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The band was named Wall of Voodoo by Ridgway before their first gig, in reference to a comment made by a friend of Ridgway's while recording and overdubbing a Kalamazoo Rhythm Ace drum machine.
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In New York he was well received by what was then only a small brave band of non-figurative artists, including Alexander Calder, George K. L. Morris, De Kooning, Holty and a few others.
All day long Mr. Podger, who was a straw-hat man in the summer, had worn the feather in the band of his broad-brimmed sunshield.
His eyes had the same dreadful rigid stare as Dr. Grimesby Roylott's when he was found before his open safe wearing the speckled band.
At one time it was the ambition of every saxophone player in every high school band in America to blow like Bird.
One of the rings was a white gold band with a diamond setting, valued at $900.
Such fascinating novelties in the score as the fugual treatment of `` On The Side Of The Angels '' and `` Politics And Poker '' were handled splendidly, and I thought Rudy Bond and his band of tuneful ward-heelers made `` Little Tin Box '' even better than it was done by the New York cast ; ;
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 ).
He was given the name Gaius Octavius Thurinus, his cognomen possibly commemorating his father's victory at Thurii over a rebellious band of slaves.
The Alan Parsons Project was an English progressive rock band, active between 1975 and 1990, consisting of singer Eric Woolfson and keyboardist Alan Parsons surrounded by a varying number of session musicians.
The one occasion where the band was introduced as " The Alan Parsons Project " in a live performance was at Night of the Proms 1990 ( at the time of the group's break-up ), featuring all Project regulars except Woolfson who was present but behind the scenes, while Parsons stayed at the mixer except during the last song, where he played acoustic guitar.
* The New Wave band Missing Persons ' best-selling album was called Spring Session M.
Louisa May Alcott, who was ten years old at the time, later wrote of the experience in Transcendental Wild Oats ( 1873 ): " The band of brothers began by spading garden and field ; but a few days of it lessened their ardor amazingly.
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.
Alaric's first appearance was as the leader of a mixed band of Goths and allied peoples who invaded Thrace in 391, who were stopped by the half-Vandal Roman General Stilicho.
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.
Articolo 31 was a popular band from Milan, Italy, melding hip hop, funk, pop and traditional Italian musical forms.
Urban Dance Squad was a Dutch rap rock band formed after what was originally intended as a one-time jam-session at a festival in Utrecht on December 20, 1986.
* Jon Anderson, singer with rock band Yes, was born there
In March 1964, " Elverket Spelmanslag " was up against another band in a talent contest, The Hep Stars.
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Alexander's band, an optical phenomenon, is named after him.
* The B-52s, a rock band, named after the hairstyle named after the aircraft
* There is a NSBM band from Hesse, Germany named Bilskirnir.
Love named the band Hole.
In the 1920s, Keilin rediscovered these respiratory pigments and named them the cytochromes, or “ cellular pigments ”, and classified these heme proteins, on the basis of the position of their lowest energy absorption band in the reduced state, as
Seattle grunge band Mudhoney named a song on their 1993 EP Five Dollar Bob's Mock Cooter Stew " Deception Pass.
The fictional band's music was done by a real band named " Swamp Baby " with vocals by Dillon.
* Fugazi ( album ), a 1984 studio album by the British rock band Marillion, featuring a song also named " Fugazi "
In fact, Idol had been a member of the punk band Generation X from 1976 – 1981, which was named after Deverson and Hamblett's 1965 sociology book Generation X — a copy of which was owned by Idol's mother.
The Japanese music group ALI Project created the song " Gesshoku Grand Guignol " as the opening for the Bee-Train anime Avenger, while British rock band Duels also named an instrumental track after the theater.
In 1984, Joy Division's bassist Peter Hook named Play Dead, as one of their heirs: " If you listen to a band like Play Dead, who I really like, Joy Division played the same stuff that Play Dead are playing.
One British folk / rock band ( 1969 – 2003 ), Lindisfarne, was even named after the island, while a Celtic Christian progressive rock band named after another island, Iona, has a song devoted to Lindisfarne on its album Journey into the Morn ( 1995 ).
With the band living in a Manchester flat, he had a relationship with a girl named Tracy who bore him a son, Paul Inder, although it would not be until the boy was six that Lemmy had any involvement with him.
In 2003, MTV2 named Linkin Park the sixth-greatest band of the music video era and the third-best of the new millennium.
Although a lead vocalist named O ' Dean was auditioned, Lee had known Vince Neil from their high school days at Charter Oak High School in Covina, California and the two had performed in different bands on the garage band circuit.
No replacement had been named, which sent the band into a hiatus following a 2000 tour in support of their studio release, New Tattoo.
* The cult American rock band the Pixies have an album track on their 1991 album Trompe le Monde named " Bird Dream of the Olympus Mons ", on an album filled with references to space, aliens and other ' out of this world ' subjects.
* OSI ( band ), an American progressive rock supergroup named after the former Office of Strategic Influence government agency
It was Peart who named the album, as he borrowed the words of Ernest Hemingway to describe what the band had to go through after making the decision to leave Terry Brown.
