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Mountain View, California
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Mountain View is a city located in Santa Clara County, California, United States, named for its views of the Santa Cruz Mountains. From its origins as a stop, it grew to a large suburb with a pedestrian-friendly downtown, free wi-fi. The city borders Palo Alto and the San Francisco Bay to the north, Los Altos to the south, situated in the southern end of the San Francisco Peninsula in the San Francisco Bay Area, Mountain View is home to many high technology companies. In 1956, Shockley Semiconductor Laboratory, the first company to develop silicon semiconductor devices in what came to be known as Silicon Valley, was established in the city by William Shockley. Today, many of the largest technology companies in the world are headquartered in the city, including Google, Mozilla Foundation, Symantec, and Intuit. The original Byte Shop computer store was opened at 1063 El Camino Real, Mountain View by Paul Terrell, the Santa Clara Valley Transportation Authority integrates the city with the neighboring cities of Palo Alto, Los Altos, and Sunnyvale. The Mexican land grant of Rancho Pastoria de las Borregas was given in 1842 by Alta California Governor Juan Alvarado to Francisco Estrada. This grant was passed on to Mariano Castro, who sold half of the land to Martin Murphy, Jr. Eventually. First known as the center of Fremont Twp. before the first California 1852 census. Which meant that it was a predecessor to Mayfield and Palo Alto, Mountain View Station, officially named in 1864, had its beginnings earlier as a stagecoach stop on the route between San Francisco and San Jose, including the Butterfield Overland Mail. & El Camino Real of today, was closer to what was once the town center. The early pioneers were buried at the old cemetery between Mercy & Church, off Castro Street, now the present city Library and park. Reverend Henry Merrill Henderson, born in Maryland, age 35, arrived in Spring of 1852, with his family to meet with relatives Ricketts and he was the first Baptist minister in town and soon was going by horse to Half-Moon Bay, and McCartersville for services. His next-door neighbor arrived later that year, Seligman Weilheimer and brother Samuel from Dossenheim, Baden, Germany, who built at that property, the Fremont twp. population was about 560 by 1860, less Mayfield Post office section, which began north of present San Antonio Road. The towns early growth was due to agriculture, William Bubb later being a figure, buying 80 acres to farm in October 1851. His heirs expanded and intermarried in the area, agriculture remained the primary industry into the middle of the 20th century. The U. S. Navys adjacent 1000 acre Moffet Field Complex began after 1931, after World War II, the population grew significantly with the development of the aerospace and electronics industries. Between 1950 and 1960, the population grew from 6,563 to 30,889, today, high technology is the foundation of the local economy, and there exist few remnants of the citys agricultural past
Mountain View, California
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City Hall and the Center for the Performing Arts in the Downtown area
Mountain View, California
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The
Historic Adobe Building was constructed as a
Works Progress Administration project in 1934.
Mountain View, California
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Mountain View City Hall
Mountain View, California
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Mountain View Fire Station Number 1
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Geographic coordinate system
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A geographic coordinate system is a coordinate system used in geography that enables every location on Earth to be specified by a set of numbers, letters or symbols. The coordinates are chosen such that one of the numbers represents a vertical position. A common choice of coordinates is latitude, longitude and elevation, to specify a location on a two-dimensional map requires a map projection. The invention of a coordinate system is generally credited to Eratosthenes of Cyrene. Ptolemy credited him with the adoption of longitude and latitude. Ptolemys 2nd-century Geography used the prime meridian but measured latitude from the equator instead. Mathematical cartography resumed in Europe following Maximus Planudes recovery of Ptolemys text a little before 1300, in 1884, the United States hosted the International Meridian Conference, attended by representatives from twenty-five nations. Twenty-two of them agreed to adopt the longitude of the Royal Observatory in Greenwich, the Dominican Republic voted against the motion, while France and Brazil abstained. France adopted Greenwich Mean Time in place of local determinations by the Paris Observatory in 1911, the latitude of a point on Earths surface is the angle between the equatorial plane and the straight line that passes through that point and through the center of the Earth. Lines joining points of the same latitude trace circles on the surface of Earth called parallels, as they are parallel to the equator, the north pole is 90° N, the south pole is 90° S. The 0° parallel of latitude is designated the equator, the plane of all geographic coordinate systems. The equator divides the globe into Northern and Southern Hemispheres, the longitude of a point on Earths surface is the angle east or west of a reference meridian to another meridian that passes through that point. All meridians are halves of great ellipses, which converge at the north and south poles, the prime meridian determines the proper Eastern and Western Hemispheres, although maps often divide these hemispheres further west in order to keep the Old World on a single side. The antipodal meridian of Greenwich is both 180°W and 180°E, the combination of these two components specifies the position of any location on the surface of Earth, without consideration of altitude or depth. The grid formed by lines of latitude and longitude is known as a graticule, the origin/zero point of this system is located in the Gulf of Guinea about 625 km south of Tema, Ghana. To completely specify a location of a feature on, in, or above Earth. Earth is not a sphere, but a shape approximating a biaxial ellipsoid. It is nearly spherical, but has an equatorial bulge making the radius at the equator about 0. 3% larger than the radius measured through the poles, the shorter axis approximately coincides with the axis of rotation
Geographic coordinate system
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Longitude lines are perpendicular and latitude lines are parallel to the equator.
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Live Nation
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Live Nation Entertainment is an American global entertainment company, formed from the merger of Live Nation and Ticketmaster. It owns, leases, operates, has booking rights for and/or equity interests in a number of U. S. entertainment venues. The leadership consists of Greg Maffei as chairman and Canadian Michael Rapino as president, the merger initially received regulatory approval in Norway and Turkey in 2009. In October 2009, the United Kingdoms Competition Commission provisionally ruled against the merger, on December 22,2009, the Competition Commission reversed its decision and cleared the proposed merger. The United States Justice Department approved the merger on January 25,2010, AEG was given the option after five years to buy the software, replacing it with something else, or partnering with another ticketing company. Live Nation Entertainment bought AC Entertainment, a Knoxville Tennessee music company in October 2016
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Live Nation Entertainment
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Amphitheatre
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An amphitheatre or amphitheater /ˈæmfᵻˌθiːətər/ is an open-air venue used for entertainment, performances, and sports. The term derives from the ancient Greek ἀμφιθέατρον, from ἀμφί, ancient Roman amphitheatres were oval or circular in plan, with seating tiers that surrounded the central performance area, like a modern open-air stadium. In contrast both ancient Greek and ancient Roman theatres were built in a semicircle, with tiered seating rising on one side of the performance area. In modern usage, amphitheatre is used to describe theatre-style stages with spectator seating on only one side, theatres in the round. Natural formations of similar shape are known as natural amphitheatres. Ancient Roman amphitheatres were major public venues, circular or oval in plan and they were used for events such as gladiator combats, chariot races, venationes and executions. About 230 Roman amphitheatres have been found across the area of the Roman Empire, the earliest Roman amphitheatres date from the middle of the 1st century BC, but most were built under Imperial rule, from the Augustan period onwards. Imperial amphitheatres were built throughout the Roman empire, the largest could accommodate 40, the most elaborate featured multi-storeyed, arcaded façades and were elaborately decorated with marble, stucco and statuary. After the end of games in the 5th century and of staged animal hunts in the 6th. Their materials were mined or recycled, some were razed, and others were converted into fortifications. A few continued as convenient open meeting places, in some of these, in modern usage, an amphitheatre is a circular, semicircular or curved, acoustically vibrant performance space, particularly one located outdoors. Small-scale amphitheatres can serve to host outdoor local community performances, notable modern amphitheatres include the Shoreline Amphitheatre and the Hollywood Bowl. The term amphitheatre is used for some indoor venues such as the Gibson Amphitheatre. The term amphitheatre can also be used to naturally occurring formations which would be ideal for this purpose. Arena Stadium Thingplatz List of Roman amphitheatres List of contemporary amphitheatres List of indoor arenas List of ancient Greek theatres Roman theatre Bomgardner, the Story of the Roman Amphitheatre
Amphitheatre
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The
Colosseum in Rome, built c. 70 – 80 AD, is considered one of the greatest works of
architecture and
engineering.
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Interior of the
Colosseum
Amphitheatre
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Arles Amphitheatre, a
Roman arena in Arles, France, still in use today for bullfighting,
plays and summer
concerts.
Amphitheatre
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The
Hollywood Bowl,
Hollywood,
California
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Seating capacity
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Seating capacity is the number of people who can be seated in a specific space, in terms of both the physical space available, and limitations set by law. Seating capacity can be used in the description of anything ranging from an automobile that seats two to a stadium that seats hundreds of thousands of people. The International Fire Code, portions of which have adopted by many jurisdictions, is directed more towards the use of a facility than the construction. It specifies, For areas having fixed seating without dividing arms and it also requires that every public venue submit a detailed site plan to the local fire code official, including details of the means of egress, seating capacity, arrangement of the seating. Once safety considerations have been satisfied, determinations of seating capacity turn on the size of the venue. For sports venues, the decision on maximum seating capacity is determined by several factors, chief among these are the primary sports program and the size of the market area. Seating capacity of venues also plays a role in what media they are able to provide, in contracting to permit performers to use a theatre or other performing space, the seating capacity of the performance facility must be disclosed. Seating capacity may influence the kind of contract to be used, the seating capacity must also be disclosed to the copyright owner in seeking a license for the copyrighted work to be performed in that venue. Venues that may be leased for private functions such as ballrooms and auditoriums generally advertise their seating capacity, seating capacity is also an important consideration in the construction and use of sports venues such as stadiums and arenas. The seating capacity for restaurants is reported as covers, a restaurant that can seat 99 is said to have 99 covers, seating capacity differs from total capacity, which describes the total number of people who can fit in a venue or in a vehicle either sitting or standing. Use of the term public capacity indicates that a venue is allowed to more people than it can actually seat. Again, the total number of people can refer to either the physical space available or limitations set by law
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The
Indianapolis Motor Speedway has the largest seating capacity of any venue in the world.
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An aerial view of the
Melbourne Cricket Ground during the 1992
Cricket World Cup final packed with 90,000 people.
