Biografi Iwan Fals

Iwan Fals yang bernama lengkap Virgiawan Listanto (lahir di Jakarta, 3 September 1961; umur 47 tahun) adalah seorang penyanyi beraliran balada yang menjadi salah satu legenda hidup di Indonesia.

Lewat lagu-lagunya, ia 'memotret' suasana sosial kehidupan Indonesia (terutama Jakarta) di akhir tahun 1970-an hingga sekarang. Kritik atas perilaku sekelompok orang (seperti Wakil Rakyat, Tante Lisa), empati bagi kelompok marginal (misalnya Siang Seberang Istana, Lonteku), atau bencana besar yang melanda Indonesia (atau kadang-kadang di luar Indonesia, seperti Ethiopia) mendominasi tema lagu-lagu yang dibawakannya. Iwan Fals tidak hanya menyanyikan lagu ciptaannya tetapi juga sejumlah pencipta lain.

Iwan yang juga sempat aktif di kegiatan olahraga, pernah meraih gelar Juara II Karate Tingkat Nasional, Juara IV Karate Tingkat Nasional 1989, sempat masuk pelatnas dan melatih karate di kampusnya, STP (Sekolah Tinggi Publisistik). Iwan juga sempat menjadi kolumnis di beberapa tabloid olah raga.

Kharisma seorang Iwan Fals sangat besar. Dia sangat dipuja oleh kaum 'akar rumput'. Kesederhanaannya menjadi panutan para penggemarnya yang tersebar diseluruh nusantara. Para penggemar fanatik Iwan Fals bahkan mendirikan sebuah yayasan pada tanggal 16 Agustus 1999 yang disebut Yayasan Orang Indonesia atau biasa dikenal dengan seruan Oi. Yayasan ini mewadahi aktivitas para penggemar Iwan Fals. Hingga sekarang kantor cabang OI dapat ditemui setiap penjuru nusantara dan beberapa bahkan sampai ke manca negara

Biografi

Masa kecil Iwan Fals dihabiskan di Bandung, kemudian ikut saudaranya di Jeddah, Arab Saudi selama 8 bulan. Bakat musiknya makin terasah ketika ia berusia 13 tahun, di mana Iwan banyak menghabiskan waktunya dengan mengamen di Bandung. Bermain gitar dilakukannya sejak masih muda bahkan ia mengamen untuk melatih kemampuannya bergitar dan mencipta lagu. Ketika di SMP, Iwan menjadi gitaris dalama paduan suara sekolah.

Selanjutnya, datang ajakan untuk mengadu nasib di Jakarta dari seorang produser. Ia lalu menjual sepeda motornya untuk biaya membuat master. Iwan rekaman album pertama bersama rekan-rekannya, Toto Gunarto, Helmi, Bambang Bule yang tergabung dalam Amburadul, namun album tersebut gagal di pasaran dan Iwan kembali menjalani profesi sebagai pengamen. Album ini sekarang menjadi buruan para kolektor serta fans fanatik Iwan Fals.

Setelah dapat juara di festival musik country, Iwan ikut festival lagu humor. Arwah Setiawan (almarhum), lagu-lagu humor milik Iwan sempat direkam bersama Pepeng, Krisna, Nana Krip dan diproduksi oleh ABC Records, tapi juga gagal dan hanya dikonsumsi oleh kalangan tertentu saja. Sampai akhirnya, perjalanan Iwan bekerja sama dengan Musica Studio. Sebelum ke Musica, Iwan sudah rekaman sekitar 4-5 album. Di Musica, barulah lagu-lagu Iwan digarap lebih serius. Album Sarjana Muda, misalnya, musiknya ditangani oleh Willy Soemantri.

