Renamed The Band, the group put out its debut album, "Music from Big Pink, " in 1968, to rapturous reviews.
At the core of the experience is the band, a group of my friends who are all world-class, Juilliard-trained musicians in their 20s.
New Zealand rockers The Datsuns won best live band and Australian group The Vines - who had six nominations going into the ceremony - only went home with the prize for best single, for their UK top 30 hit Get Free.
The idea is that if you band with a group of people you know and trust and each agrees to contribute a fixed amount every week for a number of weeks equal to the size of the group, every person can have their turn to take the collective pool.
Bassist Charlie Haden is known as a great jazz musician, but his lineage is all country: Growing up, he performed alongside his brothers and sister in the Haden Family Band, a country group led by his parents, Carl and Virginia.
He had hitched from Tucson days earlier, accepting a long, lucky ride on a band bus with a bluegrass group booked at a bar in Telluride.
The past few years have been turbulent times for Rogue Wave: After dealing with the death of bassist Evan Farrell following his departure from the group, the band has had to work around drummer Pat Spurgeon's ongoing struggles with a lifelong kidney disorder.
Hawkins left the band in 1963, and the group renamed itself Levon and the Hawks.
The project was shelved amid Wilson's punishing work schedule, inter-band bickering and friction between the group and their label.
Current boy band Blue agreed with 70s rock group Blue that they could each continue to be known as, and trade under, their names.
When band leader Orlando Marin told his group they had their first gig, they almost couldn't go because the piano player couldn't get permission from his mother.
The group officially became a band in 2000, with the members each adopting new names: Avey Tare (David Portner), Panda Bear (Noah Lennox), Deakin (Josh Dibb) and Geologist (Brian Weitz).
Islam, an architect, is the head of the Urban Study Group, a small band of architects founded in 2004 that are campaigning to save the cultural heritage of Puran Dhaka, the most historic area in the city.
Eight musicians from the 32-strong military band have formed themselves into the pop group, called Liquid Sunshine.
After leaving Dr Feelgood in 1977, Johnson joined Ian Dury's Blockheads and formed his own group, The Wilko Johnson Band.
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Lead singers interchange vocal lines while creating, emulating and combining decasyllabic verses and shaping the melody, all the while accompanied by a group of singers and tambura band.
But young people in the neighboring towns had caught wind of the new band and that morning there was a group of 30 boys and girls crowding around the yard.
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Asked in January about whether his group was a Christian metal band, he told NoiseCreep that the band had decided not to discuss "the spiritual topic" so that listeners would focus on their music.
"We are delighted that the court has upheld the rights of all artists to protect and control their creative efforts, " said the heavy metal band Metallica, who were the first group to demand their songs be removed from Napster.
He was present at a meeting between the festival's first director, the late Jed Williams, and the committee which set up the festival, and his former group, the Mike Harries Band, were the first to perform on stage at the founding event.
Despite his own interests, he insists that the band's sound is very much a group effort.
Toronto band Broken Social Scene is proof that any group is only as powerful as the sum of its parts.
Zeppelin was (and still is) popular and can easily be regarded as a historically important group and yet the band never won a Grammy before drummer John Bonham died.
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Webber and Wells got their start playing together in the neo-psychedelic folk-rock group Black Mountain, a Canadian band known for channeling acts like Led Zeppelin, complete with electrified riffs and aggressive beats.
The ones who do a lot of shows, like a Dave Matthews Band, will probably continue to release a group of songs so they have something to promote around the world.
Even today, a quick trawl through the internet tellingly reveals the existence ofboth a Spanish progressive rock band and a Slovakian "doom rock" group called Galadriel - the name of a Rings character.
Their longtime bass player quit the band, saying he had had enough of the group's craziness.
Elizabeth Esselink, sole proprietor of the Dutch electro band Solex, has never sounded so girl-group.
Then actor John Cusack and a group of first responders introduced the next band.
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