(Vocal/instrumental group, 1980–91) The talented Paul Westerberg (vocals, guitar) was the main songwriter of this highly influential alternative rock outfit. Brothers Bob and Tommy Stinson (guitar and bass) and Chris Mars (drums) completed this initially shambolic punk band. After three albums on local Minneapolis label Twin-Tone, Tommy Ramone produced Tim (1985). Westerberg’s hooky garage rock songs pointed forward ...
to affirm rock music as a lifelong focus for community. The passing of Keith Moon and John Entwistle lent sombre weight to the legend of The Who. Excellent as their replacements may be, the potent four-way chemistry of the band could never be reconstituted. But nobody wants to close this story down. Townshend and Daltrey have intermittently reunited. Their nostalgic ...
(Vocal/instrumental group, 1985–present) The Jayhawks grew out of the same Minneapolis scene that produced Hüsker Dü and The Replacements, but the rock band led by Gary Louris (vocals, guitar, b. 1959) and Mark Olson (vocals, guitar, b. 1961) turned in a folkier, more country direction in reaction to their neighbours. After two small-label albums ...
, he was giving guitar lessons to students, one of whom was his classmate Steve Vai. In the mid-1970s, he was on a Rolling Stones list of possible replacements for Mick Taylor before they opted for Ron Wood. Unsure what musical direction to take, Satriani spent two months studying with jazz pianist Lennie Tristano and six months living ...
The Old 97’. But the group’s chief songwriters, Rhett Miller (vocals, guitar, b. 1970) and Murry Hammond, seemed influenced as much by the pop-punk of The Replacements as by Cash or Gram Parsons. Miller had a knack for jangly melodic hooks, and those hooks were surrounded by country twang and punk momentum on early records such ...
With PiL Lydon proved he was no one-trick pony but a major player and innovator. The band re-formed in 2009. Styles & Forms | Eighties | Rock Personalities | The Replacements | Eighties | Rock ...
performing careers. The Pioneers ended their film series with Rogers in 1948 and the end of the 1940s also saw the retirement of Tim Spencer and Bob Nolan. Their initial replacements were Ken Curtis, a former big-band crooner turned western film star, and Nolan sound-alike Spike Doss. Roy Rogers became a television star in the 1950s, and though ...
(Vocal/instrumental group, 1986–present) Johnny Rzeznik (guitar, vocals), Robby Takec (bass, vocals) and George Tutuska (drums) formed The Goo Goo Dolls in Buffalo, New York, in 1986. Their first two albums took inspiration from the new wave although there were endless comparisons to the pop-punk sound of The Replacements. By Superstar Car Wash (1993) and A Boy ...
engineer’) of distinction through his work with Nirvana, The Pixies and even his heroes Cheap Trick. Unlike their rivals R.E.M., Minneapolis bands Hüsker Dü and The Replacements never quite became household names. However, the songwriting skills of guitarist Bob Mould and drummer Grant Hart remain among the most celebrated of the US underground and beyond. Like ...
and not with British Invasion rock as Earle himself had. Instead these new bands fused their newfound fascination for country music with their original enthusiasm for the punk-rock of the Replacements, R.E.M., Hüsker Dü and X. This recipe gave their country-rock a faster, noisier, more staccato sound than any country-rock that had come before. But ...
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