Its shareholders Sid Bass and Roy E. Disney brought in Eisner and former Warner Brothers chief Frank Wells to replace Ron W. Miller in 1984 and strengthen the company.

The Isley Brothers ( ) are an American musical group consisting of brothers Ron and Ernie Isley.

As a result, the Spend the Night album was promoted by Ron Isley on his own following its release in 1989 and the group's moniker changed to " The Isley Brothers featuring Ronald Isley ".

In 2011, Ron and Ernie reunited to revamp the Isley Brothers as a performing unit, which they've remained.

After the break-up, Neville gained fame as part of The Neville Brothers, Modeliste toured with Keith Richards and Ron Wood, while Nocentelli and Porter " became in-demand session players and formed new bands.

Collins also appeared as a potential love interest / boyfriend for Ron Rifkin's character Saul Holden, on ABC's Brothers & Sisters, in fall of 2010.

1997 – Opens Sensation: Young British Art from the Saatchi Gallery at the Royal Academy featuring 42 artists including The Chapman Brothers, Marcus Harvey, Damien Hirst, Ron Mueck, Jenny Saville, Sarah Lucas & Tracey Emin.

Commercial pop songs that matched the up-tempo beat of the stompers were also played at some venues, including The Ron Grainer Orchestra ’ s instrumental " Theme From Joe 90 " at Wigan Casino and The Just Brothers ’ surf-guitar song " Sliced Tomatoes " at Blackpool Mecca.

The b-side " Latch On " is a Jon Spencer arrangement of a rockabilly song despite the fact that the Jon Spencer Blues Explosion recording has very little in common with the most well-known recordings of this track ( released by Ron Hargrave and The Cochran Brothers ).

The Jon Spencer Blues Explosion version is more than likely a cover of the Cochran Brothers version of this song as both tracks feature the words " you are really gone " which do not appear in the lyrics sung by Ron Hargrave.

Created after Warner Brothers began production of the television series, the initial design of the Starfury was a collaboration between Steve Burg ( a freelance designer on the show ) who created a number of possible concepts and Ron Thornton ( co-founder of Foundation Imaging ) who refined and detailed the Lightwave models.

In the course of their quest to destroy Voldemort's Horcruxes, Harry, Ron, and Hermione learn of the Hallows and The Tale of the Three Brothers, notably through conversations with Xenophilius Lovegood and the wandmaker Ollivander.

Brothers Ron and Russell Mael grew up in Pacific Palisades, in western Los Angeles County, California, during the “ Golden Age ” of the LA club scene, with The Doors, Love and The Standells regularly playing the Whisky-a-Go-Go on Sunset Strip and the Beach Boys playing the afternoon event Teenage Fair.

* Will Ferrell ( Saturday Night Live, Anchorman: The Legend of Ron Burgundy, Step Brothers, The Other Guys )

* Adam McKay ( former head writer on Saturday Night Live, director of Anchorman: The Legend of Ron Burgundy & Step Brothers )

Beginning in the second season, the same theme song was sung by the Ron Hicklin Singers featuring the Bahler Brothers John and Tom, ( billed as The Charles Fox Singers ).

In 1996, Winbush was featured on the Isley Brothers ' ( rejoined by brothers Ernie and Marvin ) hit " Floatin ' On Your Love ", which was essentially a duet between Winbush and Ron Isley.

He released his first official record, " My Prayer ", in 1993, a track produced by local producers Hula ( from the Outhere Brothers ), Kay Fingers and Ron Trent.

The paper also pioneered the emerging field of underground comics by publishing the “ underground ” political cartoons of Ron Cobb ; and Gilbert Shelton's Fabulous Furry Freak Brothers started appearing as a regular feature in 1970.

* The Bruise Brothers ( Don and Ron Harris )

Luminaries such as Lenny Bruce, Mary Martin, Katharine Hepburn, Rex Harrison, Richard Taylor, Ian McKellen, Florence Henderson, Angela Lansbury, Mae West, Dorothy Loudon, Richard Kiley, Sally Ann Howe, Keene Curtis, Victor Garber, Laurence Luckinbill, Lucie Arnaz, Patti LaBelle, Rob Marshall, Georgia Brown, Ben Harney, The Smothers Brothers, Jane Connell, Ricardo Montalban, Werner Klemperer, Ethel Waters, Jean Fenn, Agnes Moorehead, Herb Edelman, Matthew Broderick, Joyce Van Patten, Elizabeth Franz, Jonathan Silverman, Zeljko Ivanek, Marcel Marceau, Ann Miller, Mickey Rooney, Judy Garland, Joel Grey, Florence Lacey, Ron Holgate, Lee Roy Reams, Paxton Whitehead, Ann Jillian, Leslie Uggams, Andrea McArdle, Mary Alice, Jack Lemmon, Estelle Parsons, Stacey Keach, Maxwell Caulfield, James Earl Jones, Karen Valentine, Brian Dennehy, Al Pacino, Amanda Plummer, Elizabeth Ashley, Mercedes McCambridge, Stockard Channing, Judith Light and many other stars have played at the Curran.

Ritter won The Wrestling Classic tournament, often cited as the first-ever WWF pay-per-view and his most notable feuds in the company came against King Harley Race, the Funk Brothers, Adrian Adonis, Greg " The Hammer " Valentine and " Outlaw " Ron Bass before he left the company late in 1988.

A third more abbreviated version was recorded in 1971 with the Isleys redoing their vocals with new lyrics by Ron Isley on a Jimi Hendrix tribute album, In the Beginning: The Isley Brothers and Jimi Hendrix, shortly after Hendrix's death in 1970.

