I was browsing on facebook as you do, When I came across a wonderful young lady and her Rock Band, Her name is....
Alex Ryder
Her singing is like velvet and her songs are fabulous, Songs are as follows...
1, Wont you listen,
2,My tears are rain,
3,Get off my cloud,
4,You can't hurt me anymore,
All these songs can be heard on reverbnation so have a listen, You will be impressed with what you will hear !
Please read bio .......
Biography
Singer/songwriter Alex Ryder has had great success with her EP entitled “Won’t You Listen” Writing and co-writing on every track, singing every single lead and background vocal on the entire creation, having made her debut a success Alex is ready for more!
There is only one place Alex prefers than the recording studio, the stage! Alex’s low, sultry voice has a unique sound, humbly compared to classic female rockers like Joan Jett and Pat Benatar. Alex is busy tearing up Canada sharing the stage with the likes of Kim Mitchell, Lou Gramm (Foreigner) & Honeymoon Suite rock’en her fans with her 6 piece band. Above expressing her edge through her emotional originals, Alex has a great time covering her favourite artists like Bon Jovi and Stevie Nicks.
Globally aired on 100’s of Internet radio stations, this gorgeous rocker is making her mark worldwide.
Alex is working on a new project that will be ready for release late 2014.
To find more out about Alex Ryder check out her website or catch up with her on any of her social media outlets:
Band Interests
'Keep Rock Alive' and oustanding entertainment.
Artists We Also Like
Bon Jovi, Pat Benatar, Stevie Nicks, Joan Jett, Hinder, Nickleback
Basic Info
Joined Facebook 09/16/2012
Genre Rock
Members Bobby Littlemore - Guitar, Steven Rae - Bass, Fred Pantalone - Drums, Yvan Tessier- Keys, Donna King-BG Vocals & Tracy Rush- BG Vocals
Current Location Ottawa, Ontario
Contact Info
Other Accounts
@the_alex_ryder (Twitter)
Website http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=gEHHk5WmGIU
http://www.reverbnation.com/aryder
https://twitter.com/AlexRyder01
http://soundcloud.com/a-ryder
Press Contact Jacqueline Barton jaxiblue@hotmail.com
Booking Agent Jacqueline Barton jaxiblue@hotmail.com
Page Admins
Jackie Peters Barton
Facebook © 2014 · English (US)
I think we will be rearing a lot more from Alex and her band !
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Let me introduce you to an all American Girl Band called VIOLET...
They have a sweet but Fabulous sound that should not be ignored so here is their Bio...
VIOLET truly is a phoenix which has risen from the ashes of their original Florida base and created a home for them on the Hollywood scene; regularly playing such hot venues as The Viper Room, Whisky a GOGO, The Roxy and The Mint. Their music has touched their enduring fan base and rocked even bigger audiences. Sisters, Kayla Miller (Drums) and Alayna Miller (Bass) along with Jessie Covets (Vocals/Guitar), created Violet from the ground up. After diligently searching for their missing piece for a year, they finally found Devo Fresh, now lead guitarist of Violet.
Blending multiple genres to find their unique sound, their command of Electro/Pop most recently sent them on a tour around their home state; drawing crowds to the House of Blues, the Winner’s Circle, Blue Martini, Frank’s Front Row ending it with a charity event at Tradewinds Middle School. From there the band returned to Los Angeles to start work on their upcoming album (2014).
Jessie, reps her (custom 24 PRS) guitar sponsorship with style! These impressive chicks remain humble Rock stars, despite having soaring vocals with instrumentals that can’t be contained and working with such talented producers as Grammy award winning, Mike Plotnikoff and Igor Khoroshev, who have worked with chart topping artists, Kelly Clarkson, All American Rejects, Buckcherry, My Chemical Romance and many more.
Violet’s new single “The Day I was Sorry,” was released on itunes as well as a video on youtube, October 2013, with hopes to spread cancer awareness in honor of Jessie Covet’s mom, and all cancer survivors and victims.
Violet carries a strong buzz around multiple band blogs, including but not limited to: Female Musicians FTW, Fulle Circle podcast and Backstage VIP. So keep your eyes and especially your ears open for this dazzling death defying 4 piece of sirens.
