Anthony Xiong Professor Applegate AEP2 25 December 2013 Jimi Hendrix: The God of Guitar “Everybody come alive, everybody live alive, everybody love alive, everybody hear my message.” Although died at 27, the golden age for an excellent genius, Jimi Hendrix will always stay alive in the music world. The Experience's Rock and Roll Hall of Fame biography states: “Jimi Hendrix was arguably the greatest instrumentalist in the history of rock music. Hendrix expanded the range and vocabulary of the electric
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artists had a very strong understanding of this genre, and were able make a great amount of money out of it. To this day, Michael Jackson’s 1982 hit album “Thriller” is still the best-selling album of all time. Heavy Rock and Metal also had their places in this decade. Rock and metal were dominated by Metallica, AC/DC, Iron Maiden, and Black Sabbath, and many albums, which were the fundamentals of this genre, were released, such as “Master of Puppets” by Metallica, “Back in Black” by AC/DC, and “The Number
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You’re running through a vast field that’s filled with wheat as tall as you. Suddenly a clif appears before you. Unable to stop you feel yourself falling to your inevitable death. Closer and closer. Feet from the ground, you immediately stop. You have found that you have landed on a soft cloud. You relax into a deep serenity as the cloud soars up and floats through the sky. No longer is there a threat of death, but a land of tranquility as you drift off into the sunset for your next adventure.
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Telecaster V.S. Stratocaster Compare Contrast When planning to buy an electric guitar one will almost certainly consider the widely popular Telecaster and Stratocaster guitars made by Fender. Both of these guitars are unique in their own way and should be taken into careful consideration. Three aspects you may take into consideration when making a choice are tone, construction, and aesthetics. Although both guitars are different in these ways and are useful for different styles of playing
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Compliant Destruction Music artists and their lyrics have a very large impact on their adolescent listeners, and the negative influence surrounding today’s popular music is detrimentally affecting today’s youth. “In a study done in 2000, North et al found that a sample of 2465 adolescents in England reported listening to music for an average of 2.45 hours per day” (American Academy of Pediatrics 1). This means that teens are listening to lyrics that desensitize and glamorize the use of drugs, sex
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David Bowie was a huge fan of Krautrock and the music that came out of it. He has stated that “I was a big fan of Kraftwerk, Cluster and Harmonia, and I thought the first Neu! album, in particular, was just gigantically wonderful . . . Looking at that against punk, I had absolutely no doubts where the future of music was going, and for me it was coming out of Germany at that time. I also liked . . . Can [and] Edgar Froese[‘s], Epsilon In Malaysian Pale . . . In a way, it was great that I found those
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Historical Background of Rock Music in the 90s: This essay is going to be about music that is under the genre of rock, alternative rock and grunge. I will be analyzing several sources to talk about how rock bands like Nirvana and Green Day influenced the teen culture in a positive way in the 1990s. It is important to talk about this to better understand why or how teenagers were behaving some type of way during those years. During the 90s, rock music was widely popular among the teen culture. Nirvana
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When most people think of rock as a genre of music, their thoughts range from thinking about classic rock to heavy metal rock. Within this genre there are a variety of subgenres that people know and associate as rock. Once you ask the person specifically what kind of rock, then will they mention a subgenre. Rock started off as a specific genre, but over the years it has branched off into more specific genres, because of new ones evolving from those before it. You won’t hear true classic rock performed
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Have you ever thought about being a rock star? What about a drummer for a touring band? Well go no more, because I know a guy who is both and his name is Joshua Fassbender. Josh has been a friend of mine since 8th grade and I met him through marching band. He later on in life developed a true passion for drumming and is now a drummer for a pop punk/grunge band called Radioactive Red. I recently interview Josh to see how it is being on tour. Here we are right before a gig on night to make the scene
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I just realize this type of music really is terrible. For me comfort music is hard rock. It may sound odd and counter intuitive, but it relaxes me. After a long stressful day at work there is nothing that relaxes me then some hard rock and heavy metal.
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