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.

In 1972 Richard Elfman founded the American New Wave band / performance art group, originally called The Mystic Knights of the Oingo Boingo.

( One original member of Gypsy Fever, backing vocalist Richard Dennison, has remained with Parton's organization through the early 2010s, serving as a supporting vocalist, as well as the vocal arranger for Parton's band.

Despite predictions from the music press that the band would fold without Wood, who had been the driving force behind the creation of ELO, Lynne stepped up to lead the band, with Bev Bevan remaining on drums, joined by Gibson, Richard Tandy ( now on the Moog synthesiser ), Mike de Albuquerque on bass and vocals and Mike Edwards and Colin Walker on cellos.

While performing in Macon, Georgia, having now changed their name to the Flames, a club promoter, Clint Brantley ( then agent of one of Brown's idols, Little Richard ), suggested the band add " Famous " in front of their name to draw more people to his club.

After Little Richard left Macon for Los Angeles after the release of " Tutti Frutti ", Brantley included the band at every venue Richard had performed, leading to the growth of the group's success.

From late 1962 until the spring of 1964, he played drums for The Beachcombers, a London cover band notable for renditions of songs by Cliff Richard.

In his book Stairway to Heaven, former Led Zeppelin road manager Richard Cole writes that Jimmy Page considered Moon top of his list as he was looking for a drummer for his new band, which would become Led Zeppelin.

A widely related story, attributed to Richard ( Prophet ) Jennings was that Davis, while in Detroit playing at the Blue Bird club as a guest soloist in Billy Mitchell's house band along with Tommy Flanagan, Elvin Jones, Betty Carter, Yusef Lateef, Barry Harris, Thad Jones, Curtis Fuller and Donald Byrd stumbled into Baker's Keyboard Lounge out of the rain, soaking wet and carrying his trumpet in a paper bag under his coat, walked to the bandstand and interrupted Max Roach and Clifford Brown in the midst of performing Sweet Georgia Brown by beginning to play My Funny Valentine, and then, after finishing the song, stumbled back into the rainy night.

Cliff Richard and his backing band, The Shadows, were the most successful home grown rock and roll based acts of the era.

In 1974 the band added a second guitarist, Richard Lloyd, and changed their name to Television.

The Saint had a band of compatriots, including Roger Conway, Norman Kent, Archie Sheridan, Richard " Dicky " Tremayne ( a name that appeared in the 1990s TV series, Twin Peaks ), Peter Quentin, Monty Hayward, and his ex-military valet, Orace.

Cornwell was a blues musician prior to forming the band and had briefly been a bandmate of Richard Thompson, Burnel had been a classical guitarist who had performed with symphony orchestras, Jet Black was a jazz drummer, and Dave Greenfield had played at military bases in Germany.

Oldham changed the spelling of the band name from " the Rollin ' Stones " to " the Rolling Stones " and changed the spelling of Richards last name to Richard because it " looked more pop ".

rock band from the first wave of punk rock, fronted by Richard Hell, a former member of the Neon Boys, Television and the Heartbreakers.

With the intention of giving an insight into the individual personalities in the band, several out-of-concert ' fantasy sequences ' were shot by Massot for each of the band members, as well as for Peter Grant and tour manager Richard Cole.

Richard Christopher Wakeman ( born 18 May 1949 ) is an English keyboard player, composer and songwriter best known for being the former keyboardist in the progressive rock band Yes.

In 1983, Dirk Bergen left the band to pursue graphic design, and Richard Jonckheere, referred to as Richard 23, joined as vocalist.

* Richard Dworsky – piano, organ, synthesizer, melodica, keyboards, vocals, band leader, music director

The band began recording in spring 1967, with Richard Perry cutting his teeth in his first job as producer.

From left: Richard Bowser of Violent Apathy, Scott Boman of the Degenerates and Spite ( punk band ) | Spite, and John Brannon of Negative Approach.

