30-628: Skycycle may refer to: Skycycle (rock band) , an alternative rock band SkyCycle (concept) , a proposed network of cycle paths in London Skycycle X-2 , a steam-powered rocket owned by Evel Knievel Dart Skycycle , an American aircraft Carlson Skycycle , an American aircraft See also [ edit ] Fly Hard Trikes SkyCycle , an American ultralight trike Lookout Mountain SkyCycle , an American ultralight trike Topics referred to by
60-464: A Memory , which has been regarded as Rock Opera. The album tells the story of Nicholas, a man getting flashbacks from a previous life, as he undergoes hypnosis sessions to recall the memories of Victoria, a young girl who he discovers was murdered as a violent result of a love affair. In an effort to appeal to more modern audiences, opera companies have welcomed more pop and rock influences. The resulting rock operas have met varying degrees of success as
90-612: A Rock Opera, operating on the premise that to write you need only 'something to say'." Mark Wirtz explored the idea in a project A Teenage Opera , from which an early song " Excerpt from A Teenage Opera (Grocer Jack) " recorded by Keith West was released and became a hit song in 1967. However, the album for the rock opera was not released until 1996, and it was only fully realised and staged in 2017. Colin Fleming of The Atlantic described The Story of Simon Simopath (1967) by British psychedelic band Nirvana as an "early foray into
120-503: A friend, and met guitarist Sven Shenar at work. Skycycle released a self-produced demo tape named Siren with seven songs in 1997, and after playing a show in the L.A.-based club The Dragonfly on Halloween night that year, MCA Records A&R executive Tom Sarig offered them a record deal, leading up to the issuing of their six-song debut EP Breathing Water in January 1998. The band insisted on Ken Andrews to produce , record and mix
150-409: A full-length album named Ones and Zeros in 1998, which was mixed and produced by Tim Palmer . It contained several songs Isaacs wrote touring in the rock opera Tommy as part of his "pop opera" Strawberry , and three rerecorded songs that previously appeared on Siren and Breathing Water . According to Isaacs, "The title and overall concept of Ones and Zeros refers to the future of society via
180-624: A result of traumatic life experiences. The album was included in Rolling Stone ' s lists of the greatest albums of all time in 2003, 2012, and 2020. James Guthrie, the album's engineer, won the 1980 Grammy award for Best Engineered Recording (non-classical), and the album was nominated for the Grammy Award for Album of the Year . The album was subsequently made into a 1982 film entitled Pink Floyd – The Wall . An elaborate 1980-1981 concert tour
210-461: A subversively labeled musical . Clements states that lyrics drive rock operas, which makes them not a true form of opera. Responding to accusations that rock operas are pretentious and overblown, Pete Townshend wrote that pop music by its very nature rejects such characteristics and is an inherently simple form. Townshend said that the only goal of pop music is to reach audiences, and rock operas are merely one more way to do so. Peter Kiesewalter , on
240-553: A year, and among others recorded an alternate version of the song "Antebellum", which was included on the 2000 compilation album Happy Meals Vol. 2: The Perfect Marriage . They disbanded in September 2000, and held one final reunion show on October 22, 2002 at The Dragonfly in Hollywood with The Penfifteen Club. In 2004, Steve Isaacs formed the supergroup The Panic Channel together with several Jane's Addiction members. They released
270-494: Is Jesus Christ Superstar (1970), written by Andrew Lloyd Webber and Tim Rice , and in respect of which Lloyd Webber said "the piece was written as a rock album from the outset and set out from the start to tell the story through the music itself." In 1972, David Bowie released the rock opera The Rise and Fall of Ziggy Stardust and the Spiders from Mars . Bat Out of Hell is a rock album by Meat Loaf that remains one of
300-501: Is different from Wikidata All article disambiguation pages All disambiguation pages Skycycle (rock band) Skycycle was a Los Angeles–based alternative rock band, led by former MTV VJ and singer-songwriter Steve Isaacs . The band is perhaps best known for their contributions to the 1998 Scooby-Doo on Zombie Island soundtrack. While touring as the main character in The Who's Tommy for sixteen months, Isaacs
330-558: Is possible to generate interest for a band by allowing people to listen to their music through media such as Napster. Isaacs illustrated their struggles with how the record label's advance payments for recording costs were recoupable by contract, meaning that the record company would recoup its investment before the band would receive money. As Skycycle were dismissed but never fully released from their contracts, MCA could demand payment of its recoupable expenses even if Skycycle were signed to another label. Due to their contract's restrictions,
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#1733094136453360-589: The Grammy Hall of Fame . Tommy would also go on to influence On and On , a rap opera by the Fat Boys and American Idiot , a punk rock opera by Green Day , the latter of whom having made 21st Century Breakdown , another rock opera. The Who had previously toyed with the concepts which would lead to the full-blown rock opera with their six-movement 1966 track " A Quick One, While He's Away ". A rock opera that experienced commercial recording and Broadway success
390-511: The Manchester Opera House in 2017. The album's producer, Jim Steinman , coined the term Wagnerian rock after composer Richard Wagner to describe the genre of the record. Perhaps the archetypal and most famous rock opera is The Wall , a double album released by Pink Floyd in 1979. The Wall chronicles the story of Pink, a character who ultimately constructs an emotional wall to protect himself after being driven into insanity as
420-592: The best-selling albums of all time , having sold over 50 million copies worldwide. It is certified 14× Platinum by the Recording Industry Association of America (RIAA). As of June 2019, it has spent 522 weeks in the UK Albums Chart , the second longest chart run by a studio album. Rolling Stone ranked it at number 343 on its list of the 500 Greatest Albums of All Time . A musical based on Bat Out of Hell , staged by Jay Scheib , opened at
450-420: The album (ONe) in 2006, after which they went on an indefinite hiatus. Rock opera A rock opera is a collection of rock music songs with lyrics that relate to a common story. Rock operas are typically released as concept albums and are not scripted for acting, which distinguishes them from operas , although several have been adapted as rock musicals . The use of various character roles within
