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| | Billy Howerdel - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia |
 | | Billy Howerdel (born May 18, 1970) is the founding member, guitarist, songwriter, and producer for the band A Perfect Circle. | | | Howerdel is currently working on a new album- "I don't know if you'd call it a solo album or a new band." (Oct. 6, 2005 GameSpy interview) | | | During this time, Howerdel played Keenan some of his songs, and Keenan offered his vocals if Howerdel ever decided to form a band. |
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| | A Perfect Circle - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia |
| | Between Lenchantin leaving the band for Billy Corgan's new band Zwan and van Leeuwen becoming the new tour guitarist of Queens of the Stone Age, the band was in need of a new bassist and guitarist for their live performances. | | | As of May 2005, Keenan is recording with Tool, Howerdel is planning a solo album, and White is touring and performing with Nine Inch Nails. | | | Billy Howerdel has mentioned in November 2004 that the band will definitely contain Keenan and himself, and most likely Josh Freese. |
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| | Billy Howerdel was the producer and composer of the bands first record,"Mer De Noms" (sea of names in english)and it was, suprisngly, recorded in his garage. | | | Billy had never expected the songs to be that heartfelt and deep that they would move the person to tears. | | | Ater years of teching for Tool, he no longer wanted to be the guitar technician for the band and asked if he could set up his recording equipment in the back of the studio. |
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http://www.angelfire.com/ca6/aperfectool/billybio.htm
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| | GUITAR WORLD NOVEMBER 2003 |
| | HOWERDEL A couple of the songs were live run-throughs in the studio. | | | GW Some songs on the album sound like they were recorded by a live band rather than constructed track by track. | | | BILLY HOWERDEL I just went after the musicians that I thought would be best for the band. |
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http://www.basetendencies.com/interview/GuitarWorldNov03.html
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| | Compare Prices and Read Reviews on Mer De Noms [PA] - A Perfect Circle at Epinions.com |
| | Howerdel accompanies Keenan with a melodic, guitar track as he continues to sing the song’s melancholic lyrics before going to the simmering chorus of “So I threw the obvious/Do you see what occurs behind the eyes of an angel/Eyes of a tragedy, well, oh well/Apparently nothing, apparently nothing at all”. | | | The album closer “Over” is a melodic-based track with Keenan playing a gord and Howerdel accompanying on a melancholic piano track. | | | Howerdel later plays a droning, melodic guitar solo filled with dreamy, metal textures as he follows the somber vocals of Keenan and Freese’s pulsating drum crashes. |
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http://www.epinions.com/content_107365305988
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| | Billy Howerdel began his musical career working for various bands as a guitar technician (i.e. | | | He originally intended for the band to feature a female vocalist and for the songs to be lengthy film soundtracks, but Maynard had asked to listen to a few tracks while he sang over them. | | | Coincidentally, while Billy was working as a technician for rock band Fishbone back in 1992, Tool was slated as the show opener. |
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http://www.freewebs.com/wednesday133/mema1.html
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| | June 01, 2000: Sound, Retooled |
| | Suddenly Howerdel is in the middle of a siege, everyone clamoring for a piece of the band. | | | Howerdel began writing much of the material on Mer de Noms back in the mid-'80s, slapping down ideas on an old four-track while he hoped around the globe with various bands. | | | And with the band's unexpected rise from personal secret to public spectacle, even before the quintet's debut, Mer de Noms, hit shelves, Howerdel is more than willing to live out his fantasies. |
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http://www.lasvegasweekly.com/departments/06_01_00/sound_retooled.html
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| | To Build A Perfect Circle |
| | Howerdel, however, sees a different side of Keenan with A Perfect Circle is terms of lyrical constant. | | | But don't expect Howerdel to claim contemporary rock bands as influences for his songwriting. | | | So with a band name chosen, a major tour secured and the record just weeks from release, Howerdel and his circle of friends are at the end of one cycle and the beginning of another. |
