Brown had got a taste of being a frontman during the last Patrol show, singing The Sweet's " Blockbuster " to close the set, with the band's friend / roadie Pete Garner standing in on bass, and Couzens wanted to concentrate on guitar.

Greg Dulli, the band's lead singer, was close friends with Ted Demme.

Mercury Rev is often compared to The Flaming Lips, and in fact share close ties: soon after the band's formation, Donahue also joined the Flaming Lips as second guitarist and appeared on two of their albums ; and since the 1990 album In a Priest Driven Ambulance, Dave Fridmann has co-produced every Flaming Lips studio album to date except 1993's Transmissions from the Satellite Heart.

The long awaited Guns N ' Roses album Chinese Democracy was finally released in 2008, but only went platinum and failed to come close to the success of the band's late 1980s and early 1990s material.

By the close of 1974, Jerry Fisher had decided he'd had enough of BS & T's heavy touring schedule and Bobby Colomby, together with the band's manager Fred Heller, engineered the return of David Clayton-Thomas in the hope of restoring the band to its former level of glory.

Around this time, Riki Valentine became the band's main roadie and close friend.

) The record went multi-platinum, spawning three gold singles: " Unskinny Bop ", " Ride the Wind ", and the ballad " Something To Believe In " which was dedicated to the band's security guard and close friend James Kimo Maano who died.

There were reunions and subsequent tours from Van Halen ( with Hagar in 2004 and then Roth in 2007 ), The long awaited Guns N ' Roses album Chinese Democracy was finally released in 2008, but only went platinum in the U. S., produced no hit singles, and failed to come close to the success of the band's late 1980s and early 1990s material.

1988 saw the release of their second album Rage, which peaked at No. 4 in the UK and reached platinum status in the there, but failed to come close to the level of success of the band's debut album the year before.

This charity is close the band's heart for the fan support that they have received in Japan.

The name " Eels " was chosen so that the band's records would be close to E's solo records in an alphabetical ordering, although it was too late realised that numerous " Eagles " and " Earth, Wind and Fire " releases were in between.

" Critics have also commented upon the " close musical connection " formed between Hornsby and Jerry Garcia, suggesting that Hornsby's particular style of jazz-fueled improvisation added to the band's repertoire, and helped to revitalize and refocus Jerry Garcia's guitar solos in the band's sound.

He formed a close partnership with bassist, Steve Harris, and completed what many critics consider the band's " definitive " lineup, releasing a series of gold and platinum selling albums throughout the 1980s.

Dunn had been an original member of the DC Skins and was close friends with the band's members.

Davis summed up the band's label issues and eventual demise: We had no contract with the label the whole time we were working with them, and they were helping us start our career and put money towards a tour ... We went back to the same studio and had this conversation with Jay Baumgardner, and he said he ’ d love to sign us but they weren ’ t close to getting contracts done.

When discussing another potential reunion with Rufus during a 2008 interview with Billboard, Khan said the band's classic lineup ( which includes Andre Fischer and Nate Morgan ) had no plans on reuniting, with Khan stating that touring with Tony Maiden, one of the few Rufus band mates Khan kept a close friendship with, was the closest to another Rufus reunion.

The band's lyrics are about human relations, family, and close surroundings.

During his years with Marmalade, the band used Keith Mansfield as an orchestral arranger on their first record successes, including " Loving Things ", " Wait For Me Mary Ann ", " Obladi Oblada ", " Baby Make It Soon " and Reflections of My Life, and Campbell studied Mansfield's scores at close range, was so impressed with the craft of arranging for orchestra, and the sound and expertise of orchestral musicians in the recording studio, that this led to a major turning point in his career, so much so, he then commenced arranging orchestral accompaniment on the band's sessions himself.

Sakurai's mother, who he had been very close to, also died, and due to the band's busy touring schedule, he was unable to visit her before the end.