So you see the Band are not only great musicians, They are good looking sexy Rockchicks, What more could you want in a girl Band !
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Hi , It is 50 years since Have I The Right By The Honeycombs was released, Engineered by the Legendary Joe Meek, The record was a fab Hit, I have recorded my own version of the song as a tribute to them all.
Here is Have I the Right by me !
A funny thing happened to me as I took my car to a garage to be fixed, I saw in the car park a red Ferrari sports car , On the door was the words J MEEK , I wonder if he once had this car or is it just a coincidence !
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This entry is a long time coming, It is about a legend called Mr .....Chuck Berry, Who with his earthy sounding guitar 12 bar riff, Made a good few fab records in his era ! Many a musician has been inspired by this man including Status Quo, Johnny & The Hurricanes , And of course my self Paul Burns (formerly Christopher Barnes ).
So read about him bellow !....
Chuck Berry was one of the most popular and influential performers of rhythm-and-blues and rock 'n' roll music during the 1950s, '60s and '70s. He's known for songs like "Johnny B. Goode" and "My Ding-a-Ling." Nadine" Memphis Tennessee, To name just a few !
Born on October 18, 1926, in St. Louis, Missouri, Chuck Berry had early exposure to music at school and church. As a teen, he was sent to prison for three years for armed robbery. He began producing hits in the 1950s, including 1958's "Johnny B. Goode," and had his first No. 1 hit in 1972 with "My Ding-a-Ling." With his clever lyrics and distinctive sounds, Berry became one of the most influential figures in the history of rock music.
Early Life in St. Louis
Considered by many as the "father of rock 'n' roll," Chuck Berry was born Charles Anderson Edward Berry on October 18, 1926, in St. Louis, Missouri. His parents, Martha and Henry Berry, were the grandchildren of slaves, and are among the many African Americans who migrated from the rural South to St. Louis in search of employment during the World War I era. Martha Berry was one of the few black women of her generation to gain a college education, and Henry Berry was an industrious carpenter as well as a deacon at the Antioch Baptist Church.
At the time of Chuck Berry's birth, St. Louis was a sharply segregated city. He grew up in a north St. Louis neighbourhood called the Ville—a self-contained middle-class black community that was a haven for black-owned businesses and institutions. The neighbourhood was so segregated that Berry had never even encountered a white person until the age of three, when he saw several white firemen putting out a fire. ''I thought they were so frightened that their faces were whitened from fear of going near the big fire,'' he once recalled. ''Daddy told me they were white people, and their skin was always white that way, day or night."
The fourth of six children, Berry pursued a variety of interests and hobbies as a child. He enjoyed doing carpentry work for his father and learned photography from his uncle, Harry Davis, a professional photographer. Berry also showed an early talent for music and began singing in the church choir from the age of six. He attended Sumner High School, a prestigious private institution that was the first all-black high school west of the Mississippi. For the school's annual talent show, Berry sang Jay McShann's "Confessin' the Blues" while accompanied by a friend on the guitar. Although the school administration bristled at what they viewed as the song's crude content, the performance was an enormous hit with the study body and sparked Berry's interest in learning the guitar himself. He started guitar lessons soon after, studying with local jazz legend Ira Harris.
Berry also grew into something of a troublemaker in high school. He was uninterested in his studies and felt constrained by the strict decorum and discipline. In 1944, at the age of 17, Berry and two friends dropped out of high school and set off on an impromptu road trip to California. They had gone no farther than Kansas City when they came across a pistol abandoned in a parking lot and, seized by a terrible fit of youthful misjudgement, decided to go on a robbing spree. Brandishing the pistol, they robbed a bakery, a clothing store and a barbershop, then stole a car before being arrested by highway patrolmen. The three young men received the maximum penalty—10 years in jail—despite being minors and first-time offenders.
Berry served three years in the Intermediate Reformatory for Young Men outside of Jefferson, Missouri, before gaining release on good behaviour on October 18, 1947, which was his 21st birthday. He returned to St. Louis, where he worked for his father's construction business and part-time as a photographer and as a janitor at a local auto plant.