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http://www.tbns.net/silver_dragon/ar/ar/ar25.html
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| | Digidesign User - A PERFECT CIRCLE |
| | Prior to releasing the album, Howerdel was working as one of rock's most in-demand guitar and Pro Tools technicians. | | | SampleCell was used "quite a bit" on the album, Howerdel says. | | | For the bass guitar, Howerdel found a particular combination of TDM Plug-Ins and quality outboard gear to be just the sound he wanted. |
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http://www.digidesign.com/users/user_story.cfm?story_id=79
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| | CMJ.com: new music first |
| | Billy Howerdel is a former guitar tech whose downtime project turned into a platinum-selling band. | | | Bored, fidgeting and letting guitarist Billy Howerdel be the face of the band, he looked more like a nerdy highschool girl than a hard-rock icon. | | | Maynard James Keenan, the singer in Tool, one of the bands Howerdel worked for, is another story. |
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http://www.cmj.com/articles/display_article.php?id=545313
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| | newtimesbpb.com Music Circle of the Stars 2001-02-15 |
| | APC is Howerdel's vision, but the obvious shorthand description of the band remains "Maynard's side project." The intense singer goes to great lengths to characterize APC as anything but a Tool offshoot, even disguising himself with a long black wig. | | | Howerdel himself offers a more balanced perspective: "Maynard being in Tool is a huge thing -- anything that the guy's name is on is huge," he notes, crediting APC's 20 sold-out club shows last fall, before the album was even released, to Keenan's status. | | | Fishbone bassist Norwood Fisher remembers Howerdel writing a lot of songs while he was working for the band. |
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http://www.newtimesbpb.com/issues/2001-02-15/music/music.html
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| | CSIndy: Pie are squared (June 3, 2004) |
| | Keenan wrote lyrics to Howerdel's music, and guitarist Troy Van Leeuwen, bassist Paz Lenchantin and drummer Josh Freese were recruited to complete a band lineup. | | | Howerdel said once the Thirteenth Step project moved toward recording, Keenan began to lobby to reshape some songs to fit vocal and lyrical ideas he had. | | | During those sessions, Keenan heard music Howerdel had written and volunteered to be the singer. |
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http://www.csindy.com/csindy/2004-06-03/bangstrum.html
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| | On the Thirteenth Step A Perfect Circle |
| | The album set a new record for the highest-ever debut entry for a new band, entering the Billboard chart at number 4. | | | Howerdel, who had previously co-written for Smashing Pumpkins and Nine Inch Nails, had crafted an epic, surreal set of songs and Tool fans adopted A Perfect Circle with relish. | | | Argentinean bassist Paz Lenchantin was chosen for her talents not just on the bass, but also her equally impressive musicianship on Piano and Violin. |
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http://www.geocities.com/on_the_thirteenth_step/biography.html
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| | Hartford Advocate: Well Rounded |
| | APC was signed to Virgin Records, and the first album was a smash hit. | | | Howerdel had written them over a span of 10 years between teching gigs and they would later go on to become tracks on APC's 2000 debut, Mer de Noms. | | | After the band's current tour, Howerdel says Keenan plans to return to his Tool box, and there'll be another hiatus for APC. |
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http://hartfordadvocate.com/gbase/Music/content?oid=oid:43442
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| | Chronicle of Rock Bands: A Perfect Cirlce |
| | Howerdel, who had been composing songs for years, as well as working with bands such as the Smashing Pumpkins and Nine Inch Nails, became the band's chief songwriter and producer. | | | With Keenan on vocals, Howerdel on guitar and Lenchantin on bass, the trio recruited ex-Failure and Enemy member Troy Van Leeuwen on guitar and ex-Vandals and Guns N'Roses member Josh Freese on drums. | | | A Perfect Circle released its debut album, Mer de Noms, on May 23, 2000. |
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http://www.angelfire.com/biz5/TOtheNIZ5/APerfectCircle.html
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| | F5: Wichita's Alt News |
| | Howerdel, who considers Pink Floyd's The Wall "the holy grail" of rock albums, said that he wouldn't have it any other way. | | | Howerdel said that he'll take some time off, then turn his attention to a solo record. | | | On the whole, Howerdel noted, the album didn't see the band becoming as much of a collaborative effort as some might have initially hoped. |
