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Les Claypool

• Sep 24, 2010 from pixelstoreus(PIXELSTORE.US) in Technology
  Les Claypool
  Biography
  Early years
  Claypool was born September 29, 1963 in Richmond, California, but was raised in El Sobrante, California in a working class family with a history of working as auto mechanics. His early education included Collins Elementary School and De Anza High School. Les parents divorced when he was a young child, but he says that he had a decent childhood, citing that he was never abused or severely bullied.
  Claypool developed a bass guitar slap technique listening to other bassists such as Stanley Clarke and Larry Graham. He also bought his first Carl Thompson bass, his trademark four string bass. (Claypool stated in August of 2009, that he now owns 13 bass guitars, including a multi-wood fretless 6-string called the Rainbow Bass.)
  In 1986, after the death of Metallica bassist Cliff Burton, Claypool auditioned to play bass for Metallica, playing the song Master of Puppets on his bass. In Metallicas Behind the Music, Claypool said that during the audition he jokingly asked the others if they wanted to jam on some Isley Brothers tunes. James Hetfield remarked that Claypool was not awarded the job because he was too good.
  Primus
  Main article: Primus (band)
  Primus began as Primate with Les Claypool, guitarist Todd Huth and various drummers, most notably Jay Lane, in the mid-1980s, though Huth and Lane left shortly thereafter to pursue other projects. Claypool replaced them with guitarist Larry LaLonde and eclectic drummer Tim Alexander in 1989 (Tim Herb Alexander left the band in 1996 and was replaced by Brian Brain Mantia). Primus began selling out local clubs with their out-of-control live act and irreverent approach to music (their catchphrase was Primus sucks!). This was later to be changed.
  From 1989 to 2000, Primus steadily became one of the most bizarre bands to gain significant mainstream airplay, headlining Lollapalooza in 1993, appearing on Late Show with David Letterman and Late Night with Conan OBrien in 1995, and even making an appearance at Woodstock 94 where they performed their Pork Soda hit My Name Is Mud and were pelted with mud (Claypool claims to still have mud in his speakers). Also, in 1997, they were asked to play, and record, the theme song for the animated television show South Park. Claypool and Tom Waits have recorded on each others records since 1991 and have continued to do so. In 1999 he let Activision use the song Jerry Was a Race Car Driver on the hit video game Tony Hawks Pro Skater.
  In 2000 Primus went on indefinite hiatus.
  In mid 2003 Claypool reunited with former Primus drummer Tim Alexander and guitarist Larry LaLonde to record a DVD/EP called Animals Should Not Try to Act Like People, which Claypool described as the first DVD with supplementary music, as opposed to the contrary. In October of that year, the band staged a two month tour in which they performed two sets per show, the second consisting of their 1991 release Sailing the Seas of Cheese in its entirety. They continued touring into 2004, even performing their 1990 release Frizzle Fry in its entirety.
  In Mid-August 2006, a DVD release entitled Blame It on the Fish was added to the listings of Amazon and other online shops. Shortly thereafter, the website The PRP reported that a rumor had surfaced implying that the band was quietly planning a North American tour for November/December 2006.
  On October 17, 2006, Primus released both their first greatest hits CD They Cant All Be Zingers and their third DVD Blame It on The Fish, subtitled An Abstract Look at the 2003 Primus Tour De Fromage.
  They Cant All Be Zingers includes sixteen digitally remastered songs that span their entire career, including a previously unreleased and extended version of Shake Hands with Beef, the Tom Waits collaboration Coattails of a Deadman, and Mary the Ice Cube from the 2003 DVD and EP Animals Should Not Try to Act Like People.
  Claypool has let the video game Guitar Hero 2 use the Primus song, John the Fisherman, one of two songs in the game using the actual recording instead of a cover.
  Blame It on the Fish: An Abstract Look at the 2003 Primus Tour De Fromage contains live footage from the bands 2003 reunion tour, interview segments and behind the scenes footage. The DVD includes a 70 minute feature film and 90 minutes of bonus material, including a 30 minute mockumentary about the band in 2065. Blame It on the Fish is directed by Matthew J. Powers, who directed Never Been Done, a documentary about Jon Comer.
  Primus: The Beat A Dead Horse Tour 2006 began in November 2006 and was completed the following December.
  In 2008 Primus played at a few festivals including; Rothbury (in Michigan), The Ottawa Blues Fest, Quebec City Summer Fest, and Outside Lands Festival (in San Francisco).
  Les Claypool let the DC snowboard team use the Primus song Jerry Was a Race Car Driver in their 2007 movie DC Mt. Lab 1.5
  Solo work
  1994 2001
  Sausage
  In 1994, Claypool teamed up with guitarist Todd Huth and drummer Jay...

