Big names of the 1930's

Usage examples of bands.

Everything had shaken into place and everyone on the tour, bands and crew alike, had fixed routines to follow, which saved them from having to think too hard.

Both he and Jimmy Rail were over the forty-hill and they had been in several bands together over the years.

He had been up and down the greasy pole in various bands under various names.

He had learned how to enjoy being on top of the heap, and when he was between bands, he was content to earn a good living playing sessions or acting as a side-man on tours, helping to fill up the musical sound without getting in the way of the current stars.

Mocking cheers greeted him from the members of both bands, who were sitting at separated tables, as was the rule for tours.

Syd received support for his view from those who revived bands of the past with just one member of the original line-up, insisting that they could recreate the original sound if they used the original vocalist.

Anyone from the bands or the roadies would have just dropped the bag and walked away from it.

The bands had decided to stay in Bristol, fearing that Wales would be shut on a Sunday.

It was something that the bands did from time to time, just to hear in better detail what their performance actually sounded like.

James, never common Jim or Jimmy, had gone into the management side of the music business when he had turned respectable, figuring that bands come and go but there will always be promoters around to rip them off.

He could afford to recruit half a dozen bands and pay them enough in advances on royalties to let them get themselves into trouble.

And he knew enough people on the manufacturing and distribution side to get his tapes and CDs to the Great British Public without having to rely on the major distributors and shops if his bands were banned on taste grounds.

I just want somewhere to bring the bands on the KS label to expose them to a disbelieving public.

French booze took a bashing on recording and hospitality days at Melody Studios in nearby Cheam, which had a flavour of the good old days when bands had spent the hour after hour there, messing about and trying out ideas, instead of rehearsing elsewhere and dashing in and out of an expensive recording studio.

There was plenty of market-room for both straight BMR bands like Pandaemonium, and bands like Belfry, which were sending the whole thing up.