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Hurricane (American Band)
Hurricane is an American heavy metal band formed in 1983, originally featuring current Foreigner lead vocalist Kelly Hansen (vocals/rhythm guitar), Robert Sarzo (guitar), Tony Cavazo (bass), and Jay Schellen (drums). Cavazo and Sarzo are the younger brothers of Quiet Riot's Carlos Cavazo and Rudy Sarzo. Hurricane released four albums: ''Take What You Want'' (1985), ''Over the Edge'' (1988), ''Slave to the Thrill'' (1990), and ''Liquifury'' (2001). ''Over the Edge'' was their most successful album featuring their only charting song, "I'm on to You", which peaked at No. 33 on the ''Billboard'' Mainstream Rock Tracks chart in 1988. History Quiet Riot's Kevin DuBrow introduced Robert Sarzo and Tony Cavazo in the early 1980s. After deciding to form a band, Sarzo and Cavazo recruited singer Kelly Hansen, drummer Jay Schellen and guitarist Michael Guy. With little label interest, the band decided to release an album themselves, ''Take What You Want''. The album and constant touri ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Heavy Metal Music
Heavy metal (or simply metal) is a genre of rock music that developed in the late 1960s and early 1970s, largely in the United Kingdom and United States. With roots in blues rock, psychedelic rock and acid rock, heavy metal bands developed a thick, monumental sound characterized by distortion (music), distorted guitars, extended guitar solos, emphatic Beat (music), beats and loudness. In 1968, three of the genre's most famous pioneers – Led Zeppelin, Black Sabbath and Deep Purple – were founded. Though they came to attract wide audiences, they were often derided by critics. Several American bands modified heavy metal into more accessible forms during the 1970s: the raw, sleazy sound and shock rock of Alice Cooper and Kiss (band), Kiss; the blues-rooted rock of Aerosmith; and the flashy guitar leads and party rock of Van Halen. During the mid-1970s, Judas Priest helped spur the genre's evolution by discarding much of its blues influence,Walser (1993), p. 6 while Motörhea ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
To Hell With The Devil
''To Hell with the Devil'' is the third studio album, by the Christian metal band Stryper, released in 1986. It was the first Christian metal album to achieve platinum status, selling over one million copies. It remained the best-selling Christian metal album until P.O.D.'s ''Satellite'' in 2001. The album was listed at No. 88 in the 2001 book, '' CCM Presents: The 100 Greatest Albums in Christian Music''. The album was the only heavy metal album on the list. Ian Christe, author of the heavy metal history book ''Sound of the Beast: The Complete Headbanging History of Heavy Metal'' (2003), mentions ''To Hell with the Devil'' in his book as one of the landmarks of the glam metal movement.Christe, Ian (2003), Sound of the Beast: The Complete Headbanging History of Heavy Metal (First printing ed.), "10: Glambangers of Hollywood", p. 154. HarperCollins., Throughout 1987, both music videos for "Free" and "Honestly" ranked No. 1 on ''Dial MTV'', the daily MTV list of most requested vid ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Conspiracy (band)
Conspiracy (formerly known as The Chris Squire Experiment) was a progressive rock band founded by Chris Squire (then bassist in Yes) and Billy Sherwood (formerly and subsequently of Yes (band), Yes). The band released two albums: ''Conspiracy'' (2000) and ''The Unknown'' (2003), and a live DVD (2006). History Squire & Sherwood in Yes In the late 1980s, Yes' original lead singer Jon Anderson had left the group to form Anderson Bruford Wakeman Howe with three other former Yes members. Chris Squire brought Billy Sherwood, a young musician he had met, to work with the group as a possible new lead singer. With Trevor Rabin also absent for a time (concentrating on his solo work), a line-up of the three remaining Yesmen—Squire, Alan White (Yes drummer), Alan White and Tony Kaye (musician), Tony Kaye—plus Sherwood and guitarist Bruce Gowdy, Sherwood's bandmate in World Trade (band), World Trade, began rehearsing together. Rabin subsequently returned to the band and demos were recorded ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
