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Toledo, Ohio
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Toledo is a city in and the county seat of Lucas County, Ohio, United States. Toledo is in northwest Ohio, at the end of Lake Erie bordering the state of Michigan. The city was founded by United States citizens in 1833 on the west bank of the Maumee River and it was re-founded in 1837, after conclusion of the Toledo War, when it was incorporated in Ohio. After construction of the Miami and Erie Canal, Toledo grew quickly and it has since become a city with an art community, auto assembly businesses, education, healthcare, and local sports teams. The citys glass industry has earned it the nickname, The Glass City, the population of Toledo as of the 2010 Census was 287,208, making it the 71st-largest city in the United States. It is the fourth most populous city in the U. S. state of Ohio after Columbus, Cleveland, and Cincinnati. The Toledo metropolitan area had a 2010 population of 651,429, and was the sixth-largest metropolitan area in the state of Ohio, behind Cleveland, Columbus, Cincinnati, Dayton, and Akron. Varying cultures of indigenous peoples lived along the rivers and lakefront of what is now northwestern Ohio for thousands of years, when the city of Toledo was preparing to pave its streets, it surveyed two prehistoric semicircular earthworks, presumably for stockades. One was at the intersection of Clayton and Oliver streets on the bank of Swan Creek. Such earthworks were typical of mound-building peoples and this region was part of a larger area controlled by the historic tribes of the Wyandot and the people of the Council of Three Fires. The first European to visit the area was Étienne Brûlé, a French-Canadian guide and explorer, the French established trading posts in the area by 1680 to take advantage of the lucrative fur trade. The Odawa moved from Manitoulin Island and the Bruce Peninsula at the invitation of the French and they settled an area extending into northwest Ohio. By the early 18th century, the Odawa occupied areas along most of the Maumee River to its mouth and they served as middlemen between the French and tribes further to the west and north. The Wyandot occupied central Ohio, and the Shawnee and Lenape occupied the southern areas, the area was not settled by European-Americans until 1795 and after. They were finally defeated in 1794 at the Battle of Fallen Timbers and this loose affiliation of tribes included the Wyandot and Council of Three Fires. By a treaty in 1795, they ceded large areas of territory in Ohio to the United States, according to Charles E. Slocum, the American military built Fort Industry at the mouth of the Maumee about 1805, but as a temporary stockade. No official reports support the 19th-century tradition of its history there. The United States continued to work to extinguish land claims of Native Americans, in the Treaty of Detroit, the above four tribes ceded a large land area to the United States of what became southeastern Michigan and northwestern Ohio, to the mouth of the Maumee River
Toledo, Ohio
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Images, from top left to right:
Downtown Toledo,
University Hall,
Toledo Museum of Art, Lucas County Courthouse,
Tony Packo's Cafe,
Anthony Wayne Bridge,
Fifth Third Field
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A 1955
Interstate planning map of Toledo
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Toledo c. 1905
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Downtown Toledo's skyline from across the
Maumee River
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Alternative rock
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Alternative rock is a genre of rock music that emerged from the independent music underground of the 1980s and became widely popular in the 1990s and 2000s. In this instance, the word refers to the genres distinction from mainstream rock music. The terms original meaning was broader, referring to a generation of musicians unified by their debt to either the musical style or simply the independent. Ethos of punk rock, which in the late 1970s laid the groundwork for alternative music, Alternative rock is a broad umbrella term consisting of music that differs greatly in terms of its sound, its social context, and its regional roots. Most of these subgenres had achieved minor mainstream notice and a few bands representing them, such as Hüsker Dü, with the breakthrough of Nirvana and the popularity of the grunge and Britpop movements in the 1990s, alternative rock entered the musical mainstream and many alternative bands became successful. By the end of the decade, alternative rocks mainstream prominence declined due to a number of events that caused grunge and Britpop to fade, emo attracted attention in the larger alternative rock world, and the term was applied to a variety of artists, including multi-platinum acts. Post-punk revival artists such as Modest Mouse and The Killers had commercial success in the early, before the term alternative rock came into common usage around 1990, the sort of music to which it refers was known by a variety of terms. In 1979, Terry Tolkin used the term Alternative Music to describe the groups he was writing about, in 1979 Dallas radio station KZEW had a late night new wave show entitled Rock and Roll Alternative. College rock was used in the United States to describe the music during the 1980s due to its links to the radio circuit. In the United Kingdom, dozens of small do it yourself record labels emerged as a result of the punk subculture, according to the founder of one of these labels, Cherry Red, NME and Sounds magazines published charts based on small record stores called Alternative Charts. The first national chart based on distribution called the Indie Chart was published in January 1980, at the time, the term indie was used literally to describe independently distributed records. By 1985, indie had come to mean a particular genre, or group of subgenres, at first the term referred to intentionally non–mainstream rock acts that were not influenced by heavy metal ballads, rarefied new wave and high-energy dance anthems. The use of alternative gained further exposure due to the success of Lollapalooza, for which festival founder, in the late 1990s, the definition again became more specific. Defining music as alternative is often difficult because of two conflicting applications of the word, the name alternative rock essentially serves as an umbrella term for underground music that has emerged in the wake of punk rock since the mid-1980s. Alternative bands during the 1980s generally played in clubs, recorded for indie labels. Sounds range from the gloomy soundscapes of gothic rock to the guitars of indie pop to the dirty guitars of grunge to the 1960s/1970s revivalism of Britpop. This approach to lyrics developed as a reflection of the social and economic strains in the United States and United Kingdom of the 1980s, by 1984, a majority of groups signed to independent record labels mined from a variety of rock and particularly 1960s rock influences. This represented a break from the futuristic, hyper-rational post-punk years
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One of the first popular alternative rock bands,
R.E.M. relied on
college-radio airplay, constant touring, and a grassroots fanbase to break into the musical mainstream.
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Kim Gordon and
Thurston Moore of
Sonic Youth
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Robert Smith of
The Cure rejects the genre labels like alternative,
gothic rock, and
college rock applied to his band. He has said, "Every time we went to America we had a different tag... I can't remember when we officially became 'alt-rock'".
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Kurt Cobain (foreground) and
Krist Novoselic with
Nirvana live at the 1992 MTV Video Music Awards.
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Power pop
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Power pop is a pop rock music subgenre that draws its inspiration from 1960s British and American rock music. It typically incorporates a combination of devices such as strong melodies, clear vocals and crisp vocal harmonies, economical arrangements. Instrumental solos are usually kept to a minimum, and blues elements are largely downplayed, in the 1980s and 1990s, power pop continued as a commercially modest genre but by the mid-1990s through the 2000s, power pop was mainly in the underground. While its cultural impact has waxed and waned over the decades, Power pop is a more aggressive form of pop rock that is based on catchy, melodic hooks and energetic moods. The Small Faces are often cited as being among the progenitors of power pop, the Whos role in the creation of power pop has been cited by singer-songwriter Eric Carmen of the Raspberries, who has said, Pete Townshend coined the phrase to define what the Who did. For some reason, it didnt stick to the Who, but it did stick to these groups came out in the 70s that played kind of melodic songs with crunchy guitars. It just kind of stuck to us like glue, and that was okay with us because the Who were among our highest role models, other acts such as the Knickerbockers, the Easybeats and the Outsiders contributed iconic singles. Writer John Borack has noted, Its also quite easy to draw a line from garage rock to power pop. Although the formative influences on the genre were primarily British, the bands that developed and codified power pop in the 1970s were nearly all American. The Raspberries 1972 hit single Go All The Way is an almost perfect embodiment of the elements of power pop, the most influential group of the period may have been Big Star. The Replacements even recorded a song entitled Alex Chilton in honor of Big Stars frontman, spurred on by the emergence of punk rock and new wave, power pop enjoyed a prolific and commercially successful period in the late 1970s and early 1980s. Although coined in the 1960s, and used as early as 1973 in reference to Sweet, as the novelist Michael Chabon has written, Power pop in its essential form. Did not come into existence for a number of years after it was first identified, like so much of the greatest work turned out by popular artists of the 1970s, true power pop is quintessential second-generation stuff. The term was used in reference to critics favorites Elvis Costello and Nick Lowe. Los Angeles-based Bomp. magazine championed power pop in its March 1978 issue, tying the genres roots to 1960s groups like the Who, like their punk brethren, late–1970s power pop groups favored a leaner and punchier sound than their early–1970s predecessors. Some occasionally incorporated synthesizers into their music, though not to the degree as did their new wave counterparts. Representative singles from the period include releases from the Bomp, records label by 20/20, Shoes and the Romantics. Major label groups like Cheap Trick, the Cars and Blondie merged power pop influences with other styles and achieved their first mainstream success with albums released in 1978
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Influential British rock band
the Kinks in 1965
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Alex Chilton, of
Big Star, seen in 2004
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Cheap Trick playing in 1978
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Doug Fieger of
the Knack performing
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Pop punk
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Pop punk is a punk rock music genre and a fusion genre that combines elements of punk rock with elements of pop music. Pop punk typically combines fast punk rock tempos, power chord changes and loud, distorted guitars with pop-influenced melodies. Pop-influenced punk rock emerged in the mid-1970s with a style that was stylistically similar to power pop. By the mid-1980s, several bands merged hardcore punk with pop music to create a new, faster pop punk sound such as Dag Nasty, Pop punk in the United States began to grow in popularity locally in California in the mid-to-late 1980s. Pop punk particularly thrived in California, where independent record labels adopted a do it approach to releasing music. By the mid-1990s, a few pop punk bands had started to sell millions of records and receive radio and television airplay. By 1994, pop punk was quickly growing in mainstream popularity, the late 1990s, exemplified by the 1999 release of Blink-182s Enema of the State, represented the genres mainstream peak, although some pop punk bands scored successful album chartings in the 2000s. In the mid-2000s, emo pop, a genre combining emo and pop punk. By the end of the 2000s, the pop sound of the 1990s had largely waned in mainstream popularity. Pop punk typically merges upbeat pop melodies with catchy hooks, catchy choruses, harmonies, speedy tempos, punk rock power chord changes and loud, distorted electric guitars. About. com has described second-wave pop punk bands as having a radio friendly sheen to their music, club, pop punk often pits sweet harmonies against bratty, rowdy riffs. Lyrical topics that are common in pop punk include love, lust, drunkenness, adolescence, cartoonish violence, some pop punk lyrics focus on jokes and humor. Some pop punk music features elements of rock, power pop. According to Ryan Cooper of About. com, pop punk is a style that more to the Beatles. It is not clear when the pop punk was first used. Protopunk and power pop bands of the late 1960s and early 1970s helped lay the groundwork for the pop punk sound, the Beatles, the Kinks and the Beach Boys all paved the way for pop punk. With their love of the Beach Boys and late 1960s bubblegum pop, the Ramones loud and fast melodic minimalism differentiated them from other bands in New York Citys budding art rock scene, but pop punk was not considered a separate subgenre until later. An early use of the pop punk appeared in a 1977 New York Times article, Cabaret
Pop punk
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The
Ramones performing in Norway in 1980.
