Analysis of information sources in references of the Wikipedia article "Bob Rock" in English language version.
Former David Bowie collaborator Mick Ronson produced the band's new LP, played keyboards and sang backup on it, and is serving as the Payolas' extra member on tour. . . Ronson first heard about the Payolas when they were looking for a producer for their first album, In a Place Like This. He heard the tapes and offered to produce, but the Payolas were pressed for time. It was left to Rock, who produced records by the Young Canadians and Pointed Sticks, to twist the dials.
Rock and Hyde came from Victoria with a love of the flamboyant rock of David Bowie, T. Rex, Alex Harvey and Be Bop Deluxe, but they got caught up in the new wave without ever embracing that scene.
About a year ago Vancouver band The Payolas put out an energetic homemade single called China Boys, dealing with China's westernization. Sales were impressive enough to cause A & M records to sign the band and then launch them with another gimmick. Introducing The Payolas is a low priced 12-in EP with four good songs including China Boys.
In a Place Like This was begun at Little Mountain but completed at Le Studio, Andre Perry's state of the hart facility outside Montreal and a neutral setting for The Payolas to develop their material.
Landing a major producer like Ronson has given the Payola$ a much-needed boost. Their first album was well received critically, but didn't sell well.
The new Payola$ CD, Langford (Part 1). . . "We kinda put this out just to get out there and play these dates and not leave it too long," Rock says.
The most unique moment in Canadian entertainment history ended at 2:20 a.m. Monday when the final sustained line -- "Heaven knows that tears are no enough -- of a song call Tears Are Not Enough, crashed out of 50 Canadians like a mass plea. . . Vancouver's Jim Vallance put together the initial music track in his home studio and later recorded it at Little Mountain Sound with musicians Paul Dean, David Sinclair, Steve Denroche, Doug Johnson and sound engineers Bob Rock and Mike Fraser. Rock and Paul Hyde came up with a title for the unwritten song, Tears Are Not Enough.
The composition...was eventually sung by Northern Lights, a hastily assembled group that included Neil Young, Joni Mitchell, Gordon Lightfoot, Burton Cummings, Anne Murray and Oscar Peterson, with proceeds going to famine-relief projects in Ethiopia. . . Rachel Paiement, Paul Hyde and Bob Rock contributed French words.
[Rock's] passion for music dates back to when he was a youngster agog over the British blues-rock sounds of the Yardbirds, Cream and Led Zeppelin. Rock's family moved to Victoria from Winnipeg when he was 12, and he immediately immersed himself in the local music scene, attending Club Tango, the Purple Onion, Nine in the Fifth and other teen live-music spots. He was in various bands as a student at Colquitz Junior High, but his approach to music changed forever when he met Paul Hyde at a Langford bus stop while both were students at Belmont High School. . . Soon, Rock and Hyde were listening to David Bowie and Slade, and then moved on to various punk acts. In the mid-'70s they toured Vancouver Island under the Paul Kane Blues Band moniker -- a precursor to The Payola$. . . Rock was also producing at the time, mostly punk acts like the Young Canadians, the Dils and the Pointed Sticks. And his reputation as a studio wizard was beginning to spread.
The one-time punk/goth band mutated into one of Britain's best classic rock groups after a stuttering start way back in the early 1980s. . . Sonic Temple, however, was the record that made them bona fide rock Gods. Released in 1989, it was a beast that earned them their top chart placing on both sides of the Atlantic.
On the 30th anniversary of the glam-metal band's biggest album - 1989's Dr. Feelgood - members Nikki Sixx, Tommy Lee and Mick Mars look back at the making of the landmark record. . . While the band lost out on a Grammy - despite two nominations for best hard rock performance - it took home an American Music Award for best heavy metal/ hard rock album in 1991. . . At the start of recording Feelgood, Motley Crue opted to swap out longtime producer Tom Werman (Twisted Sister, Poison) for Canadian Bob Rock. . . They relocated to Vancouver for nearly a year to work with Rock at his Little Mountain Sound Studios.
Rock, ... has lived on Maui for the last eight years. For the past five years, his Plantation Studios - a comfortable spread of home, ranch lands and a $1.5 million state-of-the-art recording studio on the slopes of Haleakala - has served as home to almost all of his output. . . After enough Maui vacations to qualify them for kama`aina rates at local hotels, Canadian natives Rock and his wife, Angie, moved with their four children permanently in 1995. Rock's original plan for his Maui lifestyle was to travel for projects and then return home. But that changed quickly enough when Rock brought alt-rock quartet Veruca Salt to Maui in 1996 to steer its "Eight Arms To Hold You" CD. "We ended up throwing my equipment into a house here," recalled Rock. "And they had such a great time and loved it so much that I just converted a part of my house. ... It's as full-on a studio as anywhere in the world. All the best stuff is here. I don't rent it out because, you know, it's my home. But the artists that I work with come."
In 2001, Newsted left the band. . . Bob Rock agreed to temporarily fill in on bass as Metallica began work on "St. Anger," its eighth album. . . Metallica also still needed to find a permanent bassist. Robert Trujillo, a former member of the thrash-punk band Suicidal Tendencies, was invited to audition. . . That evening, Metallica offered Trujillo a place in the band. . . In what might be the most fortuitous timing in the history of documentary film, the directors Joe Berlinger and Bruce Sinofsky had been in place to shoot the making of "St. Anger" for a goofy promotional gimmick—a series of late-night infomercials advertising the new record. Instead, they created a full-length film, "Metallica: Some Kind of Monster," which was released in 2004.
Rock's relationship with Metallica endured through four more albums, including a stint nursemaiding the group through the fractious making of 2003's St. Anger. A replacement for ousted bassist Jason Newsted had yet to be found, so Rock sat in for the album and some early shows.
By 1978 Rock was working at various Vancouver recording studios while Hyde was bartending when the two recorded "China Boys," winning themselves a deal with A&M Records. The Payola$ were born.
While the band officially called it quits in 1987, core members Hyde and guitarist Bob Rock continued as Rock & Hyde until 1990. . . Rock and Hyde have recently been writing and recording songs for a new Payola$ CD, slated for a year-end release.
Lustre Parfait, recorded intermittently between 2009 and 2016 . . . Downie sang and wrote the lyrics. Rock...wrote the music, played the guitars and put it all together . . . After Downie's brain cancer diagnosis, Rock raced to finish the record but failed to complete the work by the time the singer died in 2017. At that point, he stepped away, the emotions too much. "I couldn't deal with it, to be quite honest."
He lives in Maui, which has to add to his happiness. He has a beautiful wife and six children, two boys and four girls, ages 11 to 28. The two eldest are on their own.
The most unique moment in Canadian entertainment history ended at 2:20 a.m. Monday when the final sustained line -- "Heaven knows that tears are no enough -- of a song call Tears Are Not Enough, crashed out of 50 Canadians like a mass plea. . . Vancouver's Jim Vallance put together the initial music track in his home studio and later recorded it at Little Mountain Sound with musicians Paul Dean, David Sinclair, Steve Denroche, Doug Johnson and sound engineers Bob Rock and Mike Fraser. Rock and Paul Hyde came up with a title for the unwritten song, Tears Are Not Enough.
The composition...was eventually sung by Northern Lights, a hastily assembled group that included Neil Young, Joni Mitchell, Gordon Lightfoot, Burton Cummings, Anne Murray and Oscar Peterson, with proceeds going to famine-relief projects in Ethiopia. . . Rachel Paiement, Paul Hyde and Bob Rock contributed French words.
