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Artist: Blind Faith: mp3 download    Genre(s):  Other Rock: Blues     Discography:      The Charming Factor    Year: 2004    Tracks: 14      Deluxe Edition    Year: 2000    Tracks: 15      Blind Faith    Year: 1969    Tracks: 6 Blind Faith was either unmatched of the swell successes of the late '60s, a apogee of the decade's efforts by trey fabled musicians -- or it was a disaster of monumental proportions, and a symbol of everything that had gone wrong with the byplay of rock 'n' roll at the close of the decennary. In existent fact, Blind Faith was belike both. By whatsoever ordinary bicycle figuring, the quartet compiled an enviable phonograph disk. They generated some outstanding songs, deuce of them ("Sea of Joy," "Presence of the Lord") motionless regarded as classics 30-plus eld later; they sold hundreds of thousands of concert tickets and peradventure a jillion more albums at the time; and they were so sinewy a force in the euphony industry that they were indirectly responsible for portion ease the merger of deuce major book companies that evolved into Time Warner, before they'd released a note of music on record. And they did it all in under seven-spot months together. Blind Faith's beginnings dated from 1968 and the detachment of Cream. That band had sold millions of records and finally achieved a status akin to that of the Beatles or the Rolling Stones. Cream's internal structure was as stressful as it was musically potent, however, as a event of the echt personal dislike 'tween bassist/singer Jack Bruce and drummer Ginger Baker, which once in a while overwhelmed the respectfulness they had for each other as musicians, going away guitarist/singer Eric Clapton to function as mediator. After deuce years of servicing as a referee, exhausted all the piece in an perpetual glare, the populace on the face of it wall hanging on every note he played, Clapton was only besides happy to give that situation behind. The initial spark for Blind Faith came from Clapton and Steve Winwood, whose band Traffic had split up in January of 1969, amid bitter disputes over songwriting and guidance. Winwood at age 20 was some trey geezerhood younger than Clapton, and had emerged as a rock mavin at 17 as a phallus of the Spencer Davis Group, outlay three eld as the lead vocalizer on a string of enviable R&B-based hits. His concerns were musical -- he wanted to make with the best musicians, and wanted to experiment with nothingness, which lED him to leave the Spencer Davis Group and form Traffic, which proven riven by egos nearly as firm as the members' musical impulses. The January 1969 breakup would be the number 1 of several impermanent splits in the band's card. The deuce musicians had recollective admired and respected each other -- they shared out an ebullience for and dedication to the blue devils, and complemented each former in the sensory faculty that Clapton's work was more oriented toward Mississippi Delta blues and its urban descendants, spell Winwood came out of more of an R&B well-grounded and had the voice to make that work, and both were interested in experimenting in a mathematical group position without whatsoever pressure. It had even occurred to Clapton during the months of Cream's dissolution that the add-on of a quartern member on keyboards mightiness sustain stabilised the band, in terms of both its music and its internal dynamics. As it off out, nix could make protected Cream, only he looked up Winwood anyhow later the band's death, in late December of 1968, and the deuce set up that they authentically liked running together. The notion of forming a banding took shape as an eventual goal during jams 'tween the two that lasted for hours. At one point, Clapton even considered forming another triad, between himself and Winwood and a third base member as drummer. These ideas took a acuate, new, more immediate turn when Ginger Baker turned up to sit in with them in January of 1969. The results were impressive to all concerned, and the drummer was eagre to be have into the mathematical group they were planning. Clapton launch himself in a personal bond, having promised Baker on Cream's demise that they would crop together on their next project, just he was non looking forward to reuniting with him merely nine-spot weeks afterward the old group's terminal demonstrate, with all of the expectations that their tie-in would beget from outsiders. Apart from his rancor at beingness the buffer betwixt Baker and Bruce, Clapton had felt straightjacketed in Cream, required by the demands of fans and, by denotation, the phonograph record company, to spell, represent, and sing blues-based rock'n'roll in a sure way, and he'd also felt at bay in the band's experimental departures from blues. Winwood, world Health Organization failed to take account the dangers that Clapton saw or the seriousness of the guitarist's resistance, eventually persuaded him, mostly on the ground of the fact that Baker's presence alone reinforced them musically, and that they would be grueling put upon to regain anyone his be. They