čtvrtek 31. července 2008

Blindside Blues Band

BLINDSIDE BLUES BAND

MIKE ONESKO-GUITARS,VOCALS

SCOTT JOHNSON-GUITARS

JEFF MARTIN-DRUMS

AYNSLEY DUNBAR-DRUMS

EMERY CEO-DRUMS

GREGG CHAISSON-BASS GUITAR

KIER STAEHELI-BASS GUITAR

JAMES LOMENZO-BASS GUITAR

MARK CHOLEY BASS GUITAR

BILL GRESSOCK-GUITARS

MIKE VARNEY-GUITARS

MICHAEL BARRICK-BASS GUITAR

MARK TAVERNA-BASS GUITAR

CHRIS BORAS-BASS GUITAR

DISCOGRAPHY :


BLINDSIDED-BLINDSIDE BLUES BAND-19994
MESSENGER OF THE BLUES -19995

CREAM OF THE CROP A TRIBUTETO CREAM- 1994

MIKE ONESKO'S BLINDSIDE BLUESBAND TO THE STATION-1996

SONGS FROM THE BETTER BLUESBUREAU-1994

FIT FOR A KING-1994 (VARIOUS ARTISTSMIKE ONESKO-ALBERTS JAM)

HATS OFF TO STEVIE RAY-1994 (VARIOUS ARTISTS MIKE ONESKO-LAST STEVIE JAM)

MIKE ONESKO'S GUITAR ARMYARMAGEDDON-2001

MIKE ONESKO BLUES BAND-SMOKEHOUSE SESSIONS-2004

GYPSY BLOOD HENDRIX TRIBUTE VOLUME II-2004-VARIOUS ARTISTS

BLINDSIDE BLUES BANDLONG HARD ROAD-2005

BLINDSIDE BLUES BAND- KEEPERS OF THE FLAME-2007







úterý 29. července 2008

Birth Control


Birth Control
is a German Krautrock band known for their progressive hard-rock sound and provocative album covers.


Birth Control formed in the middle of 1968 in Berlin from two other bands, the Earls and the Gents. The initial members were: Bernd Koschmidder (bass), Reinhold Sobotta (organ), Rolf Gurra (saxophone and vocals), Fritz Groeger (vocals), Klaus Orso (guitar), Reiner Borchert (guitar), and Hugo Egon Balder (percussion).

The name of the band was a response to Pope Paul VI's declaration that contraceptives were sinful.

Their 9'47" lasting single Gamma Ray (1975) is still an international discotheque hit.

After a series of disappointing albums in the early 1980s, the group disbanded, but reunited in 1993 with new members. The band continues to tour in Germany and release new albums periodically.





Discography
1970 Birth Control
1971 Operation
1972 Believe in the Pill (Best of…) and Hoodoo Man
1973 Knock Knock. Who’s There, Rebirth, and Goldrock
1974 Live
1975 Plastic People
1976 Backdoor Possibilities
1977 Live, The Best Of, and Increase
1978 The Best Of (Vol. 2), Titanic, and Rock on Brain
1979 Live 79
1980 Count on Dracula
1981 Deal Done at Night
1982 Bäng
1989 Gamma Ray (Special Mix)
1990 The Very Best Of
1994 Condomium
1995 Two Worlds
1996 Jungle Life and Definitive Collection
1998 Getting There and Crazy Nights (Studio Session)
2000 Live Abortion and Live in Lachendorf
2003 Alsatian
2004 Live in Fulda
2005 35th Anniversary - Live At Rockpalast



neděle 27. července 2008

Gravy Train

Gravy Train
Velká Británie 1969 - 1974

Obsazení:
Norman Barratt - zpěv, kytara (AB)Barry Davenport - bicí (A)J. D. Hughes - flétna, saxofon, klávesy (AB)Les Williams - baskytara, zpěv (AB)Russell Cordwell - bicí (B)Hosté (B):Jim Frank - bicí; George Lynon - kytara; Pete Solley - syntezátor; Mary Zinovieff - syntezátor, housle; Doris Fay (Gospel Ayres) - sbory; Bobby Harrison - sbory; Pat Arnold - sbory

