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Andrew Freeman (musician)
Andrew Freeman is an American rock singer and guitarist who has played for a number of bands, including hard rock guitarist George Lynch (musician), George Lynch's Lynch Mob (band), Lynch Mob. Freeman is currently the frontman for the hard rock supergroup Last in Line, composed of former members of Dio (band), Dio. Career Freeman was the guitarist and co-songwriter/producer for the Massachusetts band Thirty Stones, whose album ''Canvas'', produced by Zeuss, Chris "Zeuss" Harris, peaked at number 5 on ''FMQB's Metal Detector'' and ''CMJ Crucial Spins''. The band performed more than 250 concerts in 2003, appearing with bands such as Sevendust, Staind, Shadows Fall, Powerman 5000, Dope (band), Dope, Nonpoint, Hed PE, and Lacuna Coil, among others. Thirty Stones were also featured on several compilation CDs released by Cleopatra Records. The band reformed at the end of 2010, appearing on the cover of ''Advocate Weekly Newspapers, The Valley Advocate'' and performing a few shows in M ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Hard Rock
Hard rock or heavy rock is a heavier subgenre of rock music typified by aggressive vocals and Distortion (music), distorted electric guitars. Hard rock began in the mid-1960s with the Garage rock, garage, Psychedelic rock, psychedelic and blues rock movements. Some of the earliest hard rock music was produced by the Kinks, the Who, the Rolling Stones, Cream (band), Cream, Vanilla Fudge, and the Jimi Hendrix Experience. In the late 1960s, bands such as Blue Cheer, the Jeff Beck Group, Iron Butterfly, Led Zeppelin, Creedence Clearwater Revival, Golden Earring, Steppenwolf (band), Steppenwolf, Grand Funk, Free (band), Free, and Deep Purple also produced hard rock. The genre developed into a major form of popular music in the 1970s, with the Who, Led Zeppelin and Deep Purple being joined by Black Sabbath, Alice Cooper, Aerosmith, Kiss (band), Kiss, Queen (band), Queen, AC/DC, Thin Lizzy and Van Halen. During the 1980s, some hard rock bands moved away from their hard rock roots and m ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Powerman 5000
Powerman 5000 (also known as PM5K) is an American rock music, rock band formed in 1991. The group has released eleven studio albums, gaining its highest level of commercial success with 1999's ''Tonight the Stars Revolt!'', which reached number 29 on the Billboard 200, ''Billboard'' 200 while spawning the singles "When Worlds Collide (Powerman 5000 song), When Worlds Collide" and "Nobody's Real". Frontman Spider One, younger brother of fellow metal musician Rob Zombie, has been the only consistent member of the lineup since the band's formation. Biography Early years and breakthrough (1991–2002) In 1990, Spider One recorded the 12" single "Much Evil" with producer Lamar Lowder. Building on local success, including winning the Boston Phoenix/WFNX 1990 Readers' Poll "Best Rap Act" category and getting nominated for a Boston Music Award, he founded Powerman 5000 in 1991. Drummer Al Pahanish Jr., bassist Dorian Heartsong, guitarist Adam 12, and percussionist Jordan Cohen joined i ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Vinny Appice
Vincent Samson Appice (born September 13, 1957) is an American rock and metal drummer best known for his work with the bands Dio (band), Dio, Black Sabbath, and Heaven & Hell (band), Heaven & Hell. Of Italian descent, he is the younger brother of drummer Carmine Appice. Career Pre-Black Sabbath Appice took up the drums at the age of nine, taking lessons from the same teacher as his brother Carmine Appice. When he was sixteen, Appice and his band BOMF met John Lennon at Record Plant Studios. Lennon took a liking to the group and used them as a backing band in several performances, including the final one before his death. He moved on to record with Rick Derringer on ''Derringer (album), Derringer'' (1976), ''Sweet Evil'' (1977), and ''Derringer Live'' (1977), before forming his own band Axis and recording ''It's A Circus World'' (1978). Black Sabbath Appice joined Black Sabbath during the tour in support of the band's ''Heaven and Hell (Black Sabbath album), Heaven and Hell'' ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Whitesnake
