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Pearl Jam
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Pearl Jam is an American rock band formed in Seattle, Washington, in 1990. Since its inception, the bands line-up has comprised Eddie Vedder, Mike McCready, Stone Gossard, the bands fifth member is drummer Matt Cameron, who has been with the band since 1998. Boom Gaspar has also been a member with the band since 2002. Drummers Dave Krusen, Matt Chamberlain, Dave Abbruzzese and Jack Irons are former members of the band, formed after the demise of Gossard and Aments previous band, Mother Love Bone, Pearl Jam broke into the mainstream with its debut album, Ten, in 1991. In 2006, Rolling Stone described the band as having spent much of the past decade deliberately tearing apart their own fame, to date, the band has sold nearly 32 million records in the United States and an estimated 60 million worldwide. Pearl Jam has outlasted and outsold many of its contemporaries from the alternative rock breakthrough of the early 1990s, stephen Thomas Erlewine of AllMusic referred to Pearl Jam as the most popular American rock & roll band of the 90s. Pearl Jam is to be inducted into the Rock and Roll Hall of Fame on April 7,2017, Stone Gossard and Jeff Ament were members of pioneering grunge band Green River during the mid-1980s. Green River toured and recorded to moderate success but disbanded in 1987 due to a division between the pair and bandmates Mark Arm and Steve Turner. In late 1987, Gossard and Ament began playing with Malfunkshun vocalist Andrew Wood, in 1988 and 1989, the band recorded and toured to increasing interest and found the support of the PolyGram record label, which signed the band in early 1989. Mother Love Bones debut album, Apple, was released in July 1990, Ament and Gossard were devastated by the death of Wood and the resulting demise of Mother Love Bone. Gossard spent his time writing material that was harder-edged than what he had been doing previously. After a few months, Gossard started practicing with fellow Seattle guitarist Mike McCready, whose band, Shadow, had broken up, after practicing for a while, the trio sent out a five-song demo tape in order to find a singer and a drummer. They gave former Red Hot Chili Peppers drummer Jack Irons the demo to see if he would be interested in joining the band, Irons passed on the invitation but gave the demo to his basketball buddy, San Diego, California singer Eddie Vedder. Vedder was the lead vocalist for a San Diego band, Bad Radio and he listened to the tape shortly before going surfing, where lyrics came to him. He then recorded the vocals to three of the songs in what he described as a mini-opera entitled Momma-Son. Vedder sent the tape with his vocals back to the three Seattle musicians, who were impressed enough to fly Vedder up to Seattle for an audition, within a week, Vedder had joined the band. With the addition of Dave Krusen on drums, the band took the name Mookie Blaylock, the band played its first official show at the Off Ramp Café in Seattle on October 22,1990, and soon signed to Epic Records and renamed themselves Pearl Jam. In a 2006 Rolling Stone cover story however, Vedder admitted that this story was total bullshit, Pearl Jam entered Seattles London Bridge Studios in March 1991 to record its debut album, Ten
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Seattle
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Seattle is a seaport city on the west coast of the United States and the seat of King County, Washington. With an estimated 684,451 residents as of 2015, Seattle is the largest city in both the state of Washington and the Pacific Northwest region of North America. In July 2013, it was the major city in the United States. The city is situated on an isthmus between Puget Sound and Lake Washington, about 100 miles south of the Canada–United States border, a major gateway for trade with Asia, Seattle is the fourth-largest port in North America in terms of container handling as of 2015. The Seattle area was inhabited by Native Americans for at least 4,000 years before the first permanent European settlers. Arthur A. Denny and his group of travelers, subsequently known as the Denny Party, arrived from Illinois via Portland, the settlement was moved to the eastern shore of Elliott Bay and named Seattle in 1852, after Chief Siahl of the local Duwamish and Suquamish tribes. Logging was Seattles first major industry, but by the late-19th century, growth after World War II was partially due to the local Boeing company, which established Seattle as a center for aircraft manufacturing. The Seattle area developed as a technology center beginning in the 1980s, in 1994, Internet retailer Amazon was founded in Seattle. The stream of new software, biotechnology, and Internet companies led to an economic revival, Seattle has a noteworthy musical history. From 1918 to 1951, nearly two dozen jazz nightclubs existed along Jackson Street, from the current Chinatown/International District, to the Central District, the jazz scene developed the early careers of Ray Charles, Quincy Jones, Ernestine Anderson, and others. Seattle is also the birthplace of rock musician Jimi Hendrix and the alternative rock subgenre grunge, archaeological excavations suggest that Native Americans have inhabited the Seattle area for at least 4,000 years. By the time the first European settlers arrived, the people occupied at least seventeen villages in the areas around Elliott Bay, the first European to visit the Seattle area was George Vancouver, in May 1792 during his 1791–95 expedition to chart the Pacific Northwest. In 1851, a party led by Luther Collins made a location on land at the mouth of the Duwamish River. Thirteen days later, members of the Collins Party on the way to their claim passed three scouts of the Denny Party, members of the Denny Party claimed land on Alki Point on September 28,1851. The rest of the Denny Party set sail from Portland, Oregon, after a difficult winter, most of the Denny Party relocated across Elliott Bay and claimed land a second time at the site of present-day Pioneer Square, naming this new settlement Duwamps. For the next few years, New York Alki and Duwamps competed for dominance, david Swinson Doc Maynard, one of the founders of Duwamps, was the primary advocate to name the settlement after Chief Sealth of the Duwamish and Suquamish tribes. The name Seattle appears on official Washington Territory papers dated May 23,1853, in 1855, nominal land settlements were established. On January 14,1865, the Legislature of Territorial Washington incorporated the Town of Seattle with a board of managing the city
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Alternative rock
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Alternative rock is a genre of rock music that emerged from the independent music underground of the 1980s and became widely popular in the 1990s and 2000s. In this instance, the word refers to the genres distinction from mainstream rock music. The terms original meaning was broader, referring to a generation of musicians unified by their debt to either the musical style or simply the independent. Ethos of punk rock, which in the late 1970s laid the groundwork for alternative music, Alternative rock is a broad umbrella term consisting of music that differs greatly in terms of its sound, its social context, and its regional roots. Most of these subgenres had achieved minor mainstream notice and a few bands representing them, such as Hüsker Dü, with the breakthrough of Nirvana and the popularity of the grunge and Britpop movements in the 1990s, alternative rock entered the musical mainstream and many alternative bands became successful. By the end of the decade, alternative rocks mainstream prominence declined due to a number of events that caused grunge and Britpop to fade, emo attracted attention in the larger alternative rock world, and the term was applied to a variety of artists, including multi-platinum acts. Post-punk revival artists such as Modest Mouse and The Killers had commercial success in the early, before the term alternative rock came into common usage around 1990, the sort of music to which it refers was known by a variety of terms. In 1979, Terry Tolkin used the term Alternative Music to describe the groups he was writing about, in 1979 Dallas radio station KZEW had a late night new wave show entitled Rock and Roll Alternative. College rock was used in the United States to describe the music during the 1980s due to its links to the radio circuit. In the United Kingdom, dozens of small do it yourself record labels emerged as a result of the punk subculture, according to the founder of one of these labels, Cherry Red, NME and Sounds magazines published charts based on small record stores called Alternative Charts. The first national chart based on distribution called the Indie Chart was published in January 1980, at the time, the term indie was used literally to describe independently distributed records. By 1985, indie had come to mean a particular genre, or group of subgenres, at first the term referred to intentionally non–mainstream rock acts that were not influenced by heavy metal ballads, rarefied new wave and high-energy dance anthems. The use of alternative gained further exposure due to the success of Lollapalooza, for which festival founder, in the late 1990s, the definition again became more specific. Defining music as alternative is often difficult because of two conflicting applications of the word, the name alternative rock essentially serves as an umbrella term for underground music that has emerged in the wake of punk rock since the mid-1980s. Alternative bands during the 1980s generally played in clubs, recorded for indie labels. Sounds range from the gloomy soundscapes of gothic rock to the guitars of indie pop to the dirty guitars of grunge to the 1960s/1970s revivalism of Britpop. This approach to lyrics developed as a reflection of the social and economic strains in the United States and United Kingdom of the 1980s, by 1984, a majority of groups signed to independent record labels mined from a variety of rock and particularly 1960s rock influences. This represented a break from the futuristic, hyper-rational post-punk years
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Grunge
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Grunge is a subgenre of alternative rock and a subculture that emerged during the mid-1980s in the Pacific Northwest U. S. state of Washington, particularly in Seattle and nearby towns. The early grunge movement revolved around Seattles independent record label Sub Pop, the success of these bands boosted the popularity of alternative rock and made grunge the most popular form of rock music at the time. Grunge was also an influence on subsequent genres such as post-grunge, Grunge fuses elements of punk rock and heavy metal, such as the distorted electric guitar used in both genres, although some bands performed with more emphasis on one or the other. Like these genres, grunge typically uses electric guitar, bass guitar, a drummer, Grunge also incorporates influences from indie rock bands such as Sonic Youth. Lyrics are typically angst-filled and introspective, often addressing themes such as alienation, apathy, concerns about confinement. A number of factors contributed to decline in prominence. During the mid-late 1990s, many grunge bands broke up or became less visible, the word grunge was used in print in prior to the use of the term in mainstream publications to refer to the Seattle music genre. Rock has always been about it, Theres primal grunge. distortion. and fuzz. especially on the underground, a reference to distorted sounds in rock in a general sense. Mark Arm, the vocalist for the Seattle band Green River—and later Mudhoney—is generally credited as being the first to use the term grunge to describe the Seattle genre of music. Arm first used the term in 1981, when he wrote a letter under his given name Mark McLaughlin to the Seattle zine Desperate Times, criticizing his own band Mr. Epp and the Calculations as Pure grunge. Sub Pop called Green Rivers 1986 EP Dry as a Bone ultra-loose GRUNGE that destroyed the morals of a generation, Everett True states that when Arm stated that the streets of Seattle paved with grunge, he was using the term disparagingly. In this use of the word grunge, Arm was using it as an adjective, Arm said years later, Obviously, I didnt make grunge up. I got it from someone else, the term was already being thrown around in Australia in the mid-80s to describe bands like King Snake Roost, The Scientists, Salamander Jim, and Beasts of Bourbon. Arm used grunge as a descriptive rather than a genre term. When grunge first developed, music journalists called it rock, due to the genres focus on impossibly. Evergreen State was a college which did not use grading. Bands from Portland, Oregon, such as the Wipers, also influenced the genres pioneers. Some bands associated with the genre, such as Soundgarden, Pearl Jam and Alice in Chains, have not been receptive to the label, preferring instead to be referred to as rock and roll bands
