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For the week of May 26, 2012, The Last Nova's hit single "Wasted" is listed as #6 on Billboard's Hot 100 Singles. The San Francisco based band will be headlining this year's Zombie Voodoo Fest 2012 - Texas Edition, benefiting International Children's Art Network.
Learn more about The Last Nova... http://emergingmagazine.com/group/musicandmusicians/page/the-last-nova-headlines-zombie-voodoo-fest-2012-texas
The kickoff for this year's Zombie Voodoo Fest begins in Texas before continuing on to Michigan, Virginia, Oklahoma, Tennessee and California. The pop culture event is drawing attendees from a number of States across the U.S. In 2013, Zombie Voodoo Fest invades Europe due to popular demand by horror and zombie fans.
Zombies and the Living converge upon Pleasure Island, June 9 and 10, 2012 in Port Arthur Texas to celebrate and pay tribute to the 80th Anniversary of the first full-length Zombie film released in the United States, "White Zombie."
Two full days of entertainment, activities, contests and vendors will delight festival attendees from Texas, Louisiana, Oklahoma, Mississippi, California and Georgia. Event Features include:
Celebrity Guests Appearances
Battle of the Bands Competition
Hot Zombie Male and Female Model Competition
Zombie Survival Run and Tag Competition
"Thriller" After Dark Dance Party
Horror Film Festival
Kids Entertainment Area
Food, Beverage and Merchandise VendorsFor the week of May 26, 2012, The Last Nova's hit single "Wasted" is... more
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Bert Weedon, British guitarist whose how-to guide taught rock-and-roll royalty, dies at 91
By Matt Schudel, Saturday, April 21, 4:30 PM
Bert Weedon, a British guitarist whose popular “Play in a Day” instructional manual introduced a generation of rock-and-roll stars to the power of the guitar, died April 20 at his home in Beaconsfield, England. He was 91.
Friends confirmed his death to British news agencies but did not disclose the cause.
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(Chris Ware/GETTY IMAGES) - From the archives: Popular English guitarist Bert Weedon at his home in Wembley, chilling out on the floor with his guitar lying beside him.
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Long before he gained fame as the author of a top-selling guide to the guitar, Mr. Weedon was known as a versatile performer who could play virtually any style of music at a glance. He performed with such renowned jazz artists as Stephane Grappelli and George Shearing, accompanied singers Frank Sinatra, Rosemary Clooney and Judy Garland, and was a regular on BBC broadcasts in the 1940s and 1950s.
Mr. Weedon was an early rock-and-roll guitar star in Britain in the late 1950s, with a series of instrumental hits that included “Guitar Boogie Shuffle,” “Apache” and “Nashville Boogie.” But when his instructional book was first published in 1957, he became something of a spiritual godfather to a generation of would-be guitar heroes.
Its title — “Play in a Day” — offered the hope of instant musical gratification. The lessons began at the most basic level, with an illustration of how to hold a guitar. Mr. Weedon taught novices how to get through many rock-and-roll tunes with three basic chords and included pointers on how to play a few basic tunes.
His guide, which was updated through the 1980s, sold millions of copies, leading Britain’s Independent newspaper to call Mr. Weedon “the man who taught the world to play the guitar.”
Many top rock stars, including Eric Clapton, Mark Knopfler, Keith Richards, the Who’s Pete Townshend and three of the Beatles — George Harrison, John Lennon and Paul McCartney — studied Mr. Weedon’s book.
“I like to think that I’ve helped in some way,” Mr. Weedon said in 1997, “to make the guitar the most popular instrument in the world.”
Herbert Maurice Weedon was born in London on May 10, 1920. His father was a subway driver and amateur singer.
Mr. Weedon was 12 when he bought a secondhand guitar. He wanted to learn to play jazz, but his first teacher — an elderly music-shop owner — refused to teach him anything but classical music.
“He picked up his guitar and played Chopin’s Prelude No. 7,” Mr. Weedon told London’s Daily Mail newspaper in 1995. “I had never heard anything so beautiful in my life. I sat transfixed and he said: ‘That’s what I’m going to teach you.’ And I said: ‘Yes, please.’ ”
By 14, Mr. Weedon was performing in dance bands. He was a featured soloist before World War II.
He volunteered with rescue units during the London bombing blitz of World War II and, after the war, replaced Django Reinhardt in a group led by Grappelli, a prominent jazz violinist.
As a member of a BBC band in the 1950s, he was known for his ability to sight-read any style of music from jazz to classical to flamenco to rock. He was the host of children’s television shows and performed with many acclaimed singers, including Sinatra.
“He asked me if I’d like to go and play guitar in America,” Mr. Weedon recalled in 1995. “He was the greatest pop singer in the world and I was immensely flattered. I thanked him very much, but I told him no. I said I’d rather be a bigger fish in a smaller pond.”
