What type of group does Umphrey's McGee and Iron Maiden have in common?
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Umphrey's McGee Umphrey's McGee is an American jam band originally from South Bend, Indiana. The band's approach shares many elements with groups like Phish and the Grateful Dead such as varying set lists, improvisation, playing two sets per night, and allowing fans to tape concerts, they are much more influenced musically by progressive rock artists such as King Crimson, Yes, Pink Floyd, Frank Zappa, The Mahavishnu Orchestra, and early Genesis, as well as heavy metal bands such as Iron Maiden and Van Halen. The band also identifies The Police, The Beatles, and Led Zeppelin as primary influences. UM experiments with many musical styles, including rock, metal, funk, jazz, blues, electronic, bluegrass, and folk.
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Iron Maiden Iron Maiden are an English heavy metal band formed in Leyton, East London, in 1975 by bassist and primary songwriter Steve Harris. The band's discography has grown to thirty-eight albums, including sixteen studio albums, eleven live albums, four EPs, and seven compilations.
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Machine Men (band) Machine Men was a Finnish heavy metal band that originally formed as an Iron Maiden cover band.
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Live After Death Live After Death is a live album and video by the English heavy metal band Iron Maiden, originally released in October 1985 on EMI in Europe and its sister label Capitol Records in the US (it was re-released by Sanctuary/Columbia Records in the US in 2002 on CD and by Universal Music Group/Sony BMG Music Entertainment on DVD). It was recorded at Long Beach Arena, California and Hammersmith Odeon, London during the band's World Slavery Tour.
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Iron Reagan Iron Reagan is an American crossover thrash band from Richmond, Virginia, consisting of Municipal Waste vocalist Tony Foresta, Cannabis Corpse and Municipal Waste guitarist Phil "LandPhil" Hall, former A.N.S. guitarist Mark Bronzino, former Darkest Hour drummer Ryan Parrish, and Hellbear bassist Rob Skotis. Since their formation in 2012, they have released three full-length albums, one EP and two split EPs. Their 2014 album "The Tyranny of Will" peaked at 22 on the "Billboard" 200.
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Jake Cinninger Jake Cinninger, born Jacob Alan Cinninger, December 16, 1975 in Niles, Michigan, is an American musician. He has risen to fame as one of two lead guitarists in the Chicago-based jam band Umphrey's McGee. He is influenced by a wide range of styles and guitar players such as Joe Pass, Tommy Emmanuel, Chris Poland, Randy Rhoads, George Benson, David Gilmour, Frank Zappa, and Roy Buchanan among others.
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Iron Horse (band) Iron Horse is a Bluegrass band from Killen, Alabama, USA. They are known for performing and recording bluegrass cover versions of rock songs, particularly their bluegrass treatments of heavy metal songs popularized by Metallica. The band has two tracks on the tribute album "", which also features David Lee Roth, among other artists. They have recently been working on self-produced material and in October 2009 released an all original Christmas project called "Small Town Christmas".
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Godsmack discography Godsmack is an American alternative metal band founded in 1995 by singer Sully Erna and bassist Robbie Merrill. The band has released six studio albums, one EP, one compilation, three video albums, and twenty-three singles. Erna and Merrill recruited local friend and guitarist Lee Richards and drummer Tommy Stewart to complete the band's lineup. In 1996, Tony Rombola replaced Richards, as the band's guitarist. In 1998, Godsmack released their self-titled debut album, a remastered version of the "All Wound Up" demo. The album was distributed by Universal/Republic Records and shipped four million copies in the United States. In 2001, the band contributed the track "Why" to the Any Given Sunday soundtrack. After two years of touring, the band released "Awake". Although the album was a commercial success, it failed to match the sales of "Godsmack". In 2002, Stewart left the band due to personal differences, and was replaced by Shannon Larkin.
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Transatlantic (band) Transatlantic is a multinational progressive rock supergroup consisting of Neal Morse (ex-Spock's Beard), Roine Stolt (The Flower Kings), Pete Trewavas (Marillion) and Mike Portnoy (ex-Dream Theater). They formed in 1999 as a side project to their full-time bands, but disbanded in 2002. They then reunited in 2009.
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To-Mera To-Mera are an English progressive metal band from South Oxfordshire. The band plays a technical style of metal characterized by long songs, multiple time changes and jazz interludes.
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Psycho Motel Psycho Motel was a British hard rock band, formed by Iron Maiden guitarist Adrian Smith.