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Glam punk
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Glam punk is a term used retrospectively to describe a short lived trend for bands which produced a form of punk rock that incorporated elements of glam rock, initially in the early to mid-1970s. Acts included New York Dolls and Harlots of 42nd Street, Glam punk has been seen as a backlash to the hippie folk music sensibilities of the 1960s. Lucy OBrien defines the New York Dolls style as combining Rolling Stones raunch with heavy borrowings from the girl group era, the Dolls broke up in 1976, by which time the trend had already metamorphosed into punk and begun to move on to new wave. They also influenced the glam metal scene that emerged in the 1980s, through the adoption of glam aesthetics by bands including Hanoi Rocks, Mötley Crüe and Guns N Roses. The term has been used to describe bands who combined glam aesthetics with punk music, including The DTEASE. Glam punk was an influence on bands of the New York post-punk revival that included D Generation, Toilet Böys. List of glam punk artists Glam metal Glam rock Notes
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Punk rock
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Punk rock is a rock music genre that developed in the early to mid-1970s in the United States, United Kingdom, and Australia. Rooted in 1960s garage rock and other forms of what is now known as proto-punk music, Punk bands typically produced short or fast-paced songs, with hard-edged melodies and singing styles, stripped-down instrumentation, and often political, anti-establishment lyrics. Punk embraces a DIY ethic, many bands self-produce recordings and distribute them through informal channels, the term punk was first used in relation to rock music by some American critics in the early 1970s, to describe garage bands and their devotees. The following year saw punk rock spreading around the world, for the most part, punk took root in local scenes that tended to reject association with the mainstream. An associated punk subculture emerged, expressing youthful rebellion and characterized by distinctive styles of clothing and adornment, by the beginning of the 1980s, faster, more aggressive styles such as hardcore and street punk had become the predominant mode of punk rock. Musicians identifying with or inspired by punk also pursued a range of other variations, giving rise to post-punk. At the end of the 20th century, punk rock had been adopted by the mainstream, as pop punk and punk bands such as Green Day. The first wave of rock was aggressively modern, distancing itself from the bombast. According to Ramones drummer Tommy Ramone, In its initial form, unfortunately, what happens is that people who could not hold a candle to the likes of Hendrix started noodling away. Soon you had endless solos that went nowhere, by 1973, I knew that what was needed was some pure, stripped down, no bullshit rock n roll. In critic Robert Christgaus description, It was also a subculture that rejected the political idealism. Technical accessibility and a DIY spirit are prized in punk rock, in the early days of punk rock, this ethic stood in marked contrast to what those in the scene regarded as the ostentatious musical effects and technological demands of many mainstream rock bands. Musical virtuosity was often looked on with suspicion, according to Holmstrom, punk rock was rock and roll by people who didnt have very many skills as musicians but still felt the need to express themselves through music. In December 1976, the English fanzine Sideburns published an illustration of three chords, captioned This is a chord, this is another, this is a third. The title of a 1980 single by the New York punk band Stimulators, inscribed a catchphrase for punks basic musical approach. The previous year, when the rock revolution began in Great Britain, was to be both a musical and a cultural Year Zero. As a Clash associate describes singer Joe Strummers outlook, Punk rock is meant to be our freedom, were meant to be able to do what we want to do. Scholar Daniel S. Traber argues that attaining authenticity in the identity can be difficult, as the punk scene matured, he observes
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Heavy metal music
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Heavy metal is a genre of rock music that developed in the late 1960s and early 1970s, largely in the United Kingdom and the United States. Heavy metal lyrics and performance styles are associated with aggression. The first heavy metal such as Led Zeppelin, Black Sabbath. During the mid-1970s, Judas Priest helped spur the evolution by discarding much of its blues influence, Motörhead introduced a punk rock sensibility. Beginning in the late 1970s, bands in the new wave of British heavy metal such as Iron Maiden, before the end of the decade, heavy metal fans became known as metalheads or headbangers. During the 1980s, glam metal became popular with such as Mötley Crüe. Since the mid-1990s popular styles have further expanded the definition of the genre and these include groove metal and nu metal, the latter of which often incorporates elements of grunge and hip hop. Heavy metal is characterized by loud distorted guitars, emphatic rhythms, dense bass-and-drum sound. Metal subgenres variously emphasize, alter, or omit one or more of these attributes, the typical band lineup includes a drummer, a bassist, a rhythm guitarist, a lead guitarist, and a singer, who may or may not be an instrumentalist. Keyboard instruments are used to enhance the fullness of the sound. Deep Purples Jon Lord played an overdriven Hammond organ, in 1970, John Paul Jones used a Moog synthesizer on Led Zeppelin III, by the 1990s, in. almost every subgenre of heavy metal synthesizers were used. The electric guitar and the power that it projects through amplification has historically been the key element in heavy metal. The heavy metal guitar sound comes from a use of high volumes. Guitar solos are an element of the heavy metal code. That underscores the significance of the guitar to the genre, most heavy metal songs featur at least one guitar solo, which is a primary means through which the heavy metal performer expresses virtuosity. One exception is nu metal bands, which tend to omit guitar solos, with rhythm guitar parts, the heavy crunch sound in heavy metal. Palm muting the strings with the hand and using distortion. Palm muting creates a tighter, more sound and it emphasizes the low end
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Glam metal
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Glam metal is a subgenre of heavy metal which features pop-influenced hooks and guitar riffs, and borrows from the fashion of 1970s glam rock. Glam metal can be traced back to acts like Alice Cooper, Boston, Cheap Trick, Kiss, The New York Dolls. It was popular throughout the 1980s and the beginning of the 1990s, bringing to prominence bands including Poison, Skid Row, Cinderella, Glam metal was associated with flashy clothing and makeup. Poison, for example, had long shaggy or backcombed hair, accessories, metal studs, leather, Glam metal lost mainstream interest in the early 1990s as the perceived excesses of glam metal created a backlash against the genre. A factor in the decline of metal was the rise of grunge in the early 1990s, which had a stripped-down aesthetic. Musically, glam metal combines a traditional metal sound with elements of hard rock and punk rock, adding pop-influenced catchy hooks. Like other heavy metal songs of the 1980s, they often feature shred guitar solos and they also include extensive use of harmonies, particularly in the characteristic power ballads – slow, emotional songs that gradually build to a strong finale. These were among the most commercially successful singles in the genre, lyrical themes often deal with love and lust, with songs often directed at a particular woman. Aesthetically glam metal draws heavily on the rock or glitter rock of the 1970s, often with very long backcombed hair, use of make-up, gaudy clothing. The visual aspects of glam metal appealed to television producers, particularly MTV. Glam metal performers became infamous for their debauched lifestyles of drugs, strippers and late-night parties, sociologist Deena Weinstein points to the large number of terms used to describe more commercial forms of heavy metal, which she groups together as lite metal. Use of the derogatory term hair metal started in the early 1990s, Music journalist Stephen Davis claims the influences of the style can be traced back to acts like Aerosmith, Kiss, Boston, Cheap Trick, and The New York Dolls. Kiss and to a lesser extent Alice Cooper, were influences on the genre. Finnish band Hanoi Rocks, heavily influenced themselves by the New York Dolls, have been credited with setting a blueprint for the look of hair metal. Van Halen has been seen as influential on the movement, emerging in 1978 from the Los Angeles music scene on Sunset Strip. He popularized a technique of two‐handed hammer‐ons and pull‐offs called tapping. This sound, and lead singer David Lee Roths stage antics, would be influential on glam metal. In the early 1980s, a number of bands from across the United States began to move towards what would become the glam metal sound
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Homestead Records
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Homestead Records was a Long Island, New York-based sublabel of music distributor Dutch East India Trading. It was founded in 1984 by Sam Berger, who was the American independent buyer for Dutch East India Trading, Berger was finding that many bands who had perhaps released their own first 45 were having difficulty coming up with the finances to press followups. He was able to convince the owner of the company to press and distribute records for bands that already had recorded an album and it is considered instrumental in launching the post-hardcore and noise rock genres. When Berger left to work with Midnight Records, he recommended 18-year-old Gerard Cosloy, whom he knew from Boston, Cosloy went on to sign many of the notable acts. Cosloy was succeeded by Ken Katkin and later by Steven Joerg, the labels last release was Ivo Perelmans Cama de terra in 1996. List of record labels Matador Records Label discography
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Sub Pop
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Sub Pop is a record label founded in 1986 by Bruce Pavitt. In 1988, Sub Pop Records LLC was formed by Pavitt and Jonathan Poneman in Seattle, Sub Pop achieved fame in the late 1980s for first signing Nirvana, Soundgarden, Mudhoney and many other bands from the Seattle alternative rock scene. In 1995 the owners of Sub Pop sold a 49% stake of the label to the Warner Music Group, the origins of Sub Pop can be traced back to the early 1980s when Bruce Pavitt started a fanzine called Subterranean Pop that focused exclusively on American independent record labels. Pavitt undertook the project in order to earn course credit while attending Evergreen State College in Olympia, by the fourth issue, Pavitt had shortened the name to Sub Pop and began alternating issues with compilation tapes of underground rock bands. The Sub Pop #5 cassette, released in 1982, sold two thousand copies, in 1983, Pavitt moved to Seattle, Washington and released the ninth and final issue of Sub Pop. While in Seattle, he wrote a column for local newspaper The Rocket titled Sub Pop U. S. A, a column he ended in 1988. In 1986, Pavitt released the first Sub Pop LP, the compilation Sub Pop 100, which featured material by artists including Sonic Youth, Naked Raygun, Wipers, and Scratch Acid. Seattle group Green River chose to record their Dry as a Bone EP for Pavitts new label in June 1986, when finally released, Dry as a Bone was promoted by Sub Pop as ultra-loose grunge that destroyed the morals of a generation. Poneman soon became a partner in the label. Pavitt focused on the artists and repertoire aspects, while Poneman dealt with the business. Both men decided they wanted the label to focus on this primal rock stuff that was coming out, in early 1988 Pavitt and Poneman quit their jobs to devote their full attention to Sub Pop. Raising $43,000, they incorporated that April, of course that was spent in, like, thirty days, Pavitt recalled. We almost went bankrupt after a month and that August Sub Pop released the first single by Mudhoney, a band featuring former members of Green River. Sub Pop released the Mudhoney single Touch Me Im Sick in a limited first pressing of 800 copies to create demand. The strategy was adopted by other independent labels. Pavitt and Poneman studied earlier independent labels ranging from Motown to SST Records, the pair sought to create a cohesive brand identity for Sub Pop. The labels ads promoted the label more than any particular band. The label also sought to market a Seattle sound, which was accomplished with the help of producer Jack Endino, who produced 75 singles, albums, and EPs for Sub Pop between 1987 and 1989
