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band and failed
Capitol Records initially failed to see the band's potential and gave them only low key promotion, forcing the band to play at small venues to try and gain attention.
Although both sides agreed that the failure to pay these royalties was an accounting mistake, they were upset that Biafra failed to inform the band of the mistake after he and his co-workers discovered it.
article about a failed attempt to write a band biography
Tin Machine toured again, but after the live album Tin Machine Live: Oy Vey, Baby failed commercially, the band drifted apart, and Bowie, though he continued to collaborate with Gabrels, resumed his solo career.
After meeting Simon King in a Chelsea shopping centre in 1969, he joined the band Opal Butterfly, but the group soon folded, having previously failed to raise enough interest with their preceding CBS singles.
Tensions and frustration within the band grew however after they failed to land a record deal.
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.
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.
Tricky failed to complete a number of lyrics for the Massive Attack album Protection and gave the band some of the lyrics he had written for Maxinquaye instead.
He failed to turn up for the opening dates of their 1988 tour of America, and prevented the band from promoting their next album, Hell's Ditch, so in 1991 the band sacked him.
" Man of the Earth ", which the band had high hopes for, was due to be the third single from the album, however Epic Records decided against it when The Stranglers failed to secure a tour in America.
" The Undertones did, however, release two studio singles, " Beautiful Friend " and " The Love Parade ", in February and October, however both of the singles the band released failed to make an impact upon the UK charts.
The band gained widespread notoriety when, one minute into a live 1989 TV performance on the BBC's The Late Show, the power failed, prompting Ian Brown to repeatedly roar " Amateurs!
The recording session almost failed to take place because the band was traveling on a ferry that got stuck on a sandbar en route to New York from Philadelphia.
All four band members arranged a rehearsal, but Murphy failed to show up the day it was scheduled.
Forever Changes, released in November 1967, is a suite of songs using acoustic guitars, strings and horns that was recorded while the band was falling apart as the result of various abuses and a failed power play by Bryan MacLean, trying to get more of his songs on the album.
The band failed to distinguish itself from the many others of the era, and broke up after playing its last show at the Ritz Ballroom in Bridgeport, Connecticut on January 2, 1938.
Though It failed commercially and fame was still elusive, the band continued to seek commercial success even to the point of recording a single, " Everybody's Problem "/" There Was ".
The Oklahoma House of Representatives failed to confirm the choice after Rep. Mike Reynolds, R-Oklahoma City attacked the band for its use of offensive language, and Rep. Corey Holland, R-Marlow said he had been " really offended " when Michael Ivins came to the announcement ceremony in March wearing a red T-shirt with a yellow hammer and sickle.
The album failed to received much attention, and the band temporarily returned to the Netherlands, before settling in London, United Kingdom in the middle of 1985.
The band soon began to play on the London gig circuit, but the record failed to make as much of an impact as the band had hoped.

band and take
Proper nouns that are plural in form take a plural verb in both AmE and BrE ; for example, The Beatles are a well-known band ; The Saints are the champions, with one major exception: largely for historical reasons, in American English, the United States is is almost universal.
Qualified banks borrow from each other within this band, but never above or below, because the central bank will always lend to them at the top of the band, and take deposits at the bottom of the band ; in principle, the capacity to borrow and lend at the extremes of the band are unlimited.
D. H. also left the band to " take some personal time off ".
Dallas McKennon returned as the voice of Gumby in new adventures that would take Gumby and his pals beyond their toyland-type setting and establish themselves as a rock band.
* The American Heavy Metal band Virgin Steele take influence from the poem for their 1998 release Invictus ( album ).
Moon's wild lifestyle began to take a toll on his health, his music, and his reliability as a band member.
After graduating from high school, the three began to take their musical interests more seriously, recruiting Joe Hahn, Dave " Phoenix " Farrell, and Mark Wakefield to perform in their band, Xero.
When considering the band structure and binding energy of a metal, it is necessary to take into account the positive potential caused by the specific arrangement of the ion cores – which is periodic in crystals.
The band Downcount used a proverb for the name of their tour, Come and take it.
The band broke up because Sir Mix-A-Lot wanted to take the band in a harder, more electronic direction, but Finn and Dederer were not interested.
In early 2005, 30 Odd Foot Of Grunts as a group has " dissolved / evolved " with Crowe feeling his future music would take a new direction and he began a collaboration with Alan Doyle of the Canadian band Great Big Sea, and with it a new band: The Ordinary Fear of God which also involved some members of the previous TOFOG line-up.
Poor reception of the album both by the public and reviewers led the band to take out a page-sized ad in the local music press declaring " Why Don't You All Get Fu ** ed " ( title of one of their songs ) and they played their last performance on 8 June in Kalgoorlie.
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 ".
Reviewing a March 2008 concert, The Washington Post described MacGowan as " puffy and paunchy ," but said the singer " still has a banshee wail to beat Howard Dean's, and the singer's abrasive growl is all a band this marvelous needs to give its amphetamine-spiked take on Irish folk a focal point.
The Stranglers were the only foreign band to take part in a landmark scene focussed around S-KEN Studio in Roppongi, and The Loft venues in Shinjuku and Shimokitazawa from 1977 to 1979.
In November 2011 it was announced they would be playing two shows in 2012 that will feature the original line-up as well as the classic line-up of the band reunited for the first time in many years ; these shows will take place on 25 May 2012 in Manchester at the O2 Apollo and on 26 May in Brixton at the O2 Academy.
A friend of the band who wanted to help manage them told them he would take the tapes to the east coast and shop them around to the independent labels there.
Following the Spine on the Hiway Tour of 2004, the band announced that they would take an extended hiatus from touring to focus on other projects, such as a musical produced by Flansburgh and written by his wife, Robin " Goldie " Goldwasser, titled People Are Wrong !.
The band would frequently take the stage too intoxicated to play.

