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Wildish Theater opening: Bring on Mason Williams.
Mason Williams isn't exactly retired these days, but the 68-year-old musician hasn't been doing as much performing around Eugene as he once did.
That's in part because of a degenerative condition in his hand, making it difficult to hit those guitar chords as well as he used to.
But Williams, along with the group of musicians informally dubbed his "friends" - that's Art Maddox, Thom Bergeron and Don Latarski, among others - will be dusting off old tunes and inventing new ones Friday night for the gala official opening of the new Richard E. Wildish Community Theater in Springfield.
If you haven't heard of Williams, it's probably because you're younger than boomer age. His 1968 double Grammy-winning guitar instrumental, ``Classical Gas,'' became one of the standards for an entire generation of guitarists.
Williams, who lives in Eugene with his wife, a defense attorney, has also enjoyed a notable career as a comedy writer.
He wrote for ``The Smothers Brothers Comedy Hour,'' winning an Emmy in 1969, and has worked for Steve Martin and ``Saturday Night Live'' among others. He's written a number of books and made art that's been shown at the Museum of Modern Art in New York.
In the 1990s, Williams and friends - then including author Ken Kesey - did a series of Christmas performances for the Eugene Symphony. Friday's show dedicating the Wildish grows out of that tradition.
"You know, my first experience in Springfield was sitting in the car while my folks were in a bar drinking beer," he joked last week. "Times have changed. Now you can go to an artsy theater show and leave the kids in the car."
But Williams, who grew up in Oakridge, says he has deeper connections to Springfield, from the extended Kesey family there to his love of fly fishing.
The Wildish show will also be a retrospective of Williams' career, including music from his themed concerts such as "Of Time and Rivers Flowing."
CONCERT PREVIEW Mason Williams and Friends What: An opening gala for Lane County's newest performance venue, the 284-seat Richard E. Wildish Theater Where: 630 Main St., Springfield When: 8 p.m. Friday Tickets: $150; call 736-4044
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A group of Bandra and Khar residents took it upon themselves to clean two major roads –the Linking road and the SV Road, of gravel, pebbles and other construction debris early Sunday morning. What's more, in three hours, they managed to gather a dumper full of waste, which was then disposed off by the Brihanmumbai municipal corporation (BMC) workers.
Initiated by Aftab Siddique, an activist, about 10 to 12 members of different citizens' groups joined the 'safai abhiyaan' –the clean up drive. "We were fed up of the BMC's reluctant attitude in cleaning up of the main roads. So, we decided to do it ourselves," said Siddique.
Siddique said she intends to carry out more such drives in the future. "Most of the time, when residents carry out repair or construction work in their houses, the debris are often left outside their homes. Apart from that there is scattered green waste and other dry waste generated in that area, more because its a commercial area," she said.
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Something special is always going on in Alpena. Festivals and events that celebrate Independence Day, antique steam engines, classic cars, lighthouses, Santa Claus, the Thunder Bay River, and a fish called "Big Brownie" are just a smattering of the special events that take place in Alpena year 'round. Great performances at the Alpena Fine Arts Shell, Alpena High School Auditorium, the Alpena County Library and Alpena Community College's Granum Theatre are scheduled throughout the year. Click on the category name to see a full list of events under that category.
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Join Alpena in what is sure to be a thrilling evening for all! Alpena is known to have a fantastic fireworks display. So invite your family and friends and come check it out for yourself. Make this 4th of July the best ever. The firework display will begin at dusk at the Alpena waterfront (Mich-E-Ke-Wis Park). Watch the fireworks light up the sky! Compliments of Alpena individuals and businesses.


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Given by the daughter of compiler William Fleming MD, Mary Elizabeth Stopford, 1931
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- Charles Howard Hodges (1764-1837), Portrait painter and mezzotint engraver. Artist associated with 42 portraits.
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The former Head of Elite Development at the FA feels the Scottish manager has plenty of talent at his disposal but must be careful in integrating them into first-team footballAston Villa manager Paul Lambert to gradually introduce academy players into the team, using his own experience as a youngster in a talented but overwhelmed Crystal Palace team as evidence for the perils of fast-tracking fledgling players.
The defender was at Aston Villa for six years in a spell that led him to become the club captain and lift the League Cup. But the former Middlesbrough manager recognised that his career didn't start off as well as he hoped.
He told The Sun: "I remember when I was a young player coming through at Crystal Palace, there were quite a few players who came through.
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This hostel is ok, but I do not see how it became "the best" hostel of Estonia in previous years.
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The hostel is difficult to find even with their directions. The first staff member was helpful, however the remaining two were not very helpful and you had to work for their attention. The breakfast said pancakes until 10:30am but the staff member said they had all gone whèn we asked at 9am. Limited toilets and showers.
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Great breakfast with even better pancakes. Nice room, super nice staff and very well located.
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I can really recommend the Viru Backpackers. The rooms are very big and bright and the facilities are very nice. The location right in the Viru street in the center of the olt town is simply unbeatable. If you expect a party place it might be the wrong choice, but if you prefer a quiet retreat after visiting one of Tallinns very lively nightlife attractions which are just a few streets away or after visiting the tremendous old town then it is definitely an excellent choice.
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Great location, clean place and the staff were lovely and friendly. The only situation we had was a problem with the lock on our door (and not being able to get in late at night) but they had this in hand and will fix soon.
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Great hostel for those who aren't there for partying. Suprisingly quiet for its central location. We stayed in a private room with ensuite bathroom. It was a large room; the bed was not bad, but could be better; the room could be a bit warmer, too (but we got some pretty cold days and no, we didn't freeze at night). Overall, great place to stay. I think it would be hard to find a place with such great location, good quality, cleanness, quietness and affordable price.
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Kobe Bryant did some of everything for the Lakers: 29 points on 12-of-23 shooting, four rebounds, six assists, three steals ... and seven turnovers. Kevin Durant poured in 40 points for Oklahoma City.
