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  Michael Smith at AllExperts
Michael Smith or Mike Smith is a relatively common name in the English-speaking world.
* Mike Smith (guitarist), former guitarist for Snot and Limp Bizkit
Smith pitched for the Toronto Blue Jays in 2002 and is pitching for the Minnesota Twins in 2006.
en.allexperts.com /e/m/mi/michael_smith.htm   (471 words)

  
  Michael Smith - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
Mike Smith (guitarist), former guitarist for Snot and Limp Bizkit
Mike Smith (musician), drummer for the death metal band Suffocation
Mike Smith (NFL), linebacker currently for the Baltimore Ravens.
en.wikipedia.org /wiki/Michael_Smith   (404 words)

  
 Mike Smith Bio - Mike Smith Biography - Mike Smith Stories
Mike Smith is currently engaged to American actress Nichole Hiltz, whom he met on the set of the upcoming feature length film The Trailer Park Boys Movie.
Mike Smith is well known as an excellent "swearist" which is what his character "Bubbles"is famous for on the series The Trailer Park Boys.
Mike Smith created the character "Bubbles" when he picked up a pair of thick glasses for 50 cents at a Texas flea market in the early 1990s.
www.tv.com /mike-smith/person/103817/biography.html   (874 words)

  
 Mike Baglione - About   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-12)
Mike Baglione is an impassioned performer, a humble human being, and a wonderful entertainer.
Mike is also a member of the Bluegrass Bands Oxford Depot and The Jersey Mountain Boys, and he hosts an Open Mic at Bodles Opera House.
Mike was a closet musician then, and the Coffee House offered him a chance to explore his music again as an adult.
www.mane-event.com /bagman/about.htm   (269 words)

  
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Mike hiked with his nose, to smell for big game and wildlife and he'd get a scent and just set his gaze in that direction....
Every day, Mike said, 'I love you' to me, and that was one of the most important things in his life, to say that, and to make time to relax and to cherish his beloved cup of coffee that he nursed all day.
But beyond music, Mike was an elegant, thoughtful, kind man who lived his life to the fullest, made beautiful things everywhere he went and approached each day with cheerful optimism and spirit.
www.tucsoncitizen.com /print/calendar/020206ca_mike_smith   (1352 words)

  
 Steve Smith (musician) - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
Steve Smith (born on August 21, 1954 in Brockton, Massachusetts) is an American drummer.
In 2001 Modern Drummer Magazine named Steve as one of the Top 25 Drummers of All Time, in 2002 he as voted into the Modern Drummer Hall of Fame, and finally in 2003 his Hudson Music DVD "Steve Smith Drumset Technique - History of the U.S. Beat" was voted #1 Educational DVD of 2003.
Also in 2003, Steve Smith and Buddy's Buddies -- the Buddy Rich alumni quintet -- released two CDs on the Tone Center label that were recorded live at the famous London jazz club Ronnie Scott's; "Very Live at Ronnie Scott's Set One and Set Two."
en.wikipedia.org /wiki/Steve_Smith_(musician)   (193 words)

  
 www.maxbass.com - Mike Smith
It is with a heavy heart that I post the sad news that Mike Smith, jazz drummer and longtime DC resident, lost his battle with cancer on Monday January 2, 2006.
Mike Smith, 59, a drummer who for 40 years accompanied many leading jazz and pop musicians in Washington and around the world, died of prostate cancer Jan. 2 at his home in Silver Spring.
Smith was born in Meadville, Pa., and was introduced to jazz by his father, who had a large record collection.
www.maxbass.com /Mike.htm   (432 words)

  
 The Guestbook/Remembrances of Mike Smith   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-12)
Mike's playing was a constant reminder that improvising with others can be such a pure act of community, acceptance, and realization as to be life-affirming.
Mike Smith was a gentle, intelligent, open human being with a tremendous sense of humor and the purest of hearts....(that he was one of the greatest drummers on this planet is already well known) I am so thankful our paths crossed as often as they did.
Mike and Tommy Cecil and Dave Kane and I were on a gig years ago in Williamsburg...had some time to kill...and Mike pulled out the New York Times crossword puzzle (which I loved and was often unable to finish) and knocked me out at how fast he whizzed through it.
www.davidkanemusic.com /cgi-bin/guestbook/guestbook.cgi   (3620 words)

