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  List of Trade-Friendly Bands
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Mary Kirk and the Long Riders Blues Band
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  Banyan   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-04)
Banyans are a type of tropical fig tree of the genus Ficus (Family Moraceae).
Banyans are large trees that usually start life as a seedling epiphytic on another tree (or on structures like buildings and bridges), where a fig-eating bird has deposited the seed.
The Chinese banyan (Ficus microcarpa), also known as the Malayan banyan is native from Ceylon to India, southern China, Ryukyu Islands, Australia, and New Caledonia.
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 Banyan (band) - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
Banyan is an art rock band with heavy jazz and punk influence, based in Los Angeles, California.
The core members of the band are Nels Cline on guitar, Willie Waldman on trumpet and Mike Watt on bass.
To see the band in more than one performance, you will see some images that recur and some that are new, since the songs are compositions whose structure remains the same while there is also a large amount of improvisation, in the jazz tradition.
en.wikipedia.org /wiki/Banyan_(band)   (340 words)

  
 000204ENgodfrey.HTML   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-04)
Banyan, an experimental band led by drummer Stephen Perkins of Porno For Pyros and Jane's Addiction, wrap up their latest tour in support of their album "Anytime At All" this Saturday night at Bodega.
Banyan is a self described "postmodern jam" with heavy credentials in the current alternative and indie scenes.
A "banyan" is a tree that spreads its branches in all directions, which could be an accurate description of the band's sound.
www.olemiss.edu /news/dm/archives/00/0002/000204/000204ENgodfrey.HTML   (257 words)

  
 Live At Perkins' Palace Review | Banyan | Reviews @ Ultimate-Guitar.Com
Banyan is a project centered around drummer Stephen Perkins, and energized by the bass playing of Mike Watt.
The band is also remarkably tight and responsive to eachother.
This makes for a very cool sound, and demonstrates the caliber of the band members, who are all extremely talented.
www.ultimate-guitar.com /reviews/compact_discs/banyan/live_at_perkins_palace/index.html   (459 words)

  
 v6n85-band.html   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-04)
With the cool sunshine of a March afternoon filling the South Plaza of the University Student Union, the improvisational band Banyan, featuring Mike Watt and Stephen Perkins, recenlty played to a large crowd of students.
The new phase of Banyan is 25 players strong and now has two records to brag about.
Band members said they were excited to see fans coming from off campus to see them perform.
www.csulb.edu /~d49er/spring99/v6n85-band.html   (267 words)

  
 Banyan (disambiguation) - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
Banyan (company), a software company that created Banyan VINES
Banyan (clothing), a men's dressing gown or informal coat
This is a disambiguation page: a list of articles associated with the same title.
en.wikipedia.org /wiki/Banyan_(disambiguation)   (97 words)

  
 Metroactive Music | Banyan
Banyan is the type of band that doesn't rehearse, so we can be inspired onstage," says Stephen Perkins.
Banyan, performing Thursday, March 26, in Fairfax, promise a few surprises on their return trip to the North Bay.
It's what I call an environmental band; if we're in a small, smoky room at 2am, we're going to sound a certain way, and that will be different than if we're playing outdoors at noon on a college campus.
www.metroactive.com /papers/sonoma/03.24.04/banyan-0413.html   (716 words)

  
 48th Annual Monterey Jazz Festival - September 16-18, 2005   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-04)
Banyan has an anything-goes aesthetic that touches on elements of jazz, funk, rock, world music.
For Perkins, the drummer for Jane's Addiction and Porno for Pyros, playing in the moment is one of the things that led him to form Banyan, a side project that employs a rotating lineup of stellar musicians and enlisted 20 players (including Red Hot Chili Peppers' bassist Flea) on the band's last album).
Banyan released their eponymous debut, which was recorded by the Dust Brothers and produced by Perkins and David Turin, in April 1997.
www.montereyjazzfestival.org /artists/banyan.htm   (210 words)

