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Alex Weir (musician)
Alex Weir is an American guitarist. Weir came to prominence in the 1970s with the funk/R&B band the Brothers Johnson. He is the cousin of fellow band members George and Louis Johnson. He went on to work with the bands Talking Heads and Tom Tom Club, both on their albums and in concert. He appears in Talking Heads' 1984 concert film ''Stop Making Sense''. Additionally, Weir has worked as a session musician with a variety of artists, including Toni Childs. He worked on several Jerry Harrison (of Talking Heads) solo albums, including the critically acclaimed ''Casual Gods'', released in 1988. The album spawned the US Mainstream Rock chart hit single " Rev It Up", which peaked at No. 7 in late 1987. Discography ; with the Brothers Johnson * '' Right on Time'' (1977) * '' Blam!'' (1978) * '' Light Up the Night'' (1980) ; with Talking Heads * ''Speaking in Tongues'' (1983) * ''Stop Making Sense'' (1984) ; Session work Filmography * ''Stop Making Sense ''Stop Making Se ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
United States
The United States of America (U.S.A. or USA), commonly known as the United States (U.S. or US) or America, is a country primarily located in North America. It consists of 50 states, a federal district, five major unincorporated territories, nine Minor Outlying Islands, and 326 Indian reservations. The United States is also in free association with three Pacific Island sovereign states: the Federated States of Micronesia, the Marshall Islands, and the Republic of Palau. It is the world's third-largest country by both land and total area. It shares land borders with Canada to its north and with Mexico to its south and has maritime borders with the Bahamas, Cuba, Russia, and other nations. With a population of over 333 million, it is the most populous country in the Americas and the third most populous in the world. The national capital of the United States is Washington, D.C. and its most populous city and principal financial center is New York City. Paleo-Americ ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Casual Gods
''Casual Gods'' is the second album by American musician Jerry Harrison, released in 1988 by Sire Records in the U.S. and Fontana Records in the UK and Europe. His third album, '' Walk on Water'', would also bear the Casual Gods name as a proxy for the band. The track "Man with a Gun" was featured in the 1988 film ''Two Moon Junction'', and the instrumental version of the same song was used in the 1986 Jonathan Demme film '' Something Wild''. The track "Cherokee Chief" first appeared on the 1987 Sire Records promotional sampler '' Just Say Yes''. The single "Rev It Up" peaked at No. 7 on the U.S. Mainstream Rock chart. The album cover features a photograph of the Serra Pelada gold mine by Brazilian photographer Sebastião Salgado. Track listing All tracks were written by Jerry Harrison, except where indicated. #"Rev It Up" (Jerry Harrison, John Sieger, Ernie Brooks) – 4:17 #"Song of Angels" – 3:35 #"Man with a Gun" – 4:35 #"Let It Come Down" – 4:52 #"Cherokee Chief" (Harr ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Year Of Birth Missing (living People)
A year or annus is the orbital period of a planetary body, for example, the Earth, moving in its orbit around the Sun. Due to the Earth's axial tilt, the course of a year sees the passing of the seasons, marked by change in weather, the hours of daylight, and, consequently, vegetation and soil fertility. In temperate and subpolar regions around the planet, four seasons are generally recognized: spring, summer, autumn and winter. In tropical and subtropical regions, several geographical sectors do not present defined seasons; but in the seasonal tropics, the annual wet and dry seasons are recognized and tracked. A calendar year is an approximation of the number of days of the Earth's orbital period, as counted in a given calendar. The Gregorian calendar, or modern calendar, presents its calendar year to be either a common year of 365 days or a leap year of 366 days, as do the Julian calendars. For the Gregorian calendar, the average length of the calendar year (the ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Rub It Better
''Rub It Better'' is the third studio album by English new wave band General Public, released on 4 April 1995 by Epic Records. The band had not recorded together in almost 10 years. Production The album was produced by Jerry Harrison, former keyboardist and guitarist for Talking Heads. The group chose to return to the ska and reggae sound of the Beat. Critical reception The ''Los Angeles Times'' called the album "a tuneful collection that deftly combines an assortment of reggae, rock and dance-pop colors--the trademark of the Beat and the first edition of General Public." ''The Kingston Whig-Standard'' wrote that "the closest comparison is to B.A.D. (Big Audio Dynamite), whose leader, Mick Jones, was an honorary member of General Public for its first album and appears here again." Track listing # "It Must Be Tough" – 5:34 (Dave Wakeling, Michael Railton, Roger Charlery) # "Rainy Days" – 4:06 (Charlery, Railton, Horace Panter) # "Hold It Deep" – 4:34 (Wakeling, Char ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
General Public
In public relations and communication science, publics are groups of individual people, and the public (a.k.a. the general public) is the totality of such groupings. This is a different concept to the sociological concept of the ''Öffentlichkeit'' or public sphere. The concept of a public has also been defined in political science, psychology, marketing, and advertising. In public relations and communication science, it is one of the more ambiguous concepts in the field. Although it has definitions in the theory of the field that have been formulated from the early 20th century onwards, and suffered more recent years from being blurred, as a result of conflation of the idea of a public with the notions of audience, market segment, community, constituency, and stakeholder. Etymology and definitions The name "public" originates with the Latin '' publicus'' (also '' poplicus''), from ''populus'', to the English word 'populace', and in general denotes some mass population ("the p ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Walk On Water (Jerry Harrison Album)
