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Jackviper (often written as "JackViper") is a hard rock band formed in London, UK in 2005 and active until 2009.〔http://www.jackviper.com Accessed on 5 August 2007〕 Jackviper has supported Vixen and both incarnations of L.A. Guns on national UK tours. Jackviper is the first unsigned band in history to have a full song pre-loaded onto 500,000 Creative Zen V MP3 players, in addition to making an endorsement deal with Marshall Amplification.〔http://www.jackviper.com〕〔http://www.eddieshredder.co.uk〕 Jackviper has been featured twice in international metal magazine Metal Hammer, which describes the band as having "The speed of Motörhead and the intensity of Guns N' Roses".〔Metal Hammer May 2006〕 The band's influences include Mötley Crüe, Guns N' Roses, Nine Inch Nails, Love/Hate, Motörhead, and Beautiful Creatures.〔http://www.myspace.com/jackviper05 Accessed on 8 August 2007〕 ==History== Kiss, Ferlanger, and Shredder met while studying at music college in London, and Eddie Shredder studied guitar at the Berklee College of music in Boston 〔http://www.eddieshredder.co.uk/about/〕 where Steve Vai also studied. Jackviper recorded their first EP, 'Sleazy Listening' within months of forming. Shortly after they were asked to provide the soundtrack to the Axl Rose DVD: "The Prettiest Star". Their second EP, 'Another Dirty Threesome' was well received,〔(Untitled Document )〕 with the song ''MerryGoRound'' named 9th best of 2005 on Sleazeroxx.〔http://www.sleazeroxx.com/news05/top2005s.shtml Accessed on 5 August 2007〕 Jackviper recorded their third EP, 'Murder 1' early in 2006. A song from their live set featured on the 'Murder 1' EP, 'Go Fuck Yourself' was featured on (PureRawk's ) compilation 'Unsigned and Unleashed'. The EP was voted 'Best EP of 2006' by users of the website. In February 2006, Jackviper appeared on US rock label Perris Records' 'Hollywood Hairspray 5' compilation. Creative Zen pre-loaded the song 'Spider to the Fly' on 500,000 V MP3 players for the system's launch in Europe and Russia. Jackviper's song 'Walk the line' was included on Perris Records' Worldwide Network CD.〔http://www.tower.com/details/details.cfm?wapi=106242410 Accessed on 17 August 2007〕 The CD, including work by members of Yes, Survivor, Dangerous Toys and Celtic Frost, was released in February 2007. The band then began work for the soundtrack to the David A. Prior horror movie Zombie Wars. The band toured while promoting the single release 'Devil May Care' on 1 October 2007. The band released an EP entitled "Bullets for the Faithful" shortly after, including 'Devil May Care' on the track list. In June 2008, vocalist Jay R departed from the band, citing "musical differences" as the reason. The band subsequently announced the permanent replacement lead vocalist was to be David "The Dominator" Domminney of "The Dean Howard Band". In August 2010, it was announced via the band's MySpace page that they were on indefinite hiatus following the departure of vocalist David Domminney to join Australian Pink Floyd Show. Eddie Shredder now performs with A New Tomorrow, Dan Ferlanger lives in Berlin and performs with a number of bands including Jim Kroft, Jay R has since emigrated to Queensland, Australia and is working on a new project, and Mister Kiss' whereabouts are currently unknown. 抄文引用元・出典: フリー百科事典『 ウィキペディア(Wikipedia)』 ■ウィキペディアで「Jackviper」の詳細全文を読む スポンサード リンク
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