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Indiscreet (FM album) Indiscreet is the debut album from British hard rock band FM. "Indiscreet" was originally released in 1986 on the Portrait Records label, a sister label of Epic Records. The song "Frozen Heart" became a moderately successful single. The song "That Girl" was covered by Iron Maiden as a B-side to their single "Stranger in a Strange Land" following its inclusion in a live set by The Entire Population of Hackney (featuring Andy Barnett, erstwhile and future FM member and friend of Maiden guitarist Adrian Smith). Written by Merv Goldsworthy, Pete Jupp and Andy Barnett in an early FM line-up, it was one of the demo songs which secured FM their record contract with Portrait/Epic in 1984. By the time "Indiscreet" was released FM had re-written parts of their song, while Iron Maiden's release three weeks later covered the original arrangement.
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McCoy (band) McCoy was a British heavy metal band under the new wave of British heavy metal era. John McCoy also led his own band under the simple name "McCoy" during the 1980s, which has been integrated with members of bands like Iron Maiden, Samson and Gillan.
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Eddie the Head Eddie, also known as Eddie the Head, is the mascot for the British heavy metal band Iron Maiden. He is a perennial fixture of the group's artwork, appearing in all of their album covers (as well as most of their singles) and in their merchandise, which includes T-shirts, posters and action figures. On top of this, Eddie features in all of the band's concerts, as well as in the first-person shooter video game, "Ed Hunter", and the role-playing game, "Iron Maiden: Legacy of the Beast".
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The Abominable Iron Sloth The Abominable Iron Sloth is an American sludge metal band from Sacramento, California. The band features vocalist/guitarist Justin Godfrey, guitarists Cayle Hunter and Jeff Irwin, bassist Mike Martin, and drummer Mitch Wheeler. They released their eponymous debut album through Goodfellow Records in early 2006. Their second album, "The Id Will Overcome", was released in 2010.
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Iron people The Iron (IPA) /ɪ.ɹɔːn/ ) are a subgroup of the Ossetians. They speak the Iron dialect, one of the two main dialects of the Ossetian language. The majority of Irons belong to the Eastern Orthodox Church, with a Muslim minority. Their endonym is etymologically related to the other Iranian designations like Irani and Alani, and English Aryan (from Sanskrit "ārya", 'noble').
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Anton Gustafsson tolkar Iron Maiden Anton Gustafsson tolkar Iron Maiden (Swedish for "Anton Gustafsson Interprets Iron Maiden") is the first and only album by internet celebrity Anton Maiden. It was released in 1999. It consists entirely of MIDI covers of songs by the heavy metal band Iron Maiden, with vocals by Anton.
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List of Black Sabbath band members Black Sabbath were an English hard rock band from Aston, Birmingham. Formed in 1968, the group originally featured vocalist Ozzy Osbourne, guitarist Tony Iommi, bassist Geezer Butler and drummer Bill Ward. The initial lineup of the band lasted until 1977, during which time they released seven successful studio albums, including UK Albums Chart top-five releases "Paranoid", "Master of Reality" and "Sabbath Bloody Sabbath". Osbourne left the group in 1977 and was replaced briefly by Dave Walker, although the founding frontman returned the following year. His return was short-lived, however, and he was replaced in 1979 by Ronnie James Dio at the suggestion of Sharon Arden, who would later marry Osbourne. Butler also briefly left in 1979, although after hearing sessions recorded by replacement Craig Gruber he returned.
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Doug Sampson Douglas Gary Sampson (born 30 June 1957, Hackney, London) is a British musician, best known as the drummer for Iron Maiden from 1977 to 1979.
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Ethel the Frog (band) Ethel the Frog was a heavy metal band formed in 1976 in Hull, England. They are notable for being a part of the new wave of British heavy metal movement. The band's unusual name was taken from a Monty Python sketch about the "Piranha Brothers".
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Somewhere Back in Time World Tour Somewhere Back in Time World Tour was a concert tour by the heavy metal band Iron Maiden in 2008 and 2009, focused on the band's 1980s material, in particular songs from "Powerslave", "Somewhere In Time" and "Seventh Son of a Seventh Son". The tour tied in with the second part of the DVD series, entitled "The History of Iron Maiden", and prompted the release of a new greatest hits compilation, "Somewhere Back in Time".
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Nicky Moore Nicky Moore (born 1952, England) is an English blues, rock and heavy metal singer, who is best known as a former member of the British band Samson. He replaced Bruce Dickinson who left the band to join Iron Maiden in 1982. Moore left Samson in the late 1980s and rejoined in the late 1990s.