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Ruins (Dread Zeppelin Album)
''Ruins'' is a Dread Zeppelin album featuring B-sides, alternate mixes and previously unreleased tracks. It was originally released exclusively to members of the Dread Zeppelin fan club in 1996, before being made available to the general public later that year. Track listing # " Jailhouse Rock" # "Hey Hey What Can I Do" # "Woodstock" (live) # "Communication Breakdown" # "Rock & Roll" # "Stir It Up" (single version) # "Tour-Telvis: A Bad Trip" # "Stairway to Heaven" (single version) # "Jungle Boogie" — featuring Screamin' Jay Hawkins as "Dr. Paradox" # "Brick House Of The Holy" (Disco version) — mashup of '' Brick House'' and ''Houses of the Holy'' # " Takin' Care of Business" — featuring Randy Bachman # "Disco Inferno" # "Do The Claw (Again!)" # "The Last Resort" (soundtrack version) — from ''National Lampoon's Last Resort'' # "Earshot!" (The Reggae Blades) Personnel The album features songs recorded both with and without lead singer Tortelvis. Tortelvis performs on t ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Dread Zeppelin
Dread Zeppelin is an American reggae rock band. Formed in 1989 in Sierra Madre, California, the band combines hard rock and reggae styles with humor. They are best known for performing the songs of Led Zeppelin in a reggae style as sung by a Las Vegas Valley, Las Vegas Elvis impersonator. Over the years they have also performed songs originally by Elvis Presley, Bob Marley and The Yardbirds. The group toured extensively around the world during their tenure with I.R.S. Records. Career 1986-1989: The Prime Movers The nucleus of Dread Zeppelin, bassist Put-Mon (Gary Putman), drummer Cheese (Curt Lichter) and guitarist Jah Paul Jo (Joseph "Severs" Ramsey), were from a Pasadena, California, Pasadena, California group called The Prime Movers (Los Angeles band), The Prime Movers. Signed to Island Records in 1986, The Prime Movers had some success in the UK with singles "On The Trail" and "Dark Western Night". The late Stuart Adamson of Big Country contributed his trademark E-Bow guitar ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Screamin' Jay Hawkins
Jalacy J. "Screamin' Jay" Hawkins (July 18, 1929 – February 12, 2000) was an American singer-songwriter, musician, actor, film producer, and boxer. Famed chiefly for his powerful, operatic vocal delivery and wildly theatrical performances of songs such as " I Put a Spell on You", he sometimes used macabre props onstage, making him an early pioneer of shock rock. He received a nomination for the Independent Spirit Award for Best Supporting Male for his performance in the 1989 indie film '' Mystery Train''. Early life Hawkins was born and raised in Cleveland, Ohio. At the age of 18 months, Hawkins was put up for adoption and shortly thereafter was adopted and raised by Blackfoot Indians. Hawkins studied classical piano as a child and learned guitar in his 20s. In a 1993 interview, Hawkins recounts telling his music tutor,...to leave before I make your life miserable ..because with the type of music I want to play. The things I want to do with music and don't want to do it t ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Dread Zeppelin Albums
Dread may refer to: Feelings * Angst (in existentialist thought), a deep-seated spiritual condition of insecurity and despair in the free human being * Anxiety People Reggae musicians * Doctor Dread (born 1954), American music producer * Judge Dread (1945–1998), British musician * Massive Dread (c. 1960–1994), Jamaican deejay * Mikey Dread (1954–2008), Jamaican singer * Ranking Dread (c. 1955–1996), Jamaican deejay Other * Adam Dread (born 1963), American lawyer and politician * Zebulon Dread, South African writer * Emmanuel Wilmer aka "Dread Wilmer" (died 2005) Arts, entertainment, and media Fictional entities * Dread & Alive, the award-winning black comic book series created by Nicholas Da Silva aka ZOOLOOK * Brig of Dread (Bridge of Dread), the mythological bridge to Purgatory * Judge Dread, the alternate universe Judge Dredd from ''Dread Dominion'' * Lord Dread, a character in the TV series '' Captain Power and the Soldiers of the Future'' Games * ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Allmusic