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Mercury Records
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Mercury Records is an American-based record label owned by Universal Music Group. In the United States, it operates through Island Records, in the UK, Mercury Record Corporation was formed in the American city of Chicago in 1945 by Irving Green, Berle Adams, Ray Greenberg and Arthur Talmadge. They were a force in jazz and blues, classical music, rock and roll. Early in the history, Mercury opened two pressing plants, one in Chicago and the other in St. Louis, Missouri. With the use of presses and providing 24-hour turnaround, they went into direct competition with major recording labels such as Columbia, Decca, Capitol. By hiring two promoters, Tiny Hill and Jimmy Hilliard, they penetrated the pop market with such as Frankie Laine, Vic Damone, Tony Fontane. Rather than rely on radio airplay, Mercury initially relied on jukeboxes to promote their music, some early Mercury recordings featured a caricature of him as its logo. In 1947 Jack Rael, a musician and publicist/manager, persuaded Mercury to let Patti Page record a song that had planned to be done by Vic Damone. The budget was too small for them to hire a second singer to provide the parts to Page. The company released a number of recordings under the Mercury label as well as its subsidiaries. In addition, they leased and purchased material by independent labels, under their own label, Mercury released a variety of recording styles from classical music to psychedelic rock. However, its subsidiaries focused on their own specialized categories of music, Mercurys jazz division had two distinct and important fathers. John Hammond brought his expertise and connections when Mercury bought Keynote Records in the late 1940s, and Mercury was the issuing company and distributor for Norman Granzs pre-Norgran/Verve recordings. Although both Hammond and Granz had departed Mercury by the mid-1950s, they established the company in the jazz world, by the early 1960s, Mercury was releasing jazz under the flagship label and was an early leader in the new stereo sound releases. Highlights of the early and mid-1960s included albums by Quincy Jones, Buddy Rich, Cannonball Adderley, Charles Mingus, Dinah Washington, Sarah Vaughan, Max Roach, in the early 1950s, Norman Granz started his own record company, Norgran, which later became Verve. In an ironic twist, both Mercury and Verve are now owned by Universal Music Group and Mercurys jazz library falls under the Verve division. Since the early 1990s, Verve has reissued many Mercury jazz titles on CD, often taking care to use original master tapes, in 1962, Mercury began marketing a line of phonographs made by Philips bearing the Mercury brand name. In July 1967, Mercury Records became the first U. S. record company to release cassette music tapes, in 1969, Mercury changed its corporate name to Mercury Record Productions Inc. while its parent Conelco became North American Philips Corp after Philips brought control of the company
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A&M Records
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A&M Records was an American record label founded as an independent label by Herb Alpert and Jerry Moss in 1962. Due to the success of the discography A&M released, the label garnered interest and was acquired by PolyGram in 1989. Today, A&Ms catalog releases are managed by Verve Records, Universal Music Enterprises, A&M Records was formed in 1962 by Herb Alpert and Jerry Moss. Their first choice for a name was Carnival Records, under which they released two singles before discovering another label had already taken the Carnival name, the company was subsequently renamed A&M, after Alperts and Mosss initials. From 1966 to 1999, the headquarters were on the grounds of the historic Charlie Chaplin Studios at 1416 North La Brea Avenue. Marc Benno, Liza Minnelli, Rita Coolidge, Wes Montgomery, Paul Desmond, Bobby Tench, Hummingbird, Toni Basil, folk artists Joan Baez, Phil Ochs and Gene Clark also recorded for the label during the 1970s. Billy Preston joined the label in 1971, followed by Andre Popp, in the 1970s, under its manufacturing and distribution agreement with Ode Records, A&M released albums by Carole King and the comedy duo Cheech & Chong. On March 10,1977, A&M signed the Sex Pistols after the band had dropped by EMI. However, A&M dropped the band within a week, within a decade of its inception, A&M became the worlds largest independent record company. A&M releases were issued in the United Kingdom by EMIs Stateside Records label. From 1969, A&M set up their own UK base appointing John Deacon as General Manager - a post he held until 1979, A&M releases were also issued in Australia through Festival Records until 1989. A&M Records Ltd. was established in 1970, with distribution handled by other labels with a presence in Europe, A&M Records of Canada Ltd. was also formed in 1970, and A&M Records of Europe in 1977. In 1979, A&M entered an agreement with RCA Records in the USA. A&M was bought by PolyGram in 1989, Alpert and Moss continued to manage the label until 1993. In 1998, Alpert and Moss sued PolyGram for breach of the integrity clause, in 1991, A&M launched Perspective Records as a joint venture with producing team Jimmy Jam and Terry Lewis. Jam and Lewis stepped down as CEOs of the imprint in 1997, in 1999, the label was absorbed into A&M. In the mid-1990s, A&M began distributing its PolyGram sister label Polydor Records in the USA, ceCe Peniston, Intelligent Hoodlum, Dred Scott, Ridel High and the Gin Blossoms. The company released the soundtracks Robin Hood, Prince of Thieves, The Three Musketeers, Sabrina, The Living Sea, Demolition Man, and Lethal Weapon 3
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Epic Records
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Epic Records is an American record company owned by Sony Music Entertainment, a subsidiary of Sony Corporation of America, Inc. Epic was founded predominantly as a jazz and classical music label in 1953 and it later expanded its scope to include a more diverse range of musical genres, including pop, R&B, rock and hip hop. Historically, the label has housed popular acts such as Boston, ABBA, Michael Jackson, Celine Dion, Dave Clark Five, Gloria Estefan, Pearl Jam, Shakira, Anastacia, and Sly & the Family Stone. Along with Columbia and RCA Records, Epic is one of Sony Music Entertainments three main record labels, L. A. Reid has served as chairman and CEO of Epic since July 2011. Sylvia Rhone was appointed president in March 2014, Epic Records was launched in 1953 by Columbia Records for the purpose of marketing jazz, pop and classical music that did not fit the theme of its more mainstream Columbia Records label. Initial classical music releases were from Philips Records which distributed Columbia product in Europe, pop talent on co-owned Okeh Records were transferred to Epic which made Okeh a rhythm and blues label. Epics bright-yellow, black, and blue became a familiar trademark for many jazz. By 1960, the musical base had been expanded to include all genres. This was done in part to prevent the roster of Columbia Records from being overstuffed with newer artists, subsequently, Epic became better known for its signing of newer, fledgling acts. By the end of the 1960s, Epic earned its first gold records and had evolved into a formidable hit-making force in rock and roll, R&B and country music. Among its many acts, it included Roy Hamilton, Bobby Vinton, The Dave Clark Five, The Hollies, Tammy Wynette, Donovan, The Yardbirds, Lulu, July, Helen Shapiro and Jeff Beck. Also during the 1960s, Epic oversaw the smaller subsidiary CBS labels including Okeh Records, in 1968, Epic recordings began being distributed in the UK by CBS after the distribution deal with EMI expired that year, Epic itself launched in England around 1971. Epic was involved in a trade of artists. Graham Nash was signed to Epic because of his membership in The Hollies, when the newly formed Crosby, Stills & Nash wanted to sign with Atlantic Records, Ahmet Ertegün worked out a deal with Clive Davis whereby Richie Furays new band Poco would sign with Epic. Also contributing to the success was its distribution of Philadelphia International Records. Sony bought CBS Records in 1987, and the company was renamed Sony Music in 1991. In 2004, Sony merged with another powerhouse music distributor, BMG, bringing labels such as RCA, Arista, Columbia, Epic, Jive, in February 2009, singer and songwriter Amanda Ghost was appointed president of Epic Records. Later in the year, Sony BMG Music merged Epic and Columbias operations, Sony BMGs Legacy Recordings reissues the companys classic and catalog titles
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Sony Music
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Sony Music Entertainment is an American music company owned by Sony. It is incorporated as a partnership of Sony Music Holdings Inc. through Sony Entertainment. The company was first founded in 1929 as American Record Corporation and renamed Columbia Recording Corporation in 1938, in 1966, the company was reorganized to become CBS Records. Sony Corporation bought the company in 1987 and renamed it Sony Music Entertainment in 1991, the buyout led to the dissolution of BMG, which relaunched as BMG Rights Management. Sony Music Entertainment is one of the Big Three record companies, being the second largest after Universal Music Group, in 1929, ARC was founded through a merger of several record companies. In 1934, in the midst of Great Depression, the Columbia Phonograph Company, ARC was acquired in 1938 by the Columbia Broadcasting System, which, in turn, had been formed by the Columbia Phonograph Company, but then sold off. ARC was renamed Columbia Recording Corporation, RCA Victor Records executive Ted Wallerstein convinced CBS head William S. Paley to buy ARC and Paley made Wallerstein head of the newly acquired record company. The renamed company made Columbia its flagship label and Okeh its subsidiary label and this allowed ARCs leased labels Brunswick Records and Vocalion Records to revert to their former owner Warner Bros. which sold them to Decca Records. Columbia kept the Brunswick catalogue recorded from December 1931 onward on the Columbia label and he was succeeded by James Conkling as head of Columbia Records. In 1951, Columbia severed its ties with the EMI-owned record label of the same name, Okeh Records continued to be distributed by EMI on the Columbia label. Columbia founded Epic Records in 1953 and in 1956, Conkling left Columbia and he would help establish the National Academy of Recording Arts and Sciences before eventually becoming the first president of the newly launched Warner Bros. His successor, Goddard Lieberson began the first of two stints as head of the record company, and in 1958, Columbia founded another label, Date Records, which initially issued rockabilly music. In 1960, Columbia/CBS began negotiations with its international distributor Philips Records with the goal of starting its own global record company. Philips acquisition of US-based Mercury Records in 1961 paved the way for this, elsewhere, CBSs Mexican record company, Discos Columbia, was renamed Discos CBS by 1963. In 1964, Columbia set out acquiring record companies in countries for its CBS Records International Unit. EMI continued to distribute Epic and Okeh label material on the Columbia label in the UK until the deal with EMI expired in 1968 when CBS took over distribution. In late 1965, the Date subsidiary label was revived and this label released the first string of hits for Peaches & Herb and scored a few minor hits from various other artists. Dates biggest success was Time of the Season by the Zombies, the label was discontinued in 1970