Mr. Weedon recorded well into the 1980s, and one of his albums from the 1970s, “22 Golden Guitar Greats,” reached No. 1 on the British charts, knocking Led Zeppelin out of the top slot.
His first marriage, to Doris Weedon, ended in divorce. Survivors include his wife of 53 years, Maggie Weedon; and two sons.
In 2003, he received a settlement after suing the BBC over a statement that Mr. Weedon had learned to play guitar “while a convict.”
“It may not always be fashionable in the rock music world,” Mr. Weedon’s attorney said at the time, “but my client is rightly proud of his unblemished past and does not want that legacy damaged at this late stage of his private life and professional career.”
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Jim Marshall, Maker of Famed Fuzzy Amplifiers, Dies at 88
By DOUGLAS MARTIN
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Jim Marshall, who made rock ’n’ roll rawer and noisier by inventing the amplifier that helped define guitarists from Jimi Hendrix to members of countless garage bands, died on Thursday at a hospice in London. He was 88.
His death was announced by the company he founded, Marshall Amplification. The Associated Press said the cause was cancer.
Mr. Marshall was part of the English music scene as a drummer, drumming teacher and owner of a store in London that sold drums as the new rock music was gathering momentum in the early 1960s. Musicians urged him to add guitars and amplifiers to his wares. One of them, Pete Townshend of the Who, said he told Mr. Marshall that he wanted something “bigger and louder.”
“I was demanding a more powerful machine gun” to “blow people away all around the world,” Mr. Townshend told NPR in 2002. “I wanted it to be as big as the atomic bomb had been.”
With his sixth prototype, Mr. Marshall and his helpers came up with a harmless-looking black box with a speaker inside and controls on top. It would become the basis for the formidable wall of amplifiers used by Eric Clapton, Jimmy Page and almost every other major rock guitarist in the ’60s and ’70s and by the next generation of guitarists as well, including Kurt Cobain, Eddie Van Halen and Slash.
This acoustic artillery came to be called the “wall of Marshalls” or “Marshall stacks.” Mr. Marshall became known as “the father of loud.”
The Marshall amps were cheaper than the ones made by Fender, which produced a more precise sound. But the emerging rockers wanted something rougher and rowdier. In a tribute on Twitter, Mötley Crüe’s bassist, Nikki Sixx, said Mr. Marshall had been “responsible for some of the greatest audio moments in music’s history — and 50 percent responsible for all our hearing loss.”
James Charles Marshall was born in London on July 29, 1923, to parents who owned a fish-and-chips shop. He was stricken with tuberculosis of the bones and spent much of his early youth in a plaster cast from his knees to his armpits. When he was 13, sinking family fortunes forced him to take jobs in a scrap-metal yard, a jam factory and a shoe shop. Having learned to tap dance at 14, he was hired as a dancer and singer with a 16-piece orchestra. He took up drumming and rode his bicycle to performances, pulling his drum kit in a trailer.
During World War II he worked at an engineering firm after failing his draft physical and read engineering books on his own. After the war he taught drumming and eventually had 65 students.
He used his teaching profits to buy his music store. One of the musicians who came into the store regularly was Ken Bran, who visited with his band, Peppy and the New York Twisters. Mr. Marshall hired him as a service engineer.
Mr. Bran suggested that they build their own amplifiers, and brought in a young engineer, Dudley Craven, to help them. They collected ideas from musicians about creating a fuzzier, more rambunctious sound then in demand. The sound became known as “the Marshall crunch.”
The first model, made in 1962, attracted 23 orders the first day. Two years later Mr. Marshall had 16 people in a factory making 20 amplifiers a week. Exports began in 1964 with an order from Roy Orbison. More growth followed as the company supplied mammoth sound systems to acts like Deep Purple and Elton John.
One of Mr. Marshall’s biggest breaks came in 1967 when Hendrix visited his showroom. In just months Hendrix would have a huge hit with his album “Are You Experienced,” but at the time, Mr. Marshall recalled, he thought the guitarist was “just another American chap wanting things for free.” Hendrix assured him that he intended to pay, and ultimately bought four complete stage setups.
“He was our greatest ambassador, without a doubt,” said Mr. Marshall, who considered Hendrix the best guitarist ever.
Mr. Marshall is survived by two children, two stepchildren, and several grandchildren and great-grandchildren, The A.P. reported.
A connoisseur of Cuban cigars and a single-malt Scotch bottled for him, Mr. Marshall many times refused to sell Marshall Amplification. “You can’t take it with you, you can only live in one house and drive one car at a time,” he said. “It’s the name that means something to me — because it is my name.”
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We talk about the guitar gods, the screaming vocalists, the idiot drummers, the groupies, the stylemakers, the partiers… We don’t often pay enough attention to the technology guys, which is odd, since few genres in the history of art have been more reliant on technology than rock & roll.
