, from Los Angeles to Hawaii, is one of yachtings premier events. The San Diego Yacht Club held the Americas Cup, the most prestigious prize in yachting, from 1988 to 1995, Southern California is home to many sports franchises and sports networks such as Fox Sports Net. Many locals and tourists frequent the Southern California coast for its popular beaches, the desert city of Palm Springs is popular for its resort feel and nearby open spaces. Southern California is not a geographic designation and definitions of what constitutes Southern California vary. Geographically, Californias North-South midway point lies at exactly 37°958.23 latitude, around 11 miles south of San Jose, however, when the state is divided into two areas, the term Southern California usually refers to the 10 southernmost counties of the state
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Single (music)
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In music, a single or record single is a type of release, typically a song recording of fewer tracks than an LP record, an album or an EP record. This can be released for sale to the public in a variety of different formats, in most cases, a single is a song that is released separately from an album, although it usually also appears on an album. Typically, these are the songs from albums that are released separately for promotional uses such as digital download or commercial radio airplay and are expected to be the most popular, in other cases a recording released as a single may not appear on an album. As digital downloading and audio streaming have become prevalent, it is often possible for every track on an album to also be available separately. Nevertheless, the concept of a single for an album has been retained as an identification of a heavily promoted or more popular song within an album collection. Despite being referred to as a single, singles can include up to as many as three tracks on them. The biggest digital music distributor, iTunes, accepts as many as three tracks less than ten minutes each as a single, as well as popular music player Spotify also following in this trend. Any more than three tracks on a release or longer than thirty minutes in total running time is either an Extended Play or if over six tracks long. The basic specifications of the single were made in the late 19th century. Gramophone discs were manufactured with a range of speeds and in several sizes. By about 1910, however, the 10-inch,78 rpm shellac disc had become the most commonly used format, the inherent technical limitations of the gramophone disc defined the standard format for commercial recordings in the early 20th century.26 rpm. With these factors applied to the 10-inch format, songwriters and performers increasingly tailored their output to fit the new medium, the breakthrough came with Bob Dylans Like a Rolling Stone. Singles have been issued in various formats, including 7-inch, 10-inch, other, less common, formats include singles on digital compact cassette, DVD, and LD, as well as many non-standard sizes of vinyl disc. Some artist release singles on records, a more common in musical subcultures. The most common form of the single is the 45 or 7-inch. The names are derived from its speed,45 rpm. The 7-inch 45 rpm record was released 31 March 1949 by RCA Victor as a smaller, more durable, the first 45 rpm records were monaural, with recordings on both sides of the disc. As stereo recordings became popular in the 1960s, almost all 45 rpm records were produced in stereo by the early 1970s
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Ranwood Records
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Ranwood Records was an American record label started in 1968 by Randy Wood and Lawrence Welk. Lawrence Welk owned all recordings released on Dot as they were produced and manufactured by Teleklew Productions and these were repackaged for reissue on Ranwood. Lawrence did not own or buy those recordings he made for Coral, most of Welks recordings were released on Ranwood. The label released albums by The Lawrence Welk Show s cast members, including Jo Ann Castle, Guy & Ralna, Clay Hart, Tom Netherton, Welk acquired Woods interest in the label in 1979. Ranwoods releases were mostly albums and 45 rpm singles, musicians who recorded for Ranwood but were unrelated to Welks TV show included Jim Nabors and Damita Jo. During the mid-1980s, the label was folded into Welk Music Group, in 2015, Welk Music Group sold the Vanguard and Sugar Hill labels to Concord Bicycle Music while retaining ownership of the Ranwood catalog. Welk licensed the Ranwood catalog to Concord Music Group for ten years, list of record labels Welk Music Group Sugar Hill Records Vanguard Records
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David Lauser
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David Lauser is a drummer who is most famous for playing with Sammy Hagar. Sammy Hagar and David Lauser played together in a band called Justice Brothers before Sammy Hagar joined Montrose. David Lauser later played on various Sammy Hagar solo albums, starting with Standing Hampton, and is now a member of The Waboritas, davids first marriage to Jacqueline Cushen in 1982 resulted in having one daughter, Danielle Marie, also known affectionately as Ella Bean. In 2002, Lauser married his second wife, on January 4,2015 his wife Liza Cozad-Lauser died from cancer. David Lauser continues to tour with Sammy Hagars Wabos, December People, David Lauser Website The Number One Sammy Hagar Discography
