...The Rolling Stones Hard Rock really started with The Rolling Stones as they developed new types of blues and hard-driving music. They were different and known for their difference, because of their way of making music and unique songs. They stood out from the rest of the other pop and blues bands and without them hard rock wouldn’t be as popular today than it is.The Rolling Stones were one of the most popular bands of the 1960’s, because their music was some of the best at the time, they were different from other bands, and the members had a long history together making music. The Rolling Stones were just starting out as a new band with little experience in music making, but they still were able to gain momentum quickly by their music being...
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...Justin Gilmore Professor James Caplinger HUM 110 3/6/2015 “The Music of the Rolling Stones” “My concept for The Music of The Rolling Stones was to take the music as close to the originals as we could and then add the orchestral colors to enhance what the Stones had done,” says Brent Havens, the conductor of the musical event (“Ted Constant Convocation Center”). Thus, Brent is trying to recreate the era from which the Rolling Stones were a major music sensation. I was not alive when the Rolling Stones were at their peak in popularity and financial success, however, the music they have produced still can connect with any generation. The intent of the concert “The Music of the Rolling Stones” is to connect the great lyrics and songwriting of the Rolling Stones with the younger and older generations. One way the conductor Brent Havens tried to make a connection with the audience is through the use of an “amplified by a full rock band and accompanied by singer Brody Dolyniuk’s vocals” (“Ted Constant Convocation Center”). The appeal of a modern sound with that of the Virginia Symphony Orchestra, “gives the music a richness”. Brody Dolyniuk said, “My goal onstage is to break down a façade,” which helps to produce a realistic feel, comparable to that of the Rolling Stones’ Mick Jagger (Ward). Brody portrays a similar stage presence as Mick Jagger, and also showed the audience “a few Mick Jagger (dance) moves,” in order to get a little more group participation. Although I enjoyed...
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...Ximena Cardenas Code: 200910536 Group: 1 HOW THE ROLLING STONES KEEP ROLLING * BACKGROUND In 1962 was born a group that will turn into the Rolling Stones, white guys playing black music, just two years later a very reckless group of guys came from London to play concerts in the USA, and they said since 1964 they were “The World’s Greates Rock n’ Roll Band” the slogan created polemic and in there is where the rock band that will keep making people talk about them. The soul of the group, Richards and Jagger will be the base of one of the world’s greatest and controversial bands that will keep alive for more than 50 years. The history of the Rolling Stones formed in 1962 and since then has become the bands most proven and durable with great success so much that has been categorized as one of the best rock bands. Everything begins with the interest of the blues and the application of this by Mick Jagger and Keith Richards, forming a band with the intention to reach fame and expand the blues and his style so peculiar in the way of representing this type of music so that the attention of the public and to make their music known, at the beginning of this success the group incorporated a musician 1friend named Dick Taylor. His first major gig was very memorable and took place on July 12, 1962, the following year, in January, the company that was promoted tube made changes that somehow altered the line of the Rolling Stones was underway, this because of Bill Wyman and Charlie Watts...
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...When Rock arrived on the music charts in the 1950's, a merging of African-American and White music, it made a huge impact on society. As a general rule I am not heavily into music, but I was drawn to Rock for some inexplicable reason. It is just the music I like. This genre will be difficult to write about because the origin of Rock is unclear; there are traces of Rock's style back into the 19th Century. It is also a very broad subject and I will have to compress a lot of information into as few pages as possible. Be that as it may, Rock is, in my opinion the best music genre on the charts. There is so much information on Rock that I will have to have questions I want to find the answers to about the music. My first question will be, "What instruments are commonly used in a rock band?" This will not be hard to answer as it is a very easy question that has a definite answer. The next question will be, "Who were the first artists to produce Rock music?" This is also an easy question were I will discuss the first Rockers. Continuing on, my next question will ask, "How was the term Rock and Roll' created, and by who?" This may turn out to be a hard question to answer because I am sure there a multiple answers. "Has Rock become more or less popular since its inception?" will be my next question. For this question I will have to look for a survey or poll of some type and present its data. My final question will be, "How has the Music been changed over the years and who changed...
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...sun ridden land was home to Tom a young wizard. He laid upon the lush green hills that looked over the town where he lived. He was traveling back home because there were trolls moving closer and closer which made everyone uneasy fearing a war might come, but nothing had happened yet and nothing may happen. Besides where he was laying there was stream. He got up and knelt over it, carefully picked up a stone about the length of his hand. A sweltering glow emanated from the rock as the young wizard started casting his spell. Then a problem started to arise, it happen, he sneezed sending a shock of power threw the rock as he did so. There was an alarming bang, mini pieces of the rock were lying scattered everywhere, they were slightly thicker than an eggshell. Where a decent sized rock had sat now was a overjoyed pebble, he looked and was shocked to see that it worked it was a smooth...
