Helloween 2001-2004

In early 2005, precisely in February 2005, Schwarzmann and Helloween began experiencing the discrepancy. During the days before she saw the tour and the entire personnel of the differences between them, they do not entirely share in terms of their musical path. Schwarzmann decided to continue helping Helloween during production until a replacement is found Dani Loble, former player RAWHEAD REXX Drum, which is the right person for Helloween.

‘ve Heard rumors that Helloween will release a second album, a continuation of the legendary Keeper’s, but until some time in June, confirmed the release Helloween “Keeper Of The Seven Keys – The Legacy”. The first single titled “Mrs.God” was launched on July 4 in Southeast Asia, followed by the whole world on September 5. On October 31, 2005, Helloween released a continuation of the legendary Keeper albums entitled “Keeper Of The Seven Keys – The Legacy”. This album brings a tremendous recognition of this band and be well received throughout the world. Keseuksesan this album and tour is very strong sustainability and the band finally released a live DVD and CD combo Combo live. In 2007, two years to celebrate their success, Helloween released a Combo Live CD entitled “Keeper Of The Seven Keys – The Legacy World Tour 2005/2006 – Live In Sao Paulo” and Live Combo DVD entitled “Keeper Of The Seven Keys – The Legacy World Tour 2005/2006 – Live On 3 Continents “.

At the end of 2007, Helloween back new album release entitled “Gambling With The Devil”. And again greeted his fans with Gamma Ray’s one of the founding members are former Helloween (Kai Hansen). And even right at the end on Friday February 22, 2008 Helloween were performed in Jakarta (Indonesia) is located at the Tennis Outdoor Senayan at 9:10 pm.

At the end of 2008, in order to welcome the Helloween birthday to 25 years (25th Anniversary) will be made a t-shirt that had the headline “25th Anniversary” Helloween. And that becomes a special T-shirt from this other than to welcome the day so Helloween the 25 that the t-shirt design was created by Helloween fans who later on voting and who got the most, it will votingan t-shirt design that will be released. Early 2009 design t-shirt “25th Anniversary” was chosen and originated from Brazil and already in pre-orders in March 2009.

Halloween 1990-1993 (will be continued)

EMI company was interested and signed them because Helloween have a problem with the label, Noise Records. Helloween decided to contract with Noise and joined EMI. And they lost in court and must pay compensation to the noise and prohibited release the album outside of Europe and Japan. Because of the complicated financial issues, they do not produce albums for up to 2 years.

Some were released live album (Live in the UK in Europe, Keepers Live in Japan and I Want Out: Live in USA) released to impress the fans during the hiatus. And they also got help from Management Sanctuary (Iron Maiden, WASP) to survive.

Little by little they began to believe, up from a long break, they release the album with an unusual title Pink Bubbles Go Ape in 1991. But this album shows even less identity Helloween, many get criticism from fans and the media, writing songs that do not focus. Even worse, rumors circulated that the cultivation of this album filled with internal conflicts between personnel. Albums full of uncertainty was followed by sales that do not like what they expected. In 1993, they release the album is worse, Chameleon, and rumors that exacerbate tensions between personnel began to soar. This is starting to look at that period, Ingo experiencing stress, drugs and alcohol and the disease is diagnosed with Schizophrenia. Ingo was replaced by Richie Abdel Nabi during the tour.

Ingo suffered from Schizophrenia since birth. This is only known at the time he was undergoing rehabilitation drugs like cocaine and alcohol dopping very adverse to the functioning of the brain and cause difficulty in speaking. Basically, alcohol can delay the effects of Schizophrenia for a while, but will still appear at any moment if someone has 30 years of age. A disease that is difficult to cure. This is a special burden for Ingo and finally Weiki must make a decision to ask Ingo no longer play for Helloween. They talked for 5 to 6 hours, Ingo was rejected and want to keep playing for Helloween. Ingo does not understand the condition he was and did not undergo treatment well. And one day, he killed himself by jumping into the subway train that was passing.

At that time, both EMI and Sanctuary decided to stop their losses and let Helloween to determine their own fate. Helloween was signed a contract with Castle Communications.
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Aerosmith

Aerosmith is a rock group the United States, formed in Boston, Massachusetts. Three members, Steven Tallarico (Tyler), Joe Perry and Tom Hamilton met in Sunapee, New Hampshire in the late 1960s, but not immediately formed a band.

Tyler who came from Yonkers, New York, and Perry from Hopedale, Massachusetts, and Hamilton from New London, New Hampshire was not until 1970, the trio decided to form a band, and moved to Boston, Massachusetts.

Joe Perry and Tom Hamilton moved to Boston in September 1970. There they met Joey Kramer, who happens to come from Yonkers, New York, and met with Steven Tallarico.

