Divided almost equally into two parts, it consisted of `` The Evolution Of The Blues '', narrated by Jon Hendricks, who had presented it last year at the Monterey, Calif., Jazz Festival, and an hour-long session of Maynard Ferguson and his orchestra, a blasting big band.

At the height of their popularity the band consisted of singer Jimmy Somerville backed by Steve Bronski and Larry Steinbachek, both of whom played keyboards and percussion.

But from 1985 until he died, his touring band consisted of Debby Hastings ( bass / musical director ), Frank Daley or Nunzio Signore ( guitar ), Tom Major, Dave Johnson, Yoshi Shimada or Sandy Gennaro ( drums ), and his personal manager, Margo Lewis ( keyboards ).

The original band lineup consisted of Jello Biafra ( Eric Reed Boucher ) on vocals, East Bay Ray on guitar, Klaus Flouride ( Geoffrey Lyall ) on bass, and Ted ( Bruce Slesinger ) on drums and percussion.

The band consisted of Benton ( bass / vocals ), Hoffman, Hoffman's brother Eric ( guitars ) and Steve Asheim ( drums ).

The Buckaroos ( Buck Owens ' band ) initially served as the house band on the show and consisted of members Don Rich, Jim Shaw, Jerry Brightman, Jerry Wiggins, Rick Taylor, Doyle Singer ( Doyle Curtsinger ), Don Lee, Ronnie Jackson, Terry Christoffersen, Doyle Holly and later Victoria Hallman ( aka Jesse Rose McQueen ).

The song " Teenage Suicide ( Don't Do It )" by the fictional band Big Fun was written and produced for the film by musician Don Dixon, and performed by the ad hoc group " Big Fun ", which consisted of Dixon, Mitch Easter, Angie Carlson and Marti Jones.

Bolstered by this success, Brown recruited a new band, consisted of saxophonist J. C. Davis, guitarist Bobby Roach, bassist Bernard Odum, trumpeter Roscoe Patrick, saxophonist Albert Corley, drummer Nat Kendrick and his old band mate Bobby Byrd, who had rejoined Brown's band on organ.

Formed as the New Yardbirds in 1968, the band consisted of guitarist Jimmy Page, singer Robert Plant, bassist / keyboardist John Paul Jones, and drummer John Bonham.

The band released an album and DVD, entitled Live in Texas, which consisted of audio and video tracks of some of the band's performances in Texas during the tour.

The auction consisted of items from the band such as signed guitars, cymbals and basses, as well as autographs on all items by the band members.

Jordan's band, the Tympany Five ( formed in 1938 ), consisted of him on saxophone and vocals, along with musicians on trumpet, tenor saxophone, piano, bass and drums.

For 17 years, the band consisted of lead vocalist and rhythm guitarist Aaron Lewis, lead guitarist Mike Mushok, bassist Johnny April, and drummer Jon Wysocki ( who left in May 2011 ).

The latter experimented with his band Mark Stewart & The Maffia which consisted of New York session musicians Skip McDonald, Doug Wimbish, and Keith LeBlanc, who had been a part of the house band for the Sugarhill Records record label.

Dial-A-Song consisted of an answering machine with a tape of the band playing various songs.

Following Apollo 18, Flansburgh and Linnell decided to move away from the guitar & accordion ( or sax ) plus backing tracks on tape nature of their live show, and recruited a supporting band that consisted of live musicians ( Kurt Hoffman of the Ordinaires on reeds and keyboards, longtime Pere Ubu bassist Tony Maimone and drummer Jonathan Feinberg ).

The first half of their performance consisted of rock standards, and during the second half, Ono took the microphone and along with the band performed an avant garde set, ending with music that consisted mainly of feedback, while Ono screamed and sang.

Military forces especially those of the British Commonwealth, battalions or regiments often consisted of a " pipes and drums " band (" the band ') consisting of bagpipes and drummers.

Billy Gibbons, who previously formed the Moving Sidewalks in 1966, had suggested " ZZ King " as a potential name for the band after looking at posters of Z.

Three tracks from Billy Gibbons ' pre-ZZ band, The Moving Sidewalks, were also included.

The Moving Sidewalks was a 1960s American psychedelic blues-rock band, most notable for giving future ZZ Top guitarist, Billy Gibbons, his start in the music business.

Guitarist / singer Billy Gibbons has stated that the recordings of this album was the first time the three members of the band were isolated from one another in the studio, rather than recording simultaneously in the same room.

The studio continued to attract more psychedelic rock bands including: 13th Floor Elevators, The Red Krayola, The Bubble Puppy, The Continental Five, The Bad Seeds, The Moving Sidewalks ( Billy Gibbons ' first band ) and the Zakary Thaks.

Burton played bass with yet another Birmingham group, The Steve Gibbons Band, was one-third of the short-lived band Balls ( with Denny Laine and Alan White ), and later fronted his own blues group as lead guitarist.

In addition to being the springboard for Jeff Lynne, the band holds a place of significance in British Midlands ' pop-rock history as a link between The Move, the Electric Light Orchestra, Steve Gibbons Band and Mike Sheridan and The Nightriders.