Pop punk
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The
Descendents "wrote almost surfy, Beach Boys–inspired songs about girls and food and being young(ish)".
Pop punk
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Green Day frontman
Billie Joe Armstrong performing in 1994.
Pop punk
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Blink-182 's
Enema of the State (1999) "marked a complete shift in how music television, radio and the world at large viewed [pop punk]."
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Indie rock
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Indie rock is a genre of alternative rock that originated in the United States and the United Kingdom in the 1980s. Originally used to independent record labels, the term became associated with the music they produced and was initially used interchangeably with alternative rock. In the mid-1980s, the term began to be used to describe the music produced on punk and post-punk labels. Some prominent indie rock record labels were founded during the 1980s, during the 1990s, Grunge bands broke into the mainstream, and the term alternative lost its original counter-cultural meaning. The term indie rock became associated with the bands and genres that remained dedicated to their independent status, by the end of the 1990s indie rock developed subgenres and related styles including lo-fi, noise pop, emo, slowcore, post-rock and math rock. In the 2000s, changes in the industry and in music technology enabled a new wave of indie rock bands to achieve mainstream success. In the early 2000s, a new group of bands played a stripped-down. The commercial breakthrough from these scenes was led by four bands, The Strokes, The White Stripes, The Hives, emo also broke into mainstream culture in the early 2000s. By the end of the 2000s the proliferation of bands was being referred to as indie landfill. The term indie rock, which comes from independent, describes the small and relatively low-budget labels on which it is released, the influences and styles of the artists have been extremely diverse, including punk, psychedelia, post-punk and country. Allmusic identifies indie rock as including a number of varying musical approaches compatible with mainstream tastes, in fact, there is an everlasting list of genres and subgenres of indie rock. Many countries have developed a local indie scene, flourishing with bands with enough popularity to survive inside the respective country. However, there are still indie bands that start off locally, Indie rock has been identified as a reaction against the macho culture that developed in alternative rock in the aftermath of Nirvanas success. However, Cortney Harding pointed out that this sense of equality is not reflected in the number of women running indie labels. The BBC documentary Music for Misfits, The Story of Indie pinpoints the birth of indie as the 1977 self-publication of the Spiral Scratch EP by Manchester band Buzzcocks, Indie pop and indie were originally synonymous. In the mid-1980s, indie began to be used to describe the music produced on post-punk labels rather than the labels themselves. The indie rock scene in the US was prefigured by the rock that dominated college radio playlists. In the United States, the term was associated with the abrasive, distortion-heavy sounds of the Pixies, Hüsker Dü, Minutemen, Meat Puppets, Dinosaur Jr
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The Jesus and Mary Chain performing in California in 2007
Indie rock
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Pavement singer/guitarist
Stephen Malkmus
Indie rock
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The Strokes on stage in 2005
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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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Geffen Records
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Weezer
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Weezer is an American rock band formed in Los Angeles in 1992, consisting of Rivers Cuomo, Patrick Wilson, Brian Bell, and Scott Shriner. Weezer has sold 9.2 million albums in the US, after signing to Geffen Records in 1993, the band released its debut self-titled album, also known as the Blue Album, in 1994. Backed by successful music videos for the singles Buddy Holly, Undone – The Sweater Song and Say It Aint So, both the Blue Album and Pinkerton are now frequently cited among the best albums of the 1990s. Following the tour for Pinkerton, bassist Matt Sharp left the band, in 2001, Weezer returned with another self-titled album, also known as the Green Album, with new bassist Mikey Welsh. With a more pop sound, and promoted by singles Hash Pipe and Island in the Sun, after the albums release, Welsh left the band and was replaced by current bassist Scott Shriner. Weezers fourth album, Maladroit, was released in May 2002 to mostly positive reviews, in June 2008, Weezers third self-titled album, also known as the Red Album, featuring TR-808s, synths, Southern rap, and baroque counterpoint, was released to mixed reviews. Its lead single, Pork and Beans, became the third song to top the Modern Rock Tracks chart. Weezers seventh and eight albums Raditude and Hurley, featuring more pop production and songs co-written with other artists, achieved further mixed reviews. The bands ninth and tenth albums, Everything Will Be Alright in the End, vocalist and lead guitarist Rivers Cuomo, drummer Patrick Wilson, bassist Matt Sharp and guitarist Jason Cropper formed Weezer in 1992. The band had its first practice on February 14 of that year, Weezer signed with Geffen Records on June 25,1993 and the group recorded its debut album with producer Ric Ocasek at Electric Lady Studios in New York City. During the recording, Cropper left the band and was replaced by guitarist Brian Bell, Weezer was released in May 1994. Geffen originally did not wish to release a single, to see what sales could be generated by word-of-mouth alone, DJ Marco Collins of the Seattle radio station The End started playing Undone – The Sweater Song, leading Geffen to release it as the first single. The music video was directed by Spike Jonze, filmed in an unbroken take, it featured Weezer performing on a sound stage with little action, bar a pack of dogs swarming the set. The video became an instant hit on MTV, Jonze also directed the bands second video, Buddy Holly, splicing footage from the 1970s television sitcom Happy Days with Weezer performing in a remade Arnolds Drive-In. The video achieved heavy rotation on MTV and went on to win four MTV Video Music Awards, including Breakthrough Video and Best Alternative Music Video, the video was also featured on the companion CD for the Microsoft Windows 95 computer operating system. A third single, Say It Aint So, followed, Weezer is certified triple platinum in the United States, making it Weezers best-selling album. It is certified platinum in Canada. In 1994, Weezer took a break from touring for the Christmas holidays, Cuomo traveled to his home state of Connecticut and began recording demos for Weezers next album
Weezer
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Weezer performing in 2015 at the
Gathering of the Vibes in
Bridgeport, Connecticut. From left to rightː
Brian Bell,
Scott Shriner,
Patrick Wilson, and
Rivers Cuomo.
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The band performing in 2005
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Rivers Cuomo performing with Weezer at the
Gathering of the Vibes in
Bridgeport, Connecticut in 2015.
