In the early 2000s the MC fronted band Relax got much airplay, as did de Spookrijders.

He recorded several singles and toured with the band, both domestically and internationally, until the band members revealed that they did not want to live abroad.

That single, " Guitar Blues ", was fairly progressive, including as it did, a clarinet solo by Nashville dance band musician Dutch McMillan with Owen Bradley on piano.

The slap style cuts through the sound of a band better than simply plucking the strings, and allowed the bass to be more easily heard on early sound recordings, as the recording equipment of that time did not favor low frequencies.

In some groups, the slap bass was utilized as band percussion in lieu of a drummer ; such was the case with Bill Haley & His Saddlemen ( the forerunner group to the Comets ), which did not use drummers on recordings and live performances until late 1952 ; prior to this the slap bass was relied on for percussion, including on recordings such as Haley's versions of Rock the Joint and Rocket 88.

Mark Mothersbaugh and Gerald Casale did collaborate with Austin, Texas band The Octopus Project to perform " Girl U Want " and " Beautiful World.

The newly formed band did not yet have a name.

The band did find some success at the American Music Awards, as Dr. Feelgood was nominated twice for Favorite Hard Rock / Metal Award, losing once to Guns N ' Roses ' Appetite for Destruction, but winning the following year, beating out Aerosmith's Pump and Poison's Flesh And Blood.

Thaler would manage the band alone until 1994, at which time the band did a mass-firing when their album, Mötley Crüe, failed to meet commercial expectations.

In February 2010, the Australian judge ruled that " Down Under " did contain a flute riff based on " Kookaburra " but stipulated that neither was it necessarily the hook nor a substantial part of the hit song ( Colin Hay wrote the song years before the flute riff was added by a later member of the band ).

In the 1996 Furthur Festival, Mickey Hart's Mystery Box played, as did Bob Weir's band Ratdog.

All the band members could and did switch instruments throughout gigs, as evidenced on Jonathan Demme's video for " The Perfect Kiss " and the fairly common Taras Shevchenko and Pumped Full of Drugs concert videos.

I've heard it said about The Velvet Underground that while not a lot of people bought their albums, everyone who did started a band.

Two stations could exchange messages again on a different band for added points, but the section multiplier did not increase when the same section was reworked on a different band.

King is a fan of the rock band AC / DC, who did the soundtrack for his 1986 film, Maximum Overdrive.

The band also did a dance routine to " Rampart Street ", and performed the background music to a Battle of New Orleans recreation.

However, the band did not have the appropriate licensing and did not pay the required royalties and were fined $ 50, 000 ( US ) and had to make sure any further pressings of the release had an edited version of the song.

Guitarist Mike Mushok stated in a recent question and answer session with fans that the band is looking to make a heavy record, but still " explore some of the things we did on the last record and take them somewhere new for us ".

Richman did not recognize this compilation as his " first album ," preferring to recognize his debut as 1976's Jonathan Richman & the Modern Lovers, an album pursuing the lighter, softer direction he had in mind with a completely different band ( the two collections were released within months of each other ).

It almost resulted in the dissolution of the band, and did result in The Mole Trilogy being brought to a premature end.

Notable artists during the first half of the 1990s included the thrash metal group Sanatorium, the metal band Verka which is still active and whose music includes elements from traditional Macedonian folk music as well as parts from the famous Kopačka folk dance, the alternative rock bands Suns, Last Expedition, The Hip, Balkan Express, Decadence, Vodolija, Nikeja, the punk rockers Rok Agresori and Parketi, and D ' Daltons, which was initially a rockabilly act.

* Balkan Beat Box, an Israeli Gypsy punk band

Spitalul de Urgenţă, literally " Emergency Hospital ", is a Romanian pop band, integrating elements of traditional Romanian music into a sometimes hard-edged rock sound, although also incorporating influences as diverse as Balkan folk music, European classical music, and cartoon soundtrack music.

Traditional folk music from all over the world is performed, along with rockabilly, Balkan brass, folk punk, jug band, and other music that defies categorization.

