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.

The band did a Balkan tour, dubbed " Balkans AssassiNation Tour ", in October 2007 alongside Krisiun, Incantation and Inactive Messiah.

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.

On August 21, 2008, the band announced an extended break from touring due to the health-related issues of Flouride and Peligro.

The band toured in support in the US only from October 1976 to April 1977 with a break in December, then an American Music Award show appearance on 31 January 1977, plus a one-off gig in San Diego in August 1977.

In 1984, the band took a long break as members pursued other interests and recovered from the two years of constant touring they'd done in support of both albums.

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.

The most successful New Zealand band, The La De Das, produced the psychedelic pop concept album The Happy Prince ( 1968 ), based on the Oscar Wilde children's classic, but failed to break through in Britain and the wider world.

Russell Crowe & The Ordinary Fear of God set out to break the new band in by performing a successful sold out series of dates of Australia in 2005 and then in 2006 returned to the US to promote their new release My Hand, My Heart with another sold-out US Tour and major press, radio and television appearances.

His big break came when he directed the Grammy-nominated concert video 9012Live for the rock band Yes in 1985.

In 1979, one of the Stranglers ' two managers advised them to break up as he felt that the band had lost direction, but this idea was dismissed and they parted company with their then current management team.

The Undertones released thirteen singles and four studio albums between 1978 and 1983 before Sharkey announced his intention to leave the band in May 1983, citing musical differences as the reason for the break up.

The band went on what was supposed to be a 90-day break from public appearances.

The band again took a short break before returning in 1999 with the single " Pumping on Your Stereo ".

Johnny Marr was exhausted and on the verge of alcoholism, and took a break from the band in June 1987, which he felt was negatively perceived by the other Smiths.

Later, in July, an official announcement was made that the band would break up after a farewell tour of the United States and after playing two concerts in London.

The band then took a short break after finishing the Ozzfest 2000 Tour, playing two acoustic shows at Artist Direct Studios.

The single was a huge success and helped the band break into the mainstream.

The band took a break during the first part of 2001 before heading to a beachside mansion in Malibu, California, to record their follow-up album, which would later become known as Morning View.

The band entered a lawsuit against their label in order to break from their contract, to which Sony responded with a lawsuit of their own.

In April 2008 the band took a break from touring and recording while its members concentrated on school, family and other activities.

The addition of a live band and constant touring would break the band out of its Orange County home turf.

In February 2008, the band announced that once they were finished touring, they would break up again.

Negative reviews, the stresses of touring, and conflict between band members led Difford and Tilbrook to break up the band later that year, after releasing a final single, " Annie Get Your Gun ".

Towards the end of 2010, STP announced they were rescheduling several U. S. tour dates so that the band could take a " short break.

: combination of factors, including litigations against the record company and increasing animosity between Wilson and the rest of the band, meant that in May 1967 Wilson pulled the plug on the record ... Love had already dismissed " Good Vibrations " as " avant-garde shit " and objected to the way Wilson, Parks and a group of highly skilled session musicians were creating music way beyond his understanding ... By March 1967, the bad feeling got too much for Parks and, having no desire to break up The Beach Boys, he walked out.