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Phideaux Xavier

Phideaux Xavier is an American TV director and composer of modern technological music that he describes as "psychedelic progressive gothic rock", who grew up in New York City but now lives in Los Angeles.

He is a multi-instrumentalist, singer and songwriter, in 1992, produced a small number of copies of a CD entitled “Friction”. Although it was not widely distributed, a few music reviewers were able to hear it. Later, in 2002, Xavier started seriously mastering musical tracks. In 2003 he released his first CD with significant distribution, Fiendish.

The year 2004 saw his second album Ghost Story, which was followed up quickly in 2005 by a third album, Chupacabras, and then a fourth album,313, in March 2006. His fifth and sixth albums,


The Great Leap and Doomsday Afternoon (2007) are the first two albums of a planned trilogy. In 2009, he issued his seventh album, Number Seven. He had begun working on a related album called Seven and a 1/2, but this sequel was cancelled in favor of an all-new album entitled Snowtorch, set for release in late 2010. However, the release date of this album was postponed until March 21, 2011





At fourteen Davy O’List studied orchestral composition, organ, piano, singing and trumpet at the Royal College of Music London, whilst playing rock-blues lead guitar for a band he called Little Boy Blues. At the time, O’List was formulating his own unique sound, fusing classical, jazz and rock music together. In 1966 under the name David John, O’List started a new band called The Attack, which marked the beginning of his new sound that combined rock, R&B and Soul. Managed by Don Arden, they were part of the 1960s Swinging London scene, and released two notable singles; Try It / We Don’t Know (Decca F 12550), Hi Ho Silver Lining / Anymore Than I Do (Decca F 12578).

Amazingly, Anymore Than I Do, penned by O’List, caught the attention of radio DJ John Peel who choose it as his theme tune for his new radio program Perfumed Garden onRadio Caroline. This station was listened to by most young people including John Mayallwho asked Davy to join his band The Bluesbreakers as a replacement for Peter Green, whilst at the same time P.P. Arnold who had a hit with The First Cut Is The Deepest asked Davy to play guitar and sing backing vocals in her band.

Davy choose to join P.P. Arnold’s band, as he was given his own slot playing his original music, which therefore meant him leaving The Attack in February 1967. By May Davy’s new band The Nice were gigging in their own right and had gained their own billing at the National Jazz and Blues Festival. Taking his innovative style of combining rock, jazz and classics together, Davy approached P.P Arnold’s manager and obtained a record deal for The Nice.The Thoughts of Emerlist Davjak was their 1967 debut album, considered one of the first albums of progressive rock, and is still a best At fourteen Davy O’List studied orchestral composition, organ, piano, singing and trumpet at the Royal College of Music London, whilst playing rock-blues lead guitar for a band he called Little Boy Blues. At the time, O’List was formulating his own unique sound, fusing classical, jazz and rock music together. In 1966 under the name David John, O’List started a new band called The Attack, which marked the beginning of his new sound that combined rock, R&B and Soul. Managed by Don Arden, they were part of the 1960s Swinging London scene, and released two notable singles; Try It / We Don’t Know (Decca F 12550), Hi Ho Silver Lining / Anymore Than I Do (Decca F 12578).

Amazingly, Anymore Than I Do, penned by O’List, caught the attention of radio DJ John Peel who choose it as his theme tune for his new radio program Perfumed Garden onRadio Caroline. This station was listened to by most young people including John Mayallwho asked Davy to join his band The Bluesbreakers as a replacement for Peter Green, whilst at the same time P.P. Arnold who had a hit with The First Cut Is The Deepest asked Davy to play guitar and sing backing vocals in her band.

Davy choose to join P.P. Arnold’s band, as he was given his own slot playing his original music, which therefore meant him leaving The Attack in February 1967. By May Davy’s new band The Nice were gigging in their own right and had gained their own billing at the National Jazz and Blues Festival. Taking his innovative style of combining rock, jazz and classics together, Davy approached P.P Arnold’s manager and obtained a record deal for The Nice.The Thoughts of Emerlist Davjak was their 1967 debut album, considered one of the first albums of progressive rock, and is still a best seller today. Their first single also called The Thoughts of Emerlist Davjak, penned by O’List, reached the UK Top 40. Following this the band were asked to support Jimi Hendrix in 1967.

Their next hit single, America 2nd Amendment, a heavily reworked version of Leonard Bernstein’s song from West Side Story, reached number 21 in the UK charts in July of 1968. O’List’s style in The Nice was described by Bruce Eder of Allmusic as “Hendrixish guitar … in sharp relief.” However, with two strong instrumentalists competing, O’List left The Nice in autumn 1968.