  
 Cosmik Debris Magazine Presents: DC5's Mike Smith, March 2003
Smith, who had just spent six years having very little privacy, slipped quietly behind the scenes, turning to producing and becoming quite good at it, and also became a fine writer and singer of advertising jingles.
Mike: I knew kids who used to go to my teacher and had been going for years more than me, but they weren't doing well only because they were being made to do it when they didn't want to do it.
Mike: I did invite Lenny to come on the tour, because I like his playing so much, but he has a business, and to be away three or four months rehearsing, then touring for one, that's five months away from his business, that's crazy.
www.cosmik.com /aa-march03/mike_smith.html   (5593 words)

  
 Michael Peter Smith Information
Smith was born on September 7 1941 in South Orange, New Jersey.
Smith's entry in the All Music Guide lists his birthdate as December 6 1943, and his place of birth as Edmonton, in London, England.
This is due to confusion with Mike Smith, the former member of the Dave Clark Five, who was from Edmonton.
www.bookrags.com /wiki/Michael_Peter_Smith   (1267 words)

  
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Guitar teacher Mike Smith reserved Bountiful's North Canyon Park on Wednesday evening for a recital/performance of his 28 teenage students.
Smith says he told the city's recreation department the recital would feature bands with amplifiers and asked if he needed a permit, but was told all he needed was the reservation.
Smith said he told the officers there was only one song left and the kids had been practicing it all summer to show their parents.
www.sltrib.com /portlet/article/html/fragments/print_article.jsp?article=2974816   (493 words)

  
 Blistering.com :: Music :: Heavy Metal & Hard Rock News :: Suffocation Drummer Speaks Out On Reunion, Future Plans
SUFFOCATION drummer Mike Smith has denied former bassist Chris Richards' assertions that the legendary death metal act's planned reunion is purely money-motivated and has indicated that a new album from the group may surface sometime next year, provided the quintet's upcoming tour and subsequent songwriting sessions prove to be a success.
Mike Smith: The actual lineup isn't written in stone because the position for second guitarist will be decided through tryouts.
Mike Smith: Since I left SUFFOCATION, I have fooled with many different musicians, not necessarily speed metal-related, but once you have played with musicians like Doug, Terrance and Chris, others just don't seem to understand your need and desire for the next level of music.
www.blistering.com /news/newsdet.php3?ID=3583   (1250 words)

  
 Emily Smith Band & Mike Whellans, 16 June, Birnam
Mike Whellans was born in Galashiels in the Scottish Borders a wee while ago (c1945).
In the early 1970s, Mike was a member of the traditional Scots-Irish band, Boys of the Lough, and worked in a duo with fellow-Boy Aly Bain (now, of course, an internationally renowned fiddle player) for about three years.
Since then Mike has developed from that musical base into a veritable one-man live-wire blues-band featuring this crisp, fast, accurate flat-picking on acoustic and electric guitars, wild mouth-harp and his own highly idiosyncratic speciality, mouth percussion - and that really is something; and, oh, yes...
www.footstompin.com /forum?threadid=32775   (727 words)

  
 Mike Daley - essay - Music, Race, Ethnicity and Nationhood in Canada
Mike Daley is a popular music researcher, lecturer and professional musician based in Hamilton, Canada.
Mike has been teaching at the university level since 1994 and has won a Students Union award for teaching excellence for his popular music course at McMaster University.
This was not a method which would yield maximum fidelity, and musicians had to be careful not to cause the cutting stylus to skip with strong, abrupt bass signals.
www.mikedaley.net /musicologycourse.htm   (4163 words)

  
 Trailer Park Boys on MSN
Mike Smith (Bubbles) was born and raised in Thorburn, Nova Scotia.
Mike Clattenburg decided to write the character into the series and thus the birth of the loveable character Bubbles.
Mike worked on the US cable pilot called Espia as writer and musical director and appeared as Bubbles in the music video Legal by Canadian artist Snow.
www.msnusers.com /TrailerParkBoysonMSN/bubbles.msnw   (500 words)