World Trade (band)
World Trade is a U.S. progressive rock band that features Billy Sherwood on bass and vocals and Bruce Gowdy on guitar. Yes's Chris Squire performed as a guest on their second album, ''Euphoria''. History The band was formed with Sherwood on lead vocals and bass, Gowdy on guitars, Guy Allison on keyboards and Mark T. Williams on drums. World Trade evolved from an earlier band, Lodgic, featuring Sherwood and Allison. Their 1989 eponymous debut was co-produced by Keith Olsen. A second album followed in 1995 on Magna Carta Records, with Williams being replaced by Jay Schellen. The album was produced by Sherwood. The band's sound had similarities to 1980s Yes and the album included two Chris Squire Experiment tracks with Squire making uncredited contributions on backing vocals. Because of the similarity between the two bands, Sherwood and Gowdy briefly worked together with Yes after vocalist Jon Anderson and guitarist/vocalist Trevor Rabin left the band. However, both returne ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Billy Sherwood
William Wyman Sherwood (born March 14, 1965) is an American multi-instrumentalist, songwriter, singer, record producer and mixing engineer. He is best known for his tenures in the English progressive rock band Yes (band), Yes as guitarist and keyboardist from 1997 to 2000 and as bassist since 2015, following the death of original bassist Chris Squire. He is known for working with former and current Yes members on other projects as well. In addition to his involvement with Yes, Sherwood is the frontman of progressive rock groups World Trade (band), World Trade, Circa (band), Circa and formerly Lodgic. In 2017, he joined Asia (band), Asia after the death of original singer and bassist John Wetton. Outside of these bands, Sherwood has worked as a producer since the 1990s, most notably on tribute albums dedicated to Pink Floyd, The Beatles, Queen (band), Queen and many others. He is also a solo artist, having released ten studio albums to date. Early life Sherwood was born on March ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Carlos Villalobos
Carlos Jonathan VillaLobos, Jr. (born January 28, 1975) is an American composer and multi-instrumentalist musician, who writes and produces original music for rock and pop artists, and composes modern orchestral music for trailers, television shows and films. Career Esperanza Esperanza is VillaLobos's Latin-new age flamenco project, on which he performed all instruments, and engineered, recorded, produced, and mixed the albums, with guest guitarist Andre Barboza appearing on both ''La Esperanza'' and ''Esperanza II'' (2001), and bass player Rob Hagopian on the first release, ''La Esperanza''. The group released its self-titled debut LP on the Higher Octave label on September 22, 1998. ''JazzTimes'' described the album as "swirling, fleet flamenco guitar work meets modern dance rhythms ithmany rewarding layers to uncover". In 1999, the group appeared on the compilation album ''Chicago Rapid Transit: Grooves 99'' with a remix track named "Spanish Eyes/Flamenc Tronic Mix". The sea ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Blues
Blues is a music genre and musical form which originated in the Deep South of the United States around the 1860s. Blues incorporated spirituals, work songs, field hollers, shouts, chants, and rhymed simple narrative ballads from the African-American culture. The blues form is ubiquitous in jazz, rhythm and blues, and rock and roll, and is characterized by the call-and-response pattern (the blues scale and specific chord progressions) of which the twelve-bar blues is the most common. Blue notes (or "worried notes"), usually thirds, fifths or sevenths flattened in pitch, are also an essential part of the sound. Blues shuffles or walking bass reinforce the trance-like rhythm and form a repetitive effect known as the groove. Blues as a genre is also characterized by its lyrics, bass lines, and instrumentation. Early traditional blues verses consisted of a single line repeated four times. It was only in the first decades of the 20th century that the most common current str ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
