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It contains acoustic versions of many of the songs on their international hit album, Songs About Jane, as well as two cover songs (The Beatles' "If I Fell" and AC/DC's "Highway to Hell").


Acoustic tag

Acoustic telemetry for fisheries research employs acoustic tags where are small sound-emitting devices allowing the detection and/or remote tracking of fish in three dimensions.

American/English

This is the first of Acoustic Alchemy's albums to include EMI's Copy Control technique, designed to prevent illegal reproduction and audio ripping of the disc.

Animal Serenade

Fernando Saunders: electric & acoustic bass, Roland drums, guitar, vocals on "Tell It to Your Heart" & "Reviens Cherie", scat on "Sunday Morning"

Annie Lin

The album was made up of original acoustic pop songs which showed a strong Lisa Loeb influence.

Are You Ready for Freddy?

Tommy Christian, Randy Cornor, Bill Ham, Robert Martinez, Bobby Neal: Electric & Acoustic Guitars

Aston Martin DBS

The Aston Martin DBS also features an optional Bang & Olufsen sound system with 13 active loudspeakers including two tweeters with ALT (Acoustic Lens Technology).

Brian Fechino

Fechino's role with PMB is much wider than his guitar duties; he earned the nickname "Techno" from his bandmates for his soundboard skills, and has mixed and/or produced several of the band's projects including the EP Drive-By Romance, the bonus acoustic tracks on the Kirtland release of Save Me and the Wolf Trap portion of the Vintage Stages Live DVD.

Circle Jerks

Another song from the album, "Coup d'État", was used in the soundtrack of Alex Cox's early film Repo Man, and the band made an appearance in the film, playing an acoustic lounge version of "When the Shit Hits the Fan," featuring new members Chuck Biscuits (formerly of Black Flag and D.O.A.) on drums and Earl Liberty (formerly of Saccharine Trust) on bass.

Coming Days

Mick Molloy - Acoustic & Electric Guitars, Mandolin, Mandola, Percussion & Backing vocals

Cwmaman

On 14 December 2007, in association with Jo Whiley and her BBC Radio 1 Live Lounge Tour, the Stereophonics returned to Cwmaman to play an exclusive acoustic gig in the Cwmaman Working Men's Club, the venue where the band first performed.

Daniel Cavanagh

Cavanagh has been involved in other projects including Leafblade, an acoustic & Celtic rock band, (guitars and vocals), and Antimatter, the former band of ex-Anathema member Duncan Patterson.

Derek Hess

Shaun Morgan of Seether is photographed wearing a Strhess shirt in the liner notes of One Cold Night, a live acoustic album.

Drum screen

It is a transparent acoustic panel or system of panels that are used around drums, percussion instruments, and possibly other loud musical instruments in order to acoustically separate unusually loud instruments from other musical instruments and vocalists that may be in close proximity.

Eric Carbonara

Recent years have revealed a departure from his psych/krautrock-influenced work to a kaleidoscopic realm of minimalism, electro-acoustic improvisation, free noise guitar thrashing, the folk music of North Africa and Andalusia and Hindustani classical music.

Frost*

Declan Burke - vocals, acoustic guitars (2008-2011)

Go Quiet

Go Quiet is a music film directed by Dean DeBlois, featuring acoustic renditions of all nine songs from the 2010 album Go by Jón Þór (Jónsi) Birgisson.

Grim Tower

Grim Tower is collaboration between Imaad Wasif and Stephen McBean "Death Folk" songs written from an exploration into detunings on acoustic guitars.

He'll Have to Go

Elton John performed "He'll Have to Go" live on a number of occasions, perhaps most notably in 1979 on his acoustic tour with percussionist Ray Cooper, which included eight historic performances in the Soviet Union; a first for a Western rock artist.

Hey Negrita

Hey Negrita have been on four tours to the United States, and supported Alabama 3 on a UK acoustic tour, as well as a 2006 tour of UK prisons in support of RAPt (Rehabilitation for Addicted Prisoners Trust).

Hiawatha Music Festival

The Hiawatha Traditional Music Festival in Marquette, Michigan is held each year during the next-to-last full weekend of July and features traditional, acoustic, American music.

Jeffrey Gaines

"Scares Me More" featured an acoustic live version of Peter Gabriel's "In Your Eyes", which Gabriel had taken to number 26 on the Hot 100 in 1986.

Jenny Queen

Musicians on After The Dance include Jon Graboff of Ryan Adams and The Cardinals on pedal steel, Eric Silver on mandolin, Marc Swersky on bass, Justin King on electric guitar, Ehren Ebbage on acoustic guitar and Andy Letke of DeSol on rhodes piano and banjo.

Keiichi Morisato

In the manga, he can play acoustic guitar, and is a fan of singer Matthew Sweet, possibly due to his quirky upbringing (in the original Japanese, it’s The Carpenters).

Koh Boon Hwee

He serves on the boards of several private companies, including Temasek Holdings (Private) Limited as a Director; AAC Acoustic Technologies Holdings Ltd and Infiniti Solutions Private Limited.

Laurens, South Carolina

Laurens is home to Gary Davis and Pink Anderson, acoustic blues musicians who were born in the city, as well as Redtop Davis, lightweight boxer of the 1940s and 1950s.

