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Punky Brüster – Cooked On Phonics
''Punky Brüster – Cooked on Phonics'' is the debut studio album by Canadian musician Devin Townsend, originally released as ''Cooked on Phonics'' under the fictional band name Punky Brüster. It was released on Townsend's label, HevyDevy Records, on March 19, 1996. It is a comedic metal/punk rock concept album written by Townsend. ''Cooked on Phonics'' tells the story of a fictitious death metal band "from South Central Poland" called Cryptic Coroner; during a gig, their guitarist breaks a string, and the band is forced to improvise and tune up to play punk rock instead; the band accidentally becomes an overnight success and decides to sell out their metal look and sound to become a commercial punk rock band called Punky Brüster (the band's name being a pun on the 1980s U.S. television series ''Punky Brewster''). At the end of the track "Larry's O," Townsend says the album took "A week-and-a-half to write, six days to record, 12 hours to mix." Track listing Personnel Eac ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Devin Townsend
Devin Garrett Townsend (born May 5, 1972) is a Canadian singer, guitarist, songwriter, and record producer. He founded extreme metal band Strapping Young Lad and was its primary songwriter, vocalist, and guitarist from 1994 to 2007. He has also had an extensive solo career and has released a total of 29 albums across all of his projects as of 2024. After performing in a number of heavy metal music, heavy metal bands in high school, Townsend was discovered in 1993 by a record label who asked him to perform lead vocals on Steve Vai's album ''Sex & Religion''. After recording and touring with Vai, he was discouraged by what he found in the music industry and vented his anger on his 1995 solo album ''Heavy as a Really Heavy Thing'', which he released under the pseudonym Strapping Young Lad. He soon assembled a band of the same name, with whom he released the critically acclaimed album ''City (Strapping Young Lad album), City'' in 1997. Since then, he has released three more studio al ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Guitar Tunings
Guitar tunings are the assignment of pitches to the open strings of guitars, including classical guitars, acoustic guitars, and electric guitars. Tunings are described by the particular pitches that are made by notes in Western music. By convention, the notes are ordered and arranged from the lowest-pitched string (i.e., the deepest bass-sounding note) to the highest-pitched string (i.e., the highest sounding note), or the thickest string to thinnest, or the lowest frequency to the highest. This sometimes confuses beginner guitarists, since the highest-pitched string is referred to as the 1st string, and the lowest-pitched is the 6th string. Standard tuning defines the string pitches as E (82.41 Hz), A (110 Hz), D (146.83 Hz), G (196 Hz), B (246.94 Hz), and E (329.63 Hz), from the lowest pitch (low E2) to the highest pitch (high E4). Standard tuning is used by most guitarists, and frequently used tunings can be understood as variations on standard tuning. To aid in memoris ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
1990s Concept Albums
Year 199 ( CXCIX) was a common year starting on Monday of the Julian calendar. At the time, it was sometimes known as year 952 ''Ab urbe condita''. The denomination 199 for this year has been used since the early medieval period, when the Anno Domini calendar era became the prevalent method in Europe for naming years. Events By place Roman Empire * Mesopotamia is partitioned into two Roman provinces divided by the Euphrates, Mesopotamia and Osroene. * Emperor Septimius Severus lays siege to the city-state Hatra in Central-Mesopotamia, but fails to capture the city despite breaching the walls. * Two new legions, I Parthica and III Parthica, are formed as a permanent garrison. China * Battle of Yijing: Chinese warlord Yuan Shao defeats Gongsun Zan. Korea * Geodeung succeeds Suro of Geumgwan Gaya, as king of the Korean kingdom of Gaya (traditional date). By topic Religion * Pope Zephyrinus succeeds Pope Victor I, as the 15th pope. Births Valerian Roman ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Devin Townsend Albums