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Amphitheater
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An amphitheatre or amphitheater /ˈæmfᵻˌθiːətər/ is an open-air venue used for entertainment, performances, and sports. The term derives from the ancient Greek ἀμφιθέατρον, from ἀμφί, ancient Roman amphitheatres were oval or circular in plan, with seating tiers that surrounded the central performance area, like a modern open-air stadium. In contrast both ancient Greek and ancient Roman theatres were built in a semicircle, with tiered seating rising on one side of the performance area. In modern usage, amphitheatre is used to describe theatre-style stages with spectator seating on only one side, theatres in the round. Natural formations of similar shape are known as natural amphitheatres. Ancient Roman amphitheatres were major public venues, circular or oval in plan and they were used for events such as gladiator combats, chariot races, venationes and executions. About 230 Roman amphitheatres have been found across the area of the Roman Empire, the earliest Roman amphitheatres date from the middle of the 1st century BC, but most were built under Imperial rule, from the Augustan period onwards. Imperial amphitheatres were built throughout the Roman empire, the largest could accommodate 40, the most elaborate featured multi-storeyed, arcaded façades and were elaborately decorated with marble, stucco and statuary. After the end of games in the 5th century and of staged animal hunts in the 6th. Their materials were mined or recycled, some were razed, and others were converted into fortifications. A few continued as convenient open meeting places, in some of these, in modern usage, an amphitheatre is a circular, semicircular or curved, acoustically vibrant performance space, particularly one located outdoors. Small-scale amphitheatres can serve to host outdoor local community performances, notable modern amphitheatres include the Shoreline Amphitheatre and the Hollywood Bowl. The term amphitheatre is used for some indoor venues such as the Gibson Amphitheatre. The term amphitheatre can also be used to naturally occurring formations which would be ideal for this purpose. Arena Stadium Thingplatz List of Roman amphitheatres List of contemporary amphitheatres List of indoor arenas List of ancient Greek theatres Roman theatre Bomgardner, the Story of the Roman Amphitheatre
Amphitheater
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The
Colosseum in Rome, built c. 70 – 80 AD, is considered one of the greatest works of
architecture and
engineering.
Amphitheater
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Interior of the
Colosseum
Amphitheater
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Arles Amphitheatre, a
Roman arena in Arles, France, still in use today for bullfighting,
plays and summer
concerts.
Amphitheater
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The
Hollywood Bowl,
Hollywood,
California
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San Francisco Bay Area
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The San Francisco Bay Area is a populous region surrounding the San Francisco and San Pablo estuaries in Northern California. The region encompasses the cities and metropolitan areas of San Jose, San Francisco. The Bay Areas nine counties are Alameda, Contra Costa, Marin, Napa, San Francisco, San Mateo, Santa Clara, Solano, and Sonoma. The combined statistical area of the region is the second-largest in California, the fifth-largest in the United States, the Bay Area has the second-most Fortune 500 Companies in the United States, and is known for its natural beauty, liberal politics, entrepreneurship, and diversity. The eastern side of the bay, consisting of Alameda and Contra Costa counties, is known locally as the East Bay, the inner East Bay is more densely populated, with generally older buildings, and a more ethnically diverse population. The word Lamorinda was coined by combining the names of the cities it includes, Lafayette, Moraga, walnut Creek is situated east of Lamorinda and north of the San Ramon Valley and, together with Concord, Martinez, and Pleasant Hill comprises Central Contra Costa County. The cities of Antioch, Pittsburg, Brentwood, Oakley and the areas surrounding them comprise East Contra Costa County. The Tri-Valley consists of the Amador, the Livermore, and the San Ramon Valleys, dublin and Pleasanton comprise the Amador Valley, Livermore lies in the Livermore Valley, and the San Ramon Valley consists of Alamo, Danville, Diablo and its namesake, San Ramon. The outer East Bay is connected to the inner East Bay by BART, Interstate 580 to the south, and State Routes State Route 4 to the north, the outer East Bays infrastructure was mostly built up after World War II. This area remains largely white demographically, although the Hispanic and Filipino populations have grown significantly over the past 2–3 decades, the region north of the Golden Gate Bridge is known locally as the North Bay. This area encompasses Marin County, Sonoma County, Napa County, the city of Fairfield, being part of Solano County, is often considered the easternmost city of the North Bay. With few exceptions, this region is affluent, Marin County is ranked as the wealthiest in the state. The North Bay is relatively rural compared to the remainder of the Bay Area, with areas of undeveloped open space, farmland. Santa Rosa in Sonoma County is the North Bays largest city, with a population of 167,815 and a Metropolitan Statistical Area population of 466,891, making it the fifth-largest city in the Bay Area. The North Bay is the section of the Bay Area that is not currently served by a commuter rail service. The area from San Francisco to the Silicon Valley, geographically part of the San Francisco Peninsula, is known locally as The Peninsula, many of these families are of foreign background and have significantly contributed to the diversity of the area. Whereas the term peninsula technically refers to the entire geographical San Franciscan Peninsula, in local terms, San Francisco is surrounded by water on three sides, the north, east, and west. The city squeezes roughly 870,000 people in under 47 square miles, on any given day, there can be as many as 1 million people in the city because of the commuting population and tourism
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San Francisco
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San Jose
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Oakland
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A view of the
San Francisco skyline from the bay.
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Bill Graham (promoter)
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Bill Graham was a German-American impresario and rock concert promoter from the 1960s until his death in 1991 in a helicopter crash. On July 4,1939 he was sent from Germany to France to escape the Holocaust, at age 10 he settled in a foster home in the Bronx, New York. Graham graduated from DeWitt Clinton High School and from City College with a business degree, in the early 1960s, he moved to San Francisco, and, in 1965, began to manage the San Francisco Mime Troupe. He had teamed up with local Haight Ashbury promoter Chet Helms and Family Dog and this eventually turned into a profitable full-time career and he assembled a talented staff. Graham had a profound influence around the world, sponsoring the musical renaissance of the 60s from the epicenter, San Francisco. Graham was born in Berlin, the youngest child and only son of lower middle-class parents, Frieda and Jacob Yankel Grajonca and his father died two days after his sons birth. Graham was nicknamed Wolfgang by his family early in life, Grahams older sisters Sonja and Ester stayed behind with their mother. After the fall of France, Graham was among a group of Jewish orphans spirited out of France, but a majority, including Tolla Grajonca, did not survive the difficult journey. He was one of the One Thousand Children, those mainly Jewish children who managed to flee Hitler and Europe, and come directly to North America, nearly all these OTC parents were killed by the Reich. Graham had five sisters, Rita, Evelyn, Sonia, Ester and Tolla, Rita and Ester moved to the United States and were close to Graham in his later life. Evelyn and Sonia escaped the Holocaust, first to Shanghai, and later, after the war, once in the United States, Graham was placed in a foster home in The Bronx in New York City. After being taunted as an immigrant and being called a Nazi because of his German-accented English, Graham worked on his accent and he changed his name to sound more American. Graham graduated from DeWitt Clinton High School and then obtained a degree from City College. He was later quoted as describing his training as that of an efficiency expert, Graham was drafted into the United States Army in 1951, and served in the Korean War, where he was awarded both the Bronze Star and Purple Heart. Upon his return to the States he worked as a d in Catskill Mountain resorts in upstate New York during their heyday. He was quoted saying that his experience as a maître d, tito Puente, who played some of these resorts, went on record saying that Graham was avid to learn Spanish from him, but only cared about the curse words. Graham moved from New York to San Francisco in the early 1960s to be closer to his sister Rita. He was invited to attend a concert in Golden Gate Park, produced by Chet Helms and the Diggers, where he made contact with the San Francisco Mime Troupe
Bill Graham (promoter)
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Bill Graham, circa 1990
Bill Graham (promoter)
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Helicopter crash site
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Shoreline Park, Mountain View
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Shoreline Park is a park in Mountain View, California, USA. It was originally a landfill for San Francisco garbage, the city park was dedicated in 1983. Shoreline Park opened in 1983, with some problems from methane fires. In 1987, Shoreline won the League of California Cities Helen Putnam Award for public works, a video on the history of the park is available at the Mountain View Public Library. Shoreline Park now features an 18-hole links-style golf course with pro shop and driving range, Shoreline Golf Links, and a 50-acre artificial lake. On the lakes shore is the Shoreline Aquatic Center, which offers sailboat, windsurfing, kayak, canoe, rowboat, and pedalo rentals, as well as sailing, windsurfing. The adjacent Shoreline Cafe is open daily and offers a variety of food to lake goers, Shoreline Amphitheatre is next to the golf course. Walkers, runners, bike riders, et al. can enjoy miles of paved and unpaved trails, a good description of a loop trip can be found here. The trails connect to the Stevens Creek Trail at the edge of the park. Through the developed park, one reaches a wildlife refuge at the edge of the bay, meadowlands near the mouth of Permanente Creek in Shoreline Park provide critical remnant habitat for western burrowing owls, a bird that has vanished from many counties in the Bay Area. The owl was listed as a Species of Special Concern by the California Department of Fish and Game in 1979, and its Bay Area population continues to decline. In 2008, City of Mountain View evicted a pair of burrowing owls so that it could sell a parcel of land to Google to build a hotel at Shoreline Boulevard, eviction of the owls is controversial because suitable alternative habitat has vanished due to suburban sprawl. Although there were hundreds of burrowing owls in Santa Clara County when monitoring began in the 1980s, now there are only 35, with three breeding pairs raising ten eggs at Shoreline in 2011
Shoreline Park, Mountain View
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Family of
Burrowing owls
Shoreline Park, Mountain View
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American white pelican landing by
San Francisco Bay,
Santa Cruz Mountains in background
Shoreline Park, Mountain View
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Greater egret and gull on pilings
Shoreline Park, Mountain View
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Great egret and ducks
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Grateful Dead
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The Grateful Dead was an American rock band formed in 1965 in Palo Alto, California. Their music, writes Lenny Kaye, touches on ground that most other groups dont even know exists and these various influences were distilled into a diverse and psychedelic whole that made the Grateful Dead the pioneering Godfathers of the jam band world. The band was ranked 57th by Rolling Stone magazine in its The Greatest Artists of All Time issue, the Grateful Dead have sold more than 35 million albums worldwide. The Grateful Dead was founded in the San Francisco Bay Area amid the rise of the counterculture of the 1960s, the founding members were Jerry Garcia, Bob Weir, Ron Pigpen McKernan, Phil Lesh, and Bill Kreutzmann. Members of the Grateful Dead had played together in various San Francisco bands, including Mother McCrees Uptown Jug Champions, Lesh was the last member to join the Warlocks before they became the Grateful Dead, he replaced Dana Morgan Jr. who had played bass for a few gigs. Drummer Mickey Hart and nonperforming lyricist Robert Hunter joined in 1967, with the exception of McKernan, who died in 1973, and Hart, who took time off from 1971 to 1974, the core of the band stayed together for its entire 30-year history. The other official members of the band are Tom Constanten, John Perry Barlow, Keith Godchaux, Donna Godchaux, Brent Mydland, pianist Bruce Hornsby was a touring member from 1990 to 1992, as well as guesting with the band on occasion before and after the tours. After the death of Jerry Garcia in 1995, former members of the band, along with musicians, toured as the Other Ones in 1998,2000, and 2002, and the Dead in 2003,2004. In 2015, the four surviving core members marked the bands 50th anniversary in a series of concerts that were billed as their last performances together. There have also been several spin-offs featuring one or more members, such as Dead & Company, Furthur, the Rhythm Devils, Phil Lesh & Friends, RatDog. The Grateful Dead began their career as the Warlocks, a group formed in early 1965 from the remnants of a Palo Alto, the bands first show was at Magoos Pizza located at 639 Santa Cruz Avenue in suburban Menlo Park, California, on May 5,1965. They were initially known as the Warlocks, coincidentally, the Velvet Underground was also using that name on the East Coast, the show was not recorded but the set list has been preserved. Gigging as a bar band, the group changed its name after finding out that another band of the same name had signed a recording contract. The first show under the new name Grateful Dead was in San Jose, California on December 4,1965, at one of Ken Keseys Acid Tests. Earlier demo tapes have survived, but the first of over 2,000 concerts known to have recorded by the bands fans was a show at the Fillmore Auditorium in San Francisco on January 8,1966. Later that month, the Grateful Dead played at the Trips Festival, the name Grateful Dead was chosen from a dictionary. According to Phil Lesh, in his autobiography, picked up an old Britannica World Language Dictionary. In that silvery elf-voice he said to me, Hey, man, the definition there was the soul of a dead person, or his angel, showing gratitude to someone who, as an act of charity, arranged their burial
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The Grateful Dead in 1980. Left to right: Jerry Garcia, Bill Kreutzmann, Bob Weir, Mickey Hart, Phil Lesh. Not pictured: Brent Mydland.
