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  The Van Halen Encyclopedia
Author C.J. Chilvers has compiled what is easily the most comprehensive gathering of Van Halen-related material since the band's inception, leaving no guitar, unreleased track or significant date unturned.” –
In 1978 a new sound filled the AM airwaves.
It was a new brand of rock from a Pasadena, CA, group that was regularly selling out concerts to thousands before they had even released an album.
www.vanhalenencyclopedia.com   (320 words)

  
 Jones Encyclopedia of Media & Technology Information   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-24)
Because cable systems offer far greater capacity for delivery of video content than do scarce airwaves, there are a much larger number of cable networks than was ever possible for over-the-air broadcast networks.
While the number of broadcast networks has expanded in recent decades from three to eight, the number of cable networks is currently in the neighborhood of 200.
While no developments are in sight that can replace paper in all of its myriad applications, there are a number of products currently available that promise to computerize some print applications, as well as to create new applications.
www.jonesencyclo.com /trends.cfm   (10844 words)

  
 David Letterman - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
Additionally, Letterman invited the band Foo Fighters to play "Everlong", introducing them as "my favorite band, playing my favorite song."
On September 17, 2001, David Letterman was the first major American comedy performer to return to the television airwaves after the September 11, 2001 attacks.
In his opening monologue, an uncharacteristically serious and very emotional Letterman struggled with the reality of the attacks and the role of comedy in a post-9/11 world, saying, "The reason we were attacked, the reason these people are dead, these people are missing and dead...
en.wikipedia.org /wiki/David_Letterman   (3375 words)

  
 New Gibraltar Encyclopedia of Progressive Rock GI-GO
Not unlike many of their contemporaries, I Giganti began as a beat band in the mid-1960s, made at least one Italobeat album and a large number of more or less successful singles, and then broke up in 1968 - only to reform in 1971 for a brief burst of progressive glory.
Terra In Bocca (CD Akarma AK 1023) is a concept album about crime and the mafia, supposedly based on an in-prison interview of some real-life criminal (this apparently led to the album getting banned from the airwaves in Italy), and along with New Trolls' Concerto Grosso among the first fully progressive album-length works in Italy.
Here the misnomer "rock opera" would for once be appropriate, as the album is one long suite (albeit broken into eleven separate tracks on this CD), driven by various spoken and sung vocals that range from softly melodious to snarlingly dramatic.
www.gepr.net /gi.html   (13927 words)

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