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• Oct 19, 2010 from peggy353(Peg Honabach) in Business
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Marc Bolan

• Sep 22, 2010 from pixelstoreus(PIXELSTORE.US) in Technology
  Marc Bolan
  Biography
  Early life and career
  The son of a lorry driver, Bolan grew up in post-war Hackney, East London, amongst a Jewish family, and later lived in Wimbledon, southwest London. He fell in love with the rock and roll of Gene Vincent, Eddie Cochran, Arthur Crudup and Chuck Berry[citation needed] at an early age and became a Mod, hanging around coffee bars such as the 2 Is in Soho. He appeared in an episode of the television show Orlando as a Mod extra.
  At the age of nine, Bolan was given his first guitar and began a skiffle band shortly after, and at fifteen, he left school by mutual consent.
  Plaque marking Marc Bolans childhood home, 25 Stoke Newington Common, Hackney. (November 2005)
  He briefly joined a modelling agency and became a John Temple Boy, appearing in a clothing catalogue for the menswear store. He was used as a model for their suits in their catalogues as well as a model for cardboard cut-outs to be displayed in shop windows. TOWN Magazine featured him as an early example of the Mod movement in a photo spread with a couple of other faces.
  Marc Feld had changed his name to Toby Tyler when he met and moved in with child actor Allan Warren, who was to become his first manager. Warren saw Toby Tylers potential whilst Toby spent hours sitting cross-legged on Warrens floor playing his acoustic guitar. Warren then took him to the photographer Michael McGrath and commissioned a series of photographs. Warren then hired a recording studio and had Bolans first acetates cut. One track being the Bob Dylan song Blowing in the wind. Also a version of Betty Everetts Youre No Good which was later submitted to EMI for a test screening but they turned down the then Toby Tyler. Warren later sold Marcs contract and recordings for 200.00 to his landlord, property mogul David Kirch, in lieu of three months back rent. Kirch was far too busy with his property empire to do anything for him. A year or so later, Marcs mother pushed into Kirchs office and shouted at him that he had done nothing for her son. She demand he tear up the contract and willingly he complied.
  The tapes produced during the Toby Tyler recording session vanished from thought and mind for over twenty-five years before resurfacing in 1991 and selling for nearly eight thousand dollars. Their eventual release on CD in 1993 made available the earliest of Marcs known recordings.
  After changing his name again to Marc Bolan (via Mark Bowland) while with Decca Records he released his first single The Wizard. In early 1967 Manager Simon Napier Bell added him to the Pop-Art/mod band Johns Children, which achieved some success as a live band but sold few records. A Johns Children single written by Marc Bolan called Desdemona was banned by the BBC for its line lift up your skirt and fly. His tenure with the band was brief. Bolan claimed to have spent time with a wizard in Paris who allegedly gave him secret knowledge and could levitate. The time spent with him was often alluded to but remained mythical; in reality the wizard was probably U.S. actor Riggs OHara with whom Bolan made a trip to Paris in 1965. His songwriting took off and he began writing many of the neo-romantic songs that would appear on his first albums with Tyrannosaurus Rex.
  Besides Berry, Bolans influences included Bob Dylan, Syd Barrett, Cliff Richard and Elvis Presley.
  Tyrannosaurus Rex
  When Johns Children collapsed (amongst other problems, the band were stunned to discover their equipment had been stolen from a studio, according to a Bolan biographer), Bolan and Steve Peregrine Took created Tyrannosaurus Rex, a psychedelic-folk rock acoustic group, playing Bolans songs, with Took playing assorted hand and kit percussion and occasional bass to Bolans acoustic guitars and voice.
  This version of Tyrannosaurus Rex released four albums and four singles, flirting with the charts, getting as high as number fifteen and getting airplay and support from Radio 1 DJ John Peel. One of the highlights of this era was playing at the first free Hyde Park concert in 1968. Drug-taking and free spirited Took was fired from the group after their first American tour. A rock and roller at heart, Bolan began bringing amplified guitar lines into the duos music, buying a vintage Gibson Les Paul guitar (later featured on the cover of the album T. Rex in 1970). After replacing Took with Mickey Finn, he let the electric influences come forward even further on A Beard of Stars, the final album to be credited to Tyrannosaurus Rex. It closed with a song, Elemental Child, featuring a long electric guitar break influenced by Jimi Hendrix.
  Then Bolan, by now married to his girlfriend June Child (a former secretary to the manager of another of his heroes, Syd Barrett), shortened the groups name to T.Rex and wrote and recorded Ride a White Swan, dominated by a rolling, hand clapping back-beat, Bolans electric guitar and Finns percussion.
  T. Rex and glam rock
  Bolan and his producer Tony Visconti...

