Artist: Steve Vai: mp3 download Genre(s): Rock Instrumental Rock: Hard-Rock Rock: Progressive Rock: Guitar Virtuoso Discography: Sound Theories, Volume 2 - ''Shadows and Sparks'' Year: 2007 Tracks: 6 Sound Theories, Volume 1 - ''The Aching Hunger'' Year: 2007 Tracks: 11 Real Illusions: Reflections Year: 2005 Tracks: 11 The Infinite Steve Vai: An Anthology (CD 2) Year: 2004 Tracks: 15 The Infinite Steve Vai: An Anthology (CD 1) Year: 2004 Tracks: 17 The Elusive Light and Sound Vol. 1 (Part 3) Year: 2002 Tracks: 13 The Elusive Light and Sound Vol. 1 (Part 2) Year: 2002 Tracks: 13 The Elusive Light and Sound Vol. 1 (Part 1) Year: 2002 Tracks: 14 The 7th Song: Enchanting Guitar Melodies - Archive Year: 2000 Tracks: 10 7th Song: Enchanting Guitar Melodies Archives Vol. 1 Year: 2000 Tracks: 11 The Ultra Zone Year: 1999 Tracks: 13 Fire Garden Year: 1996 Tracks: 18 Alien Love Secrets Year: 1995 Tracks: 7 Sex and Religion Year: 1993 Tracks: 13 Passion and Warfare Year: 1990 Tracks: 14 Flex-Able Leftovers Year: 1984 Tracks: 13 Along with his erstwhile teacher Joe Satriani, six-string virtuoso Steve Vai place the standard for rock music guitar virtuosity in the '80s. Born on June 6, 1960, and raised in Carle Place, NY, Vai became concerned in the guitar via such legendary artists as Jimi Hendrix, Led Zeppelin, and Alice Cooper as a teen and, upon starting high school school, took lessons with an elder histrion from his older high school school, Joe Satriani. Playing in various local bands, Vai rapidly picked up on the cat's-paw, and by the eld of 18 was attending the famed Berklee School of Music in Boston. As a student there, Vai canned several of Frank Zappa's most technically demanding compositions for guitar, and regular sent a copy of i such arranging, "Black Page," to Zappa himself. Zappa was so impressed with the thomas Young guitar role player that upon group confluence him, he invited Vai to link his stripe. Later on, Vai toured the populace with Zappa (giving Vai the nicknames "Stunt Guitarist" and "Little Italian Virtuoso") and played on such albums as 1981's Tinsel Town Rebellion and You Are What You Is, 1982's Ship Arriving Too Late, 1983's Man from Utopia, asset 1984's Them or Us and Thing Fish, earlier going away to set out on his own. First off was a partner off of self-financed, recorded, and released solo albums in 1984, Flex-Able and Flex-Able Leftovers, both of which showcased Vai's guitar playacting and songwriting talents, until now were motionless heavily influenced byZappa. With Van Halen all the madness by the mid-'80s due to their massive toilsome rock/pop crossover success, Vai replaced Yngwie Malmsteen in a similarly styled kit called Alcatrazz (which featured previous Rainbow vocalizer Graham Bonnett), playing on their unnoted 1985 freeing Distressful the Peace. The same year, Vai made a cameo appearance in the motion picture Juncture (playing the devil's guitarist and shredding away in a guitar duel with Ralph Macchio) and got an invite from his friend/bass maestro Billy Sheehan to seek out for the guitar pip in singer David Lee Roth's solo band (Philip Milton Roth had merely rent from Van Halen), and finally landed the fishgig. 1986 adage the debut release from Roth and his astral solo band, Eat 'Em and Smile, which went on to suit one of the year's top difficult john Rock releases. Both Vai and Sheehan were catapulted to superstardom referable to their instrumental talents, as they took top honors in numerous guitar magazines for days afterwards. Merely although the quartet showed smashing promise, Sheehan jumped ship exactly subsequently their sophomore record album, Skyscraper, was issued in 1988. Although the album was more pop-based than its predecessor, it became another ample hit -- with Vai earning a co-producing deferred payment on the album along with Roth. The same class, Vai issued his have railway line of snazzy guitars, the Jem 777 series, via the Ibanez company. After the ensuing go with Roth absorbed up in late 1988, it was Vai's turn to leap transport. In addition to running on another solo record album, he was invited to fall in up with chart-topping pop-metallists Whitesnake, an extend he recognized. His one and only if album with Whitesnake, Parapraxis of the Tongue, was issued in 1989, as was his third solo album overall, Passion and Warfare, a year by and by. The album was based on dreams that Vai experient as a adolescent, as the largely instrumental record album became a goodly attain, earning gold certificate and curing Vai's standing as one of the top guitarists of the day. It was besides around this time that Vai created a seven-string guitar through Ibanez. Although the tool didn't catch on initially, it would by the mid to recent '90s, when the guitarists in such alloy acts as Korn and Limp Bizkit would utilize the instrument to attain super-low tunings. After an extended foramen, Vai formed his number one conventional rock band (called...VAI) along with newcomer Devin Townsend on vocals, T.M. Stevens on bass, and Terry Bozzio on drums -- offering their one and only album in 1993, Sex activity & Religion. When the album proved to be a disappointment both critically and commercially, Vai returned back to all-instrumental exploit with the 1995 EP Alien Love Secrets. For the oddment of the ten, Vai continued to egress solo releases, including 1996's Fire Garden, 1998's Flex-Able Leftovers (a re-release of his long out of print second solo album, with added tracks), and 1999's The Ultra Zone. It was besides during the late '90s that Vai and Satriani reunited