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JOEY RAMONE

Joey Ramone, nome artístico de Jeffrey Ross Hyman (19 de maio de 1951 — 15 de abril de 2001) foi um vocalista norte-americano e letrista, sendo seu trabalho mais conhecido a banda de punk rock Ramones. Junto com seu companheiro de banda Johnny Ramone (John Cummings), foram os únicos membros que permaneceram desde o início da banda até o fim 1996. Joey tinha 2,02m de altura, sendo o mais alto dos ramones.

Hyman cresceu em Forest Hills, no Queens, em uma comunidade de judeus. Durante sua juventude, teve uma vida bastante conturbada, o que inspirou o som “We’re A Happy Family”, do álbum Rocket to Russia. Seus pais se divorciaram no começo de 1960. Sua mãe, Charlotte Lesher (1926-2007), encorajou um interesse na música em ambos os filhos: Joey e seu irmão mais novo Mitchell (que atende pelo pseudônimo de Mickey Leigh).

Joey morreu de linfoma em 15 de abril de 2001, no Presbyterian Hospital da cidade de Nova Iorque. Ele aparentemente conviveu com linfoma durante cerca de 4 anos, já que ele foi examinado numa clínica especializada em câncer em meados dos anos 90.

Joey Ramone (May 19, 1951 – April 15, 2001), born as Jeffry Ross Hyman, was a vocalist and songwriter best known for his work in the punk rock group the Ramones. Joey Ramone’s image, voice and tenure as frontman of the Ramones made him a countercultural icon.

Early life

Joey grew up in Forest Hills, Queens. He and his future bandmates attended Forest Hills High School.

During his youth, he was by general accounts something of an outcast and had a dysfunctional family life, which inspired the song “We’re A Happy Family.” His parents divorced in the early 1960s. His mother, Charlotte Lesher (1926-2007), encouraged an interest in music in both him and his brother Mitchell (a.k.a. Mickey Leigh).

Rock & roll gave the teenaged Joey Ramone an escape from his parents’ divorce and he began playing in glam-influenced bands in the early ’70s. He co-founded the Ramones in 1974 with friends John Cummings and Douglas Colvin, upon which point all three adopted Ramone as their stage surname. Joey Ramone initially served as the group’s drummer before switching to vocals and having his former spot taken by manager Tommy Erdelyi (who adopted the name Tommy Ramone).

He was a fan of The Beatles, The Who, among other bands (particularly oldies and the Phil Spector-produced “girl groups“). His hero was Pete Townshend of The Who. He took up drums at 13, playing throughout his teen years, and was originally the drummer for the Ramones, while Dee Dee Ramone was the vocalist. However, Dee Dee proved to be unsuited for the position as he could not play his bass guitar and sing at the same time, so on manager Tommy Ramone’s suggestion, Joey switched to vocals.

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Joey was said to be the “heart and soul” of the Ramones, and his favorite songs from their repertoire were often the ballads and love songs. C.J. Ramone called him the “hippie of the group.”

The Ramones were an American rock band often regarded as the first punk rock group. Formed in Forest Hills, Queens, New York, in 1974, all of the band members adopted stage names ending with “Ramone”, though none of them were actually related. They performed 2,263 concerts, touring virtually nonstop for 22 years. In 1996, after a tour with the Lollapalooza music festival, the band played their final show and then disbanded. A little more than eight years after the breakup, the band’s three founding members – Joey, guitarist Johnny Ramone, and bassist Dee Dee Ramone — were dead.

The Ramones were a major influence on the punk rock movement both in the United States and Great Britain, though they achieved only minor commercial success. Their only record with enough U.S. sales to be certified gold was the compilation album Ramones Mania. Recognition of the band’s importance built over the years, and they are now regularly represented in many assessments of all-time great rock music, such as the Rolling Stone lists of the 50 Greatest Artists of All Time and 25 Greatest Live Albums of All Time, VH1‘s 100 Greatest Artists of Hard Rock, and Mojo’s 100 Greatest Albums. In 2002, the Ramones were voted the second greatest rock and roll band ever in Spin, trailing only The Beatles.

 Other projects

Joey Ramone was honored with the creation of “Joey Ramone Place” outside the address of CBGB in New York City.

In 1985, Joey joined Little Steven Van Zandt‘s music-industry activist group Artists United Against Apartheid which acted against the Sun City resort in South Africa. Joey and forty-nine other top recording artists, including Bruce Springsteen, U2, Bob Dylan and Run DMC, collaborated on the song “Sun City” in which they pledged they would never perform at the resort.

