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Them Bones
"Them Bones" is a song by American rock band Alice in Chains. It was released as the second single from their second studio album, ''Dirt'' (1992). "Them Bones" peaked at No. 24 on ''Billboard''s Mainstream Rock chart and at No. 30 on the Modern Rock Tracks chart. The song was included on the band's compilation albums '' Nothing Safe: Best of the Box'' (1999), '' Greatest Hits'' (2001) and '' The Essential Alice in Chains'' (2006). It was also included on the box set '' Music Bank'' (1999). A live performance of the song was included on their second live album, ''Live'' (2000). Structure The song was written by guitarist Jerry Cantrell. The chromatic riff is played in a time signature of —except for the chorus, which is in . When discussing the use of odd time signatures in a 1998 interview with ''Guitar World'', Cantrell said: "I really don't know where that comes from; it just comes naturally to me. I could sit down and figure it out, but what's the use? Off-time stuff is ...
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Alice In Chains
Alice in Chains (often abbreviated as AiC) is an American rock band formed in Seattle in 1987. Since 2006, the band's lineup has comprised vocalist/guitarists Jerry Cantrell and William DuVall, bassist Mike Inez, and drummer Sean Kinney. Vocalist Layne Staley and bassist Mike Starr (musician), Mike Starr are former members of the band. The band took its name from Staley's previous band, Alice N' Chains. Often associated with grunge music, Alice in Chains' sound and style is deeply rooted in Heavy metal music, heavy metal. The band is known for its distinctive vocal style, which often included the vocal harmony, harmonized vocals between Staley and Cantrell (and later Cantrell and DuVall). Alice in Chains rose to international fame as part of the grunge movement of the early 1990s, along with other Seattle bands such as Nirvana (band), Nirvana, Pearl Jam, and Soundgarden. They achieved success during the era with the albums ''Facelift (album), Facelift'' (1990), ''Dirt (Alice i ...
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The Essential Alice In Chains
''The Essential Alice in Chains'' is a two-disc compilation album by the rock band Alice in Chains, and part of Sony BMG's ''The Essential'' series. Originally scheduled to be released on March 30, 2004, it was delayed until September 5, 2006. The album was reissued in 2010 with different artwork. A DVD with the mockumentary '' The Nona Tapes'' came as a bonus disc with the compilation. Overview The third greatest hits release from the band, it proved to be more a definitive collection than the 10-track '' Greatest Hits'' collection and the best of/sampler collection, '' Nothing Safe: Best of the Box'', featuring almost all of the band's hits and singles (with the exception of " Bleed the Freak", " Down in a Hole" " Fear the Voices" and " Don't Follow") as well as fan favorites and also two unplugged tracks. The songs " What the Hell Have I" and "A Little Bitter" which were featured on the ''Last Action Hero'' movie soundtrack are the Toby Wright remixed versions found on '' Mu ...
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We Die Young
''We Die Young'' is a song and single EP by the American rock band Alice in Chains, engineered and co-produced by Dave Jerden. It was released in July 1990 and is their first studio EP. It was a promo-only EP released on vinyl and cassette, and has become thus a sought-after collector's item amongst Alice in Chains fans. Background Bill Adams of Ground Control Magazine, reviewing Alice in Chains discography wrote; "For anyone who was already paying attention to Alice in Chains by 1990, that the band was signed to a major label (they were the second (after Soundgarden) of the more mainstream “grunge” bands to get signed, actually) likely didn't come as much of a surprise. The band had the chops and a sound that could pass as similar to the metal of the day (well, at least some of the time), and they were at least as good as Skid Row, Warrant, Living Colour and Winger – who were all getting a lot of attention at the time – so that Alice in Chains would even get a cursor ...
