The Red Hot Chili Peppers are an american rock band that started in los angeles california. There was originally lead singer Anthony Kiedis‚ guitarist Hillel Slovak‚ bassist Flea‚ and drummer Jack Irons‚ They all met in high school at Fairfax high school in los angeles. They were signed to enigma records in december 1983‚ but 2 weeks earlier Irons and slovak had signed with MCA with the band What is this so they quit Red Hot Chili Peppers to pursue things with What is this so flea and Kiedis recruited
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Matter I went to Kenny Endo’s Taiko Drum and Dance Saturday night thinking I was just going to see pieces with just dancing and just drumming. I did not expect to see what I saw and this performance completely changed my view of dancing/dancers‚ drummers/musicians/composers...artistry in general. The overall performance was good‚ but it were the little things‚ like having good posture and form while playing or dancing‚ or the use of instruments and lighting‚ that made it great. The entire show
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Bomba is a popular music in Puerto Rico that has been part of their heritage. This music and dance began among the African slaves working in the sugar cane fields in Puerto Rico; this music is the most African influenced of Puerto Rico types of music‚ therefore Bomba is actually considered afro-puertoriquean music; the rhythms and instruments between both cultures sound similar. The slaves used Bomba as a way to relieve their minds from all the slavery damages‚ as a way to liberate all their frustrations
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Zildjian had perfected a process of treating alloys to make musical cymbals that is essentially still in use today. However‚ the acceptance of drums into American culture was brought about mostly by the military and it’s need for snare and bass drummers‚ (also cymbals in the case of some Eastern armies.) Had war not driven the need for loud and striking rhythm‚ drums may not have made their way to America‚ especially in light of the cultural intolerance in America at the time and the obvious correlation
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interest and knowledge of nature. However‚ this is not to say that nature is at the heart at every one of his most famous poems – it is sometimes merely a backdrop for other themes‚ such as war‚ fate and lost love. Hardy explores human nature in ‘Drummer Hodge’‚ the downward spiral of mankind using ‘Channel Firing’ and romantic grief in ‘The Voice’. In my opinion this statement implies that all of Hardy’s most famous works are connected to nature. However‚ such a prolific poet cannot be labelled with
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“Dance to the beat of your own drummer:” A piece of advice that I have been told my whole life‚ and have tried my hardest to follow. The words were taken from Thoreau’s quote‚ “If a man does not keep pace with his companions‚ perhaps it is because he hears a different drummer.” Ralph Waldo Emerson and Henry David Thoreau changed our lives. How? Well‚ the answer is not so simple as the statement. To understand fully how they affected our lives‚ we have to understand
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entitled Jazz at the Stockmarket. We kind of got lost on the way so we only saw the second half of the show. The Sacramento based musicians were Jim Malone on keyboard‚ Steve Krohn who played both the guitar and keyboard‚ Rich Defazio an amazing drummer. That night the band was featuring Ken Stout who is an incredible tenor saxophone player‚ and also a guest appearance vocalist by the name of Debbie Defazio. There was also a tremendous bass player but his name was not on the program. There was a
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AC/DC are an Australian rock band formed in Sydney in 1973 by Scottish born brothers Malcolm and Angus Young. Although the band are commonly classified as hard rock and are considered pioneers of heavy metal‚ they have always classified their music as "rock and roll" AC/DC underwent several line-up changes before releasing their first album‚ High Voltage‚ in 1975. Membership remained stable until bassist Mark Evans was replaced by Cliff Williams in 1977. In 1979‚ the band recorded their highly
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Long Island Man The mid-1960s was an exceptional time for rock music. Many different kinds of rock‚ from a more bebop sound to psychedelic‚ from folksy to hard rock‚ were beginning to develop and Long Island was in the forefront. The first band to make it to the national charts was the Young Rascals1 and soon others were trying to make their mark. “Long Island became a hotbed of blue-eyed soul bands of all stripes. Long Island was the soul counter to the West Coast psychedelic counterculture
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similar‚ despite the opposing views of each side of the war. Most of the Union Army was made up of young white men born in North America. Although soldiers generally ranged in age from 18 to 45‚ boys as young as 12 often served as cavalry‚ buglers or drummer boys‚ and some men in their fifties and sixties enlisted as privates. Most of the Union Soldiers were under 30 while almost half of the Union Soldiers had been farmers before joining the Army‚ the others represented a wide variety of occupation. Their
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