So today S&R says farewell to the Father of Loud. And the man who made “eleven” possible. If there’s a rock and roll heaven, you know the band is standing in front of a Marshall stack that rises beyond the sky…We talk about the guitar gods, the screaming vocalists, the idiot drummers, the... more
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If you appreciated and enjoyed the music of the Man In Black Johnny Cash, please post your thoughts/remembrances/music here. Yesterday was his birthday. He was born February 26,1932 in Arkansas. He had a hard childhood but always had a love for music. He bought a guitar while serving in Germany, wrote Folsom Prison Blues and the rest is history. He is a man who faced his demons and in the process found his true love and a stronger faith. His advocacy for the imprisoned and downtrodden gave them a voice that was so needed in those times and still is. I cherish every song he ever sang alone and with June Carter who literally saved him, proving that love does indeed conquer all.
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Hi,
This video,"Collect My Sunshine" is a fun trip.
It's a totally improvised song and the video was created based on the same premise, being present as you do.
Thanks for checking it out,
FletcherHi,
This video,"Collect My Sunshine" is a fun trip.
It's a totally... more
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Felt like Remenicing... This should go from the first episode to the next, but I think you need to choose it... Enjoy!!!! =)Felt like Remenicing... This should go from the first episode to the next, but I think... more
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All of us have probably wondered, from time to time, how an idea as intuitively awesome as a rock and roll hall of freakin’ fame went so very, very bad. Part of the answer is obvious enough: money. We’re talking about an industry that attracts more soulless whores than a pimp convention and the world would surely be a better place had Jann Wenner been smothered in his crib. But one can’t escape the feeling that it’s even more complex than that. In short, for a project to get this fucked, you really need the involvement of true believers with no brains and a tractor-trailer full of righteous intentions.All of us have probably wondered, from time to time, how an idea as intuitively... more
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Set List:
1. Intro
2. Coming Home
3. Bad Boys Running Wild
4. Love 'em or Leave 'em
5. The Zoo
6. Lovedrive
7. Deep And Dark
8. Coast to Coast
9. Always Somewhere
10. Wind of Change
11. Don't Believe Her
12. Tease Me Please Me
13. Kottak Attack
14. Blackout
15. Another Piece Meat
16. Big City Nights
17. Still Loving You
18. No One Like You
19. Rock You Like A Hurricane
20. Can't Get Enough
21. When The Smoke Is Going Down
22. After Show
"I had to look for the playlist we have here, many of my Favorite Scorpions tunes, please feel free to post your favorites and enjoy the show!!! =)
I was Happy because this was probably the last concert that I could find that still included Francis Buchholz as their bassist... =(Set List:
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One of the most popular videos trending today is this video of Michael J. Fox playing guitar and generally rocking out during his own charity event for Parkinson's Disease over the weekend. Fox took to the stage and re-enacted the famous music scene from "Back to the Future."
http://veracitystew.com/2011/11/14/awesome-michael-j-fox-performs-johnny-b-goode-video/One of the most popular videos trending today is this video of Michael J. Fox playing... more
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Music in the 90's was a great time for artists. The 90's cleaned up the face paint from the days of glam and instead inspired musicians to take less showers and more time on the road with the invention of Grunge.
The 90's was also the leading decade in heroin deaths, some famous acts include Kurt Cobain, Brad Nowell and the guy from Blind Melon tallied in as victims.
The Seattle Sound was one of the most influencial sources of musicial genre bending in the history of rock but we've come so much further since then.
For more info, and some cool rock videos visit the article on Guitarwarlord.comMusic in the 90's was a great time for artists. The 90's cleaned up the face... more
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Interview with a funny and entertaining Bebe Buell (Bebe Buell Band). Discussions focus on Bebe's new album "Hard Love", released on September 27th by Niji Entertainment Group (formed by the late Ronnie James Dio and his wife Wendy), memories of the late Joey Ramone (of The Ramones), thoughts on her years as a model, her daughter Liv Tyler and much more!
Includes 2 tracks off "Hard Love" ~ "Mother Of Rock And Roll" and Gang of Four's remake of "(I Love A) Man In A Uniform".
AIR TIME: 46 Minutes.
TUNE IN HERE: http://the-big-rock-show.podomatic.com/entry/2011-09-30T04_00_46-07_00Interview with a funny and entertaining Bebe Buell (Bebe Buell Band). Discussions... more
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"Russian billionaire Alexander Lebedev, owner of two leading British newspapers, punched a man in the face during a television debate on the financial crisis to be aired on Sunday."
Politics is a lot more fun in Russia."Russian billionaire Alexander Lebedev, owner of two leading British newspapers,... more
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"A cow called Yvonne, who escaped from a Bavarian farm after apparently sensing she was about to be slaughtered, has been tracked down after three months on the run."
Read the story to see if this naughty lady made it."A cow called Yvonne, who escaped from a Bavarian farm after apparently sensing... more
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