Iwan tetap menjalani profesinya sebagai pengamen. Ia mengamen dengan mendatangi rumah ke rumah, kadang di Pasar Kaget atau Blok M. Album Sarjana Muda ternyata banyak diminati dan Iwan mulai mendapatkan berbagai tawaran untuk bernyanyi. Ia kemudian sempat masuk televisi setelah tahun 1987. Saat acara Manasuka Siaran Niaga disiarkan di TVRI, lagu Oemar Bakri sempat ditayangkan di TVRI. Ketika anak kedua Iwan, Cikal lahir tahun 1985, kegiatan mengamen langsung dihentikan.

Selama Orde Baru, banyak jadwal acara konser Iwan yang dilarang dan dibatalkan oleh aparat pemerintah, karena lirik-lirik lagunya dianggap dapat memancing kerusuhan. Pada awal karirnya, Iwan Fals banyak membuat lagu yang bertema kritikan pada pemerintah. Beberapa lagu itu bahkan bisa dikategorikan terlalu keras pada masanya, sehingga perusahaan rekaman yang memayungi Iwan Fals enggan atau lebih tepatnya tidak berani memasukkan lagu-lagu tersebut dalam album untuk dijual bebas. Belakangan Iwan Fals juga mengakui kalau pada saat itu dia sendiri juga tidak tertarik untuk memasukkan lagu-lagu ini ke dalam album.^[rujukan?]

Rekaman lagu-lagu yang tidak dipasarkan tersebut kemudian sempat diputar di sebuah stasiun radio yang sekarang sudah tidak mengudara lagi. Iwan Fals juga pernah menyanyikan lagu-lagu tersebut dalam beberapa konser musik, yang mengakibatkan dia berulang kali harus berurusan dengan pihak keamanan dengan alasan lirik lagu yang dinyanyikan dapat mengganggu stabilitas negara.^[rujukan?] Beberapa konser musiknya pada tahun 80-an juga sempat disabotase dengan cara memadamkan aliran listrik dan pernah juga dibubarkan secara paksa hanya karena Iwan Fals membawakan lirik lagu yang menyindir penguasa saat itu.

Pada bulan April tahun 1984 Iwan Fals harus berurusan dengan aparat keamanan dan sempat ditahan dan diinterogasi selama 2 minggu gara-gara menyanyikan lirik lagu Demokrasi Nasi dan Pola Sederhana juga Mbak Tini pada sebuah konser di Pekanbaru. Sejak kejadian itu, Iwan Fals dan keluarganya sering mendapatkan teror.^[rujukan?] Hanya segelintir fans fanatik Iwan Fals yang masih menyimpan rekaman lagu-lagu ini, dan sekarang menjadi koleksi yang sangat berharga.

Saat bergabung dengan kelompok SWAMI dan merilis album bertajuk SWAMI pada 1989, nama Iwan semakin meroket dengan mencetak hits Bento dan Bongkar yang sangat fenomenal. Perjalanan karir Iwan Fals terus menanjak ketika dia bergabung dengan Kantata Takwa pada 1990 yang didukung penuh oleh pengusaha Setiawan Djodi. Konser-konser Kantata Takwa saat itu sampai sekarang dianggap sebagai konser musik yang terbesar dan termegah sepanjang sejarah musik Indonesia.^[rujukan?]

Setelah kontrak dengan SWAMI yang menghasilkan dua album (SWAMI dan SWAMI II) berakhir, dan disela Kantata (yang menghasilkan Kantata Takwa dan Kantata Samsara), Iwan Fals masih meluncurkan album-album solo maupun bersama kelompok seperti album Dalbo yang dikerjakan bersama sebagian mantan personil SWAMI.

Sejak meluncurnya album Suara Hati pada 2002, Iwan Fals telah memiliki kelompok musisi pengiring yang tetap dan selalu menyertai dalam setiap pengerjaan album maupun konser. Menariknya, dalam seluruh alat musik yang digunakan baik oleh Iwan fals maupun bandnya pada setiap penampilan di depan publik tidak pernah terlihat merek maupun logo. Seluruh identitas tersebut selalu ditutupi atau dihilangkan. Pada panggung yang menjadi dunianya, Iwan Fals tidak pernah mengizinkan ada logo atau tulisan sponsor terpampang untuk menjaga idealismenya yang tidak mau dianggap menjadi wakil dari produk tertentu.