Originalita britských rockových hledačů Gravy Train byla vystavěna na kontrastu takřka všudypřítomné hravé flétny s úporně tlučenými bicími a zvláštním způsobem valivě zkreslené kytary. Nervní skřípavý škrcený hlas Normana Barratta pak osobitost Gravy Train podtrhoval. Mně osobně zní jejich folk/heavy jako Jethro Tull přikovaní k Iron Butterfly.
U zrodu Gravy Train stál Norman Barratt, známý jako kytarista a zpěvák jenž vystřídal Jimmiho Pagea v Lord Sutch & Heavy Friends, podivuhodného to seskupení kolem nedávno zemřelého ulítlého excentrika Davida Sutche. Narodil se v roce 1949 v Newton le Willows, mezi Manchesterem a Liverpoolem. Svou hudební kariéru začal v místních skupinách The Hunters a Newton's Theory, s nimiž přesídlil koncem šedesátých let do Londýna.
Gravy Train prakticky ihned po založení v březnu 1969 (Manchester) podepisují kontrakt s progresivním labelem Vertigo a narychlo nahrávají a vydávají svou prvotinu. V případě této skupiny nemohu sloužit žádnými příběhy, nejsou prostě k dispozici, o to více se soustředím na hudbu samotnou.

Gravy Train (1970) začíná jethrotullovskou flétničkou v The New One , v polovině doslova přefiknutou Barrattovým řezákem. Zprvu podobně laděnou Dedication To Sid rozvinou dvojzpěvy Barratta a Hughese, navazující psychadelické vyhrávky ostře vazbené kytary, trilkující flétny a další alto-tenorové foukačky. Bluesovku Coast Road s gradujícím propletencem kytary, flétny a saxíků a ležérním rytmickým doprovodem považuji za jeden z vrcholů alba. Na jednoduchou rytmickou úderku Enterprise navazuje Think Of Life s parádním ústředním hardrockovým riffem, doprovázeným samozřejmě flétnou létavicí. Závěr debutu patří zbytečně natažené 16-ti minutovce Earl Of Pocket Nook, z větší části tvořené překvapivě nezáživnou instrumentální pasáží.



I druhé album je připravováno pod firmou Vertigo.
(A Ballad of) A Peaceful Man (1971) je oproti poměrně syrovému debutu od první noty slyšitelně zaoblenější a propracovanější, skladby mají svá akustická zákoutí, předehry, mezihry, objevují se orchestrální pasáže, varhany a mellotrony, až na jednu výjimku pomalé skladby jsou propojeny. Album otevírá expresivně zpívaná balada Alone In Georgia, plynule přecházející v skvěle vystavěný titulní opus, střídavě melancholický a pateticky vypjatý. V dané linii pokračuje i Jule's Delight s čarovnou flétnovou mezihrou a sólující basou. Rané Camel evokuje zprvu akustická perlivá posléze mellotronově sladkobolná, nakonec kytarově syrová Messenger, v níž Norman Barratt prokládá v pianissimech svůj skřípák niternými hlasovými polohami. Úderný riff Can Anybody Hear Me, hraný flétnou (!), plus křičící Barratt evokují vzpomínky na debut. Uriášovské chóry, santanovská rytmika, colosseovská pasáž se saxíkem - to vše zní v Old Tin Box, šťavnatá odpichovka Won't Talk About It je kombinací Jethro Tull s Who. Zklidnělá Home Again uzavírá album, patřící svou kvalitou do zlatého fondu rocku.
Během roku 1972 přesídlují Gravy Train k firmě Dawn.



