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.

The band tried to fuse the technical aspects of pop music with the melodies of Anatolian folk music in late 1960s and early 1970s.

During this time, Sonny Stitt tried to persuade him to join the Tiny Bradshaw band, then passing through town, but Davis ' mother insisted that he finish his final year of high school.

After recruiting Deal, the band tried unsuccessfully to get her sister, Kelley Deal, to join as its drummer.

The primary ( military band ) saxophone family alternates instruments in B and E. The other (" orchestral ') family patented by Sax, alternating instruments in C and F, has always been marginal, although some manufacturers tried to popularise the soprano in C ( or C soprano saxophone ), the alto in F ( or mezzo-soprano saxophone ), and the tenor in C ( or C melody saxophone ) early in the twentieth century.

Following the long-term additions of drummer Frank Funaro and keyboard player Kenny Margolis, the band tried again in 1998 with Gentleman's Blues, with " The Good Life " as the lead single.

While singing with Gillespie, Fitzgerald recalled, " I just tried to do my voice what I heard the horns in the band doing.

Reportedly, Thorpe's vocal was chosen as the final one after each member of the band tried to sing it without success.

However, The Craze still split up fairly quickly, and Ash once again tried to convince his old school friend Peter Murphy to join him, simply because Ash thought he had the right look for a band.

* In November 2010, Alejo Garza Tamez, a 77 year old Mexican hunter and businessman from the state of Nuevo León, Mexico, killed four and wounded two other members of the organized crime band Los Zetas, when they tried to take away his ranch from him.

One report says the wrestler was able to hold a pomegranate without damaging it while challengers tried to pry his fingers from it, and another report says he could burst a band fastened around his brow by inhaling air and causing the temple veins to swell.

The band's frontman Fred Durst claimed the band had attempted to take precautions that fell on deaf ears, " We begged, we screamed, we sent letters, we tried to take precautions, because we are Limp Bizkit, we know we cause this big emotional blister of a crowd ".

When Moten died in 1935 after a surgical procedure, the band unsuccessfully tried to stay together but couldn't make a go of it.

" Eight Days a Week " is noteworthy as one of the first examples of the in-studio experimentation that the band would use extensively in the future ; in two recording sessions totalling nearly seven hours on 6 October devoted exclusively to this song, Lennon and McCartney tried one technique after another before settling on the eventual arrangement.

The band tried to open up a string of bar and grills in 1996.

Captain Jack led his band back to California, and the Modoc War of 1872 broke out when the US Army tried to take them by force to return them to Oregon.

Guy Lombardo and his band returned for only one more season, and was quoted as saying he had tried to strike a " new deal " with the Murchisons but had not succeeded.

In Bahia, Roy tried unsuccessfully to enter in the Brazilian music scene, when he formed a band of axé and Caribbean music.

The band spent many months agonizing as they tried to make a successor to Dare, and as things became ever more stressful, producer Martin Rushent left the project.

The band first tried to reunite in 1989, after many requests from Tony Gordon, the group's former manager and Boy George's manager at that time.

According to Paul Cook, in the few months between joining the band and meeting Spungen, Vicious was a dedicated worker and tried his hardest to learn to play ; indeed, this period was Cook's favourite in the band.

When he originally joined the band for their second album, Carthy had tried to persuade the others to bring John Kirkpatrick on board, but the band had chosen Knight instead.

Very soon after this he formed a group of equally enthusiastic youngsters and managed to get quite a few local bookings for his band.

The band was asked to change the lyric to " girl we couldn't get much better ".

A petition he has been circulating via Heather Duke, to get the band Big Fun to perform on campus was actually a disguised mass suicide note.

When his manager informed him that a band by the name of " Bastard " would never get a slot on " Top of the Pops ", Lemmy changed the band's name to " Motörhead " – the title of the last song he had written for Hawkwind.

In early 2001 he announced to his band mates that he was ready to once again enter the studio and get back into the business of making music.

The band attempted to usurp James by putting up posters around town listing The Stone Roses as headliners, and delaying their start time to get the headline time themselves and limit the time that James could play for.

In his presentation to the American College of Sports Medicine's annual meeting in 2009, researcher and exercise physiologist Gary Granata presented research after studying members of the Avon High School Marching Black and Gold, noting " At the top levels of marching band and drum corps, you get a level of competition and athleticism that is equal to a division I athletic program.

It follows the story of a fictional rock band that tries to get a recording contract.

The band receives a 1000 % profit, which they use to get bailed out of jail.

In February 1984, Doe Maar went into the studio to record their fifth album ; however, the band couldn't get into the recording, and during a crisis meeting on February 13 they decided to call it a day.

ODJB, on the other hand, played for dancing and hence, were the first " jass " band to get a following of fans in New York and then record at a time when the USA's recording industry essentially, was centered in New York and New Jersey.

The band's drawing power as a live band helped them get a record contract with US label Atlantic Records.

Wetton and Palmer did, however, get together to form Qango, which included Kilminster and John Young, although the band was short-lived.

Forever Changes, released in November 1967, is a suite of songs using acoustic guitars, strings and horns that was recorded while the band was falling apart as the result of various abuses and a failed power play by Bryan MacLean, trying to get more of his songs on the album.

Billboard magazine later confirmed the news, quoting Andy Summers ' 2006 statement as to how the band could have continued post-Synchronicity: " The more rational approach would have been, ' OK, Sting, go make a solo record, and let's get back together in two or three years.

He ends up writing all their material and playing bass guitar, ( after trying unsuccessfully to get them to change their name ) as the band rises in the drug-and booze-fuelled rock and roll of the 1970s, assisted by A & R man Rick Tumber of ARC Records.

The band soon came up with the name " Cake "; rather than referring to the foodstuff, the name is meant to be " like when something insidiously becomes a part of your life ... mean it more as something that cakes onto your shoe and is just sort of there until you get rid of it ".

The idea of a coin toss came from Phipps, the owner of Bold Ruler, and " Bull " Hancock of Claiborne Farms as a way to get the very best mares for Bold Ruler, and when the toss went their way, to add well-bred fillies to their own broodmare band.

Beefheart had also been conceptualizing new band names, including " 25th Century Quaker " and " Blue Thumb ", while making suggestions to other musicians that they might get involved.

In 1923, Miller entered the University of Colorado at Boulder, where he joined Sigma Nu Fraternity, but spent most of his time away from school, attending auditions and playing any gigs he could get, most notably with Boyd Senter's band in Denver.

Even though Falkenbach was formed as early as 1989, the band didn't get much attention until the debut, that includes epic music that is " rife with keyboards, Viking themes, and folk music tendencies ," Falkenbach was effectively a merge of Viking metal with folk metal.

The retreat had required long periods of meditation, initially conceived by the band as a spiritual respite from all worldly endeavours — a chance, in John Lennon's words, to " get away from everything.

Penniless, freezing cold, and in a rush to get out of town, the two musicians take a job in a women's band headed to Miami.

" That day, Brian Wilson said the band is going to get back together to celebrate their 50th anniversary.