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Vanilla Ice
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Robert Matthew Van Winkle, known professionally as Vanilla Ice, is an American rapper, actor, and television host. Ices 1990 single Ice Ice Baby was the first hip hop single to top the Billboard charts, after surviving a suicide attempt, Ice was inspired to change his musical style and lifestyle. While his later, less mainstream albums failed to chart or receive radio airplay. In 2009, Ice began hosting The Vanilla Ice Project on DIY Network and his latest album WTF – Wisdom, Tenacity & Focus was released in August 2011. Ice is currently signed to Psychopathic Records, robert Matthew Van Winkle was born in Dallas, Texas, on October 31,1967. Van Winkle has never known his father, he was given the family name of the Dutch man his mother was married to at the time of his birth. When Van Winkle was four, his mother divorced, afterward, he grew up moving between Dallas and Miami, where his new stepfather worked at a car dealership. Hip hop affected Van Winkle at an age, saying Its a very big passion of mine because I love poetry. I was just heavily influenced by that movement and its molded me into who I am today. Between the ages of 13 and 14, Van Winkle practiced breakdancing, although he disliked the nickname, it stuck. Shortly afterward, Van Winkle started battle rapping at parties and because of his rhymes, however, when he became a member of a breakdance troupe, Van Winkles stage name was Vanilla Ice combining his nickname Vanilla with one of his breakdance moves, The Ice. When Ices stepfather was offered a job in Carrollton, Texas. He attended R. L. Turner High School for a time before dropping out. When Ice was not learning to ride motorbikes, he was dancing as a performer with his breakdancing group. Ice wrote Ice Ice Baby at the age of 16, basing its lyrics on a weekend he had with friend, the lyrics describe Ice and Shay on a drug run that ends in a drive-by shooting while praising Ices rhyming skills. In 1985, he was focusing all of his energy on motocross, Ice used his beatboxing and breakdancing skills as a street performer with his friends at local malls during this time. One evening he visited City Lights, a South Dallas nightclub and he won the crowd over and was asked by City Lights manager John Bush if he wanted to perform regularly, which he accepted. Ice would be joined on stage with his disc jockey D-Shay and Zero as well as Earthquake, the Vanilla Ice Posse or The V. I. P. would also perform with Ice on stage
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Van Winkle in February 2007
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Vanilla Ice at
Baltimore 's Tex-Mex Grill in March 2007.
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MC Hammer performing with Vanilla Ice in July 2009.
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Fender Precision Bass
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The Precision Bass is a bass guitar manufactured by Fender Musical Instruments Corporation. The Standard P-Bass is sanded, painted and assembled in Ensenada, Baja California, Fender also produces Precision and Precision/Jazz basses in its Squier line of products. The double bass is physically cumbersome and difficult to transport and it was also becoming hard to hear in large bands or those that used amplified instruments and it requires skill to play such that it can not be readily picked up by any guitarist. The Precision Bass overcame these problems, the name Precision came from the use of frets to play in tune more easily than upon the fretless fingerboard of the double bass. The electric bass lacks the distinctive qualities of the double bass, offering a more solid. The bass guitar became more dominant and transformed the beat and rhythm of pop music from blues and swing to rhythm and blues, rock, soul. Acceptance of the bass was helped by the endorsement of Elvis Presleys bass-player Bill Black. Black was beginning to use a Precision Bass during the filming of Jailhouse Rock, Fender also delivered an early Precision to LA session bassist and arranger Shifty Henry. Monk Montgomery became the first jazz player to popularize the Fender Bass while playing with his brother, the original Precision Bass of 1951 shared several of its design features with the six-string Telecaster guitar, the main difference being its double cutaway body. In 1954 the Precision Bass received contoured edges for comfort while otherwise retaining the existing Telecaster-like styling, in 1957 the headstock and pickguard were redesigned to resemble Fenders recently introduced Stratocaster guitar, a rounder neck heel replacing the original square shape. A redesigned pickguard was made of a layer of gold-anodized aluminum with 10 screwholes. Rosewood fingerboards were then made of a veneered, round-laminated piece of wood, in 1960 the aluminum pickguard was replaced with a 13-screw celluloid design having 3 or 4 layers of black, white, mint green, aged white pearloid or brown tortoise-shell). In that same year the newly designed Fender Jazz Bass was released, the original Telecaster-derived design, with a few updates, was reintroduced in 1968 as the Telecaster Bass. Within a few years, however, it had evolved into a distinctly different from the contemporary Precision Bass. Since 1969 the 1-piece maple neck option has been fitted to many Fender basses, some Precision Basses made in the 1970s were also available with an unlined fretless rosewood, ebony or maple fingerboard, popularized by endorsees Sting and Tony Franklin. Fender briefly offered a fretless P Bass in the mid-1990s as a part of the first-generation American Standard line, from 1980 to 1984 the Precision Bass was given new active pickups and a high-mass brass bridge. The Special featured a pickup with white covers, gold hardware, a 2-band EQ. The Elite had one or two humbucking pickups, TBX tone circuit and a Schaller fine-tune bridge later used on the Plus Series models of the early 1990s
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Precision Bass
Fender Precision Bass
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A
patent sketch for the Fender Precision Bass
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1956 Precision bass
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Lakland
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Lakland Guitars is a Chicago, Illinois-based manufacturer of electric bass guitars. The companys first bass combined elements of the Fender Jazz Bass, the companys current line-up includes basses inspired by classics like the Fender Precision Bass and Jazz Bass as well as Laklands own original designs. Laklands line of models includes basses designed in collaboration with well-known bassists Joe Osborn, Donald Duck Dunn, Jerry Scheff, Darryl Jones. Lakland basses are manufactured in the United States and Indonesia, founded by bassist Dan Lakin and luthier Hugh McFarland in 1994, the companys name, pronounced lake-land, is a portmanteau of Lakin and McFarland, the surnames of its founders. Lakin and McFarland began developing the first Lakland prototype in January 1994, the pair launched Lakland in 1994 with a $20,000 home equity loan and Lakland basses went into production in the United States in 1995. In 1996, the became a unit of A. Lakin & Sons. In 2001, Lakland introduced the Skyline Series, an alternative to its U. S. -made basses. Manufactured in South Korea, the Skyline Series helped the company break even for the first time in 2003, production of Skyline Series basses was moved to Indonesia in 2008. In April 2010 the company was acquired by Chicago-based Hanson Musical Instruments, Hanson, a maker of electric guitars and electric guitar and bass pickups and electronics, had been Laklands primary supplier of bass pickups and preamp products since 2005. Lakland was renamed Lakland Guitars LLC and while the Lakland brand name remains, signature model names—such as the Bob Glaub, Duck Dunn, Lakland executive John Pirruccello was named president. Owners of Lakland basses and others interested in the Lakland company and it is not affiliated with Lakland Guitars, LLC. Lakin and McFarland began designing the first prototype in 1994, made of ash and a quilted maple top, rock maple neck, and maple fingerboard, the prototype was a blend of elements from a Fender Jazz Bass and an early MusicMan Stingray. Its similarity to Fenders Jazz Bass drew a cease-and-desist order from Fender for trademark infringement, the prototypes electronics were inspired by a Bass Player magazine review of the Warwick Dolphin bass. Pickups were supplied by Bartolini and the bass featured Laklands characteristic oval bridge plate, originally made of aluminum, McFarland later replaced the bridge with one fashioned from chrome-plated steel. Lakland currently manufactures a U. S. -made line of basses called the U. S. Series, Lakin conceived of a signature model bass in 1997. A bass player himself and a fan of bassist Joe Osborn, other signature models were developed in collaboration with bassists Geezer Butler, Jerry Scheff, Donald Duck Dunn, Darryl Jones and Bob Glaub. The Donald Duck Dunn and Bob Glaub signature models remain in production under the names 44-64 Custom, the Lakland Hollowbody is a dual-pickup, hollow-body electric bass guitar designed in conjunction with luthier Michael Tobias. The bass is constructed of carved mahogany for the back and sides and of maple for the top, the fingerboard is made of rosewood
Lakland
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Lakland Guitars, LLC
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Warwick (company)
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Warwick is a Germany-based bass guitar manufacturer company. Warwick basses were originally a premium brand offering a range of models built from high quality. The company also produces Valve and FET amplifiers, speaker cabinets, bass guitar strings and their headquarters and custom shops are located in Markneukirchen, Shanghai, and Nashville. Warwick was founded in 1982 in Erlangen, in the German state of Bavaria, in 1995 the company moved to Markneukirchen in the Saxon Vogtland to capitalize on the centuries-old tradition of instrument building in the region and to reopen the Framus trademark. Warwick produces its instruments and amplifiers using carbon-neutral principles, any other manufacturing process is carbon-neutral as well, Warwick produces a variety of different models with different woods and electronics. The original series, which are manufactured in Germany, include the models as their most popular lines, the only model in the original catalog that is being made outside of Germany is the Alien acoustic bass, which is being made in Korea. They are built using exotic woods, different pickups and electronic configurations, there are around forty Special Edition basses currently in production, while the company offer a special-run Limited Edition bass annually. These basses are usually upgraded versions of existing models that have features otherwise unavailable, Warwick produces near twenty signature basses. Some of the artists that have their signature Warwick basses are Stuart Zender, Jack Bruce, Bootsy Collins, stevens, Robert Trujillo, P-Nut, Jonas Hellborg, Adam Clayton, John Entwistle and Jäcki Reznicek. P-Nut of 311 has three signature basses, all Streamer models, the Stuart Zender signature bass is designed by Zender, and features a body shape new to Warwick basses. Warwick also built custom fretless 7-string Thumb basses for Jeroen Paul Thesseling, Warwick Basses has a budget branch of the company, which produce the original models with less exotic woods and different finishes, which makes them less expensive. The Rockbass branch of the company is located in China and produces Furthermore, they have a Rockbass Artist Line, Warwick produces strings for electric, Acoustic and their own Triumph model. Red Label Black Label Triumph Bass For their own Reissue of the Triumph bass they have their own strings to match it, Warwick produces a variety of bass-combos, ampheads and cabinets, including a signature Jonas Hellborg ampsystem. Interview with Florence Wilfer NAMM Oral History Library, March 18,2008