band and advantage
Since the 2. 4 GHz band is heavily used to the point of being crowded, using the relatively unused 5 GHz band gives 802. 11a a significant advantage.
After a couple of years of doing shows, taking advantage of the Internet, spreading the word through retail and radio in every way the band and management could on an independent level, they began to experience major success.
Many musicians, especially the reeds, played two or more instruments ; the reed " doublings " were especially calculated to take advantage of the full panoply of instruments available in that section of Whiteman's band.
The high frequency band is very popular with amateur radio operators, who can take advantage of direct, long-distance ( often inter-continental ) communications and the " thrill factor " resulting from making contacts in variable conditions.
The band quickly established themselves as concert favourites, taking advantage of the high performance skills of all four members.
In the nineties, Miller began to make his own records, putting a band together to take advantage of touring opportunities.
In 2001, taking advantage of this fortuitous opportunity for a Winger revival, it was announced that all original members of the band ( including both Taylor and Roth ) would return to the studio to record the song " On the Inside " for The Very Best of Winger.
Much the same way that the influential Duke Ellington matched his scores to the unique abilities of his performers, Hefti was able to take advantage of the same kind of ' fine-tuning ' to bring out the best of the talents of the Basie band.
A further advantage of using equipment in the 5. 8GHz frequency band is data speeds or throughout.
However, this has not prevented the band from taking advantage of publicity in prog rock websites and magazines.
What initially began as an amicable working relationship between the Beatles and James disintegrated by the late 1960s: the Beatles considered that James had betrayed and taken advantage of them when he sold Northern Songs in 1969 without offering the band an opportunity to buy control of the publishing company.
Cope, however, has strenuously resisted taking advantage of any nostalgic and commercial opportunities to reunite the band.
During the English Civil War, Lydford was the haunt of the then notorious Gubbins band, a gang of ruthless cut-throats and highwaymen, who took advantage of the turmoil of the times to ply their villainry.
Shortening their moniker even further to " REZ ," the band took advantage of the fact that Capitol Records now handled Sparrow's distribution.
The band took advantage of the publicity and re-released another Springsteen song, " Spirit in the Night ", which had been recorded the previous year on Nightingales and Bombers, originally with Rogers on vocals --- although for some territories it was re-recorded with a vocal from Thompson.
The band took advantage of their large recording budget, bringing in string sections and hiring producers to make the album sound as epic as possible, and it would later be regarded by most as their creative peak.
By 1864 he had deserted, and joined a band of men called the " Independent Rangers ", which was loosely associated with the Confederate Home Guard which specialized in pursuing and capturing men who deserted the Confederate Army, but which more often than not took advantage of the fact that most of the men in the Arkansas and Texas areas were away at war, leaving mostly elderly men, women and children.
While Kerner and Wise wanted to produce a record that captured Kiss as a live act, they decided to take advantage of the experience the band had gained as recording artists.
While the band selected the previously recorded " Dive " as the b-side, Cobain wanted to take advantage of a studio break by the group TAD in July 1990 to record the a-side.
To follow up on this success, Motown had the band record " Twistin ' Postman " to take advantage of the twist dance craze and the re-release of Chubby Checker's " The Twist ".
In 1996, the band signed with major label TAG Records, a division of Atlantic Records, and took advantage of the major-label budget to experiment with their sound.
The band relocated to London to take advantage of their growing success, although by now Cope was retreating into a drugged lifestyle and beginning " a period of unrestrained megalomania.
Those songs spread and gained success through LP compilations of dance / pop music, and bootleg tapes, so, the band could never take advantage of this success, as neither those songs could properly appear on any music charts as " singles " anyway.

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