England
England is a country that is part of the United Kingdom. It shares land borders with Wales to its west and Scotland to its north. The Irish Sea lies northwest and the Celtic Sea to the southwest. It is separated from continental Europe by the North Sea to the east and the English Channel to the south. The country covers five-eighths of the island of Great Britain, which lies in the North Atlantic, and includes over 100 smaller islands, such as the Isles of Scilly and the Isle of Wight. The area now called England was first inhabited by modern humans during the Upper Paleolithic period, but takes its name from the Angles, a Germanic tribe deriving its name from the Anglia peninsula, who settled during the 5th and 6th centuries. England became a unified state in the 10th century and has had a significant cultural and legal impact on the wider world since the Age of Discovery, which began during the 15th century. The English language, the Anglican Church, and Engli ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Unruly Child
Unruly Child is an American hard rock band, founded in 1991. Band members Principal members * Marcie Free – lead vocals (1991-1992, 2010-present) * Bruce Gowdy – guitar, bass, drums, keyboards, vocals (1991-1992, 1998-2003, 2010-present) * Larry Antonino – bass (1991-1992, 2010-present) * Jay Schellen – drums (1991-1992, 1998-2002, 2010-present) * Guy Allison – keyboards, bass, drums, percussion, vocals (1991-1992, 1998-2003, 2010-present) Former members * Kelly Hansen – lead vocals, guitar (1998-2002) * Ricky Phillips – bass (1998-2002) * Phillip Bardowell – lead vocals (2002-2003) Discography Studio albums *''Unruly Child'' (1992) *''Tormented'' (1995) as Marcie Free *''Waiting for the Sun'' (1998) *''UCIII'' (2003) *''Worlds Collide'' (2010) *''Down the Rabbit Hole'' (2014) *''Can't Go Home'' (2017) *''Big Blue World'' (2019) *''Our Glass House'' (2020) Live albums *''Unhinged Live from Milan'' (2018) Compilation albums *''The Basement Demos'' (2002) Box set ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Bad Moon Rising (band)
Bad Moon Rising was a rock music, rock band that rose to superstar status in Japan with a series of hard rock albums led by Scottish born vocalist Kal Swan (real name Norman Swan) and guitarist Doug Aldrich. Both Kal Swan and Doug are ex-Lion (band), Lion members, whilst the rhythm team of bassist Ian Mayo and drummer Jackie Ramos had played in both Hericane Alice and Bangalore Choir. Prior to relocating from England to Los Angeles Swan had fronted up the new wave of British heavy metal, NWOBHM heavy metal band Tytan (band), Tytan. History The debut album, produced by Mack sees musicians including UFO (band), UFO axeman Michael Schenker and Robin Mcauley together with ex-Quiet Riot bassist Chuck Wright, Michael Schenker Group’s Rocky Newton and Fifth Angel and Alice Cooper drummer Ken Mary. Both Wright and Mary are of course former House of Lords (band), House of Lords cohorts. Bad Moon Rising put in an extensive concert tour, tour of Japan during June 1991 and were voted by ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
I'm Eighteen
"I'm Eighteen" is a song by rock band Alice Cooper, first released as a single in November 1970 backed with "Is It My Body". It was the band's first top-forty success—peaking at number 21—and convinced Warner Bros. that Alice Cooper had the commercial potential to release an album. The song and its B-side feature on the band's first major-label album '' Love It to Death'' (1971). The anthemic song is driven by a lumbering, arpeggiated guitar riff and aggressive, raspy vocals. The lyrics tell of the angst of being "in the middle" between youth and adulthood. It began as an eight-minute jam that young Canadian producer Bob Ezrin persuaded the band into tightening into a tight three-minute rocker. The song was the band's breakthrough, and left a considerable influence on hard rock, punk, and heavy metal. Joey Ramone wrote his first song for the Ramones based on the chords to "I'm Eighteen", and John Lydon auditioned for the Sex Pistols by miming to the song. Bands such ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