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Warwick GmbH & Co Music Equipment KG
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Warwick Infinity model
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Jack Bruce playing a
Warwick Thumb bass model,
Frankfurt, Germany, October 2006
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Warwick Star Bass model
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Rock music
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It has its roots in 1940s and 1950s rock and roll, itself heavily influenced by blues, rhythm and blues and country music. Rock music also drew strongly on a number of genres such as electric blues and folk. Musically, rock has centered on the guitar, usually as part of a rock group with electric bass guitar. Typically, rock is song-based music usually with a 4/4 time signature using a verse-chorus form, like pop music, lyrics often stress romantic love but also address a wide variety of other themes that are frequently social or political in emphasis. Punk was an influence into the 1980s on the subsequent development of subgenres, including new wave, post-punk. From the 1990s alternative rock began to rock music and break through into the mainstream in the form of grunge, Britpop. Similarly, 1970s punk culture spawned the visually distinctive goth and emo subcultures and this trio of instruments has often been complemented by the inclusion of other instruments, particularly keyboards such as the piano, Hammond organ and synthesizers. The basic rock instrumentation was adapted from the blues band instrumentation. A group of musicians performing rock music is termed a rock band or rock group, Rock music is traditionally built on a foundation of simple unsyncopated rhythms in a 4/4 meter, with a repetitive snare drum back beat on beats two and four. Melodies are often derived from older musical modes, including the Dorian and Mixolydian, harmonies range from the common triad to parallel fourths and fifths and dissonant harmonic progressions. Critics have stressed the eclecticism and stylistic diversity of rock, because of its complex history and tendency to borrow from other musical and cultural forms, it has been argued that it is impossible to bind rock music to a rigidly delineated musical definition. These themes were inherited from a variety of sources, including the Tin Pan Alley pop tradition, folk music and rhythm, as a result, it has been seen as articulating the concerns of this group in both style and lyrics. Christgau, writing in 1972, said in spite of some exceptions, rock and roll usually implies an identification of male sexuality, according to Simon Frith rock was something more than pop, something more than rock and roll. Rock musicians combined an emphasis on skill and technique with the concept of art as artistic expression, original. The foundations of music are in rock and roll, which originated in the United States during the late 1940s and early 1950s. Its immediate origins lay in a melding of various musical genres of the time, including rhythm and blues and gospel music, with country. In 1951, Cleveland, Ohio disc jockey Alan Freed began playing rhythm and blues music for a multi-racial audience, debate surrounds which record should be considered the first rock and roll record. Other artists with rock and roll hits included Chuck Berry, Bo Diddley, Fats Domino, Little Richard, Jerry Lee Lewis
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Red Hot Chili Peppers in 2006, showing a quartet lineup for a rock band (from left to right: bassist, lead vocalist, drummer, and guitarist).
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Elvis Presley in a promotion shot for
Jailhouse Rock in 1957
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Chubby Checker in 2005
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The Beach Boys performing in 1964
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Marine Corps
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Marine forces evolved to specialize in the skills and capabilities required for amphibious warfare. In the earliest day of naval warfare, there was little distinction between sailors and soldiers on a warship, in ancient China, the first well-known naval battles took place during the Warring States period, where kings ruling regional states battled against one another. Chinese naval warfare in ancient period featured grapple-and-hook, as well as ramming tactics with ships called stomach strikers. The Roman Navys two fleet legions, I Adiutrix and II Adiutrix, were among the first distinct naval infantry units, Marines of Italy was created as Fanti da Mar in 1550 in the Republic of Venice. The third oldest marine corps in the world was founded as the Terço of the Navy of the Crown of Portugal in 1618, predecessor to the modern Portuguese Marine Corps. The word marine is from the English adjective marine, meaning of the sea, via French marin, of the sea from Latin marinus itself from mare, from Proto-Indo-European *móri. The word marine was used for the forces of England. Typically, foreign equivalents are called naval infantry or coastal infantry, the word marine/marina means navy in many European languages such as Dutch, French, Italian, German, Spanish, Danish and Norwegian. Marine units primarily deploy from warships using boats, landing craft, hovercraft, specialist units are also trained in combat diving/combat swimming and parachuting. As well as operations, marine troops are also used in a variety of other. The Argentine Marine Corps is a part of the Argentine Navy, Argentine marines have the same rank insignia and titles as the rest of the navy. It is composed of a marine force, a southern marine force, a river operations battalion. The Argentine Marine Corps dates from 1827 when an infantry battalion was raised. This was expanded in 1880 but seven years later the corps was merged with the existing coast artillery, a series of reorganizations followed until responsibility for coastal defense was passed to the Argentine Army in 1898. Between 1935 and 1938 the marines reappeared in the form of five battalions of Marine Infantry, in 1968 the Infanteria de Marina was reorganized as a separate corps distinct from both Navy and Army. The 5th Battalion of the Argentine Marines fought in the Falklands War, the Bolivian Naval Force includes about 2,000 naval infantry personnel and marines. These are organised in the Almirante Grau Battalion, located at Tiquina on Lake Titicaca, the Corps of Naval Fusiliers, with about 15,000 men, is subordinate to the Brazilian Navy. The marine corps is composed of a brigade and some guard
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Peruvian Naval Infantry conducting exercises on the
Amazon River.
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Spanish and U.S. marines march together in a change of command ceremony at
Naval Station Rota, Spain in July 2002.
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Ancient Greek trireme
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U.S. Marines conducting a live fire training exercise aboard an amphibious assault ship.
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Musicians Institute
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Musicians Institute is a for-profit college of contemporary music that offers a variety of educational programs in Hollywood, California. Founded in 1977, MI is focused on building skills and providing all the tools students need to develop careers as musicians. Founders Howard Roberts and Pat Hicks Musicians Institute was founded as The Guitar Institute of Technology in 1977 as a vocational school of guitarists and bassists. Its curriculum and pedagogical style was shaped by guitarist Howard Roberts, Pat Hicks, a Los Angeles music industry entrepreneur, was the co-founder of Musicians Institute. He is credited for providing the structure and management that rapidly transformed Howard Roberts educational philosophy into a major music school. At the founding of the Musicians Institute, Jazz studies was, and is today, in early days of the Musicians Institute, the demand for musicians and music industry professionals with comprehensive collegiate credentials in the field of contemporary music was low. Yet, the demand for contemporary music professionals was high, Roberts, when he founded the school, wanted to give aspiring rock and roll musicians a conservatory experience. For musicians working towards degrees in performance, proficiency in rock and roll is standard, current owner Hisatake Shibuya Japanese businessman Hisatake Shibuya bought the school in 1994 and Musicians Institute began developing new programs to keep abreast of the modern music industry. The publications are distributed by the Musicians Institute and Hal Leonard Corporation Performing Arts Publishing Group, since 1997, the publishing imprint has been the Musicians Institute Press. Before that, from about 1982 to 1997, the imprint was Musicians Institute Publications, Music industry programs include audio engineering, Independent Artist Program, the Guitar Craft Academy and Music Business. The school is focused on building skills needed for careers as musicians, state of California registration Musicians Institute and its programs are registered by the state of California by the Bureau for Private Postsecondary Education. NASM institutional accreditation National Association of Schools of Music, Musicians Institute has been an institutional member of the National Association of Schools of Music since 1981. LACC is accredited by the Western Association of Schools and Colleges The Carnegie Foundation has designated the Musicians Institute as a Special Focus Institute in Music. The resolution was presented by Eric Garcetti, seconded by Tom LaBonge, as of 2013, the Musicians Institute Stage was added as a venue for the Annual Mayhem Festival. December 2013, The ESP Company, LTD, unveiled plans to expand its Campus Hollywood complex of schools in Los Angeles, the new facilities will include a performance venue, student dormitory, and parking lots. The Hollywood Campus constituent institutions will become more integrated with one another, constituent institutions of Campus Hollywood, Inc. — Hisatake Shibuya, President Musicians Institute — Hisatake Shibuya, President Theatre of Arts,1536 N, highland Avenue, Hollywood, an acting school founded in 1927 — Hisatake Shibuya, President Elegance International,1622 N. A Japanese language television station based in Los Angeles and syndicated in Japan E. S. P
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Mikey Welsh