Whitesnake are an English Rock music, rock band formed in London in 1978. The group were originally put together as the backing band for singer David Coverdale, who had recently left Deep Purple. Though the band quickly developed into their own entity, Coverdale is the only constant member throughout their history. Following the EP ''Snakebite (album), Snakebite'' in 1978, Whitesnake released the albums ''Trouble (Whitesnake album), Trouble'' (1978) and ''Lovehunter'' (1979), which included the live staples "Ain't No Love in the Heart of the City" and "Walking in the Shadow of the Blues". Whitesnake soon began to make a name for themselves across the UK, Europe and Japan, with their subsequent albums ''Ready an' Willing'' (1980), ''Live... in the Heart of the City'' (1980), ''Come an' Get It'' (1981) and ''Saints & Sinners (Whitesnake album), Saints & Sinners'' (1982) all reaching the top ten on the UK Albums Chart. By the mid-1980s, Coverdale had set his sights on North Americ ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Def Leppard
Def Leppard are an English Rock music, rock band formed in Sheffield in 1977. Since 1992, the band has consisted of Rick Savage (bass, backing vocals), Joe Elliott (lead vocals), Rick Allen (drummer), Rick Allen (drums), Phil Collen (guitar, backing vocals), and Vivian Campbell (guitar, backing vocals). They established themselves as part of the new wave of British heavy metal of the early 1980s. Their greatest commercial success came between the early 1980s and mid-1990s. With a line-up of Savage, Elliott, Allen and guitarists Steve Clark and Pete Willis, the band's first album, 1980's ''On Through the Night'', reached the Top 15 in the UK but received little notice elsewhere. Their second album, 1981's ''High 'n' Dry'', was produced by Robert John "Mutt" Lange, Mutt Lange, who helped them to define their melodic hard rock style. The album's most popular track "Bringin' On the Heartbreak" became one of the first rock videos played on MTV in 1982, but the album reached only t ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Vivian Campbell
Vivian Patrick Campbell (born 25 August 1962) is a Northern Irish musician. He came to prominence in the early 1980s as the guitarist of Dio. He has also been the guitarist of Def Leppard since 1992 (replacing Steve Clark after his death). Campbell has also worked with Thin Lizzy, Whitesnake, Sweet Savage, Trinity, Riverdogs and Shadow King. Biography Campbell began playing guitar at the age of 12 with a Telecaster Thinline and Carlsbro Stingray amp. When he was 15, Campbell joined Teaser, which went on to become Sweet Savage, a NWOBHM band. In 1981 they released an EP consisting of four BBC Radio sessions and their first single, "Take No Prisoners". The band's song "Killing Time" was later covered by Metallica as a B-side for their " The Unforgiven" single, and was included on Metallica's '' Garage Inc.'' covers album. Campbell left Sweet Savage in early 1983 to join Dio after guitarist Jake E. Lee was offered Randy Rhoads's spot as Ozzy Osbourne's lead guitarist in ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Ronnie James Dio
Ronald James Padavona (July 10, 1942 – May 16, 2010), known professionally as Ronnie James Dio, was an American heavy metal singer. He fronted numerous bands throughout his career, including Elf, Rainbow, Black Sabbath, Dio and Heaven & Hell. Dio's music career began in 1957 as part of the Vegas Kings (later Ronnie and the Rumblers). In 1967, he formed the rock band Elf, in which he sang and played bass. In 1975, Deep Purple guitarist Ritchie Blackmore founded the band Rainbow and hired Dio to be the lead singer; during his tenure, the band released three studio albums. Dio quickly emerged as one of heavy rock's pre-eminent vocalists. In 1979, Dio replaced Ozzy Osbourne as Black Sabbath's lead singer and appeared on three studio albums with the band, all three of which met with success: '' Heaven & Hell'' (1980), '' Mob Rules'' (1981) and '' Dehumanizer'' (1992). In 1982, he left to form the band Dio, which itself had two albums certified platinum by the RIAA. In 2006, he f ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Rise And Fall, Rage And Grace
''Rise and Fall, Rage and Grace'' is the eighth studio album by American punk rock band the Offspring, released on June 11, 2008, by Columbia Records., Offspring.com, 04-09-2008 It was the band's first album of new material in five years, following 2003's ''Splinter'', marking their longest gap between studio albums at the time. The Offspring had been working on new material since the fall of 2004,Offspring Bring The Hits Ultimate-Guitar.com, September 24, 2004 but showed no further signs of progress until November 2006, when they announced on their official website that they had begun recording with producer |