  
 String band fever branches out to Pentecost
While most eyes where on popular string bands over the past three months, in the background a group of ten young men from Pentecost made a quiet trip to Port Vila to record and release their first album, without much publicity.
They are Leran Baga, a band from the central area of the island and their first album was produced by Vanuatu Kaljural Senta Studio.
The band was revived by Bruce Tabi in 2002 and followed the former band members' dream to produce an album.
www.news.vu /en/ae/music/050130-String-band-fever-branches-out-to-Pentecost.shtml   (334 words)

  
 Banyan - Live at Perkins' Palace - Sanctuary Records - CD
The “go-all-out” texturing of Banyan is a high volume display of frenetic jamming in a rock-jazz fusion setting.
Banyan is a mix brought to life by Stephen Perkins of Janes’ Addiction and Nels Cline of Wilco and accentuated by the captivating trumpet of Willie Waldman and ex-Minutemen, Mike Watt’s frontal bass.
To bring Banyan’s modus operandi into perspective, it may serve the reader well to note that although this album’s energy level is in the red, their influences are literal grab bags of early 80s experimental with feet mired in 50s jazz and 70s jazz-fusion while mainlining rock into the whole of it.
www.musictap.net /Reviews/BanyanLiveCD.html   (439 words)

  
 Call It What You Will - MontereyCountyWeekly.com   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-04)
However, an honest listen to Banyan’s intuitive improvisation, superlative playing, and melodic-yet-daring experimentations shows that this band is clearly expanding the definition of jazz.
Banyan was founded by Stephen Perkins, drummer for the post-punk progressive rock bands Jane’s Addiction and Porno for Pyros.
Banyan is all about inclusion—inclusion of surroundings, players, influences and life experiences.
www.montereycountyweekly.com /issues/Issue.09-15-2005/cover/Article.cover_story_1/print   (918 words)

  
 Banyan - Live at Perkins' Palace CD Review @ Rikks Revues
The third CD from Banyan (Live At Perkins' Palace) is the best work to date, really showing what they have and putting it all on the musical table for all to enjoy.
Banyan have arrived at a musical plateau that while not perfect by any means, is the closest they have come yet.
Banyan have a way of working the listener into a sheer frenzy, and they don't let up.
www.rikksrevues.com /banyan_live_perkins_palace_review_9178346576.htm   (833 words)

  
 CD Baby: MINIVAN BLUES BAND: Lifelong Turbulation
This Memphis, TN band plays an eclectic blend of honest music - bluesgrass, folk, rock, acoustic, jazz, and more, laid across the familiar rock and roll beat that defines the Memphis groove.
The band started with Joe Schicke and James Ray jamming together in their precious and rare spare time in the University area of Memphis, TN.
Minivan Blues Band's debut album, Lifelong Turbulation, was released in the fall of 2003.
cdbaby.com /cd/minivanbb   (267 words)

  
 The Panic Channel - Band
The Panic Channel is a new band featuring guitarist Dave Navarro, drummer Stephen Perkins and bassist Chris Chaney -- along with a comparatively new talent, singer/guitarist Steve Isaacs.
The three musicians' collaboration with a singer who is completely different stylistically from most of their previous band mates has brought them into new terrain, which is exactly what they wanted.
The Panic Channel is a band that was formed with no expectations of being a band at all.
thepanicchannel.com /band   (860 words)

  
 Chapter XIV: Decorative Art
Each of the spaces and bands was outlined either with yellow or white, and throughout the whole scheme the colours alternated on the two sides.
A white band passes part of the way round the margin and is connected, at one end, to another running down to the lower white patch.
In addition to this each band is outlined with a line of colour, the succession of colours starting from one side of the central area with fl spots, being as follows; yellow, yellow, white, white, yellow, white, white, white, with the sewn margin yellow.
www.sacred-texts.com /aus/ntna/ntna16.htm   (9122 words)