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Biography Axl Rose

W. Axl Rose (born William Bruce Rose^[1] on February 6, 1962) is an American musician, best known as the lead vocalist of hard rock band Guns N' Roses.

Rose grew up in Indiana in a troubled family environment. His love of music was fostered by singing in church, participating in school chorus and studying piano, but his numerous run-ins with the police and activities as a teenager led to his leaving home at a young age. After moving to Los Angeles in 1982, Rose fronted various local bands, eventually forming Guns N' Roses with former L.A. Guns bandmate Tracii Guns.

As lead singer for Guns N' Roses, Rose enjoyed tremendous success, recognition, record and concert ticket sales in the late 1980s and early 1990s before dropping out of the public eye for several years. In 2001, he resurfaced with a new line-up of Guns N' Roses, and has since played periodic concert tours, finally releasing the long delayed Chinese Democracy in 2008.

The only original member still part of the band's line-up, Rose still places high in numerous polls as one of hard rock's all-time greatest frontmen, but is also infamous for his onstage antics and high-profile disputes with former bandmates and others in the entertainment business.

Early years

Rose was born as William Bruce Rose, Jr. in Lafayette, Indiana,^[1] the son of Sharon E. Lintner, then 16 years old, and William Bruce Rose, then 20 years old.^[2] His father left the family when Rose was two years old. As an adult, after recovering repressed memories in therapy, Rose publicly stated that he was molested by his biological father.^[1][3]

Rose's mother remarried in 1966. She changed his name to William Bailey, using the last name of her new husband, Stephen L. Bailey. He has two younger half-siblings – sister Amy and brother Stuart. Rose has stated that he, and his siblings were often beaten by Bailey, sometimes for no reason. Growing up, Rose believed that Bailey was his biological father.^[1]

Because of his turbulent upbringing and his mother's reluctance to leave the abusive Bailey, Rose is said to have issues with women. He claimed in an interview with Rolling Stone magazine in April 1992, that during his childhood, he was made to believe that women and sexuality were evil and that due to the violent treatment of his mother by his stepfather he witnessed as an impressionable child, he had been led to think that domestic violence was the normal way of doing things.^[1][4]

The Bailey household was deeply religious, and Rose grew up attending a Pentecostal church, where he was required to attend services three to eight times per week.^[4] He sang in church from the age of five, and also performed at services with his brother and sister in the "Bailey Trio".^[5] Rose was so involved with the church that he even taught Sunday School. Later, he spoke of his disillusion with his religious upbringing:

My particular church was filled with self-righteous hypocrites who were child abusers and child molesters. These were people who'd been damaged in their own childhoods and in their lives. These were people who were finding God but still living with their damage and inflicting it upon their children. I had to go to church anywhere from three to eight times a week. l even taught Bible school while l was being beaten and my sister was being molested.^[4]

—Axl Rose

Church did provide an outlet for Rose's musical interests. In addition to singing in church, he also participated in his high school chorus and studied piano.^[6]

Rose speaks in the baritone register, but his singing voice is a tenor^[7] and he can sing parts ranging from bass, to baritone, and to a high falsetto/soprano, and has several different recognized "voices" used in his songs. He has stated that he originally started to develop his range to confuse his chorus teacher in school.^[8][5][9]

He attended Jefferson High School in Lafayette.^[10] At age 17, while going through papers in his parents' home, Rose learned of his biological father's existence and his own origins, and readopted his birth name, William Rose (although he was still legally William Bailey). He referred to himself as W. Rose only, however, as he did not wish to share a name with his biological father.^[1]

After discovering the truth of his background, Rose began "acting out" in earnest. He was in trouble numerous times with the police and was arrested over twenty times on charges such as public drunkenness and assault. At age 16, he was kicked out of his house for not cutting his hair. At this age, Rose also met Izzy Stradlin in a driver's education class.^[11] The two bonded over their love of rock music and eventually started playing in bands together. Stradlin eventually left Rose, and Indiana, to go to Los Angeles and focus on music.

