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THE SCOTT MCLEAN ROCK AND ROLL KARMA ALBUM photograph 1 of 3

SCOTT_MCLEAN_MUSIC — Sat, 21 Nov 2009 00:25:43 MST

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THE SCOTT MCLEAN ROCK AND ROLL KARMA ALBUM ad

SCOTT_MCLEAN_MUSIC — Fri, 20 Nov 2009 22:49:10 MST

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THE SCOTT MCLEAN ROCK AND ROLL KARMA ALBUM page 1 of 4

SCOTT_MCLEAN_MUSIC — Fri, 20 Nov 2009 22:45:45 MST

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THE SCOTT MCLEAN ROCK AND ROLL KARMA ALBUM page 2 of 4

SCOTT_MCLEAN_MUSIC — Fri, 20 Nov 2009 22:44:45 MST

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THE SCOTT MCLEAN ROCK AND ROLL KARMA ALBUM page 3 of 4

SCOTT_MCLEAN_MUSIC — Fri, 20 Nov 2009 22:43:57 MST

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THE SCOTT MCLEAN ROCK AND ROLL KARMA ALBUM page 4 of 4

SCOTT_MCLEAN_MUSIC — Fri, 20 Nov 2009 22:43:04 MST

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THE SCOTT MCLEAN ROCK AND ROLL KARMA ALBUM photograph 2 of 3

SCOTT_MCLEAN_MUSIC — Fri, 20 Nov 2009 22:40:28 MST

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THE SCOTT MCLEAN ROCK AND ROLL KARMA ALBUM photograph 3 of 3

SCOTT_MCLEAN_MUSIC — Fri, 20 Nov 2009 22:38:18 MST

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KasannaTo

sircarlo — Sun, 21 Jun 2009 07:48:03 MDT

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JONAS TAMAS

ladeeart — Sun, 31 May 2009 21:47:49 MDT

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INSTRUMENTAL ROCK GUITAR

Mike Orlando's Sonic Stomp

mecsav — Tue, 12 May 2009 23:40:43 MDT

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Instrumental Rock

Jack's Instrumental Rock

gixmonster — Mon, 11 May 2009 16:18:42 MDT

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Banda EPROM

johnjonsun — Thu, 14 May 2009 15:15:04 MDT

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rock com eletronica instrumental

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DaSperminator — Tue, 26 May 2009 02:23:51 MDT

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add my Music page on myspace wwwmyspacecomrmazurek

27 dic 2008

desordenjuanagallo — Mon, 11 May 2009 18:05:17 MDT

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anneke y simone2

metalexis — Thu, 8 Oct 2009 10:01:28 MDT

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Mi tema de escritorio Feb2009

elHumahuaqueno — Wed, 13 May 2009 14:42:51 MDT

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If these trees could talk es una banda de rock instrumental

Sarah's Ready to Rock the Crowd

ArundelBand — Sun, 10 May 2009 03:49:42 MDT

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Photo by Steve Barrett Arundel Instrumental Music Association

arat kilo cantine de belleville

wakkosax — Mon, 11 May 2009 12:09:55 MDT

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une soire depaysante grooves rock jazz psychedeliques vous ouvriront les portes de l'imaginaire instrumental

Tim Scott's debut single 82164AM8217 Acer Records 2003

Tim_Scott_Guitar_Mashing — Fri, 30 Oct 2009 07:33:31 MDT

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Tim Scott's debut single 4AM Acer Records 2003

BartKidT

oojfreak — Wed, 22 Jul 2009 11:02:54 MDT

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Laika and the Cosmonauts farewell tour

tripswitcheroo — Tue, 12 May 2009 10:23:26 MDT

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Lead guitarists Matti of Finland's rock instrumental combo Laika and the Cosmonaut at the Bordello in Los Angeles for their farewell tour

Tim Wilson and Robbie Allen

sundogs85 — Wed, 13 May 2009 14:29:58 MDT

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Robbie and Tim Wilson CEO of Wilson Bros guitars and son of Don Wilsonthe rhythm guitarist for the legendary instrumental rock band THE VENTURES

The DS Project Fairmont Music Theater Show Poster

dsproject — Sat, 14 Nov 2009 20:53:01 MST

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The DS Project showcases their brand of instrumental alternative rockmetal for the City of Fairmont Come out and support local rock music

THIS IS YOU HURT MODEL

HurtModel — Wed, 13 May 2009 20:48:33 MDT

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This is the cover of Hurt Model's sweet rock album This is You It was released in 2008 Trevor hand silk screened the art work

May8thSodaBarShow

justinjay58 — Sun, 10 May 2009 13:08:06 MDT

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Tim Scott Bald On The Inside Cover Artwork

Tim_Scott_Guitar_Mashing — Thu, 22 Oct 2009 06:04:21 MDT

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Guitarist magazine album review January 2004 Issue 245Bald On The Inside showcases a vast array of playing techniques ranging from Jeff Beck's vocal tremolo arm mastery and Satch's uptempo boogie style through to Tommy Bolin phrasing and Vaistyle melodic rock This is impressive worldclass stuff and if you like great guitar playing you should definitely check it outBy Ben Bartlett

Tim Scott Single 'Amy Jane' Cover design

Tim_Scott_Guitar_Mashing — Fri, 30 Oct 2009 08:22:33 MDT

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Amy Jane is a highly original uplifting Ibiza anthem epitomizing the hedonistic club culture that the White Isle has become famous for but with an influential twist of super postmodern Guitar Mashing possessing a timeless elixir of its own

Tim Scott's debut album 8216Bald On The Inside8217 Acer Records 2003

Tim_Scott_Guitar_Mashing — Fri, 30 Oct 2009 07:33:16 MDT

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Tim Scott's debut album Bald On The Inside Acer Records 2003

Tim Scott's single Angel Dust Acer Records 2009

Tim_Scott_Guitar_Mashing — Fri, 30 Oct 2009 07:33:06 MDT

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Tim Scott's 2nd single Angel Dust Acer Records 2009

Campechano Music Fest MediosAhorkados Arrabal Radio

adolfunk — Thu, 2 Jul 2009 00:07:51 MDT

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Aniversario del programa MediosAhorkados de wwwarrabalradiocom Sabado 18 de Julio a partir de las 3PM en el Pulque Para dos Cholula Puebla

Rock Band

gamasutra — Mon, 11 May 2009 00:09:06 MDT

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Girl Rock Band

nicolekcnw — Mon, 11 May 2009 19:26:15 MDT

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Cathe Friedrich Pure Strength Strong Legs amp Abs Video used

roleez1 — Sun, 10 May 2009 12:13:00 MDT

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This thorough and complete leg ab workout leaves no lower body muscle untouched The workout begins with a warmup and follows with a tough standing leg workout It then continues with classic floor work that is enhanced through the use of resistance The workout concludes with a challenging abdominal routine and stretchSome of the new and featured moves are alternating Plie squats sit and stand squats step ups and creative calf and hamstring exercisesThe soundtrack provided by Musicflex is a new and refreshing instrumental remix of classic 70's 80's rock music You'll here favorites such as Legs Addicted To Love Show Me the Way and Rock n Roll

rock n roll

heartbreakersnorberg — Tue, 12 May 2009 18:07:38 MDT

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Versailles

myvsgirl2008 — Mon, 11 May 2009 00:22:59 MDT

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CEBE AltCountryRock from Brazil

AltCountryRock — Mon, 11 May 2009 18:05:12 MDT

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CEBEAltCountryRock from BrazilAcoustic Guitar Instrumental Solo SlideOfficial website httpalexcebeofficialwsMySpace httpwwwmyspacecomalexcebeYouTube httpwwwyoutubecomalexcebeIt's all about FriendshipHappinessUnionJoyLovePeaceForceCreativityHealthEntertainmentComfortProgressFamilyGodLivelinessFaithImplementationCertaintyEncouragementLifeLibertyConsciousnessDevelopmentKnowledgeAttitudeProsperityInnovationRespectInspirationOverrunEstimatedEngagementSincerityUnderstandingOrderJusticeActionHarmonyPerceptionWisdomOptimismHonestySatisfactionCooperationTrustLoyaltyFidelityIntegrityStimulatingMovementNiceContentmentDelicacyLightnessKindnessSerenityRefinementAffectionHere you'll find Pain mixed with joy Anguish with certainty Perseverance with tiredness Dream with reality Hot days with cold days Insistence A Music that is the sound of this insistence A Music that wants to touch your ears Simple sounds Simple Music Instrumental Music Only a man his 6 steel strings acoustic guitar and a slide The greatest goal is to deliver for you Alt CountryRockwithout regionalism on a alternative way a state of soul A slide playing that wants to carry your mind and heart toa country road with a lot of soil stones and mud Places with plants fresh water and fresh air Simplicity and freedom this is the concept of what you to listen here On the simplicity the Country side On the freedom the Rock side

CEBE AltCountryRock from Brazil

AltCountryRock — Mon, 11 May 2009 18:04:54 MDT

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Instrumental Analysis 1st Birthday

blawk359 — Sun, 10 May 2009 10:55:15 MDT

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WYLD PYTCH REKORDS

wyldpytch — Sun, 10 May 2009 11:20:06 MDT

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wyldpytch — Sun, 10 May 2009 11:16:01 MDT

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fools gold design rcrd lbl artist geek songwriter podcast black metal folk nyc hiphop mp3 guitar writing grunge los angeles electronic brooklyn technology roc mix film country grime spoken word acoustic rcrdlbl artist idm rcrd lbl exclusive power pop disco ghostly artist underground uk punk art nightlife hiphop rave hardcore remix music contests downtown justice blues italo disco psych love jungle christian industrial techno dance new wave cold war kids post punk soundtrack seen classic rock nashville indie pop parties meanest man contest sex media art rock france electro jazz ambient jam americana singer songwriter band electronica new york hip hop sponsors 90s spank rock urban eclectic chicago funky beatles fun jose gonzalez sarah brazil rnd up designer pink floyd music industry rcrd lbl trip hop hihop indie rock electric rcrdlbl exclusive cool hard rock nerd tour radio house live detroit classical canadian trance electropop experimental metal money tv lo fi rb heavy metal blog instrumental none minimal garage artist musician literature groove modular elctronic rap producer soul downtown artist comedy soft rock 80s bloc party ghostly acid jazz writer pop twee party psychedelic video dub white denim alternative italo rockabilly funk alt country london photography bbq synthpop dj noise rock nirvana shoegaze librarian breakbeat gay chillout glitch blogger world downtempo postpunk noise weekend mp3 roundup contest britpop xlimbs fashion dubstep rock christmas movies diy cindy sizer drum and bass indie gamer singersongwriter

Sting

pmmdmolo — Mon, 11 May 2009 18:11:41 MDT

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Gordon Matthew Thomas Sumner nacido el 2 de octubre de 1951 en Wallsend Tyneside del Norte al noreste de Inglaterra mejor conocido por su nombre artstico Sting es un msico britnico que se desempe inicialmente como bajista y ms tarde como cantante del grupo musical The PoliceComo solista y como miembro de The Police Sting ha vendido ms de cien millones de lbumes ha recibido ms de diecisis Premios Grammy por su trabajo recibiendo el primero por Mejor Interpretacin Rock Instrumental en 1981 y obtuvo una nominacin a los premios scar por Mejor Cancin Sumner hijo de Ernest Sumner repartidor de leche y su esposa Audrey Cowell peluquera ayudaba frecuentemente a su padre con su trabajo Fue educado en la religin catlica debido a la influencia de su abuela paterna irlandesa Sting desech una prometedora carrera como deportista cuando slo logr el tercer lugar en la competicin llamada 100 Yard Sprint National Junior Championship Ms informacin en httpeswikipediaorgwikiGordenMattew

Rock Out Loud

Riku1226 — Mon, 11 May 2009 00:47:09 MDT

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Flying V Guitar on fire with the words ROCK OUT LOUDBy Me

Wundergrund

Raahuset_2009 — Fri, 16 Oct 2009 06:24:56 MDT

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2100 2230 LIVEKONCERT Svartbag Rumpistol experience1 AFDELING SVARTBAGSVARTBAGDen danske komponist Simon Christensen str bag aftenens frste koncert i selskab med det danske instrumental rockband Svartbag og den klassiske sangerinde Maria Hanke Kurator Simon Christensen har valgt at forene to af de yderpunkter som han normalt forsger at forene i sine egne kompositioner netop rock og klassisk musik Svartbag er et af de f danske rockorkestre der siden 1990erne har leveret billedskabende instrumental rock der sender krlige hilsner til bde punken minimialismen og tysk krautrock Svartbags repetetive og episke spacerock bliver tilsat et ekstra helt nyt element i form af mezzosopranen Maria Hanke hvis nysgerrighed overfor stemmens udtryksmuligheder har frt hende rundt i mange forskellige musikprojekter inden for ny kompositionsmusik og opera og nu alts ogs i rockmusikkenLineup Anders Rex guitar sampler electronics Niels Ladefoged guitar sampler electronics Peter Kyed electronics realsounds Simon Christensen trommer mm Maria Hanke mezzosopran noiseRUMPISTOLAftenens anden koncert er med Jens Berents Christiansen aka Rumpistol Han er her der og alle vegne for tiden Jazzhouse Roskilde Festival Strm og senest p tur i Beijing Og denne aften spiller han s p Wundergrund hvor hans elektroniske rum bla rammer klassiske lydbilleder i form af cellisten Ida Nrholm og violinisten Helena Hjgaard Lineup Jens B Christiansen electronics special guests Ida Nrholm cello Helena Hjgaard violin2200 0300 SPECIAL WUNDERPARTY I samarbejde med Musikparlamentet

rock n roll karaoke

travrocks2003 — Mon, 11 May 2009 08:47:18 MDT

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The Strokes

gamasutra — Sun, 10 May 2009 23:55:12 MDT

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FS 5 Keith Urban Love Pain amp The Whole Crazy Thing ECD Clifton 07013

pepoc — Thu, 8 Oct 2009 10:47:36 MDT

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Brand New still in factory shrink wrap Track Listing1 Once in a Lifetime2 Shine3 I Told You So4 I Can't Stop Loving You5 Won't Let You Down6 Faster Car7 Stupid Boy8 Used to the Pain9 Raise the Barn with Ronnie Dunn10 God Made Woman11 Tu Compania12 Everybody13 Got It Right This TimeAlbum Notes This is an Enhanced CD which contains both regular audio tracks and multimedia computer files Recording information Blackbird Studios Nashville TennesseeThe fairhaired Aussie who came across the pond with guitar in hand to show Nashville how it's done Keith Urban became a country music phenomenon in the early 2000s Like his contemporary Brad Paisley Urban combined songs with a broadbased appeal and fiery fretboard skills to gain a wide audience LOVE PAIN THE WHOLE CRAZY THING finds Urban refining his approach ever further to achieve the perfect marriage of pop rock and country Electronicsounding beats soaring string arrangements and searing lead guitar mesh seamlessly with banjo steel guitar and mandolin throughout the album The amalgamation of '70s'80s widescreen poprock a la Elton John and Bryan Adams with contemporary country sounds surprisingly natural here From the airborne Shine to the downanddirty Raise the Barn with a guest turn from Brooks Dunn's Ronnie Dunn Urban never falters Whether the reason lies chiefly in his guynextdoor persona hookheavy songcraft or instrumental deftness LOVE PAIN has platinum written all over it

Miles Davis quotCollectors' Itemsquot Prestige Records LP 7044 Jazz Vinyl Record Album Deep Groove

