The Slants Wicked Tour Blog 3: 13 Places to Eat Before You Die
The Slants: How the Wicked Live Tour is presented by G Sake. This video shows a few more days into our tour: doing some vocal exercises in the van, footage from The Walnut Room in Denver, hanging out at the world famous Oklahoma Joe’s BBQ, a show at Jerry’s Bait Shop, and doing a tour of the Boiler Room art collective where we stayed. Destinations: The Walnut Room (Denver, CO), Oklahoma Joe’s (Kansas City, MO), The Boiler Room (Kansas City, MO), Guitar Center (Kansas City, MO), Jerry’s Bait Shop (Lee’s Summit, MO) FOR MORE INFORMATION ON THE HOW THE WICKED LIVE TOUR AND FREE MP3 DOWNLOAD, visit www.gliveswicked.com ABOUT THE SLANTS: The Slants are the only all-Asian American dance rock band in the world. Kicking off the band’s career at a tiny dive bar in Portland, OR, The Slants soon found themselves on tour and in demand worldwide performing at music halls, colleges, and anime conventions. Within months, they released their debut album “Slanted Eyes, Slanted Hearts” winning multiple awards from the likes of Willamette Week, Rockwired, AsiaXpress, and the Portland Music Awards. Since that first iconic show in 2007, The Slants have been cited as the “Hardest Working Asian American Band” (slanteyefortheroundeye.com), toured North America ten times, rejected a million dollar recording contract, were the first and only Asian band to be a Fender Music artist, and according to US Congress, the first rock band to play inside a state library. The Willamette Week, summarizes The …
Cutting Crew is a pop rock band formed in England in 1985, best known for their #1 hit, “(I Just) Died in Your Arms”. Vocalist Nick Van Eede founded the group along with Canadian guitarist Kevin Scott MacMichael in 1985, and the two made demos that led to a recording contract, before bassist Colin Farley and drummer Martin Beadle joined in 1986. Their first album, Broadcast, released in 1986, provided the first US hit for Richard Branson’s Virgin Records. Virgin flew the band to New York for initial recordings of the album, then to Australia to shoot videos.[1] The unknown band shot to #1 in the US, Canada and Norway with their debut single, “(I Just) Died in Your Arms”. Their most popular single, it was a multiformat success in the US, where it also reached number four on the Hot Mainstream Rock Tracks chart, #24 on the Hot Adult Contemporary Tracks chart and —in an extended remix version— #37 on the Hot Dance/Club Play chart. The song peaked at #4 in the UK Singles Chart, as well as in Switzerland and South Africa; it went to #2 in Sweden and Ireland, and #9 in Austria.[2] The choice for follow-up single in the UK had been “I’ve Been In Love Before”, but that song only spent three weeks in the UK Top 40, peaking at #31. Their choice for follow-up single in the US was their third UK release, “One For The Mockingbird”, but the song was a relative commercial disappointment on both sides of the Atlantic, just cracking the Top 40 of the Hot 100 at #38 and hitting #29 on the …
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