The duo would watch and make humorous observations ( about the band, a song's lyrics, or a video's visuals ), or simply engage in nonsensical dialogue.

Apart from learning how to exist on one meal a day and other artistic exercises, he worked at an open-air park show, sang and yodelled with any band that would have him and worked with a traveling medicine show.

With two horns in the band Wills realized he would have to add a drummer to balance things and create a fuller sound.

In 1972, he formed Kurtalan Ekspres, a legend by itself, the band that would accompany him until his death.

Thomas Hooker led a band of followers overland from the Massachusetts Bay Colony and founded what would become the Connecticut Colony ; other settlers from Massachusetts founded the Saybrook Colony and the New Haven Colony.

Multi-instrumentalist Mark Hart, who would eventually become a full band member, replaced Rayner in January 1989.

Seymour said that after a month he contacted Finn and they agreed that he would return to the band.

As the recording sessions progressed it was decided that the album would be issued under the Crowded House band name, rather than as a Neil Finn solo album.

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 ).

The core band that coalesced around this album and tour — rhythm guitarist Alomar, bassist George Murray, and drummer Dennis Davis — would continue as a stable unit for the remainder of the 1970s.

This event would be cited multiple times as the impetus for forming the band Devo.

Devo also confirmed that they would be performing at All Tomorrow's Parties on May 6 and 8, with the May 6th performance featuring the band performing their first album, Q: Are We Not Men?

" f the audience of 50 engineers had shut their eyes they would have believed the jazz band was in the same room.

This single FCC action would render all Armstrong-era FM receivers useless within a short time as stations were moved to the new band, while it also protected both RCA's AM-radio stronghold and that of the other major competing networks, CBS, ABC and Mutual.

In the late 1960s, Roy Wood — guitarist, vocalist and songwriter of The Move — had an idea to form a new band that would use violins, cellos, string basses, horns and woodwinds to give their music a classical sound, taking rock music in the direction " that The Beatles had left off ".

Despite predictions from the music press that the band would fold without Wood, who had been the driving force behind the creation of ELO, Lynne stepped up to lead the band, with Bev Bevan remaining on drums, joined by Gibson, Richard Tandy ( now on the Moog synthesiser ), Mike de Albuquerque on bass and vocals and Mike Edwards and Colin Walker on cellos.

The album's release was followed by news that there would be no tour to promote the LP, that drummer Bevan was now playing drums for Black Sabbath and that bassist Kelly Groucutt had left the band.

Upon completion of the album Lynne reformed the band with completely new members including his then-girlfriend Rosie Vela ( who had released her own album " Zazu ", in 1986 ) and announced that ELO would tour again.

It would be the band's final album of all-new material, and lead singer Holly Johnson would leave the band following the corresponding world tour, followed by a flurry of lawsuits from ZTT.

The success of the film would later lead to actual recordings of the fictional band and concert tours plus press interviews, all done in character.

In this way, Ackerman provided inspiration to many who would later become successful artists, including Joe Dante, Peter Jackson, Steven Spielberg, Tim Burton, Stephen King, Donald F. Glut, Penn & Teller, Billy Bob Thornton, Gene Simmons ( of the band Kiss ), Rick Baker, George Lucas, Danny Elfman, Frank Darabont, John Landis and countless other writers, directors, artists and craftsmen.

Dallas McKennon returned as the voice of Gumby in new adventures that would take Gumby and his pals beyond their toyland-type setting and establish themselves as a rock band.

DJ Lethal became a member of nu metal band Limp Bizkit, who would cover " Jump Around " at live concerts, particularly in Limp Bizkit's early years during the Family Values Tour 1998.

The band should play the Rogues' March as a processional, switching to `` Hail Columbia, Happy Land ''!!

Nelson publicly encouraged this close bond with his officers and on 29 September 1798 described them as " We few, we happy few, we band of brothers ", echoing William Shakespeare's play Henry V. From this grew the notion of the Nelsonic Band of Brothers, a cadre of high-quality naval officers that served with Nelson for the remainder of his life.

Young sax player Zeb McNally was allowed to play with the band, although Wills initially discouraged it.

By then, the Texas Playboys were virtually two bands: one a fiddle-guitar-steel band with rhythm section and the second a first-rate big band able to play the day's swing and pop hits as well as Dixieland.

In 1989, Love taught herself to play guitar and moved to Los Angeles, where she placed an ad in Flipside, reading: " I want to start a band.

After learning of their association with the team's success, the band decided to visit the school and play for the homecoming game.

Capitol Records initially failed to see the band's potential and gave them only low key promotion, forcing the band to play at small venues to try and gain attention.

Paul Hester returned to the band to play drums on the three new tracks.

After Peligro joined the band, the extended play In God We Trust, Inc. ( 1981 ) saw them moving toward full on hardcore / thrash.

He was spared from service in the Battle of the Bulge when he volunteered to play piano at a Red Cross show ; he was such a hit he was ordered to form a band.

Similarly, in a rock or blues band, auditionees may be asked to play various rock or blues standards.

An upright bassist auditioning for a blues band might be asked to play in a Swing-style walking bassline, a rockabilly-style " slapping " bassline ( in which the strings are percussively struck against the fingerboard ) and a 1950s ballad with long held notes.

The lyrics of some of the songs have been changed for family-friendly airplay, which has been claimed by the band to be a play on irony of sorts of the messages of their classic hits.

By 1971, Friedman had formed his second band, Kinky Friedman and The Texas Jewboys, which many took to be a play on the name of the famous band Bob Wills and His Texas Playboys.

The band ’ s renaissance culminated with a change in name ; from Hybrid Theory, the band once again changed its name, this time to Linkin Park, a play on and homage to Santa Monica ’ s Lincoln Park.

In May 2008 Morris undertook an ambient mix on BBC Radio 1, and put an Irresistible Force band together to play at The Big Chill festival.

A widely related story, attributed to Richard ( Prophet ) Jennings was that Davis, while in Detroit playing at the Blue Bird club as a guest soloist in Billy Mitchell's house band along with Tommy Flanagan, Elvin Jones, Betty Carter, Yusef Lateef, Barry Harris, Thad Jones, Curtis Fuller and Donald Byrd stumbled into Baker's Keyboard Lounge out of the rain, soaking wet and carrying his trumpet in a paper bag under his coat, walked to the bandstand and interrupted Max Roach and Clifford Brown in the midst of performing Sweet Georgia Brown by beginning to play My Funny Valentine, and then, after finishing the song, stumbled back into the rainy night.

The Sex Pistols, originally scheduled to play, were dropped by the organizers who said the band had gone " too far " in demanding top billing and certain amenities ; The Clash backed out in solidarity.

After Doolittle tensions between Deal and Francis came to a head ( for example, Francis threw a guitar at Deal during a concert in Stuttgart ), and Deal was almost fired from the band when she refused to play at a concert in Frankfurt.

Although the band has received little radio play or mainstream exposure, Phish has developed a large and dedicated following by word of mouth, the exchange of live recordings by trading tapes with other fans and selling over 8 million albums and DVDs in the United States.

" in imitation of In 1992, Phish introduced collaboration between audience and band called the " Big Ball Jam " in which each band member would throw a large beach ball into the audience and play a note each time his ball was hit.