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http://www.f5wichita.com/index.php?pubdate=2004-06-10&story=1645
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| | Although Howerdel had already developed many of the musical ideas that became the songs on "Mer de Noms," Lenchantin said the process of writing the album -- for which she composed and played string arrangements as well as playing bass -- was truly a group effort. | | | It's Billy's music; he comes in and says I've got this song' and then we work in making it a band. | | | Although Howerdel began creating music for the band more than five years ago while working as a guitar tech for Tool, Nine Inch Nails and Smashing Pumpkins, the group released its debut, "Mer de Noms," in May of this year and has been sailing the seas of success ever since. |
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http://echoes.devin.com/articles/paz.html
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| | Billy met Maynard in '93, when Maynard's band Tool played with Fishbone, a band Billy helped out as a guitar tech. | | | As the songs evolved, they got shorter, as Billy began envisioning them as tighter pop songs, sung by a woman. | | | Billy quickly got used to the idea of a male singer, and put together a band, originally rounded out by Danny Lohner of Nine Inch Nails on guitar and Tim "Herb" Alexander of Primus and Laundry on drums. |
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http://groups.msn.com/aperfectcirclefanz/apchistory.msnw
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| | Stepping stone |
| | Howerdel admits Thirteenth Step was a more challenging record to make as Keenan had a very focused vision of what he wanted to accomplish with the album. | | | In 2000, Howerdel — a guitar tech for such bands as Nine Inch Nails, Fishbone, Tool and Smashing Pumpkins &; saw his project with Tool frontman Maynard James Keenan explode when its first CD, Mer de Noms, became one of the fastest-selling debut albums of all time. | | | Yet the co-founder, lead guitarist and main composer of A Perfect Circle is feeling strangely fine on the eve of the release of his band's sophomore album, Thirteenth Step. |
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http://www.calgarysun.com/perl-bin/niveau2.cgi?s=musique&p=78123.html&a=1
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| | Howerdel : When a lot of these songs were written, they weren't quite so aggressive. | | | During the recording of Tool's 'Ænima', singer Maynard James Keenan heard some of Howerdel's tracks, and was very impressed. | | | Five years of refinements, sporadic gigs and intense major-label bidding wars later, the debut album from their band A Perfect Circle, 'Mer de Noms' (Sea of [Names]), will be released by Virgin on May 23. |
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http://aperfectcircle.com/fullnews.php?id=ebe9b9a51e3dce08aa232dd9e6c428e2
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| | Las Vegas Weekly |
| | Suddenly Howerdel went from tuning guitars and tweaking knobs to playing in front of thousands as the driving force behind one of the most popular bands in rock. | | | The crowd APC attracts is a mixed one, with some people drawn in by the associations of Howerdel's bandmates, and others simply intrigued by the band's mix of progressive rock and heavy metal. | | | Though Howerdel admits to growing up on Randy Rhoads-era Ozzy Osbourne, these days he's more likely to listen to Interpol, Cat Power and the White Stripes, so he's sometimes surprised at the vast metal contingent in his band's audience. |
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http://www.lasvegasweekly.com/2004/06/03/noise.html
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| | It is in the VIP enclave of Chicago’s House Of Blues that we meet A Perfect Circle’s Maynard James Keenan (vocal, lyrics) and Billy Howerdel (guitars, music). | | | P>Melody has returned to the fucked-up fairytale world of heavy rockers Tool, with this new album, featuring vocalist/lyricist Maynard James Keenan and Tool's guitar tech Billy Howerdel (he is a fully-fledged guitarist in A Perfect Circle). | | | Keenan and his partner in this project, guitarist and producer Billy Howerdel (who has been guitar tech for many famous goth-rockers), demonstrate their expertise with plain heavy rock songs. |
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http://www.aperfectcircle.com/news.php?year=2000&page=6
