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Rocker (song)
Rocker or rockers may refer to: Places *Rocker, Montana, a neighborhood in Butte, Montana, United States People *Rocker, a British drummer, formerly of The Flatmates *Fermin Rocker (1907–2004), painter and illustrator *John Rocker (born 1974), American Major League Baseball pitcher *Kumar Rocker (born 1999), American Major League Baseball pitcher *Lee Rocker (born 1961), stage name of American rockabilly musician Leon Drucker *Rudolf Rocker (1873–1958), German writer, historian and prominent anarchist *Tracy Rocker (born 1966), American college football coach and former player *Rockers (royal courts), women employed to rock cradles Arts, entertainment, and media Films *Rockers (1978 film), ''Rockers'' (1978 film), a Jamaican film *Rockers (2003 film), ''Rockers'' (2003 film), a Japanese film *The Rocker (film), ''The Rocker'' (film), an American film Music Groups *The Rockers (band), a Japanese punk rock band *Barbie and the Rockers (branded in Europe as Barbie and the ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Rocker, Montana
Rocker is a suburb of Butte, Montana, United States. It is located three miles west of Butte, Montana, Butte. Rocker is best known for its two truck stops, one each on the north and south side of the highway. There is a nearby Port of Montana transportation hub near the intersection of Interstates Interstate 15 in Montana, 15 and Interstate 90 in Montana, 90. Rocker has approximately 150 citizens. There is a small volunteer fire station, but the town relies on the Butte Silver Bow Sheriff's Department and the Montana Highway Patrol for police, and the St James Hospital in Butte, two miles away, for medical services. One mile south on I-15 is Silver Bow, a Montana transportation hub, which is served by cargo trains and semis. References Populated places in Silver Bow County, Montana Neighborhoods in Montana {{SilverBowCountyMT-geo-stub ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Rockers (Slade Album)
''Rockers'' is a two-disc compilation album by the British rock band Slade, released by Salvo in April 2007. It contains thirty-seven tracks spanning the band's career from 1969 to 1987 and is described as a collection of the band's "hardest-hitting tracks". Track listing Disc one Disc two Critical reception David Randall of the webzine ''Get Ready to Rock!'' wrote: "''Rockers'' does exactly what it says on the tin and well annotated notes guide us through the band's growth. If short on subtlety, ''Rockers'' does flag up an excellent reissue series which reiterates Slade as one of our most colourful if under-estimated rock bands." Personnel ;Slade *Noddy Holder – lead vocals, rhythm guitar * Dave Hill – lead guitar, backing vocals * Jim Lea – bass, piano, violin, keyboard, guitar, backing vocals * Don Powell – drums ;Production * Chas Chandler – tracks 2–19 (Disc One) * John Punter – tracks 12, 16 (Disc Two) *Slade Slade are a rock band formed in Wolver ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Rockers (play)
Sherwood Charles Schwartz ( ; November 14, 1916 – July 12, 2011) was an American television screenwriter and producer. He worked on radio shows in the 1940s, but he now is best known for creating the 1960s television series ''Gilligan's Island'' on CBS and ''The Brady Bunch'' on ABC. On March 7, 2008, Schwartz, at the time still active in his 90s, was honored with a star on the Hollywood Walk of Fame. That same year, Schwartz was also inducted into the Television Hall of Fame. Early life Schwartz was born in Passaic, New Jersey, to a Jewish family. His parents were Herman and Rose Schwartz. He was a younger brother of writer Al Schwartz. His younger brother, Elroy Schwartz (1923–2013), a comedy writer, became a principal screenwriter for ''Gilligan's Island'' and other series. Sherwood Schwartz is the uncle of Douglas Schwartz (who created the ''Baywatch'' TV series), Bruce Schwartz and Judithe Randall. Career Schwartz had hoped to become a doctor, but found that he wa ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Music Magazine
