A famous remark often attributed to Brian Eno is that while only a few thousand people bought a record of this band, almost every single one of the purchasers was inspired to start their own band. Which influential rock band was Eno referring to?
"when the Velvet Underground first appeared in the mid 1960s, they faced rejection and were commonly dismissed as a ""fag"" band. In 1982, musician Brian Eno famously stated that while ""The Velvet Underground & Nico"" initially sold just 30,000 copies, ""everyone who bought one of those 30,000 copies started a band."" The Beatles' Paul McCartney deemed ""Pet Sounds"" ""the record of the time"", and in June 1967, the band responded with their own album: ""Sgt. Pepper's"", which was also influenced by ""Freak Out!"" AllMusic states that the first wave of art rock musicians were inspired by ""Sgt. Pepper's"" and believed"
"influential rock groups in history. They are one of the best-selling music artists in the history of audio recording; various sources estimate the group's record sales at 200 to 300 million units worldwide. With RIAA-certified sales of 111.5 million units, they are the third-best-selling band in the US. Each of their nine studio albums placed in the top 10 of the ""Billboard"" album chart and six reached the number-one spot. They achieved eight consecutive UK number-one albums. ""Rolling Stone"" magazine described them as ""the heaviest band of all time"", ""the biggest band of the Seventies"", and ""unquestionably one of the"
"as a duo, were soon joined by bass guitarist/vocalist Jez Kerr and then guitarist/trumpeter Martin Moscrop, the band playing without a drummer for a year. The band's name is taken from the lyric of Brian Eno's song ""The True Wheel"" from the 1974 album ""Taking Tiger Mountain (By Strategy)"". Their early influences included Parliament, Funkadelic, and Earth, Wind and Fire. This early line-up, with a bass-heavy industrial/funk sound, recorded the group's debut single, ""All Night Party"", released by Factory Records in September 1979 (the label's first single artist release), with Factory label boss Tony Wilson also becoming their manager, proclaiming"
"credited as a seminal influence by scores of leading hard rock and heavy metal music acts, and they are now rated the fifth-biggest selling group in U.S. recording history, with total sales of over 100 million records. Another highly popular and lucrative band of this period is the soft-rock-harmony group Little River Band (LRB). Resurrected from the ashes of an earlier band called Mississippi, LRB centred on a trio of seasoned veterans. Lead singer Glenn Shorrock had fronted Australian 1960s pop idols The Twilights and singer-guitarists Beeb Birtles and Graeham Goble had been the core members of Mississippi; prior to"
"All Time"" on the band, saying: ""I don't buy weekend tickets to Ireland and hang out in front of their gates, but U2 are the only band whose entire catalogue I know by heart. The first song on ""The Unforgettable Fire"", ""A Sort of Homecoming"", I know backward and forward—it's so rousing, brilliant, and beautiful. It's one of the first songs I played to my unborn baby."" Martin also comments on Bono's effect on his own charity and political involvement he is even known to joke with friends referring to himself as ""Crono"". Martin and Coldplay were also greatly influenced"
"that they knew would earn a good commercial return, and they were often unwilling to take risks on local releases of unknown acts. Much new music was routinely available only as expensive imports in specialist shops. This began to change almost as soon as Double Jay came on air. A good example of the station's influence was in 1976 when Double Jay championed a new album, ""801 Live"", recorded by a one-off group that included former Roxy Music members Phil Manzanera and Brian Eno. Although the LP was hailed overseas as one of the best live recordings ever made, and"
"1967, which further hindered the release. Regarding MGM/Verve's delay in releasing the album, Warhol's business manager Paul Morrissey once offered the following: ""Verve/MGM didn't know what to do with ""The Velvet Underground and Nico"" because it was so peculiar. They didn't release it for almost a year. Tom Wilson at Verve/MGM only bought the album from me because of Nico. He saw no talent in Lou [Reed]."" In 1982, Brian Eno said that while the album sold only 30,000 copies in its early years, ""everyone who bought one of those 30,000 copies started a band."" Nico moved on after the"
"to one of his favorite bands at the time, the Pixies, for inspiration. The Sales brothers heckled Bowie into greater spontaneity, with most songs recorded in one take, and lyrics left unpolished, thus giving the band a ragged, punk rock edge. In contemporary interviews, the band claimed their musical influences were Gene Krupa, Charlie Mingus, Jimi Hendrix, Glenn Branca, Mountain, Cream, and the Jeff Beck Group. The group chose the name Tin Machine after one of the songs they had written. Tony Sales joked that, as all four members were divorced when the band formed, originally the band was going"