In April 1867, the band crossed the Danube at Tutrakan, moved through the Ludogorie region and reached the Balkan Mountains.

Throughout their fluctuating line-up, the band has occasionally featured numerous notable musicians, including Duane Denison of the Jesus Lizard, Yuval Gabay of Soul Coughing, Jennifer Charles of Elysian Fields, Hahn Rowe, Tamir Muskat and Ori Kaplan of Gogol Bordello and Balkan Beat Box.

British based band Sam and the Womp have rooted their music in the Balkan funk style to create a modern feel along with catchy and energetic rhythm.

* BALKANOPOLIS ( Serbian / Dutch Balkan band with rock and orchestral influences )

* Beirut ( band ) ( an American indie folk group inspired by Balkan folk music )

In 1982, guitarist Aleksandar " Leki " Cvetković formed the hard rock band Balkan.

In the wake of the uprising's suppression, Benkovski and the surviving members of the band ( Stephen the Dalmatian, Zahari Stoyanov and Father Kiril ) headed to the Teteven Balkan Mountains.

There were some new Balkan influences, while the style of the band was still varied and got even harder.

* The rock band Azra mentions Pankrti in its song " Balkan ":

HMB has a repertoire of originals and traditionals that borrows from global brass band traditions, including, but not limited to, Balkan gypsy brass bands, Indian wedding bands, and New Orleans second line.

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.

Monk Montgomery was the first bass player to tour with the Fender bass guitar, with Lionel Hampton's postwar big band.

After touring for Celebrity Skin finished, Auf der Maur left the band to tour with The Smashing Pumpkins ; Hole's touring drummer Samantha Maloney left soon after.

Finn and Hester decided to form a new band during the Split Enz farewell tour, Enz with a Bang, during November and December 1984.

After the tour, Finn fired Seymour from the band.

Crowded House were mid way through a US tour when Paul Hester quit the band on 15 April 1994.

The band sold recordings of the shows on the Intriguer tour on USB flash drives and made individual live tracks available for free download.

In his teens, he played drums and sang back-up with a local band called The Teen Tones, which later went on to tour with such acts as Bobby Darin and Gene Vincent.

The band followed with a well received East Coast tour.

This lineup assembled for this tour contained East Bay Ray, Peligro, Greer, and bassist Greg Reeves replacing Flouride, who was taking " personal time off " from the band.

The core band that coalesced around this album and tour — rhythm guitarist Alomar, bassist George Murray, and drummer Dennis Davis — would continue as a stable unit for the remainder of the 1970s.

Tin Machine's first world tour was a commercial success, but there was growing reluctance — among fans and critics alike — to accept Bowie's presentation as merely a band member.

On January 6, 2009, Deicide posted a blog on their official Myspace page saying they had signed a worldwide record deal with Century Media, with Ralph Santolla returning to the band for a European tour.

In the early 1990s, Deicide was on tour in Europe with Gorefest, a Dutch death metal band.

The tour for " Freedom of Choice " featured the band performing in front of large custom light boxes which could be laid on their back to form a second, smaller stage during the second half of the set.

The album's accompanying tour featured the band performing an intensely physical show with treadmills and a large Greek temple set.

The album's tour featured the band performing seven songs in front of a 12-foot high rear-projection screen with synchronized video, an image recreated using blue screen effects in the album's accompanying music videos.

This caused the band to abandon the plans for a " Shout " video LP, as well as their tour for the album.

The band performed on part of the 1996 Lollapalooza tour in the rotating Mystery Spot, with a setlist largely composed of material from their heyday between 1978 and 1982.

The band then set out on a nine-month, 92-date world tour, with an enormous set and a hugely expensive space ship stage with fog machines and a laser display.

The band also played at the Wembley Arena for eight straight sold-out nights during the tour as well, another record at that time.

The band embarked on their last world tour to date to promote the LP.

The album's release was followed by news that there would be no tour to promote the LP, that drummer Bevan was now playing drums for Black Sabbath and that bassist Kelly Groucutt had left the band.

Mik Kaminski, Kelly Groucutt and Hugh McDowell joined the band for the first tour in 1991.