They named the band REO Speedwagon, from the REO Speed Wagon, a flatbed truck Doughty had studied in transportation history, and the initials are those of its founder Ransom E. Olds.
In 2009, Long Distance Calling, a German post-rock band, released a song named " I Know you Stanley Milgram "
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Pink Floyd recast itself from its 1960s guise as a psychedelic band into a commercial success with its series of concept albums, most famously with The Dark Side of the Moon ( which, according to the RIAA, is the second best selling album in history ) and later with the double album rock opera The Wall.
* On January 26, 2000, the band Rage Against The Machine filmed the music video for " Sleep Now in the Fire " on Wall Street, which was directed by Michael Moore.
* Ska / punk band Big D and the Kids Table released their song " It's Raining Zombies On Wall Street " on their new album For the Damned, the Dumb & the Delirious.
For example, the progressive / psychedelic rock band Pink Floyd used a metaphorical wall to represent the isolation felt by the protagonist of their 1979 concept album The Wall.
" In the Q & Mojo Classic Special Edition Pink Floyd & The Story of Prog Rock, an article on Marillion written by Mick Wall described them as “ probably the most misunderstood band in the world ”.
The single " Don't Box Me In ( theme From Rumble Fish )", a collaboration between Copeland and singer / songwriter Stan Ridgway ( of the band Wall of Voodoo ) received significant airplay upon release of the film that year.
) Prominent modern tap dancers have included Brenda Bufalino, The Clark Brothers, Savion Glover, Gregory and Maurice Hines, LaVaughn Robinson, Jason Samuels Smith, Chloe Arnold, and Dianne " Lady Di " Walker Indie-pop band Tilly and the Wall also features a tap dancer, Jamie Pressnall, tapping as percussion.
* Wailing Wall ( band ), a psychedelic rock band
Also in 2004, the band recorded the song " SpongeBob and Patrick Confront the Psychic Wall of Energy " for the soundtrack of The SpongeBob SquarePants Movie.
The Jesus and Mary Chain's sound combined the Velvet Underground's " melancholy noise " with Beach Boys pop melodies and Phil Spector's " Wall of Sound " production, while New Order emerged from the demise of post-punk band Joy Division and experimented with techno and house music.
The band, recording for A & M Records, released albums in 1982 ( Nothing to Fear ) and 1983 ( Good for Your Soul ) that drew comparisons to Devo and later, Wall of Voodoo.
September 2010 saw the band headlining a Canadian tour with support from the Menzingers, which was followed by the European Vans Off the Wall Music Tour in October, with supporting acts The Swellers and Pulled Apart by Horses.
Most recently, the band played an acoustic set at the Occupy Wall Street demonstration in New York City on October 8, 2011.
Banks and Gabriel, together with drummer Chris Stewart, formed a band called The Garden Wall.
In an " Autodiscography " feature article in the Trouser Press magazine, the band members recalled that while five different studios were credited on the album's liner notes, all of the recording took place at Gold Star Studios, the same facility Spector had used for his classic " Wall of Sound " productions of the 1960s.
The album was another success for the band and peaked at No. 4 in the UK, while two singles from the album, " The Thin Wall " and " The Voice ", both reached the UK Top 20.
Hinton novel also had a song released to radio on A & M Records " Don't Box Me In " ( UK Singles Chart n. 91 ) — a collaboration between Copeland and singer / songwriter Stan Ridgway, leader of the band Wall of Voodoo, that received significant airplay upon release of the film that year.
The band was billed as the World of Wild Beards Incorporated, although when he explained this bizarre name during the course of the show, Mangum gave a small speech about an obscure, seemingly fictional company of the early 20th century named " Walking Wall of Beards Incorporated ".
" In the Guns N ' Roses song " Get in the Ring ", Axl Rose verbally attacked critics who gave the band negative reviews because of their actions on stage ; such critics as Andy Secher, Mick Wall and Bob Guccione, Jr. were mentioned by name.
* The 1982 song " Call of the West " by the Los Angeles new wave band Wall of Voodoo — which " follows some Middle American sad sack as he chases a vague and hopeless dream in California "— has been described as being " as close as pop music has gotten to capturing the bitter chaos of the final chapter of Nathanael West's The Day of the Locust ".
On Saturday, 2 October 2010, The band played in Amman, Jordan, their first concert in Middle East, commemorating the 20th anniversary of the fall of Berlin Wall.
During the mid 1980s, the band was on the verge of breaking up when members of Wall of Voodoo Bruce Moreland, Marc Moreland and Chas Grey, who were fans, stepped in and offered to collaborate with them.
Outside of Spector's own songs, the most recognizable example of the " Wall of Sound " is heard on many classic hits recorded by The Beach Boys ( e. g., " God Only Knows ", " Wouldn't It Be Nice " — and especially, the psychedelic " pocket symphony " of " Good Vibrations "), for which Brian Wilson used a similar recording technique, especially during the Pet Sounds and Smile eras of the band.
Roy Wood, another 1970s artist, utilized and arguably, expanded the " Wall of Sound " approach, particularly in his band Wizzard, who would multi-track saxophones, pianos and drums to create a huge sound.
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