Beginning with Presto ( 1989 ), the band opted for arrangements that were notably more guitar-centric than the previous two studio albums.

After just 2 weeks in the studio with producer Jim Wirt, the band was unhappy with the recordings and opted to continue recording without a producer.

However, after witnessing drummer Eric Kretz play in a local Long Beach club, the band opted to replace Allin, convincing Kretz to join the band.

However, the band eventually opted out of the song's inclusion on the soundtrack due to Chad Kroeger's song " Hero " ultimately being chosen as the lead single.

After spending fourteen months working on the album, the band opted to further refine their album by removing five of the original seventeen tracks.

The next day when they went to finish the video, the September 11 attacks occurred, and both the band and director Samuel Bayer opted to re-shoot the video, as they felt the images of the house coming down were too similar to the images of the attacks in New York.

In the 1990s, Mushroom missed out on what could have been one of its biggest signings ; the label was reportedly in the front-running to sign rising new Australian band Silverchair, but the group opted to sign with Sony instead.

Rather than tour in support of Battle Magic, the band opted to immediately focus on the writing and recording of their Nuclear Blast debut.

The band, who were initially nameless, opted to call themselves Japan just before their first live gig in the mid 1970s.

Feeling Winwood had been integral to Traffic's music, the remaining members opted not to continue the band without him.

Instead, the band opted to release their following records through Merge.

However, 1984's Three of a Perfect Pair proved tortuous to write, and although King Crimson eventually created another successful album ( including some Belew experiments with fretless guitar ), Fripp opted to split the band in 1984.

Following the Zero Sex single, Demone opted to leave the band and Valor recorded the two-part All The Love, All The Hate concept album in collaboration with Nick the Bastard, which spawned the double A-side single We Fall Like Love / I Hate You.

Compared to cheap 27 MHz, the main reason for the lower user numbers on the 934 MHz band, was its cost ( up to £ 500 for a radio ), coupled with the fact that by the time reliable Japanese equipment became available in the mid-1980s, most people had opted for the noisier but cheaper 27 MHz, or gone on to take the Radio Amateur Exam.

He initially opted to stay at home to write and record new material while the rest of the band toured, although he made occasional appearances and eventually rejoined full-time.

After the release of several demos, original vocalist Tharen ( Alexander Opitz ) left the band and was replaced by Silenius ( Michael Gregor ), who recorded vocals for all Abigor releases until the recording of Channeling the Quintessence of Satan during which he opted to leave the band.

In 1974, the band was informed that another act was already using the name Mammoth, and, at Roth's urging, they opted to rename themselves Van Halen.

She opted out of most subsequent touring duties with the band ; however, her parts were taken over by Kathryn Calder.

Forgoing the experimentalism of Twin Infinitives, the band instead opted for a more lo-fi approach, recording on an 8-track.

" As part of Sony Music UK, Raphael had attempted to sign them but the band instead opted to go with Atlantic Records.

After recording what would be Borders & Boundaries, the band opted to buy out their contract from the major label and release the new album on Fat Wreck Chords instead.

A video had been filmed and promo discs issued, but when it transpired that another single (" Daydream in Blue " by I Monster ) featuring a sample from the same Günter Kallmann Choir recording was to be released at around the same time, the band opted to release " Broke " instead.

The band is set to begin writing a new record this year.

The band and their producer Mike Thorne had gone back into the studio in early 1985 to record a new single, " Run From Love ".

Nonetheless, he and his band continued to be a popular touring act, enjoying a career resurgence in the late 1960s with the Rock and roll revival movement and the signing of a lucrative record deal with the European Sonet Records label.

The band toured the United States and Europe in support of the record.

In 1983, he was invited to record a session on the John Peel BBC Radio show with his band, performing six poems, which was his first professional engagement.

They secured a record contract with Capitol Records, but Hooper left the band before the remaining trio moved to Los Angeles to record their debut album.

Within the record, joke commercials recorded by the band and actual jingles from recently outlawed pirate radio station Radio London were interspersed between the songs, ranging from pop songs to hard rock and psychedelic rock, culminating with a mini-opera titled " Rael.

After the band gained complete creative control from their record company, they decided to expand their follow-up of the Metropolis story into a full album: Metropolis Pt.

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.

In the late 1990s, former band members discovered problems with the amount of payments which each band member had received from their record label Alternative Tentacles.

On January 6, 2009, Deicide posted a blog on their official Myspace page saying they had signed a worldwide record deal with Century Media, with Ralph Santolla returning to the band for a European tour.

Mothersbaugh doesn't rule out the idea of the band gathering in the studio, eventually, to record a new Devo album.

The band also holds the record for having the most Billboard Hot 100, Top 40 hits of any group in US chart history without ever having a number one single.

The band also played at the Wembley Arena for eight straight sold-out nights during the tour as well, another record at that time.

Although Parsons was an equal contributor to the band, he was not regarded as a full member of The Byrds by the band's record label, Columbia Records.

Art in America was the first known rock band featuring a pedal harp to appear on a major record label, and released only one record, in 1983.

Shortly following their first performance together, the band entered the studio to record the Brown-Byrd composition, " Get Up ( I Feel Like Being a ) Sex Machine ", the song further enhanced Brown's influence in funk music, moving further away from his late 1960s funk origins.

In a very short mid-2007 interview with Jamirotalk, drummer Derick McKenzie expressed his satisfaction with leaving Sony as the beginning of a period in which the band will have more creative control over their own work, together with plenty of room for experimentation and lack of pressure from a record company.

Reiko Obata, founder of East West Jazz band, is the first to perform and record an album of jazz standards featuring koto.

" The third record by his biracial L. A. band is wild and funny and totally pioneering: folk rock turned into elegant Armageddon with the symphonic sweep and mariachi-brass drama of ' Alone Again Or ' and ' You Set the Scene.

The band set another attendance record, with an audience of 76, 229 at their Pontiac Silverdome concert on 30 April.