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I simulated all 82 games and the playoffs, starting with that opener featuring Andrew Bynum suspended for his bad behavior last postseason, Pau Gasol still coming up small (3-for-12 shooting) and Derek Fisher and Steve Blake playing a combined 49 minutes without taking a shot or scoring a point.
If that felt about right, how about this? Kobe Bryant broke a finger and kept playing, shot the ball terribly until he adjusted, scored his 30,000th career point on April 11 in a victory over San Antonio and finished second in the league in usage rate to Chicago's Derrick Rose.
Don't tell the professors who once guided me at Northwestern University's Medill School of Journalism that I'm passing this off as real work, but you tell me if this isn't kinda interesting while real NBA games are an alternate universe away.
I ran the Lakers – not playing the games, but tweaking their rotation and court time to be more realistic. That meant my first move was to excise Shannon Brown from the roster, because it's hard to envision Brown re-signing with the Lakers when he wants so much more money and playing time.
Brown actually has a higher rating than Metta World Peace and Matt Barnes – and a much higher one than Fisher and Blake – but I decided to send him over to the Denver Nuggets, whose roster I depleted to mimic reality: Wilson Chandler, J.R. Smith and Kenyon Martin are all playing in China and can't join the NBA this season even if the lockout ends.
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The Lakers started slowly under new coach Mike Brown, going 5-3 in the games the lockout has already stricken from the record. Then after the Lakers seemed to steady themselves, Bryant broke that finger in a 115-87 loss at Oklahoma City on Nov. 23. He decided he could keep playing while it took four-to-six weeks to heal.
He played like an actual Black Mamba – you know, with no fingers or hands or arms. Bryant couldn't shoot the ball, the team hit the skids, and all I could do was tell Brown to decrease Kobe's minutes. Bryant shot 4 of 19 from the field in a particularly galling 96-73 loss at Miami on Dec. 8, the fourth loss in the Lakers' five-game streak.
By the time Bryant pronounced himself healed, the Lakers were an embarrassing 12-15.
But they got it together, sweeping all six games on their annual early February trip East while the Grammy Awards take over Staples. They won by three points in overtime in Boston and then by one the next night in New York.


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Big 10 Week
Four Predictions, Part 1
Big 10 Saturday, Sept. 22
at Ohio State
Why to Watch: Ohio
State made a statement last week that
seemed to get lost in the shuffle. It
became the chic pick to take Washington
over the Buckeyes, but a big second half
and a 33-14 win suddenly changed things
around a bit. The defense has been
stellar, and the offense, while not
anything special, has done just enough
to get by. That's right, it's Tressel
ball. Now OSU starts the Big Ten season
against the league's two worst teams,
facing Minnesota next week after dealing
with Northwestern. The Wildcats won a
game they shouldn't have, pulling out a
last-second 36-31 miracle over Nevada,
and lost a game it shouldn't have,
failing to pull out another last second
win in the 20-14 loss to Duke. This is
an up-and-coming team that'll pull off a
shocker or two this year, but it'll have
to play a flawless game to get the
program's second win over OSU in 28
tries, and the first win in Columbus
since 1971.
Why Northwestern Might Win: Washington
might not have done too much
offensively, but it got a decent game
out of QB Jake Locker, who ran for 102
yards and threw for 153 more with a
touchdown pass. However, he threw three
picks. Northwestern's C.J. Bacher isn't
Locker when it comes to running, but he
can take off and get yards in chunks.
He's also the best passer the Buckeyes
have seen so far this year, coming off a
368-yard day against Duke. Ohio State's
offense still isn't humming, so if the
Wildcats can keep this close, and
somehow force a big turnover, it might
be a battle deep into the second half.
Why Ohio State Might Win:
The defense is playing at a national
title level. It didn't allow a touchdown
in the first two games, gave up one to
Washington in the final moments of the
first half, and allowed another in
garbage time. The defensive front seven
has been dominant, especially against
running backs, while the secondary has
been stingy. The is the nation's sixth
best pass efficiency defense and ninth
best overall D against the pass.
Northwestern's offense might be good,
but it's not going to be able to
consistently crank out the long drives
Who to Watch: It's not that
Northwestern senior RB Brandon Roberson
is bad, he ran for 128 yards against
Nevada and 80 against Duke, with a
touchdown in each game, but he's not
Tyrell Sutton. Sutton, an Ohio native
and one of the program's top recruits
over the last few years, has been out
with a high ankle sprain, but now he's
needed. Even if he's not 100%, he's the
one guy the Buckeyes will have to
account for on every play, and that
might be just enough to open things up
for Bacher and the passing game. Trying
to stop Sutton will be James Laurinaitis,
who's playing up to the high level he
set last year, coming off an eight
tackle, two pick day against Washington.
What Will Happen: Ohio State
appeared to wake up last week in
Seattle, and it could start a big run.
The defense will get in the Northwestern
backfield all game long, while the
Buckeyes should be able to run the ball
as long as it wants to.
CFN Prediction:
Ohio State
38 ... Northwestern 10
... Line: OSU -22
Must See Rating: (5 Curb Your
Enthusiasm - 1 Kid Nation)
Iowa (2-1) at
Wisconsin (3-0)
8:00 PM GamePlan
Why to Watch: Will
the real Wisconsin please stand up?
Considered by many to be a top five team
at the start of the year, a shaky
performance in a 20-13 win over UNLV
started to cause a little national
skepticism, and then an awful defensive
first half against Citadel, in a 45-31
win, has put the team on notice that it
needs to start showing something more to
earn the lofty status. If this really is
a team worthy of winning the Big Ten
title, going to the BCS, and possibly
making a sleeper run at a national title
shot, this is a game it has to win in a
walk. Iowa is coming off a 15-13 gaffe
to a horrible Iowa State team, and now
needs a big redemption game to show that
the rivalry loss was a fluke. This has
been an unpredictably bizarre series
over the last few years, with Iowa
winning four of the last five meetings.