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Redline Records
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Redline Records was an independent record label based in Perth, Australia. Redline Records was distributed by Shock Records in Australia and New Zealand, following the final stage of the labels life, in which two albums and one EP were released in 2004 and 2005, respectively, the labels operations were closed without a press release. Since the cessation of Redline Records, artists from the roster have either disbanded, entered a period of hiatus or have moved on to other contractual arrangements. Wed just released our second album overseas on an independent label, and that was around about the time where we started our own label, just to, um, release, maybe, release a few, some bands of friends of ours, in bands. Following a period of hiatus, Jebediah released its album, Kosciuszko, in 2011. The band entered into an arrangement with a new management company, Catherine Haridy Management, list of record labels Discogs, Redline Records Fidelity Corporation Jebediah discuss Redline Records in a band documentary
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J Records
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J Records was an American major record label owned and operated by Sony Music Entertainment, and was distributed through the RCA Music Group. The label was founded in 2000 and was dissolved into RCA Records in 2011, olivia was the first artist to sign to J Records, but was later dropped due to poor album sales. In 2001, the label found success with its multi-platinum record inaugural release, Songs in A Minor, the album of Alicia Keys. The same year, Lyric signed to the label and became the first female group act under J Records, by late 2001, J Records attained another success with the platinum-selling debut album by O-Town. Later, established artists like DAngelo, Luther Vandross, Jamie Foxx, and Monica would join the J roster, in 2002, BMG bought a majority stake in the label. The same year, J Records began functioning under the RCA Music Group, where Davis had been appointed president and CEO, in August 2005, J Records operations were merged with Arista Records, although both labels continued to release their own product. During the summer of 2011, RCA Music Group underwent a restructuring which shuttered J along with sister labels Jive, RCA Records will now start releasing all RCA Music Group releases under RCA Records. com Interview with J Records A&R Peter Edge
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C/Z Records
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The label is currently owned and run by Daniel House. The label was first founded in early 1985 by Chris Hanzsek, the labels first release was titled Deep Six. This was a compilation LP that featured early grunge bands Soundgarden, The Melvins, Green River, Skin Yard, Malfunkshun, and The U-Men. Nationally, the record was something of a disappointment, and after about 18 months, Daniel House, bass player for Skin Yard, was in the midst of putting together the bands first record, and took over the operation of C/Z records. For several years C/Z was little more than a hobby, in 1989 House began working as director of sales for a new Seattle independent record label by the name of Sub Pop. Eventually he left as C/Z became successful in its own right and he subsequently released early albums and singles by notable bands like The Presidents of the United States of America, Melvins, Built to Spill,7 Year Bitch, The Gits, Silkworm and Hammerbox. In 1993, C/Z entered into a production and distribution deal with Sony-owned RED Distribution, the deal quickly went sour and bled the label dry in less than a year. House was forced to downsize and re-organize, and it would be over a year before any new releases would see the light of day, in 1996 the BMG-owned Zoo Entertainment partnered with C/Z. Zoo provided a modest operating and recording budget and assisted in the development of new artists, in 1997 Zoo was to be purchased by Volcano Entertainment and all third party ventures were dropped. Daniel House returned C/Z to part-time status, releasing only occasional records on an infrequent basis, in 2002 C/Z released an odds-n-sods collection of unreleased and unavailable Skin Yard material, entitled Start at the Top. C/Z released several Teriyaki Asthma compilations, one of which contained Nirvanas Mexican Seafood, nirvana also released their version of Do You Love Me. on C/Zs Kiss tribute album Hard to Believe, Kiss Covers Compilation. List of record labels Official site
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Green River (band)
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Green River was an American rock band from Seattle, Washington. Green River reunited for live shows in 2008 and 2009. Green River was formed in early 1984 by vocalist/guitarist Mark Arm, guitarist Steve Turner, drummer Alex Vincent, guitarist Stone Gossard then joined the band to allow Arm to concentrate on singing. Prior to joining, each member had played with punk and hardcore groups, Arm and Turner had played together in both Mr Epp & The Calculations and the Limp Richerds. Turner had also performed with Vincent in Spluii Numa, and Gossard in The Ducky Boys, Ament had been asked to join after moving from Montana with his band Deranged Diction. The band took its name from the Green River Killer, a killer who was infamous in Washington state. By late 1984, the band was playing shows in and around Seattle, the band began production in December 1984 on its first record, Come on Down, which is cited by many as the first grunge record. By the time the finished the record in early 1985, Turner had left the group. He was replaced by former Deranged Diction guitarist Bruce Fairweather, in mid-1985, the band embarked on its first nationwide tour to promote Come on Down. Release of the record was delayed, however, thus negating the purpose of the tour, from all accounts the experience was less than positive, though it helped cement alliances with other emerging American indie rock bands. Among them was Sonic Youth, who quoted the song Come on Down on its own composition Nevermind. After the tour, Come on Down was finally released by the New York-based Homestead Records, the record was released to little fanfare, and did not sell well. However it is considered the first album to be released by a grunge band. In 1986, the continued to play in and around the Pacific Northwest to steadily larger crowds. Early in the year, the now legendary Deep Six compilation album was released on the local C/Z Records label, alongside two Green River songs, the compilation features the music of fellow Washington bands Soundgarden, Melvins, Malfunkshun, Skin Yard and the U-Men. Fennessy of Allmusic stated that the compilation documents a period in Northwest rock history. In June 1986, the band began production on its second EP, Dry as a Bone, Green River chose to record Dry as a Bone for Bruce Pavitts new label, Sub Pop. However, Pavitt couldnt afford to release it until the year, and, as had happened with Come on Down
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Brad (band)
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Brad is an American rock band that formed in Seattle, Washington in 1992. Brads sound is influenced by the variety of influences brought by its members, including Stone Gossard of Pearl Jam, Regan Hagar, Shawn Smith. The distinctive vocals of Smith are a factor in this sound. Brad formed officially in 1992, although the members had been playing together for a long time before that. The bands line-up was composed of vocalist Shawn Smith, guitarist Stone Gossard, bassist Jeremy Toback, the band originally wanted to go by the name Shame, however the band found that the name was already taken by a band featuring musician Brad Wilson. Instead, the band took the name Brad and decided to name its debut album Shame, Shame, released on April 27,1993 through Epic Records, was recorded in roughly 20 days, with many tracks taken from in-studio jam sessions. Shame, featuring a raw sound and a mix of styles, was released to mixed reviews. The track 20th Century was a hit in the UK. The bands follow-up album, Interiors, released on June 24,1997, was more polished. Tom Moon of Rolling Stone said that whats most notable about Interiors. is the pop focus of these nuanced compositions. The lead single from Interiors, The Day Brings, features Mike McCready from Pearl Jam on lead guitar, Interiors was met with poor sales, however the band saw its cult audience expand. The album was accompanied by a tour in the United States and Canada that same year, as well as a tour in Australia. A third album, Welcome to Discovery Park, was released on August 13,2002 through Redline Records, the recording of Welcome to Discovery Park saw contributions from Mike Berg, who had taken over as the touring bassist for Toback. The album mixes the rawness of Shame and the polished, produced sound of Interiors, bradley Torreano of Allmusic called it another quality album that still leaves the listener hungry overall for some better songs. In July 2005, the released a album of unreleased and incomplete Brad. The bands fourth album, tentatively titled Best Friends. Was recorded in 2003 and was being prepared for release in 2006, songs from the forthcoming Best Friends. Album were played at the 2007 and 2008 performances, Brad performed live at Seattles Showbox on April 14,2010 and news about Best Friends
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Mother Love Bone
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Mother Love Bone was an American rock band that formed in Seattle, Washington in 1988. The band was active from 1988 to 1990, frontman Andrew Woods personality and compositions helped to catapult the group to the top of the burgeoning late 1980s/early 1990s Seattle music scene. Wood died only days before the release of the bands debut album, Apple. The album was released a few months later. Initially, the group was formed in 1987 out of the cover band Lords of the Wasteland which featured Wood, Gossard, Ament, by early 1988 the band had added Fairweather, replaced Hagar with drummer Greg Gilmore and changed its name to Mother Love Bone. This new line-up quickly set about recording and playing area shows, Woods exuberant on-stage personality, outlandish clothes and dreamy lyrics helped bring attention to the band. In the 1996 grunge documentary, Hype, Seattle engineer Jack Endino called Wood the only stand-up comedian frontman in Seattle, a reference to Woods playful style of interacting with Mother Love Bone fans. In November 1988, the band signed to PolyGram subsidiary Polydor/Stardog, as part of their contract, PolyGram also created the Stardog Records imprint exclusively for the band. In March 1989, the group issued its debut EP, Shine, the record sold well and rapidly increased the hype surrounding the band. John Book of AllMusic said the record contributed to the buzz about the Seattle music scene, in late 1989, the group returned to the studio to record its debut album, Apple. Despite some initial difficulties, the record was on time for its projected March 1990 release, only days before Apple was slated to be released, however, frontman Andrew Wood, who had a long history with drug problems, overdosed on heroin and was left braindead. After spending two days in the hospital on life support to friends and family to say goodbye, Wood died. The album would see release later that year on July 19,1990, kim Neely of Rolling Stone said that the album succeeds where countless other hard rock albums have failed, capturing the essence of what made Zep immortal – dynamics, kids. – and giving it a unique Nineties spin, the project turned into an entire album and the group took the name Temple of the Dog, a reference to a line in the lyrics of the Mother Love Bone song, Man of Golden Words. Gossard and Ament would then join Eddie Vedder and Mike McCready to form Pearl Jam, one of the most commercially successful, Fairweather initially remained inactive but later joined Seattle based psychedelic rock band Love Battery, replacing Tommy Simpson on bass in 1992. He played on two of the albums and many of its tours before leaving that band as well. In 2006, he resurfaced in The Press Corps, with Garrett Shavlik, gilmores profile also dropped significantly following Mother Love Bones demise. Between 1992 and 1994, he drummed with the band Chubby Children, reuniting with former bandmates from 1982–1985, Brian Fox, out of the band came a handful of shows and unreleased recordings
