In his teens, he played drums and sang back-up with a local band called The Teen Tones, which later went on to tour with such acts as Bobby Darin and Gene Vincent.

He went on to say that he believes his hearing damage is partially due to a genetic predisposition to hearing loss, and that he will never return to the stage for fear of worsening not only his condition but also that of his band mates.

The inclusion of Napalm Death's " Twist the Knife ( Slowly )" on the Mortal Kombat soundtrack brought the band much greater visibility, as the compilation scored a Top 10 position in the Billboard 200 chart and went platinum in less than a year.

" The band went through many personnel changes over the years ; the best-known formation was Freddy Cavalli ( bass ), Danny Lademacher ( guitar ) ( later replaced with David Hollestelle ), and Cees ' Ani ' Meerman ( drums ).

When he returned to the Netherlands in October 1979, his band had begun to fall apart, and soon his popularity went downhill.

The Only You tour with big band went on in America, Australia and a short trip to Asia.

As the tour went on it become a regular show ender and guests joining the band on stage, including CJ Ramone, Marky Ramone, Clawfinger vocalist Zak Tell, and Jerry Only of The Misfits.

He went on to form a new band called " Bastard " with guitarist Larry Wallis ( former member of the Pink Fairies, Steve Took's Shagrat and UFO ) and drummer Lucas Fox.

Tensions rose between band members, and, at the end of the year, the Pixies went on sabbatical and focused on separate projects.

The band and its membership went through a number of re-configurations between 1968 and 1974, achieving their current form when Peart replaced original drummer John Rutsey in July 1974, two weeks before the group's first United States tour.

The band accepted ; the song went on, after reworking by Peart, to become " Tom Sawyer ".

Macainsh played with John Farnham on his Whispering Jack Tour and with Dave Warner's from the Suburbs, in 1988 he put together and managed a very successful AC / DC tribute band called Back in Black who went on to support Skyhooks on their comeback tour.

Although composition credit went to the band as a whole, the album's primary writers were Morrison and Krieger.

During that time the group was falling increasingly under David Byrne's control, and after Naked the band went on " hiatus ".

The working relationships within the band had broken down, and the members went their separate ways shortly after.

In mid 1985 the band went to Sydney to meet up with their new label Citadel and promote their first single " Make You Mine "/" She's A Monster ".

The band seemed to have the world at their feet, an album which went on to become the third top Australian album of 1987.

After the success of Music from Big Pink, the band went on tour, including a performance at the Woodstock Festival ( which was not included in the famed Woodstock film due to legal complications ) and an appearance with Dylan at the UK Isle of Wight Festival ( several songs from which were subsequently included on Dylan's Self Portrait album ).

Financially, the band was not doing well ; they were not selling enough records to recoup their expenses, and money from shows went to recording costs, hotels, travel and instrument repairs.

In the early 1980s, Vangelis formed a musical partnership with Jon Anderson, the lead singer of progressive rock band Yes, and the duo went on to release several albums together as Jon & Vangelis.

This band of young men went to the castle at Remalard, where they proceeded to raid into Normandy.

First coming together in 1972, the core duo of Andy Partridge ( guitars & vocals ) and Colin Moulding ( bass & vocals ) went through many band names ( including The Helium Kidz and Star Park ) over the next five years.

The band went on what was supposed to be a 90-day break from public appearances.

The band went on a world tour to promote the album, on the last night of which Buckingham and Nicks reunited on stage to perform " Landslide ".

Drummond and Cauty later went on to form the Illuminatus !- inspired electronica band The KLF.

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.

Zumalacárregui resuscitated the Carlist cause, and by 1835 had driven the Cristino armies to the Ebro River and transformed the Carlist army from a demoralized band into a professional army of 30, 000 of superior quality to the government forces.

Many artists, amateur and professional, perform in situations where a full band / orchestra is either logistically or financially impractical, so they use a " karaoke " recording ; they are, however, the original artists.

: VH1's 2001 show Bands on the Run was a notable early hybrid, in that the show featured four unsigned bands touring and making music as a professional activity, but also pitted the bands against one another in game show fashion to see which band could make the most money.

Contrary to popular belief, the sousaphone was not initially developed as a marching instrument, as the professional band Sousa started after leaving the Marines ( for which he wanted this new instrument ) marched only once in its existence.

With the additional guidance of Washington pianist and band leader Oliver " Doc " Perry, Ellington learned to read sheet music, project a professional style, and improve his technique.

Al Rappa incorporated numerous professional musicians from the Southern Indiana area such as Warren Batts, Joe Esarey, Dave Matthews, John Urbina and many others to make a full band.

Sally Boyden spent many years in London with her own band as a professional singer / composer and is now based in the USA.

These include the professional football ( soccer ) clubs Bristol City, Swindon Town, Cheltenham Town ( whose home colours are red ) and, traditionally, Wrexham FC, as well as the English Rugby League team Hull Kingston Rovers ( whose home colours are white with a red band ).

Because of his discouragingly minor role in the band, and under the pressure of The Mundanes ' unsuccessful search for success, Linnell began recording music with John Flansburgh, though his family did not support the transition from what they considered to be a more professional band to an experimental one.

However, given the fact that many composers wrote marches for their own band ( typically a professional community or circus band ), some require almost virtuoso skill to perform.

Usually originally written for professional, virtuoso band members, such as those in a circus band.

Davies was an art student at Hornsey College of Art in London in 1962 – 1963, when the Kinks developed into a professional performing band.

The first was Dolby A, a professional broadband noise reduction for recording studios in 1966, but the best-known is Dolby B ( introduced 1968 ), a sliding band system for the consumer market, which helped make high fidelity practical on cassette tapes, and is common on stereo tape players and recorders to the present day.

The standard of playing is high and the Army operates bands at the international level, such as the International Staff Band ( a brass band ) which is the equal of professional ensembles although it does not participate in the brass band contest scene, and territorial levels such as the New York Staff Band.

Some professional brass players and contesting brass band personnel have Salvation Army backgrounds.

Since Norman's first professional release in 1967 as a lead singer of the one-hit wonder band People !, more than 100 of his own albums have been released through such commercial record labels as Capitol, MGM, Verve, and his own independent labels: One Way Records, Solid Rock Records, Street Level Records, and Phydeaux Records.

These include " America's Waltz King " Wayne King, professional wrestler Tommy Treichel, Billy Zoom ( Tyson Kindell ) founding member and original guitarist of the punk band X, MLB player Pete Lister, and former NASA astronaut Dale Gardner.

* The Iberia Community Band hosts four public concerts throughout the year and is open to amateur, student, and professional band instrumentalists of all ages and skill levels.

Notable inhabitants of Aalten include Angus Young, guitarist of the Australian rock band AC / DC, and Robert Gesink, a professional road bicycle racer.

The Daily Ardmoreite reported that the four lynched men were " one of the bloodiest band of murderers in the state of Oklahoma and an organization of professional assassins, that for a record of blood crimes, probably has no equal in the annals of criminal history in the entire southwest.