Lafayette authorities threatened to charge Rose as a habitual criminal in his late teenage years.^[6] When he was 17, on the advice of his lawyer, he left Indiana and began hitchhiking and taking buses across the country.^[12] Although he returned to Indiana to visit family from time to time, he left for good in December 1982 and moved to Los Angeles, accompanied by a girlfriend.^[13]

Rose eventually adopted the name W. Axl Rose ("Axl" after a band in which he once played ^[14]), and set out to re-unite with Stradlin. Rose legally changed his name to "W. Axl Rose" in 1986,^[8][15] and had the moniker tattooed on his arm.^[13]

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Bob Marley

Robert "Bob" Nesta Marley OM (February 6, 1945 – May 11, 1981) was a Jamaican singer-songwriter and musician. He was the lead singer, songwriter and guitarist for the ska, rocksteady and reggae bands: The Wailers (1964 – 1974) and Bob Marley & the Wailers (1974 – 1981). Marley remains the most widely known and revered performer of reggae music, and is credited for helping spread Jamaican music to the worldwide audience.^[1]

Marley's best known hits include "I Shot the Sheriff", "No Woman, No Cry", "Exodus", "Could You Be Loved", "Stir It Up", "Jamming", "Redemption Song", "One Love" and, together with The Wailers, "Three Little Birds",^[2] as well as the posthumous releases "Buffalo Soldier" and "Iron Lion Zion". The compilation album, Legend, released in 1984, three years after his death, is the best-selling reggae album ever (10 times platinum in US^[3]), with sales of more than 20 million copies.^[4][5]

Early life and career

Bob Marley was born in the small village of Nine Mile in Saint Ann Parish, Jamaica as Nesta Robert Marley.^[6] A Jamaican passport official would later swap his first and middle names.^[7] His father Norval Sinclair Marley was a white Scottish Jamaican. Norval was a Marine officer and captain, as well as a plantation overseer, when he married Cedella Booker, a black Jamaican then eighteen years old.^[8] Norval provided financial support for his wife and child, but seldom saw them, as he was often away on trips. In 1955, when Marley was 10 years old, his father died of a heart attack at age 60.^[9] Marley suffered racial prejudice as a youth, because of his mixed racial origins and faced questions about his own racial identity throughout his life. He once reflected:

I don't have prejudice against meself. My father was a white and my mother was black. Them call me half-caste or whatever. Me don't dip on nobody's side. Me don't dip on the black man's side nor the white man's side. Me dip on God's side, the one who create me and cause me to come from black and white.^[10]

Although Marley recognized his mixed ancestry, throughout his life and because of his beliefs, he self-identified as a black African. In songs such as "Black Progress,", "African Herbsman," "Buffalo Soldier", "War" and others, Marley sings about the struggles of blacks and Africans against opression from the West or "Babylon." ^[11]

Marley became friends with Neville "Bunny" Livingston (later known as Bunny Wailer), with whom he started to play music. He left school at the age of 14 to make music with Joe Higgs, a local singer and devout Rastafari. It was at a jam session with Higgs and Livingston that Marley met Peter McIntosh (later known as Peter Tosh), who had similar musical ambitions.^[12]

In 1962, Marley recorded his first two singles, "Judge Not" and "One Cup of Coffee", with local music producer Leslie Kong. These songs, released on the Beverley's label under the pseudonym of Bobby Martell,^[13] attracted little attention. The songs were later re-released on the box set, Songs of Freedom, a posthumous collection of Marley's work.

Musical career

The Wailers

In 1963, Bob Marley, Bunny Wailer, Peter Tosh, Junior Braithwaite, Beverley Kelso, and Cherry Smith formed a ska and rocksteady group, calling themselves "The Teenagers". They later changed their name to "The Wailing Rudeboys", then to "The Wailing Wailers", at which point they were discovered by record producer Coxsone Dodd, and finally to "The Wailers". By 1966, Braithwaite, Kelso, and Smith had left The Wailers, leaving the core trio of Bob Marley, Bunny Wailer, and Peter Tosh.

