In this way, Ackerman provided inspiration to many who would later become successful artists, including Joe Dante, Peter Jackson, Steven Spielberg, Tim Burton, Stephen King, Donald F. Glut, Penn & Teller, Billy Bob Thornton, Gene Simmons ( of the band Kiss ), Rick Baker, George Lucas, Danny Elfman, Frank Darabont, John Landis and countless other writers, directors, artists and craftsmen.

A typical punk scene is made up of punk and hardcore bands ; fans who attend concerts, protests, and other events ; zine publishers, band reviewers, and writers ; visual artists who create illustrations for zines, posters, and album covers ; people who organise concerts, and people who work at music venues or independent record labels.

Although composition credit went to the band as a whole, the album's primary writers were Morrison and Krieger.

Music writers have also applied the term, wrongly in the context of this article, to bands or vocal groups that sold huge numbers of albums, headlined massive concerts or have a high celebrity or media status, regardless of the previous ( or even subsequently acquired ) fame of their individual members, such as the band Led Zeppelin, wherein only Jimmy Page was well known at the time the group formed.

Because of its many high-profile residents, movie stars, politicians, writers, and artists also band together with residents in fundraisers and benefits to raise awareness for the fragile ecosystem of the Vineyard and to support community organizations and services.

This was a response to some less than complimentary opinions from some music press writers ; The NME's Mark Cordery accused the band of " emotional fascism " and described their music as a perversion of soul music with " no tenderness, no sex, no wit, no laughter ".

Born in Paris, Desmarets was introduced to Cardinal Richelieu, and became one of the band of writers who carried out the cardinal's literary ideas when he was about thirty years old.

In addition to the songwriting prowess of the writers and producers, one of the major factors in the widespread appeal of Motown's music was Gordy's practice of using a highly select and tight-knit group of studio musicians, collectively known as " The Funk Brothers ", to record the instrumental or " band " tracks of a majority of Motown recordings.

Several writers have claimed that session players played on " I'm Into Something Good "; according to the surviving band members, the song was recorded on a two-track recorder, with only a piano player in addition to the Hermits.

Up to this point Sebastian had written ( or co-written ) and sung every one of The Lovin ' Spoonful's hits ; the band now turned to outside writers for their singles, and used a variety of outside producers.

The other five tracks were band originals with Beck and Middleton the main writers, the last track on each side featured string arrangements by Martin.

In addition to the redistributive themes of a hero who robs from the rich and gives to the poor, many episodes in the programme's first two seasons included the threat that Robin and his band would be betrayed to the authorities by friends or loved ones, much as the blacklisted writers had been.

The title has been adapted and parodied by many writers including Dylan Thomas in his Portrait of the Artist as a Young Dog, Ogden Nash in his poem Portrait of the Artist as a Prematurely Old Man, Joseph Heller in Portrait of an Artist, as an Old Man, A. M. Klein in his poem Portrait of the Poet as Landscape, Andrew Barlow and Kent Roberts ' A Portrait of Yo Mama as a Young Man, Grayson Perry's biography Portrait of the Artist as a Young Girl, punk band Dillinger Four's song Portrait of the Artist as a Fucking Asshole, and William Eastlake's Portrait of an Artist with 26 Horses.

In November 1974 the band changed their name to Slik, with Bay City Rollers writers Bill Martin and Phil Coulter providing songs.

The Rock Bottom Remainders were a rock and roll band consisting of published writers, most of them both amateur musicians and popular English-language book, magazine, and newspaper authors.

The band also uses poems from later writers such as Johann Wolfgang von Goethe ( Der Rattenfänger, engl.

Though initially known for its cover versions, the band moved towards written-to-order songs provided to them by such writers as Graham Gouldman.

Sue Denim of the band Robots in Disguise references McCullers along with other writers in the song " For JT and Carson and Emily " in her solo project Sue and the Unicorn.

The album contents were a mixture of Sky traditions and new elements-it contained a classical-rock arrangement of Prokofiev's " Sleigh Ride " ( from the " Lieutenant Kijé Suite "), alongside seven original compositions and the first examples of commissioned compositions from contemporary writers from outside the band ( in this case, Kevin Peek's old friend and fellow Cliff Richard collaborator Alan Tarney, who provided two original tunes ).

