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Back Against the Wall è un album in studio del musicista statunitense Billy Sherwood, realizzato in collaborazione con numerosi artisti e pubblicato nel 2005. Si tratta di un album tributo ai Pink Floyd e in particolare all'album The Wall. Tra gli artisti che hanno collaborato con Sherwood per la realizzazione del disco vi sono Adrian Belew ...
Back Against the Wall is an album released in 2005 by Billy Sherwood in collaboration with a number of (mostly) progressive rock artists as a tribute to Pink Floyd's album The Wall. A year later, Sherwood followed it with the release of Return to the Dark Side of the Moon , a tribute to Pink Floyd's The Dark Side of the Moon .
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12 mar 2016 · Back Against the Wall is an album released in 2005 by Billy Sherwood in collaboration with a number of (mostly) progressive rock artists as a tribute to Pink Floyd’s album The Wall. A sequel, also organised by Sherwood, was released the next year: Return to the Dark Side of the Moon was a tribute to Pink Floyd’s The Dark Side of the Moon. Tracks.
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Sherwood was born on March 14, 1965, in Las Vegas, Nevada. He was born into a musical family; his father Bobby Sherwood was an actor, musician, and big band leader and his mother Phyllis is a former singer and drummer. His brother Michael was a singer and keyboardist. Sherwood's godfather was comedian Milton Berle.
Lodgic and World Trade
Sherwood's music career started when he joined a band called Lodgic formed by his brother Michael. Billy played bass and sang, while Michael played keyboards and sang back up. Lodgic also included Guy Allison on keyboards, Jimmy Haun on guitar and Gary Starns on drums. They eventually moved the band to Los Angeles in 1980. After many years of trying to get things together[ambiguous], they recorded their debut album Nomadic Sands, released in 1985. After Lodgic broke up, Sherwood put together...
Yes
By 1989, Sherwood was invited to meet Yes bassist Chris Squire after singer and record executive Derek Shulman suggested his name. By this time, Yes had suffered a setback when singer Jon Anderson had left and formed Anderson Bruford Wakeman Howe (ABWH). Sherwood was invited to jam with the remaining Yes members, Squire, guitarist Trevor Rabin, drummer Alan White, and keyboardist Tony Kaye, with the intention of Sherwood on lead vocals. By the time the five had recorded some demos, they merge...
Conspiracy
After his departure from Yes, Sherwood worked with Squire to release the album Conspiracy, which includes some work they composed together some years before. In 2003, Sherwood released The Unknown, another album with Squire as Conspiracy. More recently, Sherwood has been working on further tribute albums, notably Back Against the Wall and Return to the Dark Side of the Moon, tributes to Pink Floyd's The Wall and The Dark Side of the Moonrespectively. The latter includes a new track recorded w...
Sherwood mainly plays Carvin guitars, 6- and 12-string; his main guitar, which he's played since his first stint in Yes, is a red Carvin, Telecaster-shaped, with a Roland V-guitar pickup. His acoustic guitars are made by Babicz. He uses Line 6amplifiers with 4x12" cabinets. As a bassist, Sherwood plays Spector basses through Tech-21 amps with 2-4X1...
Solo albums 1. The Big Peace(1999) 2. No Comment(2003) 3. At the Speed of Life(2008) 4. Oneirology(2010) 5. What Was the Question?(2011) 6. The Art of Survival(2012) 7. Divided by One(2014) 8. Collection(2015), compilation with two exclusive tracks 9. Archived(2015), album sold at Yes concerts during their 2015 tour, availability on Sherwood's webs...
22 mar 2018 · View credits, reviews, tracks and shop for the 2007 CD release of "A Tribute To Pink Floyd: Re-Building The Wall" on Discogs.
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