began working out songs other in 1969, and in February and March the trio was in London at Morgan Studios, preparing the beginnings of canonical tracks for an record album, which began gravely taking configuration as songs at Olympic Studios in April and May under the counselling of producer Jimmy Miller. The music community was already aware of the link, despite Clapton's claim that he was cutting an album of his own on which Winwood would play. The rock fight wasn't buying any of it, wise that Baker was involved as well, and then the promoters and record companies got tangled, pushing those concerned for an record album and a circuit. What's more, they were offer more than money than of all time, for what seemed, from a business stand, a very good reason. Beginning with the First Earl of Beaconsfield Gears album in 1967 and running through Wheels of Fire in late 1968, Cream had been near a money machine for its record labels, music publishers, and concert promoters alike. Their detachment had been a blow to the music business akin to the death of a spinning top performing artist; it was concentrated for their record labels (Atlantic in America and Polydor in Europe), or the promoters disposed to book of account their tours, to visualize world Health Organization or what could supersede them on the ledger books. (It was true that Atlantic had at least unitary other major blues-rock fe in the fire at the time, in the pretense of a new band called Led Zeppelin, just in early 1969 no one yet had an glimmering of precisely how fully grown that quartet was departure to become). Thus, the melodic theme, coming along only trey months afterward, of Eric Clapton reuniting with Ginger Baker and playing with Steve Winwood, himself a major star in England, was like a resurrection of Christ. And granted a new bite at the apple, the record labels were salivating as they opened their checkbooks to write out adult advances, and every concert booster world Health Organization could tried to nonplus in on the money to be made, offering immense sums for the chance to gain from a turn by such a isthmus. It was all impossible to stand firm. In May, the last version of the dance orchestra came together with the accession of Rick Grech, a gifted player just scarcely a principal, on bass part. A penis of the band Family (which he abandoned in the eye of their U.S. tour of duty), Grech took the bassist's pip in the new chemical group in provision for going away out on the route. By then the chemical group was known as Blind Faith, a foxily misanthropical reference that reflected Clapton's outlook on the new chemical group. His doubts might've been taken more in earnest if anyone had stopped up to lie the fact that they'd hardly had time to work out whatsoever songs beyond those that were departure onto the album -- at least, none that were not associated with other bands. Tours were booked, first of northern Europe and then America, with millions of dollars promised for the latter, contracts signed, and advances nonrecreational. The banding made its debut at a concert in London's Hyde Park on June 7, 1969, in nominal head of one C,000 fans who'd been set by weeks of press reports heralding Blind Faith as "super Cream" and its tour of duty as an event akin to the Second Coming. From that starting time picture, on that point was problem over the split betwixt the adulation accorded the ring and Clapton's misgivings over the lineament of the group's work. A perfectionist by nature, he reportedly left hand the stage at Hyde Park shaken over the ragged lineament of the show they'd apt, piece century,000 people roared with favourable reception over their carrying into action. He could already regard the same figure that had made his stay with Cream perfectly debilitative as a musical get re-emerging with Blind Faith -- the fans could urge on all they wanted, only he had musicianship to care about and concern all over, and it was a lousy usher. The tour of duty had already been set-aside, however, and at that place was more mired than Clapton's musical sensibilities to look at. And, in a sense, perhaps the promoters knew more than Clapton did -- it turned out that all the quadruple had to do was show up to delight the crowds that they found. Unbeknown to Clapton as he pondered sledding out on the road with an unprepared, under-rehearsed band -- and it would have boggled his idea had he known -- on the early side of the Atlantic, the hoopla circumferent Blind Faith had already affected a a good deal larger part of the disk manufacture than any facial expression of the group's imminent tour ever so would. In early 1969, Warner-Seven Arts, antecedently known as the Kinney Corporation (a company that made millions in the parking garage business organisation), was in the process of getting phonograph record companies. Under the steering of their president, Steve Ross, they'd already bought the Warner Bros. studios, which included Warner-Reprise Records, and had ordered to purchase Atlantic Records late in 1968. Nellie Ross knew, however, that Atlantic was worth acquiring only