foxmusic — Mon, 11 May 2009 01:21:44 MDT

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This set lives up to its title by including such interesting sessions as the 1953 date on which Miles Davis welcomed the two tenors of Sonny Rollins and Charlie Parker other meetings with Rollins in 1951 and 1956 and a moody 1955 date with bassist Charles Mingus trombone vibes and drums a young Elvin Jones Highlights include No Line Vierd Blues In Your Own Sweet Way Nature Boy and There's No You It's classic if often overlooked music from a variety of immortal jazzmen Throughout a professional career lasting 50 years Miles Davis played the trumpet in a lyrical introspective and melodic style often employing a stemless Harmon mute to make his sound more personal and intimate But if his approach to his instrument was constant his approach to jazz was dazzlingly protean To examine his career is to examine the history of jazz from the mid'40s to the early '90s since he was in the thick of almost every important innovation and stylistic development in the music during that period and he often led the way in those changes both with his own performances and recordings and by choosing sidemen and collaborators who forged new directions It can even be argued that jazz stopped evolving when Davis wasn't there to push it forwardDavis was the son of a dental surgeon Dr Miles Dewey Davis Jr and a music teacher Cleota Mae Henry Davis and thus grew up in the black middle class of east St Louis after the family moved there shortly after his birth He became interested in music during his childhood and by the age of 12 began taking trumpet lessons While still in high school he started to get jobs playing in local bars and at 16 was playing gigs out of town on weekends At 17 he joined Eddie Randle's Blue Devils a territory band based in St Louis He enjoyed a personal apotheosis in 1944 just after graduating from high school when he saw and was allowed to sit in with Billy Eckstine's big band who was playing in St Louis The band featured trumpeter Dizzy Gillespie and saxophonist Charlie Parker the architects of the emerging bebop style of jazz which was characterized by fast inventive soloing and dynamic rhythm variations It is striking that Davis fell so completely under Gillespie and Parker's spell since his own slower and less flashy style never really compared to theirs But bebop was the new sound of the day and the young trumpeter was bound to follow it He did so by leaving the Midwest to attend the Institute of Musical Art in New York City renamed Juilliard in September 1944 Shortly after his arrival in Manhattan he was playing in clubs with Parker and by 1945 he had abandoned his academic studies for a fulltime career as a jazz musician initially joining Benny Carter's band and making his first recordings as a sideman He played with Eckstine in 19461947 and was a member of Parker's group in 19471948 making his recording debut as a leader on a 1947 session that featured Parker pianist John Lewis bassist Nelson Boyd and drummer Max Roach This was an isolated date however and Davis spent most of his time playing and recording behind Parker But in the summer of 1948 he organized a ninepiece band with an unusual horn section In addition to himself it featured an alto saxophone a baritone saxophone a trombone a French horn and a tuba This nonet employing arrangements by Gil Evans and others played for two weeks at the Royal Roost in New York in September Earning a contract with Capitol Records the band went into the studio in January 1949 for the first of three sessions which produced 12 tracks that attracted little attention at first The band's relaxed sound however affected the musicians who played it among them Kai Winding Lee Konitz Gerry Mulligan John Lewis JJ Johnson and Kenny Clarke and it had a profound influence on the development of the cool jazz style on the West Coast In February 1957 Capitol finally issued the tracks together on an LP called Birth of the Cool Davis meanwhile had moved on to coleading a band with pianist Tadd Dameron in 1949 and the group took him out of the country for an appearance at the Paris Jazz Festival in May But the trumpeter's progress was impeded by an addiction to heroin that plagued him in the early '50s His performances and recordings became more haphazard but in January 1951 he began a long series of recordings for the Prestige label that became his main recording outlet for the next several years He managed to kick his habit by the middle of the decade and he made a strong impression playing 'Round Midnight at the Newport Jazz Festival in July 1955 a performance that led the major label Columbia Records to sign him The prestigious contract allowed him to put together a permanent band and he organized a quintet featuring saxophonist John Coltrane pianist Red Garland bassist Paul Chambers and drummer Philly Joe Jones who began recording his Columbia debut 'Round About Midnight in October As it happened however he had a remaining five albums on his Prestige contract and over the next year he was forced to alternate his Columbia sessions with sessions for Prestige to fulfill this previous commitment The latter resulted in the Prestige albums The New Miles Davis Quintet Cookin' Workin' Relaxin' and Steamin' making Davis' first quintet one of his betterdocumented outfits In May 1957 just three months after Capitol released the Birth of the Cool LP Davis again teamed with arranger Gil Evans for his second Columbia LP Miles Ahead Playing flgelhorn Davis fronted a big band on music that extended the Birth of the Cool concept and even had classical overtones Released in 1958 the album was later inducted into the Grammy Hall of Fame intended to honor recordings made before the Grammy Awards were instituted in 1959 In December 1957 Davis returned to Paris where he improvised the background music for the film L'Ascenseur pour l'Echafaud Escalator to the Gallows Jazz Track an album containing this music earned him a 1960 Grammy nomination for Best Jazz Performance Solo or Small Group He added saxophonist Cannonball Adderley to his group creating the Miles Davis Sextet who recorded the album Milestones in April 1958 Shortly after this recording Red Garland was replaced on piano by Bill Evans and Jimmy Cobb took over for Philly Joe Jones on drums In July Davis again collaborated with Gil Evans and an orchestra on an album of music from Porgy and Bess Back in the sextet Davis began to experiment with modal playing basing his improvisations on scales rather than chord changes This led to his next band recording Kind of Blue in March and April 1959 an album that became a landmark in modern jazz and the most popular disc of Davis' career eventually selling over two million copies a phenomenal success for a jazz record In sessions held in November 1959 and March 1960 Davis again followed his pattern of alternating band releases and collaborations with Gil Evans recording Sketches of Spain containing traditional Spanish music and original compositions in that style The album earned Davis and Evans Grammy nominations in 1960 for Best Jazz Performance Large Group and Best Jazz Composition More Than 5 minutes they won in the latter categoryBy the time Davis returned to the studio to make his next band album in March 1961 Adderley had departed Wynton Kelly had replaced Bill Evans at the piano and John Coltrane had left to begin his successful solo career being replaced by saxophonist Hank Mobley following the brief tenure of Sonny Stitt Nevertheless Coltrane guested on a couple of tracks of the album called Someday My Prince Will Come The record made the pop charts in March 1962 but it was preceded into the bestseller lists by the Davis quintet's next recording the twoLP set Miles Davis in Person Friday amp Saturday Nights at the Blackhawk San Francisco recorded in April The following month Davis recorded another live show as he and his band were joined by an orchestra led by Gil Evans at Carnegie Hall in May The resulting Miles Davis at Carnegie Hall was his third LP to reach the pop charts and it earned Davis and Evans a 1962 Grammy nomination for Best Jazz Performance by a Large Group Instrumental Davis and Evans teamed up again in 1962 for what became their final collaboration Quiet Nights The album was not issued until 1964 when it reached the charts and earned a Grammy nomination for Best Instrumental Jazz Performance by a Large Group or Soloist with Large Group In 1996 Columbia Records released a sixCD box set Miles Davis amp Gil Evans The Complete Columbia Studio Recordings that won the Grammy for Best Historical Album Quiet Nights was preceded into the marketplace by Davis' next band effort Seven Steps to Heaven recorded in the spring of 1963 with an entirely new lineup consisting of saxophonist George Coleman pianist Victor Feldman bassist Ron Carter and drummer Frank Butler During the sessions Feldman was replaced by Herbie Hancock and Butler by Tony Williams The album found Davis making a transition to his next great group of which Carter Hancock and Williams would be members It was another pop chart entry that earned 1963 Grammy nominations for both Best Instrumental Jazz Performance by a Soloist or Small Group and Best Instrumental Jazz Performance by a Large Group The quintet followed with two live albums Miles Davis in Europe recorded in July 1963 which made the pop charts and earned a 1964 Grammy nomination for Best Instrumental Jazz Performance by a Small Group or Soloist with Small Group and My Funny Valentine recorded in February 1964 and released in 1965 when it reached the pop charts By September 1964 the final member of the classic Miles Davis Quintet of the 1960s was in place with the addition of saxophonist Wayne Shorter to the team of Davis Carter Hancock and Williams While continuing to play standards in concert this unit embarked on a series of albums of original compositions contributed by the band members starting in January 1965 with ESP followed by Miles Smiles 1967 Grammy nomination for Best Instrumental Jazz Performance by a Small Group or Soloist with Small Group 7 or Fewer Sorcerer Nefertiti Miles in the Sky 1968 Grammy nomination for Best Instrumental Jazz Performance by a Small Group or Soloist with Small Group and Filles de Kilimanjaro By the time of Miles in the Sky the group had begun to turn to electric instruments presaging Davis' next stylistic turn By the final sessions for Filles de Kilimanjaro in September 1968 Hancock had been replaced by Chick Corea and Carter by Dave Holland But Hancock along with pianist Joe Zawinul and guitarist John McLaughlin participated on Davis' next album In a Silent Way 1969 which returned the trumpeter to the pop charts for the first time in four years and earned him another smallgroup jazz performance Grammy nomination With his next album Bitches Brew Davis turned more overtly to a jazzrock style Though certainly not conventional rock music Davis' electrified sound attracted a young nonjazz audience while putting off traditional jazz fans Bitches Brew released in March 1970 reached the pop Top 40 and became Davis' first album to be certified gold It also earned a Grammy nomination for Best Instrumental Arrangement and won the Grammy for largegroup jazz performance He followed it with such similar efforts as Miles Davis at Fillmore East 1971 Grammy nomination for Best Jazz Performance by a Group A Tribute to Jack Johnson LiveEvil On the Corner and In Concert all of which reached the pop charts Meanwhile Davis' former sidemen became his disciples in a series of fusion groups Corea formed Return to Forever Shorter and Zawinul led Weather Report and McLaughlin and former Davis drummer Billy Cobham organized the Mahavishnu Orchestra Starting in October 1972 when he broke his ankles in a car accident Davis became less active in the early '70s and in 1975 he gave up recording entirely due to illness undergoing surgery for hip replacement later in the year Five years passed before he returned to action by recording The Man With the Horn in 1980 and going back to touring in 1981 By now he was an elder statesman of jazz and his innovations had been incorporated into the music at least by those who supported his eclectic approach He was also a celebrity whose appeal extended far beyond the basic jazz audience He performed on the worldwide jazz festival circuit and recorded a series of albums that made the pop charts including We Want Miles 1982 Grammy Award for Best Jazz Instrumental Performance by a Soloist Star People Decoy and You're Under Arrest In 1986 after 30 years with Columbia he switched to Warner Bros Records and released Tutu which won him his fourth Grammy for Best Jazz Instrumental Performance Aura an album he had recorded in 1984 was released by Columbia in 1989 and brought him his fifth Grammy for Best Jazz Instrumental Performance by a Soloist on a Jazz Recording Davis surprised jazz fans when on July 8 1991 he joined an orchestra led by Quincy Jones at the Montreux Jazz Festival to perform some of the arrangements written for him in the late '50s by Gil Evans he had never previously looked back at an aspect of his career He died of pneumonia respiratory failure and a stroke within months DooBop his last studio album appeared in 1992 It was a collaboration with rapper Easy Mo Bee and it won a Grammy for Best Rhythm amp Blues Instrumental Performance with the track Fantasy nominated for Best Jazz Instrumental Solo Released in 1993 Miles amp Quincy Live at Montreux won Davis his seventh Grammy for Best Large Jazz Ensemble PerformanceMiles Davis took an allinclusive constantly restless approach to jazz that had begun to fall out of favor by the time of his death even as it earned him controversy during his lifetime It was hard to recognize the bebop acolyte of Charlie Parker in the flamboyantly dressed leader with the hair extensions who seemed to keep one foot on a wahwah pedal and one hand on an electric keyboard in his later years But he did much to popularize jazz reversing the trend away from commercial appeal that bebop began And whatever the fripperies and explorations he retained an ability to play moving solos that endeared him to audiences and demonstrated his affinity with tradition At a time when jazz is inclining toward academia and repertory orchestras rather than moving forward he is a reminder of the music's essential quality of boundless invention using all available means

Miles Davis quotKind of Bluequot Six Eye Columbia Records White Lettering on Black Background Vinyl LP

foxmusic — Mon, 11 May 2009 01:21:31 MDT

Miles Davis quotKind of Bluequot Six Eye Columbia Records White Lettering on Black Background Vinyl LP - JAZZ-LpMilesDavisKindOfBlue.jpg

Kind of Blue isn't merely an artistic highlight for Miles Davis it's an album that towers above its peers a record generally considered as the definitive jazz album a universally acknowledged standard of excellence Why does Kind of Blue posses such a mystique Perhaps because this music never flaunts its genius It lures listeners in with the slow luxurious bassline and gentle piano chords of So What From that moment on the record never really changes pace each tune has a similar relaxed feel as the music flows easily Yet Kind of Blue is more than easy listening It's the pinnacle of modal jazz tonality and solos build from the overall key not chord changes giving the music a subtly shifting quality All of this doesn't quite explain why seasoned jazz fans return to this record even after they've memorized every nuance They return because this is an exceptional band Miles Coltrane Bill Evans Cannonball Adderley Paul Chambers Jimmy Cobb one of the greatest in history playing at the peak of its power As Evans said in the original liner notes for the record the band did not play through any of these pieces prior to recording Davis laid out the themes before the tape rolled and then the band improvised The end results were wondrous and still crackle with vitality Kind of Blue works on many different levels It can be played as background music yet it amply rewards close listening It is advanced music that is extraordinarily enjoyable It may be a stretch to say that if you don't like Kind of Blue you don't like jazz but it's hard to imagine it as anything other than a cornerstone of any jazz collectionThroughout a professional career lasting 50 years Miles Davis played the trumpet in a lyrical introspective and melodic style often employing a stemless Harmon mute to make his sound more personal and intimate But if his approach to his instrument was constant his approach to jazz was dazzlingly protean To examine his career is to examine the history of jazz from the mid'40s to the early '90s since he was in the thick of almost every important innovation and stylistic development in the music during that period and he often led the way in those changes both with his own performances and recordings and by choosing sidemen and collaborators who forged new directions It can even be argued that jazz stopped evolving when Davis wasn't there to push it forwardDavis was the son of a dental surgeon Dr Miles Dewey Davis Jr and a music teacher Cleota Mae Henry Davis and thus grew up in the black middle class of east St Louis after the family moved there shortly after his birth He became interested in music during his childhood and by the age of 12 began taking trumpet lessons While still in high school he started to get jobs playing in local bars and at 16 was playing gigs out of town on weekends At 17 he joined Eddie Randle's Blue Devils a territory band based in St Louis He enjoyed a personal apotheosis in 1944 just after graduating from high school when he saw and was allowed to sit in with Billy Eckstine's big band who was playing in St Louis The band featured trumpeter Dizzy Gillespie and saxophonist Charlie Parker the architects of the emerging bebop style of jazz which was characterized by fast inventive soloing and dynamic rhythm variations It is striking that Davis fell so completely under Gillespie and Parker's spell since his own slower and less flashy style never really compared to theirs But bebop was the new sound of the day and the young trumpeter was bound to follow it He did so by leaving the Midwest to attend the Institute of Musical Art in New York City renamed Juilliard in September 1944 Shortly after his arrival in Manhattan he was playing in clubs with Parker and by 1945 he had abandoned his academic studies for a fulltime career as a jazz musician initially joining Benny Carter's band and making his first recordings as a sideman He played with Eckstine in 19461947 and was a member of Parker's group in 19471948 making his recording debut as a leader on a 1947 session that featured Parker pianist John Lewis bassist Nelson Boyd and drummer Max Roach This was an isolated date however and Davis spent most of his time playing and recording behind Parker But in the summer of 1948 he organized a ninepiece band with an unusual horn section In addition to himself it featured an alto saxophone a baritone saxophone a trombone a French horn and a tuba This nonet employing arrangements by Gil Evans and others played for two weeks at the Royal Roost in New York in September Earning a contract with Capitol Records the band went into the studio in January 1949 for the first of three sessions which produced 12 tracks that attracted little attention at first The band's relaxed sound however affected the musicians who played it among them Kai Winding Lee Konitz Gerry Mulligan John Lewis JJ Johnson and Kenny Clarke and it had a profound influence on the development of the cool jazz style on the West Coast In February 1957 Capitol finally issued the tracks together on an LP called Birth of the Cool Davis meanwhile had moved on to coleading a band with pianist Tadd Dameron in 1949 and the group took him out of the country for an appearance at the Paris Jazz Festival in May But the trumpeter's progress was impeded by an addiction to heroin that plagued him in the early '50s His performances and recordings became more haphazard but in January 1951 he began a long series of recordings for the Prestige label that became his main recording outlet for the next several years He managed to kick his habit by the middle of the decade and he made a strong impression playing 'Round Midnight at the Newport Jazz Festival in July 1955 a performance that led the major label Columbia Records to sign him The prestigious contract allowed him to put together a permanent band and he organized a quintet featuring saxophonist John Coltrane pianist Red Garland bassist Paul Chambers and drummer Philly Joe Jones who began recording his Columbia debut 'Round About Midnight in October As it happened however he had a remaining five albums on his Prestige contract and over the next year he was forced to alternate his Columbia sessions with sessions for Prestige to fulfill this previous commitment The latter resulted in the Prestige albums The New Miles Davis Quintet Cookin' Workin' Relaxin' and Steamin' making Davis' first quintet one of his betterdocumented outfits In May 1957 just three months after Capitol released the Birth of the Cool LP Davis again teamed with arranger Gil Evans for his second Columbia LP Miles Ahead Playing flgelhorn Davis fronted a big band on music that extended the Birth of the Cool concept and even had classical overtones Released in 1958 the album was later inducted into the Grammy Hall of Fame intended to honor recordings made before the Grammy Awards were instituted in 1959 In December 1957 Davis returned to Paris where he improvised the background music for the film L'Ascenseur pour l'Echafaud Escalator to the Gallows Jazz Track an album containing this music earned him a 1960 Grammy nomination for Best Jazz Performance Solo or Small Group He added saxophonist Cannonball Adderley to his group creating the Miles Davis Sextet who recorded the album Milestones in April 1958 Shortly after this recording Red Garland was replaced on piano by Bill Evans and Jimmy Cobb took over for Philly Joe Jones on drums In July Davis again collaborated with Gil Evans and an orchestra on an album of music from Porgy and Bess Back in the sextet Davis began to experiment with modal playing basing his improvisations on scales rather than chord changes This led to his next band recording Kind of Blue in March and April 1959 an album that became a landmark in modern jazz and the most popular disc of Davis' career eventually selling over two million copies a phenomenal success for a jazz record In sessions held in November 1959 and March 1960 Davis again followed his pattern of alternating band releases and collaborations with Gil Evans recording Sketches of Spain containing traditional Spanish music and original compositions in that style The album earned Davis and Evans Grammy nominations in 1960 for Best Jazz Performance Large Group and Best Jazz Composition More Than 5 minutes they won in the latter categoryBy the time Davis returned to the studio to make his next band album in March 1961 Adderley had departed Wynton Kelly had replaced Bill Evans at the piano and John Coltrane had left to begin his successful solo career being replaced by saxophonist Hank Mobley following the brief tenure of Sonny Stitt Nevertheless Coltrane guested on a couple of tracks of the album called Someday My Prince Will Come The record made the pop charts in March 1962 but it was preceded into the bestseller lists by the Davis quintet's next recording the twoLP set Miles Davis in Person Friday Saturday Nights at the Blackhawk San Francisco recorded in April The following month Davis recorded another live show as he and his band were joined by an orchestra led by Gil Evans at Carnegie Hall in May The resulting Miles Davis at Carnegie Hall was his third LP to reach the pop charts and it earned Davis and Evans a 1962 Grammy nomination for Best Jazz Performance by a Large Group Instrumental Davis and Evans teamed up again in 1962 for what became their final collaboration Quiet Nights The album was not issued until 1964 when it reached the charts and earned a Grammy nomination for Best Instrumental Jazz Performance by a Large Group or Soloist with Large Group In 1996 Columbia Records released a sixCD box set Miles Davis Gil Evans The Complete Columbia Studio Recordings that won the Grammy for Best Historical Album Quiet Nights was preceded into the marketplace by Davis' next band effort Seven Steps to Heaven recorded in the spring of 1963 with an entirely new lineup consisting of saxophonist George Coleman pianist Victor Feldman bassist Ron Carter and drummer Frank Butler During the sessions Feldman was replaced by Herbie Hancock and Butler by Tony Williams The album found Davis making a transition to his next great group of which Carter Hancock and Williams would be members It was another pop chart entry that earned 1963 Grammy nominations for both Best Instrumental Jazz Performance by a Soloist or Small Group and Best Instrumental Jazz Performance by a Large Group The quintet followed with two live albums Miles Davis in Europe recorded in July 1963 which made the pop charts and earned a 1964 Grammy nomination for Best Instrumental Jazz Performance by a Small Group or Soloist with Small Group and My Funny Valentine recorded in February 1964 and released in 1965 when it reached the pop charts By September 1964 the final member of the classic Miles Davis Quintet of the 1960s was in place with the addition of saxophonist Wayne Shorter to the team of Davis Carter Hancock and Williams While continuing to play standards in concert this unit embarked on a series of albums of original compositions contributed by the band members starting in January 1965 with ESP followed by Miles Smiles 1967 Grammy nomination for Best Instrumental Jazz Performance by a Small Group or Soloist with Small Group 7 or Fewer Sorcerer Nefertiti Miles in the Sky 1968 Grammy nomination for Best Instrumental Jazz Performance by a Small Group or Soloist with Small Group and Filles de Kilimanjaro By the time of Miles in the Sky the group had begun to turn to electric instruments presaging Davis' next stylistic turn By the final sessions for Filles de Kilimanjaro in September 1968 Hancock had been replaced by Chick Corea and Carter by Dave Holland But Hancock along with pianist Joe Zawinul and guitarist John McLaughlin participated on Davis' next album In a Silent Way 1969 which returned the trumpeter to the pop charts for the first time in four years and earned him another smallgroup jazz performance Grammy nomination With his next album Bitches Brew Davis turned more overtly to a jazzrock style Though certainly not conventional rock music Davis' electrified sound attracted a young nonjazz audience while putting off traditional jazz fans Bitches Brew released in March 1970 reached the pop Top 40 and became Davis' first album to be certified gold It also earned a Grammy nomination for Best Instrumental Arrangement and won the Grammy for largegroup jazz performance He followed it with such similar efforts as Miles Davis at Fillmore East 1971 Grammy nomination for Best Jazz Performance by a Group A Tribute to Jack Johnson LiveEvil On the Corner and In Concert all of which reached the pop charts Meanwhile Davis' former sidemen became his disciples in a series of fusion groups Corea formed Return to Forever Shorter and Zawinul led Weather Report and McLaughlin and former Davis drummer Billy Cobham organized the Mahavishnu Orchestra Starting in October 1972 when he broke his ankles in a car accident Davis became less active in the early '70s and in 1975 he gave up recording entirely due to illness undergoing surgery for hip replacement later in the year Five years passed before he returned to action by recording The Man With the Horn in 1980 and going back to touring in 1981 By now he was an elder statesman of jazz and his innovations had been incorporated into the music at least by those who supported his eclectic approach He was also a celebrity whose appeal extended far beyond the basic jazz audience He performed on the worldwide jazz festival circuit and recorded a series of albums that made the pop charts including We Want Miles 1982 Grammy Award for Best Jazz Instrumental Performance by a Soloist Star People Decoy and You're Under Arrest In 1986 after 30 years with Columbia he switched to Warner Bros Records and released Tutu which won him his fourth Grammy for Best Jazz Instrumental Performance Aura an album he had recorded in 1984 was released by Columbia in 1989 and brought him his fifth Grammy for Best Jazz Instrumental Performance by a Soloist on a Jazz Recording Davis surprised jazz fans when on July 8 1991 he joined an orchestra led by Quincy Jones at the Montreux Jazz Festival to perform some of the arrangements written for him in the late '50s by Gil Evans he had never previously looked back at an aspect of his career He died of pneumonia respiratory failure and a stroke within months DooBop his last studio album appeared in 1992 It was a collaboration with rapper Easy Mo Bee and it won a Grammy for Best Rhythm Blues Instrumental Performance with the track Fantasy nominated for Best Jazz Instrumental Solo Released in 1993 Miles Quincy Live at Montreux won Davis his seventh Grammy for Best Large Jazz Ensemble PerformanceMiles Davis took an allinclusive constantly restless approach to jazz that had begun to fall out of favor by the time of his death even as it earned him controversy during his lifetime It was hard to recognize the bebop acolyte of Charlie Parker in the flamboyantly dressed leader with the hair extensions who seemed to keep one foot on a wahwah pedal and one hand on an electric keyboard in his later years But he did much to popularize jazz reversing the trend away from commercial appeal that bebop began And whatever the fripperies and explorations he retained an ability to play moving solos that endeared him to audiences and demonstrated his affinity with tradition At a time when jazz is inclining toward academia and repertory orchestras rather than moving forward he is a reminder of the music's essential quality of boundless invention using all available means

Pink Floyd quotA Saucer Full of Secretsquot Tower Records 5131 Striped Label 1968 Progressive Rock Vinyl LP

foxmusic — Mon, 11 May 2009 01:21:55 MDT

Pink Floyd quotA Saucer Full of Secretsquot Tower Records 5131 Striped Label 1968 Progressive Rock Vinyl LP - PROG-PinkFloydLPSaucerFullofSecrets.jpg

