"John penned liner notes for the 2000 CD reissue, writing: 'This is an album which I have loved for a long time... ""Carl and the Passions: So Tough"" has moments of breathtaking genius and experimentation. When this record was released, I remember how different and fresh it sounded. It still does'. English Britpop band Saint Etienne used the title ""So Tough"" for their 1993 album as an homage to the Beach Boys. Likewise, they also named their compilation of the same year, ""You Need a Mess of Help to Stand Alone"", after the Beach Boys song. Track notes per 2000"
"the original name „Trance“. The comeback took place in July 2011 at the Winestock Festival, near Neustadt an der Weinstraße, supported by guest keyboarder Roland Moschel. At the end of 2011 they parted company with Daniel Würfel and they continued to search for a suitable replacement. In 2012 Joachim ""Joe"" Strubel, who was active in bands such as AC / ID, an AC / DC tribute band and Crusader, a Saxon tribute band, to be hired as the next frontman for the group. Roland Moschel, keyboarder for the pfalzer coverband „Someone Else“ and previously a guest musician with Trance, had"
"to play bass. The band was originally named The Raining Souls, but they briefly changed to The Clocks. After realizing there were already many bands with the same name, they changed it to Emily's Army in honor to Max's and Cole's cousin Emily, who suffers from cystic fibrosis and was diagnosed in 1998. Their goal was to raise money and create more awareness for cystic fibrosis. In 2008, they released a set of songs on their MySpace page under the album name ""This Kid"". Although ""This Kid"" is not an official studio album, a few of these songs appeared throughout"
"Originally named Cash Money, the band received national attention in 1999 in ""Rolling Stone"" # 814, in a humorous sidebar piece comparing Cash Money’s low-key touring style (two guys in a station wagon) to the excesses of the hip-hop stars of New Orleans' Cash Money Records. Lawyers from Cash Money Records quickly sent Touch and Go Records a cease and desist for Cash Money ""the band"". Fresh off the legal settlements with several other acts and in order to avoid the costs of another legal battle, Corey Rusk, President of Touch and Go, and the band decided to change their"
"""Rock Band"". In October 2009, the band announced it was changing its name from ""VAGIANT"" to ""VAGIANT Boston"" due to a legal dispute over the use of the name. It also announced the release of a new album, ""Trash Candy"". Later they asked their fans to help them come up with a new name for the band. After hundreds of often off-beat band name suggestions from fans, the band selected Tijuana Sweetheart in January 2010 – a name which comes from a cocktail of their own invention (and from the band's unique slang term for a prostitute). Tijuana Sweetheart's music"
"change was beginning to occur in the band's musical approach. They began to play a lot slower, displaying obvious influences from cult bands such as Winter and Melvins. This had been noted by friend Lee Dorrian who used to write to various members of the band. He heard a rehearsal tape from that time and became interested in working with them on his label, Rise Above Records. This would become the start of a working relationship which has survived until the present day. By June 1991, after a couple of line-up changes the band had decided to change their name"
"careers of Richard and Danny. Various reasons were given for the band's transformation from musical theater troupe to rock band. They included cutting costs, increasing mobility, exploring new musical directions such as Danny's interest in ska and a desire to focus on the music rather than theatrics. The shift was inspired by Danny reconnecting with pop music after becoming a fan of the 2 Tone ska revival bands, the Specials, Madness, the Selecter, and also XTC. For some early gigs, the band used the shortened name The Mystic Knights (and in the animated short ""Face Like a Frog"" by Sally"
"so well that they signed with Boston independent label Monolyth Records who then licensed the album to Walter Yetnikoff's newly formed label Velvel Records. Velvel re-released ""The Amazing Royal Crowns"" in 1998 with updated packaging and then collapsed in the next year. In 1999, as the bands popularity started to surge, they were hit with two major changes. First, During a tour stop in Florida, Johnny Maguire quit the band, Second, they were forced to change their name mid-tour in response to a lawsuit brought by Los Angeles swing act Royal Crown Revue. Now called The Amazing Crowns, The band"