Wisconsin won last year in Iowa City
despite not having starting QB John
Stocco. The Hawkeyes won in Madison in
2005, ruining Barry Alvarez's final home
game, and ruined UW's chance to go to
the Rose Bowl in 2004 with a 30-7 win.
Why Iowa Might Win: The defense
has been playing at another level,
allowing six field goals and no
touchdowns. The run defense has been a
brick wall over the first three games,
thanks to a defensive line that's
destroying offensive lines with a
combination of speed and quickness at
all four spots. The Wisconsin offensive
line isn't great against athletic
defensive fronts, and it'll have a
nightmare of a time keeping QB Tyler
Donovan clean. Iowa will stuff more than
its share of drives with a sack or a big
tackle for loss.
Why Wisconsin Might Win:
Wisconsin's running game is just a wee
step up in production from what Iowa has
faced so far. You and three friends
could stop the running games of Northern
Illinois, Syracuse and Iowa State. If
the Badgers get up by any appreciable
lead, it's over. Iowa's offensive line
is young, inconsistent, and needs a lot
of time. QB Jake Chrstensen is a good
one, but he's not given much time to
breathe and doesn't have any receiving
weapons to work with.
Who to Watch: It'll be this
simple: Who'll win the battle between
the UW offensive line and the Iowa
defensive line. Hawkeye DE Ken Iwebama
has returned to his preinjury form,
terrorizing backfield as one of the Big
Ten's premier pass rushers. Bryan
Mattison might be the league's quickest
tackle, and he's fantastic at blowing up
running plays before they hit the line.
Wisconsin will try to man up and pound
the ball with P.J. Hill, but it'll also
try to get Donovan on the move on the
outside. Donovan filled in last year for
Stocco, and threw for 228 yards and two
touchdowns, and ran for 61 yards, in
Iowa City. He has to be on early with
his receivers, or the Hawkeyes will
bring the house to stop Hill.
What Will Happen: Wisconsin's
defense will finally show up and stuff
the Iowa offense, but Hill and the
running game aren't going to rumble
until late. This game is on Donovan, and
while he'll take five sacks, he'll also
beat the Iowa secondary for two
touchdown passes. UW TE Travis Beckum
will have a huge day.
CFN Prediction:
... Iowa 16 ...
Line: Wisconsin -7.5
Must See Rating: (5 Curb Your
Enthusiasm - 1 Kid Nation)
at Minnesota
Why to Watch: After
a long day of college football watching,
sit back, relax, and enjoy the guilty
pleasure game of the day. If you want a
defensive slugfest, look elsewhere.
Minnesota can't stop anyone from
throwing the ball, allowing over 400
passing yards in each of its first three
games, but it should be able to keep up
the pace with an explosive attack of its
own. The Tim Brewster era hasn't exactly
started off smoothly with two overtime
games against MAC teams, followed up by
the indignity of a 42-39 loss to Florida
Atlantic. Purdue has been fantastic in
its first three games scoring 52 on
Toledo, 52 on Eastern Illinois, and 45
against Central Michigan. With a
punchless Notre Dame up next, the
Boilermakers have an honest shot at a
5-0 start before hosting Ohio State.
Why Purdue Might Win: Again,
Minnesota has allowed over 400 passing
yards to Bowling Green, Miami
University, and Florida Atlantic. Those
three aren't exactly going to challenge
Hawaii and Texas Tech for the top spot
on the passing charts. There's no pass
rush, and there's no production
whatsoever from the back seven on throws
of any kind. As ugly as the pass defense
has been, the Gophers' biggest problem
has been turnover margin, giving it away
12 times and only forcing three
turnovers. The last thing the Purdue
offense needs is a chance here and there
at an easy scoring opportunity.
Why Minnesota Might Win:
Lost in all the problems over the first
three games has been a great start by
the offensive line. The running game has
been fine, and the pass protection
stellar. QB Adam Weber has rarely been
touched, and has been allowed to quickly
develop over the first three games after
being thrown into the fire. The Gophers
have a balanced offense that'll put it
all together at some point and put some
mega numbers on the board, but at the
moment, it's mistake-prone and wildly
inconsistent. If all the parts come
together, the balanced attack could
crank out 600 yards in a shootout like
Who to Watch: America needs to be
introduced to Curtis Painter. The junior
originally took over the Purdue starting
quarterback job two years ago because he
could make the pitch on the option
better than Brandon Kirsch, and he's
grown into one of the nation's most
effective passers. How good has be been?
In three games, he's completed 69% of
his passes for 952 yards and 13
touchdowns with no interceptions. Few
passers spread the ball as well as he
does, and few are making better
decisions. Don't be shocked if he comes
close to bombing away for 500 yards.
What Will Happen: Well over 1,000
yards of total offense, close to 100
points, and lots and lots and lots of
big plays. Purdue will make more of
them. A lot more.
CFN Prediction:
58 ... Minnesota 40
... Line: Purdue -14
Must See Rating: (5 Curb Your
Enthusiasm - 1 Kid Nation)
... 3
Big 10 Week
Four Predictions, Part 1


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A mix of polished pop/rock and neo-soul made Maroon 5 one of the most popular bands of the new millennium, with songs like "This Love," "She Will Be Loved," and "Makes Me Wonder" all topping the charts worldwide. Previously, bandmates Adam Levine (vocals/guitar), Jesse Carmichael (keyboards), Mickey Madden (bass), and Ryan Dusick (drums) had spent the latter half of the '90s playing in Kara's Flowers, even releasing a debut album for Reprise Records while still attending high school. The record tanked, however, and Kara's Flowers found themselves dropped from Reprise's roster. After briefly attending college, the bandmates regrouped as Maroon 5, adding former Square guitarist James Valentine to the lineup and embracing a more R&B-influenced sound. Several years later, the quintet had officially risen to the forefront of pop music with Songs About Jane and It Won't Be Soon Before Long, both of which went multi-platinum.