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Temple of the Dog
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Stone Free, A Tribute to Jimi Hendrix is a 1993 album recorded by various artists in tribute to Jimi Hendrix. The artists were drawn from genres of popular music. According to the notes, the artists were encouraged to not only record one of their own personal favorites. Several artists recorded radically different interpretations, particularly, P. M. Dawn, The Cure, Nigel Kennedy, some artists, on the other hand, recorded versions that were rather similar to the originals. The band M. A. C. C. is made up of Mike McCready, Jeff Ament, Matt Cameron, the cover of Hey Baby is their only known recording. All four members of group had previously worked together on the Temple of the Dog project. Eric Claptons backing group on the track includes the three original core members of Chic and is the last recording on which all three played together. All tracks written by Jimi Hendrix, except track five
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Jeff Ament
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Jeffrey Allen Jeff Ament is an American musician and songwriter who serves as the bassist for the American rock band Pearl Jam. Ament is also a member of the bands, Tres Mts, in 2008, Ament released his first solo album, Tone. A second solo album, While My Heart Beats, followed in 2012, Ament will be inducted into the Rock and Roll Hall of Fame as a member of Pearl Jam on April 7,2017. The first of five children, Ament was born in Havre, Montana to George and Penny Ament and grew up in the town of Big Sandy, Montana, a town with a population of fewer than 700. Aments father George was mayor of Big Sandy for fifteen years, as well as a barber, Ament described his family growing up as pretty poor and hard-core Catholic. He began playing the guitar as a teenager, often playing along with Ramones, The Clash. Ament participated in basketball, football, and track at Big Sandy High School and he then went on to college at the University of Montana in Missoula, Montana, where he studied art and played basketball. Ament quit college in the middle of his second year after the university told him they were no longer going to continue its graphic design program, Ament then relocated to Seattle, Washington in 1983 with his band Deranged Diction. While in Seattle, Ament got a job working at a shop in Belltown. Ament became acquainted with fellow Seattle musicians Mark Arm and Steve Turner, the band also included drummer Alex Vincent, with guitarist Stone Gossard eventually being added to the line-up. By the time the finished the recording of its debut EP, Come on Down, Turner decided to leave the group, citing his distaste with Ament. He was replaced by Aments former Deranged Diction bandmate, Bruce Fairweather, the band released the EP Come on Down in 1985 and followed it up with Dry As a Bone in 1987, the first release on Sub Pop records. The bands only studio album, Rehab Doll, was released in 1988. In-fighting within the lead to the groups break-up during the recording of Rehab Doll. A stylistic division had developed between Ament and Gossard on one side, and Arm on the other, Ament and Gossard wanted to pursue a major-label deal, while Arm wanted to remain independent, viewing the duo as being too careerist. Regarding the accusation, Ament later said that during his time with the band he had to work at a restaurant in order to pay his rent and he said, Did I want to play music and have my rent paid for. The band achieved a local reputation in Seattle and had a significant influence on the genre later known as grunge. The band quickly worked on recording and performing locally and by late 1988 had become one of Seattles more promising bands, in early 1989 the band signed to PolyGram subsidiary Mercury Records
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Mike McCready
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Michael David Mike McCready is an American musician who serves as the lead guitarist for the American rock band Pearl Jam. Along with Jeff Ament, Stone Gossard and Eddie Vedder, he is one of the members of Pearl Jam. McCready was also a member of the side project bands Flight to Mars, Temple of the Dog, Mad Season and he is also the proprietor of Hockey Talkter Records. McCready will be inducted into the Rock and Roll Hall of Fame as a member of Pearl Jam on April 7,2017, Mike McCready was born in Pensacola, Florida, but his family moved to Seattle, shortly after his birth. When he was a child, his parents played Jimi Hendrix and Santana, while his friends listened to Kiss and Aerosmith, at the age of eleven, McCready purchased his first guitar and began taking lessons. In eighth grade, McCready formed his first band, Warrior, originally a cover band playing during free periods at Roosevelt High School, the band eventually began writing original material and recording demo tapes. After high school, McCready worked at a restaurant where he befriended musician Pete Droge. In 1986, Shadow relocated to Los Angeles and attempted to cut a record deal, however, according to McCready, We played to a couple bartenders down there, but even though it was a bad scene, it was a good experience. Basically, we werent that good of a band, and we didnt realize it until we got down there, I guess we lost our focus, got really bummed out and came back to Seattle. In 1988, Shadow returned to Seattle and split up soon afterwards, McCready lost interest in playing guitar for some time, stating that he was so depressed about life. He cut his hair, enrolled in a community college. He credits a friend named Russ Riedner for getting me out of my college mode, McCready was inspired to pick up his guitar again after attending a Stevie Ray Vaughan concert at The Gorge Amphitheatre in George, Washington. McCready said, As soon as he started Couldnt Stand the Weather, these huge clouds rolled in overhead, when the song ended, the rain stopped. It was like an experience, and it changed me. It lifted me out of the negative mindset I was in, I thank him forever for that. McCready gradually went back to playing guitar and finally joined another band called Love Chile, a childhood friend, Stone Gossard, went to one of the bands shows and appreciated McCreadys work after hearing him perform Stevie Ray Vaughans Couldnt Stand the Weather. Gossard had known McCready from back before high school when the two would trade rock band pictures with each other, after the demise of Gossards band Mother Love Bone, he asked McCready if he wanted to play music together with him. After a few months of practicing together, McCready in turn encouraged Gossard to reconnect with his Mother Love Bone alum Jeff Ament, the bands line-up was completed by the addition of Soundgarden drummer Matt Cameron
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Eddie Vedder
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Eddie Vedder is an American musician, singer and songwriter best known as a member of the grunge band Pearl Jam, with whom he performs lead vocals and is one of three guitarists. He is known for his baritone vocals. He is also involved in making music and contributes to albums by other artists, in 2007, Vedder released his first solo album as a soundtrack for the film Into the Wild. His second album Ukulele Songs and a live DVD titled Water on the Road were released in 2011, Vedder will be inducted into the Rock and Roll Hall of Fame as a member of Pearl Jam on April 7,2017. Vedder was born Edward Louis Severson III in the Chicago suburb of Evanston, Illinois, on December 23,1964, to Karen Lee Vedder and Edward Louis Severson and his parents divorced in 1965, when Vedder was an infant. His mother soon remarried, to a man named Peter Mueller, Vedder was raised believing that Mueller was his biological father, and he went by the name Edward Mueller for a time. Vedders ancestry includes German and Danish, while living in Evanston, Vedders family fostered seven younger children in a group home. In the mid-1970s, the family, including Vedders three younger half-brothers, moved to San Diego County, California and it was at this point that Vedder, who had received a guitar from his mother on his twelfth birthday, began turning to music as a source of comfort. He particularly found solace in The Whos 1973 album, Quadrophenia and he said, When I was around 15 or 16. I was all alone—except for music and his mother and Mueller divorced when Vedder was in his late teens. His mother and brothers moved back to the Chicago area, after the divorce, Vedder learned the truth about his parentage, Mueller was really his stepfather. Vedder had met his father briefly as a child, but had believed that Severson was merely an old friend of his parents. By the time Vedder learned the truth, Severson had died of multiple sclerosis, by his senior year at San Dieguito High School, Vedder was on his own, living in an apartment and supporting himself with a nightly job at a drug store in Encinitas. He eventually dropped out of school in his senior year due to the pressures of balancing school with working. He joined the rest of his family in Chicago, and it was at time that he changed his name to Eddie Vedder, Vedder being his mothers maiden name. In the early 1980s, while working as a waiter, Eddie earned his high school GED, in 1984, Vedder returned to San Diego, with his girlfriend, Beth Liebling. He kept busy recording demo tapes at his home and working various jobs, Vedder had several stints in San Diego area bands, including Surf and Destroy and The Butts. One of those bands, called Indian Style, included future Rage Against the Machine, in 1988, Vedder became the vocalist for the San Diego progressive funk rock band Bad Radio
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Bayleaf (album)
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Bayleaf is the first solo studio album by Pearl Jam guitarist Stone Gossard. It was released on September 11,2001, on Epic Records, the album features ten songs written over a span of four to five years. The album was recorded by Gossard over a 2 1⁄2-year period in Seattle, Washington, Gossard worked with producer Pete Droge. Gossard sang lead vocals on seven out of the ten tracks, while guest vocalists Pete Droge. Gossard also contributed drums and piano to the album, as well as guitar, bass, former Pearl Jam drummer Matt Chamberlain contributed his drumming to two tracks, Bore Me and Fits. The album was mixed by Matt Bayles, the albums cover art was illustrated by Beth Haidle. The albums songs feature a sound influenced by Frank Black, Rufus Wainwright. The album charted at number 37 on Billboards Top Heatseekers chart, greg Prato of Allmusic said, While not as strong as his output with Brad, Bayleaf still has its moments. All tracks written by Stone Gossard, japanese bonus track All tracks written by Gossard
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Rock and Roll Hall of Fame