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| | The frustration for Howerdel is that, while APC is essentially his baby (he’s principal songwriter, producer and guitarist), Keenan — as the big name and identifiable voice — has power of creative veto. | | | For Howerdel, songwriting is a solitary endeavor, so exposing his ideas to the collective sunlight is a wincing experience. | | | With Keenan’s signature studio-stroked musings aboard, Mer de Noms is undeniably sister-listening to Tool’s lurking art-metal, yet the album, while not short on epic bombast, is ethereal and embracing, heavy on hypnotic 6/8 time, hung with overlapping shrouds of harmony and fleshed with Pumpkinsesque expanses of effected guitars. |
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| | Guitar Sheet Music - A Perfect Circle - Mer De Noms (Recorded Versions For Guitar - Guitar) |
| | Browse All Guitar Sheet Music Composed By Billy Howerdel. | | | Thomas - Performed by: A Perfect Circle - Composed by: Maynard James Keenan and Billy Howerdel - From: Album "Mer De Noms" - ©2000 | | | Rose - Performed by: A Perfect Circle - Composed by: Maynard James Keenan and Billy Howerdel - From: Album "Mer De Noms" - ©2000 |
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| | Mer de Noms - A Perfect Circle |
| | Tool were one of the preeminent bands of the mid-1990s, a period when pop music went through probably its most depressive phase ever. | | | Such a small jewel is the debut album from A Perfect Circle. | | | Mer de Noms is a concentrated dose of power-riffing, introspection and theology, and it's one of the best albums of the year 2000. |
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http://www.culturevulture.net/Books/Mer_de_Noms.htm
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| | A Perfect Circle |
| | Billy Howerdel, very much resembling Joe Satriani with his shaved head and black outfit, played the entire album note by note - no easy task - and engaged himself with the audience at all times. | | | Billy Howerdel and Troy Van Weeuwan use some unusual techniques on this album. | | | Both Howerdel and Van Weeuwan use classic Les Pauls for their big fat sound. |
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| | A Perfect Circle |
| | The new album is entitled Mer De Noms and features twelve songs showcasing Keenan's remarkably intense and intimate vocals, the band's focus and ferocity, and a melodiousness not typically heard in the heavy alternative rock genre. | | | Keenan, the singer of the multi-platinum selling rock band Tool, is the group's vocalist and primary lyricist; Howerdel, is the founder, guitarist and composer of the group's music. | | | The new album was written by Howerdel and Keenan, recorded and produced by Howerdel, and mixed by Howerdel and Alan Moulder (Nine Inch Nails, The Smashing Pumpkins, U2). |
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| | ECHO MALIBU Teen Treatment Center Launches New 'Writers and Artists Series' with A Perfect Circle |
| | During his time with the adolescents at ECHO MALIBU, http://www.echomalibu.com Howerdel shared stories regarding drug use that he has seen in the music industry and his own process for remaining free of chemical dependency. | | | The bands first album, Mer De Noms, quickly went platinum and launched Howerdel into the spotlight and his first world tour in 2000. | | | Malibu, CA (PRWEB) December 29, 2005 -- ECHO MALIBU Teen Treatment Center recently launched a new writers and artists series with a guest appearance from Billy Howerdel, guitarist for the alternative band, A Perfect Circle. |
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| | A Perfect Circle News: A Perfect Circle Discusses Its Origins >> liveDaily |
| | When it comes to favorite songs on the album, Howerdel doesn't hesitate. | | | "'3 Libras' is my favorite song on the album," Howerdel says, "and always has been. | | | "Billy was doing some work with us during that recording process," Keenan says. |
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http://livedaily.com/news/A_Perfect_Circle_Discusses_Its_Origins-1298.html
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| | But Howerdel also has a taste for the quirkier atmospherics, from the prog flourishes of "The Hollow" to the drum-machine-dominated "Thinking of You." "Billy is just amazing with a guitar," says Keenan. | | | Tool were embroiled in a lawsuit with their record label, and Howerdel was busy working on programming for the infamous, still-MIA Guns n' Roses record. | | | "I respond to the music, and Billy's music is really emotional, so I gravitate more toward personal-relationship issues in these lyrics. |
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http://www.aperfectcircle.com/fullnews.php?id=c33a73e797e55188a12ba19e16d18837
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| | BLABBERMOUTH.NET - A PERFECT CIRCLE's HOWERDEL Says The New Bandmembers Have Injected 'Fresh Life Into Things' |
