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 band followed up with Duty Now for the Future in 1979, which moved the band more towards electronic instrumentation.

As musicians became less important in directing the movement of troops on the battlefield, the bands moved into increasingly ceremonial roles-an intermediate stage which provided some of the instrumentation and music for marching bands was the modern brass band, which also evolved out of the military tradition.

Most show bands of either type include the traditional milltary band instrumentation of woodwinds, brass, and battery percussion.

The band released four albums between 1981 and 1990, with Prince writing and performing most of the instrumentation and backing vocals, with lead vocals by Morris Day.

These bands range from traditionalists ( covering 1920s and 1930s jazz and blues ) to modernists and post-modernists ( creating new music from jug band instrumentation and aesthetics ).

Traditional bluegrass performers believe the " correct " instrumentation is that used by Bill Monroe's band, the Blue Grass Boys ( mandolin, played by Monroe, fiddle, guitar, banjo and bass ).

The four key distinguishing elements ( not always all present ) of progressive bluegrass are instrumentation ( frequently including electric instruments, drums, piano, and more ), songs imported ( or styles imitated ) from other genres, chord progressions, and lengthy " jam band "- style improvisation.

Later bandleaders pioneered the performance of various Brazilian and Afro-Cuban styles with the traditional big band instrumentation, and big bands led by arranger Gil Evans, saxophonist John Coltrane ( on the album Ascension from 1965 ) and electric bassist Jaco Pastorius introduced cool jazz, free jazz and jazz fusion, respectively, to the big band domain.

The band released their debut and best known single " 100, 000 Fireflies " in 1991, which was typical of the band's earlier career characterized by synthesized instrumentation by Merritt with lead vocals provided by Susan Anway ( and then by Stephin Merritt himself from The House of Tomorrow EP onwards ).

Only the final track, an instrumental titled " Kiwi Maddog 20 / 20 " ( a reference to the low-end fortified wine ), had full band instrumentation.

The band was noted for droning vocals and strange instrumentation.

The V & A presented a combined concert / lecture by British progressive folk-rock band Gryphon, who explored the lineage of mediaeval music and instrumentation and related how those contributed to contemporary music 500 years later.

This band, Jimmie Noone's Apex Club Orchestra, was notable for its unusual instrumentation — a front line consisting of just Noone and alto saxophonist / clarinetist Joe Poston, who had worked with Noone in Doc Cook's band.

Some have speculated that the change of instrumentation is reflected by the band changing its name to " Boingo ".

For this album, instead of recording with numerous session musicians as he did previously, Matt Johnson assembled a genuine band behind him to play the bulk of the instrumentation ( additional flourishes were nevertheless provided by sessioneers, most notably keyboard player Wix ).

The genre was pioneered by the Los Angeles band The Byrds, who began playing traditional folk music and Bob Dylan-penned material with rock instrumentation, in a style heavily influenced by The Beatles and other British bands.

Morphine's instrumentation was unusual for a rock band: Sandman's primary instrument was a two-string bass guitar ( with both strings usually tuned to a 5th or octave interval ) played with a slide ; however, on the group's records he added touches of guitar, piano, electronic organ, and other self invented guitar instruments such as the tritar, featuring two guitar strings and one bass string.

Bandleaders like Louis Jordan innovated the sound of early R & B, using a band with a small horn section and prominent rhythm instrumentation.

High schools generally offer classes in singing, mostly choral, and instrumentation in the form of a large school band.

Cocteau Twins were a Scottish alternative rock band active from 1979 to 1997, known for innovative instrumentation and atmospheric, non-lyrical vocals.

He was an innovator in the big band idiom, using unusual instrumentation ; " Interlude in B-flat ", where he was backed with only a rhythm section and a string quartet, was one of the earliest examples of what would be later dubbed third stream.

In 2005, the band released Crimson which expanded upon the band's punk rock influences, with prominent overdubs and additional instrumentation, and continued with this direction on Agony & Irony ( 2008 ), which was released on V2 Records.