Second Birth (1973). Morning Coming je zvláštní složeninou jednoduchého riffu, byrdsovských backgroundů a baskytarových prostocviků. Nezvykle tvrdou Peter označují někteří hudební publicisté za nepovedenou kopii Grand Funk Railroad. Něžná, opět westcoastově zpěvavá September Morning News pak připomíná Crosby, Stills, Nash & Young. Motorway zastupuje na trojce takzvaný progresivní rock, bohužel ne moc povedený - je to v podstatě neustálý sled pártaktových motivků, rytmických laufů a cvičebnicových instrumentálních meziher. Fields And Factories je taktéž pokusem o prokomponovaný kus, chybí však chytlavý hlavní motiv, je to opět takový neuspořádaný slepenec. Jednoduchému popěvku Strength Of A Dream se "slide" kytarou by naproti tomu pár oživujících vsuvek prospělo. Tolpuddle Episode je rodnou sestrou September Morning News. Na elpé závěrečná titulka Second Birth je klasický progresivistický kousek jaksepatří, spraví chuť. Z neznáma vyhrabané rock'n'boogie Goodtime Girl představuje Gravy Train v roli zpomalených Status Quo. Second Birth je koncepčně dosti rozhárané album, nemá tvář, je to hudební mišmaš, chtělo by se říci od každého něco ... dohromady nic, ale to by bylo přeci jenom příkré.


Přípravy čtvrtého alba se zúčastnila řada hostů, mezi nimi i hráč na syntezátory Pete Solley (Trampline, Snafu).
Staircase To The Day (1974) posunulo Gravy Train směrem k rockovému hlavnímu proudu. Dva z hostů například hrají na syntezátory. Starbright Starlight je přizdobená neagresivní hardrockovka s rozdrnčenými kytarami a doprovodnými syntíky. Zaměnitelná (např. s Nazareth z období Exercises) je i jižanská balada s piánem a slide kytarou Bring My Life On Back To Me. Hlavní motiv Never Wanted You mně taky cosi sakra připomíná - no vzpomenu si až to nebudu potřebovat - jo zrychlenou After Midnight od J. J. Calea. Titulní osmiminutový opus, inspirovaný částečně klasickou hudbou, viz. bachovské intro, se zvolna rozvíjí kolem ústředního motivu do košaté krásy, v gradujícím finále se přidávají mellotrony a chóry. Zpět na zem, soulově šponovaná hardrocková Going For A Quick One má šťávu i když je pro Gravy Train netypická. Bowiovské Barratovo zaříkávání ozvláštňuje akustickou pár-akordovou The Last Day. Cembalo a piáno kralují ve snové Evening Of My Life. Závěrečný opus Busted In Schenectady je druhým vrcholem alba - silnými motivy nabušená osmiminutovka z nezvyklými nástroji typu "cosmic clavinet", wah-wah kytarou a snad přímo z floydovské One Of These Days převzatou pulsní pádivou rytmikou. Čtvrté album sice také nemá osobitost prvých dvou, na rozdíl od předchozího však naštěstí oplývá kvalitními silnými písněmi.

Po rozpuštění Gravy Train se Norman Barratt stal aktivním věřícím a v hudební kariéře pokračoval v rámci křesťanských skupin. V roce 1977 vydal u firmy Word Records album The Prize se skupinou Alwyn Wall Band. Na přelomu sedmé a osmé dekády působil v Mandala Band a Victor Brox Blues Train. V roce 1980 formuje svůj Barratt Band a o rok později s ním vydává Playing In The City. Poté se pro evropsko-americké turné dává znovu dohromady s Larry Normanem a Alwyn Wall, nahrává s nimi Alwyn's Invisible Warfare (1982) a živák Friends On Tour (198?). Časem obnovuje Barratt Band a vydává dvě další elpé Voice (1983) a Rock For All Ages.
Znechucen poměry u CCM se posléze Barratt omezuje na hraní v kostele ve svém bydlišti, jako studiový hráč spolupracuje mj. s Paulem Youngem ze Sad Café, Mike Rutherfordem z Genesis a Andy Prattem.
Po překonání vleklých zdravotních potíží s očima, které jej vyřadily na čtyři roky z muzikantského života pracuje dnes Norman Barratt pro křesťanské vydavatelství DML.

