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After meeting through friends and covering Korn, Rage Against the Machine, Pearl Jam and Alice in Chains , among others, in smalltime clubs for two years, Staind self-released their debut album, Tormented, in November 1996, citing influences Pantera and Sepultura. The album is generally regarded as the band’s heaviest and “rawest” effort. Until recently, the album was difficult to obtain, as only four thousand copies were originally sold. Since then, the demand from fans has allowed it to be released through the band’s official website.

The band’s big break came after Limp Bizkit frontman Fred Durst signed them to his Flip record label and co-produced their 1999 breakthrough Dysfunction with Terry Date. Although it is supposed that the band owe a lot of success to Durst, Aaron Lewis has expressed in interviews that the band never had much of a relationship with either the singer or the band, claiming the band ‘only worked on four songs with Durst and recorded the rest of the album themselves.’ Staind have not been associated with Durst since he directed several videos from their 2001 follow-up. To this day, Dysfunction has sold over two million copies in the U.S. alone. The album was given mediocre reviews by critics for being “indicative of the times”, but a large number of the band’s fans nonetheless regard it as the group’s best work. The nine-track nu-metal LP (with one hidden track, “Excess Baggage”) produced three singles, all of which enjoyed radio play. The most well-known, “Mudshovel,” (which also appeared on Tormented, spelled as “Mudshuvel”), has since become a staple of the band’s live show. Staind toured with Limp Bizkit for the Family Values Tour during the fall of 1999, where Aaron Lewis performed their first mainstream hit “Outside” (a song he was working on at the time but had not yet finished—he finished it on the fly while performing) with Fred Durst to hundreds of waving cigarette lighters, and which set them up for their smash hit 2001 album Break the Cycle, which brought them international success (it went number 1 in both the U.S. and the UK), sold more than 7 million copies, and had first week sales of over 700 000 in the U.S. alone. The album sees the band move away from the nu-metal sounds of their previous album and resort to an alternative metal. Break the Cycle spawned five hit singles to date, “It’s Been Awhile,” (which hit the Billboard Top 10) “Fade,” (which has been featured on a number of movie soundtracks and television shows), “Outside,” “For You,” and “Epiphany,” and included a track called “Waste,” devoted to two teenage fans who committed suicide shortly before the album was released. The album also received mixed critical praise; Rolling Stone magazine called them “the grim genre’s most song-oriented, downright sensitive band in years” while New Musical Express referred to the album as “14 tracks of parent-friendly grunge-flavoured soft rock that make Creed sound like GG Allin.” (a statement that proved ironic, since Break the Cycle was later included in Hit Parader’s The Top 50 Metal Albums of All Time at number 46 and The Top 10 “New Metal” CDs at #3).

In early 2003, Staind embarked on a world-wide tour to promote the release of the follow-up to Break The Cycle, 14 Shades of Grey, which sold two million albums and also debuted at number 1 on the Billboard 200. The fourteen-track collection was the band’s most mainstream yet, and showed Aaron Lewis writing songs about his daughter, as well as moving on with his life and forgetting his past, hence the title representing uncertainty for the future and forgiveness (a tribute to Lewis’s supposed idol Layne Staley from Alice in Chains also appeared on the album). The album provided two mainstream hits: the lead single “Price to Play”, and “So Far Away”; in addition, two other singles failed to crack the Hot 100—”How About You” and “Zoe Jane”— but “How About You” was a fairly popular song on modern rock radio. The band’s appearance at Readings Festival during the 2003 tour had another impromptu acoustic set, this time due to equipment failure. The singles “So Far Away” and “Price to Play” came with two unreleased tracks, “Novocaine” and “Let It Out,” which were released for the special edition of the group’s Chapter V , which came out in late 2005.

In 2003, Staind unsuccessfully sued their logo designer John Stainbrook in New York Federal Court for attempting to re-use the logo he had sold to the band. They re-opened the case in mid-2005.

During the break between releases, Aaron Lewis performed backing vocals for good friends Jimmie’s Chicken Shack for their single “Fallin’ Out,” taken from that band’s LP Re.Present (released in 2004). He also worked with the popular nu-metal group Linkin Park in making a remix of their song “Crawling” (spelled as “Krwling”) for the band’s 2002 album Reanimation, also preforming background vocals on Sevendust’s song “Follow” off the album Animosity and Scooter Ward of Cold on the track “Bleed” from early 2001.