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Rocky Schenck
Rocky Schenck (born April 18, 1955) is an American photographer and music video director. Schenck has photographed several album covers and has written and directed numerous music videos and short films. He has shot fashion, editorial and portraits for magazines such as ''Vogue'', ''Rolling Stone'', ''Time'', ''New York Times'', ''Entertainment Weekly'', and others. Schenck has collaborated with many personalities in the music and entertainment worlds, including Alice in Chains, Jerry Cantrell, Adele, Ozzy Osbourne, John Prine , Robert Plant, Willie Nelson, B.B. King, Stevie Nicks, Nick Cave, P.J. Harvey, Annie Lennox, Alison Krauss, Ray Bradbury, Ellen DeGeneres, Baz Luhrmann, Kylie Minogue, T-Bone Burnett, Joni Mitchell, The Cramps, Tom Cruise, Johnny Mathis, Linda Ronstadt, Sheryl Crow, Josh Duhamel, Diana Krall, Brian Wilson, Donna Summer, Nicole Kidman, Gary Coleman, k.d. lang, Jerry Lee Lewis, Natalie Cole, Gloria Estefan, Neil Diamond, Laurence Fishburne, Gladys Knight, Fr ...
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Kerrang!
''Kerrang!'' is a British music webzine and quarterly magazine that primarily covers rock, punk and heavy metal music. Since 2017, the magazine has been published by Wasted Talent Ltd (the same company that owns electronic music publication '' Mixmag''). The magazine was named onomatopoeically after the sound of a "guitar being struck with force". ''Kerrang!'' was first published on 6 June 1981 as a one-off "Heavy Metal Special" from the now-defunct '' Sounds'' newspaper. Due to the popularity of the issue, the magazine became a monthly publication, before transitioning into a weekly in 1987. Initially devoted to the new wave of British heavy metal and the rise of hard rock acts, ''Kerrang!'' musical emphasis has changed several times, focusing on grunge, nu metal, post-hardcore, emo and other alternative rock and metal genres over the course of its forty-year publication history. In 2001, it became the best-selling British music weekly, overtaking '' NME''. After p ...
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AllMusic
AllMusic (previously known as All-Music Guide and AMG) is an American online database, online music database. It catalogs more than three million album entries and 30 million tracks, as well as information on Musical artist, musicians and Musical ensemble, bands. Initiated in 1991, the database was first made available on the Internet in 1994. AllMusic is owned by RhythmOne. History AllMusic was launched as ''All-Music Guide'' by Michael Erlewine, a "compulsive archivist, noted astrologer, Buddhist scholar, and musician". He became interested in using computers for his astrological work in the mid-1970s and founded a software company, Matrix, in 1977. In the early 1990s, as compact discs (CDs) replaced LP record, LPs and cassette (format), cassettes as the dominant format for recorded music, Erlewine purchased what he thought was a CD of early recordings by Little Richard. After buying it, he discovered it was a "flaccid latter-day rehash". Frustrated with the labeling, he res ...
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Music Week
''Music Week'' is a trade publication for the UK record industry distributed via a website and a monthly print magazine. It is published by Future. History Founded in 1959 as ''Record Retailer'', it relaunched on 18 March 1972 as ''Music Week''. On 17 January 1981, the title again changed, owing to the increasing importance of sell-through videos, to ''Music & Video Week''. The rival '' Record Business'', founded in 1978 by Brian Mulligan and Norman Garrod, was absorbed into Music Week in February 1983. Later that year, the offshoot ''Video Week'' launched and the title of the parent publication reverted to ''Music Week''. Since April 1991, ''Music Week'' has incorporated ''Record Mirror'', initially as a 4 or 8-page chart supplement, later as a dance supplement of articles, reviews and charts. In the 1990s, several magazines and newsletters become part of the Music Week family: ''Music Business International (MBI)'', ''Promo'', ''MIRO Future Hits'', ''Tours Report'', ''Fono ...