A transitional album on which the band moved from Syd Barrett's relatively concise and vivid songs to spacy ethereal material with lengthy instrumental passages Barrett's influence is still felt he actually did manage to contribute one track the jovial Jugband Blues and much of the material retains a gentle fairytale ambience Remember a Day and See Saw are highlights on Set the Controls for the Heart of the Sun Let There Be More Light and the lengthy instrumental title track the band begin to map out the dark and repetitive pulses that would characterize their next few recordsPink Floyd is the premier space rock band Since the mid'60s their music relentlessly tinkered with electronics and all manner of special effects to push pop formats to their outer limits At the same time they wrestled with lyrical themes and concepts of such massive scale that their music has taken on almost classical operatic quality in both sound and words Despite their astral image the group was brought down to earth in the 1980s by decidedly mundane power struggles over leadership and ultimately ownership of the band's very name After that time they were little more than a dinosaur act capable of filling stadiums and topping the charts but offering little more than a spectacular recreation of their most successful formulas Their latterday staleness cannot disguise the fact that for the first decade or so of their existence they were one of the most innovative groups around in concert and especially in the studioWhile Pink Floyd are mostly known for their grandiose concept albums of the 1970s they started as a very different sort of psychedelic band Soon after they first began playing together in the mid'60s they fell firmly under the leadership of lead guitarist Syd Barrett the gifted genius who would write and sing most of their early material The Cambridge native shared the stage with Roger Waters bass Rick Wright keyboards and Nick Mason drums The name Pink Floyd seemingly so farout was actually derived from the first names of two ancient bluesmen Pink Anderson and Floyd Council And at first Pink Floyd were much more conventional than the act into which they would evolve concentrating on the rock and RampB material that were so common to the repertoires of mid'60s British bandsPink Floyd quickly began to experiment however stretching out songs with wild instrumental freakout passages incorporating feedback electronic screeches and unusual eerie sounds created by loud amplification reverb and such tricks as sliding ball bearings up and down guitar strings In 1966 they began to pick up a following in the London underground onstage they began to incorporate light shows to add to the psychedelic effect Most importantly Syd Barrett began to compose poppsychedelic gems that combined unusual psychedelic arrangements particularly in the haunting guitar and celestial organ licks with catchy melodies and incisive lyrics that viewed the world with a sense of poetic childlike wonderThe group landed a recording contract with EMI in early 1967 and made the Top 20 with a brilliant debut single Arnold Layne a sympathetic comic vignette about a transvestite The followup the kaleidoscopic See Emily Play made the Top Ten The debut album The Piper at the Gates of Dawn also released in 1967 may have been the greatest British psychedelic album other than Sgt Pepper's Dominated almost wholly by Barrett's songs the album was a charming fun house of driving mysterious rockers Lucifer Sam odd character sketches The Gnome childhood flashbacks Bike Matilda Mother and freakier pieces with lengthy instrumental passages Astronomy Domine Interstellar Overdrive Pow R Toch that mapped out their fascination with space travel The record was not only like no other at the time it was like no other that Pink Floyd would make colored as it was by a vision that was far more humorous popfriendly and lighthearted than those of their subsequent epicsThe reason Pink Floyd never made a similar album was that Piper was the only one to be recorded under Barrett's leadership Around mid1967 the prodigy began showing increasingly alarming signs of mental instability Barrett would go catatonic onstage playing music that had little to do with the material or not playing at all An American tour had to be cut short when he was barely able to function at all let alone play the pop star game Dependent upon Barrett for most of their vision and material the rest of the group was nevertheless finding him impossible to work with live or in the studioAround the beginning of 1968 guitarist Dave Gilmour a friend of the band who was also from Cambridge was brought in as a fifth member The idea was that Gilmour would enable the Floyd to continue as a live outfit Barrett would still be able to write and contribute to the records That couldn't work either and within a few months Barrett was out of the group Pink Floyd's management looking at the wreckage of a band that was now without its lead guitarist lead singer and primary songwriter decided to abandon the group and manage Barrett as a solo actSuch calamities would have proven insurmountable for 99 out of 100 bands in similar predicaments Incredibly Pink Floyd would regroup and not only maintain their popularity but eventually become even more successful It was early in the game yet after all the first album had made the British Top Ten but the group was still virtually unknown in America where the loss of Syd Barrett meant nothing to the media Gilmour was an excellent guitarist and the band proved capable of writing enough original material to generate further ambitious albums Waters eventually emerging as the dominant composer The 1968 followup to Piper at the Gates of Dawn A Saucerful of Secrets made the British Top Ten using Barrett's vision as an obvious blueprint but taking a more formal somber and quasiclassical tone especially in the long instrumental parts Barrett for his part would go on to make a couple of interesting solo records before his mental problems instigated a retreat into oblivionOver the next four years Pink Floyd would continue to polish their brand of experimental rock which married psychedelia with evergrander arrangements on a Wagnerian operatic scale Hidden underneath the pulsing reverberant organs and guitars and insistently restated themes were subtle blues and pop influences that kept the material accessible to a wide audience Abandoning the singles market they concentrated on albumlength works and built a huge following in the progressive rock underground with constant touring in both Europe and North America While LPs like Ummagumma divided into live recordings and experimental outings by each member of the band Atom Heart Mother a collaboration with composer Ron Geesin and More a film soundtrack were erratic each contained some extremely effective musicBy the early '70s Syd Barrett was a fading or nonexistent memory for most of Pink Floyd's fans although the group one could argue never did match the brilliance of that somewhat anomalous 1967 debut Meddle 1971 sharpened the band's sprawling epics into something more accessible and polished the science fiction ambience that the group had been exploring ever since 1968 Nothing however prepared Pink Floyd or their audience for the massive mainstream success of their 1973 album Dark Side of the Moon which made their brand of cosmic rock even more approachable with stateoftheart production more focused songwriting an army of welltime stereophonic sound effects and touches of saxophone and soulful female backup vocalsDark Side of the Moon finally broke Pink Floyd as superstars in the United States where it made number one More astonishingly it made them one of the biggestselling acts of all time Dark Side of the Moon spent an incomprehensible 741 weeks on the Billboard album chart Additionally the primarily instrumental textures of the songs helped make Dark Side of the Moon easily translatable on an international level and the record became and still is one of the most popular rock albums worldwideIt was also an extremely hard act to follow although the followup Wish You Were Here 1975 also made number one highlighted by a tribute of sorts to the longdeparted Barrett Shine On You Crazy Diamond Dark Side of the Moon had been dominated by lyrical themes of insecurity fear and the cold sterility of modern life Wish You Were Here and Animals 1977 developed these morose themes even more explicitly By this time Waters was taking a firm hand over Pink Floyd's lyrical and musical vision which was consolidated by The Wall 1979The bleak overambitious double concept album concerned itself with the material and emotional walls modern humans build around themselves for survival The Wall was a huge success even by Pink Floyd's standards in part because the music was losing some of its heavyduty electronic textures in favor of more approachable pop elements Although Pink Floyd had rarely even released singles since the late '60s one of the tracks Another Brick in the Wall became a transatlantic number one The band had been launching increasingly elaborate stage shows throughout the '70s but the touring production of The Wall featuring a construction of an actual wall during the band's performance was the most excessive yetIn the 1980s the group began to unravel Each of the four had done some side and solo projects in the past more troublingly Waters was asserting control of the band's musical and lyrical identity That wouldn't have been such a problem had The Final Cut 1983 been such an unimpressive effort with little of the electronic innovation so typical of their previous work Shortly afterward the band split up for a while In 1986 Waters was suing Gilmour and Mason to dissolve the group's partnership Wright had lost full membership status entirely Waters lost leaving a Rogerless Pink Floyd to get a Top Five album with Momentary Lapse of Reason in 1987 In an irony that was nothing less than cosmic about 20 years after Pink Floyd shed their original leader to resume their career with great commercial success they would do the same again to his successor Waters released ambitious solo albums to nothing more than moderate sales and attention while he watched his former colleagues with Wright back in tow rescale the chartsPink Floyd still had a huge fan base but there's little that's noteworthy about their postWaters output They knew their formula could execute it on a grand scale and could count on millions of customers many of them unborn when Dark Side of the Moon came out and unaware that Syd Barrett was ever a member to buy their records and see their sporadic tours The Division Bell their first studio album in seven years topped the charts in 1994 without making any impact on the current rock scene except in a marketing sense Ditto for the live Pulse album recorded during a typically elaborately staged 1994 tour which included a concert version of The Dark Side of the Moon in its entirety Waters' solo career sputtered along highlighted by a solo recreation of The Wall performed at the site of the former Berlin Wall in 1990 and released as an album Syd Barrett continued to be completely removed from the public eye except as a sort of archetype for the fallen genius

MY DAD IS DEAD

yukies21 — Sun, 10 May 2009 15:30:27 MDT

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Formed by drummer Mark Edwards in August 1984 after the breakup of the Cleveland band Riot Architecture My Dad Is Dead has remained his solo project with occasional help from a revolvingdoor castWith The Taller You Are The Shorter You Get all the pieces fell into place for My Dad Is Dead The usual cynicism hopelessness bitching and moaning about being alone are all here along with the occasional wordplay like naming the opening instrumental For Lack of a Better Word The music is that of an angstfilled Clevelandbased loner devouring that city's fertile college radio scene without letting go of some classic rock devices like grand proggy instrumentals and guitar solos It's also drum machine driven and reeks of DIY but while all these elements can be found across the MDID catalog Taller lands every song trumping the common cloying and acquired taste accusations despite the twoLP run time Mark Edwards the sole proprietor of MDID at this point gave Interpol their blueprint when he mashed Joy Division and My Bloody Valentine for The Big Picture a soaring track that's arguably his best ever The song's I could spend my whole life worrying about what's going to happen to me makes it undeniably the quintessential MDID track credo and all What Can I Do and A Man Possessed round out the superior laments with Edwards sounding tickedoff at hopelessness and sulking throughout with nerdy hornedrimmed glasses you almost can hear coming through the mix Hsker Dinfluenced guitars and Chris Burgess' gloriously smalltime production give an indieAmericana spin to the album and flippant messages in the liner notes suggest Edwards won't be joining Ian Curtis anytime soon Curtis wouldn't offer something as shameless as I need a calculator to count up my problemsBut I can count my friends on my fingers on my one had either and that's what makes Edwards and Taller special Spiritually lost middleclass Middle Americans who free up Friday nights for cheap beer and fretting never had it so good

demi and joe

jessica_nioda98 — Wed, 13 May 2009 10:40:10 MDT

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Freddie Mercury 1946 1991

shionforever — Mon, 11 May 2009 09:05:58 MDT

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Farrokh Bulsara mas conocido como Freddie Mercury 5 de septiembre de 1946 24 de noviembre de 1991Fue cantante compositor y pianista tanzano nacido en Zanzibar Tanzania integrante del grupo britnico de rock QueenQueen fue una banda conocida por su gran diversidad musical tanto en lo vocal como en lo instrumental as como por sus multitudinarios conciertos de gran calidad sin duda la banda britnica ms exitosa de las ltimas tres dcadasEntre otras cosas fueron la unica banda en fusionar la opera con el rock y los primeros en hacer una gira sudamericana que los trajo a la Argentina en 1981Se rumorea que por aquel entonces Freddie contrajo el virus del SIDA en Brasil Aunque Freddie participaba de multiples orgias en su casa y tambien frecuentaba bares gay en LondresLo cierto es que la enfermedad de Freddie se mantuvo en secreto hasta un dia antes de su muerte cuando el mismo dio un comunicado a sus fans y a la prensaEl 24 de noviembre de 1991 Freddie falleci en su casa de Londres de una neumona bronquial asociada al SIDASe sabe que los restos de Freddie fueron cremados y entregados a sus intimos Lo que no esta claro es que hicieron sus familiares con sus restos ya que hay dos versiones La primera y mas probable es que las cenizas de Freddie fueron esparcidas en el lago Geneva en Montreaux Suiza donde el mismo Freddie tenia una casa a las orillasLa segunda version indica que los restos de Freddie Descansan bajo un arbol del jardin de la casa de Freddie en LondresPor que la primera version es mas probablePorque en la casa de Freddie en Londres ya no habita mas su familia y durante muchos aos los admiradores de Freddie reclamaron un lugar publico donde rendirle tributo a Freddie Ante este reclamo la familia decidio construir un monumento a Freddie enfrente del lago donde se supone que se esparcieron sus cenizasLo raro de todo esto es que en Londres no hay ni una sola estatua de Freddie Mercury asi que cada vez que sus fans le quieran rendir tributo deben viajar hasta Suiza

Coldplay

gamasutra — Sun, 10 May 2009 23:55:12 MDT

Coldplay - Coldplay_3.jpg

Frank Sinatra

gamasutra — Sun, 10 May 2009 23:17:03 MDT

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Pink Floyd quotDark Side of the Moonquot Harvest Records 11163 1973 Vinyl LP w Poster and Post Cards

foxmusic — Mon, 11 May 2009 01:21:31 MDT

Pink Floyd quotDark Side of the Moonquot Harvest Records 11163 1973 Vinyl LP w Poster and Post Cards - PROG-PinkFloydLPDarkSideOfTheMoon.jpg

By condensing the sonic explorations of Meddle to actual songs and adding a lush immaculate production to their trippiest instrumental sections Pink Floyd inadvertently designed their commercial breakthrough with Dark Side of the Moon The primary revelation of Dark Side of the Moon is what a little focus does for the band Roger Waters wrote a series of songs about mundane everyday details which aren't that impressive by themselves but when given the sonic backdrop of Floyd's slow atmospheric soundscapes and carefully placed sound effects they achieve an emotional resonance But what gives the album true power is the subtly textured music which evolves from ponderous neopsychedelic art rock to jazz fusion and bluesrock before turning back to psychedelia It's dense with detail but leisurely paced creating its own dark haunting world Pink Floyd may have better albums than Dark Side of the Moon but no other record defines them quite as well as this onePink Floyd is the premier space rock band Since the mid'60s their music relentlessly tinkered with electronics and all manner of special effects to push pop formats to their outer limits At the same time they wrestled with lyrical themes and concepts of such massive scale that their music has taken on almost classical operatic quality in both sound and words Despite their astral image the group was brought down to earth in the 1980s by decidedly mundane power struggles over leadership and ultimately ownership of the band's very name After that time they were little more than a dinosaur act capable of filling stadiums and topping the charts but offering little more than a spectacular recreation of their most successful formulas Their latterday staleness cannot disguise the fact that for the first decade or so of their existence they were one of the most innovative groups around in concert and especially in the studioWhile Pink Floyd are mostly known for their grandiose concept albums of the 1970s they started as a very different sort of psychedelic band Soon after they first began playing together in the mid'60s they fell firmly under the leadership of lead guitarist Syd Barrett the gifted genius who would write and sing most of their early material The Cambridge native shared the stage with Roger Waters bass Rick Wright keyboards and Nick Mason drums The name Pink Floyd seemingly so farout was actually derived from the first names of two ancient bluesmen Pink Anderson and Floyd Council And at first Pink Floyd were much more conventional than the act into which they would evolve concentrating on the rock and RampB material that were so common to the repertoires of mid'60s British bandsPink Floyd quickly began to experiment however stretching out songs with wild instrumental freakout passages incorporating feedback electronic screeches and unusual eerie sounds created by loud amplification reverb and such tricks as sliding ball bearings up and down guitar strings In 1966 they began to pick up a following in the London underground onstage they began to incorporate light shows to add to the psychedelic effect Most importantly Syd Barrett began to compose poppsychedelic gems that combined unusual psychedelic arrangements particularly in the haunting guitar and celestial organ licks with catchy melodies and incisive lyrics that viewed the world with a sense of poetic childlike wonderThe group landed a recording contract with EMI in early 1967 and made the Top 20 with a brilliant debut single Arnold Layne a sympathetic comic vignette about a transvestite The followup the kaleidoscopic See Emily Play made the Top Ten The debut album The Piper at the Gates of Dawn also released in 1967 may have been the greatest British psychedelic album other than Sgt Pepper's Dominated almost wholly by Barrett's songs the album was a charming fun house of driving mysterious rockers Lucifer Sam odd character sketches The Gnome childhood flashbacks Bike Matilda Mother and freakier pieces with lengthy instrumental passages Astronomy Domine Interstellar Overdrive Pow R Toch that mapped out their fascination with space travel The record was not only like no other at the time it was like no other that Pink Floyd would make colored as it was by a vision that was far more humorous popfriendly and lighthearted than those of their subsequent epicsThe reason Pink Floyd never made a similar album was that Piper was the only one to be recorded under Barrett's leadership Around mid1967 the prodigy began showing increasingly alarming signs of mental instability Barrett would go catatonic onstage playing music that had little to do with the material or not playing at all An American tour had to be cut short when he was barely able to function at all let alone play the pop star game Dependent upon Barrett for most of their vision and material the rest of the group was nevertheless finding him impossible to work with live or in the studioAround the beginning of 1968 guitarist Dave Gilmour a friend of the band who was also from Cambridge was brought in as a fifth member The idea was that Gilmour would enable the Floyd to continue as a live outfit Barrett would still be able to write and contribute to the records That couldn't work either and within a few months Barrett was out of the group Pink Floyd's management looking at the wreckage of a band that was now without its lead guitarist lead singer and primary songwriter decided to abandon the group and manage Barrett as a solo actSuch calamities would have proven insurmountable for 99 out of 100 bands in similar predicaments Incredibly Pink Floyd would regroup and not only maintain their popularity but eventually become even more successful It was early in the game yet after all the first album had made the British Top Ten but the group was still virtually unknown in America where the loss of Syd Barrett meant nothing to the media Gilmour was an excellent guitarist and the band proved capable of writing enough original material to generate further ambitious albums Waters eventually emerging as the dominant composer The 1968 followup to Piper at the Gates of Dawn A Saucerful of Secrets made the British Top Ten using Barrett's vision as an obvious blueprint but taking a more formal somber and quasiclassical tone especially in the long instrumental parts Barrett for his part would go on to make a couple of interesting solo records before his mental problems instigated a retreat into oblivionOver the next four years Pink Floyd would continue to polish their brand of experimental rock which married psychedelia with evergrander arrangements on a Wagnerian operatic scale Hidden underneath the pulsing reverberant organs and guitars and insistently restated themes were subtle blues and pop influences that kept the material accessible to a wide audience Abandoning the singles market they concentrated on albumlength works and built a huge following in the progressive rock underground with constant touring in both Europe and North America While LPs like Ummagumma divided into live recordings and experimental outings by each member of the band Atom Heart Mother a collaboration with composer Ron Geesin and More a film soundtrack were erratic each contained some extremely effective musicBy the early '70s Syd Barrett was a fading or nonexistent memory for most of Pink Floyd's fans although the group one could argue never did match the brilliance of that somewhat anomalous 1967 debut Meddle 1971 sharpened the band's sprawling epics into something more accessible and polished the science fiction ambience that the group had been exploring ever since 1968 Nothing however prepared Pink Floyd or their audience for the massive mainstream success of their 1973 album Dark Side of the Moon which made their brand of cosmic rock even more approachable with stateoftheart production more focused songwriting an army of welltime stereophonic sound effects and touches of saxophone and soulful female backup vocalsDark Side of the Moon finally broke Pink Floyd as superstars in the United States where it made number one More astonishingly it made them one of the biggestselling acts of all time Dark Side of the Moon spent an incomprehensible 741 weeks on the Billboard album chart Additionally the primarily instrumental textures of the songs helped make Dark Side of the Moon easily translatable on an international level and the record became and still is one of the most popular rock albums worldwideIt was also an extremely hard act to follow although the followup Wish You Were Here 1975 also made number one highlighted by a tribute of sorts to the longdeparted Barrett Shine On You Crazy Diamond Dark Side of the Moon had been dominated by lyrical themes of insecurity fear and the cold sterility of modern life Wish You Were Here and Animals 1977 developed these morose themes even more explicitly By this time Waters was taking a firm hand over Pink Floyd's lyrical and musical vision which was consolidated by The Wall 1979The bleak overambitious double concept album concerned itself with the material and emotional walls modern humans build around themselves for survival The Wall was a huge success even by Pink Floyd's standards in part because the music was losing some of its heavyduty electronic textures in favor of more approachable pop elements Although Pink Floyd had rarely even released singles since the late '60s one of the tracks Another Brick in the Wall became a transatlantic number one The band had been launching increasingly elaborate stage shows throughout the '70s but the touring production of The Wall featuring a construction of an actual wall during the band's performance was the most excessive yetIn the 1980s the group began to unravel Each of the four had done some side and solo projects in the past more troublingly Waters was asserting control of the band's musical and lyrical identity That wouldn't have been such a problem had The Final Cut 1983 been such an unimpressive effort with little of the electronic innovation so typical of their previous work Shortly afterward the band split up for a while In 1986 Waters was suing Gilmour and Mason to dissolve the group's partnership Wright had lost full membership status entirely Waters lost leaving a Rogerless Pink Floyd to get a Top Five album with Momentary Lapse of Reason in 1987 In an irony that was nothing less than cosmic about 20 years after Pink Floyd shed their original leader to resume their career with great commercial success they would do the same again to his successor Waters released ambitious solo albums to nothing more than moderate sales and attention while he watched his former colleagues with Wright back in tow rescale the chartsPink Floyd still had a huge fan base but there's little that's noteworthy about their postWaters output They knew their formula could execute it on a grand scale and could count on millions of customers many of them unborn when Dark Side of the Moon came out and unaware that Syd Barrett was ever a member to buy their records and see their sporadic tours The Division Bell their first studio album in seven years topped the charts in 1994 without making any impact on the current rock scene except in a marketing sense Ditto for the live Pulse album recorded during a typically elaborately staged 1994 tour which included a concert version of The Dark Side of the Moon in its entirety Waters' solo career sputtered along highlighted by a solo recreation of The Wall performed at the site of the former Berlin Wall in 1990 and released as an album Syd Barrett continued to be completely removed from the public eye except as a sort of archetype for the fallen genius

