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Limp Bizkit And Other Bands
1,381 words... ic industry. No one is there to actually help you; all they want it to get their share. For a first time release of an album an artist may receive 25 cents per CD sold. That is twenty-five cents from a record that the consumer just paid $17.89 for. To break even on the starting album for a band has become virtually impossible, this is I have decided to follow in the footstep of my personal mentor. Bands such as The Dave Matthews Band are well known for their acceptance of file sharing. This ...
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Being A Live Band
1,625 wordsDishwallaListen closely to Dishwalla, and you discover there is blood on these tracks. Twelve years and five albums after the band from Santa Barbara, California made their debut, Dishwalla endures. Together the group - lead singer JR Richards, guitarist Rodney Browning, bassist Scot Alexander, keyboardist Jim Wood and drummer Pete Maloney -have survived record company musical chairs, countless musical trends, and even the curious challenge of having their very own smash hit right out of the box...
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Big Bands As The Swinging Bands
1,694 wordsSwingin' in the 1930's: A decade innovative music Thesis: Music of the 1930's took an interesting ride with swing. It was not only a musical pastime, but a way of life; those who brought it to us, will live on forever. Towards the beginning of the 1930's, the nation was grasped by the effects of a Great Depression. The economy was on hold, but the music was not. As the 1930's began to take shape, they gave birth to a new era of music. The melancholy sound of the early years of the Depression had...
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Slipknot's Music
277 wordsIn '99, the spore called Slipknot exploded. Now, in 2002, the infestation continues. Hailing from the 'middle of nowhere' - Des Moines, Iowa - they are nine men in nine different masks united with one common goal: world domination. Fortified with an arsenal of blistering music saturated with screams, drums, searing riffs, sampling, scratches and melody, Slipknot's music runs the scale from eerily thought-provoking to utterly terrifying. Their self-titled debut album went platinum in the US (the ...
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Earlier Big Band And Swing Music
1,116 wordsBorn in New York City, Artie Shaw would become one of the top bandleaders in the swing era. He began his musical career as a highly sought-after alto saxophone player in the New York area, and was able to benefit from the growth of radio and studio recordings. As he perfected his technical ability with various dance bands, he was still relatively unknown in the early 30's when he began to focus exclusively on the Clarinet while Swing music began to grow in popularity. While we may carefully anal...
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Promotion From The Record Company
1,870 wordsIn order to organise a tour for a signed act, it takes the efforts of management, the record company, agent and promoter. Although each have their individual responsibilities and ways of working it is required of them to work together as a team in order to make a tour possible, or even for just one gig. They each contribute an essential part of the process and organisational strategies and without co-operation of each unit organising a tour would be practically impossible. Disagreements could ca...
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Music Censorship
1,175 wordsRaging Against the Machine Imagine the world without music. Or imagine a world where we are told what to play, what to sing and even what we may listen to in the privacy of our own homes. That world already exists. A very politically charged band known as Rage Against Machine is one band out of thousands that has run into problems with the explicit nature of their music. To make a statement, Rage Against The Machine (RATM) had hung two upside-down American flags from their amps. Seconds before t...
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Sousas Band
1,028 wordsZeitgeist: John Philip Sousa Artists do not create in a vacuum. They reflect their times or at the very least are affected by the lives they lead which are also influenced by the public sphere. The term for this reflection is Zeitgeist. It literally means spirit of the times. John Philip Sousa and his works can be classified under this term of Zeitgeist. Most of Sousas music was composed during a period known as the gilded age. This period is known for its gross materialism and blatant political...
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Pearl Jam
640 wordsThe early '90's alt-rock rebellion, which spewed from the underground like a geyser and saved rock-n-roll from hair bands, exacted a serious toll. Band break-ups, career nosedives, sell-outs and drug abuse death are as much a legacy of that dramatic period as the music. Pearl Jam is still standing - arguably the only band from the age that still matters. "I'm totally excited about still being around", said Pearl Jam guitarist Mike McCready. While the group is still blessed with a sizeable mass o...
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My 3 Band Teachers
449 wordsWere supposed to do an essay on a person who has had a positive impact on our lives but that is a big list of people. So I decided on 3 people who have all had a contribution on my life. Music has always been in my family. Ever since I could speak I was probably singing. It has come easily to me to read music and play it on the piano or sing in different tones or rhythms. Only 3% of the world's population are musicians but it should be more. But the people who my essay is about are my 3 band tea...