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The Grateful Dead in 1970, from a promotional photo shoot. Left to right: Bill Kreutzmann, Ron "Pigpen" McKernan, Jerry Garcia, Bob Weir, Mickey Hart, Phil Lesh.
Grateful Dead
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The
Mantra-Rock Dance promotional poster featuring the Grateful Dead
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Grateful Dead performing at
Red Rocks Amphitheatre in 1987: Jerry Garcia (guitar), Mickey Hart (drums).
11.
Steal Your Face
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Steal Your Face is a live double album by the Grateful Dead, released in June 1976. The album was recorded October 17–20,1974, at San Franciscos Winterland Ballroom and it was the fourth and final album released by the band on their original Grateful Dead Records label. The Grateful Dead Movie Soundtrack, an album from the same run of shows, was released in 2005. It had required four semi-trailer trucks to transport and, due to the rigging time, adding the employees required to operate the bands Grateful Dead Records label, publishing entity, direct-to-fan mailers, and other business operations, personnel had swollen to several hundred. Too many gigs, too much money spent, and too many people trying to get backstage all added up to a potentially explosive broth, something had to give – so before it did, we made a decision to take some time off. Drummer Bill Kreutzmann stated I didn’t think the Wall of Sound sounded great, at some point, though, that’s not enough. By the end of 1974, Jerry was done being that kind of hero and he was ready for a change of scene. He needed a break from it, I honored his decision and the rest of us did, too. Though the hiatus was initially short-lived, a farewell run was scheduled for October 16–20,1974 in San Francisco. In addition to recording the concerts on two 16-track machines, the shows were filmed for a movie release, the completion of The Grateful Dead Movie would take nearly three years. In the meantime, band manager Ron Rakow had agreed to the delivery of an album to United Artists Records in return for additional organizational. With lead guitarist Jerry Garcia focused on the films sound synchronization and editing, Lesh, rather than a true soundtrack for the yet-uncompleted film, the pair separately reviewed the audio from copies of Garcias work tapes and selected concert performances for a double-live album. Because the sound system was stacked behind the band, restricted-frequency, differential microphones were used in pairs, to prevent bleed, One was wired out-of-phase in a phase-cancellation scheme that required the singers to position very close to the microphones. This, along with the lack of a true sound/mixing board created sonic anomalies when it time to mix the tapes. Additionally, the drum tracks suffered from distortion and some vocals had been lost – particularly those by backing vocalist Donna Godchaux – which had to be overdubbed in the studio, at the time of production, quadraphonic technology appeared ascendant. In anticipation, the album was mixed for the QS standard – one of several competing vinyl matrix formats, rather than a dedicated stereo mix, during mastering the quadraphonic mix was folded down to two channels. Lesh explained that he and Bear decided to mix the whole thing in quad. the result was a mud bath of sound. Bear and I went to Rakow, telling him that the recordings were unusable and he brushed our objections aside, saying, They’ll buy it anyway, we need this record
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Steal Your Face
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Jerry Garcia
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Jerome John Jerry Garcia was an American singer-songwriter and guitarist, best known for his work with the band the Grateful Dead, which came to prominence during the counterculture era in the 1960s. Though he disavowed the role, Garcia was viewed by many as the leader or spokesman of the group, one of its founders, Garcia performed with the Grateful Dead for their entire thirty-year career. He also released solo albums, and contributed to a number of albums by other artists over the years as a session musician. He was well known for his guitar playing and was ranked 13th in Rolling Stones 100 Greatest Guitarists of All Time cover story. Later in life, Garcia was sometimes ill because of his diabetes, Jerry Garcias ancestors on his fathers side were from Galicia in northwest Spain. His mothers ancestors were Irish and Swedish and he was born in the Excelsior District of San Francisco, California, on August 1,1942, to Jose Ramon Joe Garcia and Ruth Marie Bobbie Garcia, who was herself born in San Francisco. His parents named him after composer Jerome Kern, Jerome John was their second child, preceded by Clifford Ramon Tiff, who was born in 1937. Garcia was influenced by music at an age, taking piano lessons for much of his childhood. His father was a professional musician and his mother enjoyed playing the piano. His fathers extended family—who had emigrated from Spain in 1919—would often sing during reunions, Garcia experienced several tragedies during his youth. At age four, while the family was vacationing in the Santa Cruz Mountains, Garcia and his brother Tiff were chopping wood. Jerry steadied a piece of wood with his finger, but Tiff miscalculated, after his mother wrapped his hand in a towel, Garcias father drove him over 30 miles to the nearest hospital. A few weeks later, Garcia — who had not looked at his finger since the accident — was surprised to discover most of it missing when the bandage he was wearing came off during a bath. Garcia later confided that he used it to his advantage in his youth. Less than a year after he lost most of his finger, vacationing with his family near Arcata in Northern California in 1947, Garcias father went fly fishing in the Trinity River, part of the Six Rivers National Forest. Not long after entering the river, Garcias father slipped on a rock and he drowned before other fishermen could reach him. Blair Jackson, who wrote Garcia, An American Life, lends weight to McNallys claim, jacksons evidence, a local newspaper article describing Joses death failed to mention Garcia was present when his father died. Following the accident, Garcias mother took over her husbands bar, as a result, Ruth Garcia began working full-time, sending Jerry and his brother to live nearby with her parents, Tillie and William Clifford
Jerry Garcia
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Jerry Garcia performing in
New Haven, Connecticut, at the Jerry Garcia WPLR Show
Jerry Garcia
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The corner of
Haight and Ashbury, center of the San Francisco neighborhood where the Grateful Dead shared a house at 710 Ashbury from fall 1966 to spring 1968.
Jerry Garcia
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Jerry Garcia in 1969
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Garcia with guitar, front, with Mickey Hart playing the drums in the rear, at Red Rocks Amphitheatre, August 11, 1987
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View from the Vault, Volume Three
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View from the Vault, Volume Three is the third release in the View from the Vault series by the Grateful Dead. It was released simultaneously as a three album on CD and as a concert performance video on DVD. It contains the June 16,1990 show at the Shoreline Amphitheatre in Mountain View, the album also includes six songs from a show at the same venue on October 3,1987. One of these is My Brother Esau, the first appearance of this song on an album in CD format. The studio version had been the B-side of the Touch of Grey single in 1987, appeared on the version of the In the Dark album. Another track from October 3,1987 had been released earlier in the year on Postcards of the Hanging. A
View from the Vault, Volume Three
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View From The Vault, Volume Three
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Bee Gees
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The Bee Gees were a pop music group formed in 1958. Their line-up consisted of brothers Barry, Robin and Maurice Gibb, the Bee Gees wrote all of their own hits, as well as writing and producing several major hits for other artists. Born on the Isle of Man to English parents, the Gibb brothers lived in Chorlton, Manchester, England, the family then moved to Redcliffe, in Queensland, Australia, and then to Cribb Island. The Bee Gees have sold more than 220 million records worldwide, the Bee Gees Hall of Fame citation says Only Elvis Presley, the Beatles, Michael Jackson, Garth Brooks and Paul McCartney have outsold the Bee Gees. Following Maurices sudden death in January 2003 at the age of 53, Barry, in 2009 Robin announced that he and Barry had agreed that the Bee Gees would re-form and perform again. Robin died in May 2012 at the age of 62, after a struggle with cancer and other health problems. In December 1957 the boys began to sing in harmony, the story is told that they were going to lip sync to a record in the local Gaumont cinema and as they were running to the theatre, the fragile shellac 78-RPM record broke. The brothers had to sing live and received such a response from the audience that they decided to pursue a singing career. In May 1958 the Rattlesnakes were disbanded when Frost and Horrocks left, with the Gibb brothers then forming Wee Johnny Hayes, in August 1958 the Gibb family, including older sister Lesley and infant brother Andy, emigrated to Redcliffe, just north-east of Brisbane in Queensland, Australia. The young brothers began performing to raise pocket money and they were introduced to leading Brisbane radio DJ Bill Gates by speedway promoter and driver Bill Goode, who had hired the brothers to entertain the crowd at the Redcliffe Speedway in 1960. Gates renamed them the BGs after his, Goodes, and Barry Gibbs initials—thus the name was not specifically a reference to Brothers Gibb, the family relocated to Cribb Island which was later demolished for Brisbane Airport. While there, the brothers went to Northgate State School, by 1960 the Bee Gees were featured on television shows, including their performance of Time Is Passing By. In the next few years they began working regularly at resorts on the Queensland coast, for his songwriting, Barry sparked the interest of Australian star Col Joye, who helped them get a record deal in 1963 with Festival Records subsidiary Leedon Records under the name Bee Gees. The three released two or three singles a year, while Barry supplied additional songs to other Australian artists, in 1962, the Bee Gees were chosen as the supporting act for Chubby Checkers concert at Sydney Stadium. From 1963 to 1966 the Gibb family lived at 171 Bunnerong Road, the house was demolished in 2016. A minor hit in 1965, Wine and Women, led to the groups first LP, The Bee Gees Sing, by 1966 Festival was, however, on the verge of dropping them from the Leedon roster because of their perceived lack of commercial success. It was at time that they met American-born songwriter, producer and entrepreneur, Nat Kipner. Kipner briefly took over as the manager and successfully negotiated their transfer to Spin in exchange for Festival being granted the Australian distribution rights to the groups recordings
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Bee Gees in 1978 (top to bottom) Barry, Robin, and Maurice Gibb
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Plaque at Maitland Terrace/Strang Road intersection in Union Mills,
Isle of Man
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The Bee Gees performing at
The Tom Jones Show in early 1969, one of the last performance with Robin as he left the group later in March
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The Bee Gees performing at The Midnight Special in 1973
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Anderson Bruford Wakeman Howe
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Anderson Bruford Wakeman Howe were a progressive rock band active from 1988 to 1990 that comprised four past members of the English progressive rock band Yes. Singer Jon Anderson left Yes as he felt constrained by their commercial. He began an album one of the bands line-ups from the 1970s with guitarist Steve Howe, keyboardist Rick Wakeman, and drummer Bill Bruford. The group released their studio album, Anderson Bruford Wakeman Howe, in June 1989 which reached number 14 in the UK. Their 1989–90 world tour was well-received and spawned two live albums, An Evening of Yes Music Plus and Live at the NEC – Oct 24th 1989. In 1990, tracks for a studio album were included with songs recorded by Yes to make the thirteenth Yes album. In 1983, singer Jon Anderson returned to Yes to record vocals on their 1983 studio album 90125. The line-up during this time included bassist Chris Squire, drummer Alan White, keyboardist Tony Kaye, the release of 90125 saw Yes reach their greatest commercial success which was followed by their 1987 album Big Generator. In September 1988, Anderson left Yes citing his dissatisfaction with the bands commercial direction. On his return trip from Hydra, Anderson met Howe in London who presented him with his musical ideas including the chorus of Brother of Mine, five weeks were spent producing demo tracks at La Frette Studios in Paris. Anderson asked musician Milton McDonald to help with the project and play additional guitars, Bruford recalled meeting Anderson, Howe, Wakeman, and former Yes manager Brian Lane, at the airport in London. He said, Oh, were in trouble here and this obviously meant it was some sort of Yes project. I thought I was just going to put some drums on a Jon Anderson solo record, recording moved to AIR Studios on the island of Montserrat for six weeks. Bruford saw the location as a deal clincher. It was there when Bruford suggested to have his King Crimson bandmate Tony Levin play bass on the album, Bruford noticed Anderson being on strong form. He conducted proceedings without fear of let or hindrance from the times recording with Yes. When recording was complete, Anderson supervised the mixing sessions at Bearsville Studios with mixing engineers Steve Thompson. Anderson Bruford Wakeman Howe was released on 20 June 1989 through Arista Records, the album peaked at number 14 in the UK and number 30 in the US
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Left to right:
Rick Wakeman,
Jon Anderson,
Bill Bruford,
Steve Howe.