  
 Integral Spirituality :: Religion, God, Integral Philosophy via Integrative Spirituality
On the side shown in the illustration there are six bands; two white ones running parallel to one another in the centre and, on each side of these, a white and a yellow, that cross one another.
The slanting white band is bordered with red on its inner and yellow on its outer side; the yellow band has white on its inner and red on its outer side.
On either side of this is a red band, then a white one, followed by a broader red one, crossed by festoons of white dots; then comes another white band, but outside this the design varies on the two sides.
www.integrativespirituality.org /postnuke/html/static-docs_Books-Australia-Native_Tribes_of_the_Northern_Territory_of_Australia-ntna16.htm   (9305 words)

  
 MySpace.com - www.myspace.com/banyanband
Banyan is an art rock band with heavy jazz and punk influence based in Los Angeles, CA.
The very first Banyan album is one of my all time favorites records....
Had to order the Banyan cd last year as it is so hard to find your cds here in Oz!but it was so worth it!!
www.myspace.com /banyanband   (771 words)

  
 Jane's Addiction Biography,info
The band was influenced by punk, gothic rock, metal, funk, hard rock, progressive rock and psychedelic styles; singer Perry Farrell once described the band as a cross between Duke Ellington and Bad Brains.
The "Ripple" single that the band produced for the Grateful Dead tribute album Deadicated was the final studio track for this incarnation of the band.
Although details surrounding the band's demise are sparse, Navarro claimed that the reasons for the breakup were essentially the same as they were in 1991.
www.danceage.com /biography/sdmc_Jane's_Addiction   (1402 words)

  
 The Panic Channel - Stephen Perkins
Music history was about to take a turn when the two musicians formed the band Dizastre and a relationship that would forever change the face of alternative rock music.
The band played several Los Angeles club dates before Perkins joined Perry Farrell and Eric Avery in what some have coined the artful, yet thoughtful rock band Jane's Addiction in 1986.
Perkins stint with the band was short-lived and in 1993 he joined Jane's Addiction front man Farrell to form Porno for Pyros.
www.thepanicchannel.com /stephen   (493 words)

  
 PRESS RELEASE Xingolati - Groove Cruise of the Pacific Swell Continues With Addition of Banyan to Lineup   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-04)
Band, Lead by Stephen Perkins of Jane's Addiction, Joins Event That Is Part Music Festival, Part Circus at Sea
In addition to Banyan, Xingolati includes The Flaming Lips, G Love and Special Sauce and Medeski Martin and Wood among others.
Banyan brings a sound that is hard and experimental but sophisticated and complex."
www.marketwire.com /mw/release_html_b1?release_id=93702   (395 words)

  
 Banyan (ca) - Band page with free MP3 music downloads on SoundClick
The name "Banyan" refers to Banyan Grove of which Buddha was first enlightened.
Banyan is a native of Vancouver Island representing the West coast vibe through melodic breaks and down-tempo grooves.
His roots in music originated at an early age, however was not until later when he picked up the guitar that he began to fully comprehend the possibilities.
www.soundclick.com /bands/9/banyanca.htm   (326 words)

  
 banyan
It's not likely they'll ever produce a definitive work, since the "band" seems to be trying to re-define itself each time they play.
To paraphrase Mike Watt, working in their "song" bands is like sitting alone writing, while Banyan is like conversation.
banyan started as a concept that festered in the head of david turin.
hootpage.com /hoot_banyan.html   (858 words)

  
 Judaic Artwork by Debra Band - Honeybee in the Garden, LLC   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-04)
The banyan tree which serves as a background for the initial word of the Aramaic text speaks to the bride, in particular, of beauty and solidity.
The flowers and fruits within the painted band relate to a variety of values within the Jewish home.
In Psalm 128 sprouting olive branches are compared to children clustered around the parents’ table, while elsewhere in Jewish lore olives symbolize nobility.
www.dbandart.com /index.php?targ=ja_cohan   (219 words)

