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  A guide to Beck and Scientology for journalists and fans,   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-06)
Beck may have realized his father's public involvement in Scientology could be detrimental to the budding career of a folk/blues/alt rock singer.
Beck went to New York with a girlfriend when he was about 18 (the age, as well as the year he went, has varied depending on the interview or article); he stayed, reportedly, about a year or possibly longer.
(Beck's reference to "problems with it" in France relates to the fact that Scientology is in trouble in France and several other European countries and is regarded as a public health threat.and L Ron Hubbard was convicted of Fraud in France in 1978.
www.lermanet.com /beck   (5945 words)

  
  Beck - Uncyclopedia, the content-free encyclopedia
Beck Hansen, born July 8, 1970, is an American musician, song writer, scientist, Jedi, screw, mathematician, amateur inventor, pornographer and philanthropist; Beck is known across the galaxy for his hit song "Where It's At", which, when played sideways dictates the hidden location of Beck's personal stash of home-made pornography.
Beck fans suffered a terrible fright when in 1997 Beck was defeated on stage by Darth Muse the shadow over the music industry which held an iron-clad empire over almost all artists, with only a small rebel force standing between him and utter domination.
In 1998 Beck began working in his free time for General Electric, there he was involved in such triumphs as the space shuttle's guidance systems and the creation of the Star Wars programming style, which lead to the beginnings of the open source movement and the creation of Mac OS X.
uncyclopedia.org /wiki/Beck   (727 words)

  
 Beck - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
Beck Hansen (born Bek David Campbell, July 8, 1970) is an American musician, songwriter, and multi-instrumentalist.
Beck Hansen was born in Los Angeles, California to parents David Campbell (a musician and the son of a Presbyterian minister) and Bibbe Hansen (a visual artist of half Jewish descent).
Many among Beck's friends and family are members of the Church of Scientology, and it has long been rumored that he is a member as well.
en.wikipedia.org /wiki/Beck   (1489 words)

  
 Beck: Guero: Pitchfork Record Review   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-06)
Hansen has shown an increased willingness to accept the advice of his peers and doctors, mounting a highly motivated and publicized effort to return to the behavioral cohesion of his Odelay period.
Hansen's heart is in the proceedings, as many of the songs appear to be little more than weak echoes of their similar predecessors.
Hansen has certainly attempted to follow the regimen recommended to him, and has done his best to recapture earlier moments of lucidity and unity, but in many ways the final result feels rote and calculated.
www.pitchforkmedia.com /article/record_review/15361/Beck_Guero   (782 words)

  
 ipedia.com: Beck Article   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-06)
Beck Hansen was born in Los Angeles, California to artistic parents, David Campbell and Bibbe Hansen.
For Beck, it was a return to the high-energy performances that had been his trademark as far back as Lollapalooza--plus a brass section, costumes, and a red bed that descended from the ceiling for the song "Debra".
Beck has a number of b-sides and soundtrack-only songs as well, including Midnite Vultures (curiously, not on the album of the same name) and a cover of Korgis' "Everybody's Got to Learn Sometime" which appeared in the 2004 movie Eternal Sunshine of the Spotless Mind.
www.ipedia.com /beck.html   (710 words)

  
 A guide to Beck and Scientology for journalists and fans,   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-06)
Beck may have realized his father's public involvement in Scientology could be detrimental to the budding career of a folk/blues/alt rock singer.
Beck went to New York with a girlfriend when he was about 18 (the age, as well as the year he went, has varied depending on the interview or article); he stayed, reportedly, about a year or possibly longer.
(Beck's reference to "problems with it" in France relates to the fact that Scientology is in trouble in France and several other European countries and is regarded as a public health threat.and L Ron Hubbard was convicted of Fraud in France in 1978.
lermanet.com /beck   (5804 words)