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The remains of AIR Studios in Montserrat in 2013.
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Dave Matthews Band
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Dave Matthews Band, also known by the initialism DMB, is an American rock band that was formed in Charlottesville, Virginia in 1991. The founding members were singer-songwriter and guitarist Dave Matthews, bassist Stefan Lessard, drummer and backing vocalist Carter Beauford, Boyd Tinsley joined the band as a violinist soon after the band was formed. Moore died suddenly in August 2008 due to complications from injuries sustained in an ATV accident, Grammy Award winner Jeff Coffin has since filled Moores spot as the bands saxophonist, trumpeter Rashawn Ross and guitarist Tim Reynolds have also become full-time members of the band. As of 2010, the Dave Matthews Band has sold over 30 million records worldwide, the band is known for playing the songs differently each time. This portion of the tour has become a stamp of DMB and has grown with the band since Fenton Williams began working with them in the early 1990s. Songwriter David John Matthews, working in Charlottesville, Virginia, as a bartender at Millers bar in November 1990, Hoffman convinced the usually reserved Matthews to record a demo of the few songs he had written. Hoffman hoped Matthews could shop the songs in order to other musicians to perform on some studio work with him. Hoffman encouraged Matthews to approach Carter Beauford, a drummer on the Charlottesville music scene. Beauford had been in bands and was then playing on a jazz show on BET. After hearing Matthews demo, Carter agreed to some time playing the drums. Matthews also approached LeRoi Moore, another jazz musician who often performed with the John Dearth Quintet. Moore skeptically listened to the demo, but liked what he heard, the trio began working on Matthews songs in 1991. At this jazz place I used to bartend at Millers, I would just sit back, I would be serving the musicians fat whiskeys and theyd be getting more and more hosed, but no matter how much, he used to still blow my mind. And it was the sense that everyone played from their heart, and when we got together and they asked, What do you want the music to sound like. I said, I know this is a song I wrote and I like what you guys play, there was a lot of breaking of our inhibitions. Matthews later said in an interview with Michael Krugman, In a way and they were both working on other things, but they had some afternoon time. The beginning stages of new band proved to be, in the words of Morgan Delancey. Beauford would later recall that, It started out as a thing with Dave
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Dave Matthews Band on 2006 "Last Stop" at the
Toyota Pavilion
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Miller's Bar on the
Downtown Mall in
Charlottesville
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Dave Matthews, Boyd Tinsley, and Butch Taylor in Melbourne during their first tour of
Australia
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The Dave Matthews Band at Vodafone Arena,
Melbourne,
Australia at the start of their second tour of Australia
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Crash (Dave Matthews Band album)
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Crash is the second studio album by American rock group Dave Matthews Band, released on April 30,1996. By March 16,2000, the album had seven million copies. This is currently Dave Matthews Bands best-selling album, recording of the album began in October 1995, and ended in January 1996. There were only four songs from the Crash sessions that didnt make it to the final cut. However, none of the titles are known, robert Christgau of The Village Voice assigned it a dud rating. All tracks written by David J. Matthews, except where noted
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Anger Management Tour
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The inaugural Anger Management Tour was founded and started in the fall 2000 by Limp Bizkit, Papa Roach, and after the release of The Marshall Mathers LP by Eminem. Originally targeted at both rap and rock fans, the first Anger Management outing took place in 2000. In the process of starting the tour, Eminem wanted to include Nine Inch Nails into the list of artists. Eminem decided to not ask Reznor to join the tour due to the friendship he has with Manson and its the blend of hardcore rap, industrial metal, and alternative metal that gives it the anger management feel, literally. In the first tour, most of the concerts were extremely long, many of the concerts were praised for the production value and how each artist played like it was their own tour. Many critics agreed that one of the things about the concerts were that they felt like they were made up of mini concerts. The second tour took place in the summer of 2002, Eminem told LAUNCH, Its basically the same thing that it was the last Anger Management Tour without Limp Bizkit. Papa Roach are still cool though, the third tour took place in the summer of 2005. 50 Cent missed the tours first two stops because of a conflict, he was tied up shooting his film debut. Ludacris filled in on those dates, the European part of the tour was cut short due to the exhaustion of tour founder Eminem and his addiction to sleeping pills. Eminem D12 Dr. Dre Snoop Dogg Obie Trice Xzibit Busta Rhymes 50 Cent Ice Cube Papa Roach Stat Quo G-Unit Mobb Deep Three Days Grace Dina Rae M. O. P. In 2002 a DVD of the 2001 Anger Management Tour Europe was released and contains backstage footage with D12, Xzibit, Marilyn Manson, all Access Europe was released on June 18,2002. Eminem Presents the Anger Management Tour was released on July 4,2005, in 2009, a BD of the same performance was released. This was the last performance to feature Proof before his death in 2006, Eminem Live From New York was released on November 13,2007
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Eminem performing on the Anger Management Tour
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DVD release of a 2002 performance.
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D12 performing on the Anger Management Tour
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Area Festival
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Moby organized the first such festival, called Area, One in 2001, and the sequel tour Area2, in 2002. The festival is currently on indefinite hiatus, the festival featured diverse genres of music. Besides headliner Moby, the main stage mostly featured rock and pop acts, the second stage was an air-conditioned tent where electronic, dance and smaller bands performed. The 2001 Area, One acts included Moby, OutKast, New Order, Carl Cox, Nelly Furtado, Incubus, Paul Oakenfold, The Roots, The Orb and Rinôçérôse. The 2002 Area2 acts included Moby and David Bowie in alternating headlining slots, as well as Ash, Blue Man Group, the festival also featured a DJ tent with a rotating list of artists. The main sponsors for the tour were Intel, KMX, Moby, founder of the Area Festival. List of electronic music festivals Area2 Announcement from Moby Area festival find more
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Furthur Festival
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Furthur was a rock band founded in 2009 by former Grateful Dead members Bob Weir and Phil Lesh. In addition to the members, the bands lineup included backup vocalists Sunshine Becker of the a cappella ensemble SoVoSó and Jeff Pehrson of the folk rock bands Box Set. Four months after Jerry Garcias death in August 1995, the Grateful Dead officially disbanded, however, band members continued to perform over the subsequent years in other bands such as RatDog, Phil Lesh & Friends, the Rhythm Devils, the Other Ones, and the Dead. During this reunion, Weir and Lesh, who admitted having great fun playing together again, in August 2009, the musicians announced that they had formed a new band, Furthur, with Kadlecik, Chimenti, Lane, and Russo. Furthur was the inscription on the placard of the bus and was also the name given to the multicolored bus. The Grateful Dead performed as the band for many of the Acid Tests. Furthur retained much of the style and texture of the Dead. In addition to performing many of the regularly played in concert by the Dead. They also regularly performed some new, original material, the band debuted with performances on September 18,19, and 20,2009, at the Fox Theatre in Oakland, California. The band Vice, featuring Phils son, Grahame, opened for Furthur on Saturday, during the New Years Eve performances, the band introduced backing vocalists Sunshine Becker and Zoe Ellis, who remained in the lineup for the remainder of the winter tour. Additional live rehearsal sessions continued for the first half of January 2010 in Mill Valley, the band then toured the U. S. from February 2 through March 8,2010, and performed in San Francisco on March 12,2010 to celebrate Phil Leshs upcoming 70th birthday. On March 18,2010, Phil Lesh posted on popular fansite PhilZone. com an announcement that drummer Jay Lane had left Furthur to rejoin his prior group, Zoe Ellis also left the group at this time to focus on her a cappella ensemble, SoVoSó. Backup vocalist Jeff Pehrson subsequently joined Furthur, debuting May 24,2010, a short Midwest/East Coast tour followed, beginning on November 8,2010 in Minneapolis and ending on November 21,2010 at Madison Square Garden in New York. Two New Years shows concluded the year, with Furthur having performed a total of 77 shows and 18 live rehearsal sessions since their September 2009 inception. A2011 West Coast tour began on September 23 at Cuthbert Amphitheatre in Eugene, Oregon, a 2011 East Coast/Midwest fall tour began November 3 at Verizon Wireless Arena in Manchester, New Hampshire, and ended November 21 at Old National Center in Indianapolis. A three-show New Years Eve run took place on December 29,30, preceding the spring tour Furthur played two shows at the Wanee Festival in Live Oak, Florida, on April 20–21. The band played a single extended set show both nights with no set break. For the April 21 show Jeff Chimenti did not play the Hammond B3 organ because of the rain, a warm up before the summer tour took place at Phil Leshs Terrapin Crossroads June 27–30
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Furthur performing at Red Rocks Amphitheatre on September 25, 2010
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Furthur performing their debut show at the Fox Theatre in Oakland, CA on September 18, 2009
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Lilith Fair
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Lilith Fair was a concert tour and travelling music festival, founded by Canadian musician Sarah McLachlan, Nettwerk Music Groups Dan Fraser and Terry McBride, and New York talent agent Marty Diamond. It took place during the summers of 1997 to 1999, and was revived in the summer of 2010 and it consisted solely of female solo artists and female-led bands. In its initial three years, Lilith Fair raised over $10M for charity, in 1996, Canadian Sarah McLachlan became frustrated with concert promoters and radio stations that refused to feature two female musicians in a row. Bucking conventional industry wisdom, she booked a tour for herself. The next year, McLachlan founded the Lilith Fair tour, taking Lilith from the medieval Jewish legend that Lilith was Adams first wife, in 1997, Lilith Fair garnered a $16 million gross, making it the top-grossing of any touring festival. Among all concert tours for that year, it was the 16th highest grossing, in 2010, Lilith Fair staged a revival with mixed results, as several dates were canceled and many performers backed out of scheduled performances. In March 2011, co-founder Sarah McLachlan declared that the Lilith concept was no longer being considered for future shows, due to changing audience views, the artists appearing at Lilith Fair varied by date. Appearances were organized into three stages, almost all Village Stage artists performed only one or two dates. Many of them won slots on the bill in a series of talent searches in their home cities. Dates The artists appearing at Lilith Fair varied by date, appearances were organized into three stages. Almost all Village Stage artists performed only one or two dates, many of them won slots on the bill in a series of local talent searches in their home cities. Dates The artists appearing at Lilith Fair varied by date, appearances were organized into three stages. The tour was plagued with problems from the beginning. The first seven shows were attended and the eighth show was the first to be cancelled. Initially Sarah McLachlan claimed that the July 8 Phoenix show was canceled in protest of Arizona Senate Bill 1070, due to poor ticket sales,13 shows were scratched and one reassigned to a smaller venue. The artists appearing at Lilith Fair vary by date, appearances are organized into three stages. Below is a list of artists who have performed at Lilith Fair in the 2010 revival, moondance International Film Festival External Connections Paula Cole Interview Sarah McLachlan Official Lilith Fair Website
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The main stage, September 22, 1998,
Great Woods,
Mansfield, Massachusetts.
