Berry’s friend Ira Harris taught him new guitar techniques that became the basis for the Chuck Berry sound. On a trip to Chicago, he hooked up with his idol Muddy Waters who sent him over to Chess Records to make a record. Berry had no recordings of his own and had to return to St. Louis to put some music together on tape. One of those songs was “Maybelline” which would become his first big hit. The
By 12 he was contributing to the family income by giving music lessons. Mertz eventually devoted most of his energies to the guitar, but it was not until he was 34 that he moved to Vienna to launch his career as a concert guitarist. He appeared in a concert at the Hofburgtheater in Vienna in November 1840 under the patronage of the Empress Carolina Augusta. The success of this concert introduced Mertz to the Viennese social, political, and artistic elite. Attesting to his early Viennese triumphs, guitar music by Mertz was first published during this same period by the prestigious Haslinger publishing house of Vienna.
Among many of his compositions most successful include: Livin’ thing, Xanadu, Mr Blue Sky, Do Ya, I won’t back down and Free Fallin’. Early Life and Career beginnings Jeff Lynne’s first guitar was bought for him by his father for just 2 pounds, a guitar that he still plays today and the instrument that was to start a incredibly successful career. In 1963 he set up a group that played with only Spanish guitars and cheap electrical instruments to create music, they were originally called “The Rockin’ Hellcats” and after many name changes became “The Andicaps”. In 1964, the other members of the group left and by the end of the same year Lynne left the group himself to join local band “The Chads”. In 1965, Jeff bought a “Bang and Olufsen Beocord 2000 De Luxe stereo reel-to-reel tape recorder.
Dylan begun to listen to folk and rock pioneers: Hank Williams, Robert Johnson and Woody Guthrie. Dylan soon found himself not interested in school and playing in nearby coffee houses. Dylan around this time had begun to master the harmonica and adopted his stage name "Bob Dylan". Dylan took his stage name from a popular poet named Dylan Thomas. The next year Bob Dylan dropped out of school andwent to New York.
Concert Critique – Dave Matthews Band - 31 August 2012 The Dave Matthews Band is one of the most popular touring bands in the United States of America and enjoys a huge following. The original members of the band are Dave Matthews (acoustic guitar/lead vocals), Carter Beauford (percussion, back-up vocals), Boyd Tinsley (violin), and Stefan Lessard (bass). Jeff Coffin (saxophone) joined the band in 2008 after founding member, LeRoi Moore died in 2008 from complications from a motor vehicle accident. Each summer, since the late 1990’s, The Dave Matthews Band embarks on a cross-country tour that draws hundreds of thousands of fans and loyal listeners. On August 31st, 2012, the band played an outdoor concert at the Gorge Amphitheater in George, Washington, playing a 25-song set, almost 3 hours in length.
Berry Jr. was the seventh of eight children of Bertha and Berry Sr. Love and family ruled for the large Gordy clan. After attending Northeastern High, Berry Jr. chased a dream of becoming a professional boxer. He even once fought on the same card as Joe Louis. He served in the Korean War and returned to Detroit to work at Ford's Mercury plant, earning $85 a week. Bored with his assembly line job, he spent all his free time writing songs.
Sara Quandt Bill Frisell “Hallelujah” Leonard Cohen Remake by: Sam Shrieve, Jeff Buckley, and Bill Frisell Bill Frisell, born 1951, is guitarist, composer and arranger. He has been a leading guitarist in jazz since the 1980’s. He has a very unique style of music that can be expressed as folk, country, classical, and of course jazz. He is well known for the effects and sounds that he is able to produce from his guitar. Bill was born in Baltimore, Maryland but soon moved to Denver, Colorado where he was raised.
As good old Mr. Sinatra said, “If I can make it here, I can make it anywhere.” Francis Albert Sinatra was born on December 12, 1915 in Hoboken, New Jersey. He was the only child of Sicilian immigrants who moved to the states to make a better life for their family. At a young age Sinatra loved music and was influenced by many of the artist of his time such as Bing Crosby and Billie Holiday. As a teenager, he dropped out of high school and began to sing at local night clubs. Radio exposure brought him to the attention of bandleader Harry James, with whom Sinatra made his first recordings, including "All or Nothing at All."
while travaling with the circus he acquired a taste for adventure. after a summer of chores on a farm, jobs as an enineer, construction worker, ranch hand, truck xzdriver, a sailor, and the iditarod two times he has plenty of life experience's to write millions of books. Gary Paulsenfinally realized that he would be a writer suddenly came to him when he was working as a satellite technician for an aerospace firm in california. He walked off the job and never looked back. For the next three hundred and sixty five days he was a magazine proofreader in Hollywood.
That night we arrived at Benning after 14 long, grueling hours on a greyhound bus. We step off and of course there was nobody around except one Black hat (instructor) he said two things; one here is your room and be ready for week one, Ground Week, on Monday morning. The first week, Ground Week, was intense. I was drenched in sweat from 4AM to 6PM, we did a PT (physical training) test right off the bat 0400 that Monday I smoked it of course. After that we spent the day in processing which is always the boring part I thought, not this time if we weren’t busy we were doing PT.