Sentences with phrase «as a rock musician»

The entire movie was filmed in five days during a huge U.K. music festival, most of the cast had to be convincing as rock musicians — and even perform live — and the basic plot is a pretty standard romantic comedy with a completely contrived central conflict.

Founded in 2009 by Rob Dickinson, a Los Angeles - based Brit with a degree in product design, a successful career as a rock musician and a life - long love of old - school Porsches, Singer Vehicle Design and the cars it creates are the physical embodiment of his all - consuming vision of the perfect 911.

I had a guitar in my hand and dreams of making it big as a rock musician: a typical teenage guitar infatuation, you could say.

JEFFREY DEITCH — Why shouldn't a major artist be as important as a rock musician — be someone who can transmit radical ideas about progressive culture to the world, in the model of, say, John Lennon?

His career as an artist was interrupted when he gained considerable success as a rock musician.

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2010 — Bruce Cockburn, a celebrated Canadian folk - rock musician and activist who uses his art as a podium to draw attention to important environmental issues such as oil spills and deforestation.

Josh Tillman, the singer - songwriter better known as Father John Misty, is quickly becoming one of the most interesting musicians in indie rock.

18) The fact that there is a later punk - driven attempt to democratize rock fame (and not in the fatuous way that Andy Warhol's «15 - minutes of fame» comment suggested) or that pop / disco artists like Michael Jackson and Madonna will pick up on Bowie's fame - playing and image - emphatic example, in Madonna's case overtly subordinating the music to the prerogatives of notoriety, do not alter what ALMOST FAMOUS is showing us, that rock can be thought of as a social phenomenon / scene that one might belong to («you're too sweet for rock and roll» is said not by a musician to a musician, but by a groupie to a rock writer), that is as fame - focused as it is music - focused.

Kid Rock memorabilia is part of the restaurant's décor, as is a live - music stage that will showcase up - and - coming musicians.

The Rock & Brews menu features rock musicians» favorite foods that feed the soul as well as the appetite, and an ever - changing, award - winning craft beer selection offers hundreds of international artisanal breweries, served up by a knowledgeable stRock & Brews menu features rock musicians» favorite foods that feed the soul as well as the appetite, and an ever - changing, award - winning craft beer selection offers hundreds of international artisanal breweries, served up by a knowledgeable strock musicians» favorite foods that feed the soul as well as the appetite, and an ever - changing, award - winning craft beer selection offers hundreds of international artisanal breweries, served up by a knowledgeable staff.

Recent studies have explored the impact of career - ending injuries for musicians and soldiers — injuries that generated intense negative emotions as they approached rock bottom.

In the second half of the 20th century, the denim jacket became indelibly associated with pop culture as it was adopted by artists: beat intellectuals, rock stars, punks, bikers and hip - hop musicians.

Musician (Blues, country, Rock, semi classical [own compositions]-RRB- International writer (Poetry / short stories, paxbellumhathotmaledotcodotuk), International artist, I love animals and have a rescue German Shepherd I enjoy cooking for friends, gardening, I also act as a voluntary carer.

Rock musician who has traveled the world as a full time working musican, originally from New York / New Jersey, has recently grounded in the Philadelphia area.

Signaling the determination of indigenous musicians to assert their enduring role in rock, the doc takes Fred Lincoln «Link» Wray, Jr.'s seminal guitar instrumental «Rumble» as its departure point.

Despite the heightened expectations created by their collective resumes, the supergroup's self - titled debut, a blend of new wave, punk, and indie rock that was recorded live (except for vocals), was far from a disappointment, serving as an excellent showcase for musicians at the height of their abilities.

Running approximately two - and - a-half minutes, the single's ominous guitar riffs have been widely cited as early examples of the power chord technique, a rock»n' roll staple beloved by musicians as diverse as The Who's Pete Townsend and punk pioneers The Ramones.

Done in ahead of his time by an overhyped publicity machine, 70s glam rock musician Jobriath retreated to the Chelsea Hotel to die, forgotten, as one of the earliest casualties of AIDS.

John Doe is a man who balances two well - respected careers — as a musician, Doe was the co-founder, songwriter, vocalist, and bassist of one of America's most acclaimed alternative rock bands, X, and while he continues to write and record new material, he has also carved out a reputation as a busy and well - regarded character actor.

Australian rock legend Nick Cave is the subject for this semi-documentary look at a musician at the twilight of his long and esteemed career, capturing his mindset as it exists in the moment and the years that led up to the man he is today.

Instead, All Is By My Side only covers Hendrix's life from 1966 - 67, chronicling how he went from being a backup guitarist performing at New York's Cheetah Club, to breaking out as a music sensation in London - offering «an intimate portrait of the sensitive young musician on the verge of becoming a rock legend,» according to the official synopsis.

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11 Paul Giamatti as Kryptonite for Musicians It was bad enough the first time casting directors did this to us on the ill fated musical Rock of Ages.

It starred Adam Faith, Keith Moon and David Essex as believable rock musicians.»

Remembering Hüsker Dü's Grant Hart — Jason Heller eulogizes the musician, who died in September at age 56, as someone who helped influence alt - rock giants like Nirvana but didn't see the appreciation he deserved in his lifetime.

Le Donk & Scor - zay - zee Director and Screenwriter: Shane Meadows In this unpredictable, irrepressible ode to spontaneous filmmaking, Paddy Considine stars as rock roadie and failed musician, Le Donk.

