Patterned after hard rock power trios such as Cream, the band, with Terry Knight's marketing savvy, developed its own popular style.

While one or more band members may sing, power trios usually emphasize instrumental performance and overall impact over vocals and lyrics.

The prototypical power trios were exemplified by late 1960s-era blues-rock / hard rock bands The Jimi Hendrix Experience, Cream, Grand Funk Railroad and The James Gang.

Well-known 1970s-era power trios include the Canadian progressive rock group Rush ; The American band out of Texas ZZ Top, the British heavy metal band Motörhead ; The Jam ; Robin Trower and The Police.

Keyboard-oriented power trios using electronic organ ( or synthesizer in the 1970s ) also emerged, such as Atomic Rooster, the guitar-less incarnations of Soft Machine and The Nice, and progressive rock band Emerson, Lake & Palmer.

Other Latin rock power trios include Divididos, Invisible, A. N. I. M. A. L., Los Prisioneros and ( in their beginnings ) Leusemia.

Although power trios fell out of fashion in mainstream rock during the early 1980s, the rise of post-punk and indie rock in the later 1980s and throughout the 1990s featured many trios, such as grunge band Nirvana and pop-punk bands such as Green Day and Blink-182.

One of the biggest power trios of today is the British band Muse.

The emphasis on guitar solos and crashing rhythm sections in the power trio contributed to the development of heavy metal, although some power trios would prefer hard rock labels.

The prototypical power trios were exemplified by The Jimi Hendrix Experience, Blue Cheer, Grand Funk Railroad and Cream, who popularized the format during the 1960s.

These three groups laid down the framework for all other subsequent power trios: extended improvisation, hyperamplification through walls of amplifiers and cabinets, and the use of effects ( such as delay, distortion, flangers, fuzz bass, wah pedals, etc.

Thereafter, other keyboard-oriented power trios also emerged such as Atomic Rooster, the guitar-less incarnations of Soft Machine and The Nice, and perhaps the most successful, Emerson, Lake & Palmer ( formed from Atomic Rooster and The Nice keyboard trios ).

Although none of these were ever particularly identified as such, the music that they created is influenced by, and follows the same musical format as, many of the pioneering power trios.

Some power trios also experimented with keyboards and sequencers in the studio, most notably the Canadian trio Rush, whose bassist-frontman Geddy Lee has often demonstrated his multi-instrumental capabilities on diverse rock albums such as 1977's A Farewell to Kings and 1985's Power Windows.

Although power trios fell out of fashion in mainstream rock during the 1980s, the rise of post-punk and indie rock in the 1980s and 1990s featured many trios.

Some power trios add to the fullness of their sound by using bass pedalboards, which are keyboards played by the feet.

This is seen, for instance, in Beethoven's trios, and was likely in part the result of the increase in the power and sonority of the piano that took place during Beethoven's career, making it more feasible for the piano to play independently in an ensemble.

The electric guitar playing of Jimi Hendrix ( a veteran of many American rhythm & blues and soul groups from the early-mid 1960s ) and his power trios, The Jimi Hendrix Experience and Band of Gypsys, has had broad and lasting influence on the development of blues rock, especially for guitarists.

The two shared a love for 1960s power trios like Cream, The Jimi Hendrix Experience, the James Gang and Mountain.

Key acts included Paul Butterfield ( whose band acted like Mayall's Bluesbreakers in Britain as a starting point for many successful musicians ), Canned Heat, the early Jefferson Airplane, Janis Joplin, Johnny Winter, The J. Geils Band and Jimi Hendrix with his power trios, The Jimi Hendrix Experience and Band of Gypsys, whose guitar virtuosity and showmanship would be among the most emulated of the decade.

Regardless of rights and wrongs, a population and an area appropriate to a pre-World-War- 1 great power have been, following conquest, ruled against their will by a neighboring people, and have had imposed upon them social and economic controls they dislike.

To carry out this exalted conception the author has combined the vivid realism and imaginative power we have noticed in his early poetry and carried them out on a grand scale.

Instead it means that the thinking in which decision issues has the power to determine the morality of the decision, as in this instance the pressure for renewed practical or legislative attention to the constitutional problems the decision had uncovered might have done.

We experience a vague uneasiness about events, a suspicion that our political and economic institutions, like the genie in the bottle, have escaped confinement and that we have lost the power to recall them.

The men who speculate on these institutions have, for the most part, come to at least one common conclusion: that many of the great enterprises and associations around which our democracy is formed are in themselves autocratic in nature, and possessed of power which can be used to frustrate the citizen who is trying to assert his individuality in the modern world ''.

The Burmese appeared to have little knowledge of British power or any idea of trade.

In the arena of power Jews have at one time or another been somebody's ally ; ;

What I want is to have this evidence come before Congress and if the Attorney General does not report it, as I am very sure he won't, as he has refused to do anything of the kind, I then wish that a committee of seven Representatives be appointed with power to take the evidence.

His whole objection, indeed, seems to rise out of a deep conviction that the poets do have great power to influence, but Plato seldom pays any attention to what might be called the poem itself.

The power of every ecclesiastical organization has always rested on the miracle, and the clergy have always proved their divine commission as did Elijah ''.

To Adams that age in which religion exercised power over the entire culture of the race was one of imagination, and it is largely the admiration he so obviously held for such eras that betrays a peculiar religiosity -- a sentiment he would have probably denied.

It is good to know that Georgia will continue to have sufficient electrical power not only to meet the demands of normal growth but to encourage a more rapid rate of industrialization.

State Controller Arthur Levitt, on the other hand, cannot effectively deny that he has chosen to be the candidate of those party leaders who as a rule have shown livelier interest in political power than in the city's welfare.

Ultimately either the Trujillos would have been returned to power or the conflict would have produced conditions favorable to a takeover by Dominican elements responsive to Castro in Cuba.

If any one of them has any power to veto the Secretary General's decisions the nature of the organization will have changed.

The Secretary General must have, subject to the constitutional direction of the Security Council and the General Assembly, the power to act, to propose action and to organize action without being hobbled by advisers and assistants acting on someone else's instructions.

Top scientists have warned that an area hit by an atomic missile of massive power would be engulfed in a suffocating fire storm which would persist for a long time.

Ashamed of our wealth and power, afraid of so-called world opinion and addicted to peace, we have allowed our soft-heartedness to lead to soft-headed policies.

The night after reading her letter about her surgeon uncle -- it must have been late in September -- I had a vision of myself returned in ragged uniform from The Front, nearly dying, my head bandaged and blooded, and Jessica bending over me, the power of her love bringing me back to life.

Similarly, on the regional channels many class 3, stations have been assigned either to operate daytime only or to operate nighttime with directional antennas and/or lower power.

( Actually, a nilpotent operator on an n-dimensional space must have its T power 0 ; ;

The concentration of effective power in Rabat leads not only to party bickering, but to distraction from local activity that might have had many auxiliary benefits in addition to contributing to more meaningful elections.