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 is set to begin writing a new record this year.

The band and their producer Mike Thorne had gone back into the studio in early 1985 to record a new single, " Run From Love ".

Nonetheless, he and his band continued to be a popular touring act, enjoying a career resurgence in the late 1960s with the Rock and roll revival movement and the signing of a lucrative record deal with the European Sonet Records label.

The band toured the United States and Europe in support of the record.

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.

They secured a record contract with Capitol Records, but Hooper left the band before the remaining trio moved to Los Angeles to record their debut album.

Within the record, joke commercials recorded by the band and actual jingles from recently outlawed pirate radio station Radio London were interspersed between the songs, ranging from pop songs to hard rock and psychedelic rock, culminating with a mini-opera titled " Rael.

After the band gained complete creative control from their record company, they decided to expand their follow-up of the Metropolis story into a full album: Metropolis Pt.

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.

In the late 1990s, former band members discovered problems with the amount of payments which each band member had received from their record label Alternative Tentacles.

On January 6, 2009, Deicide posted a blog on their official Myspace page saying they had signed a worldwide record deal with Century Media, with Ralph Santolla returning to the band for a European tour.

Mothersbaugh doesn't rule out the idea of the band gathering in the studio, eventually, to record a new Devo album.

The band also holds the record for having the most Billboard Hot 100, Top 40 hits of any group in US chart history without ever having a number one single.

The band also played at the Wembley Arena for eight straight sold-out nights during the tour as well, another record at that time.

Although Parsons was an equal contributor to the band, he was not regarded as a full member of The Byrds by the band's record label, Columbia Records.

Art in America was the first known rock band featuring a pedal harp to appear on a major record label, and released only one record, in 1983.

Shortly following their first performance together, the band entered the studio to record the Brown-Byrd composition, " Get Up ( I Feel Like Being a ) Sex Machine ", the song further enhanced Brown's influence in funk music, moving further away from his late 1960s funk origins.

In a very short mid-2007 interview with Jamirotalk, drummer Derick McKenzie expressed his satisfaction with leaving Sony as the beginning of a period in which the band will have more creative control over their own work, together with plenty of room for experimentation and lack of pressure from a record company.

Reiko Obata, founder of East West Jazz band, is the first to perform and record an album of jazz standards featuring koto.

" The third record by his biracial L. A. band is wild and funny and totally pioneering: folk rock turned into elegant Armageddon with the symphonic sweep and mariachi-brass drama of ' Alone Again Or ' and ' You Set the Scene.

The band set another attendance record, with an audience of 76, 229 at their Pontiac Silverdome concert on 30 April.