if its president, founder, and headman guiding personality, Ahmet Ertegun, stayed with the troupe -- just Ertegun, a true music partisan as well as a superb businessman, wasn't convinced that he wanted to work for a corporate owner. He'd founded Atlantic with his brother and a partner, and liked being his have boss and vocation the musical shots as he'd seen them, kind of than coverage to anyone else. Betsy Griscom Ross sawing machine his investment in jeopardy and scheduled a confluence with Ertegun to taste convincing the human being to quell on. The job for Ross was that Atlantic was practically a part of Ertegun, and Ertegun was well-nigh as much an artist as a businessman, all of which was part of the secret of his success in belongings together a team of creative production and engine room geniuses like Jerry Wexler and Tom Dowd, non to mention the stable of artists they worked with. A few nights in front the meeting, he'd been at place when his adolescent word passed through with a friend, who'd heard that Ross was in the process of buying Atlantic Records. The friend had started singing Ross around how hot Atlantic Records looked to be, and around the dissolution of Cream; he enthused over Clapton's assemblage with Winwood and Baker, and the notion beingness floated in the push of the Blind Faith circuit and album, the latter to be released by Atlantic, and how every rock auditor in America was simply wait to grab up that album and pay to see the grouping. John Ross, wHO was of an long time that made him office of Vaughn Monroe's or Patti Page's consultation, hadn't a hint what the teenager was talk around, and knew nix around Cream, Clapton, or Blind Faith. As he afterward recounted it, however, when he met with Ertegun, the matter of Blind Faith came up in the conversation, as Ertegun was trying to excuse what Atlantic was mired in musically. Ross byword his opening and tried his best to go with it, urgently attempting to recall, as he stood at that place talking, everything that his son's supporter had told him close to Cream, Clapton, Baker, and Winwood, regular though he knew null of the music involved. Ertegun, wHO was at least impressed with Ross' attempt to communicate with him about music, agreed to remain with the unexampled management of Atlantic, which prospered in the 1970s and eighties under his direction even more than it had in the 1950s and sixties. Thus pronounced the root of what presently became Warner-Elektra-Atlantic. The brief Blind Faith circuit of northerly Europe in June of 1969 went good. These were out-of-the-spotlight events in small-scale clubs, earlier severe audiences that were there to hear to music -- northern Europe had (and has) a tenacious tradition for offer this kind of audience, which allowed bluesmen of lesser height than Clapton et al. to garner decent livings playacting in that persona of the world. From there, however, they moved on to the United States, devising their debut at Madison Square Garden on July 12 in battlefront of more than 20,000 people. A drunken revelry developed when fans aerated the stage, simply to be repulsed by the police; in the 30 minutes scrimmage that ensued, Ginger Baker was clubbed on the foreland by a police officer world Health Organization thought he was an interloper, and Winwood's pianissimo was destroyed. The surround and that sort of warmth set the bandmembers in a preposterous situation -- in trueness, they didn't sound that good and they knew it. The nature of sound systems in 1969 destroyed any panache they might've brought to their performance and they were under-rehearsed; in time audiences roared, demanded more euphony, and rioted at their shows. It was that room along the intact hitch, sevener weeks crosswise the United States and Canada conclusion in Hawaii, marred by peculiarly angry confrontations betwixt fans and constabulary in Los Angeles. Even as they made their way crossways the state, the band was questioned most wherefore Clapton seemed to be placing himself on the fringe and gift center stage to Winwood, world Health Organization was far less well known in America at that metre. The band's repertory likewise seemed very light, the new material -- even allowing for the inevitable Ginger Baker brake drum solo on "Do What You Like" -- amounting to scarcely an hour's worth of music. The way the band had been marketed, the requests for performances of originally hits directed at each of the star members, peculiarly Clapton and Baker's work with Cream, were inevitable, and the grouping obliged them. Clapton was now trapped in a kind of "mega-Cream" position, only worse -- there hadn't been any riots at the trio's shows -- and seemed as though he'd rather have got been somewhere else. To him, it must birth seemed as though he'd sold his soul to the Devil; in that respect was no backup out on the circuit, just abiding it, and hoping that when the smoke exculpated the monetary reward would mitigate the miseries he'd d. Where the music they were playing should make been the high spot, it was a task and an obligation. He did rule a oasis in music on the