In 1994, he formed Sibling Rivalry with his brother Mickey Leigh. They had one release, the In a Family Way EP.

Joey appeared on the Helen Love album Love and Glitter, Hot Days and Music singing the track “Punk Boy”. Helen Love returned the favor, singing on Joey’s song “Mr. Punchy“.

Hyman co-wrote and recorded the song “Meatball Sandwich” with Youth Gone Mad. For a short time before his death, he took the role of manager and producer for the punk rock group The Independents.

His last recording as a vocalist was singing backup vocals on the CD One Nation Under by the Dine Navajo rock group Blackfire. He appeared on two tracks, “What Do You See” and “Lying to Myself”. The CD, released in 2002, won “Best Pop/Rock Album of the Year” at the 2002 Native American Music Awards.

Joey also produced the Ronnie Spector album She Talks to Rainbows in 1999. It was critically acclaimed, but did not perform too well with the public and went virtually unnoticed. The title track was previously on The Ramones‘ last studio album, ¡Adios Amigos!.

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SHOWS DE MUSICA AO VIVO EM SAO PAULO

 

Kia’Ora

O Kia’Ora é uma casa que se inspirou nos moldes dos pubs da Austrália e da Nova Zelândia. O lugar é voltado para um público mais jovem, que curte pop rock e se interessa por rugby. A casa dispõe de cinco ambientes: o mezanino (para eventos), a varanda, o espaço de jogos, o lounge e a área reservada ao bar e o palco para shows.O cardápio, como não poderia ser diferente, tem o estilo australiano, com alguns petiscos como o Mouse Trap (torradas com vegemite e cubinhos de queijo derretidos) ou o Tri-Nation Olives (azeitonas verdes e pretas recheadas). Há opções de lanches, saladas e sobremesas.

Rua Doutor Eduardo de Souza Aranha, 377,Itaim Bibi – Zona Sul –  (11) 3846-8300   

    www.kiaora.com.br

 

 LONDON STATION

A casa noturna London Station foi inspirada nas movimentadas estações de metrô de Londres tanto na decoração, como no cardápio e no line-up. O ambiente inusitado e, ao mesmo tempo, com um clima fino, já fez a casa cair no gosto de quem procura sofisticação até na hora de badalar.
O set list é repleto de influências do house, hip hop e break beats, trio de sucesso além das fronteiras nacionais. DJs de destaque se revezam nas pick-ups, inovando o som com o uso da percussão.
O cardápio foi montando para fugir do tradicional. Quem quiser curtir o restaurante, apreciará um menu internacional. Destaque para o Chicken Tika Massala, prato de origem indiana a base de curry e frango, um dos preferidos dos londrinos.

R. Tabapuã nº 1439 – Itaim Bibi – São Paulo – Brasil –

contact@londonstation.com.br

www.londonstation.com.br

MORRISON

Como o nome mesmo ja dá a idéia, é um lugar para fans de rock. Ainda mais para quem curte The Doors. Fica rolando um solzinho legal dele até a apresentação da banda da noite. Realmente covers muito bons. Mas só vá se vc for realmente curtir a musica. Apesar de parecer uma baladinha, não é. Só roqueiros, e a rigor. Mas vale para conhecer!

Rua Inácio Pereira da Rocha, 362,  Vila Madalena – Zona Sul – (11) 3814-1022/3814-088

WWW.morrison.com.br

BLACKMORE

A CASA A partir de 06/Junho de 2003, a cidade de São Paulo tão carente em espaços destinados ao heavy-rock, ganhou um novo espaço para os apreciadores da boa música… o Blackmore Rock Bar !!

O Blackmore Rock Bar não é uma casa qualquer, nasceu e foi criada por e para rockers, com preocupações que só quem vive e respira música pode ter, assim, o Blackmore Rock Bar tem uma localização privilegiada, situado à Alameda dos Maracatins, 1.317, no coração de Moema, bem atrás do Shopping Center Ibirapuera. Apesar da vizinhança estritamente comercial, o Blackmore Rock Bar não atrapalha nem mesmo quem circula pela calçada à pé: tem completo isolamento acústico, o que também implica perfeita propagação interna do som que vem do maior palco roqueiro de São Paulo, de cerca de 30 metros quadrados, a uma altura que sempre permite total visibilidade dos músicos e de suas performances.

