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George Orendorff

Going to senior high school with fellows who ended up being great jazz music artists — not merely Eddie South and Wallace Bishop, but put on Lionel Hampton for classmate vibes — might have been an frustrating encounter for George Orendorff, a talented trumpeter who subsequently produced swinging music a …

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Detente

Veteran thrash music group Detente were shaped in 1984 by vocalist Dawn Crosby and drummer Dennis Butler, eventually cementing right into a quintet using the improvements of guitarists Caleb Quinn and Ross Robinson and bassist Steve Hochheiser. (Robinson later on became an effective producer, perhaps most widely known for his …

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Billy the Kid

Billy a child was much metal group formed in LA in 1984 simply by Stephen Frederick (vocals), Expenses L’Kid (guitar), Jeffrey Velvet (bass), and Randy Hold off (drums). They lower one unsuccessful recording, Sworn To Fun, in 1985, after that broke up.

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Julia Holter

Los Angeles-based composer/multi-instrumentalist Julia Holter blurs the limitations between indie music, contemporary structure, and electronic music in her own are well while her collaborations, such as use Nite Jewel’s Ramona Gonzalez and underground folk icon Linda Perhacs. Holter was raised inside a musically willing family members — her dad can …

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Ollie & Jerry

Drummer Ollie E. Dark brown and bassist Jerry Knight had been first-call recording program musicians. The indigenous Detroiters shaped the tempo nucleus of fellow Detroiter Ray Parker Jr.’s music group Raydio. Knight sang business lead vocals on Raydio’s yellow metal Best Five R&B/Best Eight pop smash “Jack port and Jill.” …

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Opal

The neo-psychedelic group Opal formed in the mid-’80s, featuring former Rainfall Parade guitarist David Roback and former Dream Syndicate bassist Kendra Smith. Originally, the group was known as Clay Allison, however the group slipped the name after a unitary; Roback, Smith, and drummer Keith Mitchell released the rest of the …

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Peter Lawford

b. Peter Sydney Ernest Aylen, 7 Sept 1923, London, Britain, d. 24 Dec 1984, LA, California, USA. The boy of professional Sidney Lawford, Peter produced his display screen debut in Poor Aged Costs (1931). In Hollywood in 1938 he performed a small function in Lord Jeff and in 1942/3 made …

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Jules Bihari

Jules Bihari was the eldest from the 4 Bihari Brothers, who all are most widely known for founding Contemporary Records, among the best separate blues and R&B brands from the ’40s and ’50s. Bihari was raised in Tulsa, Fine, in a big Jewish category of Hungarian descent; he afterwards moved …

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Jane’s Addiction

Jane’s Cravings were perhaps one of the most hotly pursued rock and roll bands if they obtained notice in LA in the mid-’80s, with record businesses at their foot. Flamboyant frontman Perry Farrell, previously from the music group Psi Com, got an undeniable charisma and a pastime in provocative artwork …

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Jae-P

Like David Rolas and Akwid, Mexican-American rapper Jae-P is probably the bilingual Latino MCs who produced a name for himself within the Western Coast rap picture in the first 2000s. The LA resident, who does not have any issue rapping in either British or Spanish and it is fluent in …

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