Sonny & Cher - I Got You Babe

Sunday, time to play a classic, and to finish the week's theme "DUO" we have had focus on.

Sonny & Cher were an American pop music duo, actors, singers and entertainers made up of husband-and-wife team Sonny and Cher Bono in the 1960s and 1970s. The couple started their career in the mid-1960s as R&B backing singers for record producer Phil Spector.

The pair first achieved fame with two hit songs in 1965, "Baby Don't Go" and todays tune "I Got You Babe". Signing with Atco/Atlantic Records, they released three studio albums in the late 1960s, as well as the soundtrack recording for an unsuccessful movie, Good Times. In 1972, after four years of silence, the couple returned to the studio and released two other albums under the MCA/Kapp Records label.

In the 1970s, they also positioned themselves as media personalities with two top ten TV shows in the US, The Sonny & Cher Comedy Hour and The Sonny & Cher Show. The couple's career as a duo ended in 1975 following their divorce. In the decade they spent together, Sonny and Cher sold over 40 million records worldwide. Performing under her first name, Cher went on to a highly successful career as a solo singer and actress, while Sonny Bono was eventually elected to Congress as a Republican U.S. Representative from California. The two performers were inducted to the Hollywood Walk of Fame in 1998, right after Sonny's death in a skiing accident.

Todays tune "I Got You Babe" became the duo's biggest single, their signature song, and a defining recording of the early hippie countercultural movement.
Sonny and Cher last performed the song together during an impromptu reunion on NBC's Late Night with David Letterman on November 13, 1987. Cher performed the song with R.E.M. on February 14, 2002, at the Kodak Theatre in Los Angeles. It was her first performance of the song without Sonny. During Cher's 2014 Dressed to Kill Tour using left behind vocals and a projection of videos of Sonny, Cher performed the song live with Sonny for the first time since 1987.



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Death From Above 1979 - Trainwreck 1979

Saturday, let’s take heavy fuzzy Canadian punk rock duo to kick start this ”time off” for you guys that have a life :)

Death from Above 1979 are a Canadian punk rock duo from Toronto, Ontario. Their first full-length album, You're a Woman, I'm a Machine, was released in late 2004 on Last Gang Records. The band broke up in 2006, but announced a reunion in 2011. Their second album, The Physical World, was released in September 2014.

Todays tune ”Trainwreck 1979” is taken from the second studio album "The Physical World", released on September 9, 2014, by Last Gang Records and Warner Bros. Records. It was produced by Dave Sardy, who had previously worked with artists such as Oasis, Red Hot Chilli Peppers, LCD Soundsystem and Nine Inch Nails.

European dates:

9/12 Laval, Canada @ MRCY Block Party
10/7 Koln, Germany @ Luxor
10/8 Paris, France @ adaboum
10/9-10 Brussels, Belgium @ Botanique
10/11 Amsterdam, Holland @ Melkweg
10/12 Hamburg, Germany @ Hafenklang
10/13-14 Berlin, Germany @ Cassiopeia
10/15 Vienna, Austria @ Flex
10/16 Munich, Germany @ Orangehouse
10/18-19 Zurich, Switzerland @ Mascotte
10/20 London, UK @ Electric Ballroom
10/21 Manchester, UK @ Gorilla
10/22 Glasgow, UK @ The Garage

North American dates:

9/6-7 Toronto, ONT, CAN @ Riot Fest Toronto

11/01 New Orleans, LA @ Voodoo Music + Arts Experience
11/03 Atlanta, GA @ Buckhead Theatre
11/04 Nashville, TN @ Marathon Music Works
11/06 Houston, TX @ Warehouse Live
11/07 Austin, TX @ Fun Fun Fun
11/08 Dallas, TX @ Granada Theater
11/10 Tempe, AZ @ Marquee Theatre
11/12 San Diego, CA @ House of Blues
11/13 Santa Ana, CA @ Observatory
11/15 Las Vegas, NV @ Brooklyn Bowl
11/17 San Francisco, CA @ The Independent
11/18 Portland, OR @ Crystal Ballroom
11/19 Seattle, WA @ Neumos
11/21 Salt Lake City, UT @ In The Venue
11/22 Boulder, CO @ Fox Theatre
11/24 Minneapolis, MN @ First Avenue
11/25 Chicago, IL @ Rivera Theatre
11/26 Detroit, MI @ Crofoot
11/28 New York, NY @ Terminal 5
11/29 Philadelphia, PA @ Union Transfer
12/01 Washington, DC @ 9:30 Club
12/02 Boston, MA @ House of Blues

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Coverdale/Page - Take Me For A Little While

Time for another DUO, but today we leave the term "Power DUO" and play a Rock DUO instead, do you remember the difference between them? Well todays DUO is where two men are combining their experience and create something that sounds like both worlds, really good actually.

