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Группа образована в 1967 году в США в составе: Арт Невилл - клавишные, вокал; Лео Ночентелли - гитара, вокал; Джордж Поттер - бас-гитара, вокал; Джозеф «Зигабу» Моудлист - ударные, вокал. Когда Арт Невилл собрал в Новом Орлеане группу, он уже был весьма известным пианистом с 15-летним стажем: ещё в школе он выступал с группой «The Hawketts» и в 1954 году написал хит-сингл «Mardi Gras Mambo», который до сих пор транслируют все радиостанции США на праздник Марди-грас. Он плодотворно работал и в первой половине 60-х, а в 1966 году организовал группу «Art Neville And The Sound», в которую вошли его братья...

The Centimeters are an eccentric band from LA, sometimes described as The Addams family meets Kurt Weil. The Centimeters started their metric rise to infamy in 1996, when Max Gomberg and Nora Keyes of The Parkas began to collaborate on material in an effort to produce a more refined sound; they met punk pioneer Don Bolles of The Germs and Transparency label owner Michael Shepard in 1997. The Centimeters gained an influential new fan in David J of Bauhaus, who had them open for Love And Rockets' last shows at the Roxy. In 1998 The Centimeters met Charles Schneider who...

Like so many others the Killermeters started life as a punk band the Killer Meters as they were then, split in 1978, reforming in the October as the mod band The Killermeters, kicking back into life with a new song that said it all: Back In Business. They were the best and most energetic band in the industrial Yorkshire town of Huddersfield and played all the club and pub venues in the North. During their time they were warned by John Peel that the Mod image would lead them down a blind alley but they were also raved about in...

A four piece combo from Queensferry/SCO with their lone release on their own "Fokker Records" label. .

The Funky Meters are give or take the same group as "The Meters", an American funk band based out of New Orleans, Louisiana. They were active between the late 60s until their breakup in 1977. They reunited later on, and went through a few new members, which resulted in the name change to "The Funky Meters". They were never extremely popular, and didn't receive much airtime on the radio, but are considered one of the leading funk predecessors. .