Symphonic rock, or classical rock as it is also commonly called, is what happens when electric guitars and symphony orchestras collide. The results are often not pretty — there's a reason nobody remembers that album Deep Purple did with an orchestra, for example. But ever since the Beatles experimented with …
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Folk Rock
When folk singer Bob Dylan shocked the world in the sixties by strapping on an electric guitar and making rock albums like Highway 61 Revisited, a funny thing happened. Well, actually, several funny things happened — but by far the biggest of them all was folk rock. In Dylan's wake, …
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Classic Rock is kind of a tough category to pigeonhole. True, it's a brand of oldies rock, but fifties music doesn't qualify (too old) and, to purists at least, neither does most eighties music (too new). If you find this at all confusing, you are hardly alone. Broadly defined, classic …
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GM is the abbreviated, commonly used name to identify General Motors, the second largest maker of automobiles in the world. For generations the GM brand has been a symbol of both American ingenuity and affluence, employing some 250,000 people as recently as 2008. GM brands include such cars as Chevrolet, …
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During his short, spectacular life — he was just 38 years old the night he was shot by a deranged fan — as a guitar god with the bands Pantera and Damageplan, "Dimebag" Darrell Abbott was a living, breathing, walking, talking, and yes often drinking — heavy metal caricature. Abbott …
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