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Ronnie Montrose
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The first Montrose album was often cited as Americas answer to Led Zeppelin and Ronnie Montrose was often referred to as one of the most influential guitarists in American hard rock. Montrose was born in San Francisco, California, when he was a toddler, his parents moved back to his mothers home state of Colorado. He spent most of his years in Denver, Colorado until he ran away at about 16 years old to pursue his musical career. He ultimately spent most of his life in the San Francisco Bay area, in 1969, he started out in a band called Sawbuck with Bill Church. Montrose had been in the process of recording what would have been his first album with Sawbuck when producer David Rubinson arranged an audition with Van Morrison, Montrose got the job and played on Morrisons 1971 album Tupelo Honey. He also played on the song Listen to the Lion, which was recorded during the Tupelo Honey sessions, Montrose formed his own band, Montrose, in 1973, featuring Sammy Hagar on vocals. That incarnation of the band released two albums on Warner Bros, records, Montrose and Paper Money, before Hagar left to pursue a solo career. He also added his guitar work to Gary Wrights song, Power of Love off the 1975 album, in 1983 he played lead guitar on the song Telepath from Paul Kantners album Planet Earth Rock and Roll Orchestra although he wasnt a member of the original PERRO. In 1985 he joined Seattles Rail for several months and he was looking for a new band and one of Rails guitarists, Rick Knotts, had recently left. Billed as Rail featuring Montrose or Ronnie & Rail, they played a set of half Rail favorites, at the end of the tour, there was an amicable split. Montrose appeared on Sammy Hagars solo album Marching to Mars along with original Montrose members bassist Bill Church, the original Montrose lineup also reformed to play as a special guest at several Sammy Hagar concerts in summer 2004 and 2005. Montrose also performed regularly from 2001 until 2011 with a Montrose lineup featuring Keith St. John on lead vocals and this lineup was captured in his final released work, the concert DVD Ronnie Montrose, Live at the Uptown. During his 2009 tour, Montrose revealed that he had prostate cancer for the previous two years but was healthy once again, he continued to tour until his death in 2012. Montrose had two children, Jesse and Kira, and five grandchildren and he was also survived by two brothers, Rick and Mike, and his wife, Leighsa. On March 3,2012, Montrose died from a gunshot wound. His death was assumed to be the result of his prostate cancer returning. However, the San Mateo County Coroners Office released a report which confirmed the guitarist had taken his own life, the toxicology reported a blood alcohol content of 0.31 percent at the time of death. In early 2012, the deaths of his uncle and of Lola, his bulldog, worsened what Guitar Player magazine called a depression that plagued him since he was a toddler. ”Open Fire Territory The Speed of Sound The Diva Station Mutatis Mutandis Music from Here Mr. Bones Roll Over
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Nine on a Ten Scale
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Nine on a Ten Scale is Sammy Hagars first solo album. Keep On Rockin, a Hagar original, was covered by Bette Midler on the soundtrack to The Rose. The track written by Van Morrison, Flamingos Fly, was not released by Morrison until a year later on his 1977 album A Period of Transition and he gave the song to Hagar after they met at The Record Plant during the recording of the album. Morrison recorded a demo for Hagar which producer John S. Carter, Jr. and Hagar intended to produce as a duet with Morrison, Hagar then re-recorded the song from scratch. China, track written by the former Fleetwood Mac member Bob Welch, was not released by Welch until after this release, Welch included his version on the 1979 album Three Hearts. Young Girl Blues is a Donovan cover, a demo version of Rock n Roll Romeo was released as Thinking of You on The Essential Red Collection in 2004
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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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Otis Redding
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Otis Ray Redding, Jr. was an American singer, songwriter, record producer, arranger, and talent scout. He is considered one of the greatest singers in the history of American popular music and his singing style influenced many other soul artists of the 1960s. During his lifetime, his recordings were produced by Stax Records, based in Memphis, Tennessee, in 1958, he joined Johnny Jenkinss band, the Pinetoppers, with whom he toured the Southern states as a singer and driver. An unscheduled appearance on a Stax recording session led to a contract and his first single, These Arms of Mine, Stax released Reddings debut album, Pain in My Heart, two years later. Initially popular mainly with African-Americans, Redding later reached a wider American pop music audience, along with his group, he first played small gigs in the American South. He later performed at the popular Los Angeles night club Whisky a Go Go and toured Europe, performing in London, Paris and he also performed at the Monterey Pop Festival in 1967. Shortly before his death in a crash, Redding wrote. The song became the first posthumous number-one record on both the Billboard Hot 100 and R&B charts, the album The Dock of the