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The Rock and Roll Hall of Fame and Museum is a hall of fame and museum located on the shore of Lake Erie in downtown Cleveland, Ohio, United States. In 1986, Cleveland was chosen as the hall of fames permanent home.8 billion, the Foundation began inducting artists in 1986, but the Hall of Fame still had no home. The search committee considered several cities, including Philadelphia, Memphis, Detroit, Cincinnati, New York City, Cleveland was also one of the premier tour stops for most rock bands. Civic leaders in Cleveland pledged $65 million in money to fund the construction. A petition drive was signed by 600,000 fans favoring Cleveland over Memphis, on May 5,1986, the Hall of Fame Foundation chose Cleveland as the permanent home of the Rock and Roll Hall of Fame and Museum. Sam Phillips of Sun Studios fame and many others were stunned and disappointed that it ended up in Cleveland, the hall of fame shouldve been in Memphis, certainly, wrote Peter Guralnick, author of an acclaimed two-volume Elvis Presley biography. Cleveland may also have chosen as the organizations site because the city offered the best financial package. As The Plain Dealer music critic Michael Norman noted, It was $65 million, Cleveland wanted it here and put up the money. During early discussions on where to build the Hall of Fame and Museum, ultimately, the chosen location was along East Ninth Street in downtown Cleveland by Lake Erie, east of Cleveland Stadium. Initial CEO Dr. Larry R. Thompson facilitated I. M. Pei in designs for the site, Pei came up with the idea of a tower with a glass pyramid protruding from it. The museum tower was planned to stand 200 ft high. The buildings base is approximately 150,000 square feet, the groundbreaking ceremony took place on June 7,1993. Pete Townshend, Chuck Berry, Billy Joel, Sam Phillips, Ruth Brown, Sam Moore of Sam and Dave, Carl Gardner of the Coasters and Dave Pirner of Soul Asylum all appeared at the groundbreaking. The museum was dedicated on September 1,1995, with the ribbon being cut by an ensemble that included Yoko Ono and Little Richard, among others, the following night an all-star concert was held at the stadium. It featured Chuck Berry, Bob Dylan, Al Green, Jerry Lee Lewis, Aretha Franklin, Bruce Springsteen, Iggy Pop, John Fogerty, John Mellencamp, and many others. In addition to the Hall of Fame inductees, the documents the entire history of rock and roll. Hall of Fame inductees are honored in an exhibit located in a wing that juts out over Lake Erie. Since 1986, the Rock and Roll Hall of Fame has selected new inductees, the formal induction ceremony has been held in New York City 25 times, twice in Los Angeles, and four times in the Hall of Fames home in Cleveland
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Soundgarden
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Soundgarden is an American rock band formed in Seattle, Washington, in 1984 by singer and rhythm guitarist Chris Cornell, lead guitarist Kim Thayil, and bassist Hiro Yamamoto. Matt Cameron became the bands drummer in 1986, while bassist Ben Shepherd became a permanent replacement for Yamamoto in 1990. Soundgarden was one of the bands in the creation of grunge, a style of alternative rock that developed in Seattle. In 1997, the broke up due to internal strife over its creative direction. After more than a decade of working on projects and other bands, Soundgarden reunited in 2010 and their studio album. As of 2012, Soundgarden had sold more than 10.5 million records in the United States, vH1 ranked Soundgarden at number 14 in their special 100 Greatest Artists of Hard Rock. Soundgardens origins can be found in a band called The Shemps, which performed around Seattle in the early 1980s, following Yamamotos departure, the band recruited guitarist Kim Thayil as its new bassist. Soundgarden was formed in 1984 by Cornell, Yamamoto, and Thayil, Cornell originally played drums while singing, but in 1985 the band enlisted Scott Sundquist to allow Cornell to concentrate on vocals. The band traveled around playing various concerts with this line-up for about a year and their first recordings were three songs that appeared on the 1986 compilation album for C/Z Records called Deep Six. It also featured songs by fellow grunge pioneers Green River, Skin Yard, Malfunkshun, The U-Men, in 1986, Sundquist left the band to spend time with his family, and was replaced by Matt Cameron, the drummer from Skin Yard. KCMU DJ Jonathan Poneman was impressed after seeing Soundgarden perform one night, later saying, Poneman offered to fund a release by the band, so Thayil told him to team up with Bruce Pavitt. Poneman offered to contribute $20,000 in funding for Sub Pop, Soundgarden signed to Sub Pop, and the label released Hunted Down in 1987 as the bands first single. Through Sub Pop, the released the Screaming Life EP in 1987. A combination of the two was issued as Screaming Life/Fopp in 1990, though the band was being courted by major labels, in 1988 it signed to the independent label SST Records for its debut album, Ultramega OK, released on October 31,1988. Cornell said that the band made a mistake with Ultramega OK since they used a producer suggested by SST who didnt know what was happening in Seattle. On that album, Soundgarden demonstrates, according to Steve Huey of AllMusic, the bands first music video, Flower, was directed by Mark Miremont, and aired regularly on MTVs 120 Minutes. Soundgarden supported Ultramega OK with a tour in the United States in the spring of 1989 and a tour in Europe, Ultramega OK earned the band a Grammy Award nomination for Best Metal Performance in 1990. After touring in support of Ultramega OK the band signed with A&M Records, Thayil said, In the beginning, our fans came from the punk rock crowd
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Ben Shepherd
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Hunter Benedict Ben Shepherd is an American musician best known for playing bass in the rock band Soundgarden since 1990. Shepherd was born on an American military base in Okinawa, Japan and his father worked in the Nike missile program and played the guitar. His family moved to Texas, then settled in Kingston, Washington, Shepherd became interested in music after listening to Johnny Cash on television, sitting as close to the speakers as possible. When Shepherd asked his father for a guitar, his father complied only after insisting he must learn every chord in a book with nothing. Shepherd did such with help from his cousin Ralph Tony McMullen, Shepherd would later travel with Nirvana on a tour leading up to the release of Nevermind, being a nominal second guitarist but not playing on stage. Shepherd was a fan of Soundgarden ever since their days as a three-piece. Once bassist Hiro Yamamoto left in 1989, Shepherd auditioned to replace him even as his instrument was the guitar. The band members liked Shepherd and his attitude, but given he did not know how to play the songs, following the closure of the Louder Than Love tour in 1990, Everman was fired, and the band contacted Shepherd to see if he could join the band. In addition to his role as player, Shepherds role as a singer and songwriter increased during his tenure with Soundgarden. On his first recording with the band, the studio album Badmotorfinger, Shepherd took part in writing the songs, Slaves & Bulldozers, Jesus Christ Pose, Face Pollution. Shepherd also introduced some of the now signature alternate tunings to the band, such as in the singles The Day I Tried To Live, My Wave, Pretty Noose, and Burden in My Hand. In 1993, Shepherd and Soundgarden drummer Matt Cameron formed a band called Hater with John McBain of Monster Magnet. Shepherd sang vocals and played guitar in Hater, in addition to writing songs on the bands first release. A second album called The 2nd was recorded in 1995 after Superunknown tours end, in 1994, Soundgarden released Superunknown, which featured Shepherd compositions Half and Head Down. Half was marked by an Indian flavor and was the first song on a Soundgarden album for which Shepherd sang lead vocals, Shepherd has said that Half was a song he wrote in case his daughter ever wanted to learn guitar. In 1996, Soundgarden released Down on the Upside, in six of the sixteen album tracks were lyrically and/or musically composed by Shepherd. The tracks were, Zero Chance, Dusty, Ty Cobb, Never Named Switch Opens, Shepherd once said he penned the music for Never Named at the age of sixteen. Ty Cobb was the first song Shepherd wrote that was made a single, the Down on the Upside tour ended on February 9,1997 in Honolulu, with an acrimonious meltdown started by Shepherd
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Jonathan Evison
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Jonathan Evison, is an American writer best known for his novels All About Lulu, West of Here, The Revised Fundamentals of Caregiving and This is Your Life Harriet Chance. His work, often distinguished by its emotional resonance and offbeat humor, has been compared by critics to a variety of authors, most notably J. D. Salinger, Charles Dickens, sherman Alexie has called Evison the most honest white man alive. The L Magazine included All About Lulu in its Best Books of the Decade, Evisons second novel, the New York Times Bestselling West of Here, was released in 2011 by Algonquin Books. West of Here won the 2012 Pacific Northwest Booksellers Association Award and the Booklist Editors Choice Award, editor Chuck Adams has called West of Here the best novel hes worked on in over four decades of publishing. His third novel, The Revised Fundamentals of Caregiving, released in 2012, was widely acclaimed. In the New York Times, Janet Maslin called the novel Evisons most stealthily powerful novel. Upon its release, The Revised Fundamentals of Caregiving was optioned for film by Rob Burnett of Worldwide Pants, and was produced in 2015, starring Paul Rudd, Selena Gomez, the film was released in 2016 as a Netflix original. Evisons fourth novel, This is Your Life, Harriet Chance. was published in fall of 2015, and soon after optioned by Focus Features and his fifth novel, Mike Munoz Saves the World. Is scheduled for publication in 2017 and he is the executive editor of The Nervous Breakdown, where among other duties, he curates the national book club. He was the first guest on author and podcaster Brad Listis podcast Other People, Evison was born in San Jose, California, September 27,1968, the youngest of five children. In 1976, his mother relocated the family to Bainbridge Island, Washington and he credits his third grade teacher for making a writer out of him, A lot of stuff, including my sister’s death, and my parents’ crumbling marriage, made for a rough patch around then. Also, my mania was practically off the charts, in his teens, Evison was the founding member and frontman of the Seattle punk band March of Crimes, which included future members of Pearl Jam and Soundgarden. He graduated from Bainbridge High School in 1986, before moving back to California to care for his agoraphobic grandmother and he attended community college at College of San Mateo off and on for three years, never receiving a degree. Evison allegedly wrote six unpublished novels before the publication of All About Lulu, while working as a laborer, a caregiver, a bartender, a telemarketer, a car salesman, and a syndicated radio host. In this latter incarnation, he was the writer, producer, Evison is renowned for his extensive and colorful book touring, and his love of beer. In 2009 and 2011 he was nominated by the American Book Association as Most Engaging Author and he lives on the Olympic Peninsula in Washington state with his wife and two children. All About Lulu West of Here The Revised Fundamentals of Caregiving This Is Your Life, Harriet Chance
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Mudhoney