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Michael Edward Mikey Welsh was an American artist and musician, best known as the former bassist of Weezer. He played with Weezer frontman Rivers Cuomo during Cuomos time in Boston during the hiatus in the band Homie, following original bassist Matt Sharps decision to leave Weezer to focus on his group, The Rentals, Welsh was chosen to take over on bass. Welsh played with Weezer from the time that they regrouped in 2000 until August 2001, shortly afterwards, he retired from music to focus on his art career. Welsh died on October 8,2011, Welsh was born April 20,1971 in Syracuse, New York. He began his career as a Boston-area musician, playing in such as Heretix, Chevy Heston, Jocobono, Left Nut. He was a touring bassist for Juliana Hatfield and Verbena, in 1997 he joined the first incarnation of The Rivers Cuomo Band, the side-project of Weezer frontman Rivers Cuomo. He joined Weezer following the departure of Matt Sharp in 1998, during Weezers hiatus he played with Verbena and the first incarnation of Patrick Wilsons band The Special Goodness. He wrote a number of bass lines in this period, recorded them and sent them to Rivers Cuomo for writing inspiration. Instead, he contributed four of these to Juliana Hatfields 2000 album Julianas Pony, Welsh was given a co-writing credit for four songs. He toured with the band from their resurgence in the summer of 2000 and most of the way through tours supporting The Green Album and he would also appear on their limited edition Christmas EP and on a number of b-sides and unreleased songs. He also played on the road and in the studio with Patrick Wilsons band The Special Goodness, Mikey Welsh left Weezer in 2001 for reasons that were left unclear to the public for several years after it happened. It was eventually revealed that he did in fact have a breakdown due to drug use, undiagnosed mental conditions. The combination of these ultimately led Welsh to attempt suicide via drug overdose. He was checked into a psychiatric hospital sometime during August 2001, at the beginning of a 3-month European tour with Weezer, I started slowly falling apart. Without getting too graphic, by the time the tour was winding up, my weight had gone down to about 140lbs, when I returned to the States, my family had made plans for me to see a psychiatrist in Boston. First though, we had to play a few dates around the U. S. by the time I got to Boston, I was having a complete nervous breakdown. It ended with a suicide attempt. I was found and rushed to the hospital where I had come to within minutes of my heart completely stopping, I was in a coma for a few days, and woke up in a lockdown psychiatric ward
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Welsh in front of his artwork in winter 2010
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Maladroit
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Maladroit is the fourth studio album by American rock band Weezer, released on May 14,2002, through Geffen Records. Self-produced by the themselves, the album is the first Weezer album to feature bassist Scott Shriner. The album features heavy metal riffs, uncommon to Weezers previous releases, Maladroit received mixed-to-positive reviews from critics. As of December 2007, the album has sold 605,000 copies in the United States, having reached a high of #3 on the US Billboard 200, two singles were released from the album, Dope Nose and Keep Fishin. This resulted in dozens of different versions of thirty different songs circulating on the Internet before the album was released. Yet frontman Rivers Cuomo and the fans strongly disagreed on a number of aspects of the album. One thing they did agree on was bringing back the old summer 2000 song Slob for use on the album, Cuomo commented, I never would have thought to put the song Slob on the record if the fans did not request it. Scott Shriner also wanted a track, Are You Gonna Be. for the album. The bands uploading of MP3 demos onto its website resulted in major radio stations playing the still unreleased songs on the radio for the masses to hear. It is said that Cuomo was so excited for fans to hear the music he personally mailed copies of 8 out of the 13 songs on Maladroit to key radio stations and press outlets. In the week it was leaked to radio stations, the lead-off single Dope Nose reached #25 on Billboards Modern Rock Tracks chart without an official single having been issued, the band members resisted, citing that they had funded all the sessions themselves and that apologizing seemed pointless. The fans resisted as well, forming a group called Unreleased Weezer for the Masses that rallied for the release of the album. The hit songs Dope Nose and Hash Pipe were both using the same method on the same night, with Rivers Cuomo allegedly taking a bunch of Ritalin. Like three shots of tequila and pacing around for a while before writing both songs, the first 600,000 copies of the album were specifically numbered, with the number located on the back of the CD case near the lower right-hand corner. The album cover was chosen from a contest, through the bands website, Weezer asked for submissions. Their favorite of these submissions was chosen as the cover seen today and this was the first Weezer album to contain lyrics in the album insert. At Metacritic, which assigns an average rating out of 100 to reviews from mainstream critics. Stephen Thomas Erlewine of AllMusic gave the four stars, saying that it retains the high quality of The Green Album
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Make Believe (Weezer album)
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Make Believe is the fifth studio album by American rock band Weezer, released on May 10,2005 by Geffen Records. In addition, Beverly Hills also gained Weezers first Grammy nomination for Best Rock Song, despite this, Make Believe received mixed reviews from critics and fans, although it has remained a consistent seller. Rivers Cuomos songwriting on Make Believe was described as return to musical, emotional bloodletting, beginning in spring 2002, and at random points in late 2002 and early 2003, demos for possible use on Weezers fifth album would be uploaded to Weezer. coms audio/video page. After touring during the summer and returning to S. I. R, studios for additional sessions, the band ultimately decided to start from scratch with a fresh group of songs. 28 songs in all were uploaded on the website yet none made the actual album and this batch of songs is commonly referred to as The A5 Demos or Early Album 5 amongst fans. During the recording process, Rivers Cuomos discovery of meditation due to the influence of producer Rick Rubin was beginning to take on an influence on the albums content. He also claimed the title of the came to him while meditating. Make Believe marks a return to Cuomos more personal songwriting style after taking a more distant approach on the two albums. The Other Way was written for Rivers ex-girlfriend Jennifer Chiba after her then-boyfriend, singer-songwriter Elliott Smith, Cuomo said, I wanted to console her, but I was confused and skeptical about my own motives for wanting to do so, so I wrote that song about that. We Are All on Drugs was inspired by Cuomo hearing party-goers on Sunset Strip, hold Me was written during a songwriting experiment in which Cuomo fasted for 24 hours and then wrote a song. In addition, early during the process, Rubin told Rivers Cuomo to write a Billy Joel or Elton John type of song. The result of Rubins request was Haunt You Every Day, which was the first that Rivers wrote entirely on piano, according to Cuomo, Rubin told Tom Petty the same thing and he wrote Its Good To Be King. The Counting Crows song Accidentally in Love took the place of My Best Friend, however, in late 2010, My Best Friend was included on the soundtrack to the film Yogi Bear, and can be heard during the end credits. Hundreds of songs were demoed during the period of making of the album. Despite the abundance of material, this album did not feature any B-side releases. Of the notable unreleased material, partial rough versions of Youre the One, a cover of Toni Braxtons Un-Break My Heart was in consideration for the album and later for a soundtrack, although it would only see release five years later on the Death to False Metal album. Six other Make Believe era outtakes, including three which were contenders for the album, would also see release on Death to False Metal. While deciding on the name of the album, one of the suggestions given by Patrick Wilson was One Thousand Soviet Children Marching Towards The Sun
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Rivers Cuomo
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Rivers Cuomo is an American musician best known as the lead vocalist, guitarist and songwriter of the rock band Weezer. Raised in an ashram in Connecticut, Cuomo moved to Los Angeles at 18, where he played in several rock bands before founding Weezer in 1992. Though Pinkerton was later frequently cited among the best albums of the 1990s, it was initially a commercial and critical failure, pushing Cuomos songwriting towards pop music. Cuomo has also released three albums of home demos, Alone, The Home Recordings of Rivers Cuomo, Alone II, The Home Recordings of Rivers Cuomo and Alone III. He has collaborated with a number of artists, in 2013, he, Rivers Cuomo was born in a Manhattan hospital to parents of Italian and German-English descent. He was raised on Yogaville, an ashram in Pomfret, Connecticut run by the master yogi Satchidananda Saraswati, Cuomos mother Beverly named him Rivers because he was born between the East and Hudson rivers in Manhattan. His father, Frank Cuomo, is a musician who played drums on the 1971 album Odyssey of Iska by jazz saxophonist Wayne Shorter, Cuomo attended a private school on the ashram. His family moved to nearby Storrs, Connecticut when the relocated to a plot along the Blue Ridge Mountains in Virginia. Cuomo attended E. O. Smith High School, and was involved in activities including the school choir. He also changed his name to Peter Kitts, after graduating, one of Cuomos earliest music projects was the progressive metal band Avant Garde. After playing several shows in Connecticut, he and the moved to Los Angeles in 1989. In 1990 and 1991, while Cuomo was writing material for what would become Weezers debut album, he worked at Tower Records, I was exposed to a ton of music I otherwise never would have heard. While writing material for Weezers first album, Cuomo worked as a roadie for King Size on the bands Guatemala tour, Cuomo formed Weezer on February 14,1992, with drummer Patrick Wilson, bassist Matt Sharp and guitarist Jason Cropper. Weezer was the given to him by Cuomos father when he was a toddler. Weezer signed with DGC, a subsidiary of Geffen Records, on June 25,1993, Cropper left the band during the album recording and was replaced by Brian Bell. The album was certified gold on December 1 and platinum on January 1,1995, in March 1995, Cuomo had extensive surgery to extend his left leg, which was 44mm shorter than the right. At the end of 1995, Cuomo enrolled in Harvard University to study classical composition, between classes, Cuomo took painkillers, rested in bed, and listened to opera. He told the New York Times, The only time I could write songs was when my frozen dinner was in the microwave, the rest of the time I was doing homework. He auditioned for the Harvard-Radcliffe Collegium Musicum chorus but was not selected and he became introverted and grew a beard, and wrote in his diaries how students wearing Weezer T-shirts did not recognize him
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Cuomo performing with
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Cuomo performing in 2010
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Cuomo performing in 2013
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Weezer (2008 album)