Diskografie:

1970 Gravy Train (album)
1971 (A Ballad of) A Peaceful Man
1973 Second Birth
1974 Staircase to the Day

45's
1973 Strength Of A Dream/Tolpuddle Episode
1973 Starbright Starlight/Good Time Thing
1975 Climb Aboard The Gravy Train/Sanctuary


Collections
2006 Strength Of A Dream: The Gravy Train Anthology (Castle)






úterý 22. července 2008

Hackett , Steve


Stephen Richard Hackett
(born 12 February 1950) is a British songwriter and guitarist. He gained prominence as a member of the British progressive rock group Genesis, which he joined in 1970. Hackett remained with the band for eight albums before leaving in 1977 to pursue a solo career.
In 1986, Hackett co-founded the
supergroup GTR with another progressive guitarist, Steve Howe of Yes and Asia. The group released a self-titled album that year, which peaked at #11 on the Billboard 200 in the United States and spawned the Top 20 single "When the Heart Rules the Mind". When Hackett left GTR in 1987, the group disbanded.
After leaving GTR, Hackett resumed his solo career and has released albums and toured on a regular basis since. His body of work has encompassed many styles, such as progressive rock,
world music, and classical. His playing has influenced guitarists such as Alex Lifeson and Brian May.



Biography
Hackett was born in
Pimlico, London and attended the Sloane Grammar School, Chelsea.
He grew up having access to various musical instruments, such as the
recorder and mouth organ, but did not develop an interest in the guitar until the age of twelve, when he started playing single notes. By fourteen, he was learning chords and experimenting with chord progressions, although he never received any formal instruction. Hackett's earliest musical influences were classical (Johann Sebastian Bach) and opera (Mario Lanza). He has stated that his compositions are still influenced by them. Hackett also has cited numerous British blues artists as influences, namely Danny Kirwan, Peter Green, and various guitarists in John Mayall & the Bluesbreakers.

Early career
Steve Hackett's earliest professional playing experience came with two bands — Canterbury Glass and Sarabande — both of whom performed
rock with progressive elements. His first recording work came in 1970, as a member of Quiet World, a band that included younger brother John Hackett on flute. The group released one album, The Road, but Hackett departed the group soon after.
Hackett, seeking a new band, placed an ad in
Melody Maker. The ad, in which Hackett stated he was seeking musicians "determined to strive beyond existing stagnant music forms," was spotted by Genesis vocalist Peter Gabriel, who contacted Hackett. The band had recently lost founding member Anthony Phillips, and was performing with a temporary guitarist, Mick Barnard. After seeing Genesis perform, Hackett auditioned for the group and joined in December 1970.




Genesis
Hackett, who had very little on-stage playing experience when he joined Genesis, had some initial difficulty performing with the group. According to
Phil Collins, at Hackett's first gig with the group, Collins had decided to see how many bottles of Newcastle Brown Ale he could drink and still play the drums.But he soon settled into his role, and his unique stage image (wearing glasses and seated in a hunched position over his guitar) served as a counter to the costumed theatrics of Gabriel.
Hackett's first recording with Genesis was
Nursery Cryme, released in November 1971. Hackett made an immediate impact on the group's sound, as evidenced by his work on such songs as "The Musical Box" and "The Return of the Giant Hogweed", becoming one of the first guitarists to experiment with the tapping technique normally attributed to Eddie Van Halen. (The continuo part in the song sounds like a synthesizer due to distortion and due to his legato tapping technique as well as Tony Banks's simultaneous Hohner Pianet continuo).

