Throughout my childhood, one of my favorite songs was “Pour Some Sugar On Me” by Def Leppard. Every time I got into the car, I would ask my father to put on this song. In this paper I am going to give a brief history of the band, describe the type of music they perform, and explain what makes Def Leppard unique. Deaf Leppard was formed in 1977 in the town of Sheffield, England. Shortly after the band was created, they changed the spelling to “Def Leppard.” Def Leppard was a part of the New Wave of British Heavy Metal movement. This musical movement that occurred in the late-1970s was an era of new musical style. In this era, the trend of punk rock in Europe ended and hard rock/heavy metal trend began. The original members of the band are as …show more content…
The following year Kenning left the band, so they hired Rich Allen as there permanent drummer. Also in 1978, Def Leppard hired a second guitarist Steve Clark. Two years later in 1980, the band released their first album On Through the Night, which brought them slight success. In 1981, their second album High’n’Dry began their rise to fame. The following year, Def Leppard fired Pete Willis for excessive alcohol consumption, and replaced him with guitarist Phil Collen. With these five member, Def Leppard had legendary success. In 1983, they released their third album Pyromania, and in 1987 they released their fourth album Hysteria. “Pour Some Sugar On Me” was one of the seven hit singles that came from the Hysteria album. These two albums were by far their most successful with a combined total of over 30 million copies were sold. In 1992, Steve Clark …show more content…
One of these qualities was their ability to withstand the test of time. Throughout the bands history they have went through multiple hardships, and band members. The dynamics of the band changed so many times it is hard to believe that they stayed together, let alone made several chart topping hits. One more unique quality involved their drummer, Rich Allen. In 1984, Allen was involved in a serious car crash in which he lost his left arm. Allen wanted to continue his role as Def Leppard drummer. To achieve this goal, he Simmons Electronic Drum Company to develop a custom drum kit were he could mainly use his feet. The band never gave up on Allen, and just two years later he was fully recovered and able to play flawlessly on his new drum kit. This was another hardship that the band faced, but their love to create music
The band was formed in 1965 in Sans Francisco with a mix of sounds from several different genres of music such as Folk, Bluegrass, Jazz, Country, Blues, and Physicadellic Rock. The original members were as follows: Jerry Garcia doing lead guitar and vocals, Bob Weir was the youngest member of the band playing rhythm guitar and vocals. Ron "Pigpin" McKernan played keyboards, Phill Lesh has always been the basist. Bill Kreutzmann played drums at first but was followed by Micky Heart in 1967 as a seccond drummer. When Pigpin died at the tender age of 27 of liver failure, Keith Godchaux joined on as the new keyboardist, with him he brought his wife Donna Jean to help with backup vocals. When the couple left the band in 1979 they were replaced by Brent Mayland. Mayland played with the band until
Fall Out Boy is an American rock band formed in Wilmette, Illinois, a suburb of Chicago, in 2001. The band consists of vocalist and guitarist Patrick Stump, bassist Pete Wentz, guitarist Joe Trohman, and drummer Andy Hurley. The band originated from Chicago's hard-core punk scene, with which Wentz was heavily involved. The group was formed by Wentz and Trohman as a pop punk side project of their respective hard-core bands, and Stump joined shortly thereafter. The group went through a succession of drummers before landing Hurley and recording their debut album which became a huge success.
America had a successful revolution due to the motley crew, despite the lack of recognition and amenities they received for their contributions. “A Motley Crew in the American Revolution” by Peter Linebaugh and Marcus Rediker highlighted the motley crew for their influence on the American Revolution, and provided information and background generally not given in a standard textbook. The motley crew, comprised of sailors and slaves in a literal sense, and the urban mob in a political sense, paved the way for the American Revolution and the founding documents through rebellions, uprisings, conflicts, protests, and violence. This group of men changed the world in the opposition of forced labor, press-gangs and slavery in particular, through influencing
The Dave Matthews Band has been a musical power house for years. They have meshed together almost every type of music together to create their extremely unique sounds and attractiveness towards their music. Dave Matthews, lead singer and guitarist from South Africa has put together a band that no one will ever be able to create again. Dave picked four extremely talented and unique sounding men to join his band and together they have created some amazing music. The members of the band include Stefan Lessard on bass, Boyd Tinsley on violin, Leroi Moore on saxophone and one of the best drummers in the world, Carter Beauford. Together these men will one day leave behind a similar reputation as one of the all time greatest "jam" bands of time.
Later, Garcia, who had been playing guitar since he was 15, went on to be the band’s lead guitarist while Hunter helped write their lyrics. Jerry Garcia had played in many other bluegrass and folk bands, such as Mother McCree's Uptown Jug Champions. The band officially formed under the name of the Warlocks and consisted of Jerry Garcia, Phil Lesh, Ron “Pigpen” McKernan, Bill Kreutzmann, and Bob Weir. After their debut in July of ’65, they played at Ken Kesey's Acid Tests. This was a public party that took place regularly where all the party-goers would be taking LSD.
Philip Auslander’s book “Performing Glam Rock” talks about a type of music that until this class, I have not heard much about. When I think Glam Rock I think of artists like Prince and Kiss, ...