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Weezer, also known as The Red Album, is the sixth studio album by American rock band Weezer, released on June 3,2008. Rick Rubin and Jacknife Lee both produced parts of the album, with the band producing a handful of tracks themselves, like the groups 1994 debut album Weezer, other band members contributed to songwriting. This is the first and, so far, the only Weezer album to lead vocals from all four band members. The album also features more musical experimentation in comparison to their previous efforts, especially shown in songs as Dreamin, The Angel and The One. Two official singles were released from the album—Pork and Beans and Troublemaker—with both becoming relatively successful modern rock songs, the video for the former also became the most-watched video on the internet the weekend following its release. Additionally, an unconventional Hootenanny Tour replaced the rock concert tour to promote the album. Despite this, the proved to be less successful than their previous album, Make Believe. After the platinum success of their fifth album Make Believe, the once again was put on hiatus. Frontman Rivers Cuomo returned to Harvard University to complete his education and he ended up graduating Phi Beta Kappa. Cuomo also married Kyoko Ito on June 18,2006, a woman he had known since March 1997 and he proposed to her in Tokyo shortly before Christmas of 2005. Also during this time, Bell formed a new side-band called The Relationship while Wilson started work on material for the next Special Goodness album and he also had a second child, Ian Patrick Wilson, with his wife in early 2008. The band announced in June 2007 that recording sessions for the album would begin in July, in December 2007, Cuomo released Alone, The Home Recordings of Rivers Cuomo, which featured home demos that Cuomo has recorded from 1992-2007. It was also during this time that a website called albumsix. com began gaining attention. The website gave information about the album such as the album title would be Tout Ensemble. The website fooled several news outlets such as Pitchfork Media and Rolling Stone, the website was later revealed to be a hoax by some fans. Band historian/webmaster Karl Koch stated on Weezers official website, At the beginning of the albums creation each Weezer member asked themselves what they wanted to get out of the album, with that in mind, they set out to record. Recording was done in three sessions, half of the album was recorded during the spring of 2007 with Rick Rubin overseeing production. The second session, started in July and finished on October 18, was produced by Weezer themselves at Malibu, the third and final session of recording was done at the request of Geffen Records, who claimed that there was not enough commercial material on the album
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Weezer plays in the foreground while Fritz Grobe and Stephan Voltz set off
Diet Coke and Mentos eruptions behind them in the "Pork and Beans" music video.
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KROQ-FM
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KROQ-FM – branded 106.7 KROQ – is a commercial Alternative Rock radio station licensed to Pasadena, California serving the Greater Los Angeles Area. The call sign is pronounced kay rock and it was the flagship station of Loveline, hosted by Dr. Drew Pinsky and Psycho Mike Catherwood, and The Kevin and Bean Morning Show. KROQ advertises itself as playing current modern rock hits, but its playlist consists mostly of recurrent tracks from the 1990s and 2000s. The station has studios at the intersection of Venice Boulevard and Fairfax Avenue in the Crestview neighborhood in West Los Angeles, the transmitter is based in the Verdugo Mountains. Originally,106.7 FM was KPPC-FM, owned by the Pasadena Presbyterian Church and they broadcast religious programming with a co-owned AM station. Until 1969, the station still broadcast from the basement of the church, in 1967, Tom and Raechel Donahue created a freeform progressive rock format at co-owned KMPX in San Francisco. KMPX became a big success, and in 1968, the Donahues were sent to Pasadena to introduce the format to the ailing KPPC-FM, the former KMPX and KPPC staffers were later hired at Metromedia-owned KSAN in San Francisco and KMET in Los Angeles. KPPC hired new staffers and kept the format, though they floundered for several years following the strike. In 1969, the two stations were sold to the National Science Network, in April 1970, the studios were moved out of the church basement. In September of that year, the FM transmitter was moved to Flint Peak, an adjacent to Pasadena. Country music station KBBQ in Burbank became KROQ in September 1972, changing its format to Top-40, the new KROQ called itself the ROQ of Los Angeles. A. The two stations were wildly successful initially with the new format, but poor management plagued the enterprise. Roberts joined a sprawling ownership group included a doctor, two dairymen, a political lobbyist, a secretary, and several other minor investors. Unfortunately, by 1974 the stations finances were already untenable following a year of commercial-free programming — a stunt implemented in an effort to market share. The stations debt load reached $7 million, paychecks began to bounce and Shadoe Stevens, the closure would last for nearly two years. In late 1975, the FCC ordered KROQ to return to the airwaves or surrender the stations licenses, ken Roberts returned to the reborn station in a more forceful ownership role, buying out his partners one by one until he remained the sole owner of the station. Shadoe Stevens was re-hired as a consultant and air personality with others like Los Angeles radio legends The Obscene Steven Clean. As punk expanded its hold on the scene of the mid to late 1970s, KROQ steadily adding more of it to their freeform format
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Raditude
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Raditude is the seventh studio album by American alternative rock band Weezer, released on November 3,2009 and is their final album on DGC Records, Geffen Records and Interscope Records. The title of the album was suggested to Weezer vocalist Rivers Cuomo by actor Rainn Wilson, the albums first single, I Want You to, was released in August 2009. The album debuted at seven on the Billboard 200. The albums cover artwork is a photo of a dog named Sidney, the album was initially released in Australia on October 30,2009. It was made available in the United Kingdom on November 2,2009, and it opened at number seven on the Billboard 200, selling 66,000 copies in its first week of availability. As of September 2010, it has sold 240,000 copies, knowledge of the record was first made public by Billboard. com, who reported that Weezer was to head into the studio in early November 2008 to record a seventh album. In May, the webmaster and archivist Karl Koch revealed that the album had no set release date. He revealed that Cuomo would be the lead vocalist on this album unlike their previous album. In early summer of 2009, session drummer Josh Freese joined Weezer as the percussionist, Freese performed with the band at the KROQ Weenie Roast. In an interview for the event, the revealed that the new album would be released in summer 2009. On July 24, Weezer played three new songs in Korea at the Jisan Valley Rock Festival, Cant Stop Partying, Im Your Daddy, Cant Stop Partying had previously been released in demo form on Cuomos Alone II album in 2008. While performing The Girl Got Hot on July 26,2009 at the Fuji Rock Festival, August 4,2009, saw the final recording sessions for the album, with mixing of the disc beginning two days later. Cant Stop Partying was co-written with hip-hop producer Jermaine Dupri, put Me Back Together was co-written with The All-American Rejects members Tyson Ritter and Nick Wheeler. Guitarist Brian Bell has stated that he had reservations about the inclusion of outside collaborators, in a 2010 interview, Bell revealed that he a conversation with Rivers about. And he said, to put my mind at ease, that this is just one out of many more that we are going to make in our career. When I heard that, I was like, okay, cool, we’re just trying something and this is just one record out of many more. When I heard that, I was fine with it, on August 14,2009, MTV confirmed that the first single, I Want You To, was to be released on American rock radio on August 25. The track leaked less than a week after the announcement, a music video for the single was filmed with director Marc Webb and co-starring Odette Yustman
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Hurley (album)
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Hurley is the eighth studio album by American alternative rock band Weezer, released on September 10,2010 on Epitaph Records. The album was produced by Rivers Cuomo and Shawn Everett, and, similar to the previous studio album, Raditude. Preceded by the single Memories, Hurley debuted at six on the US Billboard 200 with 45,000 units sold. In late 2009, Weezer revealed the groups album, Raditude. Compared to the other albums, it received a lukewarm response. In December, it was revealed that the band was no longer with Geffen Records, the band stated that new material would still be released, but the band members were unsure of the means, whether it be self-released, released online, or released via another label. Eventually, the band was signed to the independent label Epitaph, in July 2010, Weezer began recording the follow-up to Raditude. Rivers Cuomo said of the album, Theres definitely going to be more raw rock energy on this one, in August 2010, the track list was revealed. The first track and single from the album was Memories, also featured in a Guitar Hero track pack alongside Buddy Holly and I Want You to, the second single released was Hang On on February 15 to U. S. The music video for Memories also features members of Jackass on backing vocals, AP magazine described the high-energy track as Andrew W. K. covering The Killers. The string tracks in Memories, Unspoken, as well as bonus tracks All My Friends Are Insects and Represent were recorded at The Banff Centre in Banff, Alberta, Hang On, co-written by Rick Nowels, features Canadian actor Michael Cera on backing vocals and mandolin. The albums closer, Time Flies, co-written by country singer and songwriter Mac Davis, features a lo-fi, folk-country sound, the albums cover is simply a picture of the American actor Jorge Garcia, who portrayed Hugo Hurley Reyes on the television series Lost from 2004 to 2010. Originally, the band was going to title the album for a fourth time. Guitarist Brian Bell stated publicly that the record was named after clothing company Hurley International, whose bosses he said funded the recording, Bell later claimed that he was mistaken and that the album was in fact named after the Lost character and not the clothing company. However, the group worked with the clothing manufacturer to create a Weezer-branded clothing line. Weezer used internet streaming service YouTube as a way to promote the album, Weezer loaned itself to 15 amateur online video producers, going along with whatever plans the creator could execute in about 30 minutes. The band used many of the channels to promote themselves, such as Barely Political, Tay Zonday, Dave Days, Magic Hugs, Fred Figglehorn, Ray William Johnson. Weezer called the promotion The YouTube Invasion, the review aggregator website Metacritic gave the album an average score of 68%, which indicates generally favourable reviews
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Cover of Hurley, featuring