Although Nursery Cryme was not a commercial success, 1972's album Foxtrot was. (However, it only charted in the UK, reaching number 12) Included on Foxtrot was the brief classical acoustic solo "Horizons," which quickly became one of his signature pieces.
Foxtrot began a trend of increasing commercial popularity for Genesis. The group's 1973 effort,
Selling England by the Pound, was particularly successful, reaching number 70 in the US the year after its release, and reaching number 3 in the UK (marking the bands' peak with Peter Gabriel there). Hackett showed continued and perfected use of the tapping technique as well as sweep picking popularised in the 1980s by Yngwie Malmsteen. Both these techniques can be heard on the solo to the opening track "Dancing with the Moonlit Knight". The third track on the album, "Firth of Fifth" contains one of Hackett's most celebrated, as well as one of progressive rock's most iconic, tearing guitar solos. The track has been a favourite at Genesis' live shows, even after Hackett's departure.
In 1975, Hackett became the first member of Genesis to release a solo album when he issued
Voyage of the Acolyte. Assisting with the recording were Hackett's Genesis bandmates, Phil Collins and Mike Rutherford. Hackett enjoyed the freedom he had when writing and recording the album, and soon became disenchanted with the democratic approach to songwriting Genesis employed.
Hackett's frustration increased as Genesis prepared to release 1977's
Wind & Wuthering. Hackett was insistent that more of his material be included on the album, but was rebuffed. "Blood on the Rooftops," which Hackett wrote with Collins, made the album but was never played live, and his composition "Please Don't Touch" was rejected completely. Another song, "Inside and Out," was relegated to the Spot the Pigeon EP. Hackett remained with Genesis through the conclusion of the Wind & Wuthering tour, but announced his departure on October 8, 1977, one week before the release of the group's second live album, Seconds Out.

Reunions
Since Hackett's departure, the early '70s lineup of Genesis has reunited on a handful of occasions. On
October 2, 1982, the group gathered for a one-off performance entitled "Six of the Best". The show was held to raise money for Peter Gabriel's WOMAD festival. This was the first and last time this lineup had performed since 1975.
In 1998, the group gathered for a photo session and dinner to celebrate the release of the
box set, Genesis Archive 1967-75. Hackett also participated in the re-recording of 1974's "The Carpet Crawlers" for inclusion on the 1999 Genesis greatest hits album, Turn It on Again: The Hits. The rest of the group recorded new parts as well, although they were not recorded together in the same studio.
In an April 2006 radio interview, Phil Collins discussed a band meeting that took place in November 2005. During that meeting, the group discussed the possibility of reuniting the classic mid-'70s roster for a limited run of shows, including a complete performance of the group's 1974 double album,
The Lamb Lies Down on Broadway.[8] However, on October 18, 2006 it was announced that the post-Hackett lineup of Rutherford, Banks, and Collins were instead reforming.