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Giunti Editore
Giunti Editore S.p.A. is an Italian publishing house founded in Florence in 1956. The company is based in Villa La Loggia, in via Bolognese, and affiliated offices in Milan. Giunti S.p.A. is the leader of a group comprising various brands and that is placed at second place among the Italian publishing groups by turnover. History In the 1930s, Renato Giunti began to collaborate with the Florentine publishing house ''R. Bemporad & son'', representing one of the partners. He later became general manager. After the Second World War Renato Giunti took over the company, to which he gave the name ''"Bemporad Marzocco"''. In 1956 he became owner and managing director. In 1960 it acquired the Florentine publishing house Barbèra, which had started its activity in 1855. In 1965 all the acquired publishing houses were brought together in the Giunti Publishing Consortium. In 1975, Sergio Giunti, a Renato'son, succeeded his father as head of the Consortium. Until the mid-eighties, Giunt ...
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Larry Flynt Publications
Larry Flynt Publications, or LFP, Inc. is an American independent business enterprise that owns, manages and operates the adult entertainment businesses founded by American entrepreneur Larry Flynt. Founded in 1976, two years after Flynt began publishing '' Hustler'' magazine, LFP was originally established to serve as the legal business entity i.e. parent company of this magazine. ''Hustler'' magazine In March 1972, Flynt created the ''Hustler Newsletter,'' a four-page, black-and-white publication of information about his Hustler Clubs. This item became so popular with his customers that by May 1972 he expanded the ''Hustler Newsletter'' to 16 pages and in August 1973, to 32 pages. As a result of the 1973 oil crisis the United States entered an economic recession; Hustler Club customers tightened their spending and Flynt had to find financing to pay his debts or go bankrupt. He decided to turn the ''Hustler Newsletter'' into a sexually-explicit national magazine. He paid the ...
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Guitar World
''Guitar World'' is a monthly music magazine for guitarists and fans of guitar-based music and trends. The magazine has been published since July 1980. ''Guitar World'', the best-selling guitar magazine in the United States, contains original artist interviews and profiles, plus lessons and columns with tablature and associated audio files or videos, gear reviews, news, and exclusive tablature for guitar and bass of three songs per issue. The magazine is published 13 times per year, including 12 monthly issues and a holiday issue, by Future plc. Damian Fanelli has been ''Guitar World''s editor-in-chief since June 2018. History 20th century Stanley Harris, a New York magazine publisher, launched ''Guitar World'' magazine in July 1980. The magazine's debut issue featured bluesman Johnny Winter on the cover and included pieces on the Allman Brothers Band, George Thorogood and pedal steel guitars. ''Guitar World''s debut issue was only 82 pages, had a very small staff and budget ...
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Ultimate Guitar
Ultimate Guitar (Ultimate Guitar USA LLC), also known as Ultimate-Guitar.com or simply UG, is an online platform for guitarists and musicians, started on October 9, 1998 by Eugeny Naidenov and based in San Francisco, US. Its website and mobile application provide free and paid user-submitted guitar tablatures and chord sheets, as well as video courses, reviews of music and equipment, interviews with musicians and forums. It is now part of Muse Group. Features Users of Ultimate Guitar are able to view, request, vote and comment on tablatures in the site's forum. Guitar Pro and Power Tab files can be run through programs in order to play the tablature. Members can also submit album, multimedia and gear reviews, as well as guitar lessons and news articles. Approved works are published on the website. The forum is moderated, but there has been no censorship of curse and swear words since September 1, 2015. From 2007 until 2014, Ultimate Guitar allowed its users to create prof ...
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Time Signature
A time signature (also known as meter signature, metre signature, and measure signature) is an indication in music notation that specifies how many note values of a particular type fit into each measure ( bar). The time signature indicates the meter of a musical movement at the bar level. In a music score the time signature appears as two stacked numerals, such as (spoken as ''four–four time''), or a time symbol, such as (spoken as ''common time''). It immediately follows the key signature (or if there is no key signature, the clef symbol). A mid-score time signature, usually immediately following a barline, indicates a change of meter. Most time signatures are either simple (the note values are grouped in pairs, like , , and ), or compound (grouped in threes, like , , and ). Less common signatures indicate complex, mixed, additive, and irrational meters. Time signature notation Most time signatures consist of two numerals, one stacked above the other: * ...
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