Sony WALKMAN E450 / WALKMAN A840 - two new video MP3 players (PMP)

• Jul 15, 2010 from svartling(Svartling)
  Ive got this Press-release from Sony in my Inbox today about some new PMPs/MP3 players. More info: http://kb.clipotech.com/e450 | http://kb.clipotech.com/a840
  
  
  Key features:
  
  Extra-long battery life up to 50 hours of music and 10 hours of video
  
  SensME technology which automatically analyses and categorises your music library into themed channels
  
  Lyrics Sync and Karaoke mode sing along to your favourite songs
  
  Bookmark function to create, add to or edit up to give personal playlists
  
  Clipped from presscentre.sony.eu
  WALKMAN E450: Funky design and rich WALKMAN sound Extra-long battery life up to 50 hour (music)/10 hour (video)1 SensMe channels for themed listening to suit any mood Friendly, easy new interface with album scroll and wallpapers Fun music options with Lyrics Sync and Karaoke mode Excellent Sound Quality with Clear Audio Technologies, Dynamic Normalizer and VPT Easy PC transfer with auto video format conversion in Windows 7 Bookmark function for easy playlist creation Also available with portable stereo speaker dock (E450K - Black) WALKMAN A840: now from 8GB up to 64GB capacity plus new white colour choice
  The WALKMAN family grows this summer with a choice of exciting new Video MP3 players from Sony. Fun, colourful and easy to use, the latest-generation WALKMAN E450 is all about must-have looks plus great sound and video performance. Also available, the super-slim WALKMAN A840 now offers biggest-ever capacity (up to 64GB) plus a fresh new white colour option.imagesE450_1 width=191 height=200/>imagesE450_1 width=191 height=200/>imagesE450_2 width=195 height=200/>imagesE450_2 width=195 height=200/>WALKMAN E450 video MP3 playerYoung music lovers with an eye for style can enjoy rich, quality sound by Sony that really stands out from the crowd. Perfect as a first music player, WALKMAN E450 is available in a choice of five fun, funky colours.A fresh new interface makes WALKMAN even easier and more fun to use. The redesigned playback screen lets you scroll through a big, bold view of cover artwork on the crisp, clear QVGA screen. Background wallpapers can be customised from a choice of designs, or use your own photos. New Scene Search makes it easy to pinpoint the right moment in longer videos by scrolling through a series of thumbnail images.Looking to match your listening to your mood? Unique to Sony, SensMe technology automatically analyses and categorises your music library, creating a series of themed channels. Just pick your channel to suit the moment, from mellow to upbeat.Brand new to WALKMAN, Lyrics Sync supports the popular .lrc file format, displaying the words of your favourite songs on screen. Theres also a new Karaoke Mode that lets you have fun singing along to your favourite songs. WALKMAN automatically reduces the original performers vocal level, so your own voice is heard clearly over the backing track. If youre struggling to hit those high or low notes, playback key can also be adjusted up or down to match anyones vocal reach without changing playback speed.Busy students will appreciate the brand-new Language Learning function that makes it easy to master a tricky phrase. WALKMAN can loop a chosen passage for listening at reduced playback speed without changing pitch or losing clarity.Unique to Sony, a handy Bookmark function lets you create, add to or edit up to five of your own personal playlists. Just pick a playlist to suit your mood or whatever youre doing.Like every WALKMAN, the new E450 series stands out with full, rich sound to get the very best out of your music collection. Clear Bass and Clear Stereo are joined by new DSEE (Digital Sound Enhancement Engine). Developed by Sony, DSEE restores high frequencies that are lost when music files are compressed to recreate more natural, CD-quality sound.New Virtual Phones Technology adds an extra dimension to enjoying your favourite tracks on headphones. Authentic acoustic modelling by Sony places you inside a choice of five soundspaces, from an intimate club to the biggest arena. As an extra listening refinement, Dynamic Normaliser balances the volume of each song as you listen, reducing jumps in volume as you listen in shuffle mode.Extra-long battery life now lets you listen for even longer, offering up to 50 hours of music playback time (10 hours video playback) from a single charge1.Supplied Content Transfer software makes it easy to drag and drop music files and playlists directly to WALKMAN from your PC or iTunes library (not including DRM files).WALKMAN now works better than ever with your PC if youre running Windows 7. Connect the WALKMAN E450 to your PCs USB port and a new Device Stage window launches automatically. This easy-to-use media management function lets you browse files stored on WALKMAN in Windows Explorer and export media files directly to WALKMAN from your PC. Windows 7 even takes care of converting DivX and AVCHD video files stored...