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Mudhoney is an American alternative rock band. Original bassist Matt Lukin left the band in 1999, mudhoneys early releases on the Sub Pop label, particularly their debut single Touch Me Im Sick and the Superfuzz Bigmuff EP, were massively influential on the Seattle music scene. More than almost any other release of the era they inspired the dirty, later on, Mudhoney also mixed heavy blues rock and punk rock into their sound at various stages. Although the band has little commercial success during its long career. Mudhoney started in Bellevue, Washington, a suburb of Seattle in 1980, while at Bellevue Christian High School, Mark McLaughlin and some friends started Mr. Epp and the Calculations, a band named after a math teacher of his. Mr. Epp and the Calculations played their first real show in 1981, to make the band seem more serious, Mr. Epp added a second guitarist Steve Turner, who was in a small garage band called The Ducky Boys. Mark Arm and Steve Turner became instant friends, Mr. Epp and the Calculations appeared on KZAM-AM radio and were introduced as the worst band in the world. They played their last show on February 3,1984 with Malfunkshun at Seattles Metropolis, Mark Arm and Steve Turner formed a joke-punk band called The Limp Richerds in 1984 near the end of Mr. Epp but this band ended shortly after Mr. Epps ending as well. Green River was formed in 1984 when Arm and Turner recruited Alex Vincent as drummer, bassist Jeff Ament joined the band after arriving in Seattle with his band Deranged Diction. Stone Gossard, another of Turners former bandmates, was recruited as second guitarist, green River recorded their debut EP, Come on Down, in 1985, and it is often regarded as the first true grunge record. Turner left the band after its due to his distaste of the bands hard rock leanings. He was replaced by another Deranged Diction member, Bruce Fairweather, after recording another EP and a full-length album, the band disbanded in late 1987. Gossard, Ament, and Fairweather went on to join Mother Love Bone, following lead singer Andrew Woods death, Gossard and Ament went on to form Pearl Jam, and Fairweather joined Love Battery. In January 1988, Arm reunited with Turner to form Mudhoney, Turner wanted to start a band that rehearsed before playing to a live audience. He and Arm began songwriting with Bundle of Hiss drummer Dan Peters, the trio decided that Matt Lukin, who had recently left Melvins, should join the band as bassist. They named themselves after the Russ Meyer film Mudhoney, in 1988, the band recorded and released their debut EP, Superfuzz Bigmuff, and their first single, Touch Me Im Sick, on the Sub Pop label. The single attracted attention and the band enjoyed success in the United States. Mudhoney quickly became Sub Pops flagship band, sonic Youth, who were fans of the band, had invited Mudhoney to join them for a tour in the UK in 1989
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Steve Turner (guitarist)
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Steven Neil Turner is an American guitarist, most famous for his work with Seattle band Mudhoney. Turner was born in 1965 in Houston, Texas and his first band was called The Ducky Boys. The line up included future Pearl Jam member Stone Gossard, the Ducky Boys split around 1983. Turner later found Mark Arm in Mr. Epp and the Calculations, Mr. Epp played their final show with Turner in 1984. Turner was also present in Green River which again featured Arm and Gossard, Turner left the band in 1984, citing differences with the careerist Ament. Arm and Turner brought Mudhoney into existence on New Years Day,1988, the Melvins bassist Matt Lukin was brought in, as was Dan Peters on drums. With Mudhoney, Turner recorded all their albums from Superfuzz Bigmuff in 1988 to Vanishing Point in 2013, Turner also appears in sideprojects such as The Thrown Ups, Monkeywrench, The Fall Outs and has his own side project of solo recordings in a folk-vein
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Northwest School
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The Northwest School is an independent day and boarding school located on Seattle, Washingtons First Hill. The school was founded in 1980 and is located in the 1905 Summit School building. The schools student body includes approximately 500 day and boarding students, in grades 6-12, the school has attracted international students for decades, and international opportunities for domestic students range from Central America to Ethiopia. The Northwest School was founded in 1980 by Ellen Taussig, Paul Raymond, michael J. McGill has served as head of school since 2011. He previously served as Upper School Principal of The Park School of Baltimore, alongside the historic Summit School building and the schools dormitory for boarding students, modern additions to the Northwest campus were completed in 2006 and 2014. The schools Humanities program encompasses history, Literature and art history in a lecture, all high school students take a three-year Humanities core program, one year each of Physical Science, Biology, and Chemistry, and a minimum of three years each of mathematics and a foreign language. Students take two fine art each year, and must complete at least one class each of theater, visual art, music. Fine Arts classes are taught by recognized practitioners, the social studies seminar requires completion of two senior projects, volunteer activity with a political campaign during the fall and a written thesis during the second half of the year. Seniors simultaneously continue with an academic course load that includes 2-3 courses from the mathematics, science, or language departments. Through the schools foundational Environment Program, students are responsible for the upkeep of the school. During a short environment period three times per week, students undertake campus maintenance and cleaning in teams led by seniors and this program is designed to foster student responsibility for the local environment and community, and to develop leadership among the upper school students. Larger-scale projects are handled by the maintenance staff. Additional annual festivals include the ArtsFest student arts exposition and the Winterfest celebration of the sciences, a weekly community meeting assembly brings the school together for announcements, discussions and performances. The schools Outdoor Program provides a range of opportunities for students to experience the environment of the Pacific Northwest. The program is designed to develop lifelong recreational skills and habits, with an emphasis on environmental ethics, the schools policy on behavior is described as courtesy and common sense, which requires all members of the NWS school community to treat each other with mutual respect. When a student commits a severe disciplinary infraction, he or she is deemed to have initiated the process of withdrawal from the community, Entrance to Northwest is based on the Independent School Entrance Examination, reference letters, and a parental application. Students are not required to write essays to gain admission, sports played at Northwest include Soccer, Cross country running, Track and Field, Basketball, Volleyball, Ultimate Frisbee, and Fitness Team. The schools administration also works to facilitate student participation in city, regional and other sports, such as golf, swimming, water polo
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Mark Arm
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Mark Arm is the vocalist for the grunge band Mudhoney. His former group, Green River, is one of the first grunge bands, along with Malfunkshun, Soundgarden, Skin Yard, the U-Men and he is also the manager of the Sub Pop warehouse and previously worked at Fantagraphics Books. Mark Arm first entered the Seattle rock scene in 1980, when he formed a band, while attending Bellevue Christian High School, called Mr. Epp, the band played its first show in 1981, opening for the band Student Nurse. In 1982 they released a 7 EP, the next year they added a second guitarist, Steve Turner, and released a cassette. Mr. Epp and the Calculations came to an end the following year, after Mr. Epp and the Calculations ended, Mark Arm and Steve Turner joined the band Limp Richerds for a few weeks. Afterward, Arm and Turner took on future Pearl Jam members Jeff Ament and Stone Gossard, as well as Alex Vincent, Green River released two EPs and a full length album before disbanding. Steve Turner left the band to college, and Arm was forced to find a new band again. After Turner returned from schooling, they resumed their Green River side project, Arm and Turner took on drummer Dan Peters, and bassist Matt Lukin, formerly of Melvins. The new band renamed themselves Mudhoney, in 1988, Sub Pop released Mudhoneys first single, Touch Me Im Sick. After extensive touring and an EP album, Mudhoney released their eponymous full length debut in 1989 and their next album, Every Good Boy Deserves Fudge came out soon after, just before the explosion of grunge spearheaded by Nirvanas seminal Nevermind. At the time, Sub Pop, their label, was on the verge of bankruptcy, having trouble paying its flagship band. In 1992, they signed to a record label, Reprise and released Piece of Cake. the songs were kinda half-baked. Although they never achieved the fame of some of their contemporaries, Arm, when grunge exploded in the early 90s, Arm wrote a comedic nonfiction essay about smoking pot and going to the Clinton White House with Pearl Jam. In 2008, he told the Washington Posts Express, I dont smoke pot all that much, I did get stoned last night, though – after the show. Im not opposed smoking pot or to people smoking pot, Every now and again I smoke a joint, but I dont get stoned and come up with creative ideas. I usually get paralyzed on the couch, according to a recent article in magazine, MOJO, Mark Arm started using heroin in 1987 and by the summer of 1989. it had all caught up with me. Apparently, the band had little patience for his addiction, so he would use heroin when Mudhoney were off the road, so I was real used to quitting, Arm says. You go through these flu-like symptoms for a couple of days, Arm hit his nadir on New Years Eve 1992 when he overdosed for the fourth time
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Dry As a Bone
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Dry as a Bone is the second EP by the American rock band Green River. It was released in July 1987 through Sub Pop Records, the EP features the bands first material with guitarist Bruce Fairweather, formerly of bassist Jeff Aments previous band, Deranged Diction. In June 1986, the band began production on its second EP with local producer Jack Endino at Reciprocal Recording in Seattle, Green River chose to record Dry as a Bone for Bruce Pavitts new label, Sub Pop Records. However, Pavitt couldnt afford to release it until the year, and, as had happened with Come on Down. Dry as a Bone was finally released through Sub Pop Records in July 1987 and it was the new labels first non-compilation release. Dry as a Bone was promoted by Sub Pop as ultra-loose GRUNGE that destroyed the morals of a generation, the albums cover art was photographed by Charles Peterson. The song Ozzie was done originally by Tales of Terror, steve Huey of Allmusic has called it Green Rivers strongest individual release. perfecting their sleazy, raucous fusion of 70s hard rock and post-hardcore punk. It was reissued in 1990 along with the album Rehab Doll as the Dry as a Bone/Rehab Doll compilation album, one of the bonus tracks from the reissue, Searchin was recorded during the Dry as a Bone sessions. All lyrics written by Mark Arm, all composed by Jeff Ament, Bruce Fairweather, Stone Gossard
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Rehab Doll
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Rehab Doll is the first and only studio album by the American rock band Green River. It was released in June 1988 through Sub Pop Records, almost immediately following the release of Dry As a Bone, the group re-entered the studio in August 1987 to begin production on its first full-length album, Rehab Doll. Band in-fighting, though, took center stage over the music, a stylistic division developed between bassist Jeff Ament and guitarist Stone Gossard on one side, and vocalist Mark Arm on the other. Ament and Gossard wanted to pursue a deal, while Arm wanted to remain independent. On October 31,1987, Ament, Gossard and guitarist Bruce Fairweather stated their desire to quit the band, although the band members agreed to complete production of Rehab Doll during the next three months, Green River had by late October 1987 ceased as a band. The recording sessions for the album were completed in January 1988, the song Swallow My Pride originally appeared on the bands debut EP, Come on Down, and the song Together Well Never was previously released as a single through Tasque Force Records in 1986. Both songs were re-recorded for this album, the cassette version of Rehab Doll also contains a cover of the David Bowie song Queen Bitch. The albums cover art was photographed by Charles Peterson and a portion of the Frye Hotel in Seattle is seen in the background. The album was released in June 1988 on Sub Pop Records, ned Raggett of Allmusic called it a record that sounded caught somewhere between grunge mania and metal/corp rock folly. It was reissued in 1990 as part of the Dry As a Bone/Rehab Doll compilation album, all lyrics written by Mark Arm, all music composed by Jeff Ament, Bruce Fairweather, Stone Gossard, and Alex Vincent, except where noted
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Andrew Wood (singer)
