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Harem Scarem
Harem Scarem is a Canadian hard rock/melodic hard rock band from Toronto, Ontario. Harem Scarem initially (the early 1990s) achieved popularity in their native Canada and Japan. The band was active from 1987 to 2008, and again from 2013 after reforming. Throughout their career, they have released 15 studio albums (including two releases as Rubber in Canada), plus numerous live and compilation albums, and a re-record of Mood Swings (as Mood Swings II) in 2013. Totals record sales are in excess of one million worldwide. History 1987 - 2008 Harem Scarem was formed in 1987 by guitarist Pete Lesperance and singer Harry Hess, formerly of Blind Vengeance who had recorded two heavy metal albums in the 1980s. The name Harem Scarem was based on a Bugs Bunny cartoon. The initial Harem Scarem lineup was completed by Darren Smith (drums) and Mike Gionet (bass). This lineup recorded a demo CD in 1990, which garnered them attention since most demos at the time would be on cassette tape onl ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Pete Lesperance
Pete Lesperance is a Canadian guitarist, singer, songwriter, and producer best known as the lead guitarist for the Canadian hard rock band Harem Scarem. Lesperance was born October 13, 1968, in Scarborough, Ontario. Lesperance was a guitarist in the Oshawa metal band Minotaur before forming Harem Scarem with Blind Vengeance vocalist Harry Hess in 1987. Lesperance's solo album, ''Down In It'', was released in 2004 in Japan only, where Harem Scarem had their main fanbase. With fellow guitarist Mike Turner (ex-Our Lady Peace), they put together the band Fair Ground. Together they released a new version of ''Down In It''. Lesperance's own studio, Hope Songs, is located in Toronto, Ontario. Lesperance has produced many bands, including the rock band One Short. He is currently finishing up albums for Canadian Idol contestants Aaron Walpole and Suzi Rawn. His influences include Eddie Van Halen, Brian May, Nuno Bettencourt and Steve Vai. Discography With Minotaur *''83-87 ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Toronto
Toronto ( ; or ) is the capital city of the Canadian province of Ontario. With a recorded population of 2,794,356 in 2021, it is the most populous city in Canada and the fourth most populous city in North America. The city is the anchor of the Golden Horseshoe, an urban agglomeration of 9,765,188 people (as of 2021) surrounding the western end of Lake Ontario, while the Greater Toronto Area proper had a 2021 population of 6,712,341. Toronto is an international centre of business, finance, arts, sports and culture, and is recognized as one of the most multicultural and cosmopolitan cities in the world. Indigenous peoples have travelled through and inhabited the Toronto area, located on a broad sloping plateau interspersed with rivers, deep ravines, and urban forest, for more than 10,000 years. After the broadly disputed Toronto Purchase, when the Mississauga surrendered the area to the British Crown, the British established the town of York in 1793 and later designat ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Haywire (band)
Haywire is a Canadian rock band, originally from Charlottetown, Prince Edward Island, Canada. History Haywire was formed in Charlottetown in 1981 by Paul MacAusland (vocals), Marvin Birt (guitar/vocals), David Rashed (keys/vocals), Ronnie Switzer (bass/vocals) and Scott Roberts (drums). Ron "Bumble" LeBlanc replaced Roberts in 1984, playing with the band through their demo, EP, and three cuts on their debut Attic release before leaving to continue his education. Mac Cole filled the drum seat briefly until Sean Kilbride (a long-time friend of the band) rounded out the line-up. In 1984, they won the " Q104 Homegrown" (Volume 1) contest; the first prize was the chance to record a single, but the band took the opportunity to invest additional money of their own and record a five-song EP, ''Haywire'' (1985), which eventually sold over 5,000 copies in the Maritimes. In 1985, they won the Labatt's "Battle of the Bands" competition, and used the $10,000 first prize to record more materia ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