duty tour, just non Blind Faith's -- one of the opening acts was a state and blues-based rock work called Delaney & Bonnie, world Health Organization had a gaiety, slaphappy attack to playing and a surprisingly soulful sound. He began spending more than time wall hanging out with them than with the members of Blind Faith, hearing to what they were doing and enjoying it, and comparing notes on the vapours with Delaney Bramlett. Blind Faith's go terminated on August 24, 1969. By that metre, the self-titled record album -- which ran into disputation over its cover, of a topless prepubertal girl, and was repackaged in America with a picture of the grouping -- had been out for nigh a month, and had already sold more than half a jillion copies in America alone, striking number peerless on the charts in England and America. The money was pealing in to all concerned even as they realized that the record album showcased one of the underlying flaws in the band's innovation. There was very honest music on Screen Faith, only in that location wasn't a lot of it -- barely 40 minutes' worth, which was scarcely a body of music worthy of a international-class act. It was a dependable record album, but those sixer songs didn't constitute a repertory, much less a defined sound. In a more coherent sequence of events, the mathematical group would've played out more weeks rehearsing, and played some more modest gigs in England or northerly Europe, perfecting its heavy and working out material. They would've had metre to get a mathematical group, with the debut album issued in the midst of that, and then prepared a mo LP, recorded and ready to go when their outside bookings began, shows for which they would've had at least a xII songs that they could claim as their have. Instead, the logic collapsed like a row of dominos dropping: Baker connexion, which got the beseech excited around a reconstituted Cream, which elevated the wager and the pressure for an straightaway turn and an even more than straightaway album. In the end, Blind Faith was like a baby remote too before long from the womb and asked to grow and expand. The group returned to England amid jump rumors of a U.K. tour or a breakup. By October, what was already a forgone finale to the members became official -- there would be no second Blind Faith album, non from the studio or even a live record album (though a couple of live tracks surfaced on the 1995 Steve Winwood retrospective set The Finer Things), nor whatsoever loss of the film they'd made of the Hyde Park evince. Blind Faith in the end proven too small and too much all at one time. The band had left hand its members a bit shell-shocked, Clapton almost of all, simply even he had heaps of money to record for it (and more than coming in, the Blind Faith tour and album portion have sales of Cream's old albums as considerably). He retreated to the safety of Delaney & Bonnie, where he began playing some of the best blues of his entire vocation; no longer in a leadership office, or expected to whole step into the spot at every turn, he got his care for namelessness on turn with the grouping from December of 1969 until early 1970, in the trend of which he too met the sidemen -- Carl Radle, Jim Gordon, and Bobby Whitlock -- wHO would finally gift him the kind of safe, anon. show window for his work that he'd hoped Blind Faith would be, in Derek & the Dominoes, wHO did incisively what he'd hoped Blind Faith would do, recreate small clubs selfsame quiet and work out their music tabu of the spot. Ginger Baker, however, found the Blind Faith go through to be no worsened than a mixed benediction. There'd been slight new melodic discovery, just the money had been very well, and it had proven that audiences would turn out for an branch of Cream. Additionally, he'd liked working with Winwood and Grech, and decided to adjudicate keeping them together. This lED to the formation, in later November of 1969, of Ginger Baker's Air Force, a big band ensemble whose sound embraced stone, jazz, R&B, folk, African music, and blue devils. Winwood and Grech would only remain with that grouping long sufficiency to wreak at a geminate of shows debuting the lot in England during January of 1970. It was understood that, at the behest of Chris Blackwell, the brain of Island Records (to which Winwood was sign), Winwood was to begin work on a projected solo record album and was taking Rick Grech with him, into what would turn the Traffic reunification album Lavatory Barleycorn Must Die. In the meantime, the retentivity of Blind Faith lingered with the group's fillet of sole album, which became a perennial favourite in Clapton's, Winwood's, and Baker's catalogs. Clapton and Winwood subsequently came to apprise the record. For all of their musical merits, which were considerable, Blind Faith's short life-time made the stria virtually a symbolization of the tail end of the sixties and what those eld were around: too much too presently in that overheated cultural, psychical, and business environment, even for the olympian talents and personalities involved, resulting in a quick burnout.