Solo career
Hackett's first post-Genesis album was
Please Don't Touch, released in 1978. As with Voyage of the Acolyte, much of the material on the album was in the style of progressive rock. It did contain, however, much more vocal work. Hackett, who had never sung lead on a Genesis song, turned over most of the vocals to a number of singers, including folk singer Richie Havens, R&B singer Randy Crawford, and Steve Walsh of Kansas. He did provide lead vocals for "Carry on Up the Vicarage," but they were processed using a "laughing gnome" vocal effect.[10] The album peaked at #38 on the UK charts and #103 on the Billboard Pop Albums chart in the United States.
A pair of progressive rock albums followed—1979's
Spectral Mornings and 1980's Defector. They were both Top 40 albums in the UK, while they charted #138 and #144 in the United States, respectively. Hackett toured Europe for the first time as a solo act in 1979, and in August performed at the Reading Festival. The Defector tour brought him to the United States for the first time since his last tour with Genesis.
Hackett's first major shift in musical style came with 1981's
Cured. Although the album contained some of the progressive and classical pieces for which Hackett was known, it also showcased a much more pop approach. The album was recorded without most of the musicians who had been on Hackett's solo albums since Spectral Mornings (Hackett handled all lead vocal duties). Only longtime collaborators Nick Magnus and John Hackett remained. While Cured did not chart highly in the U.S., it peaked at #15 in the UK, Hackett's highest charting yet.
In the 1980s, Hackett released his first classical guitar albums
Bay of Kings and Momentum, which further enhanced his reputation. The tour for Momentum drew large crowds in Europe, considered unusual for a classical guitarist.
On the rock production side, Hackett's work in the 1980s involve the LPs Cured (1981), Highly Strung (1982) and Till We Have Faces (1984). In Highly Strung, more than a nuance of electronic sound appears, making the album unique and unrepeated in Hackett's production, and surely one of the most difficult to approach. Till We Have Faces merges Hackett style sounds with Brazilian percussion.
In 1986, Hackett formed the
supergroup GTR with then-former Yes and Asia guitarist Steve Howe, and produced by Yes/Asia keyboardist Geoff Downes. The group released a gold-selling album. Hackett later left over financial and management squabbles. As well as Howe and Downes, Hackett has also worked with Yes drummer Bill Bruford in Genesis, Yes bassist Chris Squire (Chris Squire's Swiss Choir, 2007) and briefly Yes vocalist Trevor Horn (who produced the 1999 reunion version of "The Carpet Crawlers"). Hackett's long-time keyboadist, Julian Colbeck, played live with Yes spin-off Anderson Bruford Wakeman Howe.
Hackett's solo career continued, releasing a plethora of both electric and acoustic based albums throughout the 90s to the present day. One of his most memorable recordings was the neo-classical influenced
A Midsummer Night's Dream, which showcases his guitar skills, accompanied by the Royal Philharmonic Orchestra.
Steve's younger brother
John was involved as flute player and second guitarist in his 1970s bands, and has often appeared as musician and collaborator on his more recent work, particularly on Sketches of Satie (2000), arranged for flute and guitar.
Hackett is married to
Brazilian painter and jewellery artist Kim Poor, who paints most of his album cove
rs. Her artwork for Voyage of the Acolyte won Album Cover of the Year 1976.

DISCOGRAPHY :

Albums

Group career (1970s)
with
Quiet World (1970)
The Road (1970)
with
Genesis (1970–77)
Nursery Cryme (1971)
Foxtrot (1972)
Genesis Live (1973)
Selling England by the Pound (1973)
The Lamb Lies Down on Broadway (1974)
A Trick of the Tail (1976)
Wind & Wuthering (1976)
Spot the Pigeon (EP, 1977)
Seconds Out (1977)
Three Sides Live (1982, appears on "It/Watcher of the Skies")
Genesis Archive 1967-75 (1998)
Turn it on Again: The Hits (1999, appears on "I Know What I Like (In Your Wardrobe)" and "The Carpet Crawlers 1999")
Genesis Archive 2: 1976-1992 (2000, appears on "Entangled (Live)," "It's Yourself," "Pigeons," and "Inside and Out")
The Platinum Collection (2004)
with
GTR (1986–87)
GTR (1986)
King Biscuit Flower Hour (1997)
Greatest Hits Live (2003)
with
Gordian Knot (2003)
Emergent (2003)

Solo career (1970s–present)
studio albums
Voyage of the Acolyte (1975; #26 UK, #191 US)
Please Don't Touch (1978; #38 UK, #103 US)
Spectral Mornings (1979; #22 UK, #138 US)
Defector (1980; #9 UK; #144 US)
Cured (1981; #15 UK, #169 US)
Highly Strung (1983)
Bay of Kings (1983)
Till We Have Faces (1984)
Momentum (1988)
Guitar Noir (1993)
Blues with a Feeling (1994)
Genesis Revisited (1996, Japan-only release)
Watcher of the Skies: Genesis Revisited (1997)
A Midsummer Night's Dream (1997)
Darktown (1999)
Sketches of Satie (2000)
Feedback 86 (2000)
Genesis Files (2002)
To Watch the Storms (2003)
Metamorpheus (2005)
Wild Orchids (2006)
Tribute (2008)
live albums
Time Lapse (1991)
There Are Many Sides to the Night (1995)
The Tokyo Tapes (1996)
Live Archive 70, 80, 90's (2001)
Live Archive 70s Newcastle (2001)
Somewhere in South America... (2002)
Hungarian Horizons (2002)
Live Archive NEARfest (2003)
Live Archive 03 (2004)
Live Archive 04 (2004)
Live Archive 05 (2005)
Live Archive 83 (2006)