American Pie (film)
''American Pie'' is a 1999 American coming-of-age sex comedy film directed and co-produced by Paul Weitz (in his directorial debut) and written by Adam Herz. It is the first film in the ''American Pie'' theatrical series and stars an ensemble cast that includes Jason Biggs, Chris Klein, Alyson Hannigan, Natasha Lyonne, Thomas Ian Nicholas, Tara Reid, Mena Suvari, Eddie Kaye Thomas, Seann William Scott, Eugene Levy, Shannon Elizabeth and Jennifer Coolidge. The plot centers on five classmates (Jim, Kevin, Oz, Finch, and Stifler) who attend East Great Falls High. With the sole exception of Stifler, who has already lost his virginity, the youths make a pact to lose their virginity before their high school graduation. The title refers to a scene in which the protagonist is caught masturbating with a pie after being told that third base feels like "warm apple pie". Writer Adam Herz has stated that the title also refers to the quest of losing one's virginity in high school, which is ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Jay And Silent Bob
Jay and Silent Bob are fictional characters portrayed by Jason Mewes and Kevin Smith, respectively, in Kevin Smith's View Askewniverse, a fictional universe created and used in most of the films, comics, and television programs written and produced by Smith, beginning with ''Clerks''. Jay and Silent Bob are the only characters that have appeared in every Askewniverse film; this excludes Smith's other projects: '' Jersey Girl'', ''Zack and Miri Make a Porno'', ''Cop Out'', ''Red State'', ''Tusk'', and ''Yoga Hosers''. The characters are shown spending most of their time selling marijuana in front of the convenience store in the ''Clerks'' films. In '' Clerks: The Animated Series'', they were also shown selling illegal fireworks. Character profiles Jay and Silent Bob, sometimes presented as Jason "Jay" Derris and Robert "Silent Bob" Bluntowski, were born in Leonardo, New Jersey, in the 1970s, according to ''Jay and Silent Bob Strike Back''. They met as infants in front of Quick St ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Rubber (Harem Scarem Album)
''Rubber'' is an album by the Canadian hard rock band Rubber (formerly known as Harem Scarem). The band released the album in 1999 under the name Harem Scarem in Japan, and in 2000 in Canada they released it as Rubber. After this release, drummer Darren Smith left and was replaced with Creighton Doane. The song "Sunshine" was produced and mixed by Canadian producer Arnold Lanni. Track listing Release history Band members *Harry Hess – lead vocals, guitar, producer *Pete Lesperance Pete Lesperance is a Canadian guitarist, singer, songwriter, and producer best known as the lead guitarist for the Canadian hard rock band Harem Scarem. Lesperance was born October 13, 1968, in Scarborough, Ontario. Lesperance was a guitarist i ... – lead guitar, backing vocals, producer *Barry Donaghy – bass, backing vocals * Darren Smith – drums, backing vocals References 1999 albums 2000 albums Harem Scarem albums Warner Music Group albums {{1990s-hard-rock-album- ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Big Bang Theory (Harem Scarem Album)
''Big Bang Theory'' is a 1998 album by the Canadian hard rock band Harem Scarem. Track listing Band members *Harry Hess – lead vocals, guitar, producer. *Pete Lesperance Pete Lesperance is a Canadian guitarist, singer, songwriter, and producer best known as the lead guitarist for the Canadian hard rock band Harem Scarem. Lesperance was born October 13, 1968, in Scarborough, Ontario. Lesperance was a guitarist i ... – lead guitar, backing vocals, producer. *Barry Donaghy – bass, backing vocals. * Darren Smith – drums, backing vocals. References 1998 albums Harem Scarem albums Warner Music Group albums {{1990s-hard-rock-album-stub ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Karma Cleansing