While still performing with The Nice, O’List substituted for Syd Barrett in Pink Floydbriefly in 1967, and was then asked to join David Crosby whilst touring with The Nice in the US. O’List also briefly played in Jethro Tull after the departure of Mick Abrahams in early 1969. O’List provided guitar and bass for The Misunderstood, along with an early lineup of Roxy Music between October 1971 and September 1972. O’List co-wrote, arranged and produced Roxy Music’s first album, along with arrangements and compositions which secured the band a record deal with Island Records in 1972.

After Roxy Music folded in 1973 O’List rejoined Bryan Ferry where he proved he was no one hit wonder, producing Let’s Stick Together, The In-crowd and Chance Meeting and was awarded gold discs. The In-crowd was re-released in 1988, as part of a Roxy Music/Bryan Ferry compilation album, where it reached No 1 in the album chart; this was O’List’s first UK No 1, however Let’s Stick Together had been a No 1 in Europe.

Then in 1975 O’List made an album titled Jet for CBS, which was produced by regularQueen producer Roy Baker. O’List then joined John Cale of the Velvet Underground in 1977 for an extensive European tour (Cale was a fan of The In-Crowd, so asked Davy to join him). During 1980, O’List was a producer for Island Records producing reggae bands and mixed on The Jam tour.

O’List released his first solo album in 1997 entitled Flight of The Eagle while studying Fine Art and Filmmaking where he received a BA (Hons) in Fine Art, a PG in Advanced Filmmaking from St. Martins and the R.C.A. and a PCET from The University of Greenwich for Multimedia teaching and training. O’List’s films were screened atBAFTA, The BBC Short Film Festival and on Super Channel cable TV, as well as other art exhibition shows. O’List went into TV music production with his own studio in 2000 and started touring Europe with his own band.

In March 2015 O’List released his second solo album Second Thoughts. The album sees Davy return to his distinctive prog rock sound which gained him so much attention in the early part of his career, whilst also incorporating elements of proto-prog, funk and jazz. With a new band assembled, Davy will be touring this new record across the UK and Europe at the end of 2015/early 2016. The record has received great acclaim by both fans and critics alike. Classic Rock magazine said ‘Key to its appeal is O’List’s guitar tone, surely the best in Western civilisation’, you can’t argue with that.





History of Babe Ruth Band is directly linked with Alan Shacklock who first formed The Juniors at 1963.
Then lately in 1967, Shacklock graduates from London's Royal Academy of Music and forms the band named, 'Shacklock' at Hatfield, Hertfordshire of England with:Dave Hewitt ( Bass ), Dick Powell ( Drums ) and Dave Punshon (piano.After a superb performance in the famousMarquee Club of London, they signed to the EMI HarvestRecord Label. In 1972 appears a young woman named JanitaJenny Haan marked by powerful vocals from Jenny and full arrangements by Alan Shacklock. A meeting at EMI and we renamed to Babe Ruth ( famous american baseball player ) starting a new creative and unique trip across the time....
Discography :
First Base -1972 ( A Real Masterpiece )
Amar Caballero - 1974
Babe Ruth - 1975
Stealin Home - 1975
Kid’s Stuff - 1976 ( No one of the old members was in this Album. Vocals :Ellie Hope,.
Que Pasa - 2007 ( Last One) original members .

On June 28, 2014 Babe Ruth played their only show in the world for Milwaukee's Summerfest which over 7000 attended.



Steph Honde - Hollywood Monsters , United Artists Against Terrorism

Steph Honde (born Stéphane Honde; 5 September 1975) is a French singer, songwriter and multi-instrumentalist (vocals, guitar, piano, bass guitar). Honde is most famous for being the frontman and songwriter of the American hard rock supergroupHollywood Monsterswhich he founded in 2013. Before Hollywood Monsters, Honde was the guitarist of the French rock band Café Bertrand from 2004 to 2010, when he resigned from the band and joined Paul Di'Anno band as the guitarist on tour across France.