''Walk on Water'' is the third album by American musician Jerry Harrison, released in 1990 by Sire Records in the U.S. and Fontana Records in the UK and Europe. Track listing Personnel *Jerry Harrison – guitar, keyboards, vocals Additional musicians *Tawatha Agee – background vocals * Tom Bailey – keyboards *Adrian Belew – guitar *Joyce Bowden – background vocals, vocal arrangements *Ernie Brooks – bass guitar *Sherrell Harmon – background vocals *Dan Hartman – keyboards, background vocals *Rick Jaeger – drums *Jason Klagstad – guitar *Jim Liban – harmonica *Samuel Llanas – background vocals *Etienne Mboppe – bass *Abdou M'Boup – percussion *Arlene Newson – background vocals *Loveless Redmond – background vocals *Chris Spedding – guitar *Vaneese Thomas – background vocals *Brice Wassy – drums * Alex Weir – guitar *Arthur Weir – bass *Michael Webb – background vocals *Bernie Worrell – keyboards Technical *Jerry Harrison – produ ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Union (Toni Childs Album)
''Union'' is the debut album by American singer-songwriter Toni Childs. Released in 1988, the album peaked at number 63 in the US (where it has since been certified Gold for sales of over 500,000 copies). It also peaked at number one in New Zealand, where it was certified 5× Platinum (75,000 copies sold). Four singles were released from the album: "Stop Your Fussin'", "Don't Walk Away", "Walk and Talk Like Angels", and "Zimbabwae". "Stop Your Fussin'" reached the top 20 in Australia, New Zealand, and Germany while "Don't Walk Away" became Childs' only single to chart in the United States, reaching number 72 there. The album was recorded in London, Paris, and Swaziland. Childs' collaborated with David Ricketts and David Baerwald (who recorded the 1986 album ''Boomtown'' as David + David) in the writing and production of the album. Time Magazine described ''Union'' as an album that "catches the sweet, scary feelings, all the uncertainty and release, that can come when the sun goe ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Close To The Bone (Tom Tom Club Album)
''Close to the Bone'' is the second studio album by the Tom Tom Club that was released in 1983. The Tom Tom Club's musicians were: Wally Badarou, Tyrone Downie, Chris Frantz, Roddy Frantz, Rupert Hine, Raymond Jones, Steve Scales, Steven Stanley, Alex Weir; and sisters Lani, Laura and Tina Weymouth. The album was released on compact disc for the first time on May 19, 2009, as a part of a two-CD deluxe package with the band's first album, ''Tom Tom Club (album), Tom Tom Club'', as part of Universal Music's deluxe editions series. Singles Two tracks from the album were released as singles, "Pleasure of Love" and "The Man with the 4-Way Hips", the latter reaching number 82 on the UK Singles Chart in August 1983. , Official Charts Company. Retrieved July 30, 2015 Track listing All tracks composed by the Tom To ...[...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Stop Making Sense (album)
''Stop Making Sense'' is a live album by American rock band Talking Heads, the soundtrack to the film of the same name. It was released in September 1984 and features nine tracks from the film, albeit with treatment and editing. The album spent over two years on the ''Billboard'' 200 chart. It was their first album to be distributed by EMI outside North America. Limited pressings of the original LP version featured a full-colour picture book wrapped around the album jacket; standard versions had many of the pictures (printed in black and white) and captions on the album's inner sleeve. The CD release of the album includes the full-colour book, but it rearranges the layout to conform to the dimensions of a square CD booklet (compared to the vertically-oriented rectangular shape of the LP book). In 1999, a 16-track re-release—with content and sound closely matching those of the film—coincided with the 15th anniversary of the concert filming. The album was ranked number 345 on ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Light Up The Night (The Brothers Johnson Album)
''Light Up the Night'' is the fourth album by the Los Angeles, California-based duo The Brothers Johnson, released in 1980. The album topped the U.S. R&B albums chart and reached number five on the pop albums chart. The single " Stomp!" became a dance hit, reaching number one on both the R&B singles and disco charts and top ten on the pop singles chart. ''Light Up the Night'' was the final Brothers Johnson album to be produced by Quincy Jones. When Jones left A&M Records, he was contractually barred from having contact with the brothers. Track listing Personnel The Brothers Johnson * George Johnson – lead guitar, rhythm guitar, backing vocals, lead vocals (1, 2, 3, 5, 6, 8) * Louis Johnson – acoustic piano, Prophet-5, guitars, lead guitar (3), bass, bass solo (1), backing vocals Additional musicians * Greg Phillinganes – synthesizers (1), acoustic piano, electric piano * Rod Temperton – electric piano (1) * Steve Porcaro – synthesizers, synthesizer programming * ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Blam! (Brothers Johnson Album)
''Blam!'' is the third album by the Los Angeles-based duo Brothers Johnson. Released in 1978, the album topped the ''Billboard'' R&B albums chart and reached number seven on the pop albums chart. Track listing #"Ain't We Funkin' Now" - ( Alex Weir, Louis Johnson, Quincy Jones, Tom Bahler, Valerie Johnson) 5:36 #"So Won't You Stay" - (David Foster, Harvey Mason) 3:20 #"Blam!" - ( Alex Weir, David Foster, George Johnson, Louis Johnson, Quincy Jones, Tom Bahler) 4:55 #"Rocket Countdown / Blastoff" - ( William Reichenbach, Jerry Hey) 0:51 #"Ride-O-Rocket" - (Nickolas Ashford, Valerie Simpson) 4:43 #"Mista' Cool" - (Ed Eckstine, Larry Williams, Louis Johnson) 3:27 #"It's You Girl" - (George Johnson, Louis Johnson, Quincy Jones) 3:32 #"Streetwave" - ( Alex Weir, Jerry Hey, Louis Johnson, Wayne Vaughn) 5:09 Personnel * George Johnson – lead guitar, lead and backing vocals * Louis Johnson – bass, guitar, piano, synthesizer, lead and backing vocals * Alex Weir – ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
