Guitarist Dave Mustaine answered another one of Ulrich’s adds. Hetfield and Ulrich recruited Mustaine only after seeing the expensive equipment he owned. Metallica recorded their first song “Hit the Lights” in early 1982 with Mustaine on lead guitar, Hetfield on rhythm and vocals, and Ulrich playing drums and bass only for this specific recording (MTV.com). Hetfield and Ulrich asked bassist Cliff Burton to join their band in fall of 1982 after being “blown away” at one of Burton’s previous band’s shows. Burton initially declined the offer, but by the end of the year he accepted on the condition the band move to the San Francisco Bay Area.
The men decided to change their name, again. Now they called themselves “The Silver Beetles.” Now, the band just needed a drummer. They went through two potential band mates, but both of them left after a few weeks. Harrison suggested the club owner’s son, Pete Best, as a potential drummer. After contacting Best, and offering him the position, he accepted.
The name Pierce the Veil is taken from a song on Before Today’s album, A Celebration of an Ending. Their first studio album, A Flair for the Dramatic, was released on June 26th 2007, as the brothers still wrote songs together and managed to write enough to make a full album. They recorded the entire album in Seattle, Washington with producer Casey Bates. A song from the album, “I’d Rather Die Than Be Famous”, was featured on Tony Hawk’s Proving Ground. Bassist and backing vocalist Jaime Preciado and lead guitarist Tony Perry joined the band just after the album was released.
Street Band. When the E. Street Band was brought together it was a hodgepodge of genre’s that enviably tightened up Springsteen’s sound and over time created a new level for future bands achieve. When Born to Run was released in 1975 and went to number three on the charts it put Bruce “The Boss” Springsteen on the map, as well as on the cover of Time and Newsweek—although his contract battle kept him from the limelight. Then in 1984 comes a release that went to number one, and stayed there for seven week—stayed on the charts for almost two years—Born in the U.S.A. put the Boss on the worldwide map without anyone holing him back from stardom
Shawn Stockman, who has been there from the beginning, was born in Philadelphia on September 26, 1972. Stockman is the group’s tenor Vocalist. Michael McCary was born on the North side of Philadelphia on December 16, 1971. He was the bass singer. In 1989 is when Boys II Men got there big break, they were fortunate enough to go back stage at a Bell Biv DeVoe concert.
Cox and Hendrix decided to form a quintet, so they could jam and make time pass by a little faster. They performed for the other troops and became quite popular along the camp. In late 1962, Hendrix broke his ankle and got let off of the army with an honorable discharge. Cox left the army two months after Hendrix, and they continued to
Oops! Tim McGraw's label, Curb Records, has gone ahead and released yet another McGraw greatest hits album - without the musician's knowledge or permission! McGraw says he feels most for his fans - "It has to be just as confusing to the fans as it is to me." That's because this is the second compilation album since 2006, with only one studio album in between. McGraw says he's been working on a studio album for over a year now, performing new tracks on tour and hoping to release the new album in the fall.
July 2001 was a busy time for Aaliyah. After the sucess of her song "Try Again" for which she was nominated for a Grammy Award and won several MTV Video Awards, Aaliyah finally released her "Aaliyah" album. Debuting at number two on the Billboard charts, "Aaliyah" was a sales success despite many lack-lustre reviews it received. In August 2001, Aaliyah took time off from her busy album promotional tour to fly to the Bahamas to film a video for the song "Rock the Boat". The video, filmed on Abaco Island, was directed by Hype Williams, a major music video director known for his style and wit.
Was it only twenty-three years ago? It seems like a lifetime, or two, has passed since that May night in 1975 when Led Zeppelin, a heavy metal, innovative band of Englishmen, clouded the Fall of Saigon by performing one of the few acts more monumental – in those faraway times - than the Communist victory in the Vietnam War. Three months following the debut of Zeppelin’s double-album, Physical Graffiti, the four powerful musicians instinctively blew the roof off the Earls Court Arena in West London, and, for the better part of two hours, strutted across the incandescent stage, demonstrating their musical prowess in front of 19,000 chin-dropped fanatics. I often picture myself residing during this magical time period of reinvention, activism,
Nugent dropped the Amboy Dukes band name for good in 1975, and signed to Epic Records. Derek St. Holmes (guitar, vocals), Rob Grange (bass) and Clifford Davies (drums) were the primary additional band members for his classic 1970s multi-platinum[8] albums: Ted Nugent (1975), Free-for-All (1976) and Cat Scratch Fever (1977). These albums produced the popular radio anthems "Hey Baby", "Stranglehold", "Dog Eat Dog", and "Cat Scratch Fever". It was during these three years that Nugent truly emerged as a guitar hero to thousands of young hard rock fans, many of whom were unaware of his lengthy apprenticeship with the Amboy Dukes. [9] This band lineup toured extensively, also releasing the multi-platinum live album Double Live Gonzo!, until its breakup