(Vocal/instrumental group, 1995–2004, 2009–present) One of the biggest post-grunge rock acts, formed in Tallahassee, Florida, in 1995, Scott Stapp (vocals), Mark Tremonti (guitar, vocals), Brian Marshall (bass) and Scott Phillips (drums) self-financed their debut album My Own Prison (1998). This collection of powerful rock tunes and genuinely spiritual lyrics went on to spawn a ...
acclaim for Hubbard. His subsequent albums included the politically themed, abstract electronic composition Sing Me A Song Of Songmy (1971), and in 1970 he broke new ground on producer Creed Taylor’s CTI label. Taylor was a master at reshaping jazz with more popular flourishes such as electric instruments and strings, and Hubbard benefitted greatly from his touch. The soulful ...
Mark Tremonti (b. 1974) rose to fame as the lead guitarist of Creed, enjoying enormous success at the turn of the twenty-first century with metal-influenced songs that crossed over to the pop charts. Tremonti’s tasteful power has garnered him many fans. His instructional DVD The Sound And The Story adds tips from several guitarists, including Michael Angelo Batio, ...
(1993) and No Need To Argue (1994) both produced by Stephen Street best showcase their radio-friendly sound. On hiatus since 2004. Styles & Forms | Nineties | Rock Personalities | Creed | Nineties | Rock ...
Buddy, before beginning a solo career that brought him to the top of the jazz sales charts. He moved successfully into pop-jazz crossovers, under the direction of producer Creed Taylor, before his sudden death from a heart attack. Styles & Forms | Sixties | Jazz & Blues Personalities | Lee Morgan | Sixties | Jazz & Blues ...
love affair with bossa nova. Back in the States, Byrd played some bossa nova tapes to his friend, the soft-toned tenor saxophonist Stan Getz, who then convinced Creed Taylor at Verve to record an album of the alluring Brazilian music with himself and Byrd. Their historic 1962 collaboration, Jazz Samba, introduced the bossa nova sound to ...
rave reviews. The glory days of what we traditionally recognize as grunge rock are long gone, but Nirvana drummer Dave Grohl has found success with The Foo Fighters and Creed, Live, Silverchair, Bush, Everclear and 3 Doors Down have all borrowed liberally from grunge’s stripped-down formula, reaping their own multi-platinum rewards. ‘A lot of kids ...
Phaedra and Mike Oldfield’s Tubular Bells. Vangelis wrote the utopian soundtrack for cult sci-fi movie Bladerunner, which sowed the seeds for the fusion of the techno-Futurist and spiritual enlightenment creed associated with new age. New age also took inspiration from the neoclassical work of Eno collaborator Harold Budd’s albums,The Pavilion Of Dreams and Abandoned Cities, and minimalists like ...
January The Sex Pistols Get The Bullet On 6 January 1977 EMI Records terminated its contract with The Sex Pistols, saying it was unable to promote the group’s records ‘in view of the adverse publicity generated over the past two months’. The media furore over the Pistols’ TV appearance six weeks earlier had barely abated and now politicians were weighing ...
In the late Baroque era music both consolidated earlier developments and looked forward to the new styles of the classical era. The output of the two greatest composers of the time, J. S. Bach and Handel, reflects the general trends in music. The main forms – notably the sonata, concerto and opera – became longer and more complex ...
William John Clifton Haley was born on 6 July 1925 in Highland Park, Detroit, and raised near Chester, Pennsylvania. His parents were both musical, and he got his first proper guitar when he was 13. Even though he was blind in one eye and shy about his disability (he later tried to distract from it with his ...
(Vocal/instrumental group, 1965–68) This most striking of London’s ‘mod’ groups climaxed their act with vocalist Kenny Pickett splashing an action painting on to a canvas that was then set alight, and lead guitarist Eddie Phillips pioneered the scraping of a violin bow across a fretboard, most conspicuously on 1966’s ‘Painter Man’, a modest chart foray at home that ...
To this day, many still contend that a written song is not a folk song. Purists claim that only a traditional song, shaped and honed by the environmental context that produced it and handed down by word of mouth through the generations, can justly claim to be true folk music. Indeed, the great Scots folklorist, writer ...
Taking its lead from the loud blues rock of late-1960s bands such as Cream and The Grateful Dead, southern rock materialized with the release of The Allman Brothers Band’s eponymous 1969 debut album, which embellished a fusion of rock’n’roll, blues, country and jazz with a distinct good ol’ boy edge from directly below the Mason-Dixon Line. Natives ...
Popular music’s most influential decade saw British and American rock develop in parallel, the creative torch passing across the Atlantic to The Beatles, then returning as the West Coast rock boom reflected the influence of drugs on music. In rock, guitar was now the undisputed focus of the music with ‘axe heroes’ like Clapton, Hendrix, Townshend ...
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