Bay was the first posthumous album to reach number one on the UK Albums Chart. Already on the verge of bankruptcy, the label soon discovered that Atlantic Records owned the rights to his song catalog. Redding received many accolades, including the Grammy Lifetime Achievement Award and induction into the Rock and Roll Hall of Fame. In addition to The Dock of the Bay, Respect and Try a Little Tenderness are among his best-known songs, Redding was born in Dawson, Georgia, the fourth of six children, and the first son, of Otis Redding, Sr. and Fannie Mae Redding. Redding senior was a sharecropper and then worked at Robins Air Force Base, near Macon, when Otis was three the family moved to Tindall Heights, a predominantly African-American public housing project in Macon. At an early age, Redding sang in the Vineville Baptist Church choir and learned guitar, from age 10, he took drum and singing lessons. At Ballard-Hudson High School, he sang in the school band, every Sunday he earned $6 by performing gospel songs for Macon radio station WIBB. His passion was singing, and he often cited Little Richard, Redding said that he would not be here without Little Richard and that he entered the music business because of Richard – he is my inspiration. I used to sing like Little Richard, his Rock n Roll stuff and my present music has a lot of him in it. At age 15, Redding left school to help support his family, his father had contracted tuberculosis and was often hospitalized. He worked as a digger, as a gasoline station attendant
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(Sittin' On) The Dock of the Bay
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The Dock of the Bay is a song co-written by soul singer Otis Redding and guitarist Steve Cropper. It was recorded by Redding twice in 1967, including once just days before his death in a plane crash, the song was released on Stax Records Volt label in 1968, becoming the first posthumous single to top the charts in the US. It reached number 3 on the UK Singles Chart, Redding started writing the lyrics to the song in August 1967, while sitting on a rented houseboat in Sausalito, California. He completed the song with the help of Cropper, who was a Stax producer, the song features whistling and sounds of waves crashing on a shore. While on tour with the Bar-Kays in August 1967, Redding wrote the first verse of the song, under the abbreviated title Dock of the Bay, on a houseboat at Waldo Point in Sausalito and he had completed his famed performance at the Monterey Pop Festival just weeks earlier. While touring in support of the albums King & Queen and Live in Europe, he continued to scribble lines of the song on napkins and hotel paper. In November of that year, he joined producer and guitarist Steve Cropper at the Stax recording studio in Memphis, Tennessee, to record the song. In a September 1990 interview on NPRs Fresh Air, Cropper explained the origins of the song and he had been in San Francisco doing The Fillmore. And the story that I got he was renting boathouse or stayed at a boathouse or something, and thats about all he had, I watch the ships come in and I watch them roll away again. If you listen to the songs I collaborated with Otis, most of the lyrics are about him, Otis didnt really write about himself but I did. Songs like Mr. Pitiful, Fa-Fa-Fa-Fa-Fa, they were about Otis and Otis life, Dock of the Bay was exactly that, I left my home in Georgia, headed for the Frisco Bay was all about him going out to San Francisco to perform. Together, they completed the music and melancholy lyrics of The Dock of the Bay, from those sessions emerged Reddings final recorded work, including Dock of the Bay, which was recorded on November 22, with additional overdubs on December 8. Reddings restrained yet emotive delivery is backed by Croppers memorably succinct guitar playing, the song is somewhat different in style from most of Reddings other recordings. While discussing the song with his wife, Redding stated that he had wanted to be a little different with The Dock of the Bay, Redding had considered the song to be unfinished and planned to record what he considered a final version, but never got the chance. The song features a tune heard before the songs fade. It was originally performed by Redding, who had this little fadeout rap he was gonna do and he forgot what it was so he started whistling. Redding continued to tour after the recording sessions, on December 10, his charter plane crashed into Lake Monona, outside Madison, Wisconsin. Redding and six others were killed, after Reddings death, Cropper mixed Dock of the Bay at Stax Studios
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Street Machine (album)
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Street Machine is Sammy Hagars fourth solo studio album. The track Wounded in Love was co-written by Hagars then-wife Betsy, the track Falling In Love has backing vocals by Brad Delp, Barry Goudreau and Sib Hashian of the group Boston. This was an unreleased track from the recordings that were released on Live 1980. On May 26,2009, Rock Candy records re-released the album as a Collectors Edition, Remaster & Reloaded. The collection contains extensive notes, photos and bonus tracks from a 1979 non-album single, The Dock Of The Bay
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Danger Zone (Sammy Hagar album)