ABBA

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Cathe Friedrich Kick Punch amp Crunch Legs amp Glutes DVD open

roleez1 — Sun, 10 May 2009 12:17:05 MDT

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Kick Punch CrunchThis workout is 68 minutes long It starts with a warm up of 7 minutes and gradually moves into a faster paced warm up which I refer to as intermediate intensity since it really starts to pick up the intensity toward the end of it After the 13 minute mark you will really kick it up to high intensity levels for another 20 to 25 minutes During this time you will be doing kickbox conditioning drills which are put in an interval style format of pushing hard recovering briefly and pushing hard again This segment is mostly high impact however there are also some high intensity low impact drills included the last drill one of the hardest is HIGH intensity LOW impact at its bestHammer Punch with a drop lunge into a Knee Smash24 per side yikes After this segment you are good and fried however the show must go on Youwe will then do three punching and kicking combinations Each one consists of a punching combination ex double jab high double jab low a triple jabcrossjab and then a cross punch with hesitation followed by a kicking combination ex knee chamber into roundhouse kick into drop squat back into jump roundhouse kick forward This segment also keeps the heart rate up because each combination features jump kicks Now we move on to ab work on the stability ball We will do crunches wood chops with weight optional and pikes with knee rolls Finally its time to enjoy a nice relaxing stretch with a soothing Asian melody By the way the other parts of the soundtrack are all instrumental with a strong downbeat to suit the mood of the movement I brought the ever so motivating song I WANNA ROCK into this workout and you will hear it on your first punckkick combination Get ready to SWEAT Legs Glutes Legs and Glutes is a 51 minute comprehensive lower body workout that incorporates traditional and nontraditional exercises as well as standing and floor exercises to strengthen and shape the leg and glute area You will experience new and refreshing exercises all performed in unique ways ie heavy weight no weight with equipment without equipment fast reps slow reps bonus reps rhythmic reps etc Be ready to get set and go as there is very little rest time between the exercises This is definitely one to watch ahead of time and know what you'll need to do have and handy The sound track is a lot of fun too It features many classic songs Here is the listI'm RushingBand Of Gold Do What You WantWishing On a StarYou Spin Me RoundOne Sweet Day I Can't Go For ThatAi No CorridaFantisyWonderful LifeLingerHere is a list of the exercisesStanding Leg WorkLeg Press on High Step 2 setsHover SquatsRear Lunges with heel elevated rt sidePlie Squats varied tempo holdRear Lunges with heel elevated left setPlie Squats varied tempo pulseDrop Squats on High StepExplosive Plie Squats with curtsey lunge insertCalf RaisesOne Legged DeadliftsPlie Squats traditional Sculpting Drills slow motion on High StepExplosive Lunges no weights or equipmentOuter Thigh Leg Press on high step with ankle weights 2 setsCalf RaisesStanding Leg Extensions with ankle weightsStanding Outer Thigh Lifts with ankle weightsFloorworkGlute and Hamstring Tucks on high step with ankle weightsGlute and Hamstring Raises with ankle weightsOuter Thigh and Glute Sweeps with ankle weightsInner Thigh Lifts with ankle weightsThese 2 workouts are great are both personal favorites of mine Cathe's DVDs also come with so many premix options where you can combine both workouts into one that it's more like getting 10 workouts on 1 DVD rather than 2 workouts

Steve Vai

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Muse Absolution 2003

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hillsong

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Jimi Hendrix quotHendrix in the Westquot quotWar Heroesquot Barclay Records Italian Import Vinyl LP

foxmusic — Mon, 11 May 2009 01:21:31 MDT

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In his brief fouryear reign as a superstar Jimi Hendrix expanded the vocabulary of the electric rock guitar more than anyone before or since Hendrix was a master at coaxing all manner of unforeseen sonics from his instrument often with innovative amplification experiments that produced astralquality feedback and roaring distortion His frequent hurricane blasts of noise and dazzling showmanship he could and would play behind his back and with his teeth and set his guitar on fire has sometimes obscured his considerable gifts as a songwriter singer and master of a gamut of blues RB and rock stylesWhen Hendrix became an international superstar in 1967 it seemed as if he'd dropped out of a Martian spaceship but in fact he'd served his apprenticeship the long mundane way in numerous RB acts on the chitlin circuit During the early and mid'60s he worked with such RBsoul greats as Little Richard the Isley Brothers and King Curtis as a backup guitarist Occasionally he recorded as a session man the Isley Brothers' 1964 single Testify is the only one of these early tracks that offers even a glimpse of his future genius But the stars didn't appreciate his showstealing showmanship and Hendrix was straightjacketed by sideman roles that didn't allow him to develop as a soloist The logical step was for Hendrix to go out on his own which he did in New York in the mid'60s playing with various musicians in local clubs and joining white bluesrock singer John Hammond Jr's band for a whileIt was in a New York club that Hendrix was spotted by Animals bassist Chas Chandler The first lineup of the Animals was about to split and Chandler looking to move into management convinced Hendrix to move to London and record as a solo act in England There a group was built around Jimi also featuring Mitch Mitchell on drums and Noel Redding on bass that was dubbed the Jimi Hendrix Experience The trio became stars with astonishing speed in the UK where Hey Joe Purple Haze and The Wind Cries Mary all made the Top Ten in the first half of 1967 These tracks were also featured on their debut album Are You Experienced a psychedelic meisterwerk that became a huge hit in the US after Hendrix created a sensation at the Monterey Pop Festival in June of 1967Are You Experienced was an astonishing debut particularly from a young RB veteran who had rarely sung and apparently never written his own material before the Experience formed What caught most people's attention at first was his virtuosic guitar playing which employed an arsenal of devices including wahwah pedals buzzing feedback solos crunching distorted riffs and lightning liquid runs up and down the scales But Hendrix was also a firstrate songwriter melding cosmic imagery with some surprisingly popsavvy hooks and tender sentiments He was also an excellent blues interpreter and passionate engaging singer although his gruff throaty vocal pipes were not nearly as great assets as his instrumental skills Are You Experienced was psychedelia at its most eclectic synthesizing mod pop soul RB Dylan and the electric guitar innovations of British pioneers like Jeff Beck Pete Townshend and Eric ClaptonAmazingly Hendrix would only record three fully conceived studio albums in his lifetime Axis Bold as Love and the doubleLP Electric Ladyland were more diffuse and experimental than Are You Experienced On Electric Ladyland in particular Hendrix pioneered the use of the studio itself as a recording instrument manipulating electronics and devising overdub techniques with the help of engineer Eddie Kramer in particular to plot uncharted sonic territory Not that these albums were perfect as impressive as they were the instrumental breaks could meander and Hendrix's songwriting was occasionally halfbaked never matching the consistency of Are You Experienced although he exercised greater creative control over the later albumsThe final two years of Hendrix's life were turbulent ones musically financially and personally He was embroiled in enough complicated management and record company disputes some dating from illadvised contracts he'd signed before the Experience formed to keep the lawyers busy for years He disbanded the Experience in 1969 forming the Band of Gypsies with drummer Buddy Miles and bassist Billy Cox to pursue funkier directions He closed Woodstock with a sprawling shaky set redeemed by his famous machinegun interpretation of The Star Spangled Banner The rhythm section of Mitchell and Redding were underrated keys to Jimi's best work and the Band of Gypsies ultimately couldn't measure up to the same standard although Hendrix did record an erratic live album with them In early 1970 the Experience reformed again and disbanded again shortly afterward At the same time Hendrix felt torn in many directions by various fellow musicians recordcompany expectations and management pressures all of whom had their own ideas of what Hendrix should be doing Coming up on two years after Electric Ladyland a new studio album had yet to appear although Hendrix was recording constantly during the periodWhile outside parties did contribute to bogging down Hendrix's studio work it also seems likely that Jimi himself was partly responsible for the stalemate unable to form a permanent lineup of musicians unable to decide what musical direction to pursue unable to bring himself to complete another album despite jamming endlessly A few months into 1970 Mitchell Hendrix's most valuable musical collaborator came back into the fold replacing Miles in the drum chair although Cox stayed in place It was this trio that toured the world during Hendrix's final monthsIt's extremely difficult to separate the facts of Hendrix's life from rumors and speculation Everyone who knew him well or claimed to know him well has different versions of his state of mind in 1970 Critics have variously mused that he was going to go into jazz that he was going to get deeper into the blues that he was going to continue doing what he was doing or that he was too confused to know what he was doing at all The same confusion holds true for his death contradictory versions of his final days have been given by his closest acquaintances of the time He'd been working intermittently on a new album tentatively titled First Ray of the New Rising Sun when he died in London on September 18 1970 from drugrelated complicationsHendrix recorded a massive amount of unreleased studio material during his lifetime Much of this as well as entire live concerts was issued posthumously several of the live concerts were excellent but the studio tapes have been the focus of enormous controversy for over 20 years These initially came out in haphazard drabs and drubs the first The Cry of Love was easily the most outstanding of the lot In the mid'70s producer Alan Douglas took control of these projects posthumously overdubbing many of Hendrix's tapes with additional parts by studio musicians In the eyes of many Hendrix fans this was sacrilege destroying the integrity of the work of a musician known to exercise meticulous care over the final production of his studio recordings Even as late as 1995 Douglas was having exKnack drummer Bruce Gary record new parts for the typically misbegotten compilation Voodoo Soup After a lengthy legal dispute the rights to Hendrix's estate including all of his recordings returned to Al Hendrix the guitarist's father in July of 1995With the help of Jimi's stepsister Janie Al set up Experience Hendrix to begin to get Jimi's legacy in order They began by hiring John McDermott and Jimi's original engineer Eddie Kramer to oversee the remastering process They were able to find all the original master tapes which had never been used for previous CD releases and in April of 1997 Hendrix's first three albums were reissued with drastically improved sound Accompanying those reissues was a posthumous compilation album based on Jimi's handwritten track listings called First Rays of the New Rising Sun made up of tracks from the Cry of Love Rainbow Bridge and War HeroesLater in 1997 another compilation called South Saturn Delta showed up collecting more tracks from posthumous LPs like Crash Landing War Heroes and Rainbow Bridge without the terrible '70s overdubs along with a handful of neverbeforeheard material that Chas Chandler had withheld from Alan Douglas for all those yearsMore archival material followed Radio One was basically expanded to the twodisc BBC Sessions released in 1998 and 1999 saw the release of the full show from Woodstock as well as additional concert recordings from the Band of Gypsies shows entitled Live at the Fillmore East 2000 saw the release of the Jimi Hendrix Experience fourdisc box set which compiled remaining tracks from In the West Crash Landing and Rainbow Bridge along with more rarities and alternates from the Chandler cacheThe family also launched Dagger Records essentially an authorized bootleg label to supply harcore Hendrix fans with material that would be of limited commercial appeal Dagger Records has released several live concerts of shows in Oakland Ottawa and Clark University in Massachusetts and a collection of studio jams and demos called Morning Symphony Ideas

David Bowie quotChanges Onequot Vinyl LP

foxmusic — Mon, 11 May 2009 01:21:31 MDT

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The clich about David Bowie says he's a musical chameleon adapting himself according to fashion and trends While such a criticism is too glib there's no denying that Bowie demonstrated remarkable skill for perceiving musical trends at his peak in the '70s After spending several years in the late '60s as a mod and as an allaround musichall entertainer Bowie reinvented himself as a hippie singersongwriter Prior to his breakthrough in 1972 he recorded a protometal record and a poprock album eventually redefining glam rock with his ambiguously sexy Ziggy Stardust persona Ziggy made Bowie an international star yet he wasn't content to continue to churn out glitter rock By the mid'70s he developed an effete sophisticated version of Philly soul that he dubbed plastic soul which eventually morphed into the eerie avantpop of 1976's Station to Station Shortly afterward he relocated to Berlin where he recorded three experimental electronic albums with Brian Eno At the dawn of the '80s Bowie was still at the height of his powers yet following his blockbuster dancepop album Let's Dance in 1983 he slowly sank into mediocrity before salvaging his career in the early '90s Even when he was out of fashion in the '80s and '90s it was clear that Bowie was one of the most influential musicians in rock for better and for worse Each one of his phases in the '70s sparked a number of subgenres including punk new wave goth rock the new romantics and electronica Few rockers ever had such lasting impactDavid Jones began performing music when he was 13 years old learning the saxophone while he was at Bromley Technical High School another pivotal event happened at the school when his left pupil became permanently dilated in a schoolyard fight Following his graduation at 16 he worked as a commercial artist while playing saxophone in a number of mod bands including the King Bees the Manish Boys which also featured Jimmy Page as a session man and Davey Jones the Lower Third All three of those bands released singles which were generally ignored yet he continued performing changing his name to David Bowie in 1966 after the Monkees' Davy Jones became an international star Over the course of 1966 he released three mod singles on Pye Records which were all ignored The following year he signed with Deram releasing the music hall Anthony Newleystyled David Bowie that year Upon completing the record he spent several weeks in a Scottish Buddhist monastery Once he left the monastery he studied with Lindsay Kemp's mime troupe forming his own mime company the Feathers in 1969 The Feathers were shortlived and he formed the experimental art group Beckenham Arts Lab in 1969Bowie needed to finance the Arts Lab so he signed with Mercury Records that year and released Man of Words Man of Music a trippy singersongwriter album featuring Space Oddity The song was released as a single and became a major hit in the UK convincing Bowie to concentrate on music Hooking up with his old friend Marc Bolan he began miming at some of Bolan's T Rex concerts eventually touring with Bolan bassistproducer Tony Visconti guitarist Mick Ronson and drummer Cambridge as Hype The band quickly fell apart yet Bowie and Ronson remained close working on the material that formed Bowie's next album The Man Who Sold the World as well as recruiting Michael Woody Woodmansey as their drummer Produced by Tony Visconti who also played bass The Man Who Sold the World was a heavy guitar rock album that failed to gain much attention Bowie followed the album in late 1971 with the poprock Hunky Dory an album that featured Ronson and keyboardist Rick WakemanFollowing the release of Hunky Dory Bowie began to develop his most famous incarnation Ziggy Stardust an androgynous bisexual rock star from another planet Before he unveiled Ziggy Bowie claimed in a January 1972 interview with the Melody Maker that he was gay helping to stir interest in his forthcoming album Taking cues from Bolan's stylish glam rock Bowie dyed his hair orange and began wearing women's clothing He began calling himself Ziggy Stardust and his backing band Ronson Woodmansey and bassist Trevor Bolder were the Spiders from Mars The Rise Fall of Ziggy Stardust and the Spiders from Mars was released with much fanfare in England in late 1972 The album and its lavish theatrical concerts became a sensation throughout England and it helped him become the only glam rocker to carve out a niche in America Ziggy Stardust became a wordofmouth hit in the US and the rereleased Space Oddity which was now also the title of the rereleased Man of Words Man of Music reached the American Top 20 Bowie quickly followed Ziggy with Aladdin Sane later in 1973 Not only did he record a new album that year but he also produced Lou Reed's Transformer the Stooges' Raw Power and Mott the Hoople's comeback All the Young Dudes for which he also wrote the title trackGiven the amount of work Bowie packed into 1972 and 1973 it wasn't surprising that his relentless schedule began to catch up with him After recording the allcovers PinUps with the Spiders from Mars he unexpectedly announced the band's breakup as well as his retirement from live performances during the group's final show that year He retreated from the spotlight to work on a musical adaptation of George Orwell's 1984 but once he was denied the rights to the novel he transformed the work into Diamond Dogs The album was released to generally poor reviews in 1974 yet it generated the hit single Rebel Rebel and he supported the album with an elaborate and expensive American tour As the tour progressed Bowie became fascinated with soul music eventually redesigning the entire show to reflect his new plastic soul Hiring guitarist Carlos Alomar as the band's leader Bowie refashioned his group into a Philly soul band and recostumed himself in sophisticated stylish fashions The change took fans by surprise as did the doublealbum David Live which featured material recorded on the 1974 tourYoung Americans released in 1975 was the culmination of Bowie's soul obsession and it became his first major crossover hit peaking in the American Top Ten and generating his first US number one hit in Fame a song he cowrote with John Lennon and Alomar Bowie relocated to Los Angeles where he earned his first movie role in Nicolas Roeg's The Man Who Fell to Earth 1976 While in LA he recorded Station to Station which took the plastic soul of Young Americans into darker avantgardetinged directions yet was also a huge hit generating the Top Ten single Golden Years The album inaugurated Bowie's persona of the elegant Thin White Duke and it reflected Bowie's growing cocainefueled paranoia Soon he decided Los Angeles was too boring and returned to England shortly after arriving back in London he gave the awaiting crowd a Nazi salute a signal of his growing drugaddled detachment from reality The incident caused enormous controversy and Bowie left the country to settle in Berlin where he lived and worked with Brian EnoOnce in Berlin Bowie sobered up and began painting as well as studying art He also developed a fascination with German electronic music which Eno helped him fulfill on their first album together Low Released early in 1977 Low was a startling mixture of electronics pop and avantgarde technique While it was greeted with mixed reviews at the time it proved to be one of the most influential albums of the late '70s as did its followup Heroes which followed that year Not only did Bowie record two solo albums in 1977 but he also helmed Iggy Pop's comeback records The Idiot and Lust for Life and toured anonymously as Pop's keyboardist He resumed his acting career in 1977 appearing in Just A Gigolo with Marlene Dietrich and Kim Novak as well as narrating Eugene Ormandy's version of Peter and the Wolf Bowie returned to the stage in 1978 launching an international tour that was captured on the doublealbum Stage During 1979 Bowie and Eno recorded Lodger in New York Switzerland and Berlin releasing the album at the end of the year Lodger was supported with several innovative videos as was 1980's Scary Monsters and these videos DJ Fashion Ashes to Ashes became staples on early MTVScary Monsters was Bowie's last album for RCA and it wrapped up his most innovative productive period Later in 1980 he performed the title role in stage production of The Elephant Man including several shows on Broadway Over the next two years he took an extended break from recording appearing in Christine F 1982 and the vampire movie The Hunger 1982 returning to the studio only for his 1981 collaboration with Queen Under Pressure and the theme for Paul Schrader's remake of Cat People In 1983 he signed an expensive contract with EMI Records and released Let's Dance Bowie had recruited Chic guitarist Nile Rodgers to produce the album giving the record a sleek funky foundation and hired the unknown Stevie Ray Vaughan as lead guitarist Let's Dance became his most successful record thanks to stylish innovative videos for Let's Dance and China Girl which turned both songs into Top Ten hits Bowie supported the record with the soldout arena tour Serious MoonlightGreeted with massive success for the first time Bowie wasn't quite sure how to react and he eventually decided to replicate Let's Dance with 1984's Tonight While the album sold well producing the Top Ten hit Blue Jean it received poor reviews and ultimately was a commercial disappointment He stalled in 1985 recording a duet of Martha the Vandellas' Dancing in the Street with Mick Jagger for Live Aid He also spent more time jetsetting appearing at celebrity events across the globe and appeared in several movies Into the Night 1985 Absolute Beginners 1986 Labyrinth 1986 that turned out to be bombs Bowie returned to recording in 1987 with the widely panned Never Let Me Down supporting the album with the Glass Spider tour which also received poor reviews In 1989 he remastered his RCA catalog with Rykodisc for CD release kicking off the series with the threedisc box Sound Vision Bowie supported the discs with an accompanying tour of the same name claming that he was retiring all of his older characters from performance following the tour Sound Vision was successful and Ziggy Stardust recharted amidst the hooplaSound Vision may have been a success but Bowie's next project was perhaps his most unsuccessful Picking up on the abrasive dissonant rock of Sonic Youth and the Pixies Bowie formed his own guitar rock combo Tin Machine with guitarist Reeves Gabrels bassist Hunt Sales and his drummer brother Tony who had previously worked on Iggy Pop's Lust for Life with Bowie Tin Machine released an eponymous album to poor reviews that summer and supported it with a club tour which was only moderately successful Despite the poor reviews Tin Machine released a second album the appropriately titled Tin Machine II in 1991 and it was completely ignoredBowie returned to a solo career in 1993 with the sophisticated soulful Black Tie White Noise recording the album with Nile Rodgers and his nowpermanent collaborator Reeves Gabrels The album was released on Savage a subsidiary of RCA and received positive reviews but his new label went bankrupt shortly after its release and the album disappeared Black Tie White Noise was the first indication that Bowie was trying hard to resuscitate his career as was the largely instrumental 1994 soundtrack The Buddha of Suburbia In 1995 he reunited with Brian Eno for the wildly hyped industrial rocktinged Outside Several critics hailed the album as a comeback and Bowie supported it with a coheadlining tour with Nine Inch Nails in order to snag a younger alternative audience but his gambit failed audiences left before Bowie's performance and Outside disappeared He quickly returned to the studio in 1996 recording Earthling an album heavily influenced by techno and drum'n'bass Upon its early 1997 release Earthling received generally positive reviews yet the album failed to gain an audience and many techno purists criticized Bowie for allegedly exploiting their subculture hours followed in 1999 For 2002 Bowie reunited with producer Toni Visconti and released Heathen to very positive reviews He continued on with Visconti for Reality in 2003