480-470: The album, because they deemed him "the perfect guy to put in just that special touch". In the same year, Skycycle's management arranged for the band to contribute to the Scooby-Doo on Zombie Island soundtrack, for which they performed and produced the songs "The Ghost Is Here" and "It's Terror Time Again". Both songs were written by Tom Snow (music) and Glenn Leopold (lyrics). Skycycle continued to record
510-580: The band considered self-publishing the album, but ultimately decided to give away Ones and Zeros in full as free download from their website, showing their early support of free trading of music as a promotional activity. Skycycle additionally became part of Napster's new artists’ program in early May 2000. Drummer Rob Brown left the band to pursue a career in jazz music, but later died by suicide on 15 October 2010. Chris Cano replaced him on drums in March 2000. Skycycle continued to play and write music for about
540-446: The information superhighway and the way that we're able to take the wealth of the world's knowledge – history, science, entertainment, art and commerce – and reduce everything down to ones and zeros." After finishing recording the twelve tracks in January 1999, the band was pressured by MCA to reformat the album and to rerecord certain tracks before the album would be released, which the band considered "substantial and unwanted input from
570-465: The label as a promotional copy, with the barcode being punched through. Circa 2020, the label has added the album to various music streaming platforms . On July 26, 2000, Isaacs testified in the A&;M / Leiber vs. Napster lawsuit, using the case of Skycycle as an example of "what we, and hundreds of other bands, have been through with the antiquated business model of the major label", and showing that it
600-558: The other hand, said that rock music and opera are "both overblown, massive spectacles" that cover the same themes. Kiesewalter, who was originally not a fan of opera, did not think the two styles would mix well together, but his modernized operas with rock music surprised him with their popularity at the East Village Opera Company . The performance of these works on Broadway has also courted controversy; Anne Midgette of The New York Times called them musicals with "no more than
630-480: The quickly increasing popularity of the Internet could make MP3 a viable and effective promotional tool", combined with the growing impatience of the fans due to the many delays, led to the band releasing several songs as free MP3s on their website, which was still rarely done at the time. Although the release and distribution of MP3s were not covered in their contract, Isaacs was told "that the presence of MP3s on our site
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#1733094136453660-459: The recording label". The changes were ready by July 1999 and the album was initially scheduled for release on August 21, 1999, while the song "Last Girl on Earth" was released as a single and received substantial radio airplay. MCA postponed the release of Ones and Zeros for several reasons, including "that the Christmas season was a better season for established artists". Skycycle's belief "that
690-579: The rock opera sub-genre". Neil Strauss of The New York Times wrote that S.F. Sorrow (1968) by the Pretty Things is "generally acknowledged as the first rock opera". Scott Mervis of the Pittsburgh Post-Gazette wrote that the Who 's 1969 record Tommy was the first album to be billed as a rock opera. The album tells the story of Tommy Walker, a "deaf, dumb and blind kid." Tommy displays
720-412: The same term [REDACTED] This disambiguation page lists articles associated with the title Skycycle . If an internal link led you here, you may wish to change the link to point directly to the intended article. Retrieved from " https://en.wikipedia.org/w/index.php?title=Skycycle&oldid=595715148 " Category : Disambiguation pages Hidden categories: Short description
750-522: The song lyrics is a common storytelling device. The success of the rock opera genre has inspired similar works in other musical styles, such as rap opera . A number of rock artists became interested in the idea of creating a rock opera in the 1960s. In an early use of the term, the July 4, 1966, edition of RPM Magazine (published in Toronto) reported that " Bruce Cockburn and Mr [William] Hawkins are working on
780-486: The titular character's experiences with life and his relationship with his family. Although the band's guitarist Pete Townshend denied taking any influence from S.F. Sorrow , critics have compared Tommy to it. The Tommy album developed into other media, including a Seattle Opera production in 1971, an orchestral version by Lou Reizner in 1972, a film in 1975, and a Broadway musical in 1992. The original album has sold 20 million copies and has been inducted into
810-522: The worlds of high art and low art mix. In Russian music, the term zong-opera (Зонг-опера) is sometimes used, since the first Soviet-Russian rock-opera Orpheus and Eurydice was described with this term, though the term "rock-opera" was already known in the Soviet rock music circles. According to Fleming, rock operas are more akin to a cantata or suite , because they are not usually acted out. Similarly, Andrew Clements of The Guardian called Tommy
840-492: Was 'upsetting' MCA executives [and] that this order came from the highest regions of the corporate structure at MCA and Universal , which believed that any support for the MP3 format was unacceptable." Although they took down the MP3s, Skycycle were dropped from MCA on January 26, 2000 and Ones and Zeros was never officially released on CD; some copies of the pressed CD have been issued by
870-505: Was conducted by the band after the album's release and bassist Roger Waters reincarnated the tour twice; once in Berlin in 1990 to commemorate the fall of the Berlin Wall and again around the world from 2010-2013 , a series of shows that became the highest-grossing tour by a solo musician. In 1999, progressive metal band Dream Theater released their album Metropolis Pt. 2: Scenes from
900-582: Was planning to form a band after he finished touring in January 1995. He came up with the band name Skycycle while reading an article in Entertainment Weekly about the two-wheeled rocket in which Evel Knievel attempted to jump the Snake River Canyon in 1974. Isaacs initially started out playing with drummer Rob Brown, playing their first show on October 31, 1995. Two years later, he was recommended bassist Kelly Castro formerly of Caterwaul by
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