We hear Whitesnake but in a light Led Zeppelin touch. The sound of this album was the John Bonham-influenced and former Montrose drummer Denny Carmassi.

Coverdale/Page was a musical collaboration featuring Whitesnake and former Deep Purple, Whitesnake lead vocalist David Coverdale, and former Led Zeppelin guitarist Jimmy Page.

The project between the two artists commenced in 1991 at the suggestion of American A&R executive John Kalodner, as both artists were signed to Geffen Records at the time in North America. Their debut album, Coverdale/Page was released on 15 March 1993, reaching No. 4 in the UK and No. 5 on the US Billboard 200 chart. Five singles were released to promote the album: "Pride and Joy", "Shake My Tree", "Take Me for a Little While", "Take a Look at Yourself" and "Over Now".

It has been rumoured that Page collaborated with Coverdale in order to irk Page's former Led Zeppelin bandmate Robert Plant, who up to that point had been reluctant to reunite with Page. In interviews at the time, Plant expressed some derision at the guitarist's collaboration with Coverdale.

An American arena tour was planned for the summer of 1993, but after sluggish ticket sales the tour was scrapped in favour of a series of concerts in Japan, after which the partnership was dissolved. Page subsequently teamed up with Plant for an "UnLedded" MTV project and Coverdale returned to Whitesnake.

According to David Coverdale, the traffic sign shown on the cover of the album signified "two roads joining to one road. Try to express unification or joining together."

Todays tune ”Take Me For A Little While” is taken from the self titled album "Coverdale/Page", released by Geffen Records on 15 March 1993.



Members:

David Coverdale - lead vocals, acoustic guitar
Jimmy Page - electric guitars, bass, harmonica, dulcimer, backing vocals

Additional musicians:

Denny Carmassi - drums, percussion (album and tour)
Lester Mendel - keyboards, percussion
Jorge Casas - bass
Ricky Phillips - bass
John Harris - harmonica
Tommy Funderburk - backing vocals
John Sambataro - backing vocals
Brett Tuggle - keyboards, backing vocals (tour)
Guy Pratt - bass, backing vocals (tour)
Mark Luckhurst - Bass (Rehearsals and Video shoot)

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The Black Keys - Howlin' For You

Another DUO act is the Americans "The Black Keys" formed in Akron, Ohio in 2001. The group consists of Dan Auerbach (guitar, vocals) and Patrick Carney (drums). The duo began as an independent act, recording music in basements and self-producing their records, before they eventually emerged as one of the most popular garage rock artists during a second wave of the genre's revival in the 2010s. The band's raw blues rock sound draws heavily from Auerbach's blues influences, including Junior Kimbrough, Howlin' Wolf, and Robert Johnson. Since 2002 they have released 8 studio albums, with 2014 Turn Blue being their latest.

Just as a note:

In 2010 they have hired touring musicians for their live performances. So in the live sense they are no longer a pure rock & roll power duo. But they did have a good run in the rock & roll tag team division.

Just like The White Stripes the band has their roots in the blues, but the Keys take is more traditional and straight ahead sound.

Todays tune "Howlin' for You" is a song by The Black Keys from the band's sixth album, Brothers.

"Howlin' for You" is featured on the soundtrack of the EA Sports video games, NHL 11. and NHL Slapshot. The song is featured in the films and in TV commercials for The Dilemma, Limitless, The Guilt Trip (film), Moneyball and Dark Shadows. It is used as the theme song to the Australian police drama television series, Cops L.A.C., and has been featured in American television series, CSI: Miami, Detroit 1-8-7, Entourage, Once Upon a Time, Prime Suspect, Chuck, Necessary Roughness, Suits, Secret Diary of a Call Girl and The Chicago Code. MLB's Toronto Blue Jays use it as their home run song (except for Jose Bautista), and the NHL's Phoenix Coyotes use it as their goal song. The song was also featured in video game NBA 2K14.

The song was used in a feature on Sky Sports coverage of the 2014 Canadian Grand Prix.

An official video was released for the song. The music video—a parody of a sexploitation film trailer—was directed by Chris Marrs Piliero, starring Tricia Helfer, Diora Baird, Sean Patrick Flanery, Christian Serratos, Corbin Bernsen, Todd Bridges, and Shaun White, as well as Dan Auerbach and Patrick Carney of the band in the role of "Las Teclas de Negro" (Spanish for "The Black Keys").

A Behind-the-Scenes interview with Piliero, filmed during production of the video, has tongue-in-cheek commentary and brief clips of the cast members describing their characters.

The video was one of five nominees for the 2011 MTV Video Music Award for Best Rock Video.




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The White Stripes - Seven Nation Army

Jack & Meg White is the most know and undisputed champions of the rock & roll DUO’s.