Elvis Costello and the Attractions quotEvery Day I Play the Bootquot Vinyl Record

foxmusic — Mon, 11 May 2009 01:21:31 MDT

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When Elvis Costello's first record was released in 1977 his bristling cynicism and anger linked him with the punk and new wave explosion A cursory listen to My Aim Is True proves that the main connection that Costello had with the punks was his unbridled passion He tore through rock's back pages taking whatever he wanted as well as borrowing from country Tin Pan Alley pop reggae and many other musical genres Over his career that musical eclecticism has distinguished Costello's records as much as his fiercely literate lyrics Because he supports his lyrics with his richly diverse music Costello is one of the most innovative influential and best songwriters since Bob DylanThe son of British bandleader Ross McManus Costello born Declan McManus worked as a computer programmer during the early '70s performing under the name DP Costello in various folk clubs In 1976 he became the leader of countryrock group Flip City During this time he recorded several demo tapes of his original material with the intention of landing a record contract A copy of these tapes made its way to Jake Riviera one of the heads of the fledgling independent record label Stiff Riviera signed Costello to Stiff as a solo artist in 1977 the singersongwriter adopted the name Elvis Costello at this time taking his first name from Elvis Presley and his last name from his mother's maiden nameWith former Brinsley Schwarz bassist Nick Lowe producing Costello began recording his debut album with the American band Clover providing support Less Than Zero the first single released from these sessions appeared in April of 1977 The single failed to chart as did its followup Alison which was released the following month By the summer of 1977 Costello's permanent backing band had been assembled Featuring bassist Bruce Thomas keyboardist Steve Nieve and drummer Pete Thomas no relation to Bruce the group was named the Attractions they made their live debut in July of 1977My Aim Is True his debut album was released in the summer of 1977 to positive reviews the album climbed to number 14 on the British charts but it wasn't released on his American label Columbia Records until later in the year Along with Nick Lowe Ian Dury and Wreckless Eric Costello participated in the Stiffs Live package tour in the fall At the end of the year Jake Riviera split from Stiff Records to form Radar Records taking Costello and Lowe with him Costello's last single for Stiff the reggaeinflected Watching the Detectives became his first hit climbing to number 15 at the end of the yearThis Year's Model Costello's first album recorded with the Attractions was released in the spring of 1978 A rawer harderrocking record than My Aim Is True This Year's Model was also a bigger hit reaching number four in Britain and number 30 in America Released the following year Armed Forces was a more ambitious and musically diverse album than either of his previous records It was another hit reaching number two in the UK and cracking the Top Ten in the US Oliver's Army the first single from the album also peaked at number two in Britain none of the singles from Armed Forces charted in America In the summer of 1979 he produced the selftitled debut album by the Specials the leaders of the ska revival movementIn February of 1980 the soulinfluenced Get Happy was released it was the first record on Riviera's new record label FBeat Get Happy was another hit peaking at number two in Britain and number 11 in America Later that year two collections of Bsides singles and outtakes called Taking Liberties was released in America in Britain a similar album called Ten Bloody Marys Ten How's Your Fathers appeared as a cassetteonly release complete with different tracks than the American versionCostello and the Attractions released Trust in early 1981 it was his fifth album in a row produced by Nick Lowe Trust debuted at number nine in the British charts and worked its way into the Top 30 in the US During the spring of 1981 Costello and the Attractions began recording an album of country covers with famed Nashville producer Billy Sherrill who recorded hit records for George Jones and Charlie Rich among others The resulting album Almost Blue was released at the end of the year to mixed reviews although the single A Good Year for the Roses was a British Top Ten hitCostello's next album Imperial Bedroom 1982 was an ambitious set of lushly arranged pop produced by Geoff Emerick who engineered several of the Beatles' most acclaimed albums Imperial Bedroom received some of his best reviews yet it failed to yield a Top 40 hit in either England or America the album did debut at number six in the UK For 1983's Punch the Clock Costello worked with Clive Langer and Alan Winstanley who were responsible for several of the biggest British hits in the early '80s The collaboration proved commercially successful as the album peaked at number three in the UK number 24 in the US and the single Everyday I Write the Book cracked the Top 40 in both Britain and America Costello tried to replicate the success of Punch the Clock with his next record 1984's Goodbye Cruel World but the album was a commercial and critical failureAfter the release of Goodbye Cruel World Costello embarked on his first solo tour in the summer of 1984 Costello was relatively inactive during 1985 releasing only one new single The People's Limousine a collaboration with singersongwriter TBone Burnett released under the name the Coward Brothers and producing Rum Sodomy and the Lash the second album by the punkfolk band the Pogues Both projects were indications that he was moving toward a strippeddown folky approach and 1986's King of America confirmed that suspicion Recorded without the Attractions and released under the name the Costello Show King of America was essentially a countryfolk album and it received the best reviews of any album he had recorded since Imperial Bedroom It was followed at the end of the year by the edgy Blood and Chocolate a reunion with the Attractions and producer Nick Lowe Costello would not record another album with the Attractions until 1994During 1987 Costello negotiated a new worldwide record contract with Warner Bros Records and began a songwriting collaboration with Paul McCartney Two years later he released Spike the most musically diverse collection he had ever recorded Spike featured the first appearance of songs written by Costello and McCartney including the single Veronica Veronica became his biggest American hit peaking at number 19 Two years later he released Mighty Like a Rose which echoed Spike in its diversity yet it was a darker more challenging record In 1993 Costello collaborated with the Brodsky Quartet on The Juliet Letters a song cycle that was the songwriter's first attempt at classical music he also wrote an entire album for former Transvision Vamp singer Wendy James called Now Ain't the Time for Your Tears That same year Costello licensed the rights to his pre1987 catalog My Aim Is True to Blood and Chocolate to Rykodisc in AmericaCostello reunited with the Attractions to record the majority of 1994's Brutal Youth the most straightforward and poporiented album he had recorded since Goodbye Cruel World The Attractions backed Costello on a worldwide tour in 1994 and played concerts with him throughout 1995 In 1995 he released his longshelved collection of covers Kojak Variety In the spring of 1996 Costello released All This Useless Beauty which featured a number of original songs he had given to other artists but never recorded himself Painted from Memory a collaboration with the legendary Burt Bacharach followed in 1998The album was a success critically but it only succeeded in foreign markets outside of their home countries of the United States and Britain A jazz version of the record made with Bill Frisell was put on hold when Costello's label began to freeze up due to political maneuvering Undaunted Costello and Bacharach hit the road and performed in the States and Europe Then after Bacharach left Costello added Steve Nieve to the tour and traveled around the world on what they dubbed the Lonely World Tour This took them into 1999 where both Notting Hill and Austin Powers The Spy Who Shagged Me featured significant contributions from Costello In fact he appeared with Bacharach in the latter as a pair of Carnaby Street musicians albeit street musicians with a gorgeous grand piano at their disposalContinuing his tour with Nieve he began singing the last song with a microphone forcing the audience to sit in complete silence as he usually performed Couldn't Call It Unexpected No 4 with nothing but his dulcet baritone filling the auditorium After the record company's various mergers ended Costello found himself on Universal Records and he tested their promotional abilities with a second greatesthits record The Very Best of Elvis Costello The label promoted the album strongly making it a hit in his native Britain Unfortunately they also made it clear that they had no intention of giving a new album the same promotional push leaving him to venture into other fields as he awaited the end of his record contract His first project was an album of pop standards performed with Anne Sofie Von Otter which included a few songs originally written by Costello The album came out in March of 2001 on the Deutsche Grammophon label and it neatly coincided with the extensive rerelease of his entire catalog up to 1996 under Rhino Records Each disc included an extra CD of rare material and liner notes written by Costello making them incredible treats for fansIn 2001 he found himself with a residency at UCLA where he performed several concerts and was instrumental in teaching music during the year He also began work on a selfproduced album that featured Pete Thomas and Nieve now billed as a band called the Imposters entitled When I Was Cruel and the album finally saw release on Island Records in the spring of 2002 at the end of the year he released a collection of Bsides and leftovers from the album's sessions entitled Cruel SmileWhen I Was Cruel kicked off another productive era for the ever prolific Costello In 2003 he returned with North a collection of classically styled pop songs pitched halfway between Gershwin and Sondheim The next year he collaborated with his new wife Diana Krall on her first collection of original material The Girl in the Other Room That fall Costello released two albums of original material a classical work entitled Il Sogno and the concept album The Delivery Man a rock roll record cut with the Imposters My Flame Burns Blue from 2006 was a live album with Costello fronting the 52piece jazz orchestra the Metropole Orkest On the album classic Costello songs with new orchestral arrangements appeared alongside new compositions and a performance of the entire Il Sogno The River in Reverse a collaboration with RB legend Allen Toussaint arrived in 2006 followed by Momofuku credited to Elvis Costello the Imposters in 2008 from Lost Highway