| | Billy Howerdel startedd the band, and was the tech for TOOL. | | | A PERFECT CIRCLE guitarist Billy Howerdel recently spoke to Canada's Chart Attack about the addition to the group's ranks of ex-SMASHING PUMPKINS guitarist James Iha and ex-MARILYN MANSON bassist Jeordie "Twiggy Ramirez" White. | | | The accuracy of the information contained herein is neither confirmed nor guaranteed by Roadrunner Records, and the views and opinions of authors expressed on these pages do not necessarily state or reflect those of Roadrunner Records or its employees. |
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http://www.roadrunnerrecords.com/blabbermouth.net/news.aspx?mode=Article&newsitemID=15116
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| | JR.com: A Perfect Circle - Mer De Noms [PA] in Music: Heavy Metal: |
| | Keenan teamed with Tool guitar tech and A Perfect Circle guitarist/composer Billy Howerdel for MER DE NOMS, which is both a band effort and an engaging hard rock album, recorded while Tool renegotiated with their label and other band members took a break. | | | The track most comparable to Tool's music, "Rose," utilizes rise-and-fall dynamics and unpredictably breaks away to gentle strings, while "Judith" (the album's title is French for "sea of names," hence the song titles), explores free thought and warns against blind faith, and "Orestes" departs from the predominant guitar distortion with moody, powerful results. | | | A Perfect Circle: Maynard James Keenan (vocals, gourd); Billy Howerdel (guitar, piano, bass, programming, background vocals); Troy Van Leeuwen (guitar); Paz Lanchantin (violin, bass, background vocals); Josh Freese (drums, percussion). |
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http://www.jr.com/JRProductPage.process?Product=3865865
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| | Perfect Circle |
| | A collaboration between guitarist Billy Howerdel and singer Maynard James Keenan of the platinum-selling art-metal band Tool, the group also includes superstar drummer Josh Freese (Vandals, Guns 'n' Roses), and unknown second guitarist Troy Van Leeuwen and bassist Paz Lenchantin. | | | The arrival of Mer de Noms, the debut CD from Perfect Circle, was one of this year's most anticipated rock events. | | | A fixture on the rock-music circuit, Howerdel shared a place with Tool's Maynard James Keenan, which in a roundabout way led to the band's genesis. |
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| | Tower Records - Emotive [Explicit Lyrics] - A Perfect Circle |
| | The album was choreographed in a manner of building the listener up to a high and then to a low in order to evoke an emotion. | | | A Perfect Circle: Billy Howerdel (vocals, guitar, harmonium); Maynard James Keenan (vocals); Danny Lohner (guitar, bass guitar); James Iha (guitar, programming); Paz Lenchantin (piano); Jeordie White (bass guitar); Josh Freese (drums). | | | For EMOTIVE, their third full-length album, A Perfect Circle offers up a covers-heavy collection that includes a number of protest songs. |
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http://www.towerrecords.com/product.aspx?pfid=3106927
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| | A Perfect Circle: Gibson Les Pauls to rock 2001 tour dates |
| | Powering up the band's hits is guitarist/producer Billy Howerdel and his Gibson Les Paul Classic. | | | Complementing Howerdel’s guitar work in A Perfect Circle is Troy Van Leeuwen (Enemy). | | | The group's latest single, "3 Libras," is No. 20 on Billboard's Mainstream Rock Tracks chart this week. |
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| | mtv.com - News - A Perfect Circle Prepare For Hibernation |
| | Singer Maynard James Keenan will return to his other group, Tool, to work on their follow-up to 2001's Lateralus, and primary songwriter Billy Howerdel will record a solo album. | | | Maynard James Keenan back to Tool, Billy Howerdel working on solo LP — but the Circle remain unbroken. | | | Unlike A Perfect Circle, the album will likely be upbeat and uplifting. |
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http://www.mtv.com/news/articles/1485998/20040326/perfect_circle.jhtml?headlines=true
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| | Blogger: Email Post to a Friend |
| | He's on the level of Maynard, especially considering that I wasn't sure if it was Maynard singing on all of these songs. | | | One of my new favorite vocalists is Billy Howerdel, the guitarist for APC. | | | Well, it's not Maynard on all the tracks-- Billy's actually the lead vocalist on two of my favorite tracks (Peace, Love, and Understanding & Freedom of Choice). |
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http://www.blogger.com/email-post.g?blogID=7098229&postID=109966985706361317
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| | Rolling Stone : Iha Steps into Perfect Circle |