In 1948, Berry married Themetta "Toddy" Suggs, with whom he would eventually have four children. He also took up the guitar again when, in 1951, his former high school classmate Tommy Stevens invited him to join his band. They played at local black nightclubs in St. Louis, and Berry quickly developed a reputation for his lively showmanship. At the end of 1952, he met Jonnie Johnson, a local jazz pianist, and joined his band, the Sir John's Trio. Berry revitalized the band and introduced upbeat country numbers into the band's repertoire of jazz and pop music. They played at the Cosmopolitan, an upscale black nightclub in East St. Louis, which began attracting white patrons.
Birth of Rock 'n' Roll
In the mid-1950s, Berry began taking road trips to Chicago, the Midwest capital of black music, in search of a record contract. Early in 1955, he met the legendary blues musician Muddy Waters, who suggested that Berry go meet with Chess Records. A few weeks later, Berry wrote and recorded a song called "Maybellene" and took it to the executives at Chess. They immediately offered him a contract; within months, "Maybellene" had reached No. 1 on the R&B charts and No. 5 on the pop charts. With its unique blend of a rhythm and blues beat, country guitar licks and the flavor of Chicago blues and narrative storytelling, many music historians consider "Maybellene" the first true rock 'n' roll song.
Berry quickly followed with a slew of other unique singles that continued to carve out the new genre of rock 'n' roll: "Roll Over, Beethoven," "Too Much Monkey Business" and "Brown-Eyed Handsome Man," among others. Berry managed to achieve crossover appeal with white youths without alienating his black fans by mixing blues and R&B sounds with storytelling that spoke to the universal themes of youth. In the late 1950s, songs such as "Johnny B. Goode," "Sweet Little Sixteen" and "Carol" all managed to crack the Top 10 of the pop charts by achieving equal popularity with youths on both sides of the racial divide. "I made records for people who would buy them," Berry said. "No colour, no ethnic, no political—I don't want that, never did.''
Berry's soaring music career was derailed again in 1961 when he was convicted under the Mann Act of illegally transporting a woman across state lines for "immoral purposes." Three years earlier, in 1958, Berry had opened Club Bandstand in the predominantly white business district of downtown St. Louis. The next year, while travelling in Mexico, he had met a 14-year-old Native American waitress—and sometimes prostitute—and brought her back to St. Louis to work at his club. However, he fired her only weeks later, and when she was then arrested for prostitution, charges were pressed against Berry that ended with him spending yet another 20 months in jail.
When Berry was released from prison in 1963, he picked up right where he left off, writing and recording popular and innovative songs. His 1960s hits include "Nadine," "You Can Never Tell," Promised Land" and "Dear Dad." Nevertheless, Berry was never the same man after his second stint in prison. Carl Perkins, his friend and partner on a 1964 British concert tour, observed, "Never saw a man so changed. He had been an easygoing guy before, the kinda guy who'd jam in dressing rooms, sit and swap licks and jokes. In England he was cold, real distant and bitter. It wasn't just jail, it was those years of one-nighters, grinding it out like that can kill a man, but I figure it was mostly jail."
Berry released his last album of original music, Rock It, to fairly positive reviews in 1979. While Berry continued to perform into the 1990s, he would never recapture the magnetic energy and originality that had first catapulted him to fame during the '50s and '60s. In his later years he developed a reputation for giving out-of-tune, unrehearsed performances.
Chuck Berry & John Lennon
Rock and Roll Hall of Fame
Berry still remains one of the genre's most influential musicians. In 1985, he received the Grammy Lifetime Achievement Award. A year later, in 1986, he became the Rock and Roll Hall of Fame's first inductee. Perhaps the best measure of Berry's influence is the extent to which other popular artists have copied his work. The Beach Boys, the Rolling Stones and the Beatles have all covered various Chuck Berry songs, and Berry's influences—both subtle and profound—pervade all of their music.
Introducing Berry at the Rock and Roll Hall of Fame, Keith Richards of the Rolling Stones said, "It's very difficult for me to talk about Chuck Berry 'cause I've lifted every lick he ever played. This is the man that started it all!"
So That is the story of Chuck Berry, His music still lives on !
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