Quickie CD Reviews: Dogs & Cats Living Together Edition

• Sep 14, 2010 from geardiary(Judie Lipsett Stanford) in *
  Over the last few months I have done dozens of short CD reviews articles here, here and here. I continue to get great feedback about this Quick Review format, so I plan to keep using it as a way to give a brief overview of a number of new releases all at once.
  Last time I changed things up a bit by looking at a couple of not-so-good releases. Fortunately I have some great stuff to review this time but am changing things up again! Did you notice the title doesnt say Quickie Jazz CD Reviews? That is because I have Jazz, Pop and Classical music included here!
  So, with that time for another quick look at some recent CD/MP3 album releases!
  Tristan Perich 1-Bit Symphony
  
  Tristan Perich 1-Bit Symphony
  Summary: I already described this as the coolest CD release of the year, but that was as much about the fact that it is a fully self-contained musical experience as it was about the music itself.
  The first thing you will think is oh crap this is annoying! and turn it way down. That is a simple matter of the physics of sound everything here is pure square/triangle/sawtooth/sine waves, without all of the smoothing and filtering we are used to in modern music. Anyone who has listened to early electronic music will feel right at home. The compositions here utilize several 1-bit wave generators to play the notes.
  Ah the compositions. This is a five part piece, and while it is thoroughly modern in most ways, you still have moderato, allegro, and adagio movements. The various parts incorporate elements of traditional classical music, basic electronic music, minimalist thematic development, and even some techno and ambient stuff!
  Choice Track (and why): Movement 4 the intermodulation and varying of the tones in this movement create a cool rhythm that I found immediately compelling. It starts simple, gets progressively more complex in a minimalist manner, and then moves into a broader and slower moving period before finally returning to a swirling rhythmic vortex of notes before concluding.
  You Might Love This If: You like electronic and techno music such as the early 70s masterpiece Switched On Bach by Wendy Carlos.
  Here is a short video about the music and the package:
  
  Click here to view the embedded video.
  Katy Perry Teenage Dream
  
  Katy Perry Teenage Dream
  Summary: Lets just be honest here: I would bet that Katy Perry spend much more time keeping her body in shape than working on her vocal range, breath control, or pitch. But that is pretty much the point Katy Perry is a pure pop sugar package: an attractive young woman who gets packed into skimpy, tight-fitting clothes (Daisy-Dukes, bikinis on top?), and sings very catchy songs written by others to work around her limited vocal skills and allow her to perform them live without sounding awful while strutting around the stage.
  I dont mean that in a derogatory way Ms. Perry is a smart woman who is working in a very tough business and has owned two of the last three summers in terms of chart success. She guest hosted on American Idol last year and I thought she was the best thing all year well, along wih Neil Patrick Harris. In fact, the two of them plus Simon would be the best judges ever. But she was tough and insightful and clear with ideas and suggestions, something that informs the way she runs her music business.
  Unless you have managed to shut yourself off from all public areas, chances are you have heard California Gurls and Teenage Dream. And if that is the sort of music you like, you have probably bought them as well Katy Perry is definitely what they call a singles artist. So the question is: what ELSE is there on the CD? To be honest, not very much certainly nothing I see being at the same level as those songs.
  California Gurls and Teenage Dream are pure pop sugar, which is clearly Ms. Perrys wheelhouse. When she stays in that zone such as with TGIF things go very well, producing one of my younger sons favorite songs from the CD. The song Pearl, about empowerment, is also likely to be a hit despite feeling forced, contrived and clichd.
  When she goes outside of that trying to be a rocker in Circle the Drain, sing a ballad in Who Am I Living For she fails badly. She doesnt have the vocal chops or expressive range for those sorts of things. She also seems to try way too hard to cover ground that is already well handled by Ke$ha and Lady Gaga the drunken party girl and bizarre performance pop artist.
  Ive complained about the designed by committee feel before, and that is certainly true here as well. The producers and managers and songwriting teams obviously wanted to have an arsenal of various song types to pitch to whomever decides what sells these days, in order to be able to support a string of hit songs into 2011 so that Katy can still be known in 2012 when her next CD comes along. Given the initial sales of the CD were pretty weak, I am not sure how well they will do with that, since her two mega-songs are...