A music magazine is a magazine dedicated to music and culture in music cognition, music culture. Such magazines typically include music news, interviews, photo shoots, essays, record reviews, concert reviews and occasionally have a covermount with recorded music. Notable music magazines Music magazines were very prolific in the United Kingdom, with the ''NME'' leading sales since its first issue in 1952. ''NME'' had a longstanding rival in ''Melody Maker'', an even older publication that had existed since 1926; however, by 2001, falling circulation and the rise of internet music sites caused the ''Melody Maker'' to be absorbed into its old rival and cease publishing. Several other British magazines such as ''Select (magazine), Select'' and ''Sounds (magazine), Sounds'' also folded between 1990 and 2000. Current UK music magazines include ''Kerrang!'' and ''Mojo (magazine), Mojo''. Magazines with a focus on pop music rather than rock music, rock and aimed at a younger market include ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Pocket Rockers
Pocket Rockers was a brand of personal stereo produced by Fisher-Price in the late 1980s, aimed at elementary school-age children. They played a proprietary variety of miniature cassette (appearing to be a smaller version of the 8-track tape) which was released only by Fisher-Price themselves. Designed to be as much of a fashion accessory as a music player, the devices were enough of a youth craze to even be banned in some schools for a brief period. Housed in a variety of stylish, translucent colors, each tape had two songs in mono which could be clipped to clothing to showcase one's musical taste. Tapes were available from several pop stars, including Michael Jackson, Whitney Houston, Tiffany Darwish, Tiffany, or Debbie Gibson and even rock stars like Bon Jovi or The Bangles. The commercials featured an original theme song which was a parody of "Down on the Corner" by Creedence Clearwater Revival. In addition to standard blue on black and pink on black color schemes, 3 variatio ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
One Drop Rhythm
One drop rhythm is a reggae style drum beat. Popularized by Carlton Barrett, long-time drummer of Bob Marley and the Wailers, the creator is disputed, and it has been attributed to drummers including Barrett,Schlueter, Brad (July 21, 2011).The Greatest Reggae Beats On Record, ''DrumMagazine.com''. "Carlton Barrett...is often credited with creating the one-drop groove." Accessed: 7 September 2016. and his brother Aston Barrett, Aston, and Winston Grennan. Characteristics The beat (music), backbeat is characterized by the dominant snare drum drum stroke, stroke (usually a click produced by cross-sticking) and bass drum both sounding on the third beat of every four, while beat one is left empty. Thus, the expected hit on beat one is "dropped," creating the one-drop effect. Dropping out the bass on the "one" of the measure further accentuates the downbeat of the drums creating the rhythm.Murphy, Bill. "Bass Culture: Dub Reggae's Low-End Legacy." Bass Player Nov 1996: 40-42, 44, ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Rock Music
Rock is a Music genre, genre of popular music that originated in the United States as "rock and roll" in the late 1940s and early 1950s, developing into a range of styles from the mid-1960s, primarily in the United States and the United Kingdom. It has its roots in rock and roll, a style that drew from the black musical genres of blues and rhythm and blues, as well as from country music. Rock also drew strongly from genres such as electric blues and folk music, folk, and incorporated influences from jazz and other styles. Rock is typically centered on the electric guitar, usually as part of a rock group with electric bass guitar, drum kit, drums, and one or more singers. Usually, rock is song-based music with a Time signature, time signature and using a verse–chorus form; however, the genre has become extremely diverse. Like pop music, lyrics often stress romantic love but also address a wide variety of other themes that are frequently social or political. Rock was the most p ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
The Rocker (song)
"The Rocker" is a song by Irish rock group Thin Lizzy, included on their 1973 album ''Vagabonds of the Western World''. It was also released as a single in a 2:41 edited format; the original album track stretched to 5:17, with most of the extra length being taken up by an extended guitar solo by Eric Bell. There is an accompanying performance on Dutch TV programme ''TopPop'' to the song which features Gary Moore recorded in 1974 during his first of two spells with the band. The B-side of the single in most territories was the album track "Here I Go Again", but in Germany the non-album track, "A Ride in the Lizzy Mobile", was used. This track later appeared on the four-CD box set ''Vagabonds Kings Warriors Angels'' as "Cruising in the Lizzy Mobile". The single failed to chart in the UK, but reached No. 11 in Ireland and spent four weeks on the chart. However, it became a live favourite and was one of the few songs from Eric Bell's time with the band to survive his departure and bec ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