  
 Beck - Biography - AOL Music
Beck appropriated freely from whatever genres he felt like, juxtaposing sounds that would never have co-existed organically (and his habitual irony made clear that he wasn't aiming for authenticity in the first place).
Beck followed those touchstones with genre exercises in folk and funk that still managed to dazzle with their variety, solidifying one of the most creatively vital oeuvres in alternative rock -- or all of modern pop music, for that matter.
Beck David Campbell was born July 8, 1970, in Los Angeles, and came from strong creative stock.
music.aol.com /artist/beck/43291/biography   (1501 words)

  
 Beck -- Facts, Info, and Encyclopedia article   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-06)
Beck's music is often considered to be typical of much popular alternative music of the 1990s with its disdain for (A class of art (or artistic endeavor) having a characteristic form or technique) genre conventions, obtuse and ironic lyrics, and the melding of samples with played instruments.
Beck took his act on the road with the (additional info and facts about 1995) 1995 (additional info and facts about Lollapalooza) Lollapalooza tour.
For Beck, it was a return to the high-energy performances that had been his trademark as far back as Lollapalooza—the live stage set including a red bed that descended from the ceiling for the song " (additional info and facts about Debra) Debra" and the touring band was supplemented by a brass section.
www.absoluteastronomy.com /encyclopedia/b/be/beck.htm   (1514 words)

  
 Stewoo.net: Beck > Gallery > Beck & Al Hansen: Playing With Matches
Beck and Al Hansen: Playing With Matches is the first exhibition and publication on Beck and Al's related mixed media collages, assemblages, drawings, photographs, intermedia poems, and video documentation.
Beck's performances are an extension of this examination-laced with myriad, overlapping references to Happenings, body art, roots blues and the jumbled voices of a generation of shattered narratives.
Beck and Al Hansen's respective artwork remains true to the feeling that nothing is beneath their notice, or, as Henry Martin has remarked about Fluxus artists, just about everything is worth being looked at or listened to or toyed with.
stewoo.net /beck/gallery/hansen_art   (613 words)

  
 Beck Hanson
Since releasing Odelay in 1996, Beck Hansen has robot-danced across the world's concert stages on his way to becoming an international pop-culture icon.
Already slated are new records on the independent labels Bong Load, which originally released his "Loser" single, and K, the outlet for his folk leanings (à la the 1994 album One Foot in the Grave).
Beck spoke to WW from a tour stop in Syracuse, N.Y. : You were recently nominated for seven MTV video awards.
www.wweek.com /html/beckhansen082797.html   (433 words)

  
 Stewoo.net: Beck > Gallery > Beck & Al Hansen: Playing With Matches
Beck and Al Hansen: Playing With Matches is the first exhibition and publication on Beck and Al's related mixed media collages, assemblages, drawings, photographs, intermedia poems, and video documentation.
Beck's performances are an extension of this examination-laced with myriad, overlapping references to Happenings, body art, roots blues and the jumbled voices of a generation of shattered narratives.
Beck and Al Hansen's respective artwork remains true to the feeling that nothing is beneath their notice, or, as Henry Martin has remarked about Fluxus artists, just about everything is worth being looked at or listened to or toyed with.
www.stewoo.net /beck/gallery/hansen_art   (613 words)

  
 Beck: Todas las informaciones en Beck de Enciclopedia-Gratuita.com
Beck Hansen (nacido el 8 de julio de 1970 en Los Angeles, California, Estados Unidos) es cantante y compositor.
Beck también vivió en Kansas con sus abuelos (su abuelo materno era un pastor presbiteriano) y con su abuelo paterno, el artista Al Hansen, en Inglaterra.
En ese momento Beck vivía en un galpón infestado de ratas y trabajaba en una tienda de vídeos con un sueldo mínimo.
www.enciclopedia-gratuita.com /b/be/beck.html   (655 words)

  
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Before Al Hansen's premature death in 1995, he espoused a conceptual framework for a diverse range of experimental activities to be labeled "art," including the vitality of the body, its languaging and its documentation.
Beck's performances are an extension of this examination-laced with myriad, overlapping references to Happenings, body art, roots blues and the jumbled voices of a generation of shattered narratives.
Beck and Al Hansen's respective artwork remains true to the feeling that nothing is beneath their notice, or, as Henry Martin has remarked about Fluxus artists, just about everything is worth being looked at or listened to or toyed with.
www.banffcentre.ca /wpg/exhibits/1999/0803_beck/intro.htm   (600 words)