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Fats Role In The Andy Kirk Band
622 wordsFats Navarro Early Background The story begins in Key West, Florida where Theodore "Fats" Navarro was born of mixed Cuban-Black-Chinese parentage on September 24, 1923. His musical training began early with piano lessons at age six, but he did not start taking music seriously until he took up the trumpet at age thirteen. He became good during his high school years. He also played tenor saxophone and played briefly with Walter Johnson's band in Miami. Apparently Fats did not care much for Key Wes...
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Top Boy Band In 1998
1,033 wordsBoy Band Bash Remember New Edition You know you do... the "Mr. Telephone Man" song... Bobby Brown and those kooky guys known as Bell Biv and DeVoe... I know you remember the late 80's... 1988, 89. New Kids On The Block were like, the boy band du jour. But alas, the 90's rolled around and heavier grunge music like Nirvana and Soundgarden, as well as a heavier, edgier rap such as Ice Cube and Snoop Doggy Dog took over the music scene... Thus ends our tale of boy bands, right WRONG! Somewhere along...
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Band's Maverick Records Debut Album
809 wordsCalifornia is home to a thriving music scene and Sacramento's hard-hitting Deftones play a major role. The four members of Deftones have been friends since childhood and have breathed life into the otherwise quiet suburban streets for the past four years with a vast amount of local gigs. Beyond Sacramento, they " ve unleashed their unique brand of music by hitting the road and building a following in the Bay Area, Reno and L.A., touring with everyone from Bad Brains and KoRn to L 7 and Quicksand...
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Ages Their Opinion On The Way Music
991 wordsI am trying to find out whether music influences a persons mood or behaviour. I will be searching the Internet for information of events due to music and peoples opinions. I will also be designing a questionnaire for people of different ages to share their views on this question. Without a doubt this project will be almost 100% opinion based as there is no scientific evidence to prove anything I am trying to find out. There has been one, big recent event to show that metropolitan police do blame...
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Most Extensive Compilation Of Jazz Music
1,339 wordsElla Fitzgerald was the most influential jazz singer of her time. Her career spanned so many decades and so many movements, from the big-band era of the '30's, to bebop in the '40's, into the golden age of the standard in the '50's (Schoemer 1). She was a master of technique, able to leap octaves, split tones, reinvent melodies, and dance all over complex rhythms. She never sang an unsophisticated note, and she always left a song better off than she had found it (Schoemer 2). This African Americ...
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Musical Changes In Jazz
3,816 wordsAs time goes by in music, style changes. Most societies are constantly learning to better themselves (with the accept ion of some cultures which purposefully stay at an e comical plateau for the purpose of maintaining tradition and religion). Everyone would agree that music has changed since, say, the 19th century although not everyone would agree that that change is for the better. But with all these views and opinions aside, music is constantly in a state of change. I'm going to look at what c...
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Our First Practice As The New Band
1,235 wordsWell, it all started soph more year of high school. My friends and I were always into rock music but around that time we really started getting into punk rock, hardcore, and indie rock. Bands like Bad Religion, 7 Seconds, The Descendants, Bad Brains, and Shutdown influenced the attitude we had toward music, as well as what we chose to listen to. One day while sitting around the lunch table with my friends Chris, Joe and Andrew, we started discussing how cool it would be to play in a band. Coinci...
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British Rock Music
1,411 wordsWhy was British rock music so successful internationally in the 1960's. Just whom do we attribute the modern era of music? The answer to these questions is quite simple, the British. Their influence on American musical life has left a lasting indention-one that will probably live forever. During the 1960's, there was a drastic change that occurred in music worldwide as people began to stand up for their beliefs and unite for the common good. The young people of the day were dubbed baby boomers a...
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Dave Matthews Band
1,381 wordsDave Matthews, aided by his incredibly talented band-mates, created music that filled a spiritual void in his fans' lives, replacing separatism with multicultural tolerance not usually advocated in today's society, using grass roots touring and advertising methods. Dave Matthews' culturally diverse background helped him to develop a culturally tolerant mentality. Most of Dave Matthews' tolerant outlook on society can be traced back to his exposure at a young age to various cultures and societies...
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Daniel Heifetz
328 wordsCry Of A People: The Jewish Soul, Journey Of The American Jew I attended a concert at the El Camino College Mar see Auditorium on Saturday, November 3, 2001, by Daniel Heifetz. A yellow shell cover surrounded the stage, which had five music stands 3 (three) on the left and 2 (two) on the right and piano on center stage. Daniel Heifetz, violin front center stage and the Classical Band: with special guest Carmen Balthrop, soprano. The Classical Band consisted of 2 (two) violinist, Janice Martin an...