Don and Ron Harris debuted in the Continental Wrestling Association in 1988 as The Bruise Brothers, where they became two-time World Tag Team Champions.

Like Alan Wilson, Duane Allman played a key role in bringing slide guitar into rock music, through his work with The Allman Brothers Band, specifically on the 1971 live album At Fillmore East and with Derek and the Dominos ' Layla and Other Assorted Love Songs album.

Allman extended the expressive range of the slide guitar by incorporating the harmonica effects of Sonny Boy Williamson II, most clearly in the Allman Brothers ' cover version of Sonny Boy's " One Way Out ", heard on their album Eat a Peach.

Mark Knopfler of Dire Straits is famous for his guitar of this style, featured on the cover of the album Brothers in Arms.

The film is celebrated for its surreal humor, such as when Porky is chasing the bird, it disappears and suddenly the Warner Brothers shield emerges from the horizon's vanishing point, as it typically did at every cartoon's beginning, and complete with the standard stretched " boing " of the steel guitar.

The TV show typically included a segment in which Gobel appeared with a guitar, started to sing, then got sidetracked into a story, with the song always left unfinished after fitful starts and stops, a comedy approach that prefigured the Smothers Brothers.

The vocal group The Mills Brothers originally started in vaudeville as a kazoo quartet, playing four-part harmony on kazoo with one brother accompanying them on guitar.

Sutherland's pioneering use of reverb and echo, and bluesy, acid-drenched guitar predates such bands as The Allman Brothers Band and ZZ Top.

On The Who's famous The Smothers Brothers Comedy Hour appearance in 1967, Townshend used a Vox Cheetah guitar, which he only used for that performance ; and the guitar was smashed to smithereens by Townshend and Moon's drum explosion.

* March 31 – Kicking off a tour with The Walker Brothers, Cat Stevens and Engelbert Humperdinck at The Astoria London, Jimi Hendrix sets fire to his guitar on stage for the first time.

In late 2007, Bo Bice joined veteran Southern rock legends Jimmy Hall-vocals / sax / harmonica ( Wet Willie Band ), Henry Paul-vocals / guitar / mandolin ( Outlaws, BlackHawk ), Steve Gorman-drums ( Black Crowes, Jimmy Page ), " Dangerous " Dan Toler-guitar ( The Gregg Allman Band, The Allman Brothers, Dickey Betts & Great Southern ), Reese Wynans-keyboards ( Stevie Ray Vaughan ), Mike Brignardello-bass ( Giant, renowned session player ), Jay Boy Adams-guitar ( Texas blues solo artist ) to record Brothers of the Southland celebrating Southern rock with a renewed spirit and maturity.

Rock-styled guitar lines similar to the ones Freddie Stone played began appearing in the music of artists such as The Isley Brothers (" It's Your Thing ") and Diana Ross & the Supremes (" Love Child ").

They differed from groups like the Mills Brothers and the Delta Rhythm Boys in that they made vocal music with limited orchestration and accompanied only with the guitar of Tommy Gaither and the bass Johnny Reed.

He then broke his recording contract with Trumpet Records to sign up with the Bihari Brothers through Ike Turner ( who played guitar and piano on a couple of his early Bihari recordings ).

Though others had earlier used similar techniques, Thin Lizzy are widely recognised as one of the first hard rock bands to employ double lead guitar harmony sound – a technique pioneered by Peter Green's Fleetwood Mac and Wishbone Ash in the UK, whilst independently in the USA by Lynyrd Skynyrd and The Allman Brothers Band.

Brothers David Sylvian ( guitar and vocals ) and Steve Jansen ( drums ), keyboardist Richard Barbieri and bassist Mick Karn studied at the same school.

Their cover version of " Hotel California " is an example of fast flamenco guitar leads and rhythmic strumming ( this version was featured in the Coen Brothers ' movie The Big Lebowski, as well on the HBO series Entourage ).

She worked to improve her guitar playing, started singing at the Delta Grange Hall in Washington State with the Pen Brothers ' band, The Westerners, then eventually cut her first record in February 1960.

He is also a regular on the digital radio sports show, " TalkSPORT " Other notable friends of his are, Mani of The Stone Roses, Richard Ashcroft of The Verve – for whom he dedicated a song, " Cast No Shadow ", the band members of the Chemical Brothers ,-Sex Pistols members John Lydon and Steve Jones the members of the rock band Kasabian, Andy Nicholson, boxer Ricky Hatton, Paul McCartney, Liverpool F. C footballer Jamie Carragher, Chris Martin, Jonny Buckland, Johnny Marr, Paul Weller, Ian Brown, John Squire, Lee Mavers, Jack Dee, Craig Cash, Kelly Jones and Johnny Depp ( who played slide guitar on the Oasis song Fade In-Out ).

Some prominent bass guitar players known for their use of slapping in their playing include Bootsy Collins ( solo artist ; Bootsy's Rubber Band, Funkadelic, Parliament, Praxis ), Flea ( Red Hot Chili Peppers ), Larry Graham ( Sly and the Family Stone, Graham Central Station ), Marcus Miller ( solo artist, Miles Davis, David Sanborn, Luther Vandross ), Louis Johnson ( The Brothers Johnson, Quincy Jones, Michael Jackson ), Nick Beggs ( Kajagoogoo ), Mark King ( Level 42 ), Mike Gordon ( Phish ), Les Claypool ( solo artist, Primus ), Fieldy ( Korn ), Jayen Varma ( solo artist ), Tetsuya ( L ' Arc-en-Ciel ).

This is a good story, but it isn't true ; the band this refers to is " The Almost Brothers ". However, Grinderswitch bassist Joe Dan Petty was the Allman Brothers guitar tech for three decades.