Alameda dos Maracatins, 1317, Moema – Zona Sul (11) 5041-9340 

WWW.BLACKMORE.COM.BR 

     
 

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BELATRIX

A BANDA

E se num passe de mágica você pudesse colocar num caldeirão todas as influências, músicas e bandas que fizeram você dançar e se divertir? Sem preconceitos, somente o gosto por uma boa melodia, uma batida dançante, um riff de guitarra inesquecível.

E se não importasse quando nem a onde você se entregou a essa sensação? Pode ter sido hoje, no carro de manhã, nas “10 mais do dia” da rádio ou numa festa da sua adolescência meio borrada na sua memória.

E se a única coisa que importasse fosse o ímpeto de levantar e dançar?

Foi isso que a Bellatrix sonhou em fazer e concretiza a cada show. Músicas contagiantes, dançantes e sem preconceitos, pra agradar a todos, em qualquer lugar e a qualquer hora. Tudo isso com uma dosagem pra lá de correta entre mulheres e homens. Uma banda cheia de sensualidade, porém com pegada. Um acontecimento único em cada show!

Com um repertório abrangente e envolvente você vai ouvir de Rihanna, Kylie Minogue, Beyoncè, Gwen Stefani e Snow Patrol passando por Madonna, Kate Perry, Pink e terminado em Pretenders, Depeche Mode, Pet Shop Boys, New Order, Cindy Lauper e A-ha. Todas as décadas, todos os sucessos, todos os artistas, um único objetivo: colocar você pra dançar, muito, o tempo inteiro.

Na banda, músicos experientes (Quasímodo, Rock Boxx, Nabucodonosor, U2 Cover, Luisa Possi, Jay Vaquer, KLB, etc…): Bia Lombardi (vocais), Fred Barion (bateria), Inho (guitarra), Fê Iglesias (baixo) e Nei Medeiros (teclado). No palco, coelhinhos da Duracell, incansáveis. Casas onde a banda colocou e coloca todo mundo pra chacoalhar e dançar: London Station, Kiaora, Dublin, Paddy´s Pub, Morrison, etc…

 

 BELATRIX

http://www.bellatrixonline.com.br

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http://www.trans-siberian.com

Trans-Siberian Orchestra was formed in 1996 by Paul O’Neill who immediately approached long time friends and collaborators Robert Kinkel and Jon Oliva to form the core of the writing team.

While producing and writing for a number of years with various rock groups Paul was always looking for ways to make the music have greater and greater emotional impact. He tried to write the music that was so melodic it didn’t need lyrics. And lyrics that were so poetic that they didn’t need music but once you put the two of them together, the sum of the parts would be greater than the whole, and you couldn’t imagine them apart. Once he’d done this, he was still looking for a way to take it to even greater heights and he realized that putting the songs within the context of a story would give it a third dimension that wou ld make that additional emotional impact possible.

Hence, he started writing not just albums, but rock operas.

He realized then, that there was an inherent problem recording rock operas within the standard rock and roll band makeup. Rock operas by their nature need the voices to change as the characters change. Rock bands normally only have one (or if you’re lucky) two great vocalists to work with, therefore limiting how far you can go. You’re forced to make the music fit the band, as opposed to allowing the music to go wherever it needs to.

With Trans-Siberian Orchestra, first the music is created with no artificial limitations, and then we seek out within the classical, rock, Broadway and R & B worlds, the very best singers and musicians to bring each song to life. This also in many ways forces us to operate on a higher level. This environment has the additional benefit of causing a cross pollenization of musical ideas, creating hybrid forms of music that normally never would have occurred, such as an R&B singer doing a classical style melody and bringing gospel touches to it that causes it to glitter in ways that even the creators could not have predicted. Another very important aspect in the creation of the band, is that there could be no limits on the members; we mix all races and ages.

The young get to mine the experience of the old musicians, while they can’t help to be inspired by the enthusiasm of people just entering the business. This has created a vast constantly changing musical group that even we do not know what it is going to do next.

Once when asked what Trans-Siberian Orchestra was about, Paul O’Neill replied, “It’s about creating great art. When asked to define what great art was, Paul said, “The purpose of art is to create an emotional response in the person that is exposed to that art. And there are three categories of art; bad art, good art and great art. Bad art will elicit no emotional response in the person that is exposed to it, i.e.; a song you hear in an elevator and it does nothing to you, a picture on a wall that gives you the same emotional response as if the wall had been blank, a movie that chews up time. Good art will make you feel an emotion that you have felt before; you see a picture of a forest and you remember the last time you went fishing with your dad, you hear a song about love and you remember the last time you were in love. Great art will make you feel an emotion you have never felt before; seeing the pieta, the world famous sculpture by

Michelangelo, can cause someone to feel the pain of losing a child even if they’ve never had one. And when you’re trying for these emotions the easiest one to trigger is anger.