| | While former Pumpkins leader Billy Corgan quickly jumped back into the fray with the debut album from his new band, Zwan, Iha has been content to toil behind the scenes. | | | The quiet guitarist has been busy running the recording studio he co-owns in New York, Stratosphere Sounds, as well as re-launching his label, Scratchie Records, which recently issued the debut from Swedish band the Sounds. | | | They were looking for that high-speed metal thing, but they settled for me." Iha does not appear on the group's upcoming second album, The Thirteenth Step, and says he's only a touring member of the band for now. |
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| | Static Multimedia - A Perfect Circle - eMOTIVe |
| | According to the insert included with the album, eMOTIVe is "a collection of songs about war, peace, love and greed." However, this album is more than that. | | | It is without question a gift (and even more so a direct challenge) from Maynard James Keenan and Billy Howerdel to all intelligent music fans. |
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http://www.staticmultimedia.com/content/music/reviews/cd/review_1103043060
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| | The Fargo Forum 12/4/03 |
| | The songs focus on melody as much as emotion and earned the group a reputation as the thinking fan’s metal band. | | | Lohner and Van Leeuwan parted after recording “Thirteenth Step,” and Howerdel offered the guitar parts to James Iha, who had been Corgan’s foil in Smashing Pumpkins. | | | It’s not only what the listener gets out of it, but what the members bring to it. |
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| | A PERFECT CIRCLE Rockdetector |
| | Bassist Paz Lenchantin meantime would guest session on the QUEENS OF THE STONE AGE 'Songs For The Deaf' album and issue a limited solo release ‘Yellow My Skycaptain’... | | | The 2000 album 'Mers De Noms' ('Sea Of Names') features TOOL's James Maynard Keenan, complete with long black wig over his more familiar bald head, on lead vocals. | | | Maynard James Keenan (vocals), Billy Howerdel (guitar), Troy Van Leeuwen (guitar), Paz Lenchantin (bass), Josh Freese (drums) |
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http://www.rockdetector.com/artist,51.sm;jsessionid=EC1F575AFB846AB312467B3CBB51B351.rd1
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| | Mer de Noms |
| | Although the production is a fabulous melange of sounds, textures and stylistic influences, this CD was primarily recorded in Howerdel's garage. | | | No one expected the group's debut, Mer De Noms, to storm the charts and mark the history books as the highest entry ever for a debut rock album. | | | As an album, Mer de Noms does not hold any pretense. |
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| | MK Ultra News |
| | "Actually, I've known [guitarist and songwriter] Billy [Howerdel] for about 10 years. | | | In a post on the A Perfect Circle Web Site, the band explained Lenchantin's departure: "After a festival show featuring APC and the Smashing Pumpkins, Paz, in a state of 'meat deprivation,' followed a 'bald man named Billy' onto the wrong bus and we haven't seen her since. | | | I just think they're a really cool band. |
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| | The band’s guitarist Billy Howerdel will announce the tour and sponsorship via a live call-in on Fuse’s signature daily show IMX: Interactive Music Exchange. | | | Celebrated by Rolling Stone as “that rare supergroup
of veteran musicians that actually adds up to more, not less, than the sum of its parts,” multi-platinum recording artists A Perfect Circle is comprised of core members Maynard James Keenan (singer), Billy Howerdel (guitarist), James Iha (guitarist), bassist Jeordie Orsborne White, and drummer Josh Freese. | | | Grounded in Fuse’s commitment to music and fan feedback, the multifaceted partnership will feature on-air and online interactive elements, including artist-dedicated sites, viewer contests and streamed interviews. |
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http://www.fuse.tv/press/releases/040107_APC_fuse_tour_final.doc
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| | Encyclopedia: Billy Corgan |
| | Billy Corgan (pseudonym Johnny Goat) (born March 13, 1967 in Chicago) is best known the lead vocalist, guitarist, and songwriter for the now disbanded garage rock band The Smashing Pumpkins. | | | Corgan was forced to fire his disgraced drummer. |
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| | He did not have a band at the time of the discovery of Lenchantin's talent on bass; but instead had many 4-track recordings and collaborations with Tool front man Keenan. | | | I had about two rehearsals to learn 13 songs and sing backup. | | | LMN: Howerdel had mentioned in that interview that he had seen you play in LA and that was how you came into the band. |
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