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The band surprised early audiences accustomed to the generally shambling, lo-fi and collage-like quality of the records with their energetic live show, featuring Pollard's homegrown rock theatrics ( consisting of karate-kicks, leaps, and Roger Daltrey-inspired mic-twirling ), Mitch Mitchell's windmilling and chain smoking, sometime bassist Greg Demos ' striped pants, a never-ending barrage of tunes that all seemed to clock in under 90 seconds, and prodigious alcohol consumption all around.
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Inviting the entire band to join him, he was surprised to find only Kevin was eager to make the trip.
After some personnel changes and more rehearsing, the band surprised those who hadn't previously taken it seriously by taking on a life of its own.
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The band was surprised by the single's chart success.
After playing a bad-tempered fifty-minute set at Tufnell Park Dome in north London on May 14, 1993, where the band were co-headlining with Eat, Terry Bickers surprised the audience and the rest of the band by announcing his intentions to leave.
The band was surprised by the fact that the single widened their audience with younger children despite the mature subject matter, because the video's characters, some of them in primary bauhaus colours, were reminiscent of children's programming.
" Weaver in his own statement said the band had fired him, and that he was " shocked " and " surprised " by the decision.
The day following the ceremony at Canterbury, on 13 July 1174, in a seeming act of divine providence for Henry II, William the Lion and many of his supporters were surprised and captured at the Battle of Alnwick by a small band of loyalists.
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Without a singer, Jeff Waters found ex-Omen singer Coburn Pharr and the band surprised even their label by releasing Never, Neverland, a cd with sales that quickly surpassed the debut ( their only one album entered in the UK Chart, position 48th ).
On September 7, with their band of some sixteen hundred men, Nogaret and Colonna surprised the little town.
" Stapp's Creed band mate, guitarist Mark Tremonti, said that he was " surprised as hell at Scott's new attitude towards music and life in general.
Instead, he states that the band members were as surprised as anyone when they learned of the impending release.
Dull Knife's band headed northwest but was surprised and caught by a cavalry division.
He resented the fact that he was himself poor, since it is understood in the show that, although he learned to love his wife over time, he married for money and was surprised by the sudden impoverishment of his wife's mother, on whom he picked regularly, often making up stories of her being drunk and naked on the building's rooftop while singing the refrain of " Cara Caramba, Sou Camaleão ", a song by the Axé music band Chiclete com Banana.
This was received as a backhanded complement by the band, who were mildly surprised that anyone would take the trouble to attack their website.
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* The Atlantics, an Australian surf rock band formed in the early 1960s
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.
* Affinity ( band ), A Jazz / Rock band active in the late 60s and early 70s
In the early 2000s the MC fronted band Relax got much airplay, as did de Spookrijders.
The band and their producer Mike Thorne had gone back into the studio in early 1985 to record a new single, " Run From Love ".
Soon after this he decided, as all successful people must decide at some time or another, to be his own boss again-and he has been that ever since .’ these notes fail to account for his early band, known as the Four Aces of Western Swing.
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.
In the summer of 2011, the band played at several festivals in Russia, and toured in Australia and Brazil in early 2012.
According to Love, her main focus in the band from very early on was on lyrics: " For me, I was just about lyrics and performance.
* Two Witches, a Finnish Gothic rock band, created a song in the early 1990s called " Mircalla ", inspired by the novel.
The third single from Woodface, " Weather With You ", peaked at No. 7 in early 1992 giving the band their highest UK chart placement.
The band became part of the American hardcore punk movement of the early 1980s.
In early to mid July, the band recruited 6025 ( Carlos Cadona ) as a secondary guitarist.
The band continued to write and perform new material during this time, which would appear on their next album ( some of these early performances can be seen in the Live at DMPO's on Broadway video, originally released by Dirk Dirksen and later reissued on Rhino ).
During the late 1950s and early 1960s Brubeck canceled several concerts because the club owners or hall managers continued to resist the idea of an integrated band on their stages.
( One original member of Gypsy Fever, backing vocalist Richard Dennison, has remained with Parton's organization through the early 2010s, serving as a supporting vocalist, as well as the vocal arranger for Parton's band.
Some tracks were composed using Eno and Peter Schmidt's Oblique Strategies cards: " Boys Keep Swinging " entailed band members swapping instruments, " Move On " used the chords from Bowie's early composition " All the Young Dudes " played backwards, and " Red Money " took backing tracks from " Sister Midnight ", a piece previously composed with Iggy Pop.
Bowie shelved his solo career in 1989, retreating to the relative anonymity of band membership for the first time since the early 1970s.
Beginning around 1890, the early New Orleans jazz ensemble ( which played a mixture of marches, ragtime, and Dixieland ) was initially a marching band with a tuba or sousaphone ( or occasionally bass saxophone ) supplying the bass line.
The slap style cuts through the sound of a band better than simply plucking the strings, and allowed the bass to be more easily heard on early sound recordings, as the recording equipment of that time did not favor low frequencies.
In the early 1990s, Deicide was on tour in Europe with Gorefest, a Dutch death metal band.
Despite early singles success in the United Kingdom, the band were initially more successful in the United States, billed as " The English guys with the big fiddles ".
One early example includes the anarcho-punk band Crass, who conducted a campaign of stenciling anti-war, anarchist, feminist and anti-consumerist messages around the London Underground system during the late 1970s and early 1980s.
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