Songs About Jane propelled the band into the mainstream, but the album was not an immediate hit. Octone Records had signed the newly christened Maroon 5 in 2001, and the debut album Jane received a lukewarm response upon its release in June 2002. "Harder to Breathe" became a radio staple 17 months later and was soon followed by the omnipresent "This Love," whose steamy video (featuring frontman Levine and a barely clothed girlfriend) wooed the TV-watching crowds at MTV. Songs About Jane finally entered the Billboard Top Ten in August 2004, more than two years after the album's release, and follow-up singles like "She Will Be Loved" and "Sunday Morning" helped the album move over 2.7 million copies by year's end.
Maroon 5 toured exhaustively in support of Jane's slow-burning success, issuing two stopgap recordings -- 2004's 1.22.03.Acoustic and 2005's Live Friday the 13th -- while traveling the world alongside the likes of the Rolling Stones and John Mayer. Their schedule was especially trying on percussionist Dusick, who sustained wrist and shoulder injuries and was often unable to play. By fall 2006, Dusick had been officially replaced by Matt Flynn (the former drummer for Gavin DeGraw), and the revised band released its sophomore effort in May 2007. It Won't Be Soon Before Long proved to be less popular than its predecessor (which had sold more than four million copies in the U.S. alone), but it still enjoyed double-platinum certification while spinning off the chart-topping single "Makes Me Wonder." Maroon 5 had cemented their status as pop/rock heavy weights, and they now had the connections to prove it. Released in late 2008, Call and Response: The Remix Album reinterpreted the band's catalog with remixes by influential producers like Mary J. Blige, Mark Ronson, and Pharrell Williams.
Between 2008 and 2010, the band worked with a different producer -- veteran rock/country architect Robert John "Mutt" Lange -- on a third studio album, Hands All Over, which was released in September 2010. Although it was kept from the top of the album charts, it went platinum. Also, the following year, it received a big boost when Levine began appearing as a judge on the NBC reality television talent competition The Voice. That same year, Hands All Over was re-released with the single "Moves Like Jagger," featuring Levine's The Voice co-judge Christina Aguilera; the single promptly hit the top of the charts. In 2012, Carmichael revealed that he was taking time off from performing with Maroon 5 and would be replaced by touring keyboardist PJ Morton.
In April of 2012, the band teased the release of its fourth studio album with "Payphone," a single featuring Wiz Khalifa that hit number two. The resulting album, Overexposed, also reached number two, featuring production from a bevy of name producers including Ryan Tedder, Max Martin, Benny Blanco, and more. A second single from the album, the reggae-tinged "One More Night," topped the charts not long after its release in June, and stayed at the top long enough to become the band's most successful showing to date. Two further singles also reached the Top Ten, "Daylight" and "Love Somebody." During 2013, Levine continued to appear on The Voice, and also made appearances in the television drama American Horror Story, as well as the music-based dramatic film Begin Again. The band hit the studio to record songs for a fifth studio album, aptly titled V, which saw keyboardist Jesse Carmichael return to the fold after a brief hiatus. V appeared in September 2014, preceded by the single "Maps."
Maroon 5 is an American pop rock band that originated in Los Angeles, California. The group was formed in 1994 as Kara's Flowers while its members were still in high school and originally consisted of Adam Levine (lead vocals, guitar), Jesse Carmichael (guitar, backing vocals) Mickey Madden (bass guitar) and Ryan Dusick (drums). The band, which self-released an album called We Like Digging?, was named after a girl the group had a crush on. They signed to Reprise Records and released an album, The Fourth World, in 1997. After a tepid response to the album, the band parted ways with the record label and the members attended college.
In 2001, the band regrouped, with guitarist James Valentine added to the line-up, and pursued a new direction under the name Maroon 5. At this point, Carmichael switched to playing keyboards, which has since become his main instrument in the band. After these changes, Maroon 5 signed with Octone Records and released their debut album, Songs About Jane, in June 2002. The album's lead single "Harder to Breathe", received heavy airplay, which helped the album to debut at number six on the Billboard 200 chart. The band won the Grammy Award for Best New Artist in 2005. For the next few years, they toured extensively worldwide in support of Songs About Jane and produced two live recordings: 2004's 1.22.03.Acoustic and 2005's Live – Friday the 13th. In 2006, Dusick officially left Maroon 5 after suffering from serious wrist and shoulder injuries and was replaced by Matt Flynn. The band then recorded their second album, It Won't Be Soon Before Long and released it in May 2007. The album reached number one on the US Billboard 200 chart and the lead single, "Makes Me Wonder", became the band's first number-one single on the Billboard Hot 100.
In September 2010, Maroon 5 released their third studio album Hands All Over, which was re-released in 2011 to include the single "Moves like Jagger". While the original version of the album received mixed reviews, "Moves like Jagger" reached the number one position on the Billboard Hot 100. The band released their fourth album, Overexposed, on June 26, 2012. All four singles of the album were highly successful on the Billboard Hot 100, including second single "One More Night", which reached number one. In 2014, the band signed with Interscope Records and released their fifth studio album, , with the very-first line-up of six official band members, as keyboardist and backing vocalist PJ Morton became an official member in 2012. The same year, a longtime friend of the band and bass player of Phantom Planet, Sam Farrar, became an official touring member, performing the keyboards with Carmichael and Morton. The album debuted atop the Billboard 200. Maroon 5 has sold more than 23 million albums and 109 million singles worldwide.^ Andrew Leahey. "Maroon 5 | Biography". AllMusic. Archived from the original on September 9, 2014. ^ The Week In Pop: Where Do Rock Music And Pop Radio Intersect In 2015? Stereogum.com. Retrieved February 13, 2015.^ "Maroon 5 V Album Review". Rolling Stone. ^ Menyes, Carolyn. "REVIEW: Maroon 5 'It Was Always You', New Song from 'V' Explores Friends Falling In Love". MusicTimes. Retrieved April 27, 2015. ^ http://www.theguardian.com/music/2014/jan/09/maroon-5-robin-thicke-review^ Chris Payne. "Maroon 5, 'Overexposed': Track By Track Review". Billboard. ^ "Up close with Maroon 5- Facebook and Twitter competition to give patron meeting with Rock band". The Gleaner. January 2, 2011. Retrieved July 17, 2011. ^ "Maroon 5". Billboard. Retrieved July 17, 2011. ^ Leahey, Andrew. "Kara's Flowers". AllMusic. Rovi Corporation. Retrieved July 31, 2012. ^ "Maroon5 Breaks Out Slowly But Surely". Billboard. August 13, 2003. Retrieved October 18, 2014. ^ Leahey, Andrew. "Maroon 5". AllMusic. Rovi Corporation. Retrieved July 31, 2012. ^ Moss, Corey (March 6, 2007). "Maroon 5 Back With 'Harder' Album After Adam Levine Gets Sick Of Partying". MTV News. Retrieved July 25, 2007. ^ "Recording Industry Association of America — August 01, 2014". RIAA. Retrieved August 1, 2014. ^ Live, BBM (February 13, 2015). "Maroon 5 Australian Tour". BBM Live. Retrieved April 24, 2015.
ContentsHistory1.1 1994–2002: Kara's Flowers and the formation of Maroon 51.2 2002–06: Songs About Jane and Dusick's departure1.3 2006–08: It Won't Be Soon Before Long1.4 2008–11: Hands All Over1.5 2012–14: Carmichael's hiatus and Overexposed1.6 2014–present: , the return of Carmichael and worldwide tour
1994–2002: Kara's Flowers and the formation of Maroon 5[edit]
Adam Levine was introduced to Ryan Dusick by a mutual friend and aspiring guitar player, Adam Salzman. Levine was 15 years old and Dusick was 16. The four original members of the band met while attending Brentwood School in Los Angeles. While attending Brentwood School, Adam Levine and Jesse Carmichael joined up with Mickey Madden and Ryan Dusick to form Kara's Flowers, a pop band. The name was taken from a groupie that the band had a "collective crush" on. In 1997 when they were playing a beach party in Malibu, indie producer Tommy Allen heard them play and offered to manage them and record a complete record with his partner, songwriter John DeNicola, who is known for his work on Dirty Dancing – including "(I've Had) The Time of My Life". Producer Rob Cavallo's management team heard the record Allen and DeNicola produced, which eventually led Cavallo to offer them a deal with Reprise Records. However, after the release of The Fourth World in 1997, they had morphed into band with a style reminiscent of 1960s Britpop. Despite high expectations from the band and record company, the album failed to catch on and their lead single, "Soap Disco", was a failure. According to Levine, the failure of the album was "a huge disappointment" that nearly led them to break up in 1998. The album sold around 5,000 copies and they were dropped after only one month.
Dusick and Madden attended college locally at UCLA, while Levine and Carmichael relocated to the East coast to attend Five Towns College, in Dix Hills, Long Island, New York. While Levine and Carmichael were in New York, they began to take notice of the urban music surrounding them and later let the style influence the songs they wrote.
The band returned to the music industry again in 2000. Sam Farrar says the Aaliyah song "Are You That Somebody?" affected the band and influenced the song "Not Coming Home." Producer Tim Sommer signed them to a demo deal with MCA Records and produced three tracks with them in Los Angeles in the middle of 2000 with Mark Dearnley engineering. Against Sommer's advice, MCA declined to pick up the band, and these tracks were never released. The band put together a demo that was rejected by several labels, before falling into the hands of Octone Records executives James Diener, Ben Berkman and David Boxenbaum. While looking for talent for the new Octone label, Berkman was given a bunch of demos by the brother of a former colleague at Columbia Records and the song that caught his attention was "'Sunday Morning'" which he referred it as a "genius song". Berkman was surprised the song was credited to Kara's Flowers because they sounded completely different from the band he had heard while at Warner Brothers.
Berkman encouraged Diener and Boxenbaum to fly out to Los Angeles to watch a showcase gig at The Viper Room for the four-piece Kara's Flowers. After watching Levine onstage, they were convinced. Berkman told HitQuarters he believed what the band needed was a "fifth member to play the guitar and free up the singer, so he could be the star I perceived him to be." Octone immediately insisted that the band change its name to break with its pop past. Also, the label began looking for a full-time guitarist to enable Levine to focus on performing as the frontman. James Valentine (from the L.A. band Square) was recruited for the job. On his joining the band, Valentine commented: "I became friends with them and we sort of started jamming together, it was very much like I was cheating on my band, we were having sort of an affair and I eventually quit my other band to join up with them."
2002–06: Songs About Jane and Dusick's departure[edit]Main article: Songs About Jane
"Between the time that we started making the album [Songs About Jane] in 2001 and the time the album reached the crest of its success in 2004, we went from being starving musicians wondering what the future held to riding a wave of success beyond our wildest expectations."—Ryan Dusick, Maroon 5's original drummer, who officially left the band in 2006 due to injuries sustained from constant touring
James Valentine attended Berklee College of Music with John Mayer in 1996, where they developed a rapport. In 2002, the two reconnected at a Mayer radio appearance. After Mayer heard their album, he was so impressed (particularly by "This Love", which became the most successful release off the album and propelled the band to superstardom) that he invited them to open for him during his early 2003 tour. The first single "Harder to Breathe" slowly started to pick up airplay which helped spur sales of the album. By March 2004, Songs About Jane had reached the Top 20 of the Billboard 200 and "Harder to Breathe" had made the Top 20 on the Billboard Hot 100 singles charts. The album peaked at No. 6 on the Billboard 200 in September 2004, 26 months after its release; this was the longest period between an album's release and its initial Top 10 appearance since SoundScan results were included in the Billboard 200 in 1991. This had all happened after the band "abandoned its post-grunge roots for a radio-friendly pop-soul sound, even while dabbling in hard rock." Mayer invited the band to open for him again in 2004. Over the next three years, the band toured virtually non-stop, including visits to seventeen countries. During this time, the band toured with Michelle Branch, Graham Colton, and the Rolling Stones. Others they have toured alongside include Gavin DeGraw, Matchbox Twenty, Sugar Ray, Counting Crows, Phantom Planet, the Hives, Dashboard Confessional, Simon Dawes, the Thrills, Thirsty Merc, Marc Broussard, the Donnas, the RedWest, Michael Tolcher, and Guster.
Songs About Jane eventually reached No. 1 on the Australian albums (ARIA), while "Harder to Breathe" made the Top 20 singles charts in the US and UK, and Top 40 in Australia and New Zealand. The album also eventually climbed to No. 1 in the UK. The second single, "This Love", reached No. 5 in the US, No. 3 in the UK, and No. 8 in Australia. The third single, "She Will Be Loved," reached the Top 5 in both the US and the UK, and went to No. 1 in Australia. The fourth single, "Sunday Morning," reached the Top 40 in the US, UK, and Australia. Maroon 5 also played Live 8, in Philadelphia in 2005. Their set included a cover of Neil Young's "Rockin' In The Free World" and frontman Levine performed with one of his heroes, and the closing act, Stevie Wonder. On May 13, 2005, in Santa Barbara, California, the band wrapped up the Honda Civic Tour, which they headlined. On June 9, 2005, the band performed at the American Film Institute's tribute to filmmaker George Lucas. Lucas himself had selected Maroon 5 for the event, as they were his children's favorite band at the time. Over the years of touring with the band their drummer, percussionist and backing vocalist Ryan Dusick had been suffering from the touring life. The strains of non-stop touring aggravated an old sports injury. After several absences from the tour with Ryland Steen and Josh Day taking his place, Dusick officially left Maroon 5 in September 2006. Matt Flynn, the former drummer of Gavin DeGraw and the B-52's, joined the band as Dusick's replacement.
2006–08: It Won't Be Soon Before Long[edit]Main article: It Won't Be Soon Before Long
After recording for 8 months in 2006, Maroon 5's second album, It Won't Be Soon Before Long, was released worldwide in May 2007 by A&M/Octone Records., According to Levine, the follow-up to Songs About Jane is "sexier and stronger", gaining inspiration from iconic 80s artists such as Prince, Shabba Ranks, Michael Jackson and Talking Heads. Ann Powers writing for Los Angeles Times said It Won't Be Soon Long is "An icy-hot blend of electro-funk and blue-eyed soul that works its cruel streak with the confidence of Daniel Craig's James Bond". Before its release, "Makes Me Wonder" was the No. 1 selling single and video on iTunes. It was also the No. 1 selling album, with more than 50,000 digital pre-sales. After its release, the album broke iTunes sales records its week of release, selling over 101,000 albums. The first single, "Makes Me Wonder," was released to radio March 27, 2007. The song debuted at number 84 on the Billboard Hot 100, the lowest debuting single of the group's five chart entries. In the first week of May, the single skyrocketed from a lowly position of No. 64 to No. 1, the biggest jump in Billboard history at the time. "Makes Me Wonder" has also achieved No. 1 on Billboard's Hot Digital Songs, Pop 100, and Hot Dance Club Play charts.
To support the album, the band performed on a "six-date club tour" in which they visited small venues in Boston, San Francisco, Los Angeles, Minneapolis, Miami, and New York City in early June 2007. They followed with a concert that streamed live via MSN Music in mid-June. On July 10, they opened for the Police, in Miami, and followed with an acoustic performance at the Miami club, Studio A, the next day. Their It Won't Be Soon Before Long world tour took place in 2007, where the band toured 28 cities in North America. The tour began September 29 in Detroit touring in 28 cities in North America and concluded November 10 in Las Vegas. the Hives, as the tour's special guest, performed on all of the dates while Sara Bareilles, Kevin Michael, and Phantom Planet each performed in a portion of the tour. They toured with Dashboard Confessional in their world tour and on March 28, 2008, they began touring with OneRepublic, Brandi Carlile and Ry Cuming. They have also performed "Makes Me Wonder" on season 6 and "If I Never See Your Face Again" on season 7 of American Idol. The re-release of the album featured a new duet version of "If I Never See Your Face Again" with Rihanna; the new version of the song also appeared on the re-release of Rihanna's album Good Girl Gone Bad. The band also released as the fifth single "Goodnight Goodnight", which appeared in the opening of the CSI: NY episode "Page Turner" in 2008.
2008–11: Hands All Over[edit]Main article: Hands All Over (album)
Levine stated that he believed the band was reaching its peak and may make one more album before disbanding. He explained: "Eventually I want to focus on being a completely different person because I don't know if I want to do this into my 40s and 50s and beyond, like the Rolling Stones".
The band's third studio album was recorded in 2009 in Switzerland, where the band was joined by record producer Robert John "Mutt" Lange. The album, titled Hands All Over, was released on September 21, 2010. On the Billboard 200, the album debuted at number two behind Zac Brown Band's album You Get What You Give. Despite the high placement on the Billboard only 142,000 copies were sold which is relatively weak compared to their previous album It Won't Be Soon Before Long, which debuted at number one with 429,000 copies. The album's first single, "Misery", was released on June 22, 2010. The band toured with Train for the summer of 2011, from July 22 to September 24.
On June 12, 2011 the band re-released the album "Hands All Over" just to include their summer hit "Moves like Jagger" featuring Christina Aguilera. The album received mixed reviews from music critics, though many of them praised it for its production. The song premiered live of The Voice on June 21, 2011 and reached the number one position on the Billboard Hot 100 chart in September 2011. Frontman Levine was also featured in the Gym Class Heroes' song "Stereo Hearts", which peaked at number four on the Billboard Hot 100. On September 8, 2011, Jesse Carmichael stated the band was likely to begin recording its next album within the year. On October 1, 2011, the band performed live at the Rock in Rio concert in Rio de Janeiro, Brazil. Maroon 5 was a last hour addition, chosen to fill the vacant spot left by Jay-Z after he cancelled his appearance for personal reasons. The band launched a Snapple flavor named "Tea Will Be Loved" in support of Feeding America in September 2011.
Maroon 5 performed "Moves Like Jagger" and "Stereo Hearts" with Travie McCoy on November 5, 2011 on Saturday Night Live. They also performed "Moves Like Jagger" and "Stereo Hearts" with Aguilera and Gym Class Heroes on November 20, 2011 on the American Music Awards, where they won their first AMA for Favorite Pop Band/Duo/Group. The band also performed "Moves Like Jagger" at the 2011 Victoria's Secret Fashion Show. During a promotion by Coca-Cola in the March 2011, the band participated in a special studio session during which, with the help of musician PJ Morton, they had 24 hours to write a completely original song. After their time was up, the song "Is Anybody Out There" was released on the Coca-Cola website for free download. In 2012, the band recorded a song for The Hunger Games soundtrack, called "Come Away to the Water" featuring Rozzi Crane. At the 54th Annual Grammy Awards, on February 12, 2012, the group performed alongside Foster the People and the Beach Boys in a medley of the Beach Boys songs to celebrate their fiftieth anniversary.
2012–14: Carmichael's hiatus and Overexposed[edit]Main article: Overexposed (album)
On March 9, 2012, Maroon 5 announced that Jesse Carmichael would take a break from performing with the group for an undetermined amount of time to focus more on his studies of "music and the healing arts" (spiritual healing). The band continued to work on their fourth studio album Overexposed released on June 26, 2012, with the help of keyboardist and background vocalist PJ Morton, who had been touring with them since 2010 and became a full-time band member after the announcement. Levine stated that Overexposed is their "most diverse and poppiest album yet". On April 16, 2012, the band premiered the first single from the album "Payphone" featuring Wiz Khalifa, on the reality competition television show The Voice, in which Levine is one of the judges and coaches. The song debuted number three on the Billboard Hot 100 chart, before being peaked to number two. The second single, "One More Night", was released on June 19, 2012. The song reached number one on the Billboard Hot 100, managed to beat Psy's "Gangnam Style" and stayed in the chart for nine weeks consecutively and tied with Carly Rae Jepsen's hit single "Call Me Maybe". The two songs had the most number of weeks in the number 1 spot on the Hot 100 Chart in 2012.
At the start of their Overexposed World Tour in South America, Maroon 5 introduced the newest addition in the band to the audience: their old and close friend Sam Farrar on guitars, occasionally on the bass guitar, percussion, backing vocals, turntables and providing samples and other special effects (using the MPC). Farrar co-wrote and co-produced a few of the band's songs on almost all of their studio albums and also remixed their song "Woman" (from the "Spider-Man 2" soundtrack) on Call and Response: The Remix Album, released in 2008.
On November 27, 2012, the band released "Daylight", the third single from the album. To promote the song, the band has launched a video project called "The Daylight Project". The project encouraged fans to film their own segments for inclusion in the official music video for "Daylight", directed by Jonas Åkerlund. "Daylight" was performed for the first time as a single on November 8, 2012, during an episode of the American version of The Voice and the official video was released on December 10, 2012.
On April 1, 2013, the band announced that they will headline the 12th Annual Honda Civic Tour with special guest, Kelly Clarkson. The tour began on August 1, 2013, at the Verizon Wireless Amphitheater in St. Louis, Missouri and ended on October 6, 2013, with a concert at the Hollywood Bowl in Los Angeles. On May 14, 2013, Maroon 5 released the fourth and final single from the album, "Love Somebody". They first performed the song of The Voice on May 20, 2013, while the official music video, directed by Rich Lee, was released the day after.
In February 2014, the band performed "All My Loving" and "Ticket to Ride" at a tribute concert titled The Night That Changed America, to celebrate the fiftieth anniversary of the Beatles' arrival in the United States.
2014–present: , the return of Carmichael and worldwide tour[edit]Main articles: V (Maroon 5 album) and Maroon 5 World Tour 2015
In April 2013, James Valentine said the band was in the studio recording songs for the upcoming fifth studio album: "The stuff we're working on now, it definitely has gone maybe a little darker in its sound, maybe back a little bit more to what we kind of did on Songs About Jane, but at this point we do have all kinds of different songs and it is early".
On April 15, 2014, Jesse Carmichael confirmed that his hiatus from the band was complete and he reunited with the band in time to record for . On April 29, 2014, the band performed on the Today Show at the Rockefeller Plaza in New York City on September 1, 2014, as part of the Toyota concert series.
On May 18, 2014, it was announced that the band would release their fifth album, , on September 2, 2014, through Interscope Records. The first single, "Maps", was released on June 16, 2014. The single peaked number 6 on the Hot 100 chart. After releasing the album on September 2, 2014 it reached number one on the US Billboard 200 chart on September 20, 2014. The album was also released on a limited-edition ZinePak. received mixed reviews from critics. Brad Wete, writing for Billboard, said: "Levine's hummingbird vocals and passionate delivery are as earnest as they were on their 2002 debut Songs About Jane."
On August 10, 2014, the band headlined the Hyundai Card City Break, a rock festival in South Korea. Maroon 5 also performed during the 2014 iTunes Festival at the Roundhouse in London, England, on September 11, 2014 (all of the concerts played as part of the festival were filmed and webcast live, around the world). The second single from , "Animals", was first featured in a Kia Soul commercial and made available for free download on the official Kia website for a limited time after the advert premiered on August 21, 2014. The song has so far peaked on number 3 on the Hot 100 chart.
Maroon 5 performed at the Grammy Awards' Christmas special, entitled "A Very Grammy Christmas," on November 18, 2014 and at Z100's Jingle Ball on December 12, 2014.
"Sugar" was released as the third single from the album on January 13, 2015. A video of the group was released of them traveling around L.A. and performing at random weddings. The song is also featured in a Nissan commercial.