"his family to Charlotte and played in another Charlotte band, the Abbadons, joined on guitar for several months and brought with him a song which he and his brother, Bill, had written while living in Texas called ""Abba"" that would go on become a part of the Pragons' repertoire and which they would eventually record in modified form without Charles. Worried about the possibility that using a controversial moniker might cause the band to lose church gigs and elsewhere, the group decided to change their name from the Pagans to the Paragons. Bobby and Johnny Pace's mother helped them find"
"a long time. The first major change in the band occurred in 1988 when Gabriel died in Peru in a car crash. His daughter Juanita took his place behind the drums. In January 2003, the main singer, Gato Alquinta, died in Coquimbo, Chile, of a heart attack while swimming in the sea. Gato's three sons soon joined the band to replace him: Ankatu (guitar), Eloy (saxophone) and Aurora (vocals). Aurora left shortly after, and Eloy died of a heart attack in 2004 . Ankatu, however, is still a member of the band. The original name of the band, proposed by"
"band's name transpired. Dennis drowned in 1983 and Carl died of lung cancer in 1998. After Carl's death, the group's corporation, Brother Records Inc (BRI), allowed Love to lead a touring band under the ""Beach Boys"" name. Even though they have not performed together since their 2012 reunion tour, Brian, Jardine, and Love remain a part of BRI and as official members of the band. The Beach Boys are one of the most critically acclaimed, commercially successful, and influential bands of all time. They were one of the earliest self-contained rock bands and one of the few US bands who"
"the group. The Pulsations were originally identified as ""Rock and Roll Royalty"" because of their superb look, sound, and style. The Buckinghams would later earn the new identity as ""Chicago's response to the British Invasion."" The Buckinghams made one final change to the lineup and added Marty Grebb on keyboards and vocals when Dennis Miccolis left the band after the WGN-TV shows were completed. In 1967, when the USA single ""Kind of a Drag"" went to #1 on the national charts, most of The Buckinghams were still under 21 and entered a series of business decisions by group vote, based"
"album ""Surf's Up"", for which he composed ""Long Promised Road"" and ""Feel Flows"", with lyrics by the band's then manager Jack Rieley. Carl considered ""Long Promised Road"" his first real song. After producing the majority of ""Carl and the Passions – ""So Tough"""" (1972) and ""Holland"" (1973), Carl's leadership role diminished somewhat, due to Brian's brief public reemergence and because of Carl's own substance abuse problems. For ""L.A. (Light Album)"" (1979), Carl contributed four songs, among them ""Good Timin'"", co-written with Brian five years earlier, which became a Top 40 American hit. Carl's main writing partner in the late 1970s"
"start touring for the Wrong Connection Tour which has to be cancelled after three gigs. In 2004 the band decides to change their name to the Paul Roberts Band at first and finally to Soulsec. In 2005 they perform several gigs in the UK and in Belgium. Guitarists who worked with the band since 1999 were John Ellis, Bob Elliott and Baz Warne. In 2005 Andy Ellis joined the band on guitar. Noel Watson joined the band on drums substituting Vinnie Lammie who is touring with Mel C. As well as touring with the band and working on other projects"
"songs to be called Faster Pussycat with guitarist Mick Cripps. Black switched to lead vocals, Cripps switched to bass, and the two joined guitarist Tracii Guns and drummer Nickey ""Beat"" Alexander and later on guitarist Robert Stoddard to complete this line up. The name was switched to L.A. Guns because the owner of the name, Raz, offered to back the band if this line up would re-use L.A. Guns, a name which had been abandoned over a year prior by a former band of Guns's (Guns N' Roses). Black changed his name again to Paul Black. From 1985 to March"
"(drums) and Greg Tornquist (guitar, flute, harmonica) Patrick McClure (guitar, vocals) joined the band for the second album in 1973. In 1969, Sunshine Pop group The Peppermint Trolley Company walked away from their contract for a variety of reasons, both financial and creative. They moved to Riverside, California and changed their name to ""Bones"". According to Danny Faragher, the name was chosen as it was the furthest thing away from the name Peppermint Trolley Company, derived from an Earl Stanley Gardner murder mystery novel. After touring the fraternity circuit (UCLA, USC), band manager Steve Hauser, landed them an interview at"
"then, in 1979, joined forces with longtime childhood friend Rockett to form a band called the Spectres. In 1980, Michaels and Rockett teamed up with Smith and Dall to form the band Paris and the group started playing the club circuit, performing mostly rock cover songs in local bars. The group formed a strong local following but in order to further their career the band made the decision to move to Los Angeles on March 6, 1983 and also changed the name of the group from Paris to Poison. Arriving in Los Angeles, the group struggled to survive away from"
