The band's line-up included keyboardist Gillian Gilbert, who returned in the band after a ten year break, and Bad Lieutenant bassist Tom Chapman in place of Peter Hook.

After taking a short break to allow Scott to support his recently released second solo album, production for the band's sixth studio album began in mid-2009.

In addition to the fictional band's performances on stage, the characters would break into song when they were off-stage ( much like in a stage musical ).

The band's first big break came in 1996 when Kris attended a show at the club Bogart's in Cincinnati, where Jasin passed one of the band's demo tapes to a roadie from the band.

The live album Welcome to the Canteen was released in September and marked the band's break with United Artists Records.

Arcadia were the pop group formed in 1985 by Simon Le Bon, Nick Rhodes and Roger Taylor of Duran Duran, during a break in that band's schedule.

Widely acclaimed as the band's first break out album Ass Cobra ( 1996 ), Jello Biafra would later comment that it was one of the best punk albums of the ' 90s.

The album's creative break from the band's previous work may have stemmed from the different writing process used for White Trash Heroes.

* Jerry Welborn – guitar, drums during the band's break

After a four-year break, the band's third album, California, was released on July 13, 1999.

Each of the twenty-six tracks fades from one to the next with no break in the music, courtesy of longtime producer – engineer James Guthrie to help recreate the concept album feel of the band's mid-period work.

This break was needed due to the grueling lifestyle of the previous 10 years under the helm of manager Tim Collins, who helped orchestrate much of the band's comeback and sustained success.

Jonathan Miller, the band's bassist since the time of its formation, took a break from the band to attend rehab.

He further commented that " Principle made waves in the early black metal scene, putting Cradle of Filth on the tips of metalheads ' tongues, whether in praise of the band's brazen attempts to break the black metal mold or in derision for its ' commercialization ' of an underground phenomenon that was proud of its grimy heritage ..."

website, that Fuller would not be appearing at all of the band's shows that year since he decided to take a break from touring.

Some years after the band's break up, earlier recordings featuring the original line-up emerged.

On February 5, 2005, bass player Timo Huhtala announced on the band's website the group will take an " undetermined break ";

During the band's short break, Inoran, J and Sugizo partook in the omnibus album Dance 2 Noise 4.

In an attempt to boost record sales ( and especially to break in to the United States charts ), the record label and the band's management kept the group on the road almost continuously for the entire year.

During the Reinhold Messner tour Robert began to use synths on stage as well as playing bass until the band's break up in 2000.

Catherine Wheel's 1995 release Happy Days was the band's first of two albums to break into the Billboard 200 ; the LP's second single " Judy Staring At The Sun ," featured Donelly's vocals, and became a Modern Rock hit in the U. S. peaking at No. 22.

At the beginning of 1990, Hitchcock took a break from the Egyptians and A & M Records to release another solo acoustic album, Eye, then resumed with the band's Perspex Island release in 1991.

The band's last album, On Ice, was released the same year and was met with a relatively muted response and the band decided to break up the following year.

Although Holly had already begun to become disillusioned with Norman Petty before meeting Maria Elena, it was through her and her aunt Provi, the head of Latin American music at Peer-Southern, that he began to fully realize what was going on with his manager, who was paying the band's royalties into his own company's account.

Frontman and songwriter David Byrne contributed whimsical, esoteric lyrics to the band's songs, and emphasized their showmanship through various multimedia projects and performances.

" Uncle Willie ", former Residents fan club president, wrote in his book Uncle Willie's Highly Opinionated Guide to The Residents that, while searching through the band's archives, he came across " a suite named ' The Ballad of Stuffed Trigger '," but not a complete album.

The only correspondence they had is through emails via their manager, discussing the division of the band's assets.

On the band's tour through the segregated South in 1934, they avoided some of the traveling difficulties of African-Americans by touring in private railcars.

Brian May confirmed that he and Taylor are working their way through the band's old material to compile a selection of unreleased songs for the forthcoming album.

The band's first release through Gray Matters was a Christmas album that was released on October 16, 2007, entitled Christmas Songs.

In a documentary programme about that album ( as part of the Classic Albums TV series ), lead singer Bruce Dickinson wanders through the avenues of Portmeirion and describes how the song was written and how the band's manager obtained permission from Patrick McGoohan to use dialogue from the show in the song's introduction.

The following day, Limp Bizkit had left Australia without telling the organisers, who only discovered the band's departure through a note left at the hotel.

On September 21, 2012, during a Green Day performance at Las Vegas ' iHeartRadio Music Festival, Armstrong became agitated onstage and stopped the band's set midway through their performance of the 1994 hit song " Basket Case ".

The band's website, PPunk. com went live later in 2006 and by the end of the year the album was on iTunes, Napster and more than 7000 digital retailers world wide through Universal Digital and IODA ( US ).

Originally conceived as the soundtrack to a television play that was never produced, the band's first rock opera affectionately chronicled the trials and tribulations of a working class everyman and his family from the very end of the Victorian era through World War I and World War II, the postwar austerity years, and up to the 1960s.

This album was followed by Love of Life ( recorded by Martin Bisi in 1992 ), and the EP single Love of Life / Amnesia, taking the group even farther into experimentation, and then The Great Annihilator ( 1995 ), considered to be one of the band's most accessible releases, possibly through being their most straightforward.

On 23 July 2009, the band's website announced that most of the material for a new album has been written, and that their tenth album is to be released independently rather than through a record label.

They recorded the band's first single, " Cough / Cool ", which they released through their own label Blank Records in August 1977.

Doyle Wolfgang von Frankenstein | Doyle joined Danzig ( band ) | Danzig onstage during tours from 2004 to 2006 for half-hour sets of early Misfits songs. Doyle had meanwhile reunited with Glenn Danzig, joining Danzig onstage during performances in December 2004 to play guitar for 30-minute sets of old Misfits songs midway through the band's setlist.

Instead, winds swept through the band's performance during the song's chorus, and the house didn't come down during the video.

The album also featured a remake of the rock & roll classic " Good Golly Miss Molly " and the band's nine-minute live-show closer, " Keep On Chooglin '," which features only one chord through the whole song: E7.

The song rose quickly through the pop charts, and scored as high as No. 8 on the Billboard pop singles chart for a number of weeks during October 1982, the band's first major success in seven years.

Most of the band's early material was created through extensive jam sessions.

The band's name is a play on words of the Grand Trunk Railroad, a railroad line that ran through the band's home town of Flint, Michigan.

On March 31, 2009, the band's eleventh studio album was released, titled American Soldier, a concept album about war from the perspective of those on the front lines of American wars from World War II through the present.

In 2003, the band began hosting the annual " 3 Doors Down and Friends " benefit concert, through the band's own charity The Better Life Foundation.

They were at first paid $ 100 per show, but partway through their tenure the band's tour manager cut their salaries in half.