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...decided that my interest more into the reading about “The Lottery”. At first when I saw the title, I thought this would be great for me because everyone should know about lottery but after reading the text I gain a better understand of the writer was trying to present. Earlier in the passage it talked about the people gathering around in the town for an event and the children deciding to gather rocks and make a pile. I thought this could be fun and something very interesting about kids. When I began, it gave me a sense of how we acted as kids in trying to create games to play with what we could find outside to play with. The stanza in my opinion that made this short story complete was when...
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...Decisions, Decisions, Decisions ENG 125: Introduction to Literature Instructor: April 6, 2015 Haunted by the decisions we make! How can the decisions we make affect us and those around us. The two stories I have chosen are “A Rock Trying to Be a Stone” by Sergio Troncoso and “The Things They Carried” by Tim O’Brien. These two stories both have the main characters having to battle internal conflicts versus themselves. Some of the literary techniques used in these two stories are conflict, exposition, first-person point of view and resolution. Both of the main characters face conflicts of the individual verses self. The decisions they make not only affects them but also everyone around them. The decision we make in life when trying to overcome an internal self-conflict could change our lives, the lives of our family and those around us. In the “A Rock Trying to Be a Stone”, the author used first-person point of view as his literary technique. The narrator takes part as the main character telling us the stories as he sees and experiences it. He does a thorough job describing the main characters and the environment where the climax happens. We have the ring leader Joe, he is older and bigger than the others boys. We have Fernandez the one who seems like the dumb immature one. Next we have Chuy, he is a mentally challenged kid who goes along with the other boys. Last we have the narrator, he does not divulge his name during this short story but he seems very leveled...
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...nomination of being inducted into the Rock n’ Roll Hall of Fame for the third time. I believe third time is a charm for them and according to the Rock n’ Roll Hall of Fame official website, they have an estimated 82% chance of being inducted in 2012. Beastie Boys have had a huge impact on what our music is today, and have influenced the music of many early hip-hop artists. Even the Canadian Pop band phenomenon, The Barenaked Ladies, have cited the Beastie Boys as a huge inspiration for their work. It's only been a small number of years since the Rock Hall began to acknowledge the vast dominance of hip hop in today's society. The Beastie Boys are much more than a boy band of Jewish rappers. They managed to blend punk and hip hop in an incredibly significant and influential way. These political activists, punk/hip-hop, bad boys have been around for almost three decades. They are notorious for introducing hip-hop to a mass new audience. The Beastie Boy’s debut album, Licensed to Ill (1986), was an ingenious blend of hip-hop and hard rock; it was also hip-hop's first number one album. Their renowned single, (You Gotta) Fight for Your Right (to Party), immediately became the party anthem of the 1980’s for the teenage generation. In the 1990s, the boys combined their hardcore punk sound with funk and brought us smash hits like Sabotage and my personal favorite, Intergalactic. The Beastie Boys were continuously experimenting with sounds and always trying to discover a new name or sound...
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...Lou Reed is one of the most influential musicians in rock and roll history. Whether it was in his solo career or his work with The Velvet Underground, Reed was influencing the masses and other intellectuals and creatives of his time such as Andy Warhol, David Bowie, and Nirvana. Upon Lou Reed’s death Patti Smith, an influential musician, stated, “Lou was a very special poet – a New York writer in the way that Walt Whitman was a New York poet. One thing I got from Lou, that never went away, was the process of performing live over a beat, improvising poetry, how he moved over three chords for 14 minutes. That was a revelation to me.” Lou Reed did not have any easy bringing up, which inspired some of his most famous lyrics. He states that he...
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...reasons. We have to remain objective to why the author added that detail or why they used that literary trick in that story. That’s exactly what I did to break down Things They Carried and A Rock Trying to Be A Stone. Both stories have many literary techniques like, being told in first person, imagery, simile, and a similar conflict. First I made sure to read the short stories silent, once I read it silently I reread this article, but this time out loud and I focused on particular points that stood at to me. Nothing in particular, just points that stood out to me and aroused a conflict to the story. In the Things They Carried it was Lavender’s death. That made this short story go from a very descriptive story with a lot of imaginary to deeper personally story about a boy having to become a man. Lt. Cross had a infatuation with Martha and used that to clear his mind from the war. After Lavender’s death he saw the failure in eyes of this squad. They all had failed Lavender. Kiowa say’s it was fate, but Lt. Cross, sees his death his fault as he didn’t lead his men as he should have. Lt Cross’s conflict made him realize that he needs to step up and be the leader his men need him to be. His love for Martha won’t do him any good if he is sent home in a body bag. A Rock Trying to Be A Stone presented a similar conflict and message, but to a different audience. Troncoso did a good job tailoring his message to the more lower income Hispanic families. I can definitely see how Turi...