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Death to False Metal
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Death to False Metal is a compilation album by the American alternative rock band Weezer, released on November 2,2010 by Geffen Records. The album comprises several previously unreleased tracks from throughout Weezers career, the album debuted at number 48 on the US Billboard 200. The album was released simultaneously with the edition of the bands second studio album. The title comes from a phrase that Cuomo and his brother used when they were children. Originally known as Odds and Ends, the album was first mentioned by guitarist Brian Bell during the summer of 2008, vocalist and guitarist Rivers Cuomo states that the tracks are great songs, great recordings, but for some reason they didnt make the final cut for a record. And like the Alone record, they span a vast period of time from the beginning of our career in the early 90s right up to the present day. Frontman Rivers Cuomo considers Death to False Metal to be Weezers ninth studio album, band webmaster and historian Karl Koch describes the release differently as a special album, sort of like Weezers version of Rivers Alone records. The opening track Turning Up the Radio is the product of Rivers Cuomos YouTube songwriting project Lets Write a Sawng, the cover art for the album mimics that of a religious tract from the Jehovahs Witnesses featuring an artists impression of a perfect planet Earth. According to Metacritic, Death to False Metal has received mixed reviews, drowned in Sound gave it a 4 out of 10, calling it lineage of dumbed down music to even more dumb lyrics, citing songs such as Blowin My Stack and Trampoline. IGN gave it a 7.5 out of 10, citing. the album feels a lot more cohesive than similar rarities sets, all songs written by Rivers Cuomo, except where noted
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Everything Will Be Alright in the End
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Everything Will Be Alright in the End is the ninth studio album by American alternative rock band Weezer, released on October 7,2014. It is Weezers only album released by Republic Records, and the produced by Ric Ocasek. The lyrics deal with singer Rivers Cuomos relationship with his figures, fans. The album received positive reviews, becoming the most acclaimed Weezer album since Pinkerton and it is the bands fifth album to peak in the Billboard 200 top five, reaching No.5 and selling 34,000 copies its first week. The album has produced four singles, Back to the Shack, Cleopatra, Da Vinci, as of 2016, the album has sold 100,000 copies in the U. S. In 2010, Weezer released two albums, Hurley, and a collection of unreleased material, Death to False Metal, shortly after their release, the band announced that work had begun on a ninth studio album, with the intent of a 2011 release. Set to be produced by Shawn Everett, who had worked on the previous two releases, the album was shelved. At this time, band frontman Rivers Cuomo stated, We just started working on our tenth record, I was talking to the producer and he was saying, These songs sound totally different from Hurley. Hurley was kind of dark, and the new sound like you’re 16. The band abandoned work on the album, in order to give primary songwriter Cuomo more time to more material. Cuomo wanted to create a complex, classic album, but hit a wall during the hiatus. In May 2013, following his yearly Vipassana meditation trip, Cuomo came up with a vision of the album. He announced plans to begin recording a new album in January 2014, Ric Ocasek was announced as the albums producer, Ocasek produced the bands self-titled first and third albums, otherwise known as the Blue Album and the Green Album. On March 19,2014, Weezer released a clip of two new songs on the bands official YouTube account that ended with the words in the studio now, on June 13, the album title was announced. The band recorded the majority of the album in The Village, bassist Scott Shriner described Ocaseks production style as very serious, commenting that at one point the band considered featuring a whistling section in Da Vinci, which Ocasek rejected. Over 200 songs were considered for the album, with 20 being tracked, according to the albums official press release, the album is organized thematically around three groups of songs, Belladona, The Panopticon Artist and Patriarchia. Band leader Rivers Cuomo described the theme as an increased awareness of the impermanence of everything we for granted how to make peace with that. Drummer Patrick Wilson described the sound as bombastic, loose
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Rivers Cuomo (pictured) is credited with co-writing the entire album.
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The Weight
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The Weight is a song originally by the Canadian-American group The Band that was released as Capitol Records single 2269 in 1968 and on the groups debut album Music from Big Pink. Written by Band member Robbie Robertson, the song is about a visitors experiences in a town mentioned in the lyrics first line as Nazareth. The Weight has significantly influenced American popular music, having been listed as #41 on Rolling Stones 500 Greatest Songs of All Time published in 2004. Pitchfork Media named it the 13th best song of the Sixties, the Weight is one of The Bands best known songs though it was not a significant mainstream hit for the group in the U. S. peaking at only #63. The Bands recording fared much better in Canada and the UK – in those countries, however, the songs popularity was greatly enhanced by three cover releases in 1968 and 1969 with arrangements that appealed to a diversity of music audiences. Aretha Franklins 1969 soul music arrangement was included in her This Girls in Love with You album, which peaked in the U. S. at #19 and #3 on the soul chart, and peaked in Canada at #12. Jackie DeShannons 1968 pop music arrangement, debuting on the Hot 100 one week before The Bands, a joint single rhythm and blues arrangement released by Diana Ross & the Supremes and The Temptations in 1969, hit #46 in the U. S. and #36 in Canada. The Bands and Jackie DeShannons versions never mentioned the title, the Bands version credits Jaime Robbie Robertson, Rick Danko, Richard Manuel, Garth Hudson, Levon Helm on the record label, rather than The Band. The original members of The Band performed The Weight as an American Southern folk song with country music, the lyrics, written in the first-person, are about a travelers experiences arriving, visiting, and departing a town called Nazareth. According to Robertson, this is based on Nazareth, Pennsylvania because it was the home of Martin Guitars and he wrote the guitar parts on a 1951 Martin. The singers, led by Helm, vocalize the travelers encounters with people in the town from the perspective of a Bible Belt American Southerner, like Helm himself, a native of rural Arkansas. After Helms death in 2012, Robertson, who was raised in Canada, described how visits to the Memphis, Tennessee area, around which Helm grew up, affected him and influenced his songwriting, going there was like going to the source. Because I was at such a vulnerable age then, it made a big impact on me. So it was like, Woah, this is where this music grows in the ground, and it very much affected my songwriting and, because I knew Levons musicality so well, I wanted to write songs that I thought he could sing better than anybody in the world. While I was there, I was just gathering images and names, and ideas and rhythms, and when it was time to sit down and write songs, when I reached into the attic to see what I was gonna write about, thats what was there. I just felt a strong passion toward the discovery of going there, and it opened my eyes, when I sat down to write songs, thats all I could think of at the time. The colorful characters in The Weight were based on real people members of The Band knew, as Levon Helm explained in his autobiography, This Wheels on Fire. In particular, young Anna Lee mentioned in the verse is Helms longtime friend Anna Lee Amsden
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The Temptations singles chronology
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The Band
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The Band was a Canadian roots rock group, originally consisting of four Canadians—Rick Danko, Garth Hudson, Richard Manuel, and Robbie Robertson —and one American, Levon Helm. The members of the Band first came together as they joined the rockabilly singer Ronnie Hawkinss backing group, in 1964, they separated from Hawkins, after which they toured and released a few singles as Levon and the Hawks and the Canadian Squires. The next year, Bob Dylan hired them for his U. S. tour in 1965, because they were always the band to various frontmen, Helm said the name The Band worked well when the group came into its own. The group began performing as the Band in 1968 and went on to ten studio albums. Dylan continued to collaborate with the Band over the course of their career, the original configuration of the Band ended its touring career in 1976 with an elaborate live ballroom performance featuring numerous musical celebrities. This performance was immortalized in Martin Scorseses 1978 documentary The Last Waltz, the Band recommenced touring in 1983 without guitarist Robertson, who had found success with a solo career and as a Hollywood music producer. Following a 1986 show, Manuel committed suicide, Danko died of heart failure in 1999, after which the group broke up for good. Helm was diagnosed with cancer in 1998 and was unable to sing for several years. He continued to perform and released several albums until he died in 2012. The group was inducted into the Canadian Music Hall of Fame in 1989, in 2004 Rolling Stone ranked them No.50 on its list of the 100 greatest artists of all time, and in 2008 they received the Grammy Lifetime Achievement Award. In 2004, The Weight was ranked 41st on Rolling Stones list of the 500 greatest songs of all time, in 2014, the Band was inducted into Canadas Walk of Fame. While most of the Hawks were eager to join Hawkinss group and he had earned a college degree, planned on a career as a music teacher, and was interested in playing rock music only as a hobby. The Hawks were in awe of his wild, full-bore organ sound, Hudson finally relented, as long as the Hawks each paid him $10 per week to be their instructor, all music theory questions were directed to Hudson. While pocketing a little cash, Hudson was also able to mollify his familys fears that his education had gone to waste. The piano–organ combination was uncommon in rock music, and for all his aggressive playing, there is a view that jazz is evil because it comes from evil people, but actually the greatest priests on 52nd Street, and on the streets of New York City were the musicians. They were doing the greatest healing work, and they knew how to punch through music which would cure and make people feel good. With Hawkins, they recorded a few singles in this period, Hawkins regularly convened all-night rehearsals following long club shows, with the result that the young musicians quickly developed great technical prowess on their instruments. In late 1963, the split from Hawkins over personal differences
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"Big Pink" in 2006
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The Band in 1969. Left to right:
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Danko.