After extensive promotions, including an appearance on Fuse TV’s 7th Avenue Drop, Staind’s newest album, titled Chapter V was released on August 9th, 2005, and became their third consecutive number one in a row. The album opened to sales of 185,000 and has since been certified platinum in the U.S. The first single “Right Here” has been slowly gaining momentum since it was released mid-2005, and is currently climbing the mainstream charts. “Falling” (the video of which does not feature the band members at all) and “Everything Changes” have also been released and there are plans to release another single, “King Of All Excuses.” Staind have been on the road since the album came out doing live shows and promoting it for a full year, including participating in the Fall Brawl tour with P.O.D, Taproot and Flyleaf, a solo tour across Europe and a mini-promotional tour in Australia for the first time. Recent live shows have included a cover of Pantera’s This Love, a tribute to the late Dimebag Darrell.

Staind appeared on the Howard Stern Show on August 10, 2005, to promote their new album Chapter V. They performed acoustic renditions of the single Right Here and Beetlejuice’s song “This is Beetle.” Their rendition of “Beetle” is immensely popular with fans and listeners alike and has become a staple of the show. A black-and-white animated video was created for the song by Kevin Lofton, who does all the animation for the Howard Stern website.

Their song “Price to Play” was the official theme song of WWE’s Vengeance pay-per-view event in July 2003. As well, their song “So Far Away” was featured on an episode of WWE RAW as part of a video tribute to hardcore wrestling legend Mick Foley. During a January 2006 Episode of WWE RAW, a tribute video to then WWE Champion Edge featured the band’s song “Right Here.”

In early November of 2005, Staind released the limited edition 2-CD/DVD set of Chapter V, which included several rarities and fan favorites— music videos; a complete, 36-page booklet with exclusive artwork; an audio disc with an acoustic rendition of “This is Beetle”; the original, melodic rendition of “Reply”; the previously released B-side singles “Novocaine” and “Let It Out”; and live versions of “It’s Been a While” and “Falling”, among many others.

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Bob Seger developed into one of the most popular heartland rockers over the course of the ’70s. Originally He was a hard-driving rocker in the vein of fellow Michigan garage rockers the Rationals and Mitch Ryder. He successfully created a unique American Sound which was actually the combination of the driving charge of Ryder’s Detroit Wheels with Stonesy garage rock and devotion to hard-edged soul and R&B(http://events.ixs.net/R-B-Soul.aspx ). Inspite of many lost opportunities of the initial Years of his career, Seger finally achieved a national audience in 1976 with the back-to-back release of his albums Live Bullet and Night Moves. These two Albums were a superb success which helped Seger in retaining his popularity for the coming two decades, releasing seven Top Ten, platinum-selling albums in a row.

Seger shown his interest in music in his early age. He began playing music in 1961 as the leader of the Detroit-based trio the Decibels; his future manager, Eddie “Punch” Andrews was also a member of the band. Moving to Ann Arbor, he played with the Town Criers before he became the keyboardist and vocalist for Doug Brown & the Omens. The band released “The Ballad of the Yellow Beret,” that was parody of the Sgt. Barry Sadler song “The Ballad of the Green Beret.” However, It proved a set back for them when Sadler threatened a lawsuit against this song.Resultantly, The single was withdrawn shortly after its release.

The First Solo Single of Seger was “East Side Story, which was released in 1966. This song gained huge popularity and soon it became a regional hit. Many other local hit singles followed on Cameo Records, including “Persecution Smith” and “Heavy Music,” before his label folded. The Year 1968 was very important in the Career of Bob Seger as in this year, He successfully formed the Bob Seger System and got the golden opportunity of signing with the reknowned Capitol Records. His debut album, Ramblin’ Gamblin’ Man, was released by Capitol Records in the spring of this eventual year. The title track met a grand success and it became a national hit, climbing to number 17.

Seger achieved a commercial breakthrough with his 1976 album Night Moves which featured several hits including the highly evocative title song. Night Moves became a blockbuster, generating the hit singles “Night Moves,” “Mainstreet,” and “Rock & Roll Never Forgets.” Stranger in Town, released in the summer 1978, was just as successful, featuring the hits “Still the Same,” “Hollywood Nights,” “We’ve Got Tonite,” and “Old Time Rock & Roll.” His most recognizable songs are almost certainly “Old Time Rock & Roll” (featured in the film Risky Business) and “Like a Rock” (most familiar to many younger Americans through its association with a long-running Chevrolet ad campaign). Seger also co-wrote the Eagles #1 hit song “Heartache Tonight” from their 1979 album The Long Run.

Keeping in view of his grand successes, Seger was acknowledged as America’s most popular rockers. Seger’s next album, 1980’s Against the Wind, became his first number one album and all of its big hits — “Fire Lake,” “Against the Wind,” “You’ll Accomp’ny Me” — were ballads. The live album Nine Tonight continued his multi-platinum success in 1981, selling three million copies and peaking at number three.