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Lollapalooza
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Lollapalooza /ˌlɒləpəˈluːzə/ is an annual music festival featuring popular alternative rock, heavy metal, punk rock, hip hop, and EDM bands and artists, dance and comedy performances and craft booths. It has also provided a platform for non-profit and political groups, conceived and created in 1991 by Janes Addiction singer Perry Farrell as a farewell tour for his band, Lollapalooza ran annually until 1997, and was revived in 2003. From its inception through 1997 and its revival in 2003, the festival toured North America, in 2004, the festival organizers decided to expand the dates to two days per city, but poor ticket sales forced the 2004 tour to be cancelled. In 2011, the company Geo Events confirmed the Brazilian version of the event, the music festival hosts more than 160,000 people over a two or three day period. Lollapalooza is broadcast live and globally on Red Bull TV and its earliest known use was in 1896. In time the term came to refer to a large lollipop. Farrell, searching for a name for his festival, liked the euphonious quality of the term upon hearing it in a Three Stooges short film. Paying homage to the double meaning, a character in the festivals original logo holds one of the lollipops. The word has caused a slang suffix to appear in event-planning circles as well as in news and opinion shows that is used synonymously with other suffixes like a-go-go, o-rama. The suffix palooza is often used to imply that an event or crowd was made over that term, e. g. Parks-apalooza, Nipple-apalooza. Another key concept behind Lollapalooza was the inclusion of non-musical features, performers like the Jim Rose Circus Side Show, an alternative freak show, and the Shaolin monks stretched the boundaries of traditional rock culture. There was a tent for display of art pieces, virtual reality games and it was at Lollapalooza where Farrell coined the term Alternative Nation. Punk rock standbys like mosh pits and crowd surfing became part of the canon of the concerts, after 1991, the festival included a second stage for up-and-coming bands or local acts. Attendee complaints of the festival included high ticket prices as well as the high cost for food, grunge band Nirvana was scheduled to headline at the festival in 1994, but the band officially dropped out of the festival on April 7,1994. Nirvana frontman Kurt Cobains body was discovered in Seattle the next day, Cobains widow, Courtney Love, made guest appearances at several shows, including the Philadelphia show at FDR Park, speaking to the crowds about the loss, then singing a minimum of two songs. In 1996, Farrell, who had been the soul of the festival, decided to focus his energy to produce his new project, ENIT. Moreover, festival cofounder Farrell felt that Metallicas macho image violated his peaceful vision for the festival, Farrell quit the tour in protest. Responding to the controversial Metallica tour, Lollapalooza made efforts to revive its relevance to audiences, the festival booked eclectic acts such as country superstar Waylon Jennings in 1996, and emphasized heavily electronica groups such as The Orb and The Prodigy in 1997
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Lollapalooza 2011.
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Nine Inch Nails frontman
Trent Reznor during the 1991 Lollapalooza festival.
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Lady Gaga performed first at the festival in 2007 with
Lady Starlight before she was famous. (left) She returned three years later in 2010 with the
Semi Precious Weapons as an internationally known singer. (right)
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Features and attractions
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Mayhem Festival
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The Mayhem Festival was a touring heavy metal festival that took place during the summer. The inaugural season took place in 2008, the festival has become an annual event across the United States. Most years also include a date in either Montreal or Toronto. The tour has been sponsored by the Rockstar Energy Company since the time of its inception and it was assembled by Vans Warped Tour founder Kevin Lyman, and by John Reese. On August 2,2015, Reese confirmed that the 2015 festival would be the last one, all of the touring groups that participate can be classified as hard rock, and most are considered metal. On a nearly annual basis, big-name guests are brought onto the tour as temporary replacements for the main acts who are forced to cancel a few dates. The first such occurrence was in 2009, when Mushroomhead performed instead of Bullet for My Valentine for three tour dates while they appeared at the European festival Wacken Open Air. In 2010, Avenged Sevenfold was added as a performer for two dates only, one of which was on the release date of their fifth album Nightmare. In 2011, Dethklok filled in for Megadeth on the festivals first day, the festival has featured three separate stages each year since the time of its inception, the Main Stage, the Jägermeister Stage, and the third stage that has gone through sponsorship changes. It was known as the Hot Topic Stage from 2008-2009, silver Star briefly replaced the Hot Topic sponsorship in 2010, while Revolver sponsored the stage for 2011. A large selection of Battle of the Bands winners are chosen to open the Jägermeister Stage upon the various dates each year, each year the festival has the Metal Mulisha as a side attraction for the fans to watch. Most bands that participate on the tour have a public meet-and-greet at scheduled times throughout the day, Rockstar Energy Drink, the festivals most prominent sponsor, allows fans to enjoy numerous free samples of its new products every year. Ozzfest Uproar Festival Sounds of the Underground Official website
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Ozzfest
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Ozzfest is an annual festival tour of the United States and sometimes Europe featuring performances by many heavy metal and hard rock musical groups. It was founded by Ozzy Osbourne and his wife Sharon Osbourne, Ozzy Osbourne and Black Sabbath have played the tour several times over the years. The festival was created in 1996 by Ozzy Osbournes wife and manager, Sharon Osbourne, the tour was well-received, which prompted the festival to become a yearly occurrence. The first Ozzfest was not a tour, but rather a two-day festival held in Phoenix, Arizona and Devore. In 1997, there were protests outside of the festival to cancel Marilyn Mansons performance. There were also protests of a nature in 2001, following the Columbine High School massacre. In 1998, Ozzfest ventured outside the United States for the first time into the United Kingdom, the festival would eventually return to the UK in 2001 and 2002. The concert on 18 July 1998 at Float Rite Park was merged with Warped Tour 1998, some 39,000 fans were at the 12-hour, six-stage, 48-band event. Two compilation albums of the Ozzfest tour were released, one covering select 2001 performances, Ozzy selected one member from each chosen band to tag along on the tour. Each contestant had to complete challenges to improve his/her bands chances of winning the contest. Occasionally, meetings would be held and certain contestants would be eliminated for various reasons, the person who prevailed as the winner and guaranteed his bands spot on the Ozzfest tour was Marc Serrano from metalcore act A Dozen Furies. At Iron Maidens last Ozzfest performance, on 20 August 2005 at the Hyundai Pavilion at Glen Helen in San Bernardino, California, several negative events took place. During three of Iron Maidens songs, the P. A. system was switched off, cutting power to Dickinsons microphone, during the concert, Bruce Dickinson can be heard accusing the festivals organizers of deliberately cutting off the bands power. On Iron Maidens departure, Sharon Osbourne came on stage to make a few statements, telling the audience that she absolutely loved Iron Maiden, rod Smallwood, manager for Iron Maiden, issued a statement shortly after the debacle condemning the attack on the band. On a later Howard Stern Show, In 2006, Bruce Dickinson commented, Did I have a go at Ozzy, but I do find The Osbournes TV series loathsome, and the whole cult of reality TV celebrities disgusting. In response to claims that he had apologised to Ozzy for Dickinsons behaviour, what I actually said was that, if there was anything to apologise for, then Id do it. But that was twisted around to seem like Id said sorry – that never happened, on 7 February 2007, it was announced that tickets to Ozzfest 2007 would be offered free of charge, dubbing the 2007 Ozzfest as free fest. Tickets were made available through websites, the Ozzfest web site and to those buying an advance copy of Ozzy Osbournes new release
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Ozzfest concert poster on an empty storefront door in downtown
Prague, Czech Republic (Summer 2002).
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Rock the Bells
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Rock the Bells is an annual hip-hop festival that originally took place in Southern California only, but has since toured throughout the world. The concert features a line-up of high-profile alternative hip-hop artists, often headlined by a mainstream artist. The first festival was held in 2004, featuring a re-united Wu-Tang Clan and that festival is covered in depth by a documentary film also called Rock the Bells. The concept was taken from the original, highly successful annual West-Coast hip-hop festival, Rock the Bells 2007 had 3 major venues scheduled, July 28 and July 29 in New York, August 11 in San Bernardino, and August 18 in San Francisco. These select shows were headlined by a reunited Rage Against the Machine, five cities also had a second stage called the Paid Dues Independent Hip Hop Stage. Rage Against the Machine was the festivals first non-hip hop act to be featured, in July 2007, the Rock the Bells festival came to New York City, and this event became particularly noteworthy. Upon selling out the massive Randalls Island venue very quickly, the stop in NYC was expanded to two days, and a number of new and exclusive guests were added to the bills. 2008 also marks the first year that Rock the Bells went global with four stops in Europe and one in Japan. Highlights of the include a first time date in Toronto. On the evening of May 24,2010 Guerilla Union held the Rock the Bells Launch Party at Key Club in Hollywood, the launch party featured surprise guest performances, and the official announcement of the 2010 season lineup. Unannounced guest appearances included The Madd Rapper, Large Professor, Busta Rhymes, Skyzoo, Swizz Beatz, on the evening of May 24,2011 Guerilla Union once again held the Rock the Bells Launch Party. Rapper Supernatural revealed the lineup for this edition of the festival. Keeping in the spirit of the 2010 artists, the more prolific acts on this festival will be performing a selection of classic albums in their entirety. These include Lauryn Hills The Miseducation of Lauryn Hill, Nas Illmatic, Erykah Badus Baduizm, Cypress Hills Black Sunday, Mos Def & Talib Kwelis Black Star, Raekwons Only Built 4 Cuban Linx. Mobb Deeps The Infamous, Gzas Liquid Swords, Souls of Mischiefs 93 til Infinity, Black Moons Enta da Stage, additionally, Currensy and Mac Miller will be appearing exclusively on the west coast dates while Evidence will appear only on the East Coast. More recently, rapper Common has been added to three shows, performing his album Be, *Denotes that the artist will be appearing only in select cities From early May to June, Guerilla Union unveiled the full lineup for the latest Rock the Bells festival series. It was also revealed that years festival will consist of three, two-day weekend events, with two shows on the west coast and one in the east. On May 14, Guerilla Union held a party in Los Angeles
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Wu-Tang Clan performing at the
Tweeter Center in Mansfield, Massachusetts on the opening night of the 2007 tour.