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Danger Zone is Sammy Hagars fifth solo album, his last studio album during his tenure with Capitol Records. The album includes appearances by the Journey singer Steve Perry and the Journey guitarist Neal Schon, Love Or Money was a favorite of John Kalodner, which helped serve as a catalyst in getting Hagar signed to the then new Geffen Records. The track In The Night was inspired by the film Lucifer Rising, heartbeat is the second track on which Hagar shares a writing credit with his then-wife, Betsy. The first was Wounded In Love on the Street Machine album, run For Your Life is a cover of a song from the band Runners first album, Runner. This version has the former Journey singer Steve Perry on back-up vocals and it was produced by Bostons Tom Scholz, who had originally been signed to produce the entire album but was ordered by his own record label to pull out
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Standing Hampton
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Standing Hampton is Sammy Hagars sixth solo album, his first after moving from Capitol Records to Geffen. It was his first album to achieve RIAA certification, eventually going platinum, the British version of the album was released with a bonus interview 45rpm called Conversations with Sammy Hagar. Hagar has said that he was going to call this album One Way To Rock. It was a British fan who told him of the term came to be the title. In Cockney rhyming slang, a Hampton is a substitution for penis, One that is standing, of course, would be a reference to an erection. This led to the art that shows a gentleman greeting a woman in various states of undress. The liner notes on the inner state that the cover graphics were inspired by the work of Surrealist painter Paul Delvaux. Ill Fall in Love Again was used in the soundtrack to the film Vision Quest, a couple of non-album tracks, Dont Get Hooked and Satisfied, appeared as B-sides and have not been released in any other format since. Theres Only One Way to Rock went on to be one of Hagars biggest solo hits and this song, along with I Cant Drive 55, were the two Hagar songs that Van Halen consistently played when he joined the band. A different version of the song Heavy Metal was used for the soundtrack for the animated movie Heavy Metal, the lyrics to the song Inside Lookin In refers to ringin just like one UXB. UXB is an acronym for an unexploded bomb, no known references to the UK punk band UXB have ever been cited. The lyrics to Sweet Hitchhiker refers to Blaupunkt blastin my favorite song, Blaupunkt refers to a popular brand of car stereo. Piece of My Heart is a cover of the originally recorded by Erma Franklin
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Billboard Hot 100
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The Billboard Hot 100 is the music industry standard record chart in the United States for singles, published weekly by Billboard magazine. Chart rankings are based on sales, radio play and online streaming, the weekly sales period was originally Monday to Sunday, when Nielsen started tracking sales in 1991, but was changed to Friday to Thursday in July 2015. Radio airplay, which, unlike sales figures and streaming data, is available on a real-time basis. A new chart is compiled and officially released to the public by Billboard on Tuesdays, as of the issue for the week ending on April 15,2017, the Hot 100 has had 1,061 different number one hits. The current number one song is Shape of You by Ed Sheeran, prior to 1955, Billboard did not have a unified, all-encompassing popularity chart, instead measuring songs by individual metrics. At the start of the era in 1955, three such charts existed, Best Sellers in Stores was the first Billboard chart, established in 1936. This chart ranked the biggest selling singles in retail stores, as reported by merchants surveyed throughout the country, Most Played by Jockeys was Billboards original airplay chart. It ranked the most played songs on United States radio stations, as reported by radio disc jockeys, Most Played in Jukeboxes ranked the most played songs in jukeboxes across the United States. On the week ending November 12,1955, Billboard published The Top 100 for the first time, the Top 100 combined all aspects of a singles performance, based on a point system that typically gave sales more weight than radio airplay. The Best Sellers In Stores, Most Played by Jockeys and Most Played in Jukeboxes charts continued to be published concurrently with the new Top 100 chart. The week ending July 28,1958 was the publication of the Most Played By Jockeys and Top 100 charts. On August 4,1958, Billboard premiered one main all-genre singles chart, the Hot 100 quickly became the industry standard and Billboard discontinued the Best Sellers In Stores chart on October 13,1958. The Billboard Hot 100 is still the standard by which a songs popularity is measured in the United States, the Hot 100 is ranked by radio airplay audience impressions as measured by Nielsen BDS, sales data compiled by Nielsen Soundscan and streaming activity provided by online music sources. There are several component charts that contribute to the calculation of the Hot 100. Charts are ranked by number of gross audience impressions, computed by cross-referencing exact times of radio airplay with Arbitron listener data. Hot Singles Sales, the top selling singles compiled from a sample of retail store, mass merchant and internet sales reports collected, compiled. The chart is released weekly and measures sales of commercial singles. With the decline in sales of singles in the US
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Your Love Is Driving Me Crazy