The Police were a three part band composed of Andy Summers the guitarist, Steward Copeland the drummer and Gordon Mathew Sumner the bass guitarist and singer. Before the band was formed Steward Copeland was part of the band Curved Air. In 1976 the band disbanded leaving Copeland without a job, or passion. Copeland yearned to join another band and reunite music with his life; coincidently he and Gordon met up at a local jazz club and appreciated each other enough to start a band. Soon after the two of them released their first song “Fall Out”, the two of them invited a Henry Padovani to join the band, who gladly accepted [why?]. In 1977 the three of them quietly toured with Mike Howlett as a project band for a Gong reunion – who Mike Howlett was formerly a part of. Copeland was almost excluded from this tour due to Mike choosing a different drummer. Luckily that drummer was busy and the band kept together. The four of them came under the name Strontium 90. A little while after that gig Andy Summers proposed to join the band on the condition that Padovani would be kicked out. Both Copeland and Gordon resisted after the idea at first due to the loyalty to Padovani, but after a few more concerts Summers was in and Padovani was informed that he was out of the band due to his limited abilities as a guitarist. Coming to distress in early 1978 the band accepted a shallow deal for money as a band in a gum commercial. The commercials director had only one condition, that they dye their hair blond for the shoot. The band was blessed to get this opportunity as later known because the blond hair became a trade mark of the band. The band’s first album was a hardship for them; they had a small studio and low budget, provided by Copeland’s older ...
The band consist of 8 members, Nathan East bassist/vocals, Andy Fairweather-Low, lead guitar/vocals, Steve Ferrone- drums, Chuck Leavell-key boardist, Ray Cooper- tambourines, Katie Kissoon and Tessa Niles- vocals, and Eric Clapton- composer, rock n roll guitarist, lead vocalist. The band members dressed in casual attire. The band members were professionals, they knew exactly how to orchestrate every chord, they collaborated with the lead singer and each other in ways that wasn’t so noticeable to the audience but they knew which chords to use for every song, the band was a top notch team. The tempo of the songs were a mixture of fast, slow, to a medium style beat. The texture of the songs was homophonic and well put together lyrics. The style of the music was from the 1960s-1970s which genres were rock, blues rock, psychedelic rock, hard rock, jazz and blues.
Dave Matthews Band’s album Crash was their second major-label release and debatably one of their most popular albums, as well. The band is made up of multiple brilliant musicians consists of the violinist Boyd Tinsley, carter Beauford the drummer, Dave Matthews the main singer, as well as, guitarist, bassist Stefan Lessard, and finally Leroi Moore playing the saxophone (Dmb Tour Members). Dave Matthews Band was started in early 1991 and has only grown bigger and better throughout the years making them a statement band in our society. The twelve song album bounces from upbeat to mellow songs in a perfect blend that fits together so outstandingly.
In 1976 Steve Jobs Co-founded the apple Computer Inc. Steve Jobs had an idea that would create a chain of brilliant ideas behind it. What Jobs did was step out of the normal and tested the limits of what could be done. Like Steve Jobs, music is constantly changing and developing new beats and styles. At the beginning of Lady’s Gaga’s career, many people questioned her style and music. Soon after, she was accepted and rose to the top of the charts. You may ask what this has to do with art but it’s very simple. Innovation takes time and patients. Like many music artist and inventers, painter and sculptors take risks with their ideas. According to “Other Criteria” Damien Hirst is one of the most influential artists of his generation. What Damien Hirst has done is very similar to what many inventers and new music artist are doing. That is why I would like to talk to you about the life of Damien, his innovations and art he has created.
The members included Angus Young, Malcolm Young, Larry Van Kriedt, Dave Evans, and Colin Burgess. The people who wanted the most success out of them were Australia’s legendary roadie Ray Arnold and his partner Alan Kissack. The two men convinced “Chequers” entertainment manager Gene Pierson to let the band play at the popular Sydney nightclub in 1973. Colin Burgess was the first member fired, and several bassists and drummers passed through the band the next year. The Young brothers decided that Evans was not a suitable frontman for the group, because they felt he was more of a glam rocker. It was Gene Pierson who arranged for Bon Scott from “Fraternity” to join them as the lead singer. (Paul Sutcliffe, Pg. 34, P.2)
Led Zeppelin was one of the giants of the 1970’s in hard rock. They were also one of the greatest success stories that ever played hard rock music. The group was one the more popular hard rock groups that performed in the seventies, and even had some hits in the 1960’s.
Throughout their career, the Beach Boys emerged as the most popular surf band. The band includes the three Wilson brothers, Brian, Carl, and Dennis, and their cousin Mike Love, along with their friend Al Jardine. With Mike as lead vocals, Bria on bass, Dennis on drums, Carl on lead guitar, and Al on rhythm guitar, they were the only band to challenge the Beatles’ success for a small time. Unfortunately, Brian’s drug use and obsession with beating the Beatles eventually led to a nervous breakdown and he was no longer a consistent participant. In the mid 1962’s, The Beach Boys released “Surfin’ Safari,” which hit the top 20 charts and helped popularize the “surf rock craze.” “Surfin’ USA,” which was similarly themed, was released in 1963 and hit the top ten charts. The next year,
The band was officially formed in 1962, having six original members. Mick Jagger was lead vocals and also played the harmonica. Jagger’s signature look has always been his lips, but they were often criticized. Keith Richards played the guitar and also sang. Charlie Watts was on drums, and Brian Jones played the guitar, harmonica, sitar, and sang. Two less popular members were I...