They withdrew to Mercia, but, in January 878, made a sudden attack on Chippenham, a royal stronghold in which Alfred had been staying over Christmas, " and most of the people they killed, except the King Alfred, and he with a little band made his way by wood and swamp, and after Easter he made a fort at Athelney in the marshes of Somerset, and from that fort kept fighting against the foe ".

He appeared twice on ABC-TV's Jubilee USA and kept the band on the road into the 1960s.

Given that spinning a Dyson Sphere would result in the atmosphere pooling around the equator, the Ringworld removes all the extraneous parts of the structure, leaving a spinning band landscaped on the sun-facing side, with the atmosphere and inhabitants kept in place through centrifugal force and 1000 mile high perimeter walls ( rim walls ).

Beyond instrument additions, the band kept in stride with the progressive rock movement by continuing to compose long, conceptual songs with science fiction and fantasy overtones.

" His enthusiasm kept us going at times, definitely ", Mars later said, " His vision, his faith in the band was a binding force ".

His son, Mercer Ellington kept his big band alive after his death.

The note is widely assumed to reflect an anti-synth, pro -" hard "- rock stance by the band, but was later revealed by producer Roy Thomas Baker to be an attempt to clarify that those albums ' multi-layered solos were created with guitars, not synths, as record company executives kept assuming at the time.

Overall the band kept low profile and did no studio recordings or touring as a three-piece.

When she got into the band, she was dedicated to her music …. She was a lonely girl around New York, just kept herself to herself, for the gig.

The band was also kept busy in the studio, recording numerous albums for Sonet and other labels in the 1970s, several with a country music flavor.

There are also instances in which an existing band added a prominent new member or members, where the resulting group might have been considered a supergroup had it not kept its original band name, such as Van Halen after recruiting Sammy Hagar and Gary Cherone, and the Eagles after hiring Joe Walsh and Timothy B. Schmit, and Styx, hiring Lawrence Gowan, and Ricky Phillips.

This is probably a product of the rather small geographic range of the family ( the most limited of any seabird family ), and the periods of glacial advance and retreat that have kept the populations on the move in a narrow band of subarctic ocean.

During the balance of the 1960s, the band kept busy with tours, recordings, television appearances, festivals, Las Vegas shows, and travel abroad, including cruises.

Eric Kretz, however, kept a low profile during this time, operating his own studio, Bomb Shelter Studios, and drumming for the band Spiralarms.

He kept La Place, Louisiana, as his base of operations due to family obligations until his twenty-first birthday, when he moved his band to New Orleans, Louisiana.

Overall the band kept low profile and did no studio recordings or touring as a three-piece.

Their relationship, which was kept secret for six months, was well received by the band who claimed it had made them all closer as friends.

A further development took place during the ninth century ( according to pictorial representations, at first outside of Rome where ancient traditions were not maintained so strictly ): the band, which had hitherto been kept in place by the pins, was sewn Y-shaped, without, however, being cut.

Roberts kept the band focused and dealt with egos, while Geffen handled the business deals, since, in Crosby ’ s words, they needed a shark and Geffen was it.

Lewis kept his band together through the 1950s, and continued to make appearances on television and in Las Vegas into the 1960s.

Balin's reluctance to tour had kept the band off the road for over a year, and Slick's alcoholism increasingly became a problem, which led to two consecutive nights of disastrous concerts in Germany in June 1978.

Sitting Bull and his band of 185 people were kept separate from the other Hunkpapa gathered at the agency.

Since April 24, 2006, the band ( primarily Sean Dolan ) has kept somewhat in contact with their fanbase with their MySpace profile.

Edwards was never seen again, although the band have kept a percentage of the royalties aside should he return.

The tempo of their arrangement was slowed to allow for the bagpipes, but it was based on Collins ': it began with a bagpipe solo introduction similar to her lone voice, then it was accompanied by the band of bagpipes and horns, whereas in her version she is backed up by a chorus.

Roman military tribunes ( tribuni militum ), senior officers in Roman legions, wore a similar purple band so the reference may be to a family background of military leadership.

Thom Yorke applied a similar method in Radiohead's Kid A ( 2000 ) album, writing single lines, putting them into a hat, and drawing them out at random while the band rehearsed the songs.

Some band into loose voluntary associations with other congregations that share similar beliefs ( e. g., the Willow Creek Association ).

Arnaz, Jr. played the drums and, supported by the SNL band, Desi sang both " Babalu " and another favorite from his dance band days, " Cuban Pete "; the arrangements were similar to the ones used on I Love Lucy.

A similar device is used in the plot of Gilbert and Sullivan's 1879 comic opera The Pirates of Penzance: As a child, Frederic was apprenticed to a band of pirates until his 21st birthday.

This is usually represented by a collar or similar band surrounding the shield.

A band of Carboniferous age rocks underlies part of the northern plain but is nowhere seen at the surface however similar age rocks do outcrop in the south between Castletown, Silverdale and Port St Mary.

Metal-rod exercises and resistance band exercises can be used to train a similar action to the javelin throw to increase power and intensity.

The band soon discovered that musicians were exploring similar paths in other parts of the world.

Recently arrived from Australia, the band was now considered insufficiently " cool " to qualify as punk by much of the British media, though they had been playing a similar brand of music for years.

He and his friends, it turns out, were just a decoy set up by VALIS to detour the government from stopping a much more popular A-List band from releasing a similar record with a better-established recording company.

distances, similar to the entropic elasticity of a rubber band ( see below ).

A probe that hybridizes only to a single DNA segment that has not been cut by the restriction enzyme will produce a single band on a Southern blot, whereas multiple bands will likely be observed when the probe hybridizes to several highly similar sequences ( e. g., those that may be the result of sequence duplication ).

Hand salutes similar to those used in the military are rendered by the Drum Major of a marching band or drum corps just prior to beginning their performance ( after the show announcer asks if the group is ready ), as well as following completion of the performance, both rendered to the audience.

The front end of an SSB receiver is similar to that of an AM or FM receiver, consisting of a superheterodyne RF front end that produces a frequency-shifted version of the radio frequency ( RF ) signal within a standard intermediate frequency ( IF ) band.

The other band members prided themselves on similar problems, with many contemporary reviews citing collapses, incoherence, and drunken vomiting onstage.

Crash and Smear were enthusiastic fans of the band from the pre-Germs days, and the fast tempos and raw guitar tone of ( the historically pre-punk ) Zolar X are very similar to the sound achieved on later Germs recordings.

Howard Jones, who had recently left his job as manager of The Haçienda, producer Martin Hannett, and Tim Chambers agreed to work with the band on an album, setting up Thin Line Records to release it, with Jones taking on management of the band, although they had already made a similar agreement with Caroline Reed in London.

* marching band competitions are judged using criteria similar to the criteria used in drum corps competitions, with emphasis on individual aspects of the band ( captions for music performance, visual performance, percussion, guard ( auxiliary ), and general effect are standard ).

Arkenstone is also involved in the band Troika ; their sound is similar to his solo work.

The emblem showing the name of the band and the name of the album is very similar to the logo of the International Alliance of Theatrical Stage Employees.