Celine Dion starts 'Taking Chances' in America

Celine Dion [ ] is cancelled and functional, having opened her 62-date North American tour final night (8/12) in Boston.

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Chaos Opera

   
Artist: Chaos Opera

   Genre(s): 
Metal
   

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Discography:


   
 Endless Battle

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Tracks: 8

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Rock concerts 'add years' to artworks

Rock concerts staged in the grounds of country homes are damaging works of art with sound vibrations which "age" them, Russian research reveals.

Scientists at the State Hermitage Museum in St Petersburg have been examining how concerts by the Rolling Stones, Paul McCartney and others in the adjacent Winter Square have affected their collections over the past three years.

The unpublished findings, they say, could affect the future of rock concerts staged at stately homes. The preliminary results of the three-year study, being examined by the Grabar Art Restoration Institute in Moscow, show that every 10 concerts above 82 decibels add an extra year to the age of a work.

The study has implications for venues in Britain including Knebworth, Somerset House and Kenwood.

Mikhail Piotrovsky, director of the Hermitage, told The Independent that institutions across the world should be warned that high levels of sound can shave years off an artefact. "Early results say the level of sound in the rooms which look over the [Winter] Square cannot be more than 80/82 decibels. We are going to study this. I think it is a serious issue, not just for Russia," he said.

Mr Piotrovsky added that it was likely that buildings, books and statues were also being damaged by the concerts that take place in the grounds of country homes and galleries.

Such was his concern that he reached an agreement with the Rolling Stones to keep the noise down during their concert in Winter Square last year, in order to protect the 19th and 20th century works by the likes of Cezanne and Matisse housed in the palace's adjacent wings. In 2004, he said he was distressed when McCartney's concert shook the windows of the museum.

"The Rolling Stones concert was not over 85 decibels, which is quite loud. We have to concentrate the sound in a certain direction. We have our people measuring the sound during the concerts. If something goes over the limit then we can do something about it."

He added: "We have had some concerts that were terrible, with Russian rock groups. One or two concerts a year in the square is possible, not more. We understand it is a square but there must be limits. Five concerts of classical music are OK."

The implications for rock concerts held near British collections are being considered. Last year's summer concerts at Somerset House in central London, which houses the Courtauld Institute's collection including work by Cezanne and Van Gogh, saw performances by Amy Winehouse, Kasabian and the Black Rebel Motorcycle Club.

Ernst Vegelin, head of the Courtauld Gallery, said he will be taking a close interest in the Hermitage's work. "We have double-glazing here and sound doesn't register in the buildings, but it will certainly be interesting to see the research. Vi bration isn't good," he said.

English Heritage, which runs concerts over two months in the summer at Kenwood House in north London, said its concerts were held at no higher than 55 decibels and that they were situated 400 metres from the house.

Henry Lytton-Cobbold, who owns Knebworth, a grade II-listed house which has hosted concerts by Led Zeppelin and the Rolling Stones, said the gigs' commercial success were crucial to the survival of the home.

The gigs are performed just outside the house, which Mr Lytton-Cobbold said was "part of the experience", but he did express concern over the effects on the fabric of the building, which has loose stucco features.

British music venues under the spotlight

*Kenwood House: Has works by Rembrandt, Turner, Reynolds, Vermeer – including The Guitar Player, left – and Gainsborough. The villa on London's Hampstead Heath has been holding picnic concerts for 55 years. It will host Rufus Wainwright and Van Morrison this summer.