In 1966, Marley married Rita Anderson, and moved near his mother's residence in Wilmington, Delaware in the United States for a short time, during which he worked as a DuPont lab assistant and on the assembly line at a Chrysler plant, under the alias Donald Marley.^[14]

Upon returning to Jamaica, Marley became a member of the Rastafari movement, and started to wear his trademark dreadlocks (see the religion section for more on Marley's religious views).

After a conflict with Dodd, Marley and his band teamed up with Lee "Scratch" Perry and his studio band, The Upsetters. Although the alliance lasted less than a year, they recorded what many consider The Wailers' finest work. Marley and Perry split after a dispute regarding the assignment of recording rights, but they would remain friends and work together again.

Between 1968 and 1972, Bob and Rita Marley, Peter Tosh and Bunny Wailer re-cut some old tracks with JAD Records in Kingston and London in an attempt to commercialize The Wailers' sound. Bunny later asserted that these songs "should never be released on an album … they were just demos for record companies to listen to." Also in 1968, Bob and Rita visited the Bronx to see Johnny Nash's songwriter Jimmy Norman.^[15] A three day jam session with Norman and others, including Norman's co-writer Al Pyfrom, resulted in a 24-minute tape of Marley performing several of his own and Norman-Pyfrom's compositions which is, according to Reggae archivist Roger Steffens, rare in that was influenced by pop rather than reggae, as part of the effort to break Marley into American charts.^[15] According to an article in The New York Times, Marley experimented on the tape with different sounds, adopting a doo-wop style on "Stay With Me" and "the slow love song style of 1960's artists" on "Splish for My Splash."^[15]

The Wailers' first album, Catch a Fire, was released worldwide in 1973, and sold well. It was followed a year later by Burnin', which included the songs "Get Up, Stand Up" and "I Shot The Sheriff". Eric Clapton made a hit cover of "I Shot the Sheriff" in 1974, raising Marley's international profile.

The Wailers broke up in 1974 with each of the three main members going on to pursue solo careers. The reason for the breakup is shrouded in conjecture; some believe that there were disagreements amongst Bunny, Peter, and Bob concerning performances, while others claim that Bunny and Peter simply preferred solo work.

Bob Marley & The Wailers

Main article: Bob Marley & The Wailers‎

Despite the breakup, Marley continued recording as "Bob Marley & The Wailers". His new backing band included brothers Carlton and Aston "Family Man" Barrett on drums and bass respectively, Junior Marvin and Al Anderson on lead guitar, Tyrone Downie and Earl "Wya" Lindo on keyboards, and Alvin "Seeco" Patterson on percussion. The "I Threes", consisting of Judy Mowatt, Marcia Griffiths, and Marley's wife, Rita, provided backing vocals.

In 1975, Marley had his international breakthrough with his first hit outside Jamaica, "No Woman, No Cry," from the Natty Dread album. This was followed by his breakthrough album in the US, Rastaman Vibration (1976), which spent four weeks on the Billboard charts Top Ten.

In December 1976, two days before "Smile Jamaica", a free concert organized by the Jamaican Prime Minister Michael Manley in an attempt to ease tension between two warring political groups, Marley, his wife, and manager Don Taylor were wounded in an assault by unknown gunmen inside Marley's home. Taylor and Marley's wife sustained serious injuries, but later made full recoveries. Bob Marley received minor wounds in the chest and arm. The shooting was thought to have been politically motivated, as many felt the concert was really a support rally for Manley. Nonetheless, the concert proceeded, and an injured Marley performed as scheduled, two days after the attempt. When asked why, Marley responded, "the people who are trying to make this world worse aren’t taking a day off. How can I?".^{[citation needed]} The members of the group Zap Pow – which had no radical religious or political beliefs – played as Bob Marley's backup band before a festival crowd of 80,000 while members of the Wailers were still missing or in hiding.^[16]

Marley left Jamaica at the end of 1976 for England, where he recorded his Exodus and Kaya albums. Exodus stayed on the British album charts for 56 consecutive weeks. It included four UK hit singles: "Exodus", "Waiting In Vain", "Jamming", "One Love", and a rendition of Curtis Mayfield's hit, "People Get Ready". It was here that he was arrested and received a conviction for possession of a small quantity of cannabis while traveling in London.