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...For Marie Laure it is seen as a negative, and curse that has taken away her family. I is something to fear because of the damage it can cost just be laying in a person’s hand. She returns it to its home so that no one else can abuse what power other people think it might have. To Von Rumpel the stone means life or death. It is seen as a beacon of hope for his life. He searches for it with determination because he wants to hold its power in his hands and live forever not really thinking about what it might do to the ones he loves around him. For Werner it is just some rock that Marie Laure set down into the ocean. He has no idea of the curse or the life he could live if he were to just keep it in his pocket. He does not realized that it could get him back to Jutta safely but it also could have ended her life so maybe it was for the best that he did not know about what it could do. The Sea of Flames can be thought about in many different ways it just depends on whose perspective you’re looking at it...
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...Robert Frost is one of America’s most beloved poets, and "Mending Wall" is one of his most popular poems. This poem tells the tale of a rock wall which sits between two properties in the countryside. Something continually destroys this rock wall. A compelling aspect of "Mending Wall" is the Frostian sense of mystery and loneliness. What begins as a quest to discover the identity of the wall-destroyer, ends in a meditation on the value of tradition and boundaries. "Mending Wall" is the first poem in North of Boston, Frost’s second book of poetry. This book was published when Frost was in England, rubbing elbows with the likes of W.B. Yeats, T.S. Eliot, andEzra Pound. Frost was a contemporary of many modernist poetic movements, but he isn’t associated with any particular group of poets. He marched to his own drummer, and as a result, he garnered a good deal of criticism from the literary world. But, it is precisely because he was such an individual and his voice so original that Frost became so beloved. Born in San Francisco, Frost moved to Massachusetts at age eleven following his father’s death. He attended both Dartmouth College and Harvard University, but never earned a college degree. He was, however, often invited to teach at Dartmouth and Harvard later on in his life. You know you’re good when you get to teach college students without having a diploma yourself. After spending some time in England, Frost befriended a lot of poetic giants, including William Butler Yeats...
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...shows us in The Myth of Sisyphus. The central point is the absurdity of happiness, this is apparent in the following sentence “But when he had seen again, the face of this world, enjoyed water and sun, warm stones and the sea,” (Albert Camus). Sisyphus is a hedonist, he takes great joy from the world and enjoys all the earthly pleasures of the warm sun, and the calm sea, he loves to live his life full of pleasure. However, the gods are determined to punish Sisyphus for not staying in the underworld after he had died. Consequently, he is taken by Mercury back to the underworld, were his rock is there ready for him....
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...Eliot's The Waste Land: There is shadow under this red rock, (Come in under the shadow of this red rock), And I will show you something different from either Your shadow at morning striding behind you Or your shadow at evening rising to meet you; I will show you fear in a handful of dust (25-30) This passage seems to be strategically placed after several lines that allude to a passage from Ecclesiastes 12 of the Bible and directly before a number of allusions and examples that illustrate the "fear in a handful of dust" (Eliot 1-76). To completely understand the meaning of the passage above, the context in which it is used and the allusions that are employed must first be recognized and understood. First, the several lines preceding the above passage allude to Ecclesiastes 12 of the Bible which portrays feelings of hopelessness and of meaninglessness; meanwhile, the selected passage contains a small sense of hope as well as an invitation to the reader to see what Eliot sees. "A heap of broken images" or "And the dry stone no sound of water" are both phrases included in the preceding lines that lack a sense of hope and that support the allusion to Ecclesiastes 12 in which "Everything is meaningless!" (Eliot 22, 24) (New International Version, Eccl.12). Following these lines that portray hopelessness is the passage written above that first seems to offer a small ray of hope by announcing "There is a shadow under this red rock" (Eliot 25). But even in that phrase lies a hint of...
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...The Alleged Trial of the Sweet Family In 1925-26, Dr. Ossian Sweet and ten other occupants from the Sweet home was accused of 1st degree murder and assault. With this in mind, a mob of 500-800 white people were gathered in their front yard throwing stones and rocks at their new purchased home in Detroit consequently because they were the only negroes in the neighborhood. The trial of the Sweet's was a ridiculous and outraged case that was pointless in the end. First of all, back then when barely any blacks came to Detroit both white and blacks had the Northern point-of-view that is to say they didn't bother one another, and both went their own way. Also, prejudice for several years had been gathering had at last burst with violence over Detroit because of the Klan. Whenever a negro would move by a white area your property would decrease in value. Neighborhood Improvement Association was to support neighborhood improvement but their real reason for being was to keep their victimes from Negroes and to keep out Negroes in addition to Waterworks Park Improvement. In fact, the neighborhood would get together a mob and try to force the Negroes out of their neighborood For one thing, when Gladys picked out the house she didn't care if it was in a white or black neighborhood, her intentions was to own a home so she can support and raise her family. In other words not to start a racial violence in the neighborhood. For...
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