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Your Love Is Driving Me Crazy is a song written and performed by Sammy Hagar from his album Three Lock Box. It provided Hagar with his only top 20 solo hit on the Billboard Hot 100 chart, the song reached number 19 in Canada. Your Love Is Driving Me Crazy ranks as the 79th biggest U. S. hit of 1983, lyrics of this song at MetroLyrics
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I Never Said Goodbye
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I Never Said Goodbye is the ninth solo album by Sammy Hagar. It is his solo album released while he was a member of Van Halen. The album was recorded in ten days as an obligation to Geffen Records as a condition of his leaving the label to join Van Halen and their record label. The album was originally titled Sammy Hagar, and included an untitled cover, the album was renamed I Never Said Goodbye, the name being chosen as part of an MTV promotional contest. Some pressings retain the title Sammy Hagar, not to be confused with the 1977 album Sammy Hagar and it features Eddie Van Halen on bass guitar, who said in an interview that he also played a very brief part on guitar uncredited. The songs Give to Live and Eagles Fly were also performed live by Van Halen together with Hagar, Give to Live also topped the Mainstream Rock Tracks chart in 1987, a first for Hagar as a solo artist. The former song was included on the album Live, Right Here, Right Now, boys Night Out was performed live on the American TV show Late Night with David Letterman. Returning Home was intended to be a sequel to Silver Lights from Hagars first album Nine on a Ten Scale, whereas Silver Lights was a story about aliens taking humans from Earth, Returning Home tells the story of the humans return trip. Hagar said that it could apply to a tale that his future self might tell a child at that time. Standin at the Same Old Crossroads was released in a version on the Give to Live single. Privacy was inspired by several run-ins that Hagar had with the California Highway Patrol while driving in his car with black-tinted windows, while a court challenge would always rule in Hagars favor, the law could not prevent the police from repeatedly pulling him over and giving him tickets. Eagles Fly was demoed with three songs as a follow up to Hagars VOA album before joining Van Halen. When they had almost finished recording 5150 and Dreams had not yet written, 5150s producer, Mick Jones. Hagar presented Eagles Fly to the band acoustically, which was rejected as being too folksy, the band later joined Hagar performing the song live on their 1995 Balance tour. The songs lyrics deal with the level of consciousness immediately after birth
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Neal Schon
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Neal Joseph Schon is an American rock guitarist, songwriter, and vocalist, best known for his work with the bands Journey and Bad English. He is Journeys last original constant member, having participated in every album and he was a member of the rock band Santana before forming Journey, and was also an original member of Hardline. Schon was inducted into the Oklahoma Music Hall of Fame on August 23,2013, Schon will be inducted into the Rock and Roll Hall of Fame as a member of Journey in 2017. Neal Joseph Schon was born at Tinker Air Force Base, Oklahoma, Schon first picked up the guitar at around the age of five. A quick learner, he joined Santana as a teenager at 15, Schon has said he was asked by Eric Clapton to join Derek and the Dominos, but that he joined Santana instead, performing on the albums Santana III and Caravanserai. Schon also played in Azteca before moving on in 1973 to form Journey, Schons guitar style has been described as soulful, taking inspiration from 1960s-era soul singers such as Aretha Franklin and Gladys Knight, and blending it with blues runs similar to B. B. He was influenced by such as Eric Clapton, Jimi Hendrix, Carlos Santana. Schon can be heard on albums including three tracks on Michael Boltons The Hunger, with the Schon sound most recognizable on The Dock of the Bay. He also joined Larry Graham to play in a band for cult funk artist and ex-wife of Miles Davis. In addition, Schon also contributed to Lenny Whites 1977 album Big City, Schons first guitar was an acoustic Stella, followed two years later by a Gibson ES-335. When the 335 was stolen, he replaced it with a 56 Les Paul Goldtop reissue that he used for many years and he has previously employed Godin guitars on his 1995 solo album Beyond the Thunder, and more recently uses Paul Reed Smith guitars. In the late 1980s, Schon manufactured and played his own line of guitars, simply named Schon, about 200 of the Jackson-produced models were made. A Gibson Les Paul Super Custom can be seen in the video for the Journey song Anyway You Want It. Recently he has been using a Seven String Ibanez Universe. On the song Lights, he uses a Fender Stratocaster later equipped with a Floyd Rose tremolo, as of 2008, Schon currently prefers guitar pedals from Xotic, a Vox Satriani model and occasionally uses a Buddy Guy wah pedal. In a 2007 interview, Neal confirmed that he has had tinnitus for years stemming from excessive loud playing, Schons father, Matthew Schon, was a jazz musician and composer who provided the arrangements on the Journey song Mother, Father. Currently, Neal uses Paul Reed Smith guitars, and has two models with the NS prefix. The two said they had dated years previously in the 1990s and were very happy together