In 2004 the band completed a successful exchange with the Cardinal Gibbons High School Band, Raleigh, North Carolina.

Beth Gibbons ( born 4 January 1965 ) is an English singer and songwriter best known as the vocalist and lyricist for the iconic English band Portishead.

Recording sessions took place at Foam Box Recordings in Houston, with frontman Billy Gibbons as producer ; Gibbons wrote most of the songs for the album, collaborating with engineers Joe Hardy and Gary Moon, as well as band members Dusty Hill and Frank Beard.

Billy Gibbons produced the project and wrote most of the songs, collaborating with engineers Joe Hardy and Gary Moon, as well as band members Dusty Hill and Frank Beard.

The Texas-based rock band ZZ Top, especially front man Billy Gibbons, have made this museum their pet project and have raised thousands of dollars in support.

He has backed such luminaries as Graham Bond, Gregory Isaacs, Steve Gibbons and was a member of Steve Peregrin Took's band Steve Took's Horns with Dino Ferari on drums.

The band consists of John Gibbons, Michael Gibbons, Clint Takeda and Jason Kourkonis.

Beard was formerly with the bands The Cellar Dwellars, who originally were a three-piece band, The Hustlers, The Warlocks, and American Blues before starting to play and record with Billy Gibbons and Dusty Hill as ZZ Top.

Gibbons began playing the accordion at the age 9, playing in the school band, and solo at music festivals, competitions and charity events.

Undismayed by this contretemps, a small band of the faithful gathered at Lauchli's home at 6:30 A.M. the next day, put on their uniforms, and headed for a farm several miles away.

WBAI, the listener-supported outlet on the frequency-modulation band, has decided to do what it can to correct this aural void.

The band completed their third album and released it exclusively digital on August 29, 2009.

The tempo of their arrangement was slowed to allow for the bagpipes, but it was based on Collins ': it began with a bagpipe solo introduction similar to her lone voice, then it was accompanied by the band of bagpipes and horns, whereas in her version she is backed up by a chorus.

It hit number 1 in the UK singles chart in April 1972, spending 24 weeks total on the charts, topped the RPM national singles chart in Canada for three weeks, and rose as high as number 11 in the U. S. It is also a controversial instrumental, as it combined pipes with a military band.

* The San Francisco-based band Om mentions Absalom in their song " Kapila's Theme " from their debut album Variations on a Theme.

They withdrew to Mercia, but, in January 878, made a sudden attack on Chippenham, a royal stronghold in which Alfred had been staying over Christmas, " and most of the people they killed, except the King Alfred, and he with a little band made his way by wood and swamp, and after Easter he made a fort at Athelney in the marshes of Somerset, and from that fort kept fighting against the foe ".

They entered in the accepted way, by climbing in through the kitchen window, to find Muddy Waters ' band sleeping on the kitchen floor.

While touring Scandinavia he first joined forces with guitarist and singer Peter Thorup, together forming the band New Church, who were one of the support bands at the Rolling Stones Free Concert in Hyde Park, London, on 5 July 1969.

The German metal band van Canto uses vocal noises to imitate guitars on covers of well-known rock and metal songs ( such as " Master of Puppets " by Metallica ) as well as original compositions.

Although they are generally classified as a cappella metal, the band also includes a drummer, and use amplifiers on some songs to distort the voice to sound more like a real guitar.

Urban Dance Squad was a Dutch rap rock band formed after what was originally intended as a one-time jam-session at a festival in Utrecht on December 20, 1986.

More recently, the horn section of Antibalas have been guest musicians on TV On The Radio's highly acclaimed 2008 album Dear Science, as well as on British band Foals ' 2008 album, Antidotes.

He based it on an interviewer he overheard during his time in a band.

His mannerisms were based on a band director for Judge's ninth-grade class.

His voice is based on a band director Mike Judge had in 9th grade.

However, in 1908 with the Scottish and Irish unions refusing to be involved, the Anglo-Welsh side only sported red jerseys with a thick white band on their jerseys on tour to Australia and New Zealand.

During this period, the band teamed up with producer Mark Cunningham on the first-ever BBC Children In Need single, a cover of David Bowie's " Heroes ", released in 1986 under the name of The County Line.

Gothic metal band Paradise Lost also covered " Smalltown Boy " as a bonus track on the digi-pack version of the Symbol of Life album.

In May 2010, the band stated on their website that they were " back in the studio working on some new songs " and later revealed that they were " in the final stages of recording the album ".

It was recorded in her presence on October 21, 1958, at Decca's Pythian Temple, with Dick Jacob, Coral-Brunswick's new head of Artists and Repertoire, serving as both producer and conductor of the 18-piece orchestra, which included members of the New York Symphony Orchestra, NBC Television's house orchestra and Abraham " Boomie " Richman, formerly of Benny Goodman's band.

Queen Boadicea features in the opening lyrics of the song " The Good Old Days " written by Pete Doherty and Carl Barat for British rock band The Libertines from their 2002 album " Up the bracket ", the line reads, " If Queen Boadicea is long dead and gone, Still then the spirit in her children's children's children, it lives on ".