Anyone can do it. Go into the street, throw a rock at someone, you will make them angry. The emotions of love, empathy and laughter are much harder to trigger, but since they operate on a deeper level, they bring a much greater reward.

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http://www.guitarhero.com/

Guitar Hero World Tour (initially referred to as Guitar Hero IV) is a music video game developed by Neversoft and published by RedOctane and Activision. It is the fourth main entry in the Guitar Hero series. The game was launched in North America in October 2008 for the PlayStation 2, PlayStation 3, Wii, and Xbox 360 consoles, and a month later for Europe and Australia.

While the game continues to feature the use of a guitar-shaped controller to simulate the playing of rock music, Guitar Hero World Tour is the first game in the Guitar Hero series to feature drum and microphone controllers for percussion and vocal parts. Gameplay is similar to the competing Rock Band series of games. The game allows users to create new songs through the “Music Studio” mode, which can then be uploaded and shared through a service known as GHTunes.

World Tour received generally positive reviews, citing the quality of the instrument controllers, the customization abilities, and improvements in the game’s difficulty compared with the previous Guitar Hero III. However, reviewers commented on issues with poorly laid-out note tracks, the limited Career modes, and the difficulty of the music creation tool and the poor quality of the resulting songs.

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The Killers is an American alternative rock band from Las Vegas, Nevada. Formed in 2002, the group consists of Brandon Flowers (vocals, keyboards), Dave Keuning (guitar, vocals), Mark Stoermer (bass guitar, vocals) and Ronnie Vannucci Jr. (percussion, drums).

Part of the post-punk revival movement, The Killers draw influence from music styles of the 1980s and 1990s. The group’s debut album, Hot Fuss (2004) brought the band mainstream success. The Killers’ second album, Sam’s Town, was released in 2006, and the compilation album Sawdust containing B-sides, rarities, and new material, was released in 2007. The band’s first two albums have sold in excess of 12 million copies worldwide combined and their third album, Day & Age, produced by Stuart Price, was released in November 2008.

http://www.thekillersmusic.com/

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http://www.ronniejamesdio.com/

Dio is an American heavy metal band led by vocalist Ronnie James Dio, who formed it in 1982 after leaving Black Sabbath. In an interview, available on the special edition re-release of Holy Diver, Dio states that he never intended to begin a solo career. His intention was to form a new band with fellow former Black Sabbath member drummer Vinny Appice. Naming the band Dio made sense from a commercial standpoint, as the name was already well-known at that time. Dio in Italian and Latin means “God.

Dio was formed in October 1982 in the United States.

Reportedly, guitarist Jake E. Lee very briefly played with the band Dio, but was replaced by guitarist Vivian Campbell before the recording of Holy Diver.

The band released their debut album, Holy Diver, in May 1983. It featured two hit singles, “Rainbow in the Dark” and “Holy Diver”, which gained popularity from MTV. Ronnie James Dio and Jimmy Bain played keyboards in the studio, but recruited keyboardist Claude Schnell for live shows in 1984.

Now a quintet, the band released their second studio album, The Last in Line, on July 2, 1984. It was followed by their third album, Sacred Heart, which was released on August 15, 1985. Several songs were recorded during the tour for that album.

The band released along with the studio-recorded “Time To Burn” on the Intermission mini LP. In 1985 Ronnie also wrote the song “Stars” for the Hear ‘n Aid project, with Campbell contributing on guitar.

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In 1986, Campbell, citing creative differences, left the band to join Whitesnake and was replaced by Craig Goldy. On July 21, 1987 their fourth album Dream Evil was released. Goldy left in 1988, also because of musical differences. In June 1989 18 year-old Rowan Robertson was announced as Goldy’s successor but further changes were to follow, with Schnell, Bain, and Appice leaving the band.