  
 Dobbin's Den - April 24, 1997   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-12)
Wabash is a memorable composition of one of Mike's mentors, Julian "Cannonball" Adderley.
Smith was in Montreal for the Sax-en-Fete weekend held by the Association des Saxophonistes du Quebec at UQAM.
Smith is frankly under the spell of Cannonball Adderley: he doesn't have the rasping, bluesy timbre down as well as Vincent Herring does, but the line of descent is clear from a few bars of any solo.
www.jazzmontreal.com /servlet/Jazz/pages/columns/e/719.html   (2642 words)

  
 Power Windows...Jan. 13, 2005 Canada for Asia
All three members of Rush, along with Ed Robertson of the Barenaked Ladies and Mike Smith of the Trailer Park Boys, performed "Closer To The Heart" for the charity television telethon "Canada For Asia".
Smith, who's also a musician, was helping Rush record a new version of 'Closer To The Heart' this week, and a video of the recording session will be featured in the show on Thursday." - Stars gear up for CBC tsunami benefit, Jan. 13, 2005
French found out some local musicians had lost their instruments in the tsunami, he contacted his friends in the Canadian rock band Rush, who donated several thousand dollars for guitars.
www.2112.net /powerwindows/tours/05jan13_story.htm   (649 words)

  
 Attic Gallery, On-line Store   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-12)
Mike, the father of identical twin sons born August 29,2000, also has a son named Tony and a daughter named Maria.
Mike is well known for four foot high musicians playing almost any type of instrument, his beautifully detailed flowers, alligators, turtles and other critters perfect for any outdoor or indoor landscape.
If one could imagine a critter, a musician, a piano, a life size chess set, a ten foot fisherman with a catch on the end of a pole, or a boy with a dog and a balloon, then Mike could create one in any size.
www.atticgallery.com /bios.ihtml?sid=24&step=2   (376 words)

  
 Mike Smith - Northern Stars
Mike Smith is known by just about everyone as "Bubbles" thanks to Trailer Park Boys, but of course there's much more than that to his life.
Goofing around one day on set, Mike was imitating a character he had been doing for years.
Producer-director-writer, Mike Clattenburg decided to write the character into the series and so Bubbles was born.
www.northernstars.ca /actorsstu/smith_mike.html   (244 words)

  
 Michael Smith Information
Mike Smith (guitarist), former guitarist for Snot and Limp Bizkit
Mike Smith (musician), drummer for the death metal band Suffocation
Mike Smith (NFL), linebacker currently for the Baltimore Ravens.
www.bookrags.com /wiki/Michael_Smith   (388 words)

  
 Molten Mike Blues Musician
Mike / Sticks, I have an aquaintance that is very interested in interviewing Mike for a festival they're putting on.
Hey Mike just wanted to say thanks again for letting me come out and jam with you and your band in Orlando.You guys are always very cool and it was a lot of fun.
Mike, we are glad you are a Florida resident.
www.moltenmike.com /mm_guestbook.html   (4883 words)

  
 3rd Ear Music Forum - RIP - Allan Pierce, David Pollecutt, Mike Smith
Many musicians and countless followers of SAfrica's alternative music - from Jazz to Folk, from Country Maskandi to Hard City Rock - were depressed and angry in the 70's.
Mike was born in Big Bend, Swaziland, and moved to northern KwaZulu-Natal at the age of 5 or 6 following his father who'd found work there, his mother having died when he was an infant.
The Barleycorn intends to hold a Tribute Concert in the near future, inviting Mike's friends to perform and speak of the man, the proceeds of which to form a Trust Fund for his beloved daughter Miya.
www.3rdearmusic.com /forum/3musos.html   (2902 words)