Marilyn Manson

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The Smiths

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The Smiths fue una banda de indie rock formada en Manchester Inglaterra en 1982 por el cantante Morrissey y el guitarrista Johnny Marr La banda disfrut de un xito considerable hasta su separacin en 1987 Su msica ha sido de gran influencia en la msica indie britnica y en los '90 una gran influencia para el BritpopDos de las cosas ms notables del grupo fueron su polmico cantante con sus no menos polmicas letras y la msica compuesta por Marr que devolva la guitarra al frente de la banda en una poca en la que el techno pop gozaba de gran salud en las listas de xitos inglesas La msica de la banda se nutra de influencias de rock de los 60 y 70 especialmente del rockabilly y del glam rock estilo entre cuyas bandas representativas se hallaban algunos dolos de Morrissey como los New York Dolls y Marc Bolan La banda fue fundada en 1982 por dos jvenes de Manchester Johnny Marr y Steven Patrick Morrissey aunque este ltimo es ms conocido por su apellido Morrissey Marr estaba buscando gente para formar una banda cuando unos amigos suyos le hablaron acerca de un joven que viva cerca y que tena un estilo particular de escribir aunque le advirtieron que era difcil de tratar Era Morrissey un joven cuya vida era difcil y se refugiaba en la literatura especialmente en Oscar Wilde al que hara ms de un homenaje en muchas de sus canciones y ya era conocido en algunos crculos de Manchester habiendo cantado en una banda llamada The Nosebleeds de corte punk Ms informacin en httpeswikipediaorgwikiTheSmiths y en la cual no encajaba por su estilo vocal y actitud en el escenario Haba intentado hacer periodismo musical pero haba desistido Es entonces cuando Marr se pone en contacto con l iniciando una historia musical hoy mticade 1986 inmediatamente despus del sencillo Bigmouth Strikes Again Este lbum con su tpica mezcla de lo sombro Never Had No One Ever que pareca referirse a los estereotipos de la banda lo humorstico Frankly Mr Shankly un supuesto mensaje al jefe de Rough Trade Geoff Travis disimulada como una carta de renuncia de un trabajador para su superior y varias canciones que sintetizaban ambos lados There Is a Light That Never Goes Out y Cemetary Gates lleg al puesto nmero 2 de las listas de Reino Unido y suele ser considerado su mejor obra En 1989 la revista SPIN ubic a The Queen Is Dead en el primer puesto de su lista de The Greatest Albums Ever Made Los Mejores lbumes Jams Grabados Muchas otras listas de mejores lbumes de la historia de otras publicaciones ubicaron a este lbum en la cima o cerca de ella entre los diez mejores incluyendo NME y Melody MakerSin embargo no todo estaba bien dentro de la banda Una disputa legal con Rough Trade retras la salida del lbum por casi siete meses haba sido completado en noviembre de 1985 y Marr estaba comenzando a sentir el estrs causado por la agotadora agenda de la banda Mientras tanto Rourke fue explusado de la banda a principios de 1986 por sus problemas con la herona Se enter por medio de una nota de Postit pegada en el parabrisas de su auto que deca Andy you have left The Smiths Goodbye and good luck Morrissey Andy has dejado los Smiths Adis y buena suerte Morrissey 2 Fue temporalmente reemplazado por el bajista Craig Gannon pero readmitido despus de 2 semanas por lo que Gannon se convirti en el guitarrista rtmico Este quinteto grab los sencillos Panic y Ask con Kirsty McColl en coros y fue de gira por el Reino Unido luego de que la gira terminara en octubre de 1986 Gannon fue expulsadoStrangeways Here We Come y la disolucin de la banda editar1987 comenz bien para la banda el single Shoplifters of the World Unite una de las canciones de los Smiths favoritas de Morrissey fue lanzado a principios del ao y tuvo xito y caus algo de controversia entre padres sobre la posibilidad de que incitara a los chicos a robar Fue seguido por un segundo compilado The World Won't Listen el ttulo se refiere al comentario de Morrissey sobre su frustracin por la falta de reconocimiento de la banda en el mainstream aunque irnicamente el lbum lleg al segundo puesto en los charts y el single Sheila Take A Bow el segundo y ltimo xito de la banda que lleg a los primeros diez lugares Otro compilado Louder Than Bombs fue preparado para el mercado norteamericano y contena gran parte del mismo material que The World Won't Listen pero con la adicin de Sheila Take A Bow y de material de Hatful Of Hollow ya que ese compilado no haba sido lanzado an en los Estados UnidosA pesar de su xito diferencias personales dentro de la banda incluyendo un aumento de la tensin en la relacin entre Morrissey y Marr dej a la banda al borde de la disolucin y cuando Strangeways Here We Come llamado as por la prisin Strangeways de Manchester fue lanzado en septiembre de 1987 la banda ya haba dejado de existir La separacin fue atribuida al hecho de que a Morrissey le molestaba el trabajo de Marr con otros artistas y a que Marr se senta frustrado por la poca flexibilidad musical de Morrissey Marr en particular odiaba la obsesin que tena Morrissey por hacer versiones de artistas de pop de los aos 1960 como Twinkle y Cilla Black Refirindose a las canciones que la banda grab en su ltima sesin juntos lados B para el single Girlfriend In A Coma que sali antes del lanzamiento del lbum Marr dijo Yo escrib I Keep Mine Hidden pero odi a Work Is a Four Letter Word Eso fue el colmo realmente No form un grupo para tocar canciones de Cilla Black 3Strangeways tambin lleg al segundo puesto en Reino Unido pero no alcanz el mismo xito en los EE UU La cancin Paint A Vulgar Picture fue algo proftica dado que las canciones del grupo fueron reeditadas en una innumerable cantidad de compilaciones El infame video de 30 segundos de Girlfriend In A Coma logr algo de rotacin en MTV en los EEUU El lbum fue recibido con indiferencia por parte de los crticos pero los cuatro miembros lo consideran su lbum favorito de la banda Un par de sencillos del lbum fueron lanzados con viejas demos y versiones en vivo como lados B y al ao siguiente sali Rank un lbum en vivo que fue grabado en 1986 cuando Gannon formaba parte de la banda que repiti el xito de sus LPs anterioresCarreras solistas editarInmediatamente tras la separacin Morrissey comenz a grabar como solista colaborando con el productor de Strangeways Stephen Street y el mancuniano Vini Reilly guitarrista de The Durutti Column El lbum Viva Hate en referencia al fin de los Smiths sali seis meses ms tarde y lleg al primer puesto en ventas Morrissey sigue tocando y grabando como solistaJohnny Marr regres a la msica en 1989 con Bernard Sumner de New Order y Neil Tennant de los Pet Shop Boys en el supergrupo Electronic Electronic edit tres lbumes a lo largo de la dcada siguiente Marr tambin fue miembro de The The grabando dos lbumes con la banda entre 1989 y 1993 Marr adems trabaj como sesionista y colaborador con artistas como The Pretenders Pet Shop Boys Billy Bragg y Black Grape En el 2000 fund otra banda Johnny Marr And The Healers que obtuvo moderado xito y ms tarde trabaj como msico en el lbum de Oasis Heathen Chemistry Adems ha trabajado como productorAndy Rourke y Mike Joyce continuaron trabajando juntos como sesionistas de Morrissey 19881989 y Sinad O'Connor entre otros adems de trabajar juntos Andy Rourke grab y sali de gira con la banda britnica de country alternativo Proud Mary Adicionalmente Rourke est formando un grupo con otros bajistas como Peter Hook de New Order y Joy Division y Mani de los The Stone Roses y Primal Scream llamado FreebassAsuntos pendientes editarThe Smiths fueron reunidos en un juzgado en 1996 para resolver una demanda por regalas royalties de Joyce contra Morrissey y Marr quienes slo les permitieron a Joyce y a Rourke obtener un 10 de lo que la banda ganaba por grabaciones y presentaciones las regalas por composicin no eran relevantes ya que Rourke y Joyce nunca fueron acreditados como compositores de la banda Rourke s compuso sus partes de bajo pero desconoca los mecanismos que creaban regalas en la creacin de obras musicales en ese momento Por esta razn Rourke sigue sin recibir crdito y regalas por su trabajo en la creacin de las canciones de los SmithsMorrissey y Marr argumentaron que los otros dos miembros siempre haban estado de acuerdo con esa divisin de regalas pero la corte fall a favor de Joyce y orden que se le pagaran un milln de libras y recibiera un 25 desde ese momentoComo las regalas del grupo haban estado congeladas por dos aos y bajo gran presin financiera para sostener a su familia Rourke se conform con una suma menor para pagar deudas y continu recibiendo 10 Morrissey fue descrito por el juez como agresivo y poco confiable2El lbum solista de Morrissey de 1997 Maladjusted incluy una cancin titulada Sorrow Will Come in the End que se refera al caso y que fue omitida de la versin britnica por miedo a una denuncia por difamacin Morrissey pero no Marr apel contra el veredicto sin xitoComo resultado de este caso una reunin de los Smiths pareca algo imposible a pesar del aparente cambio en la relacin entre Marr y Morrissey en los recientes aos Tanto Johnny Marr como Morrissey afirmaron en repetidas ocasiones en entrevistas que no haba forma alguna de que una reunin volviera a sucederEn 2005 VH1 intent reunir a la banda para su show Bands Reunited pero el programa abandon sus intentos luego de que su anfitrin Aamer Haleem no lograra convencer a MorrisseyA fines de noviembre de 2005 en una aparicin en la estacin de radio BBC 6 Music Mike Joyce afirm que estaba atravesando por problemas financieros y que haba tenido que recurrir a vender items raros de la banda en eBay Algunos minutos de una pista instrumental nunca completada llamada The Click Track fue presentada en el showMorrissey atac a Joyce en una declaracin pblica en la pgina wwwtruetoyounet La relacin entre Joyce y Rourke se congel como resultado de la declaracin de Morrissey que revel que Joyce haba engaado a la justicia al no declarar que entre otros Rourke tena derecho a activos que fueron tomados por sus abogados de Morrissey Deca que Rourke haba sido privado del pago de regalas por parte de Morrissey ya que haban sido tomadas por Joyce quien fue obligado a declarar que otros Rourke Lillywhite y Street tenan un inters en los fondos que l intentaba conseguirEn enero de 2006 Johnny Marr The Healers tocaron en Manchester v Cancer un show a beneficio para el cncer que fue organizado por Andy Rourke y su Production Company Great Northern Productions 4 Por primera vez en 20 aos Johnny Marr y Andy Rourke se reunieron en el escenario y tocaron How Soon Is Now 5Abundan rumores de futuras colaboraciones con la excepcin de Joyce quien al parecer ha perdido el apoyo de RourkeRourke expandi su carrera como DJ con un programa de radioDiscografa editarlbumes de estudio editar The Smiths 1984 UK 2 US 150 Meat Is Murder 1985 UK 1 US 110 The Queen Is Dead 1986 UK 2 US 71 Strangeways Here We Come 1987 UK 2 US 55lbumes en directo editar Rank en vivo 1988 1986 UK 2 US 77lbumes recopilatorios editar Hatful of Hollow compilado 1984 UK 7 The World Won't Listen compilado 1987 UK 2 Louder Than Bombs compilado 1987 UK 38 US 62 BestI compilado 1992 UK 1 US 139 Best II compilado 1992 UK 29 Singles compilado 1995 UK 5 The Very Best of The Smiths compilado 2001 UK 31 The Sound Of The Smiths compilado 2008Singles en el Reino Unido con sus posiciones en los charts editar Hand in Glove 1983 124 This Charming Man 1983 25 What Difference Does It Make 1984 12 Heaven Knows I'm Miserable Now 1984 10 William It Was Really Nothing 1984 17 How Soon Is Now 1985 24 Shakespeare's Sister 1985 26 That Joke Isn't Funny Anymore 1985 49 The Boy With the Thorn in His Side 1985 23 Bigmouth Strikes Again 1986 26 Panic 1986 11 Ask 1986 14 Shoplifters of the World Unite 1987 12 Sheila Take a Bow 1987 10 Girlfriend in a Coma 1987 13 I Started Something I Couldn't Finish 1987 23 Last Night I Dreamt That Somebody Loved Me 1987 30 This Charming Man 1992 reissue 1983 8 How Soon Is Now 1992 reissue 1984 16 There Is a Light That Never Goes Out 1992 1986 25 Ask 1995 reissue 1986 62ue fue lanzado en junio de 1986 inmediatamente despus del sencillo Bigmouth Strikes Again Este lbum con su tpica mezcla de lo sombro Never Had No One Ever que pareca referirse a los estereotipos de la banda lo humorstico Frankly Mr Shankly un supuesto mensaje al jefe de Rough Trade Geoff Travis disimulada como una carta de renuncia de un trabajador para su superior y varias canciones que sintetizaban ambos lados There Is a Light That Never Goes Out y Cemetary Gates lleg al puesto nmero 2 de las listas de Reino Unido y suele ser considerado su mejor obra En 1989 la revista SPIN ubic a The Queen Is Dead en el primer puesto de su lista de The Greatest Albums Ever Made Los Mejores lbumes Jams Grabados Muchas otras listas de mejores lbumes de la historia de otras publicaciones ubicaron a este lbum en la cima o cerca de ella entre los diez mejores incluyendo NME y Melody MakerSin embargo no todo estaba bien dentro de la banda Una disputa legal con Rough Trade retras la salida del lbum por casi siete meses haba sido completado en noviembre de 1985 y Marr estaba comenzando a sentir el estrs causado por la agotadora agenda de la banda Mientras tanto Rourke fue explusado de la banda a principios de 1986 por sus problemas con la herona Se enter por medio de una nota de Postit pegada en el parabrisas de su auto que deca Andy you have left The Smiths Goodbye and good luck Morrissey Andy has dejado los Smiths Adis y buena suerte Morrissey 2 Fue temporalmente reemplazado por el bajista Craig Gannon pero readmitido despus de 2 semanas por lo que Gannon se convirti en el guitarrista rtmico Este quinteto grab los sencillos Panic y Ask con Kirsty McColl en coros y fue de gira por el Reino Unido luego de que la gira terminara en octubre de 1986 Gannon fue expulsadoStrangeways Here We Come y la disolucin de la banda editar1987 comenz bien para la banda el single Shoplifters of the World Unite una de las canciones de los Smiths favoritas de Morrissey fue lanzado a principios del ao y tuvo xito y caus algo de controversia entre padres sobre la posibilidad de que incitara a los chicos a robar Fue seguido por un segundo compilado The World Won't Listen el ttulo se refiere al comentario de Morrissey sobre su frustracin por la falta de reconocimiento de la banda en el mainstream aunque irnicamente el lbum lleg al segundo puesto en los charts y el single Sheila Take A Bow el segundo y ltimo xito de la banda que lleg a los primeros diez lugares Otro compilado Louder Than Bombs fue preparado para el mercado norteamericano y contena gran parte del mismo material que The World Won't Listen pero con la adicin de Sheila Take A Bow y de material de Hatful Of Hollow ya que ese compilado no haba sido lanzado an en los Estados UnidosA pesar de su xito diferencias personales dentro de la banda incluyendo un aumento de la tensin en la relacin entre Morrissey y Marr dej a la banda al borde de la disolucin y cuando Strangeways Here We Come llamado as por la prisin Strangeways de Manchester fue lanzado en septiembre de 1987 la banda ya haba dejado de existir La separacin fue atribuida al hecho de que a Morrissey le molestaba el trabajo de Marr con otros artistas y a que Marr se senta frustrado por la poca flexibilidad musical de Morrissey Marr en particular odiaba la obsesin que tena Morrissey por hacer versiones de artistas de pop de los aos 1960 como Twinkle y Cilla Black Refirindose a las canciones que la banda grab en su ltima sesin juntos lados B para el single Girlfriend In A Coma que sali antes del lanzamiento del lbum Marr dijo Yo escrib I Keep Mine Hidden pero odi a Work Is a Four Letter Word Eso fue el colmo realmente No form un grupo para tocar canciones de Cilla Black 3Strangeways tambin lleg al segundo puesto en Reino Unido pero no alcanz el mismo xito en los EE UU La cancin Paint A Vulgar Picture fue algo proftica dado que las canciones del grupo fueron reeditadas en una innumerable cantidad de compilaciones El infame video de 30 segundos de Girlfriend In A Coma logr algo de rotacin en MTV en los EEUU El lbum fue recibido con indiferencia por parte de los crticos pero los cuatro miembros lo consideran su lbum favorito de la banda Un par de sencillos del lbum fueron lanzados con viejas demos y versiones en vivo como lados B y al ao siguiente sali Rank un lbum en vivo que fue grabado en 1986 cuando Gannon formaba parte de la banda que repiti el xito de sus LPs anterioresCarreras solistas editarInmediatamente tras la separacin Morrissey comenz a grabar como solista colaborando con el productor de Strangeways Stephen Street y el mancuniano Vini Reilly guitarrista de The Durutti Column El lbum Viva Hate en referencia al fin de los Smiths sali seis meses ms tarde y lleg al primer puesto en ventas Morrissey sigue tocando y grabando como solistaJohnny Marr regres a la msica en 1989 con Bernard Sumner de New Order y Neil Tennant de los Pet Shop Boys en el supergrupo Electronic Electronic edit tres lbumes a lo largo de la dcada siguiente Marr tambin fue miembro de The The grabando dos lbumes con la banda entre 1989 y 1993 Marr adems trabaj como sesionista y colaborador con artistas como The Pretenders Pet Shop Boys Billy Bragg y Black Grape En el 2000 fund otra banda Johnny Marr And The Healers que obtuvo moderado xito y ms tarde trabaj como msico en el lbum de Oasis Heathen Chemistry Adems ha trabajado como productorAndy Rourke y Mike Joyce continuaron trabajando juntos como sesionistas de Morrissey 19881989 y Sinad O'Connor entre otros adems de trabajar juntos Andy Rourke grab y sali de gira con la banda britnica de country alternativo Proud Mary Adicionalmente Rourke est formando un grupo con otros bajistas como Peter Hook de New Order y Joy Division y Mani de los The Stone Roses y Primal Scream llamado FreebassAsuntos pendientes editarThe Smiths fueron reunidos en un juzgado en 1996 para resolver una demanda por regalas royalties de Joyce contra Morrissey y Marr quienes slo les permitieron a Joyce y a Rourke obtener un 10 de lo que la banda ganaba por grabaciones y presentaciones las regalas por composicin no eran relevantes ya que Rourke y Joyce nunca fueron acreditados como compositores de la banda Rourke s compuso sus partes de bajo pero desconoca los mecanismos que creaban regalas en la creacin de obras musicales en ese momento Por esta razn Rourke sigue sin recibir crdito y regalas por su trabajo en la creacin de las canciones de los SmithsMorrissey y Marr argumentaron que los otros dos miembros siempre haban estado de acuerdo con esa divisin de regalas pero la corte fall a favor de Joyce y orden que se le pagaran un milln de libras y recibiera un 25 desde ese momentoComo las regalas del grupo haban estado congeladas por dos aos y bajo gran presin financiera para sostener a su familia Rourke se conform con una suma menor para pagar deudas y continu recibiendo 10 Morrissey fue descrito por el juez como agresivo y poco confiable2El lbum solista de Morrissey de 1997 Maladjusted incluy una cancin titulada Sorrow Will Come in the End que se refera al caso y que fue omitida de la versin britnica por miedo a una denuncia por difamacin Morrissey pero no Marr apel contra el veredicto sin xitoComo resultado de este caso una reunin de los Smiths pareca algo imposible a pesar del aparente cambio en la relacin entre Marr y Morrissey en los recientes aos Tanto Johnny Marr como Morrissey afirmaron en repetidas ocasiones en entrevistas que no haba forma alguna de que una reunin volviera a sucederEn 2005 VH1 intent reunir a la banda para su show Bands Reunited pero el programa abandon sus intentos luego de que su anfitrin Aamer Haleem no lograra convencer a MorrisseyA fines de noviembre de 2005 en una aparicin en la estacin de radio BBC 6 Music Mike Joyce afirm que estaba atravesando por problemas financieros y que haba tenido que recurrir a vender items raros de la banda en eBay Algunos minutos de una pista instrumental nunca completada llamada The Click Track fue presentada en el showMorrissey atac a Joyce en una declaracin pblica en la pgina wwwtruetoyounet La relacin entre Joyce y Rourke se congel como resultado de la declaracin de Morrissey que revel que Joyce haba engaado a la justicia al no declarar que entre otros Rourke tena derecho a activos que fueron tomados por sus abogados de Morrissey Deca que Rourke haba sido privado del pago de regalas por parte de Morrissey ya que haban sido tomadas por Joyce quien fue obligado a declarar que otros Rourke Lillywhite y Street tenan un inters en los fondos que l intentaba conseguirEn enero de 2006 Johnny Marr The Healers tocaron en Manchester v Cancer un show a beneficio para el cncer que fue organizado por Andy Rourke y su Production Company Great Northern Productions 4 Por primera vez en 20 aos Johnny Marr y Andy Rourke se reunieron en el escenario y tocaron How Soon Is Now 5Abundan rumores de futuras colaboraciones con la excepcin de Joyce quien al parecer ha perdido el apoyo de RourkeRourke expandi su carrera como DJ con un programa de radioDiscografa editarlbumes de estudio editar The Smiths 1984 UK 2 US 150 Meat Is Murder 1985 UK 1 US 110 The Queen Is Dead 1986 UK 2 US 71 Strangeways Here We Come 1987 UK 2 US 55lbumes en directo editar Rank en vivo 1988 1986 UK 2 US 77lbumes recopilatorios editar Hatful of Hollow compilado 1984 UK 7 The World Won't Listen compilado 1987 UK 2 Louder Than Bombs compilado 1987 UK 38 US 62 BestI compilado 1992 UK 1 US 139 Best II compilado 1992 UK 29 Singles compilado 1995 UK 5 The Very Best of The Smiths compilado 2001 UK 31 The Sound Of The Smiths compilado 2008Singles en el Reino Unido con sus posiciones en los charts editar Hand in Glove 1983 124 This Charming Man 1983 25 What Difference Does It Make 1984 12 Heaven Knows I'm Miserable Now 1984 10 William It Was Really Nothing 1984 17 How Soon Is Now 1985 24 Shakespeare's Sister 1985 26 That Joke Isn't Funny Anymore 1985 49 The Boy With the Thorn in His Side 1985 23 Bigmouth Strikes Again 1986 26 Panic 1986 11 Ask 1986 14 Shoplifters of the World Unite 1987 12 Sheila Take a Bow 1987 10 Girlfriend in a Coma 1987 13 I Started Something I Couldn't Finish 1987 23 Last Night I Dreamt That Somebody Loved Me 1987 30 This Charming Man 1992 reissue 1983 8 How Soon Is Now 1992 reissue 1984 16 There Is a Light That Never Goes Out 1992 1986 25 Ask 1995 reissue 1986 62ue fue lanzado en junio de 1986 inmediatamente despus del sencillo Bigmouth Strikes Again Este lbum con su tpica mezcla de lo sombro Never Had No One Ever que pareca referirse a los estereotipos de la banda lo humorstico Frankly Mr Shankly un supuesto mensaje al jefe de Rough Trade Geoff Travis disimulada como una carta de renuncia de un trabajador para su superior y varias canciones que sintetizaban ambos lados There Is a Light That Never Goes Out y Cemetary Gates lleg al puesto nmero 2 de las listas de Reino Unido y suele ser considerado su mejor obra En 1989 la revista SPIN ubic a The Queen Is Dead en el primer puesto de su lista de The Greatest Albums Ever Made Los Mejores lbumes Jams Grabados Muchas otras listas de mejores lbumes de la historia de otras publicaciones ubicaron a este lbum en la cima o cerca de ella entre los diez mejores incluyendo NME y Melody MakerSin embargo no todo estaba bien dentro de la banda Una disputa legal con Rough Trade retras la salida del lbum por casi siete meses haba sido completado en noviembre de 1985 y Marr estaba comenzando a sentir el estrs causado por la agotadora agenda de la banda Mientras tanto Rourke fue explusado de la banda a principios de 1986 por sus problemas con la herona Se enter por medio de una nota de Postit pegada en el parabrisas de su auto que deca Andy you have left The Smiths Goodbye and good luck Morrissey Andy has dejado los Smiths Adis y buena suerte Morrissey 2 Fue temporalmente reemplazado por el bajista Craig Gannon pero readmitido despus de 2 semanas por lo que Gannon se convirti en el guitarrista rtmico Este quinteto grab los sencillos Panic y Ask con Kirsty McColl en coros y fue de gira por el Reino Unido luego de que la gira terminara en octubre de 1986 Gannon fue expulsadoStrangeways Here We Come y la disolucin de la banda editar1987 comenz bien para la banda el single Shoplifters of the World Unite una de las canciones de los Smiths favoritas de Morrissey fue lanzado a principios del ao y tuvo xito y caus algo de controversia entre padres sobre la posibilidad de que incitara a los chicos a robar Fue seguido por un segundo compilado The World Won't Listen el ttulo se refiere al comentario de Morrissey sobre su frustracin por la falta de reconocimiento de la banda en el mainstream aunque irnicamente el lbum lleg al segundo puesto en los charts y el single Sheila Take A Bow el segundo y ltimo xito de la banda que lleg a los primeros diez lugares Otro compilado Louder Than Bombs fue preparado para el mercado norteamericano y contena gran parte del mismo material que The World Won't Listen pero con la adicin de Sheila Take A Bow y de material de Hatful Of Hollow ya que ese compilado no haba sido lanzado an en los Estados UnidosA pesar de su xito diferencias personales dentro de la banda incluyendo un aumento de la tensin en la relacin entre Morrissey y Marr dej a la banda al borde de la disolucin y cuando Strangeways Here We Come llamado as por la prisin Strangeways de Manchester fue lanzado en septiembre de 1987 la banda ya haba dejado de existir La separacin fue atribuida al hecho de que a Morrissey le molestaba el trabajo de Marr con otros artistas y a que Marr se senta frustrado por la poca flexibilidad musical de Morrissey Marr en particular odiaba la obsesin que tena Morrissey por hacer versiones de artistas de pop de los aos 1960 como Twinkle y Cilla Black Refirindose a las canciones que la banda grab en su ltima sesin juntos lados B para el single Girlfriend In A Coma que sali antes del lanzamiento del lbum Marr dijo Yo escrib I Keep Mine Hidden pero odi a Work Is a Four Letter Word Eso fue el colmo realmente No form un grupo para tocar canciones de Cilla Black 3Strangeways tambin lleg al segundo puesto en Reino Unido pero no alcanz el mismo xito en los EE UU La cancin Paint A Vulgar Picture fue algo proftica dado que las canciones del grupo fueron reeditadas en una innumerable cantidad de compilaciones El infame video de 30 segundos de Girlfriend In A Coma logr algo de rotacin en MTV en los EEUU El lbum fue recibido con indiferencia por parte de los crticos pero los cuatro miembros lo consideran su lbum favorito de la banda Un par de sencillos del lbum fueron lanzados con viejas demos y versiones en vivo como lados B y al ao siguiente sali Rank un lbum en vivo que fue grabado en 1986 cuando Gannon formaba parte de la banda que repiti el xito de sus LPs anterioresCarreras solistas editarInmediatamente tras la separacin Morrissey comenz a grabar como solista colaborando con el productor de Strangeways Stephen Street y el mancuniano Vini Reilly guitarrista de The Durutti Column El lbum Viva Hate en referencia al fin de los Smiths sali seis meses ms tarde y lleg al primer puesto en ventas Morrissey sigue tocando y grabando como solistaJohnny Marr regres a la msica en 1989 con Bernard Sumner de New Order y Neil Tennant de los Pet Shop Boys en el supergrupo Electronic Electronic edit tres lbumes a lo largo de la dcada siguiente Marr tambin fue miembro de The The grabando dos lbumes con la banda entre 1989 y 1993 Marr adems trabaj como sesionista y colaborador con artistas como The Pretenders Pet Shop Boys Billy Bragg y Black Grape En el 2000 fund otra banda Johnny Marr And The Healers que obtuvo moderado xito y ms tarde trabaj como msico en el lbum de Oasis Heathen Chemistry Adems ha trabajado como productorAndy Rourke y Mike Joyce continuaron trabajando juntos como sesionistas de Morrissey 19881989 y Sinad O'Connor entre otros adems de trabajar juntos Andy Rourke grab y sali de gira con la banda britnica de country alternativo Proud Mary Adicionalmente Rourke est formando un grupo con otros bajistas como Peter Hook de New Order y Joy Division y Mani de los The Stone Roses y Primal Scream