*Somerset House: The Courtauld Gallery in one wing has impressionist and post-impressionist works along with sketches by Michelangelo. The Fratellis and Duffy are among artists who will perform this year.

*Knebworth: Having made its name in the 1970s hosting Led Zeppelin and Queen, it was chosen by Oasis to host their biggest concert in 1996 and by Robbie Williams in 2003 when he performed for 375,000 people. It has a permanent collection of Indian artefacts and a painting by Winston Churchill.

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Wasteform

   
Artist: Wasteform

   Genre(s): 
Metal: Death,Black
   

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 Ignorance Through Sovereignty

   Year: 2003   
Tracks: 10

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Discharge

   
Artist: Discharge

   Genre(s): 
Hardcore
   

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Discography:


   
 Hear Nothing, See Nothing, Say Nothing [Re-Issued]

   Year: 2003   
Tracks: 23

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A lasting British hardcore band cited as a key influence by artists including Metallica and Anthrax, Discharge was formed in 1977 by isaac Bashevis Singer Terry "Tezz" Roberts, his twin brother/guitarist Tony "Clappers, " bassist Roy "Showery" Wainwright and drummer Hacko. New frontman Cal was recruited as the decennium john Drew to its shut, with Tezz moving to drums as a switch for the exiting Hacko; the first band sign to the newly-formed Clay Records label, Discharge issued their debut EP Realities of War in March of 1980, followed later that year by two more EPs, Fight Back and Decontrol. Tezz left the line up shortly subsequently, and afterward recording the Wherefore twelve-inch with impermanent drummer Bambi, Discharge named Garry Maloney their permanent skinsman in time to platter 1981's Never Again, which reached the number 64 spot on the UK pop charts.


In 1982, Discharge in conclusion issued their long-awaited full-length debut 'Hear Nothing, See Nothing, Say Nothing, which reached the Top 40; a U.S. Tour followed, and upon returning home the chemical group recorded a new single, "Land Violence, State Control." Bones then left wing to sort his own social unit, Broken Bones, and was replaced by guitarist Peter 'Pooch' Pyrtle for the EP Warning: Her Majesty's Government Can Seriously Damage Your Health. In the waken of some other seven-inch, "The More I See, " both Pyrtle and Maloney departed; the singles compendium Never Again followed in 1984, and with new guitar player Les "The Mole" Hunt and drummer Nick Haymaker, Discharge released "Ignorance" a year later. Maloney returned to the flock for the 1986 LP Grave accent New World, which also featured new guitarist Stephen Brooks.


Wainwright was the future to go, and Discharge exhausted the future various days in limbo, at times releasing live material from their efflorescence. Finally, in 1991 the group returned with a fresh album, Massacre Divine, followed by Shooting Up the World. By 1997, the greco-Roman line up of Cal, Bones, Rainy and Tezz had reformed; around that same time, a tribute record album titled Discharged far-famed the band's continuing influence. Simlarly, Metallica's 1998 accumulation Garage, Inc. featured 2 Discharge covers -- "Liberate Speech for the Dumb" and "The More I See." Time would go by earlier the mathematical group made any new music, merely in 2002 they released a new eponymous album featuring the original lineup.

Britney Spears To Shoot 'Radar' Video In London This Week

Britney Spears is set to ditch LA for London to shoot her new video for upcoming single Radar, her former manager has confirmed.

Fresh off the heels from her cameo in a Pussycat Dolls video, Larry Rudolph revealed that the pop wreck will be filming in the English capital this week, and is determined to get her career back on track by taking a director's role on-set.

He tells the New York Post: "The theme is her and her girlfriends are going to be looking all around London trying to find a boy who she met in a club. Every time they think they have him, it's someone else.

"She will be behind the camera as much as possible; she wants to make sure it's exactly right."

In April, Rudolph, who was reportedly dismissed by the singer after he joined her parents in forcing Spears into rehab last year, told reporters how the star is gearing up to make a triumphant return to the charts.

He explained: "She's in an amazing position for a comeback right now. She could end up being the biggest comeback in history."