Devin may refer to: Places Iran * Devin, Minab, a village in Hormozgan Province * Devin, North Khorasan, a village in North Khorasan Province * Devin, Razavi Khorasan, a village in Razavi Khorasan Province Slovakia * Devín, a borough of Bratislava ** Devín Castle * Devín Gate, a natural gate in the Danube valley at the border of Slovakia and Austria Elsewhere * Devin, Bulgaria, a town * Duino (Slovene: ''Devin''), a seaside resort, Italy * Děvín, a mountain in the Czech Republic * Camp Devin, Montana, a temporary United States Army camp established in 1878 People * Devin (name), a list of people with the given name or surname * Devin the Dude (born 1970), American hip hop artist Devin Copeland * Devin Townsend (born 1972), Canadian metal artist Other uses * Devin AI, an artificial intelligence software engineer * Devin Enterprises Devin Enterprises was an American automotive manufacturer that operated from 1955 to 1964. Devin was mainly known for producing high quality ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
1996 Debut Albums
1996 was designated as: * International Year for the Eradication of Poverty Events January * January 8 – A Zairean cargo plane 1996 Air Africa crash, crashes into a crowded market in the center of the capital city of the Democratic Republic of the Congo, Kinshasa, killing around 300 people. * January 9–January 20, 20 – Serious fighting breaks out between Russian soldiers and rebel fighters in Chechnya. * January 11 – Ryutaro Hashimoto, leader of the Liberal Democratic Party (Japan), Liberal Democratic Party, becomes Prime Minister of Japan. * January 13 – Prime Minister of Italy, Italy's Prime Minister, Lamberto Dini, resigns after the failure of all-party talks to confirm him. New talks are initiated by President Oscar Luigi Scalfaro to form a new government. * January 14 – Jorge Sampaio is elected President of Portugal. * January 16 – President of Sierra Leone Valentine Strasser is deposed by the chief of defence, Julius Maada Bio. B ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Byron Stroud
Byron Stroud (born February 12, 1969) is a Canadian musician. He is the former bassist for metal bands Fear Factory, Imonolith and Strapping Young Lad, current bassist for metal bands City of Fire and Zimmers Hole, and studio bassist for 3 Inches of Blood. Biography Stroud has been involved in the Vancouver heavy music scene since the 1980s. His first serious band was Caustic Thought, who were formed in 1987, when he was only eighteen years old. The band also featured Jed Simon and Devin Townsend. Following Caustic Thought, he made his way to Front Line Assembly, joining them on the Hard Wired tour as a drum tech. Then he enrolled himself in the lineup for Strapping Young Lad. Although he was a staple member of Strapping Young Lad at the time, he joined Fear Factory as a full-time member in 2004. He made his Fear Factory debut on their 2004 album ''Archetype'' (note: Stroud did not play on the album as all bass tracks were recorded by guitarist Christian Olde Wolbers). Stro ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Jed Simon
Jedson Louis Simon (born February 27, 1964) is a Canadian guitarist. He was a member of supergroup Scar the Martyr and has been a member of numerous bands, including Front Line Assembly, Strapping Young Lad, Zimmers Hole, Tenet, and Vimic. Biography Simon was born on February 27, 1964, in Victoria, British Columbia. He gained attention in the metal community with his third speed metal band Armoros, which was founded in 1985. Armoros disbanded in 1989 after two successful demos and an album. Simon's next band was Caustic Thought, when his career with Byron Stroud began. Simon did three demos with Caustic Thought, and when he left them, he gave the job to Devin Townsend. After Caustic Thought, Simon briefly worked with Townsend on his Noisescapes project, who then left for Los Angeles to play with Steve Vai. In 1995, Townsend asked Simon to join his latest project, Strapping Young Lad (aka SYL), and Jed was a part of SYL until the band's split in 2007. Simon contribu ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Chris Valagao
Chris "The Heathen" Valagao Mina is a Canadian singer best known as the frontman for the thrash metal band Zimmers Hole. Biography Valagao Mina is of Portuguese and Norwegian heritage. He is the frontman and a founding member (along with Jed Simon and Byron Stroud from Strapping Young Lad and drummer Steve Wheeler) of the comedic thrash metal band Zimmers Hole. He has recorded three albums with the band. He has also performed backing vocals on several of Devin Townsend's and Strapping Young Lad's albums. During that time, he has built a strong friendship with Townsend. In 2012, Valagao Mina joined traditional heavy metal group West of Hell and released the debut album ''Spiral Empire''. They followed up with a headlining tour across Canada and New Zealand in support for the album. Valagao Mina is an accomplished SPFX artist and pyrotechnician for film and television, director and producer of many music videos and a builder of custom motorcycles. He has worked on special effect ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Adrian White (musician)