  
 Cleveland - Music - Mike Smith - clevescene.com
Hearty singer Mike Smith shouted that he was "Glad All Over" and happily collected "Bits and Pieces" as lead singer of the Dave Clark Five, one of the loudest, catchiest, and most polished groups of the first British Invasion.
Now the low-profile throat fronts Mike Smith's Rock Engine, a quintet he assembled three years ago, and he's touring the U.S. for the first time in three decades.
Smith's band, also featuring Doug Lean on lead guitar, bassist Curt Sandell, drummer Paul Skelton, and saxophonist Frank Mead, winds up a two-week northeastern tour in Cleveland.
www.clevescene.com /2003-03-26/music/mike-smith   (427 words)

  
 WSBTV.com - Gimme The Mike - Jan Smith   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-12)
A native of Atlanta and a professional musician for well over 20 years, Jan Smith's progressive musical talents possess heavy influences of rock, pop, blues, and Southern gospel, which produce a unique, thumbprintable sound that appeals to a wide array of listeners.
Jan Smith holds the distinction of being Atlanta's premier contemporary vocal coach and vocal producer, having worked with over 3,000 students and numerous professional bands over the past 17 years.
In addition to her own performance career, Smith also produces other artists, continues to actively pursue work as a studio session vocalist, and personally teaches 52 students a week at her Atlanta studio where an estimated 250 artists pursue vocal coaching and development each week.
www.wsbtv.com /gimmethemike/3429146/detail.html   (433 words)

  
 PC1   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-12)
Mike was beginning to tire but graciously answered one more question: which was his favorite DC5 slow song and his favorite DC5 song to rock to.
Mike and I talked about Rob and his website and we both agreed he is a kind and caring Christian.
Mike said he doesn't try to push his religion on anybody and doesn't care if you're Catholic or Jewish or whatever but he relies on his own faith to give him strength.
www2.rpa.net /~theboltons/MSPC1.htm   (2423 words)

  
 Big Smith   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-12)
Mike Williamson has been around just long enough to remember hearing the original Beatles' records on the small-town café table-side jukeboxes at age 2, and counts this among his earliest musical memories.
Through all his experiences, however, Mike's vote for his most surreal moment onstage goes to Big Smith's jam on "Will the Circle Be Unbroken" with David Allen Coe and former heavyweight boxing champion Leon Spinks.
He is the veteran musician of Big Smith, and the one with the closest ties to the honest-to-God generations of Ozarks hillsmen that preceded him.
www.bigsmithband.com /bios_mike.html   (271 words)

  
 ESPN Search: michael smith   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-12)
On the second day of the draft, teams looked for bargains in skill players who are either too small, too slow, or deemed not fit for the NFL at the position at which they starred in college.
Josh Smith scored a career-high 24 points and Tyronn Lue proved difficult to contain in the second half as the lowly Atlanta Hawks posted a 120-114 victory over the Bucks.
Although the pain from Super Bowl XL still lingers, Mike Holmgren is doing his best to focus on the promise of 2006, writes Michael Smith.
proxy.espn.go.com /keyword/searchResults?search=Michael+Smith&...   (1355 words)

  
 Trailer Park Boys - Mike Smith   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-12)
In 1999, Mike started composing music for film and television and has worked as a sound mixer on such feature films as The Weight of Water starring Sean Penn and Elizabeth Hurley, and Serendipity starring John Cusack and Kate Beckinsale.
Mike worked on the US cable pilot called Espia as writer and musical director and appeared as Bubbles in the music video Legal by Canadian artist Snow.
As a testament to the fact that Bubbles has endeared himself to audiences across the country, Mike won a Gemini in 2003—it was the Viewer's Choice Award for Favourite Comedian.
www.showcase.ca /microsites/trailerparkboys/about/cast/mikeSmith.asp   (276 words)

  
 CBC Arts: Stars gear up for CBC tsunami benefit   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-12)
Smith got involved with the benefit when he received a phone call from Rush guitarist Alex Lifeson after the tsunami struck.
Smith says he never imagined he would be putting his simple-minded alter ego to work for such a large-scale charity event.
Smith, who's also a musician, was helping Rush record a new version of Closer To The Heart this week, and a video of the recording session will be featured in the show on Thursday.
www.cbc.ca /story/arts/national/2005/01/12/Arts/tsunamibenefit050112.html   (1040 words)

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