for an yearly co-headlining go (with a different third creative person added each class), called G3, unleashing a live album, G3: Live in Concert, in 1997. The early twenty-first century proverb a ado of releases from Vai, including a compiling of instrumentals, The seventh Song: Enchanting Guitar Melodies Archive, in 2000, and his number one full-length live release, Alive in an Ultra World, in 2001, as well as his mammoth career-encompassing ten-disc box determine The Secret Jewel Box. In 2002, he equanimous several pieces that he had contributed to films through the years, including the guitar duel from Crossroads and the melodic theme to Federal Reserve note and Ted's Bogus Journey and place them together in a 40-track accumulation called The Elusive Light and Sound, Vol. 1. A series of compilations came next and subsequently a five-year respite from the studio, Vai returned in 2005 with Real Illusions: Reflections. A turn with the Metropole Orchestra followed and he released a challenging double live determine documenting his performances, highborn Sound Theories, Vols. twelve, in 2007. Over the long time, Vai guested on unnumerable albums by other artists, including Gregg Bissonette's self-titled debut and Submarine, Alice Cooper's Hey Stoopid, Randy Coven's Casimir Funk Me Tender, Al di Meola's Countless Desire, Public Image Ltd.'s Album, Joe Jackson's Symphony 1, and Billy Sheehan's Compression. He can likewise be ground on such additional Zappa releases as Jazz from Hell, Exclude Up 'N Play Yer Guitar, Guitar, and on several volumes of the ongoing You Can't Do That on Stage Anymore series and the live protection phonograph record, Zappa's Universe. As if his busy schedule weren't full enough, Vai pursued a lifelong interest when he began harvest honey among five-spot bee colonies in the backyard of his rest home. |
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Tuesday 26 August 2008
Popular BP drugs may cause diabetes
NEW DELHI: If you ar
hypertensive and have been prescribed one of the widely secondhand class of medicines
called beta blockers�drugs like atenolol, inderal and metaprolol�
you could be running an unacceptable risk of exposure of diabetes.
Recent
research in the UK indicates that these drugs could increase blood dough in
patients suffering from diabetes, and in some cases light-emitting diode to onrush of the disease
among patients of high rake pressure.
The study, carried out at
National Heart and Lung Institute, Imperial College, London, terminated that the
use of beta blockers greatly increases diabetes risk in high blood pressure patients.
The enquiry proposed to determine the baseline predictors of new-onset diabetes
in hypertensive patients.
Among 19,257 hypertensive patients in the
trial run who were randomly assigned to receive one of two antihypertensive drug regimens
victimization beta blockers, 14,great hundred were at risk of developing diabetes at service line. Of
these, 1,366 (9.7%) after developed NOD during average follow-up of 5.5
years.
Says Dr Anoop Misra, music director and head (diabetes and
metabolic diseases) Fortis Hospitals: "In patients with hypertension, beta
blocker drugs ar no longer frontline therapy. These drugs may not only increment
blood sugar levels in those world Health Organization don't have diabetes, simply may decline sugar
control in those with diabetes and besides blunt warning symptoms when low sugar
occurs."
Mishra, however, added that these drugs were still utilitarian in
patients of diabetes and high blood pressure with associated heart disease. Newer genus Beta
blockers whitethorn have some advantage over the previous generation drugs, he
aforementioned.
As a result, doctors have begun restricting the use of beta
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Saturday 16 August 2008
Download Kaada
Artist: Kaada: mp3 download Genre(s): Other Discography: Romances Year: 2004 Tracks: 9 An every bit various and fertile creative person, Norway's Kaada has explored making music within the confines of a banding, as a solo creative person, and as a composer. Born John Erik Kaada, he began fashioning music at an early eld, getting his phone number one synthesizer at eld ten and playacting in the band Cloroform by his belated teens. The group's other tracks were gathered in 1998's Deconstruction, which was followed in short succession by 1999's All-Scars, 2000's Do the Crawl, and the following year's remix record album Scrawl, which was Cloroform's swan strain and likewise featured a remix by Kaada as a solo creative soul. He likewise began scoring films in 2000, along with working on his solo debut album. Thank You for Giving Me Your Valuable Time, which motley electronica with '50s and '60s stone elements into playful, kinky come out, was released in Norway in 2001 and was hailed by that country's edition of Billboard Magazine as one of that year's charles Herbert Best releases. However, it didn't come in the U.S. until 2003, when Ipecac Records issued the album. Meanwhile, Kaada's cinema music life history was prospering; he was the youngest person to gain the Golden Clapboard, an honorary awarding of Norway's film diligence, and besides had gobs such as Mongoland, Tyven Tyven, Journey, and 2004's Hawaii, Oslo to his credit evaluation. That yr, his second album, MECD, arrived, along with a coaction with Mike Patton, Romances. Music for Moviebikers followed in 2006. |
Thursday 7 August 2008
Albert Hammond Jr, Como Te Llama? Album Review
Album critical review of 'Como Te Llama?' by Albert Hammond Jr released on Rough Trade.