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Rakim performing at
Merriweather Post Pavilion in Maryland on July 27.
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Uproar Festival
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The Uproar Festival, also called the Rockstar Energy Drink Uproar Festival, was an annual hard rock and heavy metal tour inaugurated in 2010 by John Reese and sponsored by Rockstar Energy Drink. The tour was created by John Oakes, Darryl Eaton and Ryan Harlacher from the Creative Artists Agency. Reese is also responsible for creating Mayhem Festival and the Taste of Chaos tour, Uproar Festival is the replacement for Reeses Taste of Chaos tour, as he was running out of bands that fit within the profile of what Taste of Chaos was. Uproar Festival hosted a number of activities other than live bands, such as autograph signings, the Miss Uproar contest. John Reese has stated, that for the first time since 2010, the festivals website has had activity as of October 2016, it was nearly two years since the website has updated there site. There was rumors back in 2015 that Resse planned to do an Uproar Festival with Pantera as headliner, but that was not a possibility. O. D
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Sam Hughes of Buried as Thieves performing with Phoenix alternative rock band
The Sammus Theory at Uproar Festival in
Arizona in 2011
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Arlington alternative rock band Solice performing at Uproar Festival in
Dallas,
Texas
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Phoenix groove rock band Throw Logic performing at Uproar Festival in
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Vans Warped Tour
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The Warped Tour is a traveling rock festival that has toured the United States annually each summer since 1995. It is the largest traveling music festival in the United States, Warped Tour was conceived in 1995 as an eclectic alternative rock festival, but in 1996 began focusing on punk rock music. Although it has continued to be known primarily as a rock festival. The band times and sets are found on an inflatable lineup, every year there is a BBQ Band. In exchange for the privilege of playing on the tour, the BBQ Band prepares the post-show barbecue held for the bands, past BBQ Bands have included Dropkick Murphys, Art of Shock and The Fabulous Rudies. Similarly, one band, Animo, has permitted for the past four years to play on the tour in exchange for working on the setup crew. The BBQ Band for the 2016 tour is the band Reckless Serenade, the tour started as a skate punk and third-wave ska tour, but later began to feature mostly pop punk and metalcore acts. It is set up early in the morning during the set up crews arrival, when heading into Canada, there is a bus that loads the supplies that heads into Canada while the other bus contains the equipment that stays in the U. S. until the next show. In 2013, Kevin Lyman decided to allow free admission to the Warped Tour. Parents have their own day care. It is called Reverse Day Care, grown-ups can spend the day waiting for their children in the Reverse Day Care tent. There is ample seating and often fans or cooling devices to keep the parents occupied during the festival, the Warped Tour was created in 1995 by Kevin Lyman, in production with the short lived Warp Magazine and Creative Artists Agency. The tour began June 21 at the Idaho Center in Boise, Idaho, the tour has always been held at outdoor venues though on a rare occasions that has not always been the case. In 1996, due to problems with the venue where the event was to be held,1996 was the first year for Vans as a sponsor and they have been the main sponsor ever since carrying their name in the title. In 1998, the tour went international, including venues in Australia, Japan, Europe, Canada, in 1999, the tour started off in New Zealand, Australia and Hawaii in the New Year. It then started up again in the United States for the northern hemisphere summer before ending up in Europe, the Vans Warped Tour has turned eco-friendly by using biodiesel for the production buses. In 2009, the two stages were condensed into one and bands were given 40-minute sets, as opposed to the traditional 30 minutes across the previous two stages. Despite this, the decided to bring back the two main stages concept with 35-minute sets instead for the 2012 tour and beyond
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The performance schedule for the August 10, 2010 stop in
Chula Vista, California, giving stages and set times for each act. Set times are determined on the day of the show and are posted for attendees on a large inflatable board.
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The
Alternative Press /Advent stage (left) and
Glamour Kills stage (right) on the 2010 tour, an example of the tour's side-by-side stage setup. Acts play alternating 30-minute set times on the two stages.
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Artist, record label, and sponsor tents occupy the central area of the tour stops, selling merchandise and holding autograph signings.
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Steve Winwood
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Stephen Lawrence Steve Winwood is an English musician whose genres include rock, blue-eyed soul, rhythm and blues, blues rock, pop rock, and jazz. Though primarily a vocalist and keyboardist, Winwood also plays guitar, drums, acoustic and electric guitar, mandolin, violin. Winwood was a key member of The Spencer Davis Group, Traffic, Blind Faith and Go. He also had a solo career with hits including While You See a Chance, Valerie, Back in the High Life Again. He was inducted into the Rock and Roll Hall of Fame as a member of Traffic in 2004, in 2005, Winwood was honoured as a BMI Icon at the annual BMI London Awards for his enduring influence on generations of music makers. In 2008, Rolling Stone ranked Winwood #33 in its 100 Greatest Singers of All Time, Winwood has won two Grammy Awards. He was nominated twice for the Brit Award for Best British Male Artist,1988 and 1989, like Eric Clapton, he has been part of many bands, including Traffic, The Spencer Davis Group, and Blind Faith. Stephen Lawrence Winwood was born in Handsworth, Birmingham and his father, Lawrence, a foundryman by trade, was a semi-professional musician, playing mainly the saxophone and clarinet. Young Winwood became interested in swing and Dixieland jazz as a boy, began playing piano at age four and he first performed with his father and older brother, Muff, in the Ron Atkinson Band at the age of eight. Winwood was a choirboy at St Johns Church of England, Perry Barr and he later admitted to having sneaked a few plays of the organ there. While he was young the family moved from Handsworth to the semi-rural suburb of Great Barr at the northern edge of the city. Winwood attended the Great Barr School which was one of the first comprehensive schools and he also attended the Birmingham and Midland Institute of Music to develop his skills as a pianist, but did not complete his course. B. At this time, Winwood was living on Atlantic Road in Great Barr, Winwood modelled his singing after Ray Charles. Winwood joined the Spencer Davis Group at age 14, along with his brother, Muff. Steves distinctive high tenor singing voice and vocal style drew comparisons to Ray Charles, at the end of 1965 the group had their first number one single with Keep On Running and the money from this success allowed Winwood to buy his own Hammond B-3 organ. During this time Winwood joined forces with guitarist Eric Clapton as part of the one-off group Eric Clapton, songs were recorded for the Elektra label, but only three tracks made the compilation album, Whats Shakin. Winwood co-wrote and recorded the hits Gimme Some Lovin and Im a Man before leaving the Spencer Davis Group, Winwood met drummer Jim Capaldi, guitarist Dave Mason, and multi-instrumentalist Chris Wood when they jammed together at The Elbow Room, a club in Aston, Birmingham. After Winwood left the Spencer Davis Group in April 1967, the quartet formed Traffic, soon thereafter, they rented a cottage near the rural village of Aston Tirrold, Berkshire to write and rehearse new music
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Winwood playing at the
Cropredy Festival, August 2009
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Stevie Winwood (1970)
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Winwood with Traffic
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Winwood in
Knoxville, Tennessee (2005)
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Landfill
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A landfill site is a site for the disposal of waste materials by burial and the oldest form of waste treatment. Historically, landfills have been the most common method of organized waste disposal, some landfills are also used for waste management purposes, such as the temporary storage, consolidation and transfer, or processing of waste material. A landfill also may refer to ground that has filled in with rocks instead of waste materials, so that it can be used for a specific purpose. Unless they are stabilized, these areas may experience severe shaking or soil liquefaction of the ground during a large earthquake, afterward, the waste collection vehicles use the existing road network on their way to the tipping face or working front, where they unload their contents. After loads are deposited, compactors or bulldozers can spread and compact the waste on the working face, before leaving the landfill boundaries, the waste collection vehicles may pass through a wheel-cleaning facility. If necessary, they return to the weighbridge for re-weighing without their load, the weighing process can assemble statistics on the daily incoming waste tonnage, which databases can retain for record keeping. In addition to trucks, some landfills may have equipment to handle railroad containers, the use of rail-haul permits landfills to be located at more remote sites, without the problems associated with many truck trips. Typically, in the face, the compacted waste is covered with soil or alternative materials daily. Alternative waste-cover materials include chipped wood or other waste, several sprayed-on foam products, chemically fixed bio-solids. Blankets can be lifted into place at night and then removed the day prior to waste placement. The space that is occupied daily by the waste and the cover material is called a daily cell. Waste compaction is critical to extending the life of the landfill, factors such as waste compressibility, waste-layer thickness and the number of passes of the compactor over the waste affect the waste densities. Landfills are often the most cost-efficient way to dispose of waste, in addition, landfill gas can be upgraded to natural gas—landfill gas utilization—which is a potential revenue stream. Another advantage is having a location for disposal that can be monitored. Landfills have the potential to cause a number of issues, infrastructure disruption, such as damage to access roads by heavy vehicles, may occur. Pollution of local roads and water courses from wheels on vehicles when they leave the landfill can be significant, pollution of the local environment, such as contamination of groundwater or aquifers or soil contamination may occur, as well. Extensive efforts are made to capture and treat leachate from landfills before it reaches groundwater aquifers, eventually, every landfill liner will leak, allowing the leachate to contaminate the groundwater. Installation of composite liners with flexible membrane and soil barrier is enforced by the EPA to ensure that leachate is withheld, rotting food and other decaying organic waste allows methane and carbon dioxide to seep out of the ground and up into the air
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A landfill in Poland
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A section of a landfill located in Barclay, Ontario. This landfill is one of several used by
Dryden, Ontario.
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Landfill operation in Hawaii. Note that the area being filled is a single, well-defined "cell" and that a protective
landfill liner is in place (exposed on the left) to prevent contamination by
leachates migrating downward through the underlying geological formation.
