According to Ramones drummer Tommy Ramone, " In its initial form, a lot of stuff was innovative and exciting.

According to Yes drummer Alan White, Toledo was especially memorable for a sweltering-hot 1977 show the group did at Toledo Sports Arena.

According to an interview conducted in 1989, he explained the reason he wasn't handcuffed was that the policeman driving the car used to be a drummer in a semi-professional band which had supported The Yardbirds on one of its US college tours in the late-1960s.

According to a post made on the 25 May 2010 on the band's Myspace page, Barry, Diani and Fiocco are recording new material with new drummer Martin Davies.

According to the blog post, Melissa Auf der Maur would once again be bassist, with Micko Larkin replacing Eric Erlandson, and a drummer was not mentioned.

" According to the band's Ten Imaginary Years biography, between January and December of 1976, the shifting line-up for Malice featured several " other blokes ", with founding guitarist Marc Ceccagno being replaced by Porl Thompson, an early drummer known only as " Graham " replaced by Lol Tolhurst, and " Graham's brother " replaced for one show only by vocalist Martin Creasy.

According to a special issue of Kerrang !, former Nirvana drummer Dave Grohl turned down an approach by the band.

According to drummer, Ron Bushy ;" We went down to the Port Authority three times and waited for the helicopter, but it never showed up ".

According to drummer and bandleader Daniel Denis, all members read the short story in the studio and promptly improvised the piece.

According to their drummer Simon Kirke, Free's most popular song All Right Now was written by bassist Andy Fraser and singer Paul Rodgers in their dressing room in Dunelm House, after a set of slower material had failed to excite the audience .< ref >

According to Wayne, ” he is a 28 year old singer, songwriter, producer from Jacksonville, Florida who has a GREAT voice and will not only bring some fresh blood into the band but ; will also put a new spin on the Saliva sound .” Amaru was the frontman of his solo band Amaru, as well as the drummer for Burn Season.

According to drummer / bandmember Stewart Smith, this occurred because the keyboard he was using at the time did not have the letter " s " and he improvised with the number 5 on the keypad — a convenient reflection of the band name.

According to drummer, Neil Peart, they more-or-less felt pressured to perform because of Toronto being their hometown, although they are not the type to do one-off concert performances.

According to drummer Vinny Appice, there were rehearsals with Lee and Dio and recordings of those rehearsals still exist.

According to journalist Greg Pratt, " Assück were an incredible band with probably metal's best drummer Proctor, although no one ever mentions his name.

According to Small Faces drummer Kenney Jones, most of Immediate's assets and income were embezzled by one of the company's senior partners, who allegedly channelled the funds to offshore bank accounts.

According to Richard Carpenter in an interview, Karen always considered herself a " drummer who sang ".

According to one story, he was the originator of the slap-style when the drummer failed to appear for a show.

According to an interview published on Pitchfork Media on May 6, 2009, " keyboardist Marty Crandall and drummer Jesse Sandoval had been replaced by Ron Lewis from Grand Archives and the Fruit Bats on bass and Joe Plummer of Modest Mouse on drums ".

According to an interview with Myx, Raimund said he first auditioned as bassist while Buddy as drummer.

According to drummer Nick Mason, a suggestion for the title of the box set was The Big Bong Theory.

According to Pink Floyd drummer Nick Mason's book Inside Out: A Personal History of Pink Floyd, Pink Floyd almost got banned from the Boston Garden after their 1977 performances because the band, unknown to the venue's owners, used pyrotechnics during their performance ( the exploding pig for " Pigs ( Three Different Ones )" and firework displays on " Sheep " and " Money ").

According to drummer Sam Fogarino, the band is going on a hiatus and pursuing separate projects.

According to Iron Maiden's The Early Days DVD, he was introduced to the band by drummer Doug Sampson, an old friend of Harris ' from his days in the band ' Smiler '.

According to Billy Altman's liner notes to the Geffen / Universal compilation, Buddy Holly: The Definitive Collection, in addition to " True Love Ways ", during the October 1958 sessions at Decca's Pythian Temple, Holly also recorded two other songs, " It Doesn't Matter Anymore " and " Raining In My Heart.

According to the zoo, Billy is a common ancestor to most pygmy hippos in U. S. zoos today.

According to the Hot Springs, Ark., Sentinel Record newspaper, Billy Purl's gold lamé XERF jacket is part of the Rock ' n ' Roll Hall of Fame's border radio collection in Cleveland, Ohio.

According to Billy Gibbons of ZZ Top in an article that originally appeared in Vintage Guitar magazine, the guitars were run through " Black-Face " Twin Reverbs with both guitarists using external Fender " tank " reverb units and Gibson " Maestro " Fuzz-tones as distortion devices.

" According to Burke, his mother introduced him to Jimmy Reed and Ray Charles as well as that era's king of smooth, Billy Eckstein.

According to her account, she wrote the rest of the song with Jordan, but for tax reasons gave her songwriting credit to her partner at the time, Billy Foster.

" According to Christianity Today, " today on American college and high school campuses, the name most associated with the word Christian — other than Jesus — is not the Pope or Mother Teresa or even Billy Graham.

According to one authority, in conservative Protestant culture, his ministry had a worldwide impact second only to Billy Graham.

According to editor Billy Weber, Malick jettisoned much of the film's dialogue, replacing it with Manz's voice-over, which served as an oblique commentary on the story.

According to a report in The Times she later married a Tasmanian known as " King Billy " who died in March 1871.

According to the supplementary materials for some of the games, the fictional martial art style of Billy and Jimmy is named, a nod to Bruce Lee's fighting method of Jeet Kune Do, also known as the " Way of the Intercepting Fist ".

According to three interviews with Sam Sianis, William Sianis ' nephew-in-law, the Curse of the Billy Goat can be dispelled only by the Chicago Cubs organization's showing a sincere fondness for goats ; allowing them into Wrigley Field because they genuinely want to and not simply for publicity reasons.

According to his website, he has personally preached to over 120 million people, making him the second most influential Christian evangelist in history, after Billy Graham.

" According to Daphne, Billy rejected the family's traditional fishing background by announcing that he " hated the smell of fish, and was going to teach ballroom dancing.

According to Brooks, Henley was ' especially sadistic ' in his participation of the murders committed at 925 Schuler: before Corll vacated the address on June 26, Henley assisted Corll and Brooks in the abduction and murder of two youths named Billy Baulch and Johnny Delone.

According to Billy Graham's biography Just As I Am, Carlson invited Eisenhower to the Senate Prayer Breakfast, which thus became the first Presidential Prayer Breakfast, thereafter an annual assembly of all three branches of government, continuing to this day.

According to one edition of the comic in the 1980s Beanotown is apparently next to Whizztown ( home of Billy Whizz, however later comics contadict this and give Billy's home as Beanotown ), near the village of Bunkerton which has a castle where Lord Snooty lives, near the town of Burnham the home of Billy the Cat and Katie as well as being close to General Jumbo's hometown of Dinchester.

According to musician and writer Billy Vera :" Rock ' n ' roll was an evolutionary process – we just looked around and it was here .... To name any one record as the first would make any of us look a fool.

According to Charmin makers Procter & Gamble, a 1978 survey found that " Mr. Whipple " was the third best-known American, behind recently-ousted President Richard Nixon and evangelist Billy Graham.

According to Dream Theater ex-drummer Mike Portnoy, " It was like having Billy Joel singing in Queensrÿche.

According to the 2001 census, Billy Row has a population of 824.

According to one account, the earliest issues were mimeographed pamphlets, typed on a borrowed typewriter and peddled around Minneapolis by Captain Billy and his four sons.

According to Billy Childish: