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54-572: The Tornados ( the Tornadoes in North America) were an English instrumental rock group of the 1960s that acted as backing group for many of record producer Joe Meek 's productions and also for singer Billy Fury . They enjoyed several chart hits in their own right, including the UK and US no. 1 " Telstar " (named after the satellite and composed and produced by Meek), the first US no. 1 single by

108-403: A " psychedelic pop trailblazer." Lennox's debut album Panda Bear was released in 1999 on Soccer Star Records . After focusing more on touring and recording with Animal Collective , he released the follow-up Young Prayer in 2004 and the highly acclaimed third solo album Person Pitch in 2007. Of his songwriting style, Lennox says "I get impatient writing songs, I can't spend more than

162-509: A "slow moving kind of person" and Lisbon as a "slow moving kind of place". Lennox and Pereira have a daughter, Nadja, born in 2005 and a son, born in June 2010. In 2007, he and Pereira collaborated on a line of sweatshirts called 2nd Things . Pereira also directed music videos for his songs "Playing the Long Game" and "Danger", off 2022's Reset with Sonic Boom. Shortly after, Lennox described

216-544: A British group. The Tornados were formed in 1961 as a session band for Joe Meek, although the name did not come until early 1962. In 1961 they provided the instrumentals for the film short The Johnny Leyton Touch , including a jazzed up version of "Taboo", originally by Margarita Lecuona . From January 1962 to August 1963, the Tornados were the backing band for Billy Fury (as well as recording and performing as an act in their own right); they toured and recorded with Fury as

270-702: A brief European tour in January 2010, he played three shows consisting almost entirely of new material. On March 7, 2010, a tour setlist with titles for ten of the new songs was posted on Panda Bear's MySpace blog. He also played Primavera Sound Festival in 2010. The single "Tomboy" and the b-side "Slow Motion" were released in July 2010. It was announced in August that singles "You Can Count on Me" and "Alsatian Darn" would be released via Domino on September 28. The limited 500 copies of "You Can Count On Me" sold out in less than

324-649: A campfire. For a time the Tornados were considered serious rivals to the Shadows . The Tornados' single "Globetrotter" made it to #5 in the UK Singles Chart . However, pop instrumentals began to lose a following with the British audience during 1963 as the "Mersey Sound", from the Beatles and other groups, began to take root. In the summer of 1963, Joe Meek induced the Tornados' bassist Heinz Burt to start

378-478: A couple of hours before I get frustrated. So I got to kind of spit it out real fast. My favorite songs are the ones where I worked really really fast on, when it comes all out in like two hours or something." Panda Bear's fourth album, Tomboy , was released April 12, 2011, on his own label, Paw Tracks. He started performing material from Tomboy on December 5, 2008, at a show with No Age in Miami, Florida. During

432-684: A day. The single "Last Night at the Jetty" was released December 2010. The single "Surfer's Hymn" was released March 28, 2011. His song "Comfy In Nautica" appears in ABC's 2010 climate change TV special Earth 2100 . Lennox was chosen by Jeff Mangum of Neutral Milk Hotel to perform at the All Tomorrow's Parties festival he planned to curate in December 2011 in Minehead, England. However, Lennox

486-399: A major influence stating "Black Dice took us on our first tour and I feel like the wisest things I've learned about being in a band I learned by watching them." He said he looks to Black Dice "as a model for a band... I feel like as a band, I can't speak for the other guys [of Animal Collective], but certainly for myself, like I modelled the way I approach to everything with the band watching

540-459: A number of solo albums; one of the best-known of these was his 1990 release, Passion and Warfare . Jason Becker released two albums with Cacophony . Cacophony were a primarily instrumental group featuring Becker and Marty Friedman (the latter of whom went on to play with the thrash metal band Megadeth ). After the release of Cacophony's second album Go Off! in 1988, Becker released two solo albums before being diagnosed with ALS . He now uses

594-631: A progressive rock album released in 1973, was all instrumental (save for some brief spoken words) and is one of the best-selling instrumental albums ever, with 16 million copies sold. A portion of it was used in the soundtrack of the Academy Award-winning film The Exorcist . One of the most acclaimed albums of the band Camel , 1975's The Snow Goose , was entirely instrumental. Many of Pink Floyd 's early compositions were largely instrumental pieces containing structured jams fusing psychedelic , progressive and space rock . Frank Zappa

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648-767: A series of solo instrumental albums. The 2000s also saw the rise of instrumental music by bands that have been labeled post-rock . Instrumental rock was most popular during rock and roll 's first decade (mid-1950s to mid-1960s), before the British Invasion . One notable early instrumental was "Honky Tonk" by the Bill Doggett Combo , with its slinky beat and sinuous saxophone-organ lead. Jazz musicians who scored pop hits include Earl Bostic and Arnett Cobb . Several rhythm and blues sax players had hit instrumental songs, including Big Jay McNeeley, Red Prysock , and Lee Allen , whose "Walking with Mr. Lee"

702-408: A solo album entitled Polly Swallow (1997). In 2007, Panda Bear sampled two Tornados songs on his album Person Pitch . The B-side of the final single that the group released, in 1966, "Do You Come Here Often?", is considered to be the first openly "gay" pop record release by a UK major label. It started off as a standard organ-inspired instrumental, but Joe Meek decided that the organ playing

756-671: A solo career, as the Tornados' chart success as an instrumental outfit waned, and from that point onwards the Tornados began to fall apart. By 1965 none of the original line-up remained. On some promotional items, later line-ups were credited as "Tornados '65" and "The New Tornados", but these names were never used on the Tornados' releases. In the mid-1960s the Tornados backed Billy Fury again, with Dave Watts on keyboards, Robby Gale on guitar and John Davies on drums. In 1968, in Israel to perform in Mandy Rice-Davies ' night club Mandys,

810-432: A teen, Lennox began listening to electronic music styles such as house and techno , and artists such as Aphex Twin , all of which became a major influence on his later work. He recorded and performed music solo and with friends. Lennox had been friends with Deakin (Josh Dibb) since the second grade. Deakin introduced Lennox to his high school friends Avey Tare (Dave Portner) and Geologist (Brian Weitz). For years,

864-464: A version of "Telstar" as the 'Original Tornados'. In the 1970s, Billy Fury formed a new backing band called Fury's Tornados with a completely unrelated line-up. They also recorded and released a version of "Telstar" in the mid-1970s. In 1996, Ray Randall wrote and recorded a three-track CD with Bryan Irwin and Stuart Taylor, using the band name Ray Randall's Tornados, as a tribute to the late Joe Meek, 30 years after Meek's death. Randall has since recorded

918-617: A wheelchair and is completely unable to play. Pepeu Gomes , a Brazilian electric guitar player, was considered in 1988 by American magazine Guitar World one of the ten best guitar players in the world. Although he has pure instrumental rock songs with no Brazilian flavour, he mixes the Brazilian rhythms and tunes from well known popular songs, or simply composes by himself using Samba , Choro , Maracatu etc. In 1990, Steve Vai released Passion and Warfare . A fusion of rock, jazz, classical and Eastern tonalities, Passion and Warfare

972-739: A youth, he played sports, mainly soccer and basketball. His brother, Matt Lennox (whom the Animal Collective song " Brother Sport " is directed at), was a leading player on the high school basketball team and Noah was also a team member, playing as point guard . Lennox has stated in interviews that he enjoyed drawing a lot as a teenager, especially pandas. He also studied piano until he was eight, then cello, and later on he sang tenor in his high school chamber choir . Though he and his family have never been very religious, Lennox briefly attended Boston University , where he majored in religion because of his interest in "the concept of God". As

1026-465: Is an American musician, singer-songwriter, multi-instrumentalist, and co-founding member of the band Animal Collective . In addition to his work with that group, Lennox has released six solo LPs since 1999, with his 2007 album Person Pitch inspiring the chillwave genre and numerous other acts. His subsequent albums Tomboy (2011) and Panda Bear Meets the Grim Reaper (2015) both reached

1080-563: Is one of rock music's first recorded guitar jam sessions. During the 70s, some musicians released instrumental records such as Dennis Coffey's "Scorpio"(1971), Booker T & the MGs' "Melting Pot", Incredible Bong Band's "Apache", Hot Butter's "Popcorn"(1972) and Rhythm Heritage "Theme from S.W.A.T."(1976). The Allman Brothers Band is often not considered an instrumental rock band , but they play many instrumentals and include long instrumental passages in longer versions of their songs. A good example

1134-495: Is the 22-minute version of Whipping Post in At Fillmore East LP. Their instrumentals, " In Memory of Elizabeth Reed " and "Jessica" are popular, with "Jessica" being featured as theme for both the 1977 and 2002 formats of Top Gear . Jeff Beck also recorded two entirely instrumental albums in the 1970s: Blow by Blow and Wired . Successful among mainstream audiences, both have strong jazz influences,

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1188-588: The Billboard 200 . Lennox was primarily raised in Baltimore , Maryland, where he sang tenor in his high school chamber choir, and studied piano and cello. The name "Panda Bear" derived from his habit of drawing pandas on his early mixtapes as a teenager. He and the other members of Animal Collective began collaborating in the late 1990s. He has also collaborated with other artists, including Daft Punk on their 2013 single " Doin' It Right " and Sonic Boom on

1242-513: The Beatles ' music catalog as guitar -based instrumental rock on the Apple iTunes music download service. The 2000s gave way for a new style of performer. John Lowery (a.k.a. John 5) released a solo instrumental album after leaving Marilyn Manson in 2003. Vertigo is composed of a fusion of metal , rockabilly , rock and roll , and bluegrass musical styles. The album was a success, and

1296-529: The 1980s, the instrumental rock genre was dominated by several guitar soloists. Swedish virtuoso Yngwie Malmsteen made a name for himself in 1984 by playing in the popular band Alcatrazz , and then by releasing his debut solo album Rising Force later that year, reaching #60 on the Billboard Charts. Joe Satriani 's 1987 album Surfing With The Alien was a surprise hit, containing the popular instrumental ballad "Always With Me, Always With You", and

1350-592: The 1990s, instrumental music flourished among indie-rock groups and with the popularity of post rock groups like Tortoise , Mogwai and Cul de Sac . Don Caballero gained notice for their instrumental math rock, as did neo-surf-rockers the Mermen and Man or Astro-man? . Quentin Tarantino 's film Pulp Fiction made heavy use of rock instrumentals on its soundtrack, spurring some interest in classic instrumentals, and revitalizing Dick Dale 's career. With

1404-575: The 2022 album Reset . Since 2004, he has lived in Lisbon, Portugal . Lennox grew up in the Roland Park section of Baltimore , Maryland, and attended Waldorf School of Baltimore through 8th grade, and Kimberton Waldorf School in Chester County, Pennsylvania, for high school. His family moved frequently during his early years, owing to his father's studies to be an orthopedic surgeon. As

1458-556: The MG's and saxophonist Junior Walker . Just before the British Invasion , Lonnie Mack 's version of Chuck Berry 's "Memphis" reached #5 on the Billboard Pop chart in June 1963. Employing both the blues scale and distortion, it ushered in the era of blues rock guitar of Eric Clapton , Jimi Hendrix and Stevie Ray Vaughan . The early incarnation of Fleetwood Mac with bandleader Peter Green achieved number one chart positions with

1512-479: The Piltdown Men 's "McDonald's Cave"), but the guitar was most prominent. Duane Eddy scored several hits (his best known probably being " Rebel-'Rouser "). Eddy was the first rock & roll artist to release an album in stereo. The Fireballs , featuring the distinctive guitar work of George Tomsco, began their career in the late 1950s with instrumental hits such as "Torquay" and "Bulldog." The band pioneered

1566-545: The Rye" b/w "Aqua Marina" b/w "Too Much in Love to Hear" b/w "Do You Come Here Often" b/w "Red Rocket" Notes Instrumental rock During the 1980s and 1990s, the instrumental rock genre was dominated by several guitar soloists, including Joe Satriani , Yngwie Malmsteen and Steve Vai . The 2000s gave way to a new style of instrumental performer. For example, John Lowery (a.k.a. John 5) , released

1620-409: The Tornados. Their recordings with Fury were produced by Mike Smith and Ivor Raymonde. The Tornados made a scopitone film (an early form of music video) for "Telstar" and another for their chart hit "Robot" featuring members of the group walking around a woodland dressed in appropriate headgear with their guitars, flirting with various young women and being finally arrested by policemen after lighting

1674-408: The UK charts until 1963 when Beatlemania arrived, combined with DJ indifference to non-vocal singles. The Ventures ' precise guitar work was a major influence on many later rock guitarists; they also helped shape surf music. The band reached chart success with songs such as " Walk-Don't Run " and "Hawaii Five-O". In the U.S. they greatly escalated the guitar instrumentals and use of the vibrato bar on

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1728-486: The album after that, Songs for Sanity , which features guest appearances by Steve Vai and Albert Lee , became one of the top selling records on the record label Shrapnel. He followed this in 2007 with The Devil Knows My Name , which features Joe Satriani , Jim Root , and Eric Johnson . The 2000s saw a rise in the popularity of bands that have been labeled post-rock ; many of these bands have created instrumental rock songs. Constellation Records has released some of

1782-481: The band stayed for a ten-week tour after which they disbanded, leaving Watts and Huxley in Israel, playing with The Lions of Judea and The Churchills , respectively. After drummer and bandleader Clem Cattini left the Tornados in 1965, he became a successful session musician , playing on recording sessions for other artists, and was featured in Cliff Richard 's backing bands. He holds the record for appearing

1836-725: The best-known examples of instrumental post-rock, such as Godspeed You! Black Emperor and Do Make Say Think . Other examples include Austin TV , Mogwai , The Cancer Conspiracy , the Mercury Program , 65daysofstatic , God Is An Astronaut , Russian Circles and Explosions in the Sky . Within the indie rock label, bands such as Ratatat and Delicate Steve are popular instrumental rock acts. Guitarist Omar Rodriguez Lopez 's solo albums typically are instrumental ( Old Money ) or mostly instrumental ( Se Dice Bisonte, No Bufalo ). In

1890-566: The blues boogie inflected "Satch Boogie" — both staples for guitarists learning their craft. Satriani released a follow-up album, Flying in a Blue Dream , two years later. After Malmsteen left Alcatrazz , he was replaced by the extravagant Steve Vai , who had previously been playing with the Frank Zappa band. Continuing the tradition (and following a brief stint in David Lee Roth 's band from 1986 to 1988), Vai went on to release

1944-540: The city for a vacation following a long Animal Collective tour in 2003. Lennox says about Lisbon: "Since I got off the airplane here [for the first time] I had a good feeling about this place." He met his ex-wife, the fashion designer Fernanda Pereira, there; after visiting each other in Lisbon and New York, Lennox decided to move to Europe because he also felt "connected to the European way of life", considering himself as

1998-762: The former lead guitarist of the American indie rock band Real Estate ) and electronic musicians Zomby and Pantha du Prince . Panda Bear appeared on the track " Doin' It Right " on the 2013 Daft Punk album Random Access Memories . The album won Daft Punk the Grammy Award for Album of the Year in 2014, making Panda Bear a co-winner. Almost a decade later, Lennox worked with previous Daft Punk collaborators Alan Braxe and DJ Falcon on their new duo's debut single, "Step By Step", in 2022. In 2004, Lennox moved from New York City to Lisbon , Portugal. He first visited

2052-486: The four of them swapped homemade recordings, shared musical ideas and performed in different group configurations. Lennox, along with Deakin moved to New York in 2000. The band then became more collaborative in nature and they finally settled on the name "Animal Collective". Since the 2007 releases of Panda Bear's Person Pitch and Animal Collective's Strawberry Jam , he has focused more on using samplers and other electronics in their shows. He has named Black Dice as

2106-606: The guitar-based instrumental " Albatross " in February 1969. Previously, only three other rock guitar instrumentals had cracked Billboard's top five: the Virtues' "Guitar Boogie Shuffle" in 1959, and Duane Eddy 's " Because They're Young " and the Ventures ' "Walk, Don't Run" in 1960. In August 1964, Checker Records released the album Two Great Guitars , recorded by rock and roll pioneers Chuck Berry and Bo Diddley , which

2160-674: The guitar/guitar/bass/drums configuration, paving the way for the Ventures , the Shadows , and the surf music scene. The Fireballs were one of a few instrumental bands that successfully transitioned into vocal music, having the biggest hit of 1963 in the US (" Sugar Shack "). B Bumble & the Stingers gained hit " Nut Rocker ". The Shadows , from the UK , had several hit singles from 1960 onwards, including "Kon-Tiki" and " Apache ". The Shadows (alone and accompanying Cliff Richard ) featured heavily in

2214-520: The late 1960s and 1970s with their explosive instrumental output that merged rock, jazz, classical and heavy metal styles, though their albums also included songs with vocals, Genesis also had multiple instrumental parts in their long songs, and when Peter Gabriel left the band the drummer Phil Collins suggested continuing as an instrumental act, but the other members didn't like the idea. Alan Parsons Project had instrumentals on every album, especially on early releases. Tubular Bells by Mike Oldfield ,

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2268-553: The late 2000s a new style of heavy metal called djent emerged. Some of the leading bands in the scene such as Animals as Leaders are instrumental acts, while many others started as instrumental acts before later acquiring vocalists. A number of Math Rock artists, such as Toe , mainly use instrumentals in their music without many vocals and are thus instrumental acts. Panda Bear (musician) Noah Benjamin Lennox (born July 17, 1978), also known by his moniker Panda Bear ,

2322-406: The latter featuring a cover of Charles Mingus 's jazz standard " Goodbye Pork Pie Hat ". Several progressive rock and art rock performers of the 1960s and 1970s featured virtuosic instrumental performances (and occasional instrumental songs), but many of their compositions also featured vocals. Early 70s, EL&P gained cover hit "Nut Rocker". King Crimson gained a massive cult following in

2376-624: The lead guitar. Surf music was quite popular in the early 1960s, and was generally rather simple and melodic—one exception being Dick Dale , who gained fame for his quick playing, often influenced by the music of the Middle East , and frequently using exotic scales . Around the time of the British Invasion, rock changed appreciably, and instrumental hits came mostly from the R&;B world. Notable artists include Booker T. &

2430-617: The most times on UK no. 1 singles. The rhythm guitarist, George Bellamy, is the father of Matt Bellamy of the alternative rock band Muse . They re-formed as The New Tornados in the early 1970s as the backing group for Marty Wilde , Billy Fury and others on a year-long UK Rock n Roll Tour. They continued for another few years with lead guitarist Antz Cowell, bassist Willie Bath, saxophonist Robin Foster and drummer Jon Werrell. They also toured with original members Norman Hale and Heinz Burt , plus "The King of Rock Roll" Carl Simmons. The group

2484-538: The packaging of the release were hidden URLs that pointed to samples used on the EP. In February 2019, he released the LP Buoys , featuring production work by longtime collaborator Rusty Santos. It was preceded by the single "Dolphin". Lennox plays in the band Jane and Together with DJ Scott Mou. He has also performed on tracks with Atlas Sound ( Bradford Cox of Deerhunter ), Ducktails ( Matt Mondanile , best known as