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A landfill in Perth, Western Australia
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List of concert halls
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A concert hall is a cultural building with a stage which serves as a performance venue and an auditorium filled with seats. In the 2010s, popular music such as music and traditional music such as folk music are also performed in these venues. Many concert halls exist as one of several halls or performance spaces within a performing arts center. In many towns, the hall is combined with a convention center. Concert halls typically also contain orchestral rehearsal rooms, many larger cities have both public and private concert halls. This list does not include other venues such as sports stadia, the list is organised alphabetically by geo-political region or continent and then by country within each region. See also Broadway Theatre for a listing of the theatres that support Broadway shows
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The interior of the
Teatro Dal Verme in
Milan,
Italy, c. 1875
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A modern orchestra concert hall: Philharmony in
Szczecin,
Poland
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Ríos Reyna Hall, in the
Teresa Carreño Cultural Complex of
Caracas,
Venezuela
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Carnegie Hall,
New York
31.
Live Nation Entertainment
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Live Nation Entertainment is an American global entertainment company, formed from the merger of Live Nation and Ticketmaster. It owns, leases, operates, has booking rights for and/or equity interests in a number of U. S. entertainment venues. The leadership consists of Greg Maffei as chairman and Canadian Michael Rapino as president, the merger initially received regulatory approval in Norway and Turkey in 2009. In October 2009, the United Kingdoms Competition Commission provisionally ruled against the merger, on December 22,2009, the Competition Commission reversed its decision and cleared the proposed merger. The United States Justice Department approved the merger on January 25,2010, AEG was given the option after five years to buy the software, replacing it with something else, or partnering with another ticketing company. Live Nation Entertainment bought AC Entertainment, a Knoxville Tennessee music company in October 2016
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Live Nation Entertainment
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Live Nation (events promoter)
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Live Nation is an American live-events company based in Beverly Hills, California, focused on worldwide concert and entertainment-show promotions. Live Nation formed in 2005 as a spin-off from Clear Channel Communications, Live Nation signs artists as a record label, but predominantly takes the role of a promoter, rather than music owner. The deal with U2 and Madonna, for example, does not include funding of the artists future recordings, the 2007 deal signed with Jay-Z does, but he still retains full-ownership of his recordings and Live Nation funded Roc Nation. Live Nation signed Colombian singer Shakira, Canadian band Nickelback and Mexican singer Luis Miguel, a prior incarnation of Live Nation, known as SFX Entertainment, was formed in the 1990s by media executive Robert F. X. Sillerman. Its business model involved the acquisition of concert promoters, consolidating them into a single national company. Sillerman sold SFX to Clear Channel Communications in 2000 for $4.4 billion, annually, Live Nation promotes or produces over 22,000 events, including music concerts, with total attendance exceeding 50 million—more than the NBA, NFL, and NHL combined. As of September 30,2005, Live Nation owned or operated 117 venues and these venues include 39 amphitheatres,58 theatres,14 clubs,4 arenas and 2 festival sites. In addition, through equity, booking or similar arrangements Live Nation has the right to book events at 33 additional venues. H and she will be the founding recording artist for the new music division Live Nation Artists, formerly Artist Nation. In July 2008, Shakira signed an estimated $70–100 million contract with Live Nation, in January,2008, Live Nation sold its North American theatrical business to Key Brand Entertainment for $90.4 million. Key Brand Entertainment is an investment company owned by British theater producer John Gore. In April 2008, a deal between Jay-Z and Live Nation for $152 million was confirmed, the deal covers financing of Jay-Zs own entertainment venture, live shows, tours and future recordings for the next 10 years. Blueprint 3 was distributed by Atlantic Records, while his label, Live Nation did not take any ownership stake in Insomniac. In 2006 Live Nation acquired House of Blues, Live Nation is currently constructing a physical recording label, Live Nation Artists, which will be a division of Live Nation International Music. The company is expected to become a rival against Sony Music, Universal Music Group and Warner Music Group with artists such as Madonna, U2, Shakira, Jay-Z. As of July 30,2008, CEO Michael Rapino is considering doing licensing deals on an artist-by-artist basis, a source inside Live Nation said. Under that scenario, Warner Music Group could end up handling the marketing, promotion and distribution of albums by the acts that defected from it to join Live Nation, Nickelback. Rapino wants to outsource everything, said a source close to the situation. He doesnt want to build an infrastructure or carry any overhead, on 31 March 2008, it was confirmed that Live Nation signed a 12-year deal with U2 worth an estimated $100 million
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Live Nation
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Ticketmaster
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Ticketmaster Entertainment, Inc. is an American ticket sales and distribution company based in West Hollywood, California, with operations in many countries around the world. In 2010 it merged with Live Nation to become Live Nation Entertainment, as a primary ticket outlet, most US ticket sales for US venues are fulfilled at Ticketmasters two main fulfillment centers located in Charleston, West Virginia, and Pharr, Texas. Typically, Ticketmasters clients control their events, and Ticketmaster acts as an agent, in January 2009, Ticketmaster acquired a UK ticket exchange site, Getmein. com. Getmein is a ticket exchange site that allows sellers to list the tickets at whatever price they choose, on 10 February 2009, Ticketmaster and Live Nation, the largest concert promoter, officially announced their merger deal. After almost a year of review, the two merged on 25 January 2010, under the name Live Nation Entertainment. To satisfy one of the United States Department of Justices conditions of approval for the merger, Ticketmaster sold Paciolan to Comcast Spectacor in March 2010, much of the price for a ticket advertised by Ticketmaster is earmarked for its own service fees. Some consumers find these markups excessive, because there are instances where no alternative purchase method is offered that would allow avoidance of the fees. This business practice, along with a dearth of competitors, has led many to view Ticketmaster as monopolistic, alternative ticketing companies have emerged, but, due to Ticketmasters exclusive agreements with a large percentage of venues, the company does not need to lower service fees. In some instances customers may be able to buy directly from the venue. Typical fees added to a face value include, Service Charge – This is Ticketmasters charge for the general service they provide. The amount paid may depend upon the method of payment, building Facility Charge – This is determined by the venue, and not Ticketmaster. Processing Charge – This is Ticketmasters charge for processing an order, the charge for printing out the ticket at home is often higher than the fee to have the ticket mailed. In other sectors, such as airline ticketing, companies usually do not charge, in some instances service charges amount to up to 50% of a tickets face value. That dispute then spilled over into a lawsuit filed in 2010 against Ticketmaster’s liability insurance carrier Illinois Union Insurance Company. Ticketmaster has been the subject of complaints of high ticket service charges, notably, in the 1990s, Pearl Jams complaints about Ticketmaster led the U. S. Department of Justice to open an antitrust investigation into the companys practices. In 2008, an anonymous source alleged that TicketsNow, a subsidiary of Ticketmaster. Ticketmaster is the ticket seller for 27 of the 30 NHL teams and 28 of 30 NBA teams. MLB sells approximately 75,000,000 baseball tickets per year, Ticketmaster has historically had limited success in the secondary ticketing market
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Ticketmaster
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DF Concerts
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DF Concerts also owns and manages King Tuts Wah Wah Hut, in Glasgow. It is one of the three major promoters in Scotland, the others being Regular Music and CPL, DF Concerts organised the Papal Mass in Bellahouston Park for the Popes visit in 2010. The current CEO of DF Concerts is Geoff Ellis, who took over from founding CEO Stuart Clumpas in 2001, since 2008, DF Concerts have been majority-owned by LN-Gaiety Investments, a joint venture between Live Nation and Denis Desmond, an Irish music promoter
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Events
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Festival Republic
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Festival Republic is a UK music promoter. It was founded as Mean Fiddler Group in 1982 by Irish born chairman John Vincent Power, as a venue-management and its move into festivals started when they took control of the Reading Festival from Harold Pendleton at the end of the 1980s. The group was founded in 1982 by Irish born chairman John Vincent Power, after acquiring the LA2 in Charing Cross Road in 2000, it was renamed to become the Mean Fiddler Music Group. Melvin Benn is the current managing director, in April 2005, they accepted a takeover bid from Hamsard Ltd, a co-operative company 50. 1% owned by Live Nation UK and 49. 9% owned by Irish event organiser MCD. In 2006, the Mean Fiddler Music Group reduced its touring and it maintained control of the successful Reading and Leeds festivals and announced a new addition – Latitude Festival. In 2007, the Mean Fiddler Music Group was sold along with several venues to Mama Group Plc in order to allow Festival Republic to concentrate fully on promoting festivals, as part of the sale, the Mama Group has acquired the rights to the Mean Fiddler trademark. Festival Republics flagship events are the Reading and Leeds Festivals and these are a pair of annual events which take place simultaneously on the Friday, Saturday and Sunday of the August bank holiday weekend, sharing the same bill. In addition they run the Latitude Festival in Suffolk, the Wireless Festival and the Community Festival in London, EDC UK in Milton Keynes. In Ireland they organize the Longitude Festival and Electric Picnic, in Norway they run the Hove Festival. In Germany they have expanded from running the Berlin Festival to running the first European Lollapalooza
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Events
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Gods of Metal
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Gods of Metal is the biggest Italian metal festival, held annually since 1997. It takes place in summer, usually on the first or second weekend of June. It is most often held at venues in or near Milan and it was acquired by Live Nation in 2010. Held on June 1-June 4 at Idroscalo in Milan, held on June 11 and June 12 at Arena Parco Nord in Bologna. Held on June 5 and June 6 at Arena Parco Nord in Bologna, due to heavy rain, the UFO concert was cancelled and Stratovarius played the next day, between the Quireboys and W. A. S. P. Held on June 8 at Palavobis in Milan, held on June 8 and June 9 at Stadio Brianteo in Monza. Held on June 9 at Palavobis in Milan, held on June 10 and June 11 at Stadio Brianteo in Monza. Held on June 5 and June 6 at Forum Open Air Arena in Assago-Milan, held on June 6 at Forum Open Air Arena in Milan. Held on June 7 at Palavobis in Milan
Gods of Metal
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John Sykes with
Thin Lizzy the Monsters of Rock Festival Milan, Italy 2007
37.
