the project, in the hope he would pull a rabbit out of the hat. The explosive result was Tommy. Personalities | Introducing The Who Personalities | The Who | Live & Loud (1966) | Key Events ...
, and Townshend elaborated on it further when he appeared on the first edition of the TV show A Whole Scene Going on 5 January 1966. In front of a live audience, he stated that the band used drugs regularly and were ‘blocked’ a lot of the time. The confession created a minor furore. March ‘A Legal Matter’ Despite efforts ...
years. Billed as ‘Stars of Monterey Pop Festival’, the band were exposed on this tour to a vast audience across North America, which helped cement their reputation as a live act. This period wasn’t without controversy, however, and they returned to the UK in September greatly in debt. August Moon’s 21st Birthday Twenty-third of August 1967 will always ...
documentary All You Need Is Love, which aired later that year. The tour included shows at the legendary Fillmore West and Fillmore East, both recorded for a possible live album. The Fillmore East show in New York, though, was overshadowed by the shooting of Martin Luther King. The authorities were naturally a bit twitchy around a band ...
to drift towards oblivion before suddenly bringing it back to a crescendo of intensity. Notable fans have included Jimi Hendrix, Eric Clapton and Jeff Beck. Guy is essentially a live performer who has found it hard to channel his unpredictable virtuosity into the confines of a recording studio. George Guy was born into a sharecropping family in Lettsworth, Louisiana ...
(Vocal/instrumental group, 1989–2009) Formed in Pennsylvania, Live – who pulled their name out of a hat – comprise Chad Taylor (guitar), Patrick Dahlheimer (bass), Chad Gracey (drums) and Ed Kowalczyk (vocals). Local shows soon won a following for their blend of rock with a spiritual message that suggested a 40-watt U2. Their debut album Metal Jewelry (1991) won a ...
source. The instrument comes in framed or non-framed varieties and is visually dramatic. The most famous exponent of the laser harp is the French musician Jean-Michel Jarre, whose spectacular live shows often feature the instrument. Soundbeam Soundbeam was invented by composer Edward Williams ‘to give dancers a new relationship with music’. It is an invisible ultrasonic beam, scalable over ...
Stockhausen and Varèse, and anticipated the use of samplers in dance music by more than 30 years. Crucially, it showed it was possible to mount a musical performance without live performers, paving the way for discos and nightclubs from the 1960s onwards. New electronic instruments were introduced with increasing frequency, and although they were initially used by experimental ...
One of the first computer composers, Iannis Xenakis (1922–2001), wrote a computer program, in the FORTRAN programming language, to produce musical scores that could be played by live musicians. More recent examples include the program M – originally produced in the 1980s, now revived and distributed by Cycling ’74. M is capable of generating endless variations of ...
But by the 1960s, as electrification gradually became the norm for contemporary country music, more and more singers began relying on drums to enhance rhythmic percussion and their live and recorded music. Still, as a rule, drums tend to play a more subdued role in country music’s overall mix than in rock’n’roll. Other Instruments Though less central ...
(b. 1951) of Genesis and Keith Moon (1946–78) – developed extensive drum solos, like that in Led Zeppelin’s ‘Moby Dick’, which John Bonham could extend to 30 minutes in live performance. Introduction | Percussion Instruments Instruments | Keyboard Percussion ...
as were both the expressive use of feedback and new pedal effects on the electric guitar. The availability of programmable drum machines and synthesizers during the late 1970s meant that live musicians could be dispensed with for the first time. Bands such as Kraftwerk consisted entirely of synthesizer players, and the instrument dominated 1980s’ music until the re-emergence of guitar-based ...
in transit, like the bagpipes. In Atlantic City’s Convention Hall, by contrast, there is the largest organ ever built. A deaf and vibration-insensitive tenant could quite feasibly live inside it, walking the length of several city blocks each day without retracing a single step. Equipped with two giant consoles, one with seven manuals, the other ...
and the way we hear it. The increasing prevalence of recorded classical music has meant that some listeners can have unrealistic expectations of music in a concert hall. When a live performance differs from their favourite CD in terms of balance, tempo or interpretation, they can sometimes be disappointed. The purpose of recording is to extend the life of ...
performance has become an increasingly important part of our culture. The studio has long been more than simply an acoustically pleasing environment in which to capture and document a particular live performance. Under the guiding production hand of George Martin, The Beatles embraced studio technology as part of the creative process. The work of bands like Pink Floyd with Alan ...
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