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The band opened for ZZ Top on a tour sponsored by Miller Beer, from which they were fired in March 1991 after Chris Robinson's verbal tirade aimed at Miller.
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Also in 1947, the Whiskey à Go-Go nightclub opened in Paris, France, considered to be the world's first commercial discothèque, or disco ( deriving its name from the French word meaning a nightclub where the featured entertainment is recorded music rather than an on-stage band ).
In October 2001, Bowie opened The Concert for New York City, a charity event to benefit the victims of the September 11 attacks, with a minimalist performance of Simon & Garfunkel's " America ", followed by a full band performance of " Heroes ".
When " Out of Step " was rerecorded for the LP Out of Step, MacKaye inserted a spoken section explaining, " This is not a set of rules ..." An ideological door had already been opened, however, and by 1982, some straight-edge punks, such as followers of the band SS Decontrol, were swatting beers out of people's hands at clubs.
He became enamored of the Velvet Underground while he was still in high school, and after graduating in 1969, he moved to New York City where he became personally acquainted with the band and on one occasion opened the bill for them.
The band opened three shows for The Cars at Madison Square Garden and the Nassau Coliseum between their own headline gigs at smaller area venues.
The band also opened for Pearl Jam on their 2011 South and Central American tour in November and their European tour in June and July 2012.
She admitted inspiration when she saw Joplin perform live ( and opened for with her first band " Fritz ") shortly before Joplin's death.
Jennings and his band performed at a newly opened nightspot called JD's.
It cost £ 600 million, and the resulting venue opened to the public on 24 June 2007, with a concert by rock band Bon Jovi.
The position was eventually filled on his recommendation by Gonzalo " Gonz " Martinez De La Cotera, a friend whose previous band Lincoln had opened for Marcy Playground.
Police Squads opening sequence was based on the 1950s cop show M Squad, ( which starred Lee Marvin ), which opened with footage of a police car roving through an after-dark urban setting with a big band playing a jazz theme song in the background.
" The band opened the 49th Annual Grammy Awards on 11 February 2007 in Los Angeles, California, announcing " Ladies and gentlemen, we are the Police, and we're back!
The 15-meter band ( 21 MHz ) was opened to amateurs in the United States on 1 May 1952.
At the same time, a series of regulatory moves by the FCC opened up the more desirable VHF band for additional full power stations in sizable Eastern and Midwestern markets between 1958 and 1963, allowing ABC to acquire full-time affiliation agreements with additional full-coverage stations in key parts of the country.
Along with Boyle and Somerville, three band members had died in the attack when the UVF gunmen had opened fire on the group following the premature explosion.
At the Leeds England date of the festival, the band opened for The Who, of whom they are long standing fans.
Featured in " 6 Hour Song ( Found a Star on the Ground )" is Sean Lennon who, with his band, opened for the Lips in early 2011.
The band later opened for the Doobie Brothers, and started to focus more on recording an album, and getting a single out.
Many of Taylor's early bands opened for many of the popular bands and artists of the ' 60s and ' 70s including Van Morrison, Janis Joplin's band Big Brother and the Holding Company, and Quicksilver Messenger Service.
During that tour, the band met punk icon Richard Hell and opened a concert for him.
Before the album was released, Jane's Addiction supported British band Love and Rockets on a two-month tour in late 1987 .. Also in late 1987, the band opened for former Bauhaus vocalist Peter Murphy at the now demolished Fender's Ballroom in Long Beach.
The band embarked on a European tour with Mudhoney supporting, and opened for The Smashing Pumpkins in the United States.
Her band, Tinker, opened for The Smashing Pumpkins in Montreal in 1993.
The Coldstream Guards band opened with the " Royal Salute ", " God Save the Queen ".
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Undismayed by this contretemps, a small band of the faithful gathered at Lauchli's home at 6:30 A.M. the next day, put on their uniforms, and headed for a farm several miles away.
Because of the difference between daytime and nighttime propagation conditions, it has been necessary to evolve different allocation structures for daytime and nighttime broadcasting in the AM band, with many more stations operating during the day than at night.
Possibly the most notable current version of " America the Beautiful " is the setting for band and symphonic orchestra by the late arranger / conductor / composer Carmen Dragon.
Beginning with Reginald Fessenden's audio demonstrations in 1906, it was also the original method used for audio radio transmissions, and remains in use today by many forms of communication —" AM " is often used to refer to the mediumwave broadcast band ( see AM radio ).
) for 3 alphorns and concert band, by Kurt Gable.
Although Collins used it as a catharsis for her opposition to the Vietnam War, two years after her rendition, the Royal Scots Dragoon Guards, senior Scottish regiment of the British Army, recorded an instrumental version featuring a bagpipe soloist accompanied by a pipe and drum band.