"in England once touring with a band and he had mentioned that Brian had been in a band called Geordie and Bon had said 'Brian Johnson, he was a great rock and roll singer in the style of Little Richard.' And that was Bon's big idol, Little Richard. I think when he saw Brian at that time, to Bon it was 'Well he's a guy that knows what rock and roll is all about.' He mentioned that to us in Australia. I suppose when we decided to continue, Brian was the first name that Malcolm and myself came up with,"
"cite The Beatles, The Black Crowes, Band of Horses, Kings of Leon, My Morning Jacket, and Otis Redding as musical influences, as well as literature such as ""The Giver"", ""The Catcher in the Rye"", and works by Japanese modernist Haruki Murakami Frontman Ryan Downing also cites Mick Jagger of the Rolling Stones as inspiration. The band's rowdy, high-energy live performances attracted the attention of North Carolina indie label Right Hook Records. ""Avalanche"", the first EP, quickly sold out of the 1,000 copies pressed and attracted the attention of numerous other record labels, among them Daniel Glass and Glassnote Records. After"
"first and certainly one of the best known rock groups from France, largely in part to their commercial record successes, their unabandoned concert and television performances, their unmatched media and press coverage, and their unique position of being the first French rock band to tour America, to sign with an American label and eventually pioneer a new style of rock music over their decade-long existence. Between 1969 and 1973, they released the bulk of their albums on Pathe Records. Their early recordings often mimicked traits of The Rolling Stones, The Who and Led Zeppelin. In 1972, Alain Tobably formed a"
"that while the album initially only sold approximately 30,000 copies, ""everyone who bought one of those 30,000 copies started a band."" In ""The Encyclopedia of Popular Music"" (1998), Colin Larkin called it a ""powerful collection"" that ""introduced Reed's decidedly urban infatuations, a fascination for street culture and amorality bordering on voyeurism."" In April 2003, ""Spin"" led their ""Top Fifteen Most Influential Albums of All Time"" list with the album. On November 12, 2000, NPR included it in their ""NPR 100"" series of ""the most important American musical works of the 20th century"". In 2003, ""Rolling Stone"" placed it at number"
"Bramah, Una Baines and Tony Friel. The four friends would meet to read their writings to each other and take drugs. Their musical influences included Can (which the band would later pay tribute to on the track ""I Am Damo Suzuki""), the Velvet Underground, Captain Beefheart and garage rock bands like the Monks and the Stooges. The members were devoted readers, with Smith citing H.P. Lovecraft, Raymond Chandler and Malcolm Lowry among his favourite writers. After seeing the Sex Pistols play Manchester's Lesser Free Trade Hall in June 1976, they decided to start a group. Smith wanted to name the"
"of the band was taken from the Eno song ""The True Wheel"", which appears on his 1974 solo album ""Taking Tiger Mountain (By Strategy)"". The refrain of the song -- ""We are the 801, we are the central shaft"" -- reportedly came to him in a dream (although it has also been noted that ""Eight Nought One"" acrostically spells his name). 801 performed three critically highly acclaimed concerts: in Norfolk, at the Reading Festival and the final concert on 3 September at London's Queen Elizabeth Hall. This last concert was recorded live and released as the album ""801 Live"". The"
"went on stage, 'to get a momentum"". Bowie's ""Berlin Trilogy"" elaborated with Brian Eno, influenced them; the ""cold austerity"" of the synthesisers on the b-sides of ""Heroes"" and ""Low"" albums, was a ""music looking at the future"". Morris cited the ""unique style"" of Velvet Underground's Maureen Tucker and the motorik drum beats, from Neu! and Can. Hook said that ""Siouxsie and the Banshees were one of our big influences ... The way the guitarist and the drummer played was a really unusual way of playing"". Hook drew inspiration from the style of bassist Jean-Jacques Burnel and his early material with"
"five years old."" During his early years playing guitar, Frame frequently listened to Wilko Johnson and was able to play many of Johnson's songs as a result. As a child and adolescent, Frame was inspired by a variety of musical influences, including David Bowie, Echo and the Bunnymen, the Teardrop Explodes, Brian Eno and Love. Following the advent of the punk subculture, Frame states that he was drawn to it, as ""it said, 'Anyone can do it. You can form a band.' ... It was liberating."" Frame was attracted to the fashion sense of punk bands like the New York"
