The driving band is usually made of copper, but synthetic materials have also been used.

3, " Maximo ") granted prelates of the greater presidency the privilege of wearing a hat with purple band, which right they hold even after they have ceased to be abbreviators.

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.

Apart from learning how to exist on one meal a day and other artistic exercises, he worked at an open-air park show, sang and yodelled with any band that would have him and worked with a traveling medicine show.

The Norwegian all-girl pop band Katzenjammer uses two contrabass balalaikas, both of which have cat faces painted on the front.

The “ Pops ” have been Grammy nominated and are the first lower Manhattan all volunteer community band in a century.

With two horns in the band Wills realized he would have to add a drummer to balance things and create a fuller sound.

Many bands, such as Mayhem and Gorgoroth, are noted for their controversial shows, which have featured impaled animal heads, mock crucifixions, medieval weaponry and band members doused in animal blood.

Love's varying genre interests were illustrated in a 1991 interview, in which she stated: " There's a part of me that wants to have a grindcore band and another that wants to have a Raspberries-type pop band.

Other Chicano / Mexican American singers include Selena, who sang a variety of Mexican, Tejano, and American popular music, but was killed in 1995 at the age of 23 ; Zack de la Rocha, lead vocalist of Rage Against the Machine and social activist ; and Los Lonely Boys, a Texas style country rock band who have not ignored their Mexican American roots in their music.

His bands have included Watt 4 ( 1980 ), in which he played keyboards and provided voice, Craig Charles and the Beat Burglars ( 1989 ), The Sons of Gordon Gekko ( 1989 ), where he wrote lyrics and also composed tunes for the band, and The Eye ( 2000 – 01 ), with whom he released the rock album " Giving You The Eye, Live at the Edinburgh Festival ".

Welsh rock band Super Furry Animals have a song on the 1997 album " Radiator " called " Chupacabras ".

* Cradle of Filth, a popular British extreme metal band, has produced an album called Dusk ... and Her Embrace inspired by " Carmilla ", and have also recorded an instrumental track titled " Carmilla's Masque ".

Originally active from 1985 to 1996, the band have had consistent commercial and critical success in Australia and New Zealand and international chart success in two phases, beginning with their self-titled debut album, Crowded House, which reached number twelve on the US Album Chart in 1987 and provided the Top Ten hits, " Don't Dream It's Over " and " Something So Strong ".

Together, Levy, Guest and a small band of other actors have formed a loose repertory group, which appear across several films.

Biafra's former bandmates maintain that they sued because of Jello Biafra's deliberate withholding of money, though when pressed they have acknowledged that the payment was an accounting mistake, but insist that Biafra was wrong in failing to inform the band directly.

The other band members denied Biafra's accusations regarding the live releases, and have defended the mixes as an effort of hard work.

The band claims on their website that they still pay close attention to an anti-corporate ideology, despite performing on September 5, 2003 at a festival in Turkey that was sponsored by Coca-Cola, noting that they have since pulled out of a show in Los Angeles when they found that it was being sponsored by Coors.

Some have found difficulty reconciling this claim when Biafra also licensed to major corporations, approving with the other band members use of Dead Kennedys ’ songs in major studio film releases such as Neighbors, Freddy Got Fingered, and Fear and Loathing in Las Vegas.

In some cases, blues or rockabilly bassists may have obtained some initial training through the classical or jazz pedagogy systems ( e. g., youth orchestra or high school big band ).

The lyrics of some of the songs have been changed for family-friendly airplay, which has been claimed by the band to be a play on irony of sorts of the messages of their classic hits.

" So powerful was the performance, that the band said they were not sure the song should have been used in the film, and after watching the film, they considered not playing it on future tours.

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

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.

On 18 November 2008 the band released The BBC Sessions, which features songs from the period of 1996 – 2001 ( including the last recordings featuring Isobel Campbell before she left the band ), along with a second disc featuring a recording of a live performance in Belfast from Christmas 2001.

He sings and plays guitar with a band called " Bill Haley and the Satellites ," and released a CD in 2011.

In 1997, the band released a compilation album, My Body, The Hand Grenade, which featured material from the band's earliest recordings in 1989 up until 1995, and, in September 1998, released their third studio album, Celebrity Skin, which featured a stark power pop sound as opposed to the group's earlier punk rock influences.

Love and Erlandson continued to pursue with the band, and released the single " Be A Man "— an outtake from the Celebrity Skin sessions — for the soundtrack of the Oliver Stone film Any Given Sunday ( 1999 ).

Canadian death metal band Ex Deo released an album called Caligvla after the famous bloody Caesar.

The band released one album, 2003's Handheld Torch, which was produced by Seymour.

It was the first of several concept albums released by the band through the first few years of the 1970s.

Heavy metal band Iced Earth, released their 1996 album The Dark Saga which is based upon the comic book character Spawn, created by Todd McFarlane.

Alternative metal band Fear Factory, released several concept albums in the 90s.

In 1999, progressive metal band Dream Theater released Metropolis Pt.

Although the band had created a twenty-minute follow-up to Part 1 in the mid-nineties, it hadn't been released.

The Swedish progressive extreme metal band Opeth released two concept albums in the late 90s.

In the 2000s, the rock band 30 Seconds to Mars released two concept albums, 30 Seconds to Mars ( 2002 ) and This Is War ( 2009 ).

In addition, Grammy-winning metal band Mastodon has released three concept albums, Leviathan, Blood Mountain and Crack the Skye, which, along with their debut album, Remission, make up a quadrilogy, each representing its own element: water, earth, air and fire, respectively.

Progressive metal band Dominici, released three albums in 2005, 2007 and 2008.

English alternative rock band Coldplay released a concept album, Mylo Xyloto, in October 2011.

Massachusetts-based Hardcore Punk band Defeater has released two full length albums and one EP telling the story of an alcoholic WWII veteran and the trials and tribulations of his family.

Hudson is a folk indie rock band with two narrative concept albums released to date.

In June, the band released their first single, " California Über Alles ", on the independent label Alternative Tentacles.

Later that year, the band released their debut album, Fresh Fruit for Rotting Vegetables.