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Noodles (musician)
Kevin John Wasserman (born February 4, 1963), better known by his stage name Noodles, is an American musician and singer who serves as the lead guitarist and backing vocalist for The Offspring. Biography Kevin John Wasserman was born in Los Angeles, California. Before joining The Offspring, Noodles played in a local band called Clowns of Death. He was allegedly in The Offspring because he was the only person old enough to provide alcohol for the rest of the members. He earned the nickname "Noodles" for his frequent ''noodling'' on the guitar. At one of the band's earlier shows, he was stabbed in the shoulder by a skinhead. During the band's early days, Noodles worked as a janitor at Earl Warren Elementary School in Garden Grove. Before '' Smash'' was released, he had been planning to quit the band, but the surprising success of " Come Out and Play" forced him to reconsider. On their DVD release '' Huck It'' (2000), as part of a mock interview, Noodles claims to like the "finer t ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
The Offspring
The Offspring is an American rock band from Garden Grove, California, formed in 1984. Originally formed under the name Manic Subsidal, the band's current lineup consists of lead vocalist and rhythm guitarist Bryan "Dexter" Holland, lead guitarist Kevin "Noodles" Wasserman and bassist Todd Morse. Over the course of their -year career, The Offspring have released 10 studio albums and have also experienced a number of lineup changes, most notably with their drummer. Their longest-serving drummer was Ron Welty, who replaced original drummer James Lilja in 1987 and stayed with The Offspring for 16 years. Welty was replaced by Atom Willard in 2003, who was replaced four years later by Pete Parada, who remained as the drummer for The Offspring until 2021. Gregory "Greg K." Kriesel (one of the Offspring's cofounders) was their bassist until 2018, when he was fired from the band due to business disputes, thus leaving Holland as the sole remaining original member. Kriesel was replac ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Come Out And Play (The Offspring Song)
"Come Out and Play" (sometimes subtitled "Keep 'Em Separated") is a 1994 song by the Californian punk rock group the Offspring. It is the seventh track on their third album, '' Smash'' (1994), and was released as its first single. Written by frontman Dexter Holland, the song was the second single to be released by the band, after " I'll Be Waiting" (1986). It is considered the Offspring's breakthrough song, as it received widespread radio play, with first attention brought by Jed the Fish of KROQ-FM, and reached number one on the ''Billboard'' Modern Rock Tracks chart, bringing both the band and the punk rock genre to widespread attention. The song also appears as the second track on their ''Greatest Hits'' album (2005). Composition Dexter Holland said that most songs on ''Smash'' "were just about whatever was happening in front of me". In the case of "Come Out And Play", it was about gang and school violence: "Back then I was a grad student and I was commuting to school everyda ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Self Esteem (song)
"Self Esteem" is a song by the American punk rock band The Offspring. It is the eighth track and second single from their third studio album, ''Smash (The Offspring album), Smash''. The song was a worldwide hit, reaching number one in Iceland, Norway and Sweden. "Self Esteem" was nominated for the 1995 MTV MTV Europe Music Awards 1995, Europe Music Awards for Best Song. The song also appears as the third track on their ''Greatest Hits (The Offspring album), Greatest Hits'' (2005). Critical reception ''Music & Media'' commented, "Coming out once more to play the role of Nirvana (band), Nirvana's perfect replacement, Offspring delivers the punky action so sadly missed on rock radio because of Seattlers who take themselves way too seriously." In 2012, ''Loudwire'' ranked the song number four on their list of the 10 greatest Offspring songs, and in 2021, ''Kerrang!, Kerrang'' ranked the song number two on their list of the 20 greatest Offspring songs. Music video The music video for ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Complete Music Video Collection
''Complete Music Video Collection'' is an extensive video album (released in DVD and Universal Media Disc, UMD formats) by the American punk rock band The Offspring. It was released to accompany the ''Greatest Hits (The Offspring album), Greatest Hits'' CD, which arrived a month earlier, and shows all of the band's music video, videos between 1994 and 2005 (except for "Million Miles Away (The Offspring song), Million Miles Away"). It also contains 11 live performances, two extra videos, an interview, and commentary by the band. Track listing *All songs with commentary, except for "Can't Repeat". #"Come Out and Play (The Offspring song), Come Out and Play (Keep 'Em Separated)" – 3:16 #"Self Esteem (song), Self Esteem" – 4:26 #"Gotta Get Away (The Offspring song), Gotta Get Away" – 4:12 #"All I Want (The Offspring song), All I Want" – 1:57 #"Gone Away (song), Gone Away" – 4:31 #"The Meaning of Life (The Offspring song), The Meaning of Life" – 2:58 #"I Choose" – 4:02 # ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Jackson Guitars
Jackson is a manufacturer of electric guitars and electric bass guitars that bears the name of its founder, Grover Jackson. The company was acquired by the Fender Musical Instruments Corporation in 2002, which manufactures Jackson-branded guitars in its Corona, California, US and Ensenada, Mexico facilities. Low-priced "budget" models are produced by sub-contractors in Indonesia and China. History Early years Grover Jackson obtained part ownership in Charvel's Guitar Repair of Glendora, California in the 1970s. Wayne Charvel eventually filed bankruptcy and sold his interest to Grover Jackson on November 10, 1978, which gave Jackson control of the Charvel name. Jackson Guitars originated in 1980 when guitarist Randy Rhoads approached the company with an idea for an individualized guitar. The collaborative design effort between Rhoads, Grover Jackson, Tim Wilson, and Jackson's masterbuilder, Mike Shannon, resulted in the creation of the ''Concorde'', an innovative revamp of t ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Fender Stratocaster