They were replaced, respectively, with Teddy Cook, Jens Johansson, and former AC/DC drummer Simon Wright. The new band released the album Lock up the Wolves in the spring of 1990. During the tour, Ronnie had a chance meeting with former Black Sabbath bandmate Geezer Butler which led to that band’s short-lived reunion, producing one album, Dehumanizer. After this Ronnie James Dio reassembled Dio once again, retaining only Appice on the drums. By late 1994 guitarist Tracy G, keyboardist Scott Warren of Warrant and bassist Jeff Pilson had all joined. During this era, the band adopted a more modern sound, leaving many fans disappointed. As a result some fans regard the albums made during this period–1994’s Strange Highways, 1996’s Angry Machines and the live album Inferno – Last in Live–as the worst in Dio’s catalogue, while others view them positively as a step away from the outdated sound of the 1980s. Dio himself has made it clear in interviews that he intensely dislikes this point in his career (particularly the Angry Machines album) and asked Craig Goldy to return in June 1999. Reportedly, Tracy G was asked to stay as a rhythm guitarist, but declined.

Craig Goldy’s return facilitated the release of Dio’s eighth studio album in 2000, Magica, which was regarded by many as the band’s “comeback album” and reached #13 on the Billboard independent charts. It featured the return not only of Goldy but of Simon Wright and Jimmy Bain, although on the European tour Chuck Garric played bass. A concept album, Magica features a return to the band’s older, more successful sound, while increased use of keyboards gives it a modern feel. During the following tour, however, tensions rose between Goldy on the one hand and Bain and Dio on the other, as Goldy was dealing with the obligations of a family. Goldy left the band in January 2002 and was replaced with Doug Aldrich, whom Bain had met while recording a tribute album for Metallica. Because of his late arrival, Aldrich did not contribute much to Dio’s ninth work, Killing the Dragon, which was written primarily by Dio and Bain. Killing The Dragon was released in 2002 through Spitfire Records and was well received in the metal community, even reaching the overall charts in the UK. Aldrich would stay in the band until April of the following year, when he, like Campbell before him, joined Whitesnake, prompting Goldy’s return. Soon afterwards, Bain left the band.

In 2004 Dio released their tenth studio album, Master of the Moon on August 30, 2004 in Europe through SPV Records and on September 7, 2004 in the United States through Sanctuary Records, The album features multi-instrumentalist Jeff Pilson (formerly of Dokken) on bass duties; however, because of prior obligations with Foreigner, he was only available for the recording sessions, and so was replaced by Rudy Sarzo.

2005 saw the release of the Dio live album Evil or Divine – Live In New York City, which featured the same show that was released on DVD in 2003. Dio has claimed he did not have much input on this release, as he had already left the label that released it. Dio toured South America, Japan, Europe, and Russia in 2005. Their fall tour was titled “An Evening With Dio” and featured a regular set, and then a second set of the band playing his 1983 album Holy Diver in its entirety. The band was purportedly going to film a date from this show in Russia for future DVD release; however, the show on the DVD was actually filmed in London, England. The audio of this performance, a double CD named “Holy Diver Live” was released in April 2006.

In 1999, an animated spoof of Dio appeared in an episode of South Park titled “Hooked on Monkey Phonics“. The band appears performing “Holy Diver” at an elementary school dance. Although Ronnie James Dio’s appearance is somewhat like himself in reality, the rest of the band just appears as a “stereotypical” heavy metal band with no reference to the real band members.

In 2006, Dio made a brief appearance in the Tenacious D film, The Pick of Destiny. In a scene where a young Jack Black appeals to a poster of Dio for advice, Dio’s image comes to life and offers instruction. The appearance is also available on the soundtrack for the movie, in the song titled “Kickapoo”. There is also a song about Dio on Tenacious D‘s first album. The song is called Dio.

In 2007 it was announced that Black Sabbath would reunite with Dio and go under the name Heaven and Hell. This has some people debating if the band Dio will release a new album during 2008, though Dio states that his time with Heaven and Hell will end before 2008 to give him time to make another Dio album before he has anything to do with Black Sabbath again. However, Recent Press releases which cite Black Sabbath/Heaven & Hell Bassist Geezer Butler as a source, suggest that Heaven And Hell are in talks with various record labels regarding a new full Studio Album for 2008, but the official Dio website have yet to comment on this.

Dio’s official website had the following to say: “If you’ve been wondering what Ronnie is up to, wonder, no longer: After taking some well-deserved time off after last year’s monster Heaven and Hell world tour, Ronnie will be heading off to the UK in March to begin writing the new Heaven and Hell record with the guys. Tony Iommi will then travel to LA to reunite with Ronnie, Geezer and Vinny to continue working on the record during April and May.

Then, Ronnie will take a break during the summer to play a few special up close and personal dates for the Dio fans. The dates are now coming together, so check the tour section for the latest info on concerts.”