Seger released his next popular Album “The Distance” in 1982.While The Distance featured “Shame on the Moon,” his biggest hit single to date, it had a record breaking sales of a million copies which shows his unmatched popularity.Seger also began to drastically reduce his recording and touring schedules — he only released one other album, 1986’s Like a Rock, during the ’80s. Like a Rock and its supporting tour were both successes, paving the way for “Shakedown,” a song taken from the soundtrack to Beverly Hills Cop II, to become Seger’s lone number one hit in 1987. Four years after its release, he returned with The Fire Inside. Although the album went platinum and reached the Top Ten, it only appealed to Seger’s devoted following, as did 1995’s It’s a Mystery, which became his first album since Live Bullet to fail to go platinum, leveling off at gold status.

Also during 2004, Seger was working on his first new album in 10 years, titled Face the Promise which was released on September 12, 2006. The first single, “Wait For Me”, landed on radio in July.

The Encyclopedia of Rock And Roll stated that “His throaty, authoritative delivery is a pleasure to listen to, and the Silver Bullet Band is superb.”

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Cinderella Concert Tickets

Hard rock band Cinderella gained success in the mid-’80s, turning out a series of million-selling albums and hit singles while placing music videos in heavy rotation on MTV. By the mid-’90s, the group’s mass popularity had subsided due to professional setbacks and perceived changes in taste. But they continued to tour regularly well into the 21st century.

Cinderella was founded in Philadelphia, PA, in 1983 by singer/songwriter/guitarist/keyboardist Tom Keifer (born January 26, 1961) and bassist Eric Brittingham (born May 8, 1960), who quickly added lead guitarist Jeff LaBar (born March 18, 1963). Guitarist Michael Kelly Smith and drummer Tony Destra were also early members of the band, but they left in 1985 to form Britny Fox. Cinderella then added drummer Jody Cortez and continued as a four-piece. Insisting on playing original material, they performed in clubs and bars in Pennsylvania and New Jersey, and in 1985 Jon Bon Jovi caught one of their shows. He was sufficiently impressed to alert his record company, Mercury, which signed the band. Their debut album, Night Songs, was released in June 1986. Shortly after its completion, Cortez left the band and was replaced by Fred Coury (born October 20, 1964). The LP was not an immediate success, but it gained momentum gradually while the band toured extensively as an opening act to promote it. It broke into the Billboard chart in July, and the track “Shake Me,” although it failed to chart as a single, got enough radio attention to turn up on Billboard’s Album Rock Tracks chart in August. On October 1, the album was certified gold. That month, Mercury released a second single, “Nobody’s Fool,” accompanied by a music video that earned play on MTV; it broke into the charts in November and peaked at number 13 in February 1987. Its success further stimulated sales of the album, which was certified platinum in December 1986 and broke into the Top Ten by the end of the year; it peaked at number 3 in February 1987, and that same month was certified double platinum. In April, Mercury released a third single, “Somebody Save Me,” which peaked at number 66 in May. (The album was certified triple platinum in May 1991.)

Having broken through to popular success with Night Songs, Cinderella returned with their second album, Long Cold Winter, in July 1988. Radio initially focused on the track “Gypsy Road,” giving it a Top 20 ranking in the Album Rock Tracks chart, but Mercury did not release it as a single at first (although in the U.K., where it was released as a single, it charted). Instead the power ballad “Don’t Know What You Got (Till It’s Gone)” was released as a single in August, and it peaked at number 12 in November. The album reached number ten in September, the same month it was certified gold and platinum simultaneously, with a double-platinum certification following in November. (It was certified triple platinum in January 1997.) As the group continued to tour relentlessly through 1988 and 1989, Mercury broke more singles from the LP. “The Last Mile,” released in December, peaked at number 36 in March 1989; “Coming Home,” released in March, hit number 20 in June; and “Gypsy Road,” finally put on 45 a year after the release of Long Cold Winter in July 1989, and backed by a live version of the Rolling Stones’ “Jumpin’ Jack Flash,” got to number 51 in September.

Again, Cinderella came off the road and spent a year crafting its third album, Heartbreak Station, which appeared in November 1990. Although it was a hit out of the box, going gold in January 1991 and platinum in February, the album encountered more resistance than the band’s previous efforts, peaking at number 19, with no multi-platinum certifications forthcoming. Leadoff single “Shelter Me” peaked at number 36 in February, and the title song reached number 44 in April. More disturbing than this mild commercial disappointment, however, were problems within the band. Coury departed, and Cinderella initially replaced him with Kevin Valentine, then hired noted session drummer Kenny Aronoff temporarily before bringing in Kevin Conway. Then, after the U.S. leg of the Heartbreak Station tour had ended and the band was gearing up to go to Japan in 1991, Keifer woke up one morning and found he couldn’t sing. Doctors initially were unable to figure out what was wrong, but a specialist finally diagnosed paresis of the laryngeal nerve controlling the left vocal cord. Keifer was forced to undergo two throat operations, followed by extensive therapy. Cinderella managed to put a track, “Hot and Bothered,” on the chart-topping Wayne’s World soundtrack, released in February 1992, but otherwise the band was out of commission for an extended period of time.