2538-625: The rise of grunge , guitar-orientated instrumental rock of the type popular in the 1980s became less popular, and there were few artists who continued to thrive in that style. There have been many new releases of instrumental rock albums in the 2000s. The majority of the popular performers from the 1980s have made rejuvenated and generally well-received comebacks, with a revitalized sound apparent on their recent releases. Artists such as Steve Morse, Marty Friedman, Paul Gilbert, Ron Jarzombek and Joe Satriani have continued releasing instrumental rock music and touring with success. Les Fradkin has popularized

2592-627: The way Black Dice did it." In addition to singing, Lennox played drums and occasionally guitar in Animal Collective's live performances. He cites Stewart Copeland as the biggest influence on his drumming style; for his drumming work on Animal Collective's 2022 album Time Skiffs , Lennox cited James Brown 's drummers, especially Clyde Stubblefield , as influences. Lennox's early musical influences included electronic styles, and his solo work has been variously characterized as experimental pop, electronic, bedroom pop , neo-psychedelic pop , and indie music . The Line of Best Fit called him

2646-686: Was a little too jazzy for the style of the group. To remedy this, around two-thirds in, a casual conversation between what appears to be two gay men (Dave Watts playing keyboards and Robb Huxley playing guitar) was overdubbed. The song was featured, along with other gay-flavoured releases, on a 2006 compilation CD, Queer Noises . b/w "Popeye Twist" b/w "Jungle Fever" b/w "Locomotion with Me" b/w " The Breeze and I " b/w "Life on Venus" b/w " Theme from "Scales of Justice" " b/w "Hymn for Teenagers" b/w "Joystick" b/w "Blue, Blue, Blue Beat" b/w "Blackpool Rock" b/w "Ragunboneman" b/w "Stompin' Through

2700-454: Was a technical break-through in regards to what could be achieved in the field of guitar composition. This was followed up by the 1995 trio album Alien Love Secrets and Fire Garden , released a year after. In 1995, Michael Angelo Batio of Nitro released his CD No Boundaries , which began his solo career. His albums predominantly feature instrumental rock, but have occasionally featured vocals by himself and other vocalists. During

2754-471: Was known for intermixing instrumental rock tracks with his novelty songs on his albums. The jazz rock of the 1970s often had considerable stylistic cross-over with rock with groups such as Colosseum, Soft Machine , Nucleus, Brand X , Chicago , Chase, Blood, Sweat & Tears and Affinity. Surf rock's "2nd Wave" began in the late 1970s with the release of Edie & the Hot Rods' first single. During

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2808-464: Was often part of a 1960s package with other artists, including Wee Willie Harris and Screaming Lord Sutch . During a break in touring, Jon Werrell loaned his Silver Premier drum kit to John Bonham when Led Zeppelin played their famous impromptu December 1975 gig at Behans St Helier while tax exiles in Jersey. In 1975, Clem Cattini, Roger LaVern, Heinz Burt and George Bellamy reunited and released

2862-528: Was quite popular. There were several notable blues instrumental songs during the 1950s; Little Walter 's rollicking "Juke" was a #1 R&B hit. Instrumental hit songs could emphasize electronic organ ( the Tornados ' " Telstar ", Dave "Baby" Cortez 's "The Happy Organ", Johnny & the Hurricanes ' "Red River Rock"), or the saxophone ( the Champs ' "Tequila", Bill Black's Combo 's "Don't Be Cruel",

2916-559: Was unable to play when the event was rescheduled to March 2012. In June 2013, Panda Bear performed a set of all new material at ATP. In October 2014, the Mr Noah EP was released, featuring four new songs. The full album, Panda Bear Meets the Grim Reaper , was released in January 2015. In 2018, Lennox released the vinyl-only A Day With the Homies EP, a collection of five songs heavily influenced by house + bass music. Included on

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