Live on the Riverboat

Live on the Riverboat is a 2002 live acoustic album by Ocean Colour Scene -- or at least one half of OCS (Simon Fowler and Oscar Harrison), since the other half (Steve Cradock and Damon Minchella) were away touring with Paul Weller's backing band.

Live, Acoustic...And In Cinemascope!

Live, Acoustic...and in Cinemascope! is a live album by the band Carbon Leaf that was released on their own label, Constant Ivy Music.

Me and You and the World

Me and You and the World is the third studio album, and first major label release, by American acoustic rock performer Dave Barnes.

Men's Needs

The acoustic version of 'I've Tried Everything', the seven inch vinyl two b-side, came from a Board of Trade Building session in Portland, Oregon, with Joe Plummer providing additional percussion duties.

On the Road to Freedom

Mylon LeFevre – vocals, 12-string acoustic guitar, bass, percussion, backing vocals

Quarter Moon in a Ten Cent Town

Albert Lee: Acoustic Guitar, Electric Guitar, Piano, Mandolin

Robbie Basho

Although he played the euphonium in the high school band and sang in middle school and high school ensembles, his interest in acoustic guitar grew during his college years, as a direct result of his friendships with fellow students John Fahey, Ed Denson, and Max Ochs.

Something Like Human

The bonus version of the disc includes an acoustic version of Hemorrhage, and also includes the cover songs "Daniel", originally by Elton John, and "Going to California" by Led Zeppelin.

Spirits of Christmas Past

Bryan Josh – Lead Vocals (Tracks 1 and 4); Electric Guitars (1,3 and 4); Acoustic Guitars (1,2 and 4); Bass Guitar (1); Piano (1)

Splashdown Two

It is a recording of a live acoustic performance from the mid-1970s that had played on the short-lived radio station WQIV.

Sugaree

As with the songs on the rest of the album, Garcia plays every instrument himself (except drums, played by Bill Kreutzmann), including acoustic guitar, bass guitar, and an electric guitar played through a Leslie speaker.

Suzanna Lubrano

The Saida album contains 19 songs: Zouk Love/Kizomba tracks, written in cooperation with Ronald Rubinel (Edith Lefel) and Jacob Desvarieux (Kassav'), acoustic songs, written together with Marcos Fernandez, Kim Alves and others, and a couple of R&B tracks in English, written in cooperation with producer Marcus "DL" Sisklind, Ryan Toby, Dre Robinson and others.

The Acoustic Warriors

The Acoustic Warriors band consisted of Dan Hicks, Brian Godchaux on violin and mandolin, Paul Mehling on guitar and Richard Saunders on bass.

The Great Radio Controversy

Many tracks on this album later received acoustic versions on their follow-up album, Five Man Acoustical Jam, a precursor of the Unplugged trend.

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.

The Slackers and Friends

The album consists of collaborations with various figures from the ska and reggae scenes, including Cornell Campbell, Glen Adams of The Upsetters, Ari Up of the Slits, Doreen Schaefer of the Skatalites, and acoustic ska artist Chris Murray.

Things of Stone and Wood

Things of Stone and Wood or ToSaW formed in Melbourne in 1989 with Michael Allen on bass guitar and backing vocals; Greg Arnold on lead vocals and acoustic guitar; Justin Brady on violin, mandolin and harmonica; and Tony Floyd on drums and percussion.

Throw Your Arms Around Me

The comic trio Doug Anthony All Stars performed acoustic versions of this song at many of their performances, and recorded a promotional CD.

Tom Fun Orchestra

The band features an unconventional mix of electric and acoustic instruments, including violin, banjo, accordion, trumpet, double bass, electric guitars and drums, and have elicited comparisons to acts ranging from The Clash, Tom Waits and The Pogues to The Arcade Fire and Broken Social Scene.

Toulouse Engelhardt

(2) He was one of only a few solo acoustic finger style guitarists to have been signed by a major recording company when he signed with Hollywood Records in 1993, a Walt Disney Company distributed internationally by Polygram Inc.

Vieux Farka Touré

Joined by Israeli bassist Yossi Fine and Malian calabash player Souleymane Kane, this recording session – acoustic, spontaneous and entirely improvised – resulted in the birth of The Touré-Raichel Collective.

Vomiting

Professor Cox of the University of Salford's Acoustic Research Centre said that "We are pre-programmed to be repulsed by horrible things such as vomiting, as it is fundamental to staying alive to avoid nasty stuff."

Walter Micallef u l-Ħbieb

Walter Micallef u l-Ħbieb is a modern folk sextet from Malta, featuring Walter Micallef on vocals and guitar, Renzo Spiteri on percussion, Jes Psaila on acoustic and electric guitar, Eric Wadge on bass, Pawlu Camilleri on harmonica and Albert Garzia on piano and accordion.

Warner Brothers Presents... Montrose!

Side One closes with the long progressive-rock influenced "Whaler", pairing Ronnie Montrose's acoustic guitar alongside Novi Novog's viola.

When Incubus Attacks Volume 1

1999 - Make Yourself ("Pardon Me" (Acoustic), "Stellar" (Acoustic), "Make Yourself" (Acoustic) & "Pardon Me" (Live))


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