  
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DV8, 115 S. West Temple, is hosting Banyan shows tonight and Saturday at 10, and tickets are $10 in advance, $12 day of show.
And aside from such standard angst-driven lyrics as "Tell me how does your blood taste," there are instances of sentimentality, "Lost on a globe of disregard, clinging onto hope/ We need to find what really matters." Elements of pop, punk and metal for the price of one.
The fleet-fingered Vai once described Johnson this way: "Eric has more colorful tone in his fingers than Van Gogh had on his palette." Indeed, Johnson is a perfectionist who is able to take on any genre, from jazz to rock to blues to pop, and totally shred in the process.
www.sltrib.com /portlet/article/html/fragments/print_article.jsp?article=2531830   (1047 words)

  
 Jazz list   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-04)
Although they held their CD release party at Level on Miami Beach, you won’t find the band out in the clubs too often; more frequently, they play festivals and concert venues, such as the Festival of the Americas in Miami, and even then it’s pretty rare.
In October, Noday and his big band welcomed clarinetist Allan VachÈ for a concert at the Pinecrest School Performing Arts Theater in Boca, and in November, they played their Kenton-Ferguson book at the Art and Culture Center of Hollywood.
The band has been rehearsing weekly, which is necessary, pianist Seits relates, because some of the music is incredibly intricate.
www.citylinkmagazine.com /jazzlist.html   (11331 words)

  
 Banyan Networks   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-04)
Banyan's BB-DIAS (Broadband Direct Internet Access System) is a carrier class high performance IP-based Access Edge device solution.
Banyan has a DSL solution, DIAS for the this Last Mile Access Network for Voice and Data service provisioning over the same copper cables.
Banyan provides DIASView — a powerful, graphical, easy to use SNMP Manager Software for managing DIAS network deployed over a wide-area.
www.banyannetworks.com /prdaccess.html   (564 words)

  
 Under The Banyan Trees with Steely Dan -- Interviews   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-04)
E.W. DISCLAIMER: Obviously all the words you see here are owned and copyrighted by the band, the musicians, the record companies, the publishing companies, the lawyers, the parents, the offspring (am I missing anything?), and who ever else has a legal claim to what is contained herein.
Below you will find a variety of interviews the band has given over the past few years.
The first is one the band gave on the release of Alive In America, the others are taken from the "Words And Music" series.
www.banyantrees.net /interviews.html   (229 words)

  
 Nevis Band B .Banyan Tree Bed & Breakfast. Nevis
Banyan Tree Bed and Breakfast, on the unspoiled island of Nevis, is the perfect place to rest and relax.
We are located 700 feet above sea level with views of Mount Nevis and the Caribbean Sea.
The Bamboo House, with mountain and sea views, consists of a large living/sleeping room with an antique mahogany four-poster queen bed and a smaller day bed, bathroom, and wraparound outdoor porch.
www.nevis1.com /banyan-tree-b_b.html   (301 words)

  
 01_home   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-04)
In 1995 SP started another new band named BANYAN and released a CD on Cyber Octave.
Chris Chaney joined the band on bass and STRAYS was released in 2003.
In 2004 SP released BANYAN’S third CD called LIVE AT PERKINS PALACE on Sanctuary Records.
perkinspalace.com /07-bio.html   (327 words)

  
 Xingolati - Groove Cruise of the Pacific Swell Continues With Addition of Banyan to Lineup Band, Lead by Stephen ...
LOS ANGELES (Xingolati/ www.xingolati.com) - It was announced today that Banyan, lead by Stephen Perkins will join Xingolati (pronounced Zing-go-lah-ti) - the Groove Cruise of the Pacific this October.
In addition to Banyan, Xingolati includes The Flaming Lips, G Love and Special Sauce and Medeski Martin & Wood among others.
Perkins, from the legendary groups Janes Addiction and Porno for Pyros, is the leader of Banyan, an alternative-rock supergroup featuring Tony Franklin (The Firm, Jimmy Page), Brian Jordan (Karl Denson's Tiny Universe), Willie Waldman (Snoop Dog, Tupac), and Norton Wisdom, a renowned artist that paints live with the band.
top40-charts.com /news.php?nid=16724&string=Music   (573 words)

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