compilations
The Unauthorised Biography (1992)
Soundtracks
Outwitting Hitler (2001, score to the
Showtime documentary)




pondělí 21. července 2008

All About Eve



All About Eve is a British rock/pop band. The creative core consists of Coventry-born Julianne Regan (vocals) and Andy Cousin (bass guitar), with other members changing over the years.

History
Julianne Regan, a former journalist, played bass in an early line-up of Gothic rock group Gene Loves Jezebel before leaving to join All About Eve, previously known as the Swarm. The initial core of All About Eve was Regan, guitarist Tim Bricheno, and bassist Andy Cousin from Aemotti Crii. As a three-piece (plus a drum machine), they released a series of independent singles in the mid 1980s including "D For Desire", "In The Clouds" and "Flowers In Our Hair". After Julianne sang backing vocals for The Mission's Gods Own Medicine album, the band received greater attention and were signed to Phonogram. Drummer Mark Price was added around this time.

Debut and Other Stories; chart success
Their
self-titled debut album was produced by Paul Samwell-Smith and released in 1988, it produced the UK hit single "Martha's Harbour".
The album itself reached #7 on the United Kingdom album charts, with much of its lyrical material drawing from
hippie ideals, white magic and dreamlike fairy tales, the album's gentle folk rock-inspired pop sound won the band many fans (nicknamed "angels"). Their music is sometimes considered gothic rock by the media, some fans claim the band did not play gothic rock after 1986, though are connected mostly due to the engagements of the band members in the musical scene of the time who had left All About Eve.
In a well known incident, the band later performed a dubbed version of "Martha's Harbour" on the
BBC1 television show Top Of The Pops, but, owing to a studio technical error, the taped vocals were broadcast without the band being able to hear them, resulting in the TV audience hearing the recorded version of the song, while the band members sat motionless on screen waiting for their cue to begin. By way of compensation the band were invited back on to the show the following week, and this time their performance passed off smoothly.
The following year, their second album
Scarlet and Other Stories was released, and the band toured around the UK, it was another top 10 hit for the band. Widely prevalent on this album were Regan's somber, highly melancholic moods. Painful chance encounters with love also appeared on the lyrical front, and it is this motif (and period of time) which was to greatly paint the picture for the future of the band as well.

