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unusual facts about DEMOS


Social media intelligence

The term was coined in a 2012 paper written by Sir David Omand, Jamie Bartlett and Carl Miller for the Centre for the Analysis of Social Media, at the London based think-tank, Demos.


90125

In 2003, Trevor Rabin released a solo album entitled 90124 which consisted of previously unreleased demos from the 90125 album (hence the title) and other works from his time in Yes.

Adventures in Modern Recording

Both "We Can Fly from Here" and "Riding a Tide" (appearing as demos on the 2010 reissue) were rerecorded by Yes (with Horn as producer and Downes on keyboards) for their 2011 studio album Fly from Here.

Americans for Fairness in Lending

Its official partners include: ACORN, California Reinvestment Coalition, Center for Responsible Lending, CFED, Community Reinvestment Association – North Carolina, Consumer Federation of America, Consumers Union, Demos, National Association of Consumer Advocates, National Consumer Law Center, NEDAP, United Professionals, PIRG, Public Citizen and the Woodstock Institute.

Apple media events

Schiller then showed demos of Infinity Blade III to demonstrate the A7's processing power and the iPhone 5S camera using untouched photographs.

Asphalt Mother

In 2006, it was included along with its flip side on the Mind Garage Early Years "Reach Out" CD which was a collection of seven demos recorded by the band in 1968.

Avara

He wanted to show the technology to a gaming evangelist and was readying the demos on a PowerBook in the main hall at the San Jose Convention Centre when Stuart Cheshire (the author of Bolo for Macintosh) happened to sit right behind him and see what Juri was doing.

Blink-182 discography

The band recorded three demos, including the commercially available Buddha, before signing to San Diego-based independent label Cargo Music in 1994.

Brad Cotter

Cotter left Silverado in 1993 and moved to Nashville, Tennessee, where he tried to get work as a solo act and a songwriter, landing cuts by Tommy Shane Steiner and Chad Brock, in addition to recording demos.

Buddy Jewell

Among the songs that Jewell recorded demos for were "Write This Down" for George Strait, "A Little Past Little Rock" for Lee Ann Womack, "The One" for Gary Allan and "You're Beginning to Get to Me" for Clay Walker.

Byfield, Northamptonshire

A number of Sandy's demos issued since her death (most notably on the 2004 box set A Boxful of Treasures) were recorded at home in Byfield.

Caroline Peyton

Peyton moved to Los Angeles in 1977, where she performed in local clubs, recorded demos for record-label impresario Mike Curb and appeared on a couple of television shows—most notably the Dinah Shore show and the Gong Show.

Charlie Dominici

Dominici's voice was also heard on the YtseJam Records release "When Dream And Day Unite Demos" which featured pre-production and vocal demos of several songs, as well as Dominici singing Beatles Covers and the traditional Christmas song O Holy Night.

Dave Keuning

Their first demos included the hit "Mr. Brightside" which Keuning wrote the guitar to before meeting Brandon Flowers.

Demoicracy

Kalypso Nicolaïdis made the term popular with her powerful argument that the EU is not and should not be conceived of as any form of state (federal or any other) and that a single European demos is neither available, nor desirable.

Demon Entrails

The demos – Death Fiend, Triumph of Death and Satanic Rites – were all recorded during 1983 and were properly remastered for this compilation.

Eternal Decision

As an example, many people have downloaded Eternal Decision's songs in P2P programs like Ares Galaxy or LimeWire believing they're singles or demos from Metallica's 2008 New Album, Death Magnetic.

Gods Child

After a year and a half of touring nationally as an opener and a headliner, Gods Child started making demos with Lucious Jackson producer Tony Mangurian.

Harry Rushakoff

He worked with Jim Belushi when the actor used 4xy to record some demos and play live dates.

Hollywood Rehearsal

Hollywood Rehearsal is a collection of demos by L.A. Guns that was released in Japan.

Jack Reid

He produced an instructional CD-ROM and did a mini-series of painting demos, broadcast on Rogers Cable.

Joey Moi

He attended CDIS School of Engineering and Sound in Vancouver, when he began working with Nickelback on demos.

Just Pickin'

It includes different previously unreleased demos spanning from 1967 to 1981, featuring Brendan Croker, Mark Knopfler and Sholto Lenaghan.

Les Incompétents

In March 2007, the band released End of an Error (2004-2006), a collection of all their recorded material, on White Heat Records, including singles, b-sides, early demos, an introduction featuring David Walliams and live performances from XFM sessions.

Let's Stop Hanging Out

The b-sides were recorded overnight at Air studios in London with Adam Noble, who had recorded some of the bands early demos at the University of Surrey.

