Music Man
Music Man can refer to:
- The Music Man (album), a 1959 jazz album by Jimmy Guiffre featuring tunes from the above musical
- The Music Man (1962 film), a feature film adaptation
- The Music Man (2003 film), a television film remake
Music Man (company)
Music Man is an American guitar and bass guitar manufacturer. It is a division of the Ernie Ball corporation.
Early years
The Music Man story began in 1971 when Forrest White and Tom Walker formed a company they would call Tri-Sonix, Inc (often incorrectly referred to as "Tri-Sonic"). Tom Walker approached Leo Fender about financial help in forming Tri-Sonix. White had worked with Leo in the very early days of Fender Electric Instrument Manufacturing Company as the plant manager and stayed on after the company was sold to the CBS Corporation, but had grown unhappy with their management. Tom Walker worked as a sales rep at Fender. Because of a 10-year non-compete clause in the 1965 contract that sold the Fender companies to CBS, Leo Fender was a silent partner.
The name of this partnership was changed to Musitek, Inc. by 1973 and in January 1974 the final name, Music Man, appeared. Leo Fender did not like the name Tri-Sonix, so the name evolved under Leo Fender's suggestion to call the new company Music Man. In 1974, the company started producing its first product, an amplifier designed by Leo Fender and Tom Walker called the "Sixty Five". It was a hybrid of tube and solid state technology. The preamps used the then burgeoning solid state "op-amp" integrated circuits embodying traditional Fender preamp time constants and architecture, while the power amps typically featured a Cathode Driven Tube power amp stage, much as were used in the radio broadcast industry in AM Transmitters. There were a few models with a tube phase splitter in them, but for the most part Music Man amplifiers used the faster responding common Grid, Cathode Coupled drive from a solid state front end that players characterized as "loud as hell". The number of designs rapidly increased. 15 of the 28 pages from 1976 catalogue were dedicated to amplification. In 1975, Fender's legal restriction had expired and after a vote of the board he was named the president of Music Man.
Music Man (album)
Music Man is an album by Waylon Jennings, released in 1980 on RCA Victor.
Recording and composition
Shaka
Shaka kaSenzangakhona (circa 1787 – 22 September 1828), also known as Shaka Zulu (Zulu pronunciation: [ˈʃaːɠa]), was one of the most influential monarchs of the Zulu Kingdom.
He was born near present-day Melmoth, KwaZulu-Natal Province. According to tradition, Shaka was conceived during an act of what began as ukuhlobonga, a form of sexual foreplay without penetration allowed to unmarried couples, also known as "the fun of the roads" (ama hlay endlela), during which the lovers were "carried away".
Due to persecution as a result of his illegitimacy, Shaka spent his childhood in his mother's settlements. He is recorded as having been initiated there and inducted into an ibutho lempi (fighting unit). In his early days, Shaka served as a warrior under the sway of Dingiswayo, chieftain of the Mthethwa, to whom the Zulu were then paying tribute.
Dingiswayo called up the emDlatsheni iNtanga (age-group), of which Shaka was part, and incorporated it into the Izichwe regiment. Shaka served as a Mthethwa warrior for perhaps as long as ten years, and distinguished himself with his courage and his adept skill as a close combat warrior. This skill gained the attention of Dingiswayo, who became even more interested in Shaka when he discovered Shaka's royal bloodline. He honoured Shaka by making him commander of a regiment or ibutho.
Shaka (disambiguation)
Shaka (c. 1787 – c. 1828) was the leader of the Zulu Kingdom in the early 19th century.
Shaka may also refer to:
- Shaka era, a period in the Indian national calendar
- Shakamuni or Gautama Buddha, the historical Buddha
Persons with the given name
Shaka sign
The shaka sign, sometimes known as "hang loose", is a gesture often associated with Hawaii and surf culture. It consists of extending the thumb and smallest finger while holding the three middle fingers curled, and gesturing in salutation while presenting the front or back of the hand; the hand may be rotated back and forth for emphasis. The shaka sign was adopted from local Hawaiian culture and customs by visiting surfers in the 1960s, and its use has spread around the world.
Meaning and use
Hawaiians use the shaka to convey the "Aloha Spirit", a concept of friendship, understanding, compassion, and solidarity among the various ethnic cultures that reside within Hawaii, lacking a direct semantic to literal translation. The shaka can also be used to express "howzit?", "thanks, eh?", and "all right!" Drivers will often use it on the road to communicate distant greetings and gratitude.
In American Sign Language, the shaka is one of the two signs used to refer to surfing. In California, the shaka sign may be referred to as "hang loose" or "hang ten"- both associated with surfer culture.
Podcasts:
Shaka
ALBUMS
- Aivovuoto released: 2013
- Pilvilinna released: 2013
- Jedin paluu released: 2012
- Kompilaatio released: 2011
- 1. erä released: 2008
- Ajatusrikoksia: Kierrätysmateriaalia 2001-2007 released: 2008
- Pimeä puoli released: 2004
Shaka
ALBUMS
- Get Down to the Funk released: 1998
- Mazzo Mixup: Sex Love & Motion 3 + 4 released: 1997
- Ragga Hip-Hop, Volume III released:
Get Down to the Funk
Released 1998- Get Up '99 (Party People Get Up remix)
- Put It in the Mix (Get Wicked remix)
- Drop the Bass Now (The Funkmaster's Anthem mix)
- The Funk (Hart-Attack mix)
- Yet Another Rises From the Swamp (The Vibe mix)
- Ride the Funk (Original Volume mix)
- Why U Bumpin' (Original Shaka mix)
- Can U Feel It? (1st Born mix)
- This Is the Situation
- Break @ Dawn
- C'Mon Breakdown (Check This Out mix)
- Let Me Tell You
Ragga Hip-Hop, Volume III
- Summer Time
- Heads High
- The Grooves Rare Ragga Megamix
- Tinted Car
- Skettle Combo
- The Glock
- Twist & Turn
- Interlude
- Champion
- Romie
- Get Mad Now
- Things Are Happening
- Watch Your Friends
- Pop It Off (Xela remix)
- Boom Ragga Megamix
- No Long Talking
- Modelling
- Hardcore Ragga Mix
- Say Wooee
- Watch the Ride
- All Ragga Megamix
- Hampie Size Ragga
- One of Them (XELA remix)
- Interlude
- Mad Them (Xela remix)
- As Salaam
- Look/Gansta Sh@@t
- War War War
- Outro Xela
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Music Man
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It's late at night
Can't go to sleep
Eyes open wide
Doin' the midnight creep
Well it's just a holiday
For a circus dream
'cause I'm a music man baby
Hangin' from a wire with no net below
You know I'm gonna catch you if you fall
Swirling dancers
Driftin' in the night
Make you go crazy
Forget what is wrong and what is right
'cause the melody gonna make you high
Float you away like a cloud in the sky
And the music man with a song for you
A sweet georgia minstrel who loves to sing the blues
Get it
Come and get it
When you get back home to your flat in the city
Notice that your neighbor has the radio on
Out of nowhere you gonna hear a sound
Movin' through your head, spinning 'round and 'round
And the music man with a song for you
A sweet georgia minstrel who loves to sing the blues
Get it