"among the first to employ and popularize fuzz and flanging guitar effects, concept albums, and twelve-string guitars in rock music. Their instrumental virtuosity, innovation, and unique sound influenced a large number of musicians and bands, earning the group the moniker ""The Band that Launched a Thousand Bands"". Their recording of ""Walk, Don't Run"" was inducted into the Grammy Hall of Fame for its lasting impact, and in 2008 the group was inducted into the Rock and Roll Hall of Fame. Don Wilson and Bob Bogle first met in 1958, when Bogle was looking to buy a car from a used"
"be a major influence themselves on subsequently massively successful bands and musicians; according to Perry, Eddie Van Halen once told him that his band Van Halen ""started out on the suburban L.A. club circuit, playing Aerosmith songs"". Aerosmith's influence was evident on the next generation of hard rock and heavy metal bands, namely Mötley Crüe, Ratt, Guns N' Roses, Tesla, L.A. Guns, Cinderella, Faster Pussycat, Skid Row, Extreme, Warrant, Inglorious, the Black Crowes, and the Quireboys, as well as Metallica, Metal Church, and Testament. Especially, Guns N' Roses and Velvet Revolver guitarist Slash has stated that Aerosmith is his favorite"
"he had mentioned that Brian had been in a band called Geordie and Bon had said 'Brian Johnson, he was a great rock and roll singer in the style of Little Richard.' And that was Bon's big idol, Little Richard. I think when he saw Brian at that time, to Bon it was 'Well he's a guy that knows what rock and roll is all about.' He mentioned that to us in Australia. I suppose when we decided to continue, Brian was the first name that Malcolm and myself came up with, so we said we should see if we"
"1960s celebrity and friend of the Kinks, the Beatles and the Who, he recalled that it was also an influence on The Beatles: ""I remember it vividly and still think it's a remarkable pop song. I was with the Beatles the evening that they actually sat around listening to it on a gramophone, saying 'You know this guitar thing sounds like a sitar. We must get one of those. The song's radical departure from popular music conventions proved unpopular with the band's American following—it hit number 11 in the UK, but stalled at number 111 in the US. Recording began"
"under drainpipe trousers. Cultural impact of the Beatles The Beatles were an English rock band, formed in Liverpool in 1960. With members John Lennon, Paul McCartney, George Harrison and Ringo Starr, they became widely regarded as the foremost and most influential act of the rock era. In the early 1960s, their enormous popularity first emerged as ""Beatlemania"", but as the group's music grew in sophistication, led by primary songwriters Lennon and McCartney, the band were integral to pop music's evolution into an art form and to the development of the counterculture of the 1960s. The Beatles' continued commercial and critical"
"the best-selling debut albums in U.S. history with over 17 million copies sold. During the late summer and early fall of 1976, Boston attracted publicity due to the record sales. However, there was ""a conscious effort to de-emphasize Scholz as the total mastermind behind Boston"". After opening for Black Sabbath, Blue Öyster Cult, Foghat and others in the autumn, the band embarked on a headlining tour in the winter and spring of 1976–1977 to support the album. This helped establish Boston as one of rock's top acts within a short time, being nominated for a Grammy award as a ""Best"
"influenced by the bands such as The Kingsmen, The Beatles and The Byrds, although they recorded only 2 albums, both under the ABC Records label. The band's first album ""Trilogy for the Masses"" was produced by Bob Thiele in 1968. The album's band tracks were done at Fleetwood Studios in Revere, Massachusetts and the vocals were at Capitol Studios in New York City. And a year later their second album ""Time Changes"" was produced by Bill Szymczyk who later went on to produce The Eagles. The second album was done at the Hit Factory in New York City. After 1969,"
"subsequent disbandment. After Brainiac, Schmersal made a solo album under the name John Stuart Mill. Rick Lee and Steve Calhoon were both previous members of the band Skeleton Key, a befriended band Brainiac had toured with. Together they formed Enon. Lee created a number of percussion sounds for the band playing a ""junk kit"" including a Radio Flyer wagon, propane tank, and old hubcaps. After the release of their first album Believo! which was Produced by D. Sardy and signed to his SeeThru Broadcasting label in 1999, Calhoon left the band and was replaced by Toko Yasuda (bass/vocals/keyboard) and Matt"
"from a John Lennon biography, stating on Rockline (11/9/2002) that it was the only Beatles-related name left that was not taken. When the Beatles were touring around Hamburg, Germany in the 1960s, they encountered three distinct social groups among the kids: the mods, the rockers, and the art students (who referred to themselves as ""the existentialists""). John Lennon coined the term ""the exies"" to refer to the art students. The band released their self-titled debut album in 2000 on Ultimatum Records, and toured extensively. While touring, they caught the attention of Grammy-winning record producer, Matt Serletic, who bought their contract"