After they heard Perry and Hamilton play and Kramer agreed to join, Steven Tyler and then came to Boston in October 1970 and Aerosmith they form.

At first Ray Riau Penyengat play rhythm guitar but he was replaced in 1971 by Brad Whitford from Reading, Massachusetts. This is the final formation of Aerosmith.

Guitar

Acoustic guitar is the kind of guitar where the sound comes from vibrations of guitar strings that are drawn through the saddle and the bridge where the string binder into the sound room. The voice in the room will resonate sound of the guitar body wood. Wood types will affect the sound produced by acoustic guitar.

Electric guitar is a type of guitar that uses pickups to convert some of the sound or vibration of guitar strings into electrical current to be amplified again by using a set of amplifiers and loud speakers. Electric guitar sound is produced by vibration of the strings in the coil guitar body is commonly called “pick up”. Sometimes the signal is out of the pickup changed electronically with the guitar effects as reverb or distortion.

The first electric guitar used by jazz guitarists who use hollow bodied amplifiers to get a bigger voice. The first electric guitar is a hollow bodied guitar with pickups made by the steel manufacturer in the year 1931 Rickenbacker. Electric guitar is a key instrument in the development of music that emerged since 1940, including the Chicago Blues, rock and roll and blues rock in 1962.

Fender

In 1946 a carpenter and builder radio service Clarence Leonidas Fender amplifiers better known as Leo Fender solid body guitar design a successful first comersial with a magnetic pickup Esquire named. Esquire two pickup version called the Broadcaster. Gretcsch also had a drumset marketed with names like “Broadkaster”, which renamed Fender Telecaster. In 1954 Fender introduced the Fender Stratocaster, or Start. Stratocaster look more luxurious and displays various improvements and innovations over Telecaster. Fender introduces an electric bass guitar called a Fender Precision Bass in 1951.

History of Electric Guitar

The need for a guitar with a strong voice even more obvious in big-band era, marked by the development of the orchestra, jazz orchestra in 1930 and 1940.
Electric guitar originally designed by guitar maker, lover of electronics and equipment manufacturers musik.Inovator adapt Les Paul guitar hollow bodied instruments with tungsten pickups used, this type of guitar being produced by the Electro String Instrument Corporation in 1932. Their first design was made by Harry Watson, an expert who worked at the Electro String new Company.Gitar named “Rickenbacker” by the company and became the first of its kind. The first documentation of performance with an electric guitar is the year 1932 by a guitarist and bandleader Gage Brewer. Brewew publish his new instrument in an article in the Wichita Beacon on 2 October 1932 and continued to appear in the month. The first recording with an electric guitar made by players like Andy Hawaiian Style Iola in early 1933. Alvino Rey is the artist who brought this instrument to a wider audience in a large orchestral setting, and then developed with the pedal steel guitar to Gibson Durham Ediie introduce electric spanish guitar to a young man named Charlie Christian who made the instrument famous in his life journey and generally known as the first electric guitar and also brings great influence to the jazz music until the next decade. The first electric guitar recording is in Dallas spanish September 1939, in a session by Roy Newman and His Boys a Western Swing band. The guitarist Jim Boyd wore electric guitar throughout the recording 3 songs one of them “Corrine, Corrina”. Early on guitar manufacturers include: Rickenbacker in 1932, the year 1933 Dobro, National, Audio Vox and Volu-Ton in 1934, Vega, Epiphone, and Gibson in 1936, and more since 1936. Version of the most recognizable instruments currently is Solid Bodied Electric Guitar or berbodi solid electric guitar, which is made of solid wood with no air space in bodinya. Rickenbacker offers an electric guitar with an aluminum mold which was called The Frying Pan or The Pancake Guitar. Developed in 1931 and began production in 1932 spring season, this guitar produces a modern sound and aggressive. Audio Vox companies make and may have offered solid body guitar in the mid-1930. A more solid guitar designed by a musician and inventor Les Paul at the beginning of 1940, he worked part time at the Epiphone Guitar. Log Guitarnya guitar was patented and is often regarded as the first of its kind.