In 1978, Marley performed at another political concert in Jamaica, the One Love Peace Concert, again in an effort to calm warring parties. Near the end of the performance, by Marley's request, Manley and his political rival, Edward Seaga, joined each other on stage and shook hands.

Babylon by Bus, a double live album with 13 tracks, was released in 1978 to critical acclaim. This album, and specifically the final track "Jammin'" with the audience in a frenzy, captured the intensity of Marley's live performances.

Survival, a defiant and politically charged album, was released in 1979. Tracks such as "Zimbabwe", "Africa Unite", "Wake Up and Live", and "Survival" reflected Marley's support for the struggles of Africans. His appearance at the Amandla Festival in Boston in July 1979 showed his strong opposition to South African apartheid, which he already had shown in his song "War" in 1976. In early 1980, he was invited to perform at the April 17 celebration of Zimbabwe's Independence Day.

Uprising (1980) was Bob Marley's final studio album, and is one of his most religious productions, including "Redemption Song" and "Forever Loving Jah". It was in "Redemption Song" that Marley sang the famous lyric,

“

Emancipate yourselves from mental slavery None but ourselves can free our minds…

”

Confrontation, released posthumously in 1983, contained unreleased material recorded during Marley's lifetime, including the hit "Buffalo Soldier" and new mixes of singles previously only available in Jamaica.

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Karir Ari Lasso

Ari Bernardus Lasso, atau lebih dikenal dengan nama Ari Lasso (lahir di Madiun, Jawa Timur, 17 Januari 1973; umur 36 tahun) adalah penyanyi pop Indonesia. Ia pernah tercatat sebagai vokalis grup band Dewa 19 (1993-1997) yang akhirnya ia keluar dan menjalani karir sebagai penyanyi solo.

Awal karir

Ari pertama kali membentuk Outsider Band sewaktu sekolah di SMA Negeri 2 Surabaya bersama Wawan Juniarso (drummer Dewa) Piyu (gitaris Padi). Kemudian ia bergabung dengan Los Angels Band, yang kelak menjadi Boomerang.

Ia kemudian bergabung dengan Down Beat, yang kemudian berganti nama menjadi Dewa, dan berubah lagi menjadi Dewa 19. Band ini menjadi besar, dan hampir setuap album yang dikeluarkan terjual ratusan ribu kopi. Di tengah kesibukannya menjadi personel Dewa, Ari berhasil menyelesaikan studinya di Fakultas Ekonomi Universitas Airlangga (Unair) Surabaya.

Pasca Dewa 19

Sejak dirilisnya album Pandawa Lima tahun 1997, hubungan Ari yang beragama Kristen ini dengan Dewa 19 mulai memburuk, terlebih ketika Ari mulai mengkonsumsi narkoba dan akhirnya ia dikeluarkan oleh Ahmad Dhani sebagai anggota Dewa, dan posisinya sebagai vokalis digantikan oleh Once. Meski demikian, Ari sempat menjadi backing vocal lagu Roman Picisan dalam album Dewa Bintang Lima.