  
 In Defense Of Beck Hansen
Clad in plaid flannel, much like Seattle-ite contemporaries Nirvana and Pearl Jam, Beck delivered a power-grunge hip-hop anthem that, while somewhat incomprehensible, bespoke of a lighter side of alienation largely ignored by the press who had jumped on the Seattle uber-angst train and milked it for all it was worth.
Beck’s image, of course, was turned deliciously on its’ ear with the release of the brilliant “Odelay” in 1996.
Beck was back, yet again, and this time had made yet another stylistic shift.
crapple.iwarp.com /music/becksell.html   (3346 words)

  
 Beck Hansen Biography - The Free Information Society
Beck Hansen was born Bek David Campbell on July 8, 1970 in Los Angeles, California.
Soon Beck was being fought over by different record labels, with Geffen eventually winning the right to publish his first album.
While on tour for the album, Beck collided on stage with his bass player and was slightly injured, but recovered after a short stay in the hospital.
www.freeinfosociety.com /site.php?postnum=651   (737 words)

  
 Beck Music Guide - WikiMusicGuide, the Music Wiki
Beck is an acclaimed indie-rock artist from America that blends his style between funk-rock to electronic and acoustic, all the way to hip-hop.
Beck, also known as Beck David Hansen was born in July 08, 1970 in Los Angeles, California to a father David Campbell and performer Bibbe Hansen.
In October of 2006, Beck released his latest album entitled The Information, an album that is said to have the distinct styles of Beck from previous success album Odelay.
www.wikimusicguide.com /Beck   (533 words)

  
 Rock On The Net: Beck
Beck (Hansen) was born on July 8, 1970, as Beck David Campbell.
Beck had dropped out of school after junior high and started playing folk music on the streets of L.A. In New York's clubs, Beck found and refined his sound, and returned to California in 1991.
Beck was injured at a show in London after falling in the middle of his concert.
www.rockonthenet.com /artists-b/beck_main.htm   (1236 words)

  
 Free Midi Files: Beck
Beck Hansen was born and raised in Los Angeles.
Beck released Mellow Gold, his Geffen/DGC Records debut, in early 1994 to critical acclaim.
In early, 1998, Beck helped put together November 1998 saw the release of Mutations, The album was recorded in Los Angeles over a two-week period in the spring of 1998, and the sound of the record harkened back to the folk sounds of One Foot in the Grave.
www.partnersinrhyme.com /midi/midiartists/beck.shtml   (446 words)

  
 Beck
Beck's major label follow-up Odelay (recorded in collaboration with the Dust Brothers, a production duo responsible for popular albums by Tone-Loc and the Beastie Boys) surfaced two years later, and found the enthusiasm generated by Mellow Gold undiminished.
For the majority of his life, Beck has been in some way involved with the Scientology cult -- a circumstance that, until 2002, the singer and his label had attempted to keep out of public awareness, apparently with the concern that the information would have a negative impact on his popularity.
As a child, Beck was enrolled in the Scientology-run Apple School, and after dropping out of high school he is listed in their literature as having completed a dozen-or-so Dianetics and related courses.
www.nndb.com /people/154/000026076   (836 words)

  
 Astrology: Beck - StarIQ.com
Beck Hansen, the recording artist and performer known simply as Beck, has been nominated this year for Grammy awards in the Best Album and Alternative Album categories.
Beck’s extensive knowledge of various musical traditions and his deep-rooted attachment to his own family’s artistic legacy characterize Cancer traits in his work.
Beck’s Mercury, also in Cancer, shares a harmonious relationship with his Virgo Moon, since they are each in signs ruled by, or associated with, the other.
www.stariq.com /Main/Articles/P0002172.HTM   (1068 words)