The film starts out gently as a romance between Maxime (Vincent Macaigne), a 33 - year - old rock musician visiting his father in provincial France, and local teenager Mélodie (Solène Rigot).

The latest in a seemingly new - wave of uplifting Irish cinema, Gerard Walsh's sophomore effort, South, stars newcomer Darragh O'Toole (Red Rock) as seventeen - year - old Tom, an aspiring musician suffering from stage fright.

I also spent time living in a musicians» commune (which included a number of cousins of Queen Elizabeth), as I was married to the lead singer of a rock»n' roll band.

Dangriga is known as the cultural capital of Belize, a thriving coastal town where local Garifuna musicians invented the indigenous musical genre of punta and punta rock.

There is also a range of instrumental rock music from the original Burnout trilogy, alongside classical music during panoramic views composed by some of the greatest musicians of the classical era such as Bach, Beethoven, Handel, Mozart, Tchaikovsky, Verdi and Vivaldi.

Before I started game development I was a guitarist / singer in various rock bands over the past 20 years and if I learned anything from being a musician is you are nothing without the people who come to your shows, buy your music, and etc. so it's important to interact with your fans and I feel this is something that needs to be carried over as indie developer.

As the title suggests, Smash Hits features a collection of songs from the first five titles of the franchise, before Guitar Hero learned a lesson from Rock Band and invited the other musicians along.

In addition to the killer track list, the game will feature rock icons such as Hayley Williams of Paramore and Travis Barker of +44 and blink - 182 and a collection of many other superstar musicians making their video game debuts on the Guitar Hero stage.

The lists contain works by a wide range of musicians, from singer - songwriters like Woody Guthrie and Bob Dylan to such classic - rock acts as Alvin Lee and the Allman Brothers Band.

Blue jeans, which have been worn from miners, frontiersmen, blues men, rock and roll musicians, and members of contemporary hip - hop culture, have been claimed by the artist as homonym (genes) and metaphor, symbolizing a fusion of American culture and African ancestry.

Musician, producer and beat maker, Sharkey, has worked and performed with such heavyweights as Eminem, The Black Eyed Peas, Rick Rubin, Everlast, Spank Rock, Jedi Mind Tricks, Kool Keith, and Wyclef Jean.

Before he started the gallery at the age of 28 in 1983, Martin played the violin, saxophone and keyboards as a professional musician in an orchestra and an ensemble as well as in a rock band, a jazz band and a folk band.

Recommended reading In Rolling Stone, performance artist and musician Cosey Fanni Tutti talks to Judy Berman about pornography, her time as a member of avant - garde rock group Throbbing Gristle, and being a «wrecker of civilisation».

Film director Baz Luhrman, actress Sienna Miller, musicians Ellie Goulding, Rita Ora, as well as oldies but goldies Tom Jones and Shirley Bassey drank Laurent - Perrier champagne and nibbled mini rock shrimp burgers, teriyaki salmon and mini Cornettos until the crowd slowly dissolved around midnight.

Acting as a griot, or African musician / storyteller, Gray presents his experience as part of an oral tradition, connecting a lineage of rock «n» roll from Hollywood to the Mississippi Delta, Chicago Blues and back into the traditional African drumming that textures his performance.

A pioneer rock musician — as a singer, songwriter, musician, and actor — Pop began performing in the 1960s, becoming known for strenuous and unpredictable stage performances that often left his body battered and cut.

Thursday @ Steven Wolf Fine Arts: Revisiting the birth of punk rock in the»70s, this show takes a look at the colliding worlds as musicians made art and artists made music.

Creed, who won the Turner prize in 2001 with an exceptionally dreary piece of conceptual art that involved (yawn) a lightbulb switching on and off (yawn, yawn) in an empty gallery (doze), has another side as a punky rock musician.

This publication groups together her portraits of rock musicians such as David Bowie, Kurt Cobain, Jarvis Cocker, Pete Doherty, Noel and Liam Gallagher, John Lydon and Keith Richards, and opera singers such as Jessye Norman, Jonas Kaufmann and Ludwig Schnorr von Carolsfeld — depicted not in traditional poses, but in performance.

In downtown New York venues like Max's Kansas City, prominent art - world personalities encountered radical musicians working within the generic conventions of Rock - n - Roll, such as the New York Dolls, Blondie, Iggy Pop and The Velvet Underground.

This playlist is inspired by Tropicália musicians such as Caetano Veloso and GiIberto Gil, as well was the rock and roll musicians like Jimi Hendrix from whom Oiticica took inspiration in the 1970s.

William Blanchard started his career as a musician with his first band Bruce Wayne and the Batniks (1982 - 89), a time in which he had a rock and roll epiphany (involving sex and drugs), in which «God» gave him the name «Wildcat», which he has used as an artist and musician ever since.

These shots of Vicious, culled by Prince from mass media sources, show the musician in various moments of punk rock ecstasy, as well as in states of visible deterioration — in one he is seen in the ecstatic thralls of an on - stage performance, while in another he appears catatonic, lying on the ground in a presumably drug - induced stupor with microphone held limply in one hand.

She has always used a variety of natural (sand, dirt, rocks, seed pods) and unconventional (panty hose, found objects, masking tape) materials to fashion her works, utilizing these materials as a jazz musician utilizes notes and sounds to improvise a composition.