The supposed to be a brother & sister duo (of course they were really ex-husband and wife, Jack taking on Meg's maiden name). The band formed in 1997 in Detroit, Michigan. The duo then became a band, calling themselves The White Stripes, and presented themselves as brother and sister. They first performed publicly on August 14, 1997 at the Gold Dollar in Detroit. The group consisted of Jack White (songwriter, vocals, guitar, bass and keyboards, born as Jack Gillis) and Meg White (drums and occasional vocals), who were married from 1996 to 2000.

Jack White continues to be a creative musical force by his own and doing pretty well I must say.

Todays tune "Seven Nation Army" is the first track on the album Elephant, released as a single on March 7, 2003.

The song is known for its underlying riff, which plays throughout most of the song. Although it sounds like a bass guitar (an instrument the group had never previously used), the sound is actually created by running Jack White's semi-acoustic, 1950s-style Kay Hollowbody guitar through a DigiTech Whammy pedal set down an octave. A combination of the song's popularity, recognizable riff, and military lyrics led to it becoming the band's signature song, and has been used widely at sporting events and political protests internationally.

The video, directed by Alex and Martin, consists of one seemingly continuous shot through a kaleidoscopic tunnel of mirrored black, white and red triangles, touching on Jack's love of the number three. The triangle slides alternate between images of Jack or Meg playing, interspersed with marching skeletons and an elephant, referring to the name of the album "Seven Nation Army" appeared on. The speed at which the triangles move forward through the tunnel speeds up and slows down in unison with the beat of the song. During the video, when the song begins to intensify, the lights in surrounding the triangles flash and other effects build up as well.



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Suicide - Cheree

Today I got a pretty nice feeling on yesterday's post, not only because it was a awesome band, more off the constellation, you know, thinking about DUO's.

Certainly, an awesome rock duo's in most people's ears / eyes is kind like this ....Mick Jagger and Keith Richards (Rolling Stones), David Gilmour and Roger Waters (Pink Floyd), John Lennon and Paul McCartney (The Beatles), Steven Tyler and Joe Perry (Aerosmith) or Eddie Van Halen and David Lee Roth (Van Halen) the list of artists could be endless if I continue like this, this is not really what I think of when I hear the Rock Duo. What I am looking for, or where my feeling is right now, DUO, ie two people in the band and nothing else. I had to double check it, so my friend Google is around to help me and I find out that it’s called Power Duo. Well, fine by me…. So much work to work out a feeling, well, lets do it like this, let’s do a Power Duo week then. Mixed Styles of course, to make it all more interesting.

A Power duo is a two-piece rock band that follows a similar blues rock style to a traditional power trio, and whose primary lineup consists of a drummer and a guitarist (such as The White Stripes, The Like Young, The Black Keys, Local H, Japandroids, No Age, Wye Oak, Giant Drag, Blood Red Shoes, Jucifer, and '68); a drummer and a bassist (such as Death From Above 1979, and Royal Blood); or a drummer and a keyboardist (such as One Day As a Lion, and 21 Pilots). In the case of power duos that utilize only an electric guitar and drums, the lack of a bass guitar can be overcome in different ways: Jack White of The White Stripes and Joe Ziemba of The Like Young use octave dividers and pitch shifters, although most of these effects are monophonic and will not work on chords; The Black Keys often have a bassist when performing live; Scott Lucas of Local H installed one half of a split bass pickup under the lower strings of his guitar and running the signal from it to an octave pedal and a bass amplifier; guitarists Brian King of Japandroids and Randy Randall of No Age split the guitar signal between multiple guitar amps (generally one for clean and another for effects), and a bass amp; drummers Andy Stack of Wye Oak and Bobby Vega of Giant Drag simultaneously play synthesizers to fill in the gap.

Suicide is an American electronic protopunk musical duo, intermittently active since 1970 and composed of vocalist Alan Vega and Martin Rev on synthesizers and drum machines. They are an early synthesizer/vocal musical duo.

Never widely popular amongst the general public, Suicide are highly influential: critic Wilson Neate argues that Suicide "would prove as influential as The Clash. The synthpop, techno, and industrial dance sounds of the 1980s and 1990s, and now the new New Wave of electroclash, all gesture back to that foundational album."

In a November 1970 flyer the band was the first ever to use the phrase "punk music" to advertise a concert.

Todays tune ” Cheree” is taken from the debut self-titled album Suicide, released in 1977.

"Cheree" was about a girlfriend of Martin Rev. A single for the song "Cheree" was released in May 1978 on both 7-inch and 12-inch vinyl formats. The single featured a remixed version of "Cheree" with the B-Side "I Remember". John Lydon of the Sex Pistols reviewed the single for the NME, referring to it as "Je t'aime with tape hiss".



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