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Andrew Patrick Wood was an American musician best known as the lead singer for alternative rock bands Malfunkshun and Mother Love Bone. Wood was also known for his flamboyance, Wood formed Malfunkshun, in 1980, with his brother Kevin and Regan Hagar. The band used alter ego personas onstage, with Wood using the name Landrew the Love Child, during his time in Malfunkshun, Wood started relying heavily on drugs, entering rehab in 1985. By 1988, Malfunkshun had disbanded and Wood began jamming with Green River members Stone Gossard and they soon began writing original material and formed Mother Love Bone the same year, adding guitarist Bruce Fairweather and drummer Greg Gilmore to the lineup. The following year, the signed a deal with PolyGram, issuing a six-song EP, Shine, before going on to tour. Towards the end of the year, the recorded their debut album, Apple. Due to his struggle with addiction, Wood checked himself into rehab in 1989. On March 16,1990, Wood was found in a state by his girlfriend, Xana La Fuente. Wood was taken to the hospital and placed on life support, Wood was born in Columbus, Mississippi, and raised on Bainbridge Island, Washington. He was the youngest of three children, brothers Kevin and Brian, Wood and his brothers were exposed to various types of music by their parents, who also supported their children when they were learning how to play instruments. Wood became a fan of such as Elton John, Queen, Aerosmith. In 1980, at the age of 14, Wood formed Malfunkshun with his brother Kevin, drummer Regan Hagar joined soon after with the band, playing shows in Seattle, Washington. Each member adopted onstage alter egos, with Andrew becoming Landrew the Love Child, Kevin becoming Kevinstein, by 1985, Wood had started to rely heavily on drugs to help with his rock star persona, and entered rehab the same year. Malfunkshun recorded a number of demos in 1986, two of which, With Yo Heart and Stars-n-You, were included on the legendary Deep Six compilation album released by C/Z Records the same year. The band continued to play shows in Seattle, opening for Soundgarden, The U-Men, Wood and Hagar began playing with Stone Gossard and Jeff Ament of Green River, which disbanded in 1988, performing, on occasion, as the cover band Lords of the Wasteland. Former Green River guitarist Bruce Fairweather was added to the lineup, while former 10 Minute Warning and Skin Yard drummer Greg Gilmore replaced Hagar, forming Mother Love Bone the same year. The band soon signed a deal with PolyGram, and, through their own subsidiary label Stardog, issued a six-song EP, Shine, John Book, of Allmusic, stated that the EP contributed to the buzz about the Seattle music scene. The band spent the rest of the touring, including shows supporting The Dogs DAmour
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Skin Yard
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Skin Yard was an American grunge band from Seattle, Washington, who were active from 1985 to 1993. The group never gained an audience, but were an influence on several of their grunge contemporaries, including Soundgarden, Screaming Trees, The Melvins. The band was formed in January 1985 by Daniel House and Jack Endino, Skin Yard played its first official concert in June 1985, opening for the U-Men. In 1986, Skin Yard contributed two songs to the now-legendary Deep Six compilation and this album, in addition to featuring the first commercial recordings of The Melvins, Soundgarden, Malfunkshun and Skin Yard, was the first to showcase the early grunge sound. That same year, Skin Yard released their debut album and their first single. Shortly after these releases, drummer Matt Cameron left the band to join Soundgarden and he was initially replaced by Steve Wied, followed by Greg Gilmore, however both drummers lasted only two shows. In the fall, Jason Finn joined, but left after eight months for personal reasons, Scott McCullum filled the vacancy in May 1987 and he remained for two years, during which time the band recorded and released their second album, Hallowed Ground. However, McCullum left and the took a fourteen-month hiatus after a U. S. tour quoted as being the tour from hell. Skin Yard returned in 1990 with their album, Fist Sized Chunks. In 1991, as grunge was breaking into the mainstream, the released their fourth album,1,000 Smiling Knuckles. That same year, original bassist Daniel House left the band to more time with his family. He was replaced by Pat Pedersen, who stayed with the band for the recording of their album, Inside the Eye. After recording was completed, Skin Yard decided to disband, prior to the breakup, Ben McMillan and Scott McCullum had started the band Gruntruck as a side-project, and continued to perform with the band after Skin Yards demise. By the time Gruntruck disbanded, they had released two albums and one EP, Ben McMillan died from diabetes in 2008. Pat Pedersen and Barrett Martin worked with Jack Endino on his solo album Endinos Earthworm, Endino also released two other solo albums, Angle of Attack and Permanent Fatal Error. Endino has largely switched from working as a performer to working as a music producer and he produced several albums by the grunge bands Soundgarden and Mudhoney, more recently he has produced albums by artists such as Hot Hot Heat and ZEKE. Daniel House, as owner and president of C/Z Records, continued to release records until 2001 when he released the Skin Yard rarities album, Barrett Martin joined Screaming Trees and drummed on their albums Sweet Oblivion and Dust. Screaming Trees went on hiatus and finally broke up in 2000, Martin has also toured with R. E. M
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Greg Gilmore
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Greg Gilmore is a musician in Seattle, Washington, and co-founder of the recording label First World Music. Although born in France, Gilmore grew up in the Seattle area. A, in the ensuing years, Gilmore would collaborate with a wide variety of musicians on releases such as, Lands Archipelago and Dogheads eponymous 1996 release. In the liner notes of Down on the Upside, Soundgarden guitarist Kim Thayil credits Gilmore with inspiration for the song Never the Machine Forever,1999 saw the release of the eponymous debut album by Radio Chongqing, which Gilmore recorded with bandmates Lesli Dalaba and George Soler. As of 2007 he has been playing with Steve Fisk and working on other recording projects. Studio albums Apple by Mother Love Bone Archipelago by Land
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PolyGram
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PolyGram was a Dutch entertainment company, a division of Seagram. It started as a record label recording company founded by Philips. The name was chosen to reflect the Siemens interest Polydor Records, the company traced its origins through Deutsche Grammophon back to the inventor of the flat disk gramophone, Emil Berliner. Later on, PolyGram expanded into the largest global entertainment company, creating film, in May 1998, it was sold to Seagram which owned MCA Inc. PolyGram Music Group was merged into Universal Music Group, and PolyGram Filmed Entertainment was merged into Universal Pictures. When the new company faced difficulties, its parent Seagram was sold in large part to Vivendi. Vivendi is the current owner of UMG, in February 2017, Polygram Entertainment was re-launched as the film & television division of Universal Music Group. In 1929, Decca Records licensed record shop owner H. W. Van Zoelen as a distributor in the Netherlands, by 1931, his company Hollandsche Decca Distributie had become exclusive Decca distributor for all of the Netherlands and its colonies. Over the course of the 1930s, HDD put together its own facilities for A&R, recording, HDD was commercially successful during World War II because of the absence of American and British competition. Van Zoelen wanted to sell to Philips so that HDD would have sufficient financial backing when their major competitors returned after the war and this led Philips to purchase HDD in 1942. Philips labs were developing magnetic tape and LPs, and they could support eventual new formats, after the war, Philips built a large factory in Doetinchem to produce 78 rpm records. During the late 1940s, Philips combined its various businesses into Philips Phonografische Industrie. PPIs early growth was based on alliances, a merger was first proposed with Decca of London in late 1945, but was rejected by Edward Lewis, Deccas owner. In the early 1950s, Philips set itself the goal of making PPI the largest record company in Europe, PPIs second attempt at a merger was with Deutsche Grammophon Gesellschaft. DGG, owned by Siemens AG, and well known for its repertoire, had been the German licensee for Decca from 1935. PPI and DGG finally merged in 1962, the alliance with DGG still left PPI without repertoire in Britain or the United States. But in 1951, after Columbia had failed to renew its international distribution agreement with EMI, Columbia became PPIs distributor within the US. This agreement ran until 1961 when Columbia set up its own European network, PPI signed a worldwide distribution deal with Mercury Records in 1961
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Shine (Mother Love Bone EP)
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Shine is the debut EP by the American rock band Mother Love Bone. It was released on March 20,1989 through Stardog/Mercury Records, the EP was recorded in November 1988 at London Bridge Studios in Seattle, Washington with producer Mark Dearnley. Dearnley also mixed the album, Charles Peterson photographed the cover art, with the exception of the over eight minute long Chloe Dancer/Crown of Thorns, a majority of the songs here draw upon the bands rawer side. Vocalist Andrew Woods dreamy lyrics are sung in a tenor heavily reminiscent of Led Zeppelin frontman Robert Plant, Mother Love Bone became the first of the new crop of Seattle bands to have a release on a major label. The record sold well and rapidly increased the hype surrounding the band, john Book of Allmusic said the record contributed to the buzz about the Seattle music scene. This whole release was reissued on the Mother Love Bone compilation album in 1992. All lyrics written by Andrew Wood, all composed by Jeff Ament, Bruce Fairweather, Greg Gilmore, Stone Gossard. CD bonus track All lyrics written by Wood, all composed by Ament, Fairweather, Gilmore, Gossard. ^ I Capricorn Sister contains the hidden track Zanzibar at 4,07
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Apple (album)
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Apple is the only full-length studio album by the American alternative rock band Mother Love Bone. It was released on July 19,1990 through Stardog/Mercury Records, in September 1989, the group returned to the studio to record its debut album Apple with producer Terry Date at The Plant recording studio in Sausalito, California. The band finished the album in November 1989 at London Bridge Studios in Seattle, compared with the bands debut EP, Shine, vocalist Andrew Woods vocal stylings are more mature, drawing heavily upon similar techniques of guitarist and singer Marc Bolan. Crown of Thorns originally appeared on Shine, however on Apple the song is missing the opening Chloe Dancer, the album was mixed by Tim Palmer. The albums cover art was photographed by Lance Mercer, despite some initial difficulties, the record was on-time for its projected March 1990 release. By early 1990 interest in the band had hit a fever pitch, only days before Apple was slated to be released, however, Wood overdosed on heroin. After spending a few days in the hospital in a coma, Wood died, the album would see release later that year in July. The album eventually charted at number 34 on Billboards Top Heatseekers chart in 1992, kim Neely of Rolling Stone said that the album succeeds where countless other hard-rock albums have failed, capturing the essence of what made Zep immortal – dynamics, kids. – and giving it a unique Nineties spin, a music video was made for the song Stardog Champion. The entire album later appeared on the 1992 compilation album, Mother Love Bone and it was also remastered and reissued on September 8,2003 by the UK-based Lemon Recordings. In 2005, Apple was ranked number 462 in Rock Hard magazines book of The 500 Greatest Rock & Metal Albums of All Time, All songs written by Jeff Ament, Bruce Fairweather, Greg Gilmore, Stone Gossard, and Andrew Wood. Danny Boy –4,50 Crown of Thorns –6,18 Reissue bonus track Lady Godiva Blues –3,40