Adrian White is a Canadian drummer. In 1994, White played drums on the first album from Devin Townsend's newly founded Strapping Young Lad, Heavy as a Really Heavy Thing, as well as co writing and demo recording the majority of City. Shortly after he toured with Front Line Assembly (FLA) on the Hard Wired Tour in 1995–96 recording the Live Wired concert tour video and album. In 2000, White rejoined FLA for more touring in Europe and the WGT Festival leaving the band in 2006 after the Artificial Soldier tour. In 2003 he pulled double duty, joining FLA side-projects Delerium and Conjure One for a sold-out North American tour. On 17 December 2010, Reset announced the return of White with the band at the same time they announced a concert to celebrate its 15th year of existence. In 2014, White joined the Canadian hardcore punk band SNFU for its Canadian and European touring. In 2018, White began playing drums for Men Without Hats, doing a Canadian tour in 2018 and a 38-date ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Ramones
The Ramones were an American punk rock band formed in the New York City neighborhood Forest Hills, Queens in 1974. Known for helping establish the punk movement in the United States and elsewhere, the Ramones are often recognized as one of the first bands of the genre. Although they had never achieved significant commercial success during their existence, the band is seen today as highly influential in Punk subculture, punk culture. All members adopted pseudonyms ending with the surname Ramone, although none were biologically related; they were inspired by Paul McCartney, who would check into hotels under the alias Paul Ramon. The Ramones performed 2,263 concerts, touring virtually nonstop for 22 years, and released fourteen studio albums. In 1996, after a tour as part of the Lollapalooza music festival, they played a We're Outta Here!, farewell concert in Los Angeles and disbanded. By 2014, all four original members had died: lead singer Joey Ramone (1951–2001), ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Sheena Is A Punk Rocker
"Sheena Is a Punk Rocker" is a song by American punk rock band Ramones, released in 1977 through Sire Records. Written by front man and lead vocalist Joey Ramone, it appears on the band's third studio album ''Rocket to Russia'' (1977). The song is well known for its early 1960s influence of surf rock and bubblegum pop that influenced Joey; it has since remained one of the band's most popular songs. The song first appeared in May 1977 as a single in the UK where it charted at number 22 in the UK Singles Chart. In the US, it was released as a single in July 1977, and reached number 81 in the Billboard Hot 100, and appeared on copies of the second issue of the band's 1977 album ''Leave Home'' (replacing the track "Carbona Not Glue"). The track, as well as its B-side "I Don't Care", was remixed and re-released for their third LP ''Rocket to Russia''. Background The "Sheena" referred to in the title is in fact the comic book character Sheena, Queen of the Jungle; the idea being that ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Punky Brewster
''Punky Brewster'' is an American Situation comedy, sitcom television series about a young girl (Soleil Moon Frye) being raised by a foster parent (George Gaynes) in Chicago. The show ran on NBC from September 16, 1984, to March 9, 1986, and again in Broadcast syndication, syndication from October 30, 1987, to May 27, 1988. ''Punky Brewster'' spawned an animated spin-off, ''It's Punky Brewster''. The series featured the original cast voicing their respective characters. The cartoon was produced by Ruby-Spears, and aired on NBC from September 14, 1985, to December 6, 1986. In 2020, NBC confirmed a 10-episode Punky Brewster (2021 TV series), revival to air on its Peacock (streaming service), Peacock streaming service. Frye returned, as did original cast member Cherie Johnson. The revival premiered on February 25, 2021. Synopsis Penelope "Punky" Brewster (Soleil Moon Frye) is a warm, funny, and bright child. Her father walked out on her family, then her mother abandoned her at a ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