Lindsay Dracass

She was directed to Alan Kirk's recording studio, and the demos she recorded were then played to Peter Van Hooke, who signed Dracass to his production company who then, in turn, signed her to a recording contract with Universal Records.

Make It Easy

In 2003, the early version of this song was released by Trevor Rabin on a collection of demos titled 90124.

Markus Rill

Two albums came out in 2004: Hobo Dream, produced by guitarist Duane Jarvis and recorded in Nashville, TN and released once again by Blue Rose, and later the same year the self-released The Hobo Companion a collection of live recordings, demos, radio-cuts, and cover songs.

Michael Chance Band

With the help of veteran soul producer Rena Sinakin, Michael Chance recorded early song demos with such laudable talents as Robert Martin (Orleans, Frank Zappa, Etta James), Wayne "Tex" Gabriel (of John Lennon and Elephant's Memory), Steve "Muruga" Booker (of the Parliament-Funkadelic), Steve Wise (Stevie Wonder's protégé), and Bruce Hawes, a pioneer of The Sound of Philadelphia.

Morrisson

After producing several demos in the 90's, his earliest official releases were underground deep, soulful house tracks for veteran DJ/Producer Julius Papp on Julius' NeoDisco label.

Ottomen

The Ottomen started in 1995 when Jim and Dave began recording demos in the dorms of the Kansas City Art Institute.

Phillips Recording

This Memphis studio was originally a division of a larger corporation, Sam Phillips Recording Service, Inc., which also briefly included under its umbrella a Nashville studio, where famed CBS Records producer Billy Sherrill got his start, and a studio in Tupelo, Mississippi for demos.

Places for Breathing

"A Gift," "Seven," and "Straight Jacket Labels" served as the band's first three demos produced by Tommy Henriksen and Jeff Tilson.

Ratas Del Vaticano

They started rehearsing and recording some demos, which would later turn into their debut LP Mocosos Pateticos released by the Philadelphia based label, Siltbreeze.

Recombo DNA

Unlike the Hardcore Devo compilations, which contained several demos from Devo's pre-record deal days, this collection spans throughout much of their career with Warner Bros. Records and Enigma Records.

RELCOM

It was launched in the Soviet Union on August 1, 1990 in the Kurchatov Institute in collaboration with DEMOS co-operative (although the engineering team at DEMOS at the time consisted mostly of Kurchatov Institute employees, some key members (Mikhail Davidov, Vadim Antonov, Dmitry Volodin) in the RELCOM team were never employed by Kurchatov Institute).

Rotten Ped

Having recorded several demos the group dissolved and Greg Pedder went onto join the band Solis before leaving to study at Thames Valley University in London and later Glasgow Caledonian University In Scotland.

Royden

Based on demos cut at the end of that band's activity, they interested independent label Hopeless Records which released their EP, Best Friends Our Worst Enemies in May 2004.

Scary Thieves

The final record lacked the dynamism of the initial demos, nevertheless EMI went ahead with a set of releases and remixes, including extra productions with Scott Litt (producer of R.E.M.), and J. J. Jeczalik (Art of Noise).

Silver Box

Silver Box is a 5-CD box set by Scottish rock band Simple Minds, released on 18 October 2004, mostly made up of previously unreleased demos, radio & TV sessions and various live recordings from 1979 to 1995..

Sourya

After playing in a Parisian band from 1997 to 2005, he began recording demos.

Studio 19

It has been a haven for the Nashville songwriters like Annie Roboff, Craig Wiseman, Marcus Hummon, Beth Nielsen Chapman, and many more to do their demos as well.

Tapboard

While still a member of progressive pop band It Bites, guitarist Francis Dunnery developed a two-handed tapping technique while recording demos between 1988 and 1989.

The Defiled

With a series of sought-after demos trading between fans, the band released their first EP (1888) in 2009, and released their full album Grave Times for free, in the January issue of Metal Hammer.

The Pingry EP

The EP features various rough demos of songs that would later be featured on their first full-length album, Marvin's Marvelous Mechanical Museum, as well as two live tracks recorded at The Blind Pig in Ann Arbor, Michigan (one of which was merely a banter track), and one recorded live on the Mitch Albom Show on WJR Radio in Detroit, Michigan.

The Prize Fighter Inferno

In 2004, a leaked recording of several In Keeping Secrets of Silent Earth: 3 acoustic demos made its way to several P2P networks.

Vent EP

Two surviving recordings from the scrapped mini album were added as bonus demos on the end of the EP.

Vrachasi

Vrachasi's fiercely independent streak mirrors that of nearby Sissi and Milatos and can be seen by the many hand painted declarations of 'Demos Vrachasiou' around the area.


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