Guitar Effects

While the size of an acoustic guitar sound depends on the vibration bodinya equipped with air space, the magnitude of an electric guitar sound depends on the magnetic induction of electrical signals generated by the metal strings near the pickups. Signal was formed in the plot led to a set of sound effects aplifiermenggunakan to modify the tone and signal characteristics. Circuit formation of the most common sound is a volume control, gain and tone and pickup selector switch is found in almost all types of electric guitar. In 1960 some players starting to explore a wider range of effects to distort the sound penadaan, by adding the gain and volume of the Preamplifier to produce a vague (fuzzy). This effect is called “clipping” by the expert voice because when displayed with the oscilloscope, the waveforms look distorted signal cut at its peak. This is not a new development on the instrument, but it brings a little shift in aesthetics. In 1960 the colors on the electric guitar penadaan further modified by introducing an effects box in the signal path, built in a metal chassis with a switch on / of the foot. Seems stomp box has become an important part in many musical genres. Sound effects typically include stereo chorus, fuzz, wah-wah, flanging, compression / sustain, delay, reverb and phase shift. Not all of elektrnik guitar effects in 1967, Jimmy Page of The Yardbird and Led Zepelin creating psychedelic sound effects by playing the guitar with a violin bow and hitting the strings with the bow. In 1980 and 1990, digital effects and Sotware effect began to replicate the analog effects. Digital Efect try the sound effect is analogous to that for varying degrees of quality. So many computer programs to be didownloud guitar efect for free via the Internet. Now, by using a soundcard of a computer can be used as a digital guitar effects. But although the digital effects and software effects gives advantages, many guitarists still use analog effects.

Electric Guitar Construction

Electric guitar construction consists of many variations, in terms of materials used for body guitars, the piece body and neck laying, bridge, and pickups there are some features found in virtually every type of guitar: headstock; contains nmachine head used for tuning the guitar, nut ; a piece of metal or plastic film as the support of the string length before the fretboard / fingerboard, machine head; a worm gear can be rotated or moved to regulate the string tension to get the tone, fret; a thin piece of metal embedded into the fretboard partially, stops working string when the string pressed to the fretboard to get the desired tone. Neck and fretboard; extends from the nut to the body guitar and the neck joint, neck glued or bolted to the guitar body, the body; made of hardwood and colored divernis, but some guitar body made of polycarbonate and other materials, pickups, usually in the form magnetic pickup, Knop control; a potentiometer for volume and tone, the bridge remains in a guitar, the bridge is not fixed is called tremolo is used as a replacement system allows players to bend the tone and vibrato effects are also displays on the guitar.

Halloween 1978-1989 (will be continued)

Helloween’s history began in 1978 when guitarist Kai Hansen and Piet Sielck formed a band named Gentry and after unloading their personnel put into Iron Fist change the display Ingo Schwichtenberg on drums and Markus Grosskopf on bass. Piet then go out and be a sound engineer bands like Blind Guardian, Grave Digger, Gamma Ray and his personal project, Iron Savior. Then came Michael Weikath from Powerfool, and changed his name to Helloween in 1982 in Hamburg.

In 1984, they recorded 2 songs for a compilation album Noise Records Death Metal. Helloween recorded “Oernst For Life” written by Weikath and a song titled “Metal Invaders”. With Kai Hansen Vocalis doubles as songwriter, recording their debut mini-album titled Helloween (contains 5 tracks) in early 1985. Album Walls of Jericho and mini single “Judas” released a year later, and the media began to be surprised by the interpretation of heavy metal Helloween classics. They won so many fans in mainland Europe, but Hansen was still not satisfied with the ability to sing and play guitar at the same time, and after the tour Helloween Kai suggested to find the right Vocalis to raise Helloween.

Helloween: 1987-1989
Ralf Scheepers from Tyran Pace is their first choice, but they finally found a very good Vocalis from a local band called Ill Prophecy. He is Michael Kiske, who was then 19-year-old, who has a clear voice and high and many singing styles inspired by Rob Halford and Bruce Dickinson.

This new formation of their new powers to prove on the stage and in the studio. They wanted to record a double album at first, but the noise rejected. They also release the Keeper of the Seven Keys I, who no doubt be a power metal album that is very influential in Europe. The combination of power and melody of their stretcher followed by many bands at that time, and made a sudden become a superstar Helloween power metal, even the opening band Iron Maiden, Armored Saint and Grim Reaper. The success of those being reached in the USA even invited to take part in MTV’s Headbanger’s Ball Tour.

Sidelines busy, they still managed to record the album Keeper Of The Seven Keys II in 1988. They are increasingly establishing themselves into power metal band’s most successful in re-selling album and tour in the USA with Exodus, and Anthrax. The program through the album charts in the UK, but the process of writing songs (especially the long song written by Kai) to start the crisis in Helloween. Their performances at the Donington Monsters of Rock festival increasingly confirmed their existence, but for Kai, her dreams come true also to the culmination of his ambitions in the group. Surprisingly, the Kai said in December 1988 withdrew from the band who had raised him, and stated that Helloween was too big for him so difficult to control. Kai then formed his own band under the name Gamma Ray. Helloween members not to resign, they attract former Rampage personnel, replacing Roland Grapow Kai and succeed in the tour in the UK.
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