"with E.G. Records. Andy Mackay replied to Ferry's advertisement, not as a keyboard player but a saxophonist and oboist, though he did have a VCS3 synthesizer. Mackay had already met Brian Eno during university days, as both were interested in avant-garde and electronic music. Although Eno was a non-musician, he could operate a synthesizer and owned a Revox reel-to-reel tape machine, so Mackay convinced him to join the band as a technical adviser. Before long Eno was an official member of the group. Rounding out the original sextet were guitarist Roger Bunn (who had issued the well-regarded solo album ""Piece"
"of 72,000 fans and for a worldwide television audience of two billion people was a pivotal point in the band's career. During a 12-minute performance of the song ""Bad"", Bono leapt down off the stage to embrace and dance with a fan, showing a television audience the personal connection that Bono could make with audiences. In 1985, ""Rolling Stone"" called U2 the ""Band of the '80s"", saying that ""for a growing number of rock-and-roll fans, U2 have become the band that matters most, maybe even the only band that matters"". For their fifth album, ""The Joshua Tree"", the band wanted"
"was the first and only group he ever really followed. Smith soon became influenced by the emergence of the UK punk scene of 1977, and has cited the Sex Pistols, the Stranglers, Elvis Costello, the Buzzcocks and Siouxsie and the Banshees as important influences on his own music from this period. He described the release of ""Anarchy in the UK"" by the Sex Pistols as Elsewhere Smith said that the Stranglers were his favourite punk band and that Elvis Costello ""was a cut above the whole lot of them"", in terms of lyrics and songcraft. Smith was influenced by the"
"of the '80s"" and ""the most influential British guitar group of the decade"". He continued: ""As the first indie outsiders to achieve mainstream success on their own terms (their second album proper, 1985's Meat Is Murder, made Number 1 in the UK), they elevated rock's standard four-piece formula to new heights of magic and poetry. Their legacy can be traced down through The Stone Roses, Oasis and The Libertines to today's crop of artful young guitar bands."" ""Uncut"" magazine's Simon Reynolds wrote of the band: ""Once upon a time, a band from the North came with a sound so fresh"
"""Hong Kong Garden"" as one of his 25 all-time favourite songs. Siouxsie has influenced other bands ranging from contemporaries Joy Division, U2, and the Cure to later acts like the Jesus and Mary Chain, Jane's Addiction and TV on the Radio. Joy Division co-founder Peter Hook said that ""The Scream"" inspired them for the ""unusual way of playing"" and cited the Banshees as ""one of our big influences"". U2 frontman Bono named her as an influence in the band's 2006 autobiography ""U2 by U2"". He was inspired by her way of singing. With his band, he selected ""Christine"" for a"
"eight months of the band's inception, and topped national sales charts weeks after garnering late hours airplay on MTV. ""Appetite for Destruction"" is the highest-selling debut album of all time in the United States. Peers of the band in the music industry often spoke highly of the band. Joe Perry stated that the band was the first group to remind him of Led Zeppelin. Ozzy Osbourne stated that Guns N' Roses could have been ""the next Rolling Stones"" if the classic lineup stayed together. Country musician Steve Earle stated in 1989 that ""Guns N' Roses are what every L.A. band"
"Kennedy. Bill Dean writes: ""It's impossible to say just how many of America's young people began playing guitars and forming bands in the wake of The Beatles' appearance on the Sullivan show. But the anecdotal evidence suggests thousands – if not hundreds of thousands or even more – young musicians across the country formed bands and proceeded to play."" Tom Petty, who played in two garage bands in Gainesville, Florida during the 1960s, is quoted mentioning the Beatles' appearance on ""The Ed Sullivan Show"" and how it influenced him to be in a band. According to him: ""Within weeks of"
"have stunned listeners of the day. Even today that album stands up as uniquely innovative and undeniably daring."" It also attracted the attention of some ""famous"" musicians, including Brian Eno, resulting in Frith playing guitar on two of Eno's albums, ""Before and After Science"" (1977) and ""Music for Films"" (1978). In late 1974, Frith contributed a series of articles to the British weekly music magazine ""New Musical Express"" entitled ""Great Rock Solos of Our Time"". In them he analysed prominent rock guitarists of the day and their contribution to the development of the rock guitar, including Jimi Hendrix, Eric Clapton"