* Popular music including " Mr. Sandman " popularized by the Chordettes, " The Japanese Sandman " ( 1920 ) by Raymond B. Egan and Richard A. Whiting, " Sandman " by America ( band ), " In Dreams " by Roy Orbison, " Enter Sandman " by Metallica, and " Mr. Sandman " from the album Tical by Method Man.

Although the supergroup was never formed, Page remembered Moon's odd expression and later adopted it as the name of a new band.

In 1966, Jimmy Page joined the blues-influenced rock band, The Yardbirds, to replace bassist Paul Samwell-Smith.

After the album's completion, the band were forced to change their name after Dreja issued a cease and desist letter, stating that Page was only allowed to use the New Yardbirds moniker for the Scandinavian dates.

Page had begun using heroin during the recording of Presence, which may have affected later live shows and studio recordings of the band, although this has been denied by Page.

* Page ( band ), a Swedish synth pop group

Daubert left the band early in 1985, and Page McConnell then joined the group on keyboards and made his debut on Sept. 26, 1985 at a show for WRUV Radio in Burlington.

For their three New York performances, the band members wore exactly the same clothes to facilitate seamless editing of the film, except for John Paul Jones and Jimmy Page who wore different sets of attire on some of the nights, which created continuity problems.

Music writers have also applied the term, wrongly in the context of this article, to bands or vocal groups that sold huge numbers of albums, headlined massive concerts or have a high celebrity or media status, regardless of the previous ( or even subsequently acquired ) fame of their individual members, such as the band Led Zeppelin, wherein only Jimmy Page was well known at the time the group formed.

Thompson left the band once more during 1993 to play with Robert Plant and Jimmy Page of Led Zeppelin, and Bamonte took over as lead guitarist.

* Guitarist Jimmy Page, of rock band Led Zeppelin, was born in Heston.

In 1968, the guitarist Jimmy Page was in search of a lead singer for his new band and met Plant after being turned down by his first choice, Terry Reid, who referred him to a show at a teacher training college in Birmingham — where Plant was singing in a band named Hobbstweedle.

The entertainment is provided by a jazz band led by Tommy Drake and featuring singer Fran Page and talented but unstable clarinetist Buddy Hollis.

Artists that released material on the Swan Song label during its existence included Led Zeppelin itself ( including later solo releases by band members Jimmy Page and Robert Plant ); Bad Company ; The Pretty Things ; Dave Edmunds ; Mirabai ; Maggie Bell ( and the short-lived band she fronted, Midnight Flyer ); Detective ; and Sad Café.

: Garage Days Re-Revisited was a collection of covers paying homage to a number of mostly obscure bands, which were later combined with additional new covers on the double album Garage Inc., which among other things included covers of Black Sabbath (" Sabbra Cadabra "), Bob Seger (" Turn the Page "), Blue Öyster Cult (" Astronomy "), Mercyful Fate ( a medley of different songs of the band ), and numerous Motörhead tracks.

The band has opened for various rock acts such as Heart, Robert Plant, Tom Petty and the Heartbreakers, the Dave Matthews Band, the Grateful Dead, Aerosmith and ZZ Top, and performed live with Jimmy Page and Oasis, among others.

In October 1999, the band was joined by Led Zeppelin guitarist Jimmy Page for two pairs of shows in New York and Los Angeles, yielding a live release, Live at the Greek on TVT Records.

After the break-up of The Yardbirds, guitarist Jimmy Page was forming a new band when he recruited Robert Plant, who in turn suggested Bonham.

Despite the group's competent musicianship, some subsequent singles employed session musicians – including Big Jim Sullivan, Jimmy Page, John Paul Jones, and Vic Flick – with contributions from the band, although the role of session players on Herman's Hermits records has been exaggerated in the rock media and in liner notes on their ABKCO Records Retrospective ( which does not credit the Hermits ' playing ).

However, according to a December 2008 report on the fan site The Bad Religion Page, Bentley revealed that due to Bad Religion's upcoming touring commitments for 2009, the band would not have a chance to record their new album until around the end of the year, for an expected 2010 release date.

In December 2009, Bentley revealed to the fan site The Bad Religion Page that the band was expected to go into the studio on April 26, 2010, to start recording their new album.