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Substance Abuse And Musicians
Number of Words: 507 / Number of Pages: 2
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drugs? What are the fatalities of substance abuse in rock stars?
The reason I am interested in this topic is not only because it can
hold my interest, but I also want to see if I can analyze some reasons for
turning to drugs. I am planning on majoring in psychology and I think this
is part of the whole analysis that psychologists like to use. It can be
kind of a practice for me. So I believe many rock stars “have it all,” so
to speak. They have both fame and fortune. My opinion is that everyone
has some type of greed inside them. Everyone wants the best at some point.
Rock stars often ...
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Progression Of Music From The 1940's To The Present
Number of Words: 1014 / Number of Pages: 4
... of fashion.
One example of when country had an impact on Rock & Roll was with Bill Haley and
Jerry Lee Lewis. Jerry's career was huge, with his hits like "Whole Lotta
Shakin' goin' On" and "Great Balls of Fire". That is, his career was huge,
until the it was made public that he fell in love with a married his 13 year old
cousin. In 1957 Rock & Roll had been turned upsidedown when Buddy Holly hit the
airwaves with "That'll be the Day." Buddy Holly rolled out hit after hit after
hit. That is, until his plane went down in Iowa. He died at the young age of 22.
That night his music was playing non-stop ...
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A Touch Of Jazz
Number of Words: 1920 / Number of Pages: 7
... Morse code but a phonetic reproduction of the sound of words; only languages dependent on pitch, vibrato and timing lend themselves to such treatment. The time element was the easiest to reproduce on a drum had, changes of vibrato were effected by vibrating the knees while holding the drum tightly clasped to the armpit, changes of pitch were effected by changes of pressure on the drum skin.
Thus language and music were not strictly divided, and the average standard of musical talent was correspondingly high. Children learned to discern subtleties of rhythm, melody and tone color as parts of their la ...
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Origin Of Musical Instruments
Number of Words: 2644 / Number of Pages: 10
... and when Jacob left him in haste, he said to him: "Wherefore didst thou flee away secretly . . . that I might have sent thee away with mirth, and with songs, with tabret, and with harp? (Gen. 31:27). This suggests the possibility that some of these musical instruments as used in Babylonia found their way into the life of the early Hebrews.
Egyptian Musical Instruments Influencing Moses And Israel.
Moses received a thorough education at the hands of the Egyptians, and music was an important part of his training. Music was greatly emphasized in Egyptian religious services. The following instrument ...
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The Emergence Of Heavy Metal
Number of Words: 669 / Number of Pages: 3
... by Jimi, and other acts relied heavily on the use of volume as a musical component. Most bands of the 70's would hold true to the mantra and turn their amplifiers to the symbolic ten.
Lyrical messages were also changing. The main themes of sixties music were peace and unity, the 70's brought a loud cynicism, songs became darker, and more atmospheric in nature. Early heavy metal was produced as a direct descendent of the musical experimentations in sheer volume of the 60's psychedelic guitar "noise." In the same way the Stones turned R & B into Rock and Roll, Led Zeppelin turned traditional blues int ...
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Jerry Garcia And The Grateful Dead
Number of Words: 1736 / Number of Pages: 7
... comics
and pouring through science-fiction novels.
When Garcia was fifteen, his older brother Tiff - who years earlier had
accidentally chopped off Jerry's right-hand middle finger while the two were
chopping wood - introduced him to early rock & roll and rhythm & blues music.
Garcia was quickly drawn to the music's funky rhythms and wild textures, but
what attracted him the most were the sounds that came from the guitar;
especially the bluesy "melifluousness" of players such as; T-bone Walker and
Chuck Berry. It was something he said that he had never heard before. Garcia
wanted to learn how to ...
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The Existentialism Of Dave Matthews Band: Rhyme And Reason
Number of Words: 583 / Number of Pages: 3
... his own devices and “ ending up 6 feet underground” because “ he needs to kill his pain”. In addition to showing that death is the ultimate end, this also shows that happiness only exists in the present. By needing “to kill his pain” Dave shows that he is unhappy and troubled at the present time and needs relief immediately. Since the song is mostly about dying and relieving pain there are many examples of the ultimate end and the pursuit to find happiness in the present. “In my grave lying wired and shut and quiet… leave it to me to waste here.”
Through reading the lyrics one can get a sense ...
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The Beatles
Number of Words: 1532 / Number of Pages: 6
... evolve the band. As the years began to pass, the band was
obviously beginning to grow musically. They had moved from simple lyrics
like "Love me Do" to harshly aware reflections of life in their home
country in "Eleanor Rigby"2. There were attempts, some more successful than
others, to incorporate the other Beatles into the idea stage. George
Harrison made this leap successfully with such tracks as "I want to tell
you", "TAXMAN", and the psychedelic "Love you to". Ringo was featured in
the humorous "Yellow Submarine" As the group matured, their creativity
began to rely more on the effects and manipula ...
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WoodStock Music Festival
Number of Words: 1489 / Number of Pages: 6
... in the week before the festival, it became clear that the
event as going to draw a much larger audience than expected. By the day
before the official opening, traffic jams miles long blocked most roads
leading to the area. On Friday, August 15, when the festival began, its
management was unable to watch the estimated 400,000 or more people coming
into and out of the field and decided to end admission fees. Sweetwater,
the band scheduled to open the festival, could not get to the site because
of the traffic, so folksinger Richie Havens, who was already there, began
the festival instead. As a result ...
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Jim Morrison: The Lizard King
Number of Words: 4672 / Number of Pages: 17
... top secret since it was with the Navy and all. Jim’s mother, Clara, met Steve at a Navy dance that was held when she went to visit her younger sister in Hawaii. Jimmy, that’s what his parents called him while he was young; while traveling through New Mexico with his parents in late 1946, “…experienced what he would later dramatically describe as ‘The most important moment of my life”(6). Steve drove by an accident in which Jim saw two Indian men who were dying on the side of the road. Jim was frantically crying and trying to go help them. His father became tired of Jim’s sobbing over what he had ...
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