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Probably the power rock band of the '70s, Led Zeppelin--singer/majority songwriter Jimmy Page, guitarist Robert Plant, bassist John Paul Jones and drummer John Bonham--has partially influenced almost all of modern rock. Now, in recognition of their 30th anniversary, founder Jimmy Page has seen fit to assemble a compilation of their "greatest moments." The first segment, entitled Early Days, features songs from Zep's first four albums and some multimedia frills...
...easy to see the group's objection to its typecasting--despite band masterminds Richard Fearless and Tim Holmes touring with two guitar players, a bassist, a drummer, a keyboardist and a two-man horn section, the band is invariably compared to groups like Chemical Brothers and Massive Attack. Still, the easiest explanation for the persistence of the electronica label is the lack of a regular vocalist. After all, how many rock bands can you name that don't have a singer? In keeping with this idea of unconventionality, the band somehow managed to play a sterling, albeit too-short...
Aside from Sollenberger, the band features guitarists John and Michael Gibbons, bassist Clint Takeda and drummer Ed Farnsworth, substituting for Joe Culver who is busy being a father. fter several releases on lesser known labels, Matador Records has been putting out their music since 1997. They list among their influences the Velvet Underground and the Blue Oyster Cult, who incidentally were playing downstairs at the club that night...
...Beat is perhaps the most rock-oriented form of dance music and thus has had the biggest crossover success. It borrows the percussion style of breakbeat (common samples include the drums in James Brown's "Funky Drummer" and those in Incredible Bongo Band's "Apache"), and throws in the squelch of the Roland 303 synthesiser, rock guitars, and whatever else fits. Fatboy Slim's You've Come a Long Way, Baby or the Chemical Brothers' Dig Your Own Hole are both fairly well-known albums, but try the import-only Fatboy Slim mix album On the Floor at the Boutique...
...show, all right. Lu Cont and Reynolds had chemistry and were having a laugh camping it up, shrugging their shoulders to the beat. In the background was a blown up version of his album cover, with lighting set to highlight lu Cont's flaming crimson hair. Jim Carmichael, the drummer, dressed in somber black, was the more sedate counterpoint to all that energy. Somebody had to hold down the fort, apparently...