Honde achieved great success in France as a guitarist. He garnered a well-deserved reputation as a guitar virtuoso when playing in the French hard rock band Café Bertrandin 2004-2010.In 2006 Café Bertrand was chosen to be the opening band for the Deep Purple European leg of the Rapture of the Deep tour which included 36 dates across Europe in October and November 2006 and another 12 dates in France in March 2007.Café Bertrand played at giant stadiums such as Stade de France, with an audience capacity in excess of 80,000. In 2009 Café Bertrand was the support band for two AC/DC shows in France during the Black Ice World Tour: on 9 June 2009 at Stade Vélodrome in Marseille and on 12 June 2009 at Stade de France in Paris. In July 2009 Café Bertrand played at the Montreux Jazz Festival. Honde left Café Bertrand in 2010

In 2010, after leaving the band Café Bertrand, Steph Honde toured with Paul Di'Anno (the original vocalist of Iron Maiden) and The Stars across France. Later in 2014, Di'Anno made a guest appearance on the album Big Trouble by Hollywood Monsters on bonus track "Fuck You All". Di'Anno chose the song himself from the number of songs suggested to him by Steph Honde

In 2012 Steph Honde emigrated to California, U.S. and started working on his own project, the bandHollywood Monsters which features legendary guest musicians.[8] Steph Honde created the project in 2013 and is the only songwriter of the project, including the band's debut album Big Trouble. The band members are: Steph Honde (vocals, guitars), Don Airey (keyboards) (Deep Purple, previously played inWhitesnakeGary MooreOzzy OsbourneMichael Schenker Group and others), Vinny Appice (drums) (previously played in DIOBlack SabbathHeaven & HellKill Devil Hill and others), Tim Bogert (bass) (previously played in Vanilla FudgeCactus, and Beck, Bogert & Appice).

Steph Honde met Don Airey in 2006 when Honde's then-current band Café Bertrand was the opening band for the Deep Purple European leg of the Rapture of the Deep tour.[9] Tim Bogert appreciated the demo recordings suggested to him by Steph Honde and agreed to play on three tracks of the album despite the fact he had been in retirement for several years prior to the recording of the album Big Trouble.Vinny Appice plays drums on most of the tracks on the album. Steph Honde wrote the song "Village Of The Damned" as an homage to Vinny Appice before even meeting him.




Mike Safron - Pavlov's Dog
In 1972 Mike Safron who had already played with Albert King, Bo Didley, and Chuck Berry began to form the group Pavlov's Dog. When Pavlov's Dog signed their contract to ABC Dunhill in 1974, they received $650,000 which was reported to be the largest amount paid to a new national act EVER at that time! Then the group switched to Columbia records for another $600,000. After leaving Pavlov's Dog in late '76, Safron formed the seven piece group called "Children" which also featured Pavlov's violinist Siegfried Carver who shared the stage with three other great violinists Todd Hellam, Tom Moore, and Drew Perkins, who were visually spectacular. Children had a hybrid sound drawing on classical influences while keeping a feel for R&B and Rock. They built a melodic wall of sound using violins instead of horns surrounding a concert hall with the sound of mellotron and spirits.
As Siegfried would say, "Children was the best music group I ever played with".
The group lasted three years before breaking up do to financial situations and the end of a progressive music era.






Andy Powell - Wishbone Ash
Andy Powell (born Andrew Powell, 19 February 1950, Stepney, London[1]) is an English guitarist and songwriter, and a founding member of the British band Wishbone Ash, known for their innovative use of twin lead guitars. He is named in discussions of the most influential guitarists in rock music history, often alongside other Wishbone Ash guitarists including Ted Turner and Laurie Wisefield.Powell and Turner were acknowledged as two of the ten most important guitarists in rock history (Traffic magazine 1989 )
Although born in the East End of London, Powell grew up in the new town of Hemel Hempstead, some 25 miles (40 km) north-east of London. He first played guitar at the age of 11, inspired by rock and beat bands such as The Shadows.[1]Powell, unable to muster funds to buy a brand-new guitar, made a Les Paul-style guitar himself, and began to play in London-based bands such as The Dekois and The Sugar Band.
In 1969, Powell answered a Melody Maker classified in which Martin Turner and Steve Upton advertised for a guitar player. Being unable to choose between Powell and another applicant (Ted Turner), Wishbone Ash was formed with two lead guitarists. The band went on to find considerable worldwide success, being famed for their pioneering use of twin lead guitars – inspiring the likes of Thin LizzyIron Maiden and Metallica.
Powell has recorded numerous sessions for other artists, including George HarrisonRingo StarrKashifCilla Black,Stewart Copeland and Renaissance.
In 1988, Powell contributed to Miles Copeland III's Night of the Guitar project alongside Ted Turner, touring extensively with artists such as Randy CaliforniaJan AkkermanSteve HoweSteve HunterRobby KriegerLeslie West and Alvin Lee.


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