Maroon 5 started their new worldwide tour in February 2015. It is scheduled to take place in North America, Europe, Africa, Asia and Oceania and last until September 2015. MAGIC!, Rozzi Crane, Nick Gardner and Dirty Loops will serve as opening acts.
In April 2015, a photo of Jesse Carmichael in the studio was posted on Instagram alongside producer Noah "Mailbox" Passovoy.
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Musical style and influences[edit]
"I think the classic Maroon 5 song is minor, and it has some funk, Nile Rodgers-style guitar and the lyrics are probably about getting your heart broken. So minor, funk and heartbreak -- that's the Maroon 5 formula."—James Valentine
Adam Levine has stated: "[E]verything that's written and performed and put together pretty much comes from us. I just think people would be surprised to know that we're a self-contained unit. We're a band that does their own thing. There's no puppet master." However, in an article about the songwriter and producer Benny Blanco, it is revealed that at least some of the band's songs, such as "Moves Like Jagger," are the product of efforts by, or collaborations with, professional songwriters and producers. In the same article, Adam Levine is quoted as saying: "It's almost as if [Benny Blanco] has the Midas touch in putting the right people together at the right time to create a musical moment. He's about the collaboration. And he's so good at nailing down who does everything best."
The band has cited Michael Jackson, the Police, Bee Gees, Justin Timberlake, Stevie Wonder, Tonic and Prince as influences. Adam Levine has also cited Stevie Wonder and Billy Joel as influences. Furthermore, guitarist James Valentine said he was influenced by guitarists like Pat Metheny, Bill Frisell and John Scofield, as well as the rock band Queens of the Stone Age. The band's songs tend to be very guitar-heavy, often accompanied by piano or synthesizer. The theme in most of their songs is love, frequently lost love; songs like "This Love", "Makes Me Wonder" and "Misery" have a very cynical tone, often expressing dissatisfaction with a relationship, while their more heartfelt and emotional songs such as "She Will Be Loved", "Never Gonna Leave This Bed" express a longing for a romantic relationship. "Makes Me Wonder" has a secondary theme, in which Levine expresses his disillusionment and frustration with the state of American politics and the Iraq War.
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Achievements[edit]See also: List of awards and nominations received by Maroon 5
Maroon 5 have been the recipients of three Grammy Awards, three American Music Awards, four Billboard Music Awards, and four Teen Choice Awards. In 2004 World Music Awards, they won the award for "World's Best New Group". In 2012, Maroon 5 won the People's Choice award for Favorite Band.
Hands All Over, the band's third studio album, which was released in September 2010, peaked at number two on the Billboard 200 chart. In 2011, the album was re-released and supported by the single "Moves like Jagger", a song featuring American singer Christina Aguilera. The song became the band's second single to reach number one on the Hot 100 chart; it has sold over 14.4 million copies worldwide, making it one of the best-selling singles worldwide. The band released their fourth studio album, Overexposed, in June 2012. The album peaked at number two on the Billboard 200 chart. The first two singles from the album "Payphone" and "One More Night", were both international hits and peaked at two and one on the Hot 100 chart respectively. "One More Night", managed to beat Psy's "Gangnam Style" by reaching number one on Billboard Hot 100 and stayed tied with Carly Rae Jepsen's hit single "Call Me Maybe" for most number of weeks. Adam Levine also gained popularity as one of the judges on NBC's talent competition The Voice.
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Supporters wrote Freedom for Alaa Abd El Fattah on the ground outside the Military Prosecution building in Cairo. Photo by Nazly Hussein, posted on Twitter
A military court today decided to jail blogger Alaa Abd El Fattah for another 15 days, 15 days after first detaining him, pending investigations on what defenders say are trumped up charges. Blogger Maikel Nabil Sanad's trial was also once again postponed until November 27.
Abd El Fattah was detained on October 30, after refusing to be interrogated by the Military Prosecution, in protest against its legitimacy. His arrest, and the international outcry it has caused, is shedding light on the plight of more than 12,000 civilians, including Sanad, who have been put on military trials in Egypt since the the Supreme Council of the Armed Forces (SCAF) took power. Abd El Fattah is accused of inciting violence against the military, stealing a weapon and destroying military equipment during the October 9 Maspero massacre, in which 25 Egyptians, mostly Copts, were killed in clashes between the military poilce and protesters demanding answers for the burning of churches in Sohag and Aswan.
Three year sentence for a blog post
Abd El Fattah's trial coincided with Sanad's – Egypt's first blogger to be arrested and charged by a military court after the revolution which ousted Hosni Mubarak as president. Sanad was sentenced to three years in prison, for writing a post on his blog, which the military said was insulting.The charges against Sanad are insulting the armed forces, publishing false information on his blog and disturbing public security. Last month, the Supreme Military Court of Appeals annulled the conviction but continued to hold Sanad, who had started a hunger strike, transferring him to a mental health facility.
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The current lack of freedom of speech is nothing to do with Islam and everything to do with an ostensibly transitionally ruling military council, which is using the powers of the reactivated 30-year old State of Emergency and trying activists and other civilians in military courts and remaining unaccountable. Extremists have not taken over the country, although it's possible that an Islamist group, the Muslim Brotherhood, will win a majority of the parliamentary seats in the forthcoming elections if they are not rigged. Isn't that what democracy is all about ? You don't necessarily end up with your choice of government!.
Too bad, I was hoping we'd see better from the Egyptians.
The road to democracy isn't paved. We seem to forget that one as we've enjoyed these freedoms to long. I believe Egypt will get there - no doubt it will take more time than idealists would like (myself included) but once you've tasted what the people can do - hold on Hanna!
Anyone with common sense and knowledge about Islam knew beforehand there would never be a "democracy", the extremists takeover these countries and they'll end up with worse dictators. I hope I'm wrong, we'll see.
It's just not going to happen.
Freedom of speech is NEVER allowed in Islamic countries---and the Muslim Brotherhood can't be expected to allow it in Egypt.
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