The Fender Stratocaster, colloquially known as the Strat, is a model of electric guitar designed from 1952 into 1954 by Leo Fender, Bill Carson, George Fullerton, and Freddie Tavares. The Fender Musical Instruments Corporation has continuously manufactured the Stratocaster since 1954. It is a double- cutaway guitar, with an extended top "horn" shape for balance. Along with the Gibson Les Paul, Gibson SG, and Fender Telecaster, it is one of the most-often emulated electric guitar shapes. "Stratocaster" and "Strat" are trademark terms belonging to Fender. Guitars that duplicate the Stratocaster by other manufacturers are sometimes called ''S-Type'' or ''ST-type'' guitars. The guitar introduced into the popular market several features that were innovative for electric guitars in the mid-1950s. The distinctive body shape, which has become commonplace among electric guitars, was revolutionary for the time period, and for the first time a mass-market electric guitar did not signi ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Paul Reed Smith
Paul Reed Smith (born February 18, 1956) is an American luthier and the founder and owner of PRS Guitars, a high-end guitar maker. Early life Smith graduated from Bowie High School in 1974. He also attended St. Mary's College of Maryland where he began his guitar-making career. He subsequently left the college. Mentorship under Ted McCarty Smith contacted Ted McCarty, former president of Gibson and creator of the Explorer, ES-335, and Flying V guitars, and McCarty became his mentor and advisor. The result of their collaboration was the current line of PRS Guitars, which include solid and hollow-body guitars. The Private Stock line of PRS guitars are made utilizing a range of exotic materials including various stones, elaborately figured tonewoods, and intricate shells for inlays Inlay covers a range of techniques in sculpture and the decorative arts for inserting pieces of contrasting, often colored materials into depressions in a base object to form Ornament (ar ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Gibson Les Paul
The Gibson Les Paul is a solid body electric guitar that was first sold by the Gibson Guitar Corporation in 1952. The guitar was designed by factory manager John Huis and his team with input from and endorsement by guitarist Les Paul. Its typical design features a solid mahogany body with a carved maple top and a single cutaway, a mahogany set-in neck with a rosewood fretboard, two pickups with independent volume and tone controls, and a stoptail bridge, although variants exist. The Les Paul was originally offered with a gold finish and two P-90 pickups. In 1957, humbucking pickups were added, along with sunburst finishes in 1958. The 1958–1960 sunburst Les Paul, today one of the best-known electric guitar types in the world, was considered a commercial failure, with low production and sales. For 1961, the Les Paul was redesigned into what is now known as the Gibson SG. The original single-cutaway, carved top bodystyle was re-introduced in 1968. The Les Paul has been pr ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Fender Telecaster
The Fender Telecaster, colloquially known as the Tele , is an electric guitar produced by Fender. Together with its sister model the Esquire, it is the world's first mass-produced, commercially successful Les Paul had built a prototype solid body electric guitar known as "The Log" in the 1940s, but could not market his invention. Gibson produced the Gibson Les Paul guitar in 1952 after bringing on Paul to help design a commercial model to compete with Fender. Likewise, Paul Bigsby and Merle Travis designed and built a solid-body electric in 1948, but this was a one-off guitar. solid-body electric guitar. Its simple yet effective design and revolutionary sound broke ground and set trends in electric guitar manufacturing and popular music. Introduced for national distribution as the Broadcaster in the autumn of 1950 as a two-pickup version of its sister model, the single-pickup Esquire, the pair were the first guitars of their kind manufactured on a substantial scale. A tr ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
MusicRadar
MusicRadar is a music website that offers information pertaining to artists and their music. The site features music gear news and reviews, artist interviews and online music and production tutorials. It is owned by British media company Future plc, which incorporates monthly music-making titles including '' Total Guitar'', ''Guitarist'', ''Keyboard Magazine'' and ''Computer Music''. One of Future's music portals besides Louder, it identifies itself as "The No. 1 website for musicians"."About Us" musicradar.com (retrieved 18 June 2017). The site was launched in December 2007 and originally included "major areas for amateur and professional musici ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Duct Tape
Duct tape (also called duck tape, from the cotton duck cloth it was originally made of) is cloth- or scrim-backed pressure-sensitive tape, often coated with polyethylene. There are a variety of constructions using different backings and adhesives, and the term 'duct tape' has been genericized to refer to different cloth tapes with differing purposes. A variation is heat-resistant foil tape useful for sealing heating and cooling ducts, produced because the adhesive on standard duct tape fails and the synthetic fabric reinforcement mesh deteriorates when used on heating ducts. Duct tape is generally silvery gray in color, but also available in other colors and printed designs, from whimsical yellow ducks, college logos to practical camouflage patterns. It is often confused with gaffer tape (which is designed to be non-reflective and cleanly removed, unlike duct tape). During World War II, Revolite (then a division of Johnson & Johnson) developed an adhesive tape made from ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