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L to R:Danko, Helm and Manuel on tour in Hamburg, Germany in 1971
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Bob Dylan and The Band touring in Chicago in 1974. Left to right: Danko, Robertson, Dylan and Helm.
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R.E.M.
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R. E. M. was an American rock band from Athens, Georgia, that was formed in 1980 by drummer Bill Berry, lead guitarist Peter Buck, bassist/backing vocalist Mike Mills, and lead vocalist Michael Stipe. Released its first single—Radio Free Europe—in 1981 on the independent record label Hib-Tone, the single was followed by the Chronic Town EP in 1982, the bands first release on I. R. S. Following years of success, R. E. M. Achieved a mainstream hit in 1987 with the single The One I Love, the group signed to Warner Bros. Records in 1988, and began to espouse political and environmental concerns while playing large arenas worldwide. By the early 1990s, when alternative rock began to experience mainstream success, R. E. M. was viewed by subsequent acts such as Nirvana. The band then released its two most commercially successful albums, Out of Time and Automatic for the People, which veered from the established sound. R. E. M. s 1994 release, Monster, was a return to a more rock-oriented sound, the band began its first tour in six years to support the album, the tour was marred by medical emergencies suffered by three of the band members. Re-signed with Warner Bros. for a reported US$80 million, at the time the most expensive recording contract in history and its 1996 release, New Adventures in Hi-Fi, though critically acclaimed, fared worse commercially than expected. The following year, Bill Berry left the band, while Stipe, Buck, in 2007, the band was inducted into the Rock and Roll Hall of Fame, in their first year of eligibility. Disbanded amicably in September 2011, announcing the split on its website, in January 1980, Michael Stipe met Peter Buck in Wuxtry Records, the Athens record store where Buck worked. The pair discovered that they shared similar tastes in music, particularly in rock and protopunk artists like Patti Smith, Television. Stipe said, It turns out that I was buying all the records that was saving for himself, Stipe and Buck soon met fellow University of Georgia students Mike Mills and Bill Berry, who had played music together since high school and lived together in Georgia. The quartet agreed to collaborate on songs, Stipe later commented that there was never any grand plan behind any of it. Their still-unnamed band spent a few months rehearsing and played its first show on April 5,1980, at a friends birthday party held in a converted Episcopal church in Athens. After considering names like Twisted Kites, Cans of Piss, and Negro Wives, the band members eventually dropped out of school to focus on their developing group. They found a manager in Jefferson Holt, a store clerk who was so impressed by an R. E. M. performance in his hometown of Chapel Hill, North Carolina. R. E. M. s success was almost immediate in Athens and surrounding areas, the band drew progressively larger crowds for shows, over the next year and a half, R. E. M. Toured throughout the Southern United States, touring was arduous because a touring circuit for alternative rock bands did not then exist
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R.E.M. in concert in
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Mike Mills,
Michael Stipe, touring drummer
Bill Rieflin, and
Peter Buck
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Record producer
Mitch Easter (far left) was important in defining the band's sound, producing all of their material until 1984
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Michael Stipe (left) and Peter Buck (right) on stage in
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Scott Litt produced a string of R.E.M.'s breakthrough albums in the 1980s and 1990s.
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In the Garage
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Weezer, also known as The Blue Album, is the debut studio album by American rock band Weezer, released on May 10,1994, through DGC Records. The album was produced by Cars frontman Ric Ocasek and recorded in Electric Lady Studios in New York City. The Blue Album was supported by three singles, Undone – The Sweater Song, Buddy Holly and Say It Aint So, as of August 2009, the album had sold over 3,300,000 copies in the United States. The album reached number 16 on the Billboard 200 and became a certified triple-platinum in the United States, Weezer was formed on February 14,1992, in Los Angeles by Rivers Cuomo, Patrick Wilson, Matt Sharp, and Jason Cropper. At the time, they would play at clubs and other venues around L. A. However. I remember just being totally shocked at how little people responded to us, because I thought we were so good. I mean, we were playing the songs that eventually became big hits, like The Sweater Song and Say It Aint So. Weezer recorded The Kitchen Tapes as an attempt to create a buzz around L. A, the band eventually attracted attention from major-label A&R reps looking for alternative rock bands while performing on the same bill as the band That Dog. They were then signed to DGC Records on June 26,1993, by Todd Sullivan, Sharp, who never sang before joining Weezer, developed his falsetto backing vocal, I had to sing an octave higher than Rivers. After a lot of practice, I started to get it down, fifteen songs were rehearsed for the album pre-production sessions in New York in preparation for the Electric Lady Studios recording sessions. Four songs from this rehearsal would not be attempted for the album, Lullaby for Wayne, I Swear Its True, Getting Up and Leaving, and a reprise version of In The Garage. The other song, an ode to two women who ran the Weezer fanclub called Mykel & Carli, was attempted during the Electric Lady sessions, a later re-recording of Mykel & Carli would be featured as a B-side on the Undone - The Sweater Song single. The band briefly considered self-producing, but were pressured by Geffen to choose a producer and they ultimately decided on Ric Ocasek, Cuomo explained his choice, Id always admired The Cars and Ric Ocaseks songwriting and production skills. During production, Ocasek convinced the band to change their guitar pickup from the neck pick-up to the bridge pick-up, resulting in a brighter sound. During these sessions, founding guitarist Jason Cropper left the band and was replaced by current guitarist Brian Bell, while Bells vocals are clearly audible on some tracks, Cuomo re-recorded all of Croppers guitar parts. According to Ocasek, all ten tracks were laid down by Cuomo in one day, However, Bell is still credited for playing guitar in the album liner notes. Croppers writing credit on My Name Is Jonas is earned by his coming up with the intro to the song, most of the album was written by Rivers Cuomo. Weezer touches upon various life experiences of Cuomo, including such as his brothers car accident, heartbreak, jealousy, alcohol
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Dope Nose
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Dope Nose is a song by American alternative rock band Weezer. It is the first single off the fourth album, Maladroit. It was officially released in March 2002, though it had performed live. Dope Nose was said to have written on the same night as the hit song Hash Pipe from The Green Album. A common belief is that frontman Rivers Cuomo had three shots of tequila and Ritalin moments before writing both songs, Dope Nose is one of the songs playable in the PlayStation 2 video game Amplitude, developed by Harmonix. An interview in Electronic Gaming Monthly with the creators of the PlayStation 2 game Guitar Hero mentioned the games early builds were based on Dope Nose. The song also appears in an episode of Monk, Mr. Monk Goes to a Fashion Show, during various live shows, Weezer bassist Scott Shriner sometimes performs lead vocals on the song. Director Michel Gondry wrote a treatment for a Dope Nose music video, the video would feature the members of Weezer playing a game of soccer against a Mexican heavy metal band. Though the band rejected the treatment, it is available in written form on Gondrys Directors Label DVD. The songs official video was directed by Marcos Siega. Radio Only Promo CD Dope Nose -2,17 Lyrics for Dope Nose Dope Nose Official music video on YouTube
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