llamado FreebassAsuntos pendientes editarThe Smiths fueron reunidos en un juzgado en 1996 para resolver una demanda por regalas royalties de Joyce contra Morrissey y Marr quienes slo les permitieron a Joyce y a Rourke obtener un 10 de lo que la banda ganaba por grabaciones y presentaciones las regalas por composicin no eran relevantes ya que Rourke y Joyce nunca fueron acreditados como compositores de la banda Rourke s compuso sus partes de bajo pero desconoca los mecanismos que creaban regalas en la creacin de obras musicales en ese momento Por esta razn Rourke sigue sin recibir crdito y regalas por su trabajo en la creacin de las canciones de los SmithsMorrissey y Marr argumentaron que los otros dos miembros siempre haban estado de acuerdo con esa divisin de regalas pero la corte fall a favor de Joyce y orden que se le pagaran un milln de libras y recibiera un 25 desde ese momentoComo las regalas del grupo haban estado congeladas por dos aos y bajo gran presin financiera para sostener a su familia Rourke se conform con una suma menor para pagar deudas y continu recibiendo 10 Morrissey fue descrito por el juez como agresivo y poco confiable2El lbum solista de Morrissey de 1997 Maladjusted incluy una cancin titulada Sorrow Will Come in the End que se refera al caso y que fue omitida de la versin britnica por miedo a una denuncia por difamacin Morrissey pero no Marr apel contra el veredicto sin xitoComo resultado de este caso una reunin de los Smiths pareca algo imposible a pesar del aparente cambio en la relacin entre Marr y Morrissey en los recientes aos Tanto Johnny Marr como Morrissey afirmaron en repetidas ocasiones en entrevistas que no haba forma alguna de que una reunin volviera a sucederEn 2005 VH1 intent reunir a la banda para su show Bands Reunited pero el programa abandon sus intentos luego de que su anfitrin Aamer Haleem no lograra convencer a MorrisseyA fines de noviembre de 2005 en una aparicin en la estacin de radio BBC 6 Music Mike Joyce afirm que estaba atravesando por problemas financieros y que haba tenido que recurrir a vender items raros de la banda en eBay Algunos minutos de una pista instrumental nunca completada llamada The Click Track fue presentada en el showMorrissey atac a Joyce en una declaracin pblica en la pgina wwwtruetoyounet La relacin entre Joyce y Rourke se congel como resultado de la declaracin de Morrissey que revel que Joyce haba engaado a la justicia al no declarar que entre otros Rourke tena derecho a activos que fueron tomados por sus abogados de Morrissey Deca que Rourke haba sido privado del pago de regalas por parte de Morrissey ya que haban sido tomadas por Joyce quien fue obligado a declarar que otros Rourke Lillywhite y Street tenan un inters en los fondos que l intentaba conseguirEn enero de 2006 Johnny Marr The Healers tocaron en Manchester v Cancer un show a beneficio para el cncer que fue organizado por Andy Rourke y su Production Company Great Northern Productions 4 Por primera vez en 20 aos Johnny Marr y Andy Rourke se reunieron en el escenario y tocaron How Soon Is Now 5Abundan rumores de futuras colaboraciones con la excepcin de Joyce quien al parecer ha perdido el apoyo de RourkeRourke expandi su carrera como DJ con un programa de radioDiscografa editarlbumes de estudio editar The Smiths 1984 UK 2 US 150 Meat Is Murder 1985 UK 1 US 110 The Queen Is Dead 1986 UK 2 US 71 Strangeways Here We Come 1987 UK 2 US 55lbumes en directo editar Rank en vivo 1988 1986 UK 2 US 77lbumes recopilatorios editar Hatful of Hollow compilado 1984 UK 7 The World Won't Listen compilado 1987 UK 2 Louder Than Bombs compilado 1987 UK 38 US 62 BestI compilado 1992 UK 1 US 139 Best II compilado 1992 UK 29 Singles compilado 1995 UK 5 The Very Best of The Smiths compilado 2001 UK 31 The Sound Of The Smiths compilado 2008Singles en el Reino Unido con sus posiciones en los charts editar Hand in Glove 1983 124 This Charming Man 1983 25 What Difference Does It Make 1984 12 Heaven Knows I'm Miserable Now 1984 10 William It Was Really Nothing 1984 17 How Soon Is Now 1985 24 Shakespeare's Sister 1985 26 That Joke Isn't Funny Anymore 1985 49 The Boy With the Thorn in His Side 1985 23 Bigmouth Strikes Again 1986 26 Panic 1986 11 Ask 1986 14 Shoplifters of the World Unite 1987 12 Sheila Take a Bow 1987 10 Girlfriend in a Coma 1987 13 I Started Something I Couldn't Finish 1987 23 Last Night I Dreamt That Somebody Loved Me 1987 30 This Charming Man 1992 reissue 1983 8 How Soon Is Now 1992 reissue 1984 16 There Is a Light That Never Goes Out 1992 1986 25 Ask 1995 reissue 1986 62de 1986 inmediatamente despus del sencillo Bigmouth Strikes Again Este lbum con su tpica mezcla de lo sombro Never Had No One Ever que pareca referirse a los estereotipos de la banda lo humorstico Frankly Mr Shankly un supuesto mensaje al jefe de Rough Trade Geoff Travis disimulada como una carta de renuncia de un trabajador para su superior y varias canciones que sintetizaban ambos lados There Is a Light That Never Goes Out y Cemetary Gates lleg al puesto nmero 2 de las listas de Reino Unido y suele ser considerado su mejor obra En 1989 la revista SPIN ubic a The Queen Is Dead en el primer puesto de su lista de The Greatest Albums Ever Made Los Mejores lbumes Jams Grabados Muchas otras listas de mejores lbumes de la historia de otras publicaciones ubicaron a este lbum en la cima o cerca de ella entre los diez mejores incluyendo NME y Melody MakerSin embargo no todo estaba bien dentro de la banda Una disputa legal con Rough Trade retras la salida del lbum por casi siete meses haba sido completado en noviembre de 1985 y Marr estaba comenzando a sentir el estrs causado por la agotadora agenda de la banda Mientras tanto Rourke fue explusado de la banda a principios de 1986 por sus problemas con la herona Se enter por medio de una nota de Postit pegada en el parabrisas de su auto que deca Andy you have left The Smiths Goodbye and good luck Morrissey Andy has dejado los Smiths Adis y buena suerte Morrissey 2 Fue temporalmente reemplazado por el bajista Craig Gannon pero readmitido despus de 2 semanas por lo que Gannon se convirti en el guitarrista rtmico Este quinteto grab los sencillos Panic y Ask con Kirsty McColl en coros y fue de gira por el Reino Unido luego de que la gira terminara en octubre de 1986 Gannon fue expulsadoStrangeways Here We Come y la disolucin de la banda editar1987 comenz bien para la banda el single Shoplifters of the World Unite una de las canciones de los Smiths favoritas de Morrissey fue lanzado a principios del ao y tuvo xito y caus algo de controversia entre padres sobre la posibilidad de que incitara a los chicos a robar Fue seguido por un segundo compilado The World Won't Listen el ttulo se refiere al comentario de Morrissey sobre su frustracin por la falta de reconocimiento de la banda en el mainstream aunque irnicamente el lbum lleg al segundo puesto en los charts y el single Sheila Take A Bow el segundo y ltimo xito de la banda que lleg a los primeros diez lugares Otro compilado Louder Than Bombs fue preparado para el mercado norteamericano y contena gran parte del mismo material que The World Won't Listen pero con la adicin de Sheila Take A Bow y de material de Hatful Of Hollow ya que ese compilado no haba sido lanzado an en los Estados UnidosA pesar de su xito diferencias personales dentro de la banda incluyendo un aumento de la tensin en la relacin entre Morrissey y Marr dej a la banda al borde de la disolucin y cuando Strangeways Here We Come llamado as por la prisin Strangeways de Manchester fue lanzado en septiembre de 1987 la banda ya haba dejado de existir La separacin fue atribuida al hecho de que a Morrissey le molestaba el trabajo de Marr con otros artistas y a que Marr se senta frustrado por la poca flexibilidad musical de Morrissey Marr en particular odiaba la obsesin que tena Morrissey por hacer versiones de artistas de pop de los aos 1960 como Twinkle y Cilla Black Refirindose a las canciones que la banda grab en su ltima sesin juntos lados B para el single Girlfriend In A Coma que sali antes del lanzamiento del lbum Marr dijo Yo escrib I Keep Mine Hidden pero odi a Work Is a Four Letter Word Eso fue el colmo realmente No form un grupo para tocar canciones de Cilla Black 3Strangeways tambin lleg al segundo puesto en Reino Unido pero no alcanz el mismo xito en los EE UU La cancin Paint A Vulgar Picture fue algo proftica dado que las canciones del grupo fueron reeditadas en una innumerable cantidad de compilaciones El infame video de 30 segundos de Girlfriend In A Coma logr algo de rotacin en MTV en los EEUU El lbum fue recibido con indiferencia por parte de los crticos pero los cuatro miembros lo consideran su lbum favorito de la banda Un par de sencillos del lbum fueron lanzados con viejas demos y versiones en vivo como lados B y al ao siguiente sali Rank un lbum en vivo que fue grabado en 1986 cuando Gannon formaba parte de la banda que repiti el xito de sus LPs anterioresCarreras solistas editarInmediatamente tras la separacin Morrissey comenz a grabar como solista colaborando con el productor de Strangeways Stephen Street y el mancuniano Vini Reilly guitarrista de The Durutti Column El lbum Viva Hate en referencia al fin de los Smiths sali seis meses ms tarde y lleg al primer puesto en ventas Morrissey sigue tocando y grabando como solistaJohnny Marr regres a la msica en 1989 con Bernard Sumner de New Order y Neil Tennant de los Pet Shop Boys en el supergrupo Electronic Electronic edit tres lbumes a lo largo de la dcada siguiente Marr tambin fue miembro de The The grabando dos lbumes con la banda entre 1989 y 1993 Marr adems trabaj como sesionista y colaborador con artistas como The Pretenders Pet Shop Boys Billy Bragg y Black Grape En el 2000 fund otra banda Johnny Marr And The Healers que obtuvo moderado xito y ms tarde trabaj como msico en el lbum de Oasis Heathen Chemistry Adems ha trabajado como productorAndy Rourke y Mike Joyce continuaron trabajando juntos como sesionistas de Morrissey 19881989 y Sinad O'Connor entre otros adems de trabajar juntos Andy Rourke grab y sali de gira con la banda britnica de country alternativo Proud Mary Adicionalmente Rourke est formando un grupo con otros bajistas como Peter Hook de New Order y Joy Division y Mani de los The Stone Roses y Primal Scream llamado FreebassAsuntos pendientes editarThe Smiths fueron reunidos en un juzgado en 1996 para resolver una demanda por regalas royalties de Joyce contra Morrissey y Marr quienes slo les permitieron a Joyce y a Rourke obtener un 10 de lo que la banda ganaba por grabaciones y presentaciones las regalas por composicin no eran relevantes ya que Rourke y Joyce nunca fueron acreditados como compositores de la banda Rourke s compuso sus partes de bajo pero desconoca los mecanismos que creaban regalas en la creacin de obras musicales en ese momento Por esta razn Rourke sigue sin recibir crdito y regalas por su trabajo en la creacin de las canciones de los SmithsMorrissey y Marr argumentaron que los otros dos miembros siempre haban estado de acuerdo con esa divisin de regalas pero la corte fall a favor de Joyce y orden que se le pagaran un milln de libras y recibiera un 25 desde ese momentoComo las regalas del grupo haban estado congeladas por dos aos y bajo gran presin financiera para sostener a su familia Rourke se conform con una suma menor para pagar deudas y continu recibiendo 10 Morrissey fue descrito por el juez como agresivo y poco confiable2El lbum solista de Morrissey de 1997 Maladjusted incluy una cancin titulada Sorrow Will Come in the End que se refera al caso y que fue omitida de la versin britnica por miedo a una denuncia por difamacin Morrissey pero no Marr apel contra el veredicto sin xitoComo resultado de este caso una reunin de los Smiths pareca algo imposible a pesar del aparente cambio en la relacin entre Marr y Morrissey en los recientes aos Tanto Johnny Marr como Morrissey afirmaron en repetidas ocasiones en entrevistas que no haba forma alguna de que una reunin volviera a sucederEn 2005 VH1 intent reunir a la banda para su show Bands Reunited pero el programa abandon sus intentos luego de que su anfitrin Aamer Haleem no lograra convencer a MorrisseyA fines de noviembre de 2005 en una aparicin en la estacin de radio BBC 6 Music Mike Joyce afirm que estaba atravesando por problemas financieros y que haba tenido que recurrir a vender items raros de la banda en eBay Algunos minutos de una pista instrumental nunca completada llamada The Click Track fue presentada en el showMorrissey atac a Joyce en una declaracin pblica en la pgina wwwtruetoyounet La relacin entre Joyce y Rourke se congel como resultado de la declaracin de Morrissey que revel que Joyce haba engaado a la justicia al no declarar que entre otros Rourke tena derecho a activos que fueron tomados por sus abogados de Morrissey Deca que Rourke haba sido privado del pago de regalas por parte de Morrissey ya que haban sido tomadas por Joyce quien fue obligado a declarar que otros Rourke Lillywhite y Street tenan un inters en los fondos que l intentaba conseguirEn enero de 2006 Johnny Marr The Healers tocaron en Manchester v Cancer un show a beneficio para el cncer que fue organizado por Andy Rourke y su Production Company Great Northern Productions 4 Por primera vez en 20 aos Johnny Marr y Andy Rourke se reunieron en el escenario y tocaron How Soon Is Now 5Abundan rumores de futuras colaboraciones con la excepcin de Joyce quien al parecer ha perdido el apoyo de RourkeRourke expandi su carrera como DJ con un programa de radioDiscografa editarlbumes de estudio editar The Smiths 1984 UK 2 US 150 Meat Is Murder 1985 UK 1 US 110 The Queen Is Dead 1986 UK 2 US 71 Strangeways Here We Come 1987 UK 2 US 55lbumes en directo editar Rank en vivo 1988 1986 UK 2 US 77lbumes recopilatorios editar Hatful of Hollow compilado 1984 UK 7 The World Won't Listen compilado 1987 UK 2 Louder Than Bombs compilado 1987 UK 38 US 62 BestI compilado 1992 UK 1 US 139 Best II compilado 1992 UK 29 Singles compilado 1995 UK 5 The Very Best of The Smiths compilado 2001 UK 31 The Sound Of The Smiths compilado 2008Singles en el Reino Unido con sus posiciones en los charts editar Hand in Glove 1983 124 This Charming Man 1983 25 What Difference Does It Make 1984 12 Heaven Knows I'm Miserable Now 1984 10 William It Was Really Nothing 1984 17 How Soon Is Now 1985 24 Shakespeare's Sister 1985 26 That Joke Isn't Funny Anymore 1985 49 The Boy With the Thorn in His Side 1985 23 Bigmouth Strikes Again 1986 26 Panic 1986 11 Ask 1986 14 Shoplifters of the World Unite 1987 12 Sheila Take a Bow 1987 10 Girlfriend in a Coma 1987 13 I Started Something I Couldn't Finish 1987 23 Last Night I Dreamt That Somebody Loved Me 1987 30 This Charming Man 1992 reissue 1983 8 How Soon Is Now 1992 reissue 1984 16 There Is a Light That Never Goes Out 1992 1986 25 Ask 1995 reissue 1986 62ue fue lanzado en junio de 1986 inmediatamente despus del sencillo Bigmouth Strikes Again Este lbum con su tpica mezcla de lo sombro Never Had No One Ever que pareca referirse a los estereotipos de la banda lo humorstico Frankly Mr Shankly un supuesto mensaje al jefe de Rough Trade Geoff Travis disimulada como una carta de renuncia de un trabajador para su superior y varias canciones que sintetizaban ambos lados There Is a Light That Never Goes Out y Cemetary Gates lleg al puesto nmero 2 de las listas de Reino Unido y suele ser considerado su mejor obra En 1989 la revista SPIN ubic a The Queen Is Dead en el primer puesto de su lista de The Greatest Albums Ever Made Los Mejores lbumes Jams Grabados Muchas otras listas de mejores lbumes de la historia de otras publicaciones ubicaron a este lbum en la cima o cerca de ella entre los diez mejores incluyendo NME y Melody MakerSin embargo no todo estaba bien dentro de la banda Una disputa legal con Rough Trade retras la salida del lbum por casi siete meses haba sido completado en noviembre de 1985 y Marr estaba comenzando a sentir el estrs causado por la agotadora agenda de la banda Mientras tanto Rourke fue explusado de la banda a principios de 1986 por sus problemas con la herona Se enter por medio de una nota de Postit pegada en el parabrisas de su auto que deca Andy you have left The Smiths Goodbye and good luck Morrissey Andy has dejado los Smiths Adis y buena suerte Morrissey 2 Fue temporalmente reemplazado por el bajista Craig Gannon pero readmitido despus de 2 semanas por lo que Gannon se convirti en el guitarrista rtmico Este quinteto grab los sencillos Panic y Ask con Kirsty McColl en coros y fue de gira por el Reino Unido luego de que la gira terminara en octubre de 1986 Gannon fue expulsadoStrangeways Here We Come y la disolucin de la banda editar1987 comenz bien para la banda el single Shoplifters of the World Unite una de las canciones de los Smiths favoritas de Morrissey fue lanzado a principios del ao y tuvo xito y caus algo de controversia entre padres sobre la posibilidad de que incitara a los chicos a robar Fue seguido por un segundo compilado The World Won't Listen el ttulo se refiere al comentario de Morrissey sobre su frustracin por la falta de reconocimiento de la banda en el mainstream aunque irnicamente el lbum lleg al segundo puesto en los charts y el single Sheila Take A Bow el segundo y ltimo xito de la banda que lleg a los primeros diez lugares Otro compilado Louder Than Bombs fue preparado para el mercado norteamericano y contena gran parte del mismo material que The World Won't Listen pero con la adicin de Sheila Take A Bow y de material de Hatful Of Hollow ya que ese compilado no haba sido lanzado an en los Estados UnidosA pesar de su xito diferencias personales dentro de la banda incluyendo un aumento de la tensin en la relacin entre Morrissey y Marr dej a la banda al borde de la disolucin y cuando Strangeways Here We Come llamado as por la prisin Strangeways de Manchester fue lanzado en septiembre de 1987 la banda ya haba dejado de existir La separacin fue atribuida al hecho de que a Morrissey le molestaba el trabajo de Marr con otros artistas y a que Marr se senta frustrado por la poca flexibilidad musical de Morrissey Marr en particular odiaba la obsesin que tena Morrissey por hacer versiones de artistas de pop de los aos 1960 como Twinkle y Cilla Black Refirindose a las canciones que la banda grab en su ltima sesin juntos lados B para el single Girlfriend In A Coma que sali antes del lanzamiento del lbum Marr dijo Yo escrib I Keep Mine Hidden pero odi a Work Is a Four Letter Word Eso fue el colmo realmente No form un grupo para tocar canciones de Cilla Black 3Strangeways tambin lleg al segundo puesto en Reino Unido pero no alcanz el mismo xito en los EE UU La cancin Paint A Vulgar Picture fue algo proftica dado que las canciones del grupo fueron reeditadas en una innumerable cantidad de compilaciones El infame video de 30 segundos de Girlfriend In A Coma logr algo de rotacin en MTV en los EEUU El lbum fue recibido con indiferencia por parte de los crticos pero los cuatro miembros lo consideran su lbum favorito de la banda Un par de sencillos del lbum fueron lanzados con viejas demos y versiones en vivo como lados B y al ao siguiente sali Rank un lbum en vivo que fue grabado en 1986 cuando Gannon formaba parte de la banda que repiti el xito de sus LPs anterioresCarreras solistas editarInmediatamente tras la separacin Morrissey comenz a grabar como solista colaborando con el productor de Strangeways Stephen Street y el mancuniano Vini Reilly guitarrista de The Durutti Column El lbum Viva Hate en referencia al fin de los Smiths sali seis meses ms tarde y lleg al primer puesto en ventas Morrissey sigue tocando y grabando como solistaJohnny Marr regres a la msica en 1989 con Bernard Sumner de New Order y Neil Tennant de los Pet Shop Boys en el supergrupo Electronic Electronic edit tres lbumes a lo largo de la dcada siguiente Marr tambin fue miembro de The The grabando dos lbumes con la banda entre 1989 y 1993 Marr adems trabaj como sesionista y colaborador con artistas como The Pretenders Pet Shop Boys Billy Bragg y Black Grape En el 2000 fund otra banda Johnny Marr And The Healers que obtuvo moderado xito y ms tarde trabaj como msico en el lbum de Oasis Heathen Chemistry Adems ha trabajado como productorAndy Rourke y Mike Joyce continuaron trabajando juntos como sesionistas de Morrissey 19881989 y Sinad O'Connor entre otros adems de trabajar juntos Andy Rourke grab y sali de gira con la banda britnica de country alternativo Proud Mary Adicionalmente Rourke est formando un grupo con otros bajistas como Peter Hook de New Order y Joy Division y Mani de los The Stone Roses y Primal Scream llamado FreebassAsuntos pendientes editarThe Smiths fueron reunidos en un juzgado en 1996 para resolver una demanda por regalas royalties de Joyce contra Morrissey y Marr quienes slo les permitieron a Joyce y a Rourke obtener un 10 de lo que la banda ganaba por grabaciones y presentaciones las regalas por composicin no eran relevantes ya que Rourke y Joyce nunca fueron acreditados como compositores de la banda Rourke s compuso sus partes de bajo pero desconoca los mecanismos que creaban regalas en la creacin de obras musicales en ese momento Por esta razn Rourke sigue sin recibir crdito y regalas por su trabajo en la creacin de las canciones de los SmithsMorrissey y Marr argumentaron que los otros dos miembros siempre haban estado de acuerdo con esa divisin de regalas pero la corte fall a favor de Joyce y orden que se le pagaran un milln de libras y recibiera un 25 desde ese momentoComo las regalas del grupo haban estado congeladas por dos aos y bajo gran presin financiera para sostener a su familia Rourke se conform con una suma menor para pagar deudas y continu recibiendo 10 Morrissey fue descrito por el juez como agresivo y poco confiable2El lbum solista de Morrissey de 1997 Maladjusted incluy una cancin titulada Sorrow Will Come in the End que se refera al caso y que fue omitida de la versin britnica por miedo a una denuncia por difamacin Morrissey pero no Marr apel contra el veredicto sin xitoComo resultado de este caso una reunin de los Smiths pareca algo imposible a pesar del aparente cambio en la relacin entre Marr y Morrissey en los recientes aos Tanto Johnny Marr como Morrissey afirmaron en repetidas ocasiones en entrevistas que no haba forma alguna de que una reunin volviera a sucederEn 2005 VH1 intent reunir a la banda para su show Bands Reunited pero el programa abandon sus intentos luego de que su anfitrin Aamer Haleem no lograra convencer a MorrisseyA fines de noviembre de 2005 en una aparicin en la estacin de radio BBC 6 Music Mike Joyce afirm que estaba atravesando por problemas financieros y que haba tenido que recurrir a vender items raros de la banda en eBay Algunos minutos de una pista instrumental nunca completada llamada The Click Track fue presentada en el showMorrissey atac a Joyce en una declaracin pblica en la pgina wwwtruetoyounet La relacin entre Joyce y Rourke se congel como resultado de la declaracin de Morrissey que revel que Joyce haba engaado a la justicia al no declarar que entre otros Rourke tena derecho a activos que fueron tomados por sus abogados de Morrissey Deca que Rourke haba sido privado del pago de regalas por parte de Morrissey ya que haban sido tomadas por Joyce quien fue obligado a declarar que otros Rourke Lillywhite y Street tenan un inters en los fondos que l intentaba conseguirEn enero de 2006 Johnny Marr The Healers tocaron en Manchester v Cancer un show a beneficio para el cncer que fue organizado por Andy Rourke y su Production Company Great Northern Productions 4 Por primera vez en 20 aos Johnny Marr y Andy Rourke se reunieron en el escenario y tocaron How Soon Is Now 5Abundan rumores de futuras colaboraciones con la excepcin de Joyce quien al parecer ha perdido el apoyo de RourkeRourke expandi su carrera como DJ con un programa de radioDiscografa editarlbumes de estudio editar The Smiths 1984 UK 2 US 150 Meat Is Murder 1985 UK 1 US 110 The Queen Is Dead 1986 UK 2 US 71 Strangeways Here We Come 1987 UK 2 US 55lbumes en directo editar Rank en vivo 1988 1986 UK 2 US 77lbumes recopilatorios editar Hatful of Hollow compilado 1984 UK 7 The World Won't Listen compilado 1987 UK 2 Louder Than Bombs compilado 1987 UK 38 US 62 BestI compilado 1992 UK 1 US 139 Best II compilado 1992 UK 29 Singles compilado 1995 UK 5 The Very Best of The Smiths compilado 2001 UK 31 The Sound Of The Smiths compilado 2008Singles en el Reino Unido con sus posiciones en los charts editar Hand in Glove 1983 124 This Charming Man 1983 25 What Difference Does It Make 1984 12 Heaven Knows I'm Miserable Now 1984 10 William It Was Really Nothing 1984 17 How Soon Is Now 1985 24 Shakespeare's Sister 1985 26 That Joke Isn't Funny Anymore 1985 49 The Boy With the Thorn in His Side 1985 23 Bigmouth Strikes Again 1986 26 Panic 1986 11 Ask 1986 14 Shoplifters of the World Unite 1987 12 Sheila Take a Bow 1987 10 Girlfriend in a Coma 1987 13 I Started Something I Couldn't Finish 1987 23 Last Night I Dreamt That Somebody Loved Me 1987 30 This Charming Man 1992 reissue 1983 8 How Soon Is Now 1992 reissue 1984 16 There Is a Light That Never Goes Out 1992 1986 25 Ask 1995 reissue 1986 62ue fue lanzado en junio de 1986 inmediatamente despus del sencillo Bigmouth Strikes Again Este lbum con su tpica mezcla de lo sombro Never Had No One Ever que pareca referirse a los estereotipos de la banda lo humorstico Frankly Mr Shankly un supuesto mensaje al jefe de Rough Trade Geoff Travis disimulada como una carta de renuncia de un trabajador para su superior y varias canciones que sintetizaban ambos lados There Is a Light That Never Goes Out y Cemetary Gates lleg al puesto nmero 2 de las listas de Reino Unido y suele ser considerado su mejor obra En 1989 la revista SPIN ubic a The Queen Is Dead en el primer puesto de su lista de The Greatest Albums Ever Made Los Mejores lbumes Jams Grabados Muchas otras listas de mejores lbumes de la historia de otras publicaciones ubicaron a este lbum en la cima o cerca de ella entre los diez mejores incluyendo NME y Melody MakerSin embargo no todo estaba bien dentro de la banda Una disputa legal con Rough Trade retras la salida del lbum por casi siete meses haba sido completado en noviembre de 1985 y Marr estaba comenzando a sentir el estrs causado por la agotadora agenda de la banda Mientras tanto Rourke fue explusado de la banda a principios de 1986 por sus problemas con la herona Se enter por medio de una nota de Postit pegada en el parabrisas de su auto que deca Andy you have left The Smiths Goodbye and good luck Morrissey Andy has dejado los Smiths Adis y buena suerte Morrissey 2 Fue temporalmente reemplazado por el bajista Craig Gannon pero readmitido despus de 2 semanas por lo que Gannon se convirti en el guitarrista rtmico Este quinteto grab los sencillos Panic y Ask con Kirsty McColl en coros y fue de gira por el Reino Unido luego de que la gira terminara en octubre de 1986 Gannon fue expulsadoStrangeways Here We Come y la disolucin de la banda editar1987 comenz bien para la banda el single Shoplifters of the World Unite una de las canciones de los Smiths favoritas de Morrissey fue lanzado a principios del ao y tuvo xito y caus algo de controversia entre padres sobre la posibilidad de que incitara a los chicos a robar Fue seguido por un segundo compilado The World Won't Listen el ttulo se refiere al comentario de Morrissey sobre su frustracin por la falta de reconocimiento de la banda en el mainstream aunque irnicamente el lbum lleg al segundo puesto en los charts y el single Sheila Take A Bow el segundo y ltimo xito de la banda que lleg a los primeros diez lugares Otro compilado Louder Than Bombs fue preparado para el mercado norteamericano y contena gran parte del mismo material que The World Won't Listen pero con la adicin de Sheila Take A Bow y de material de Hatful Of Hollow ya que ese compilado no haba sido lanzado an en los Estados UnidosA pesar de su xito diferencias personales dentro de la banda incluyendo un aumento de la tensin en la relacin entre Morrissey y Marr dej a la banda al borde de la disolucin y cuando Strangeways Here We Come llamado as por la prisin Strangeways de Manchester fue lanzado en septiembre de 1987 la banda ya hab