  
 Beck: Reviews, Discography, Audio Clips, and more ||| Music.com
Beck shuffles on stage as his band launch into new song ‘Black Tambourine’ and the atmosphere in the packed out Islington Academy freezes.
Beck gives him the briefest of glances, mutters “shut up…..shut the fuck up”, and the song becomes tinged with a malicious beauty which (briefly) drags the audience out of the depressed stupor.
To the credit of Beck as a songwriter the quality of the new material shines through tonight’s lacklustre routine, it’s just unfortunate that the showmanship we’ve come to expect from Beck is completely absent.
www.music.com /person/beck/1   (1829 words)

  
 Static Multimedia - Beck - Guero   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-06)
Hansen’s somber odes to breakups and forlorn love the most, that doesn’t mean that I dismiss his funky side.
But the mistake Beck makes on Guero is that he doesn’t invest enough of his quirky personality into the proceedings.
The track, co-written by Beck with the Beastie Boys (probably the best thing they’ve been associated with since their own “Sabotage”), is also generating a lot of heat on radio, becoming the second of his songs (the first, obviously, was “Loser”) to hit number one on the modern rock charts.
www.staticmultimedia.com /content/music/reviews/cd/review_1112298240   (502 words)

  
 Beck Bass Tabs
Beck Hansen (born Bek David Campbell, July 8, 1970) is an American musician, songwriter and multi-instrumentalist.
Beck Hansen was born in Los Angeles, California, to David Campbell (a musician, Scientologist and son of a Presbyterian minister) and Bibbe Hansen (a visual artist of half Norwegian, as well as Swedish and Jewish descent).
Despite this individualism, Beck's music was very much a product of the '90s and the media age in general, with hip hop, indie/underground rock, electronic music and genre-benders like the Beastie Boys as notable touchstones; in addition, some critics could not resist likening his head-spinning lyrical aesthetic to a post-modern Bob Dylan sensibility.
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 Mutations: Another Successful Car Crash for Beck (NY Rock)
Beck Hansen (not to be confused with Tayler, Isaac or Marilyn) plays an assortment of instruments on Mutations, including guitar, slide guitar, harmonica, synthesizer and glockenspiel -- and he does so with simplicity and adroit dexterity.
Beck's lyrical phrases leap out at you, teasing the inner and outer cortexes of your mind.
One of the most charming things about the artist is his humility in light of constant reinforcement to his ego from rave reviews such as the one yours truly is currently cranking out.
www.nyrock.com /reviews/beck.htm   (508 words)

  
 Beck   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-06)
Beck also paved the way for unique record deals for independent artists crossing over to a larger audience, like the one recently signed by The White Stripes.
It was this arrangement that allowed Beck to release two other albums in 1994 in addition to his seminal major label debut Mellow Gold: the chaotic avant-noise piece Stereopathetic Soul Manure on Pasadena-based Flipside Records and the neo-folk-blues album One Foot in the Grave on Olympia-based K.
Beck gives the song typical 21st century Beck treatment, filling it with a smorgasbord of samples, infusing it with the sound of today without sacrificing its timelessness.
www.epitonic.com /artists/beck.html   (563 words)

  
 bottles and cans
beck's remix album featuring various cuts off of 'odelay' and some european tracks is to be released on Geffen..
The video was directed by Beck¹s longtime friend and director, Steve Hanft, who has also made "Loser," "Beercan," "Pay No Mind," and "Where It's At," as well as the feature film "Kill The Moonlight." The soundtrack to that low budget film is out now and showcases previously unreleased Beck songs.
Beck's most recent video was shot in fl and white and features the artist as a coal miner.
www.geocities.com /SunsetStrip/Palms/9411   (2207 words)

  
 DAA: Beck   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-06)
Beck Hansen should hang his head in shame.
Hansen stays from the fold again, Geffen will force the lad to release his childish experiments under an assumed name, reportedly a glyph.
Much has been made of Beck's new found sincerity, but it was clear as far back as Mellow Gold who or what he was singing about on songs such as "Nitemare Hippy Girl" and "Truckdrivin' Neighbor Downstairs", and he hasn't been as forthcoming since.
www.dancingaboutarc.com /reviews/1999/beckrev.html   (384 words)

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