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Grateful Dead

March 19, 2010   Sarah   2 Comments

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In 1965 the Grateful dead started in San Francisco during the acid scene. The band took part in the Ken Kesey’s Acid Tests. When LSD was legal Stanley Qwsley piled the band with large amounts.

The band consisted of:

Jerry Garcia who was born as Jerome John Garcia on August 1 of 1942 in San Francisco and died August 9th of 1995 in Forest Knolls, California. He played the lead guitar.

Bob Weir who was born as Robert Hall October 16th of 1947 and  he played rhythm guitar for the band.

Phil Lesh born as Philip Chanman on march 15th of 1940 in Berkeley CA the bass guitar player.

Ron “pigpen” Mckernan born September 8th of 1945  in San Bruno CA and died in march 8th 1973 and he played the keyboards for the band.

Bill Kreutzmann he was born April 7th 1946 in Palo Alto Ca and he is the drummer of the band.

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Their music started out as straight forward rock/blues/R&B, and changed into a veriety of styles but still had the distinction of being long and wandering.  In 1967 their first album was released. By that time the band was already a well know cult band. They released Grateful Dead and then Anthem of the sun which was a lot better quality then the first album. Their colorful album covers were the fine talented arts of Alton Kelly and Stanley Mouse.

Their large amount of fans also known as “deadheads” made marathon concerts possible. It is still uncertain who took more psychedelic chemicals the band or the audience, but that didn’t stop the breathtaking heights of their musical achievements. At this point the band added a second drummer named Micky Hart and a second keyboard player Tom Constanten.  This line up produced Live Dead in 1970.

In 1980 they produced a album called Go to Heaven after Keith was killed in a car crash. This album brought disappointment to the deadheads because of the disco-pop sound the album seemed to have. Making Deadheads think that the band had “gone soft”.

All of the band experimented with drugs but in 1982 Garcia struggled with an addiction to heroin. This caused Garcia’s guitar playing weak along with his vocals. In 1986 Garcia collapsed and cam eclose to death when he went into a diabetic coma.

The relief and joy that Garcia had survived showed in their next album In The Dark. This resulted in their first worldwide single hit Tough Of Grey. This hit single persuaded them to do a music video and as a result their exposure on MTV introduced them to a new generation of fans.

The grateful dead had endured many thing though their long career. Their progress again halted when Garcia became ill with a serious lung infection, after a long stay in the hospital Garcia promised his doctors that he would, this time, take their advise. They continued to tour throughout 1993 and 1994, then began to record a new album.

On august 9th 1995 Garcia suffered a fatal heart attach while in a drug treatment centre in CA.

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EMINEM

March 19, 2010   Sarah   No comments

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On October 17th 1972, Marshall Bruce Mathers lll was born in Kansas City, Missouri. When he was just six months old his father Marshall Bruce Mathers ll walked out on him and his mother Debbi Mathers. He spent most of his childhood moving back and forth between Kansas City and Metro Detroit making it hard to make friends and stay out of trouble. When Eminem was 12 finally stayed in Detroit. He attended Dort Elementary School in Roseville, Michigan, Osborne Middle School and Lincoln High School in Warren, Michigan. School wasn’t the best place for Eminem he was in 9th grade Three time because of skipping school to go battle. IN his last year of 9th grade he met Kim and her twin sister dawn while skipping school. Kim and Eminem hit it off, they decided to drop school and in 1995 they had a daughter, Hailie Jade Scott.
Eminem hustled self-made cassettes of his work to places like Record Time in Roseville and worked at Gilbert’s Lodge (a family restaurant) in Saint Clair Shores from 1996-1998. Marshall being flat broke and not knowing what to do next work to have his raps heard. Then the reached the difficult to please underground. What came out of this was the Slim Shady EP, the early work for the later Dr.Dre revised Slim Shady LP which was released in 1999. This included his number one hit “My Name is…”in his first week. About a year and a half later making Rap history selling 1,7 million copies in the first week Marchall Mather LP was released. This was the first rap album to ever be nominated as album of the year and the album won 3 Grammies. Though 2001 was a rough year for the rapper, being charged with weapon offenses, divorcing his wife, and almost going to prison, Marshall explains his life today in one word. “Claimer”. In 2002 Eminem made a movie “8 Mile” and brought a friend in to do the acting, D-12. In May of 2002 “the Eminem Show” was released making history once again, becoming #1 the first day it was released. In late 2004 before the presidential election, Eminem released the song “Mosh,” which harshly criticizes President George W. Bush. Encore, Mathers’ fourth major-label album, was released later that year.

Eminem Personal Facts
Birth Name Marshall Bruce Mathers III
Birth Date October 17, 1972
Birth Place Kansas City, Missouri, USA
Height 5′ 8″
Nationality American
Hair Color Bleached blonde
Eye Color Blue
Education Attended Osbourne High School
Dropped out from Lincoln High School in Warren, Michigan (1986-1989)

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Sublime: A look into the past

February 16, 2010   ed   No comments

Sublime was a band that successfully mixed punk, reggae and ska, creating a sound that was… Sublime. Sublime formed in 1988 as a punk-rock garage band, it was made up of Bradley Nowell (guitar, vocals), Eric Wilson (bass) and Bud Gaugh (percussion). The band played their first real show on July 4, 1988 at a small Long Beach club. This show started the infamous riot referred to as the Peninsula Riot. Sublime was an instant success, they began touring and quickly gathered a huge fan base, mainly the surf/skate crowd. After four years of playing nothing but live shows, Sublime recorded their first album “40 oz. to Freedom” which was released on the label that Bradley co-founded with Miguel Happoldt called Skunk Records. The LP was sold at all of their shows, but really became big when the LA based radio station KROQ began to play “Date Rape”.

Due to the exposure from KROQ, Sublime signed with RCA to release their second album called “Robbin’ the Hood” in 1994. The band toured extensively throughout 1994-1995, their popularity increasing gradually beyond the West Coast. Sublime was known as a “party band”. It was common for Sublime to show up to their own show late, and drunk.

Feeling like he needed to live up to his bands image, Bradley started using heroin. For years, Brad tried to beat the addiction, but the addiction was stronger than himself. On May 25, 1996, two weeks prior to the release of the band’s self-title album, Nowell was found dead  at the Oceanview Motel in San Francisco, California due to an apparent heroin overdose. After this tragedy, Sublime was split up, for good.

After the death of the lead singer, the band went on and released their self-titled album, which was a huge success mainly the song titled “What I Got” which made is to #1 on the Modern Rock chart. Still to this day, Sublime has a huge fan base.

After the break up of Sublime, the surviving members have been in several different bands such as Long Beach Dub All Stars, Long Beach Short Bus and Del Mar. In December of 2009, rumors started circulating about how Sublime found a new singer and were getting back together. Turns out, this was not a rumor, Bud Gaugh and Eric Wilson teamed up with Rome Ramirez, a 19-year-old guitarist/singer from Long Beach, CA.

At first, the guys planned on bringing back the band, keeping the name Sublime. This raised some concerns from the Nowell family. Since the name Sublime was a trademark registered to Bradley Nowell, Troy Nowell (Brad’s wife) tried to get the guys to change the name. Later on, it was agreed that the band would be called Sublime with Rome.

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