Setelah resmi keluar dari Dewa, Ari mulai menggarap album solonya. Ari muncul kembali ke dunia hiburan, tampil duet bersama Melly Goeslaw, yang kemudian sukses besar di pasaran. Tahun 2001 Ari mengeluarkan album solo pertamanya Sendiri Dulu, yang juga sukses besar dengan tembang andalannya Misteri Ilahi. Di album ini ia dibantu oleh Bebi Romeo, Erwin Dewa, Andra, Bimo, Bongky, Anto Hoed, Denny Chasmala, dan Andi Rianto. Tahun 2003 ia kembali merilis album keduanya Keseimbangan. Pada album ini ia menggandeng musisi-musisi hebat seperti Ahmad Dhani, Piyu (Padi), Andra (Dewa), Bebi Romeo, Ricky FM, Marshal (Dr. PM). Tahun 2004 ia merilis album ketiganya Kulihat, Kudengar, Kurasa, dimana salah satu lagunya menjadi sound track film layar lebar dengan judul sama, Mengejar Matahari.

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Profil update Jimmy Page, Legenda Gitaris Band Led Zeppelin

Nama Lengkap : Jimmy Page
Tempat/Tgl Lahir : Heston, Middlesex U.K / 9 Januari 1944
Website : http://www.jimmypageonline.com/
Gaya Permainan : Blues, fFolk, Indian, Rock n’ Roll
Grup Band Sebelumnya : Carter Lewis & the Southerners, Neil Christian & the Crusaders, Yard Birds, Led Zeppelin
Group Band sekarang : Page and Plant
Pengaruh musikal : Eric Clapton, Sonny Boy Williamson, Muddy Waters, Albert King, Robert Johnson, Jimi Hendrix, Link Wray, The Rolling Stones, Les Paul, Cream, Chuck Berry, Jeff Beck, The Beatles, Willie Dixon, Paul Burlison, Jet Harris & Tony Meehan(Diamond,ex-Shadows), Ron Kellerman, Elvis Presley
Teknik Andalan : Appergio, Slurring, Folk picking style
Gitar Yang Digunakan : Gibson Les pauls Jimmy page Trademark signature, Gibson Double neck Jimmy page Trademark signature and riff master deluxe
Ampli : Framus
Senar : Black Diamond String

Jimmy Page adalah salah satu gitaris yang mempengaruhi banyak gitaris pada eranya sekitar pertengahan 60-an dan tahun 70-an. Pertama kali belajar gitar saat masih muda melalui Spanish gitar pemberian orang tuanya. Ia mulai bermain gitar ketika berusia 13 tahun karena terpengaruh oleh gaya rock n roll Elvis Presley pada lagu “Baby, Let’s Play House”. Awal tahun 60-an ia membuat album bersama beberapa band lokal seperti Carter Lewis & the Southerners dan Neil Christian & the Crusaders. Pada tahun 1963 ia menjadi additional gitar untuk Diamond band bersama Jet Harris & Tony Meehan(ex-Shadows). Singlenya berhasil mencapai puncak tangga lagu Inggris.

Tahun 1966 ia bergabung dengan Yardbirds sebuah band yang dipelopori Jeff Beck dimana ia menjadi lead guitar menggantikan posisi Eric Clapton yang keluar. Di Yarbirds ia hanya ikut tampil dalam 1 album yaitu, Little Games. Namun ia juga sempat mengikuti beberapa promo tur albumnya.

Thn 1968 ia bergabung dengan Led Zeppelin dan mengalami masa puncak kejayaannya. Selain Jimmy, personel lainnya terdiri dari John Paul Jones (bass), Robert Plant (vocals), dan John Bonham (drum). Bersama band ini banyak hits yang telah dibuatnya, Dazed and Confused, Whole Lotta Love, Immigrant Song, Black Dog, Stairway To Heaven, termasuk lagu exotic bernuansa timur tengah “Kahsmir”. Sedangkan album-album yang ia hasilkan bersama Led Zeppelin antara lain : Led Zeppelin I, Led Zeppelin II, Led Zeppelin III, Led Zeppelin IV, Houses of the Holy, dan Physical Graffiti. Album-album ini menjadikan Led Zeppelin sebagai band tersukses di tahun 70-an. Wabah permainan gitar Jimmy Page kemudian menjadi inspirasi bagi gitaris-gitaris Heavy Metal beberapa tahun kemudian. Sayangnya, kematian sang penggebuk drum, John Bonham membuat band ini jadi tak menentu arah. Akhirnya band ini vakum atau bisa dibilang bubar.