''Karma Cleansing'' is a 1997 album by the Canadian hard rock band Harem Scarem. The album was released as ''Believe'' in Japan with the songs "Cages" and "The Mirror" being replaced with "Staying Away" and "Baby with a Nail Gun". ''Believe'' was also released as a "Special Edition" featuring different versions of a few songs. Track listings Canadian version Japanese version Personnel ;Band members *Harry Hess – lead vocals, guitar, producer. *Pete Lesperance Pete Lesperance is a Canadian guitarist, singer, songwriter, and producer best known as the lead guitarist for the Canadian hard rock band Harem Scarem. Lesperance was born October 13, 1968, in Scarborough, Ontario. Lesperance was a guitarist i ... – lead guitar, backing vocals, producer. *Barry Donaghy – bass, backing vocals. * Darren Smith – drums, backing vocals. References 1997 albums Harem Scarem albums Warner Music Group albums {{1990s-hard-rock-album-stub ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Promotional Single
A promotional recording, or promo, or plug copy, is an audio or video recording distributed free, usually in order to promote a recording that is or soon will be commercially available. Promos are normally sent directly to broadcasters, such as music radio and music television, television stations, and to tastemakers, such as DJs, music journalism, music journalists, and music criticism, critics, in advance of the release of commercial editions, in the hope that airplay, reviews, and other forms of exposure will result and stimulate the public's interest in the commercial release. Promos are often distributed in plain packaging, without the text or artwork that appears on the commercial version. Typically a promo is marked with some variation of the following text: "Licensed for promotional use only. Sale is prohibited." It may also state that the promo is still the property of the distributor and is to be "returned upon demand." However, it is not illegal to sell promotional re ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Voice Of Reason (Harem Scarem Album)
''Voice of Reason'' is a 1995 album by the Canadian hard rock band Harem Scarem. "Blue" was released as a promotional single and there was a music video for it. After this album was released, bass player Mike Gionet was replaced with Barry Donaghy. Track listing Personnel ;Band members *Harry Hess – lead vocals, guitar, producer. *Pete Lesperance – lead guitar, backing vocals, producer. *Mike Gionet – bass, backing vocals. *Darren Smith – drums, backing vocals. ;Production * Harry Hess, Pete Lesperancei - Producers. *Harry Hess - Recording engineer. *Kevin Doyle - Mixing engineer. * Tom Trafalski – Assistant Engineer. *Greg Calbi Gregory Calbi (born April 3, 1949) is an American mastering engineer at Sterling Sound, New Jersey. Biography Greg Calbi was born on April 3, 1949, in Yonkers, New York, and raised in Bayside, Queens, New York. He graduated in 1966 from Bisho ... – Mastering Engineer. References 1995 albums Harem Scarem albums Warner M ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Extended Play
An extended play record, usually referred to as an EP, is a musical recording that contains more tracks than a single but fewer than an album or LP record.Official Charts Company , access-date=March 21, 2017 Contemporary EPs generally contain four or five tracks, and are considered "less expensive and time-consuming" for an artist to produce than an album. An EP originally referred to specific types of other than 78 [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Mood Swings (Harem Scarem Album)
''Mood Swings'' is a 1993 album by the Canadian hard rock band Harem Scarem. A music video was shot for the song "No Justice". The album charted at No. 85 on the Canadian charts. Track listing Charts Album Singles Personnel ;Band members *Harry Hess – lead vocals, guitar, keyboards, producer, engineer. *Pete Lesperance – lead guitar, backing vocals, producer. *Mike Gionet – bass, backing vocals. * Darren Smith – drums, backing vocals, lead vocals on Track 6 ;Additional musicians *Rob Cooper – B3 Organ ;Production *Kevin Doyle – producer, engineer. *Stephen Marcussen – mastering. *Andrew MacNaughtan Andrew Neil MacNaughtan (25 February 196425 January 2012) was a Canadian photographer and music video director. Work MacNaughtan won four Juno Awards for his work as a photographer, director and album art designer, including three wins for CD ... – photography. *Package design by Stanford Communications. References 1993 albums Harem Scarem ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