Activity through the 1990s
In
1990, Bricheno left the group (later to join The Sisters of Mercy for their Vision Thing era, and subsequent bands XC-NN and Tin Star) to be swiftly replaced by The Church's Marty Willson-Piper. They went on to record Touched By Jesus in 1991 (which featured David Gilmour of Pink Floyd on guitar on two tracks), before changing record companies and taking a dramatic stylistic change by releasing Ultraviolet the year after.
Going an altogether different way to their previous release, Ultraviolet mellowed the band's sound greatly, revisiting Scarlet's general sorrowful feel with a heavy inspiration from the
shoegazing movement and psychedelia to turn the Eve signature sound ever colder, with much downplayed vocals. The album, released by MCA Records was not well supported by the record company, considering the change to be for the worse, and the band subsequently went their separate ways. MCA, shedding no tears, promptly deleted the album from their catalogue. Although the band continued for a couple more months without Regan's input, they disbanded in early 1993, with the album they had been working on at the time eventually seeing the light of day under the group name Seeing Stars.
Regan went on to form
Mice and to work with Bernard Butler, but an album with the latter never came to fruition due to personality clashes. Though often quoted that Julianne thought Butler to be "Satan", this quote is in fact not true. Later on, she also teamed up with her old Gene Loves Jezebel acquaintance Jean-Marc Lederman in the highly atmospheric Jules et Jim project (a collaboration which continues to this day).
At the end of the 1990s, old friends The Mission reformed after a short break and started touring. They invited Regan to open for them, and their offer was accepted, starting the second era of the band. Soon after the tour the newly-reformed (Regan, Willson-Piper & Cousin) All About Eve toured for two years, releasing
Fairy Light Nights, an acoustic live collection in 2000, with Volume 2 following in 2001, and later followed by two more live albums Live And Electric At The Union Chapel and Cinemasonic (the latter of which was also released as a DVD). A collection of early recordings was also released, entitled Return To Eden, Volume 1 (no second volume has yet appeared).
In
2002, Willson-Piper left the band to pursue other projects, to be replaced by new guitarist Toni Haimi, previously of the band Malluka and now in the Sohodolls. Also in 2002, Julianne and Andy released their first studio recordings in a decade, with the EP Iceland – a collection of "winter songs", including reworkings of previous fan-favourite "December" and cover versions of Wham!'s "Last Christmas", Queen's "A Winter's Tale", and a minimalist electronic take on the popular song from the animated short The Snowman, "Walking in the Air".

Recent times
In mid-
2004, just after the release of their first single in a decade, "Let Me Go Home", the band split once again. Regan is currently working on projects including an album with Jean-Marc Lederman (in a follow-up to the first Jules et Jim album), as well as collaborating once again with Tim Bricheno. The nearly-completed All About Eve studio album that was being worked-on remains unreleased, although Regan and Cousin once indicated that they may eventually finish the recordings sometime in the future.
A double CD collection entitled Keepsakes, consisting of the singles, key album tracks and previously unreleased rarities, as well as some newly recorded songs, was released early March
2006, and was initially available with a DVD of the promo videos and TV appearances. Planned re-issues of the first four albums, along with some previously un-released bonus tracks, was due out in February 2008; however the record company has since decided that no release date for these is likely in the foreseeable future.





středa 9. července 2008

Doc Holliday

Doc Holliday

are a Southern rock band from Macon, Georgia, named after Western legend Doc Holliday.
Their debut album of the same name entered the top 30 Billboard charts in 1981. Their second album "Doc Holliday rides again" topped that success. The band played many shows in that time, with Black Sabbath and others. Due to the failure of their third, experimental album in 1983 and the stress of touring, the band broke up in 1983.
They re-united in the 1990s. Since, they brought out more albums, and toured, mainly in Europe.





Original lineup 1981-1983
Bruce Brookshire - Lead Guitar, Lead Vocals
Eddie Stone - Keyboards, Vocals
John Samuelson -Bass Guitar, Vocals
Ric Skelton - Lead Guitar, Vocals
Herman Nixon - Drums

Band members (active)
Bruce Brookshire - Vocals, Lead Guitar
Eddie Stone - Keyboards, Guitar, Vocals
John Turner Samuelson - Lead Guitar, Vocals
Daniel Bud Ford - Bass Guitar, Vocals
Danny "Cadillac" Lastinger - Drums




Discography
1981-"DOC HOLLIDAY"
1981-"DOC HOLLIDAY RIDES AGAIN"
1983-"MODERN MEDICINE"
1986-"DANGER ZONE"
1989-"SONG FOR THE OUTLAW-LIVE"
1993-"SON OF THE MORNING STAR"
1996-"LEGACY"
1998-"MODERN MEDICINE" [CD issue]
2001-"A BETTER ROAD"
2003-"GUNFIGHTER: THE BEST OF THE 90S"
2004-"GOOD TIME MUSIC"