The Offspring
The Offspring is an American Rock music, rock band formed in Garden Grove, California, in 1984. Originally formed under the name Manic Subsidal, the band currently consists of lead vocalist and guitarist Dexter Holland, Bryan "Dexter" Holland, lead guitarist Noodles (musician), Kevin "Noodles" Wasserman, bassist Todd Morse, multi-instrumentalist Jonah Nimoy, and drummer Brandon Pertzborn. The Offspring is often credited (alongside fellow Punk rock in California, California punk bands Green Day, NOFX, Bad Religion, Rancid (band), Rancid, and Pennywise (band), Pennywise) for reviving mainstream interest in punk rock during the mid-1990s. During their -year career, the Offspring has released eleven studio albums and sold more than 40 million records, making them one of the best-selling punk rock bands. The Offspring's longest-serving drummer was Ron Welty, who replaced original drummer James Lilja in 1987. He was replaced by Atom Willard, Adam "Atom" Willard in 2003, who was replac ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Advocate Weekly Newspapers
''CTNow'' is a free weekly newspaper in central and southwestern Connecticut, United States, published by the ''Hartford Courant''. The previous iteration of CTNow was New Mass. Media, a privately owned weekly newspaper company until 1999, when its owners, including founding publisher Geoffrey Robinson, sold the company to ''The Hartford Courant'' for an undisclosed sum. A year later, ''Courant'' parent company Times-Mirror was bought by the ''Tribune Company'', based in Chicago. In 2013, the ''Hartford Advocate'', ''New Haven Advocate'', and ''Fairfield County Weekly'' were merged with the ''Courant''s calendar section and website CTNow to create the weekly paper CTNow. History The company was founded in 1973 by Geoffrey Robinson and Edward Matys, then copy editors at ''The Hartford Courant''. Robinson, a native of New Haven, Connecticut, worked as wire service editor of the daily ''Lorain Journal'' of Ohio after his graduation from Yale University in 1971. Matys had worke ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Cleopatra Records
Cleopatra Records is a Los Angeles-based independent record label that has the sub-labels Hypnotic Records, Goldenlane, Stardust, Purple Pyramid, Deadline and X-Ray Records. History Founded in January 1992 by Brian Perera, it specializes in gothic rock, deathrock, hard rock, heavy metal and reissues of out-of-print music. It is known for its compilations, usually collections of cover songs performed by bands signed to the label. In the mid-1990s, Cleopatra released tribute albums of goth and industrial bands covering artists such as the Cure, Siouxsie and the Banshees, the Sisters of Mercy, Fields of the Nephilim, Christian Death, Alien Sex Fiend, Specimen, Sex Gang Children and New Order. Other goth and industrial acts were compiled to cover songs by AC/DC, Pink Floyd, the Smashing Pumpkins (on '' A Gothic-Industrial Tribute to The Smashing Pumpkins''), Guns N' Roses, Dead Can Dance and Skinny Puppy. Notable artists Current and previous notable artists include: Gary N ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Lacuna Coil
Lacuna Coil is an Italian gothic metal band from Milan. Since their formation in 1994, the group has had two name changes, being previously known as Sleep of Right and Ethereal, and they have recorded ten studio albums, two extended plays, two live albums, two compilation albums, one video album, and sixteen singles and music videos. They have toured internationally and were nominated in 2006 for a MTV Europe Music Award for Best Italian Act, MTV Europe Music Award. They won the 2012 Metal Female Voices Fest Award for the Best Album, the 2016 Metal Hammer Award for the Best International Band, and the 2018 Metal Hammer Golden Gods Awards, Metal Hammer Golden Gods Award for Best Live Act. The band's 2012 release, ''Dark Adrenaline'', peaked at number 15 on the Billboard 200, ''Billboard'' 200. As of March 2012, Lacuna Coil have sold over two million albums worldwide. History Formation and debut EP (1994–1998) Vocalist Andrea Ferro and bassist/composer Marco Coti Zelati formed S ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
