Southern blues-rock guitarist Dickey Betts was born in West Palm Beach, Florida in 1943. Betts was leading a group called The Second Coming when he met and jammed with the other members of what soon became The Allman Brothers Band. His role as second lead guitarist and his partnership with Duane Allman gave the band their trademark dual-lead sound, ...
(Producer, vocals, b. 1965) Clifford Price a.k.a. Goldie was the most significant and visual exponent of the dance style known as jungle that emerged out of drum’n’bass in the UK in 1993. Early Angel EP (1993) and ‘Inner City Life’ single (1995) were masterful and his major label debut album Timeless (1995) confirmed his talent. A highly ...
(1995). A lush orchestral cover version of 1948 hit ‘It’s Oh So Quiet’ demonstrated the eclectic nature of her music. Despite media intrusion into her personal life – Tricky and Goldie had both been lovers – Björk began producing her own albums and success continued. Following her own muse at all times, she even recorded a vocals only-album, Medulla ...
Garbage (2001) and subsequent Bleed Like Me (2005) shows that, as producers and musicians, Garbage still retain their edge. Styles & Forms | Nineties | Rock Personalities | Goldie | Nineties | Rock ...
As a guitarist and songwriter, Nuno Bettencourt draws from many styles and influences. Born in the Portuguese archipelago of the Azores in 1966, Bettencourt grew up in Boston, Massachusetts. As a teenager, he began playing drums, bass and keyboards, but ultimately chose guitar as his primary instrument, drawing heavy influence from Eddie Van Halen ...
became soothing. One DJ, LTJ Bukem, had pre-empted the split from the ragga sound with his mellowcore ‘Logical Progression’, ‘Demon’s Theme’ and ‘Music’ releases. For his part, Goldie delivered ‘Angel’ and his masterpiece, ‘Inner City Life’, which he described as ‘ghetto blues for the 1990s’. Others such as Omni Trio, Foul Play, A Guy Called ...
wind their bodies to the music put an end to that notion. Turned onto the music by future DJs Kemistry and Storm at Rage, a young graffiti artist named Goldie began to make exhilarating, disturbing, futuristic opuses such as ‘Terminator’. Despite its uniqueness, the sound was pointedly ignored by the media, even the newly formed dance-music ...
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