While most members of The Strokes are enjoying an extended r'n'r break (it's been over two long time since their last release), it would seem fair to say guitarist Albert Hammond Jr. does non quite ploughshare their love life of downtime. This is his sec solo exit, following on from 2006's "Yours To Keep".
Given that he is usually associated with playacting garage-rock, some may be surprised with quite how eclectic this offering Hammond Jr. is. It begins with a folk riff on "Bargain Of The Century", a relaxing identification number with attention-grabbing tempo changes, while "In My Room" is light rock'n'roll with guitars that punch passim. Widening the pallet, we are treated to
Friday 27 June 2008
Jason Bateman Says A 'Bent And Twisted' Story Is Ready For 'Arrested Development' Movie
Six months after teasing MTV with news that an "Arrested Development" movie was in the very earliest of stages, "Hancock" star Jason Bateman told an assembled crowd Tuesday night that the Bluths were almost certainly heading to the big screen — and boy will it be strange.
"It's typically bent and twisted," Bateman said of the story concocted by series mastermind Mitchell Hurwitz. "He's got a really, really good idea for the movie version that would not be just simply the equivalent of four episodes back to back to back. It's actually something that would be specific to the medium of film."
A bent and twisted script is exactly what devoted fans of the series would hope for and expect. After all, "Arrested Development," which was canceled in February 2006, introduced such topics as the Never Nude, the puppet Franklin Delano Bluth, and "a family friend with only one arm!"
Bateman smiled. "Who thinks up that [stuff]?"
So what's the holdup? Not Bateman, certainly. And not anyone else actually involved in the show, he insisted. It's the Bluths' biggest problem that threatens to delay the film indefinitely: money.
"We all want to do it. All the actors want to do it, the writers want to do it, and the boss wants to do it. And they are working on making a deal, probably as we speak," Bateman said. "But it's a long, sort of drawn-out, complicated business process. 'Arrested Development' is such a specific tone, it doesn't lend itself to mass appeal, as played out by the fact that it's canceled. So it has to be done for a price. They can't spend the money they spent on 'Hancock.'
"So they have to shoot it for a small price, and we have to figure out if we can do it for that price," he continued. "They're working it out, and hopefully we'll be able to know something in the next month."
In the meantime, keep the series alive, Bateman said — even if you do it by accosting him in the streets.
"When people come up to me [to talk about 'Arrested Development'], I'm right there with 'em," he laughed. "There's some narcissism in it!"
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Tuesday 24 June 2008
Bruce Bervar
Artist: Bruce Bervar
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Rythms of Life
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Tracks: 11
This California guitarist and synthesist writes highly musical, commercially accessible ensemble music. Though he plays most of the instruments himself, his technique on acoustic guitar is to the highest degree admirable. He's besides a well-known luthier -- one of his hand-crafted guitars is on display at the New York Metropolitan Museum of Art.
Friday 13 June 2008
Jon Favreau’s Insistence on Paycheck Is a Sticking Point in ‘Iron Man 2’ Negotiations
Yesterday, Iron Man director Jon Favreau blogged on MySpace that even though his movie has made a half-billion dollars at the worldwide box office, Marvel Studios hasn't called him in weeks. Making the situation even more uncomfortable is the fact that he's not yet signed on to helm the film's sequel, with an already-announced April 2010 release date fast approaching. Now, IESB reports that the reason the studio's been out of touch is because Favreau asked for a "moderate bump" in pay for Iron Man 2, and Marvel chief David Maisel balked.
According to IESB's source, Favreau is only seeking "the regular standard director's fee" (approximately 900 million times your salary), but Maisel isn't convinced that he's integral to IM2's success. Obviously we're pretty sure that his involvement was integral to the first movie's being awesome, and we'd hate to see him not get the job. Is this all just studio posturing, or would Maisel really hire someone else? Who could possibly be as qualified and as cheap as the director of Elf, anyway? Can nerd outrage on the blogosphere fix this awful mess? If only it were that simple!
IESB Breaking News: Will Jon Favreau Direct Iron Man 2?! [IESB]
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