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Altogether Morris played music that was pop/rock and roll flavored with punk rhythm. The Canadian music group shaped in 1981 with four people: guitarist and business lead vocalist Glen Marshall, bassist Bruce Tennant, drummer David Wice, and keyboardist Brent Wice. Tennant bailed out in early stages, and was substituted by …

The Telefones were a mid-’60s rock-inspired new wave music group from Dallas, TX. Once they created in 1979, Jerry Dirkx performed lead acoustic guitar and sang, Chris Dirkx performed drums, Steve Dirkx performed bass, and can Clay performed saxophone and synthesizer. The band’s 1st solitary, The Ballad of Jerry Godzilla, …

Best known being a violinist and, afterwards, orchestra head, Charles Veal also recorded two R&B vocal albums for Capitol through the early ’80s. Also an able viola and saxophone participant, Veal researched music on the College or university of Southern California, where his instructors included Jascha Heifetz. He continued to …

Nass Un Hall was formed in 1986 in Marrakesh and performs traditional peasant music using a variety of music styles contemporary and traditional. Occasionally they perform their action in two pieces, one based exclusively on regional acoustic instrumentation as well as the various other using electrical guitars and drum sets …

When the music group Les Q split up in 1978, Steve Hegyi and Greg Leskiw (from your Suppose Who) formed Kilowatt with bassist Expenses Wallace (also from Leskiw’s former music group) and drummer Bob Brett. Two albums had been released in 1983, a self-titled debut and Currents.

Although Linton Kwesi Johnson invented dub poetry and remains one of the most influential of its practitioners, Michael Smith was another incredibly talented, politically ferocious dub poet who, tragically, lived lengthy enough release a only 1 record. Born within a rough portion of Kingston, Smith was raised within a reggae …

1980s metal music group Kublai Khan released a single well-received album over time of underground existence and opening areas for touring groupings, including Metal Cathedral. Shaped in Minnesota in 1984 by Greg Handevidt (who got just spent a short amount of time in Megadeth) and guitarist Kevin Idso, Kublai Khan …

When it found 80s indie rock and roll one of the better locations to live was the Minneapolis/St. Paul region, aka the Twin Towns. It seemed as if the center from the rock and roll music world was there from Husker Du towards the Substitutes, the artist who was simply …

The Czech group Dvouletá Fáma experienced two different periods of existence in the 1980s. Trapped in the underground, it rarely performed, recorded seldom, and on the long term had little influence. Yet, the tiny docs the group still left showcase an extremely original brand-new wave/avant-pop band employed in the same …

Wayne Ford recorded and remixed the live audio for an early-’80s live show from the legendary noise rock and roll clothing the Bush Tetras.