Other writers closely associated with the newspaper include Sean Nelson, lead singer of Seattle band Harvey Danger, formerly the Stranger's Film Editor and a staff writer, profiling the Portland, Oregon band the Decemberists and the pre-teen Seattle band Smoosh when they landed a record deal.

Just as Virgil, in the Aeneid, credited the founding of Ancient Rome to exiles from a defeated Troy, so later English writers such as William Caxton and Raphael Holinshed, adapting the medieval pseudo-history of the Welsh-Norman author Geoffrey of Monmouth, credited another band of Trojan exiles for the foundation of a British realm.

Café Tacuba went from being a garage band to a concert act in 1989, when they joined the scene surrounding El Hijo del Cuervo, a cultural club in Coyoacán featuring writers and musicians.

The ambitious Holly became increasingly interested in the New York music / recording / publishing scene, while his band mates wanted to go back home to Lubbock.

In an early 1999 interview, Love said about the Venus: " I wanted a guitar that sounded really warm and pop, but which required just one box to go dirty (...) And something that could also be your first band guitar.

Around the same time, East Bay Ray had tried to pressure the rest of the band to sign to the major record label Polydor Records ; Biafra stated that he was prepared to leave the group if the rest of the band wanted to sign to the label, though East Bay Ray asserts that he recommended against signing with Polydor.

Also according the website, the band still wanted to open for Hole even after Cobain's death.

Their minimalist album sleeves and " non-image " ( the band rarely gave interviews and were known for performing short concert sets with no encores ) reflected the label's aesthetic of doing whatever the relevant parties wanted to do, including an aversion to including singles as album tracks.

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.

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.

They wanted to record with him, offering to become his backing band, but Williamson died not long after their meeting.

" In The Last Waltz, Manuel claimed that they wanted to call themselves either " The Honkies " or " The Crackers " ( which they used when backing Dylan for a January 1968 concert tribute to Woody Guthrie ), but these names were vetoed by their record label ; Robertson suggests that during their time with Dylan everyone just referred to them as " the band " and it stuck.

The band eventually found a vocalist ; however, Westerberg wanted to be the singer and took him aside one day to say " The band doesn't like you ".

the Replacements had a friendly rivalry with the band, which started when Twin / Tone chose the Replacements over Hüsker Dü, and Hüsker Dü landed an opening slot at a Johnny Thunders gig that the Replacements wanted.

In early 1988 the band played at Dingwalls in London, a show attended by representatives of Zomba and Rough Trade's Geoff Travis, and both subsequently wanted to sign the band, Rough Trade even funding studio time to record a single, " Elephant Stone ", with Peter Hook producing.

Sousa wanted a tuba that would send sound upward and over the band with a full warm tone, much like a concert ( upright ) tuba, an effect which could not be achieved with the more directional hélicon bell position.

Contrary to popular belief, the sousaphone was not initially developed as a marching instrument, as the professional band Sousa started after leaving the Marines ( for which he wanted this new instrument ) marched only once in its existence.

He wanted a tuba that could sound upward and over the band whether its player was seated or marching.

In a narrowband system such as a radio communication system, unwanted outputs such as X-Y and 2X + Y will be remote from the wanted band and so be ignored by the system.

Once at the studio, producer Milt Gabler ( Uncle of actor Billy Crystal, who had produced Louis Jordan as well as Billie Holiday ), insisted the band work on a song entitled " Thirteen Women ( and Only One Man in Town )" ( previously written and recorded by Dickie Thompson ), which Gabler wanted to promote as the A-side of the group's first single for Decca.

Marr contacted NME to explain that he did not leave the band due to personal tensions but because he wanted wider musical scope.

After the completion of Wheels of Fire in mid-1968, the band members had had enough and wanted to go their separate ways.

The band explained that although they do not support piracy, they realised their music would inevitably be distributed online anyway, and wanted to attempt to engage with p2p users and make the best of the situation.