AllMusic (previously known as All-Music Guide and AMG) is an American online music database. It catalogs more than three million album entries and 30 million tracks, as well as information on musicians and bands. Initiated in 1991, the database was first made available on the Internet in 1994. AllMusic is owned by RhythmOne. History AllMusic was launched as All-Music Guide by Michael Erlewine, a "compulsive archivist, noted astrologer, Buddhist scholar and musician". He became interested in using computers for his astrological work in the mid-1970s and founded a software company, Matrix, in 1977. In the early 1990s, as CDs replaced LPs as the dominant format for recorded music, Erlewine purchased what he thought was a CD of early recordings by Little Richard. After buying it, he discovered it was a "flaccid latter-day rehash". Frustrated with the labeling, he researched using metadata to create a music guide. In 1990, in Big Rapids, Michigan, he founded ''All Music Guid ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
National Lampoon's Last Resort
''National Lampoon's Last Resort'' (also known as ''Last Resort'' or ''National Lampoon's Scuba School'') is a 1994 direct-to-video comedy film directed by Rafal Zielinski. The film stars Corey Feldman and Corey Haim as Sam and Dave, two friends who are visiting a Caribbean island resort. Plot Sam and Dave, after being fired from a fast food outlet and getting evicted, are magically transported to Sam's uncle's island. Sam and Dave are asked to help save the island. The band Dread Zeppelin perform the film's theme song as credits roll at the end. Cast * Corey Feldman as Sam * Corey Haim as Dave * Geoffrey Lewis as Rex Carver, Sam's Uncle * Maureen Flannigan as Sonja, a scuba diving instructor * Demetra Hampton as Alex * Robert Mandan as Hemlock, a corporate raider determined to take over the island. * Patrick Labyorteaux as Young Hemlock * Milton Selzer as Irv * Tony Longo as Rob * Michael Ralph as Flash * Zelda Rubinstein as Old Hermit * Brandy Ledford as Mermaid * Dread Z ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Disco Inferno
"Disco Inferno" is a song by American disco band the Trammps from their 1976 fourth studio album of the same name. With two other cuts by the group, it reached No. 1 on the US ''Billboard'' Dance Club Songs chart in early 1977, but had limited mainstream success until 1978, after being included on the soundtrack to the 1977 film ''Saturday Night Fever'', when a re-release hit number eleven on the ''Billboard'' Hot 100 chart. It was also notably covered in 1993 by American-born singer Tina Turner on '' What's Love Got to Do with It'', and in 1998 by American singer-songwriter Cyndi Lauper on the '' A Night at the Roxbury'' soundtrack. Among others who covered this are Damien Lovelock, Hardsonic Bottoms 3, and Vicki Shepard. Song information The song was originally recorded by the Trammps in 1976 and released as a single. It was supposedly inspired by a scene in the 1974 blockbuster film ''The Towering Inferno''. According to Tom Moulton, who mixed the record, the Dolby n ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Randy Bachman
Randolph Charles Bachman (; born September 27, 1943) is a Canadian guitarist, singer, and songwriter. He was a founding member of the bands The Guess Who and Bachman–Turner Overdrive. Bachman recorded as a solo artist and was part of a number of short-lived bands such as Brave Belt, Union and Ironhorse. He was a national radio personality on CBC Radio, hosting the weekly music show, '' Vinyl Tap''. Bachman was inducted into the Musicians Hall of Fame and Museum in 2016. Early life and education Born in Winnipeg, Manitoba, to Karl (Charlie) Bachman and Anne (Nancy) Dobrinsky, Bachman is of half-German and half-Ukrainian descent. At age three, he won a singing contest on CKY's King of the Saddle program and age five he had started studying the violin in the Royal Toronto Conservatory system. He studied violin until the age of 12 when he grew dissatisfied with the structured lessons. He found that while he could not read music, he could play anything if he heard it onc ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Takin' Care Of Business (song)
"Takin' Care of Business" is a song written by Randy Bachman and first recorded by Canadian rock group Bachman–Turner Overdrive (BTO) for their 1973 album ''Bachman–Turner Overdrive II''. The lead vocal is sung by Randy. Development Randy Bachman had developed what would later become "Takin' Care of Business" while still a member of The Guess Who. His original idea was to write about a recording technician who worked on The Guess Who's recordings. This particular technician would take the 8:15 train to get to work, inspiring the lyrics "take the 8:15 into the city". In the early arrangement for the song, which had the working title "White Collar Worker", the chorus riff and vocal melody were similar to that of The Beatles' "Paperback Writer". When Bachman first played this version for Burton Cummings, Cummings declared that he was ashamed of him and that The Guess Who would never record the song because the Beatles would sue them.Gary James interview with Randy Bachman at ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Houses Of The Holy (song)