"their name to the Lost Valentinos. Since then, an a cappella doo-wop group and a Detroit-based rock band have also tried to use the original group's name. Cecil Womack died on February 1, 2013. Bobby Womack was inducted into the Rock and Roll Hall of Fame in 2009 as a solo artist. He died on June 27, 2014. Curtis Womack died on May 21, 2017. The Valentinos' national and regional hit songs included: In 2015, The Valentinos' ""Lookin' For A Love: The Complete SAR Recordings"" was released on CD for the first time. The Valentinos The Valentinos (also known as"
"getting a real name, but Prince had held back from fully calling the group The Revolution partly because of Dez Dickerson's wishes to leave the band. When the 1999 Tour ended, Dez Dickerson finally left the band for religious reasons and was replaced by Lisa's childhood friend Wendy Melvoin. Prince told Dickerson that he needed three years from him, and Dickerson wasn't willing to commit. Prince told Dickerson he'd leave him on payroll and honor his contract, which Prince did. Dickerson went on to eventually work for independent Christian record label Star Song. The Melvoin-Coleman tandem shortly thereafter formed a"
"album. The band frequently faced controversy over their original name, involving accusations of both racism and cultural appropriation because of the name's association with the original Vietnamese Viet Cong. In March 2015, the band was set to perform at Oberlin College, but the show was cancelled due to their ""offensive name"". In September 2015, the band announced that they were going to change their name, posting to their Facebook page, ""We are a band who wants to make music and play our music for our fans. We are not here to cause pain or remind people of atrocities of the"
"of [them]selves as a band"", and thus never gave themselves a name. Friends began referring to them as ""Jeneric"", a combination of their first names, which later morphed into ""We are Jeneric"", after their website's url. After spending time living abroad, the couple moved into O'Connor's family estate in Altamont, NY, converting it back into a working farm. They set up a recording space in the house's parlor, from which they derived their name. They formally changed their name to The Parlor in 2011 before the release of their album ""Our Day in the Sun"". Though their early work was"
"different drummers before finding Nate Moir, who then started touring with group. On a tour stop at the Warped Tour in 1997 the band shared stages with The Royal Crown Revue and it was suggested by singer Eddie Nichols they might want to change their name as it was starting to cause confusion with booking agents due to the bands rising popularity. The band changed their name to the Amazing Royal Crowns, hoping that the added ""Amazing"" would be enough to clear up any confusion. The Crowns won the 1997 WBCN Rock & Roll Rumble in Boston and had returned"
"to the band's ever developing sound and by 1993 they had again changed their name to the abbreviated & less deathly sounding Eternal. By now the band was displaying a much more 70s-inspired doom sound and after more key London shows with Cathedral, they began to headline shows alongside up and coming new UK Doom bands such as Solstice and Mourn. In summer 1993 the band recorded their now legendary demo, featured on this CD, which again was initially intended for a vinyl release. This line up didn’t last too long after the recording was made, mainly due to the"
"they add a bass player to the lineup, the band opted to record elsewhere rather than conform to the request. The group underwent a few name changes before finally choosing their eventual moniker. The group was originally known as PP (an abbreviation for Pontius Pilate) and the Naildrivers. [] The name ""PP & the Naildrivers"" lasted for only one show, and after a short stint as the ""Gentlemen of Leisure"", the group members eventually renamed their outfit the ""Oblivians"". With a definitive name in place, each member adopted a ""Ramones""-style surname; Cartwright became Greg Oblivian, Yarber became Jack Oblivian, and"
"Carl moved to Nashville, where he continued to write/perform on tunes for the likes of Joe Cocker, Bad Company, Richard Marx, and Charlie Daniels. Later in the '90s, he became fascinated with a ""family"" of musicians in Mississippi who performed a very original historical and heartland-infused brand of music. Relocating to Mississippi, Carl began performing with this group of musicians, forming what would become Max Carl and the Big Dance. This experience ultimately culminated in the release of the album ""One Planet – One Groove"" (under the ""Max Carl and the Big Dance"" moniker) in 1998. Featured on this album"