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.
It hit number 1 in the UK singles chart in April 1972, spending 24 weeks total on the charts, topped the RPM national singles chart in Canada for three weeks, and rose as high as number 11 in the U. S. It is also a controversial instrumental, as it combined pipes with a military band.
* Adrian Young ( born 1969 ), American drummer for the rock band No Doubt
His restless and turbulent nature marked him out for a military career ; and having collected a small band of soldiers, he assisted Emperor Charles V in his war with France in 1543.
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.
The channel frequencies chosen represent a compromise between allowing enough bandwidth for video ( and hence satisfactory picture resolution ), and allowing enough channels to be packed into the available frequency band.
Arrangers in pop music recordings often add parts for orchestral or band instruments involving new material such that the arrangers may reasonably be considered co-composers, although for copyright and royalty purposes usually are not.
In general, the larger the ensemble, the greater the need for a formal arrangement, although the early Count Basie big band was famous for its head arrangements, so called because they were worked out by the players themselves, memorized immediately and never written down.
Most arrangements for large ensembles, big bands, in the swing era, were written down, however, and credited to a specific arranger, as were later arrangements for the Count Basie big band by Sammy Nestico and Neal Hefti.
Duke Ellington's and Billy Strayhorn's arrangements for the Duke Ellington big band were usually new compositions, and some of Eddie Sauter's arrangements for the Benny Goodman band and Artie Shaw's arrangements for his own band were new compositions as well.
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The show highlighted blues music and also had performances by the rock band ZZ Top and singer James Brown.
:* XXX ( ZZ Top album ), a 1999 album by the rock band ZZ Top
ZZ Top is an American rock band from Houston, Texas.
Billy Gibbons, who previously formed the Moving Sidewalks in 1966, had suggested " ZZ King " as a potential name for the band after looking at posters of Z.
Etheridge quit the band in January 1970, and was replaced by Michael " Cadillac " Johnson ; Johnson was replaced by Dusty Hill the following month: The finalized lineup of ZZ Top performed their first show on February 10, 1970 in Beaumont, Texas.
ZZ Top contributed a song, " Doubleback ", and appeared as an acoustic band in the wild-west dance scene in the 1990 movie, Back to the Future Part III.
* Frank Beard of the rock band ZZ Top lived in the Quail Valley subdivision for many years.
Well-known 1970s-era power trios include the Canadian progressive rock group Rush ; The American band out of Texas ZZ Top, the British heavy metal band Motörhead ; The Jam ; Robin Trower and The Police.
The band often performs more than 300 concerts a year and has shared the stage with artists such as Lynyrd Skynyrd, Megadeth, Staind, Nickelback, Alter Bridge, Breaking Benjamin, Seether, Shinedown, Hinder, Mentors, ZZ Top, and Daughtry.
The band has opened for various rock acts such as Heart, Robert Plant, Tom Petty and the Heartbreakers, the Dave Matthews Band, the Grateful Dead, Aerosmith and ZZ Top, and performed live with Jimmy Page and Oasis, among others.
* " Legs " ( song ), a song by American blues rock band ZZ Top
Another contributing factor is the use of handmade, high tech equipment, such as the Rockman, used by artists such as Journey guitarist Neal Schon, the band ZZ Top, and Ted Nugent.
The Moving Sidewalks was a 1960s American psychedelic blues-rock band, most notable for giving future ZZ Top guitarist, Billy Gibbons, his start in the music business.
When the album came out in January 1990, critical reception was mostly favorable: Rolling Stone gave the album three out of five stars and its readers and critics voted the Black Crowes ' Best New American Band ' in 1990 ; the band appeared on the cover of the magazine's 605th issue ( May 1991 ) following their firing from the ZZ Top tour in March that year.
While the Foo Fighters were on break, Hawkins played in a three piece cover band, Chevy Metal, that played lesser known tracks by ZZ Top, Aerosmith, Deep Purple, Van Halen, Queen, and Black Sabbath.
ZZ Top's First Album is the debut studio album by American blues rock band ZZ Top.
Rio Grande Mud is the second album by American blues rock band ZZ Top and was released in 1972.
Tres Hombres ( Spanish for " three men ") is the third album by American blues rock band ZZ Top and was released in 1973.
El Loco is the seventh studio album by American blues rock band ZZ Top, released in 1981 ( see 1981 in music ).
*" Leila " ( song ), 1981 song by American rock band ZZ Top, from their album El Loco
The label also originally issued some early LPs and singles by Texas-based band ZZ Top ( whose catalog went to Warner Brothers when the band moved there ).
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