Calling Festival
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Calling Festival is an annual music festival, formerly held in Hyde Park, London, from 2006 until 2012, and from 2013 in Queen Elizabeth Olympic Park, London. The festival was organised by Hard Rock Cafe and Live Nation, the inaugural festival had two stages, and was headlined by Roger Waters and his band on the Saturday and The Who on the Sunday. Gates opened at 14,00 and the show ended at 22,15 on both evenings, the Whos Sunday headline performance was released as part of their Encore Series 2006 of CDs & DVDs. Despite the veteran status of the acts, most other bands were younger and with a more contemporary audience. The festival mainstage proved to be unusually British, with the British Isles being represented by seven English bands, however of the ten second stage bands, three were from Canada and two from the USA. After Hyde Park Callings success, a Hyde Park Calling 2007 quickly entered planning stages and it was announced that the event would take place during the weekend of 23–24 June 2007. It was Aerosmiths first concert in the United Kingdom for 8 years, and featured Peter Gabriel, other draws to this years event were the addition of a new third stage. Only one band to have played at the previous Hyde Park Calling, Rose Hill Drive, with six bands per stage instead of five, and an extra stage, the expansion of the festival only a year after its inception was dramatic. One of the incarnations of the Buena Vista Social Club featured. Hyde Park Calling 2007s version of the band includes Manuel Guajiro Mirabal, Orlando Cachaito López, Manuel Galbán, unlike the previous years mostly British mainstage, of the nine bands playing, three were American, one from New Zealand and one from Australia. Sunday became an Aerosmith Family event, Aerosmith headlined the mainstage, with it opened by The Micki Free Electric Blues then Arckid - a band featuring Steve Tyler s son in law. Chris Cornell played the stage before Aerosmith made their appearance. TAB the Band, played fourth on the bill on second stage featuring Aerosmith guitarist Joe Perrys two sons, many people saw the event as unbalanced, with most commercially successful bands playing the Sunday. The second stage was sponsored by Pepsi, despite Aerosmith having the headline slot on Sunday, Chris Cornell played for the same length of time. His set combined Audioslave and Soundgarden songs with his own, in keeping with the family theme Aerosmith brought with them, on Saturday Peter Gabriels daughter sang and played percussion. On Sunday Cornell brought his two children onto the stage for the audience to see, Aerosmith had to finish at 10.30 pm due to the curfew, and the police were forcing them to leave. The encore was the usual Walk this Way song, but featured Darryl McDaniels and this was the first time a member of Run-D. M. C. Had performed with Aerosmith since their 2002 tour, five years previous, in late December 2007, the Hyde Park Calling 2008 website was launched
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The 2009 Hard Rock Calling festival.
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Creamfields Australia
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Creamfields Australia is a former annual dance music festival held in major cities throughout Australia. Events company/brand Totem Onelove, who also produce Stereosonic, brought the brand to Australia in 2010, the Creamfields brand comes from the people behind Liverpools famous Cream club. Headliners in 2010 included The Bloody Beetroots, Steve Angello, MSTRKRFT, Ferry Corsten, LMFAO, Dave Clarke, in 2010 it was held in Melbourne, Sydney, Brisbane, Perth and Adelaide. Headlining the festival in 2011 was Deadmau5, Martin Solveig, Skrillex, Chuckie, Simon Patterson, Gabriel & Dresden, Wynter Gordon, Kevin Saunderson and Derrick May. It was held in Adelaide on 22 April, Perth on 23 April, Melbourne on 25 April, Canberra on 26 April, Sydney on 30 April, Stereosonic List of electronic music festivals Official website
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David Guetta
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Download Festival
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Download Festival is a British rock festival, held annually at Donington Park in Leicestershire, England, since 2003. The 2015 festival featured massive technological surveillance by police in conjunction with festival organizers Live Nation UK, RFID wristbands and facial recognition technology was used to compare visual scans of attendees against a European criminal database. The Download Festival was conceived as a follow up to the Monsters of Rock festivals which had held at the Donington Park circuit between 1980 and 1996. The first Download Festival was created by Stuart Galbraith, Tom Pyke, rather than run as a single day event Download was initially a two-day event, expanding to three days in 2005. The name Download was chosen for the festival for two reasons, downloading was a dirty word in the music industry at the time, due to file sharing, and rock is seen as a rebellious genre of music. Also Download was to be a Monsters of Rock for the 21st century, the 2003 festival tickets had a code on them, which would allow festival goers to download tracks from bands which had played. Although this idea has been dropped in subsequent years, the organizers have nurtured an online community through the Download Festival Forums. The forums also provide face to face feedback through the Fan Forum meetings and organise the Boardie BBQ and the Boardie Takeover night, football tournaments, campers who arrive on a Wednesday night. When Download began, it took place on the Donington Park circuit infield as had Monsters of Rock, however in 2008 developments for Formula One meant that the infield was no longer suitable as a festival site. 2008 saw a move to the Sunday Markets site to the west of the circuit, although adequate, numbers were limited and the location of the campsite meant that getting from tents to the arena was quite a hike. 2009 saw the move to a much more suitable location to the south of the circuit. Security for the festival has constantly been undertaken by professional crowd management specialists Showsec, since 2009 there has been on-site radio broadcasting from Rock Radio on 87. 7FM. This RSL broadcast has aired music from bands, interviews and news to the festival site. The Download Dog is the mascot of the Download Festival. The first Download Festival was held on 31 May –1 June 2003, the headliners were originally Iron Maiden and Limp Bizkit, although Limp Bizkit pulled out and were replaced by Audioslave. Metallica attempted to step in as headliners, but were due to already being headliners at that years Reading. Instead, they played an unannounced secret slot in the afternoon on the stage, with no sound check. Chevelle were scheduled to play the Scuzz stage on Sunday but pulled out at the last minute, instruction, playing their second set of the festival, stepped in as the replacements
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Download Festival
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A view of the Main stage at Download Festival 2005
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Alice in Chains at Download Festival 2006
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Down playing on the main stage
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I Love Techno
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I Love Techno is an international techno music event that takes place in Flanders Expo, the city of Ghent, Belgium. National and international DJs perform every year at this event, the first edition of this event took place in 1995 at Vooruit in Ghent and attracted 700 people. The line-up included Dave Clarke, Jeff Mills and Daft Punk, because of the sudden growth of the party, the event had to move to Flanders Expo. At this venue there is one central room connected to five others in which the action takes place, Red, Yellow, Blue, Orange and Green. The 2008 edition took place on 15 November, with acts including Boys Noize, Justice, Digitalism, Hot Chip, Booka Shade, Underworld, Richie Hawtin, the 2009 edition took place in Ghent on 24 October. List of electronic music festivals Official site
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I Love Techno 2009 lasershow
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KISW
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KISW is a radio station in Seattle, Washington. Its format is Mainstream Rock, with the slogan, The Rock of Seattle, KISW has a long history in Seattle as a hard rocking album-oriented rock and mainstream rock station with the slogan Seattles Best Rock. Over the years the station has employed some of Seattles most successful on-air hosts and DJs, including Bob Rivers, Crow and West, Robin and Maynard, Steve Slaton, kISWs license is held by Entercom, who operates four stations in the Seattle metropolitan area. KISW morphed to a rock format by 2003, when sister alternative rock station KNDD dropped the majority of hard rock songs. KISW commenced broadcasting on January 18,1950, KISW played classical music under the tutelage of its founder and first owner, Ellwood W. Lippincott. From 1954 to 1956, the station was managed by Harvey Manning, in 1969, the station was purchased by Kaye-Smith, a partnership of famed entertainer Danny Kaye and Lester Smith. At that time Kaye-Smith were also the owners of the number one pop music station in Seattle, by 1971, KISW had switched to a progressive rock format pioneered by Tom Donahue at KMPX and KSAN in San Francisco. Through the early and mid-seventies, KISW evolved, as most of the FM progressive stations did, a key period in KISW’s history began in the late-1970s, when the station adopted the slogan Seattle’s Best Rock. Seeming to embrace a younger, more aesthetic than Seattle’s other stations, KISW added hard rock. KISW worked with radio consultants Burkhart/Abrams, Lee Abrams had developed a successful hybrid of AOR that applied the principles of Top 40. Station Manager Steve West and Program Director Beau Phillips developed what would be a line of top-notch, clever. The air staff in 1980 included the team, John Langan and Mike West. Gary Crow and Bob Hovanes worked together in the afternoon, both duos ran outrageous audio skits of Leave It To Beaver and Mr. Bruce’s Neighborhood, along with fake news and other off-color parodies. After a couple shuffles in the mid-1980s, Gary Crow and Mike West aired during afternoon drive, but after KISW was sold and management changed, both teams left the station together in 1987 to start rival rock station KXRX. The exit of Crow & West with Robin & Maynard threw KISW into a search for a top notch air-talent to compete for Seattle listeners. Eventually, Bob Rivers debuted on KISW on August 8,1989, Bob had gained notoriety in Boston and Baltimore for his parody songs and an 11-day, on-air marathon during a Baltimore Orioles losing streak. A disgruntled former employee, Vincent L. Hoffart, who was fired from KISW in the late 1970s, has challenged the Federal Communications Commission renewal application of KISW. In 1987, he wrote a book about his dealings with the FCC, KISW, in 1991, as an April Fools prank, the radio station changed their format to soft rock for a day
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KISW
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Lowlands (festival)
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A Campingflight to Lowlands Paradise, mostly just known as Lowlands, is an annual three-day music and performing arts festival, held in the Netherlands in August since 1993. Although the main focus is on music - rock, pop, dance, hip hop and alternative - Lowlands also offers indoor and outdoor cinema, theatre, cabaret and stand-up, ballet, literature and comic strips. Lowlands is attended by around 55,000 visitors, spread over 200 acts, the majority of stages are inside huge tents - insurance against the Netherlands climate - with the main stages tent, Alpha, being approximately the size of a regulation football pitch. The festival is held 68 kilometres east of Amsterdam in Biddinghuizen, Flevoland province, at Spijk en Bremerberg and this festival took place in the Margriethal of Jaarbeurs Utrecht. The entry fee was 10 Dutch guilders, including breakfast and this 18-hour-long event had no top acts but included experimental theatre, dancing, poetry, films, body painting and massage. The Utrecht municipality did not pay up the promised subsidy of 8,000 guilders after the event. On 28 December 1968, this festival was held a second time and this could not be arranged, and other large acts such as Jeff Beck and Jethro Tull were cancelled. However, Pink Floyd remained on the bill, in the end, the show was sold out to its capacity of 18,000 visitors, and for many people it was a cold and disappointing experience as they were unable to get inside. Inevitably, there was unrest and the police had to be involved, in 1993, organizer Willem Venema revived this festival under the name A Campingflight to Lowlands Paradise. Life of Agony released a CD of their set from the Lowlands Festival in 1997
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The entrance to the Lowlands festival ground in 2007.
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Main Square Festival
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The Main Square Festival is an annual international music festival organized by Live Nation which takes place in the first week-end of July in Arras, France. Depeche Mode, Goldfrapp, Muse, The Kooks & Second Sex, tryo, Ayọ, The Sunshiners, Indochine, Air & Peter von Poehl. Coldplay, The Ting Tings, Amy Macdonald, M
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Citadelle Vauban, scene of the Main Square Festival in Arras, France
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Summer MixTape Festival
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The Summer Mixtape Festival is a major summer music festival launched in summer 2012. The festival featured two stages over two days, the festival also featured fan events, interactive exhibits, food trucks, celebrity and special guest appearances, and a spa oasis. NKOTBSB also revealed that it was the last time they would perform together as they were going their separate ways after the festival, there was an additional event on August 19,2012 called Rock n Jock. Its a softball game featuring New Kids on the Block versus Backstreet Boys in Harrisburg, Pennsylvania
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Ad for 2012 festival