"Klatt, singer from Slaughterhouse Five: However, Staley's mother Nancy McCallum has said she still did not approve of this at first: Johnny Bacolas stated that the decision to use the apostrophe-N combination in their name had nothing to do with the Los Angeles band Guns N' Roses. The name change happened in 1986, well before Guns N' Roses became a household name with their first album ""Appetite for Destruction"", which was released in July 1987. According to Staley, the reason they chose this name was because they wanted to dress in drag and play heavy metal as a joke. The"
"with the same band-name for long: NRA, Les Crazy Boyz, Los Crayzee Boyz, Tower of Girls, Wooden Trees. In 2005, using the adopted name Robert Redford, the band released a one-off CDR titled ""The Mummy and Daddy Dance"" on their own temporary label Extreme Nudity, self distributed to independent record outlets in the UK, before removing all reference to it from their online presence and reforming under a new name, Robert Louis Stevenson. The sought-after release now only changes hands on online auction sites, and the only element traceable from the band's current incarnation is the presence of the track"
"vocals, and decided they could save money by adding Roth to the band. Soon after, Michael Anthony replaced Stone on the bass guitar. The band opted to change its name because Roth suggested that the last name of the two brothers ""sounded cool"". At one point, the band considered using the name ""Rat Salade"", after the Black Sabbath song of the same name, before settling on ""Van Halen"". The band originally began playing cover material, ranging from pop to disco. In 1976, band supporter Rodney Bingenheimer invited Kiss bass guitarist Gene Simmons to check out a Van Halen show. Impressed,"
"became the house band at the Whisky A Go Go, where they were seen by producer James William Guercio, who signed them to a contract with the Columbia Records subsidiary label Epic, and persuaded them to change their name to Illinois Speed Press in February 1968. Norm Cotton changed his stage name to Paul Cotton at the same time, and the band moved to Los Angeles. With its twin guitar sound, the band played a mixture of rock and roll, soul and country music. In 1968 they performed regularly at the Whisky a Go Go in Hollywood, and at the"
"asked them if he could join. They told him that he could under the condition that he by a drum kit. Allen purchased a drum kit that had the logo of another band ""the Impalas"" printed on it, so they just decided to use the name Impalas. The band played for about a year as a largely instrumental surf group, often playing at parties. Eventually the group was threatened with a lawsuit over their use of the name ""the Impalas,"" so they re-christened themselves as the Montells. According to Carter Ragsdale, ""...on the way to get the bass drum painted"
"was rooted in hard bop, with an emphasis on R&B and soul. The group shortened their name to ""The Crusaders"" in 1971, and adopted a jazz-funk style. They also incorporated the bass guitar and electric guitar into their music. Bass guitarist Robert ""Pops"" Popwell and guitarist Larry Carlton joined the band, and featured on the group's albums throughout most of the 1970s. With this new style came increased crossover appeal, and the group's recordings started to appear on the ""Billboard"" pop charts. The height of the group's commercial success came with 1979's ""Street Life"", with Randy Crawford as featured singer,"
"found a broken-down instrument in a dance hall. In 1916, a teenage Carle began working with his uncle's band as well as a number of local bands in the Rhode Island area. To gain further popularity in an America which still held prejudices against many Italian Americans, Carle did what many singers, such as Dean Martin and Jerry Vale, did during this time period; he changed his name from Carlone to Carle. Carle started out working with a number of mainstream dance bands. In 1934, he played with Mal Hallett and his orchestra. In 1935, he had his own orchestra"
"and guitar player Max first, then bass player Joseph joined the project. The name then changed to The Care. The newly born band slowly evolved from an electronic sound to a more punk/rock sound and a first definitive band was formed with a lineup consisting of two guitars, bass, drums, keyboards and voice. Their live attitude along with composition not common for local rock metal band confined them into a world on their own. In 1999 the name was changed from The Care to Die Kur / Die Sorge then to the definitive Die Kur. The name was taken from"