Di sela kesuksesannya dengan band2 nya Jimmy Page juga mengeluarkan single solo seperti “Rare Jimmy Page solo 45” yang di release tahun 1965. Di tahun-tahun 80an saat band heavy metal ramai bermunculan, Jim juga sempat berkolaborasi dan menjadi guest star dalam album-album berbagai artis seperti David Coverdale, Robert Plant, dan lain-lain.

Meski Led Zeppelin sudah tak jalan lagi, namun di pertengahan tahun 80-an sering terjadi proyek reuni Led Zeppelin dengan bantuan beberapa additional drummer seperti Phill Collins sampai anak John Bonham sendiri, Jason Bonham. Tahun 1994, proyek reuni ini sempat menghasilkan album akustik No Quartet dan tampil dalam tur dunia MTV Unplugged yang disambut sangat antusias oleh penggemar-penggemar mereka di era jayanya dulu.

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God Father Of Guitar rock

Jimmy Hendrix

Jimmy Hendrix: Godfather of Elctric-Guitar


Seperti yang ada di judul, Jimmy Hendrix adalah gitaris paling legendaris dalam sejarah dunia musik.Dia mendapat kehormatan ringgi dari Semua orang yang melihat atau pernah berkerjasama denganya ,Corak permainan gitar Jimmy lebih condong kearah blues, dan rock and roll.

Tidak seperti anak kebanyakan, masa kecil Jimmy bisa dibilang suram, bayangkan sang ibu meninggalkanya pada saat Jimmy berusia 15 tahun.Ayahnya, yang mantan militer, merupakan oran yang keras dalam mendidik putranya, dia juga menginginkan jimmy untuk mengikui jejaknya ke jenjang militer. Karena alasan tersebut, begitu Jimmy DO dari SMA, doi langsung cabut ke Airbone Division of the U.S. Army. Meski berada di lingkungan militer, ketertarikan jimmy pada dunia musik (khususnya gitar) lebih besar. Di suatu latihan, Jimmy terkena cedera yang menjatuhkan vonis bahwa dia nggak bisa berada di militer, ini justru membuatnya girang -meskipun sang ayah sangat menentangnya dan bahkan Jimmy nggak boleh pulang rumah saat itu.

Tak patah arang, Jimmy bersama teman satu angkatanya di militer, Billt Cox mulai manggung dari satu klab ke klab lain. Jimmy segera bertandang ke New York dan mencoba peruntungan disana,bermain di beberapa klab,dan bertemu dengan tokoh idolanya, Bob Dylan. Tuhan ternyata adil, di bandnya "Jimmy James" dan "The blue Flames" jimmy mulai sukses , pada saat mereka manggung di sebuah kafe yang bernama"Cafe Wha?" kebetulan aksi panggung Jimmy diamati Londa Keith, kekasih dari Keith Richards.

Linda meminta kekasihnya agar melihat penampilan Jimmy dan diapun tertarik! Jimmy langsung disodori kontrak dan keliling eropa bersama Keith Richards.Sampai di Inggris, taji Jimmy mulai terlihat.Gigataris populer Inggris saat itu,Eric Clapton dan Pete Townshed sampai berkata"He thought his career was over after seeing Hendrix play the guitar".

Selesai Eropa, Jimmy mulai fokus di U.S. dan tampil di Monterey Pop Fest disitu dia menampilkan permainan yang belum pernah dilihat orang sebelumnya. Selesai tampil di Monterey, Jimmy seperti menjadi seorang Superstar dan tampil di festifal-festifal besar.

Jimmy meninggal pada 18 september 1970, meski telah tiada, distorsi dan gaya penampilan dari Jimmy akn tetap dikenang selamanya.....

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