Deep Purple

biography:The archetypal hard rock band, hugely influential, and still alive and well after almost 40 years, DEEP PURPLE were formed in Hertford (England) in 1968. Their earliest line-up (known as Mark I) featured guitarist Ritchie Blackmore, drummer Ian Paice (who was to be the only constant member in all the numerous incarnations of the band), keyboardist Jon Lord, bassist Nick Simper and vocalist Rod Evans. Their first album, "Shades of Deep Purple", included a cover of JOE SOUTH's "Hush", which became a big hit in the USA. The following two efforts were definitely more progressive in tone, especially their third, self-titled album, which...

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Liquid Tension Experiment

LIQUID TENSION EXPERIMENTLiquid Tension Experiment is an instrumental progressive rock/metal supergroup, founded by Dream Theater's drummer Mike Portnoy in 1997. The band has released two albums through Magna Carta Records. A third album, with the absence of John Petrucci, along with a fourth album, with the absence of Jordan Rudess (mostly), were released in 2007 & 2009 ively, both under the name "Liquid Trio Experiment".Biography:Mike Portnoy invited Jordan Rudess (keyboard) and progressive rock icon Tony Levin (bass, Chapman Stick) of King Crimson and Peter Gabriel's band to join him. In his instructional video "Liquid Drum Theater", Portnoy...

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Dream Theater

John Myung, John Petrucci, James LaBrie, Jordan Rudess, Mike Portnoy Dream Theater is an American progressive metal band formed in 1985 under the name Majesty by John Myung, John Petrucci and Mike Portnoy while they attended Berklee College of Music in Boston, before they dropped out to support the band. Though a number of lineup changes followed, the three original members remain today along with James LaBrie and Jordan Rudess. Dream Theater has become a successful progressive metal band, despite the drop in popularity of the genre since the mid-1970s. Although the band has had a few successful hits (notably "Pull Me Under" in the early...

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Jordan Rudess

JORDAN RUDESSJordan Rudess (born Jordan Charles Rudes on November 4, 1956) is a progressive rock keyboardist best known as a member of the progressive metal band Dream Theater. DigitalDreamDoor.com voted Rudess #20 on the list of Greatest Rock Keyboardists Of All Time.Rudess was born in 1956 into a Jewish family. He was recognized by his 2nd grade teacher for his piano playing and was immediately given professional tuition. At nine, he entered the Juilliard School of Music Pre-College Division for classical piano training, but by his late teens he had grown increasingly interested in synthesizers and progressive rock music. Against the counsel...

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Eric Sardinas (Blues)

Eric Sardinas (born 1970) is an American blues-rock guitarist born in Fort Lauderdale, Florida. He is noted for his use of the electric resonator guitar and his live performances. He sometimes sets his guitar alight on stage and during shows in 2000 in Sydney, Sardinas suffered third degree burns to his left wrist.Sardinas began to play the guitar at age six and leaned toward vintage recordings by such Delta bluesmen as Charlie Patton, Bukka White, Big Bill Broonzy, Elmore James and Muddy Waters. Although he was left-handed, he eventually started to play right-handed and his impressive style may be due to this fact. "The rawest, most emotional...

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Nightwish's

DISCOGRAFI : NIGHTWISH GENRE: POWER METAL, SYMPHONIC METAL * Band: Nightwish* Génre: Power Metal* Oficial: http://www.nightwish.com/* Discográfic: Spinefarm Records* País: Finlandia MEMBER: * Anette Olzon: Voces (desde mayo de 2007) * Tuomas Holopainen: Sintetizador y teclados * Marco Hietala: bajo y voces (desde Century Child - 2002) * Jukka Nevalainen: batería y percusiones * Emppu Vuorinen: Guitar Nightwish - Demo (1996)1. The Forever Moments - 05:412. Nightwish - 05:54 3. Etiäinen - 3:00Angel Fall First (1997)1. Elvenpath - 4:402. Beauty and the Beast - 6:243. The Carpenter - 5:574....

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Joe Satriani

Joe Satriani                                   1986 - Not Of This Earth "Not of This Earth" – 3:55 "The Snake" – 4:40 "Rubina" – 5:50 "Memories" (Satriani, John Cuniberti) – 4:00 "Brother John" – 2:07 "The Enigmatic" – 3:25 "Driving at Night" – 3:30 "Hordes of Locusts" – 4:55 "New Day" – 3:56 "Headless Horseman" – 1:50 1987 - Surfing With The Alien "Surfing with the Alien" – 4:25 "Ice 9" – 3:59 "Crushing Day" – 5:14 "Always with Me, Always with You" – 3:22 "Satch Boogie" – 3:13 "Hill of the Skull" – 1:48 "Circles" – 3:28 "Lords of Karma" – 4:48 "Midnight"...

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Michael Angelo Batio

Michael Angelo BatioBefore beginning his career as a solo artist, Batio was the guitarist for Holland (1984–1986), Jim Gillette (1987) and Nitro (1987–1993). Holland released one studio album and one compilation album, Gillette released one studio album before forming Nitro who released two studio albums and one compilation album. Batio began his solo career in 1993 after the breakup of Nitro, and released his debut album, No Boundaries, in 1995. Holiday Strings was released in 1996 before MAB's second studio album was released in the form of Planet Gemini in 1997. Tradition was released in 1999, followed by Lucid Intervals and Moments of Clarity...

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