In the meanwhile, fashions changed. Cinderella had been part of a “pop-metal” movement including Bon Jovi, Great White, and Ratt, who preceded them, as well as Poison, the enormously popular Guns N’ Roses, and L.A. Guns, who followed them. But when “grunge” rockers Nirvana, boasting a neo-punk style, broke through to success in the fall of 1991 with their album Nevermind and single “Smells Like Teen Spirit,” the record labels suddenly became enamored of their stripped-down approach. Suddenly, instead of the teased and blown-dry coiffures and skin-tight stage costumes of the pop-metal bands, it was the dirty-hair-falling-in-the-face, flannel-shirt-and-jeans look of Nirvana frontman Kurt Cobain that was all the rage. Soon, the pop-metal groups were written off with a new epithet, dismissed as “hair metal” bands. By the time Keifer & Co. finally emerged with the fourth Cinderella album, Still Climbing, in November 1994, it could only manage to spend one week at number 178 before disappearing. Mercury promptly dropped the band.

Cinderella’s touring opportunities also dried up, and while the group did not formally disband in 1995, it became inactive for lack of offers. Keifer moved to Nashville in 1997 and worked on his songwriting, eventually getting cuts on albums by Andy Griggs and Lynyrd Skynyrd. By 1998, there was enough interest by promoters for Cinderella to reunite (with Coury rejoining) for a tour. On October 2 and 3, they appeared at the Key Club in Hollywood, CA, and recorded the show for an album, Live at the Key Club, released on Cleopatra’s Dead Line label in July 1999. Unfortunately, the disc was also licensed out to other labels over the years and has confused consumers by also appearing under the titles In Concert and Live From the Gypsy Road. Meanwhile, Cinderella had been signed to Sony’s Portrait label by famed record executive John David Kalodner, who was also signing other hard rock bands of the ’80s. But initial Portrait releases were not successful, and Cinderella’s contract was canceled. Nevertheless, a faithful fan base supported continuing road work by the band, which reunited in the summer of 2000 for a tour with Poison, followed by a second outing by the two groups in 2002. In 2005, VH1 sponsored the Rock Never Stops package tour, which Cinderella headlined, supported by Ratt, Quiet Riot, and Firehouse, with dates extending through the summer. ~ William Ruhlmann, All Music Guide

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The Fray Concert Tickets

In 2002, Isaac Slade and Joe King, two former school friends, met up again in a local music store. They soon began regular two-man jam sessions that led to writing songs and devising a style pitched between the arena-friendly style of U2 and the Triple-A rock of bands like Counting Crows and also Coldplay. Rounding out the lineup with two former bandmates of Slade’s (drummer ), The Fray began playing shows in the Denver area. They chose the name “The Fray” for the band as a joke, since the members of the band frequently quarrelled over the composition of the lyrics in their songs.

Their popularity grew quickly locally, and their single “Over My Head (Cable Car)” became a local radio hit. The band was voted Best New Band by Denver’s Westword magazine. A&R represenative Gary Savelson heard their demo work, and a scout for Epic Records heard the song “Vienna” on Savelson’s website. Epic Records officially signed them in 2004, and released their debut album, How to Save a Life, in September 2005. Savelson lists the Fray as one of his record deal accomplishments on his site with personal emails from the band illuminating his success.

In July of 2005, The Fray was asked to open for Weezer for ten concerts. Following this tour, The Fray opened for Ben Folds for twelve dates (Ben Folds also performed with The Fray during two of the Weezer shows). The Fray headlined their own tour in January of 2006, playing with Mat Kearney and Cary Brothers.

“Over My Head (Cable Car)” became a top 40 hit on the Modern Rock Tracks chart in late 2005, but only peaked at position #37. However, the single slowly gained airplay nationally, and the song entered the Billboard charts on the issue marked February 25, 2006. For the next twelve weeks, the song was ranked higher than the week before, and two weeks later it reached its peak of posistion #8 on the Hot 100 chart.

While “Over My Head (Cable Car)” was gaining in popularity, the follow-up single “How to Save a Life” was featured during an episode of the fifth season of Scrubs and on an episode of Grey’s Anatomy. “How to Save a Life” entered the Hot 100 chart on the issue marked April 15, 2006, and is currently at its peak at posistion #69.

To date, their debut album has sold over 700,000 copies in the United States, and has been certified Gold by the RIAA. Also, the single “Over My Head (Cable Car) ” has been certified double Platium (over 400,000 downloads), and the single “How to Save a Life” has been certified Gold (over 100,000 downloads).

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