"Houses of the Holy" is a song by English rock band Led Zeppelin from their 1975 sixth album ''Physical Graffiti''. The name of the song was used as the title of the band's fifth album, although it was not included on that album; they decided the song did not fit well with the other album material, so it was moved to the subsequent release. Composition and recording In order to create the layered guitar introduction and fade-out, Page used a Delta T digital delay unit. The squeak of John Bonham's drum pedal can be heard throughout the song. Record producer Rick Rubin has remarked, "This is a funk jam with really interesting, jazzy chords. It's one of their more compact feeling songs. And it's the only Zep song to use what sounds like a cowbell." Live performances The song was never played live by Led Zeppelin, though Robert Plant performed it with the Band of Joy during his 2010 solo tour. Additionally, Jimmy Page and the Black Crowes tested out the song in rehearsals for thei ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Brick House (song)
"Brick House" is a song from the Commodores' 1977 self-titled album (released as ''Zoom'' in the UK). The single peaked at number 5 in the U.S. and number 32 in the UK Singles Chart The UK Singles Chart (currently titled Official Singles Chart, with the upper section more commonly known as the Official UK Top 40) is compiled by the Official Charts Company (OCC), on behalf of the British record industry, listing the top-s .... Background Lionel Richie stated that the song's title is a play on the expression "built like a brick shithouse," referring to a strongly built woman. Charts References External links List of cover versions of "Brick House"at SecondHandSongs.com {{authority control 1977 songs 1977 singles Commodores songs Songs written by Lionel Richie Song recordings produced by James Anthony Carmichael Motown singles Funk songs ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Jungle Boogie
"Jungle Boogie" is a funk song recorded by Kool & the Gang for their 1973 album '' Wild and Peaceful''. It reached number four as a single, and became very popular in nightclubs. ''Billboard'' ranked it as the number 12 song for 1974, despite there being as many as 36 No. 1 singles that year. Background The song's spoken main vocal was performed by the band's roadie Don Boyce. An instrumental version of the tune with an overdubbed flute part and additional percussion instruments, titled "Jungle Jazz", appeared on the album ''Spirit of the Boogie''. The song is noted for the Tarzan yell The Tarzan yell or Tarzan's jungle call is the distinctive, ululating yell of the character Tarzan as portrayed by actor Johnny Weissmuller in the films based on the character created by Edgar Rice Burroughs starting with '' Tarzan the Ape Man'' ... heard at the song's end and the grunting, panting and scatting heard throughout. Track listing De-Lite Records - DE-559: Certifications Cha ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Jah Paul Jo
Joseph Jack "Severs" Ramsey, better known by his stage name Jah Paul Jo (November 1, 1956 – December 29, 2014) was an American musician, singer and producer best known for creating the novelty band Dread Zeppelin. From 1983 to 1988, Ramsey was the singer/bass player in The Prime Movers. Ramsey was also the owner of independent record label Birdcage Records, which has released albums by Dread Zeppelin, The Prime Movers, Stan Ridgway, Ron Asheton, In Vivo, The Mystery Band and others. The Prime Movers Hailing from Sierra Madre, California, The Prime Movers (Los Angeles band), The Prime Movers – Gary Putman on guitar and vocals, Severs Ramsey on vocals and bass and Curt Lichter on drums – formed in 1983, adapting their name from a favorite episode of the science fiction TV series, The Twilight Zone. The band first garnered attention with the mini-LP "Museum" released in 1984 on Jah Paul Jo's indie label, Birdcage Records. ''Cashbox'' Magazine wrote in their edition of August ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