The 69 Eyes
The 69 Eyes is a Finnish Rock music, rock band. It was founded in 1989 in Helsinki by vocalist Jyrki 69 (who also writes the band's lyrics), guitarists Bazie, Timo-Timo and bassist Archzie, joined in 1992 by drummer Jussi 69; the lineup never changed since then. The 69 Eyes music blends gothic rock with glam metal and rock 'n roll in a style that was dubbed "goth 'n roll". The 69 Eyes is currently signed to EMI Finland. The band's albums are now distributed worldwide; The End Records acts as the band's official North American distributor, as Nuclear Blast Records provides distribution in Europe. Australia will be handled by AmpHead Music. All Asian and Latin American releases are handled by EMI affiliates. History Formed in the bars of Helsinki in the summer of 1989 by Jyrki 69, Archzie (formerly of Syyskuu), Timo-Timo, Lotto and Bazie, The 69 Eyes originally had a glam metal style and were compared to other Finnish glam metal acts such as Smack (Finnish band), Smack and Hanoi ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Charlie Parker
Charles Parker Jr. (August 29, 1920 – March 12, 1955), nicknamed "Bird" or "Yardbird", was an American jazz Saxophone, saxophonist, bandleader, and composer. Parker was a highly influential soloist and leading figure in the development of bebop, a form of jazz characterized by fast tempos, Virtuoso, virtuosic technique, and advanced harmonies. He was a virtuoso and introduced revolutionary rhythmic and harmonic ideas into jazz, including rapid Passing chord, passing chords, new variants of Altered chord, altered chords, and Chord substitution, chord substitutions. Parker was primarily a player of the alto saxophone. Parker was an icon for the hipster (1940s subculture), hipster subculture and later the Beat Generation, personifying the jazz musician as an uncompromising artist and intellectual rather than just an entertainer. Early life Charles Parker Jr. was born in Kansas City, Kansas, to Charles Parker Sr. and Adelaide "Addie" Bailey, who was of mixed Choctaw and African-A ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Miles Davis
Miles Dewey Davis III (May 26, 1926September 28, 1991) was an American jazz trumpeter, bandleader, and composer. He is among the most influential and acclaimed figures in the history of jazz and 20th century music, 20th-century music. Davis adopted a variety of musical directions in a roughly five-decade career that kept him at the forefront of many major stylistic developments in jazz. Born into an upper-middle-class family in Alton, Illinois, and raised in East St. Louis, Davis started on the trumpet in his early teens. He left to study at Juilliard School, Juilliard in New York City, before dropping out and making his professional debut as a member of saxophonist Charlie Parker's bebop quintet from 1944 to 1948. Shortly after, he recorded the ''Birth of the Cool'' sessions for Capitol Records, which were instrumental to the development of cool jazz. In the early 1950s, while addicted to heroin, Davis recorded some of the earliest hard bop music under Prestige Records. After a ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Gerry Mulligan
Gerald Joseph Mulligan (April 6, 1927 – January 20, 1996), also known as Jeru, was an American jazz saxophonist, clarinetist, pianist, composer and arranger. Though primarily known as one of the leading jazz baritone saxophonists—playing the instrument with a light and airy tone in the era of cool jazz—Mulligan was also a significant arranger working with Claude Thornhill, Miles Davis, Stan Kenton, and others. His piano-less quartet of the early 1950s with trumpeter Chet Baker is still regarded as one of the best cool jazz ensembles. Mulligan was also a skilled pianist and played several other reed instruments. Several of his compositions including " Walkin' Shoes" and "Five Brothers", have become standards. Biography Early life and career Gerry Mulligan was born in Queens Village, Queens, New York, the son of George and Louise Mulligan. His father was a Wilmington, Delaware, native of Irish descent; his mother a Philadelphia native of half-Irish and half-German des ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