Shakira

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Just Too CoolReg or Deluxe Gift Basket

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Just Too Cool Baby Gift baskets Some baskets are so cool you may never purchase a different baby gift againThese make fantastic baby shower newborn and up to 2 year old gifts Includes A special Ultimate velour chocolate color Sweat Suit with blue pink or white piping They are super soft super cool and will be the envy of every baby not lucky enough to have one Sized in 612 months or 2T A plush satin trim amazing blanket measuring 30 x 40 Wait until they feel the softness A baby hand or baby foot print maker Its always lots of fun to capture the imprint and save as a keepsake A set of 2 extra thick diaper burp cloths with blue pink or purple dot ribbon adorning the edges Moms can never get enough of these A Crinkle vibrating caterpillar which gets stretched out and jiggles its way backThe DELUXE Just Too Cool baby gift basket adds in the following goodies Mom and Dad get treats as well Our Delicious Hot Fudge Sundae Mix for 2 Cone filled with hot fudge mix imported white and semisweet chocolate chips and mini marshmallows Enough mix for special friends to enjoy together to celebrate any occasion especially the birth of a new baby A U2 Baby Rock Lullaby CD This is one amazing gift U2s classic songs transformed into soothing sounds of the glockenspiel vibraphone mellotron and other instruments that will lull baby into a sweet slumber Basically its U2s songs using lullaby instrumental soundsThis item usually ships within 1 business day The Deluxe and Personalized version The Sweat Suit Set of 2 Burp Cloths and Blanket will be personalized with the letter of your choice for an additional 25 Personalized basket usually ships within 3 business days

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Tim Scott's 2nd album 8216Guitar Mashing8217 Acer Records 2008

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Guitarist magazine album review January 2004 Issue 245

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Guitarist magazine album review January 2004 Issue 245Music ReviewsNew ReleasesAlbums page 166Tim Scott Bald On The Inside Acer Records 2003GI graduate shows some initiative and some talent With Bald On The Inside Guitar Institute graduate Tim Scott has produced a thoroughly listenable instrumental guitarchillout record by himself He's distributing the CD in Borders bookstores across the country and that kind of marketing savvy is a hint as to how the follicallychallenged fret melter uses his noodle Like a lot a of instrumental records Bald On The Inside showcases a vast array of playing techniques ranging from Jeff Beck's vocal tremolo arm mastery and Joe Satriani's uptempo boogie style through to Tommy Bolin phrasing and Steve Vaistyle melodic rock This is impressive worldclass stuff and if you like great guitar playing you should definitely check it outStandout tracks New Moon On Sunday 4am And I Can't Sleep Bald on The InsideStar Rating 35By Ben Bartlett

Stone Row

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STONE ROW at the Genesee Center for the Arts Weaving a rich tapestry of Celtic and World music STONE ROW presents a unique style of old classics and captivating originals by creating a seamless fusion of traditional and contemporary genres From traditional Celtic songs and World music to a combination of folk country and hard rock it STONE ROW knocks the socks off of the normal IrishCeltic stereotype The combination of passionate riffs and hearty instrumental voicings makes the music truly stand out NightLife Magazine For more information visit wwwstonerowcom This onenight only concert is scheduled for Saturday March 28 2009 at 800PM General admission ticket prices are only 1000 for adults and 500 for students senior citizens and GCC facultystudents For ticket information or reservations contact the Box Office at 5853430055 x6814 or by email to BoxOfficegeneseeedu

Guitar Techniques magazine album review January 2004 GTC94

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Guitar Techniques magazine album review January 2004 GTC94IntroNew Albums page 8Tim Scott Bald On The Inside Acer Records 2003An graduate from the Guitar Institute in London Tim Scott has since worked as a session musician and played in numerous bands His debut album Bald On The Inside is an intriguing selection of instrumental rock numbers There are some discernable elements of Steve Vai and Joe Satrinai in Tim's playing but he has incorporated them into a style of his own None of the other tracks matches up to the fantastic opener but there's still plenty of cool guitar playing and new ideas on offer to make this a worthwhile listenable album It's available from Borders and Tim's web site wwwacerstudioscomBest Bit Guitar melody on 4am And I Can't SleepStar Rating 35By Cliff Douse

Manchester Evening News GO24

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Manchester Evening NewsWednesday June 2 2004GO24Guitarist Tim's on the write track but without any words TIM SCOTT I get confused by words I never listen to the lyrics of songs and have no idea what they are going on aboutStockport's Tim Scott is one of the most talented electric guitarists of his generation His debut album Bald On The Inside drew rave reviews and prompted comparisons with such American plankspanking giants as Joe Satriani and Steve Vai So why is he busking in a bookstore near you PAUL TAYLOR explainsWHEN Tim Scott tells you he sees his music as colours he is not just using a figure of speech There are chords which I say 'That's a certain colour he explains Music does conjure something visual for meWords on the other hand tend to slip away from him For Tim aged 32 has mastered his music only while battling with severe dyslexia Despite being a graduate of London's prestigious Guitar Institute he still has problems with musical notation just as he has always struggled with the written word I found reading music very hard he says I understand music but it is as though I can't see it I can't feed it through the brain to the fingers fast enoughNow he has another battle on his hands to gain acceptance from a music industry more interested in quick hits and pretty young things than musical excellenceHe has written played recorded produced packaged and even distributed his debut album Bald On The Inside from a home studio in the converted dining room of his Hazel Grove homeHe has also marketed the disc through Borders bookshops where he gives promotional performances a kind of indoors busking to generate CD salesHis music rock instrumentals tinged with jazz blues Latin and classical influences has seen him hailed in guitar magazines as a worldclass talent and one of his pieces is set to be included on the CD accompanying the July edition of Guitarist magazine But as yet he is without a proper record dealIt has got to be an instant hit which they can fly around the world with a video or nothing at all Tim glumly remarks of the music business Inspired by the likes of Toto Yes and Van Halen Tim cut his teeth on guitar as a teenager But at the same time his dyslexia meant he struggled his way through Hazel Grove High SchoolStockport education authority did not recognise it at the time as a disability so I did not really get any help through school apart from some of my English teachers giving me extra classes after school out of the kindness of their hearts says Tim That helped me get four or five GCSE passesHe went on to Salford College of Music but dropped out before I got kicked out I could not cope with the written work I find it difficult even to hold down an ordinary job I lost jobs in shops because I could not do my ABCsTim worked in bars played in covers bands then in 1992 went to the Guitar Institute He won a diploma after 12 months but the dyslexia hampered his chances of returning for further studiesI had a breakdown and was ill for two or three years says Tim Out of that I kept playing guitar and ended up setting up a teaching business I got that to a good level and then invested the money in making the recordAmid all the dextrous guitar work other sounds used on the album include that of a domestic egg slicer a human heartbeat whirring fridge and revving motorcycles But these are songs without wordsThe reason I do instrumental music is that words do not mean a lot to me says Tim I get confused by words I never listen to the lyrics of songs and have no idea what they are going on about and when I try to write songs with people it is as if someone turns off the creative tapTim performs at Borders book store Peel Retail Park Great Portwood Street Stockport on Friday at 7pm and The Late Room Peter Street Manchester on Saturday July 17 Bald On The Inside is available through Borders stores More on Tim at wwwacerestudioscomBy Paul Taylor

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Autumn was born on September 22 1979 in Malibu California Although her family was not traditionally musical they had a great respect for music of all genres ensuring that it held a profound importance for Autumn from an early age At the age of four Autumn commenced her training on the violin Six years later she enrolled at the Colburn School of Performing Arts where she began to experiment with improvisational playing inspired by the renowned violinist Nigel Kennedy In 2003 she would state that she ate slept and breathed his recordings much to the great and oft' noted chagrin of her teachers Due to shunning and physical harassment from her school peers Autumn soon abandoned conventional schooling preferring to continue her music lessons at home while reading everything under the sun from music history to feminist literature to Shakespeare At fifteen Autumn won a place at the prestigious Indiana University School of Music in Bloomington Indiana but left after two years due to clashes with university authorities over her unorthodox musical and clothing tastes By then Autumn already sported the brightlycolored long hair beginning with purple at age seventeen 1 it was not until later that her hair became the flamboyant pink and red colors for which she is well known corsets and combat boots that would characterize her Enchant era Autumn is originally blonde and has green eyes and she will not alter her eye color because she is afraid of contacts Musically she was attracted to great voices and great writers such as Annie Lennox Sting Morrissey and Jimi Hendrix 2 Returning home to Los Angeles Autumn's interests spread to classical music spanning from the medieval era through the Renaissance to the Baroque period She also continued to explore modern genres such as rock and Jazz The next year having begun to sing in her songs as well as play the violin Autumn was signed to an unknown major record label However the producers quickly began to alter her material depriving her of artistic control In a 2003 interview with the Musical Discoveries website Autumn described the experience But things deteriorate rapidly when another writer is flown in another arranger is flown in and suddenly my songs don't sound like mine anymore and my violin is being thinned out because the producers wholeheartedly believe that the general public is threatened by any reference to what could be seen as classical Of course I balk and where I was once treated like a princess I'm now dealt with as a rebellious ingrate who has to be kept in line with constant monitoring and excessive restraints Furious at her treatment and subsequent lack of support from her manager Autumn broke ties with the label and continued to develop her writing and violin and vocal skills independently performing with friends as a baroque ensemble named Ravensong In 2000 she established her own label called Traitor Records in order to release a classical violin recording On a Day 3 Recorded in 1997 On a Day is now out of print but was recently rereleased as the Laced disc on Autumn's doubledisc instrumental album LacedUnlaced 2007 By early 2001 Autumn had relocated to Chicago and had begun to record her debut fulllength album Enchant As a preview she released an EP for the song Chambermaid As a tribute to the victims of the September 11 2001 terrorist attacks Autumn released a charity single entitled By The Sword donating the proceeds to the American Red Cross and AmeriCares 4 In 2003 Autumn completed the fourteentrack album Enchant which showcased her unique brand of alternative music known as fantasy rock combining rock classical cabaret and Celtic influences While allowing fans to download the entire album for free from her website Autumn included a password in the purchased physical version's packaging which granted access to bonus tracks and videos Although only available digitally for some time after the physical copies sold out Autumn recently rereleased Enchant in 2007 with Trisol Music Group edit Rise to fame 20032005 Though an active performer and recording artist with a cult following of her own Autumn first gained widespread notoriety in 2003 when she was discovered by former Hole frontwoman Courtney Love who brought Autumn to France to work on Love's debut solo album America's Sweetheart 2004 Autumn then toured with Love as part of the allfemale band The Chelsea5 making appearances on The Tonight Show and the Late Show with David Letterman Through Love Autumn became acquainted with Smashing Pumpkins' frontman Billy Corgan When The Chelsea's tour was halted due to Love's multiple legal issues Autumn returned to Chicago and began working with Corgan DIA a song from his solo album TheFutureEmbrace features her violin and backing vocals On December 23 2004 Autumn performed with Corgan and Dennis DeYoung on the WGN Morning Show in Chicago She continued to work with him until the spring of 2005 As a part of her punktorian fashion label WillowTech House she designed and tailored costumes for the music video for Corgan's single Walking Shade 6 edit Later solo career 2005present Autumn was finally able to return to working on her own album in September 2005 She began the fulltime recording of Opheliac at Mad Villain Studios in Chicago This work is in a darker and more aggressive vein than her previous work incorporating the industrial genre growling vocals harpsichords and her trademark violin into what she calls Victoriandustrial Autumn has described the album as greatly autobiographical In late 2005 she added a backup band to her live lineup to whom she refers as The Bloody Crumpets Autumn and the Bloody Crumpets performed the new material on the WGN Morning Show on January 12 2006 followed by a soldout performance at Double Door in Chicago on January 13 A limited edition EP containing eight tracks from the final version of Opheliac was released in spring 2006 under her own label On August 18 2006 Autumn announced that she was releasing a doubledisc deluxe edition of her Opheliac album having signed a distribution deal with Trisol Music Group 7 In the winter of 2006 before embarking on a European tour Autumn recorded a new twodisc entirely instrumental album called LacedUnlaced The first disc Laced is a rerelease of her classical album On A Day 2000 with an additional five tracks of live performances The second disc Unlaced features her distinct violindustrial style consisting of original pieces played on the electric violin backed by the harpsichord drum machines and synthesizers 8 Emilie Autumn performing at M'era Luna on 20070811 during her European tourShe first performed her new material in Europe on May 26 2007 at the Wave Gotik Treffen music festival in Germany From June 22 2007 to August 11 2007 Autumn toured in Europe to promote her albums Opheliac and Unlaced She played in Germany Austria England and The Netherlands During her acts she was accompanied by The Bloody Crumpets consisting of Aprella Lucina and Vecona 9 In August 2007 Autumn rereleased limited deluxe editions of her debut album Enchant and a compilation of previously unreleased or out of print tracks entitled A Bit o' This That 10 In the winter of 2007 Autumn embarked on another European tour with concerts and festivals in Belgium Germany Austria The Netherlands Italy and more In the spring of 2008 she will return to England 11 Autumn is finishing a gothic children's book for adults only titled The Alphabet Book of XBoyfriends which is filled with her own illustrations She is also working on another book she calls The Asylum Book which is set to be released in April to coincide with her new tour and which was promoted on her latest single 4 o'Clock She also has her own company called WillowTech House where she sells some clothing articles that bear the company's logo perfume scent Mistress which can be sold as an eau de parfum or body wash among other options along with accessories and fairy wings both of which are handmade by Autumn herself WillowTech House is coowned by LeeAnn Helmer also known as fLee Queen of Tarts Autumn and fLee are the company's two designers On October 4 2007 Autumn announced that she was releasing a new single entitled 4 o'Clock which was released January 18 2008 12 Her song Organ Grinder was on the European edition of the Saw III soundtrack and Dead is the New Alive Manipulator Mix by Dope Stars Inc was on the worldwide version of the Saw IV soundtrack edit Television appearances Autumn was featured in an episode of HGTV's That's Clever then Crafters Coast To Coast creating a pair of Floral Tea Party Fairy Wings and sushi soap available from her fashionlifestyle label WillowTech House which is currently on hiatus and its website is being redone13 Autumn has been a guest artist on the Adult Swim cartoon Metalocalypse in which she performed all violins as the London Philharmonic Orchestra in the episode Fatkid at the Detharmonic She also appeared on The Detha