Dressed to Kill, released in 1975, was a much better success, breaking into Top-40, but the band's record label, Casablanca Records, was close to bankruptcy and needed a commercial breakthrough they had later achieve with both Kiss ' and Casablanca's Top-10 album, double-live album Alive !, which featured the number 12 hit " Rock and Roll All Nite ".

While the band's influence was blunted by being based in Chicago, it maintained close musical and thematic ties to the Washington DC / Dischord Records scene.

The band spent the first few months of 2004 touring around the world, first with the third Projekt Revolution tour, and later several European concerts. At the same time, the band's relationship with Warner Bros. Records was deteriorating rapidly on account of several trust and financial issues.

This recording also established the band's long term recording studio relationship with the famous Compass Point Studios in Nassau, Bahamas.

During the band's time in the public eye their relationship with the mass media was vastly different to other self-endorsing bands.

Securing the band's first top ten placing, " Heaven Knows I'm Miserable Now " was also significant for marking the beginning of engineer and producer Stephen Street's long-term working relationship with the band.

The album also marked the start of the band's longtime relationship with producer Dave Meegan.

Long after the recording of The Beatles was complete, Martin mentioned in interviews that his working relationship with The Beatles changed during this period, and that many of the band's efforts seemed unfocused, often yielding prolonged jam sessions that sounded uninspired.

Davies has had a tempestuous relationship with younger brother Dave ( the band's lead guitarist ) that dominated the Kinks ' career as a band.

This breakup somewhat informed the band's final album, 1988's Everything's Different Now, particularly in the song " J for Jules ", though Mann insisted that not every song on the LP was about the relationship.

" In addition to the marketing backlash, band members found themselves in legal trouble for charges ( later dropped ) of consorting with underage females, and the band's relationship with their manager rapidly deteriorated.

The album marked the end of the band's relationship with producer Sam Taylor, with the band citing creative differences for the split.

Although in recent years their relationship had stabilised, during the band's early career there were a handful of incidents where the two have actually come to blows.

After the band's next two albums, 1988's Surfer Rosa and 1989's Doolittle, the relationship between the band members became strained ; the Pixies were constantly touring and had released three albums in two years.

Shortly after the release of the band's major label debut album Anodyne, Farrar announced his decision to leave the band owing to a soured relationship with his co-songwriter Tweedy.

This led into a turbulent relationship with their label, Warner, who were unable to grasp the band's lack of motivation and refusal to compromise just for the sake of commercial success.

Marked a return to the always-freewheeling British band's more experimental roots, with songs like " Win Park Slope " and " Airstream Driver " evincing a spirit born of imagination and a longstanding collaborative relationship.

Their first album under the new contract, Sing Or Die ( a title that half-jokingly described the band's relationship with their former label, according to Nakamura ), was released in an English-language version, but received very little promotion and even less airplay.

While Café Tacuba pursued these various projects, they were looking for a new recording contract ; the WEA relationship had come to an end after a trio of compilations released in 2001: Tiempo Transcurrido: The Best of Café Tacuba ; a videos collection of the same name ; and Lo Esencial de Café Tacuba, a triple-disc package containing the band's first three albums.

The band's relationship with Trustkill was always adversarial at best ; the label altered the track listing for Magnetic North without the band's knowledge, and in an interview in the wake of the band's breakup, former drummer Jason Trabue accused the label of providing the band with insufficient promotion and financial support throughout their tenure on Trustkill, as well as withholding royalties.

Blackwell has also referred to fictional bands who appear on the sleeves of HMHB records and in songs-an essay on " Evil Gazebo " ( and that band's relationship to " Pankhurst ") appears on the liner of Trouble Over Bridgwater and both bands are mentioned in one of that album's songs.

In the mid 1980s, Harket was in a relationship with the British model Therese " Bunty " Bailey, who appeared in videos for two of the band's songs.

The band's relationship with the media was not cordial.

Strongly influenced by the music of the Renaissance and Middle Ages, the album's songs reflected on lost love and damaged relationships ( including the breakdown of the band's relationship with their former manager ).