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Encyclopedia > Billy Zoom
X on the cover of their 1997 collection Beyond and Back: The X Anthology, with Billy on the center left
X on the cover of their 1997 collection Beyond and Back: The X Anthology, with Billy on the center left

Billy Zoom (born Tyson Kindell on February 20, 1948), in Savanna, IL. Cover of 1997 X collection Beyond and Back: The X Anthology, taken from Amazon. ... 1997 (MCMXCVII in Roman) is a common year starting on Wednesday of the Gregorian calendar. ... February 20 is the 51st day of the year in the Gregorian Calendar. ... 1948 (MCMXLVIII) was a leap year starting on Thursday (the link is to a full 1948 calendar). ...


The son of a Big Band woodwinds player, he inherited his father's love of music. At a very young age, Tyson began playing a variety of instruments, including violin, accordion, piano, clarinet, tenor,alto, and baritone saxophones, flute,banjo, and guitar. Although best known as guitarist and founding member of punk rock band X, Zoom has also worked with Rockabilly legend Gene Vincent, The Blasters, Etta James, Big Joe Turner, and dozens of other major recording artists. Steve Howe playing lead guitar for Yes in 1977 A guitarist is a musician who plays the guitar. ... Punk rock is an anti-establishment music movement beginning around 1976 (although precursors can be found several years earlier), exemplified and popularised by The Ramones, the Sex Pistols, The Clash and The Damned. ... X on the cover of their 1997 collection Beyond and Back: The X Anthology. ... Gene Vincent, real name Vincent Eugene Craddock (February 11, 1935 – October 12, 1971) was an American rockabilly pioneer musician, best known for his hit Be-Bop-A-Lula. He started playing in various country bands in his native Norfolk, Virginia after leaving the United States Navy with a permanent leg... The Blasters are a rock music group formed in 1979 in Downey, California by brothers Phil Alvin (vocals and guitar) and Dave Alvin (guitar), with bass guitarist John Bazz and drummer Bill Bateman. ... Etta James on the cover of one of her albums Etta James is an American R&B and gospel singer. ... For the ice hockey player see Joe Turner Big Joe Turner (born Joseph Vernon Turner Jr, May 18, 1911 – November 24, 1985) was an American blues singer from Kansas City, Missouri. ...


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zoom | English | Dictionary & Translation by Babylon (317 words)
Zoom may refer to:The word zoom is an example of onomatopoeia that indicates swiftness.
ZOOM was an educational television show, created almost entirely by children, which aired on PBS from January of 1972 to February of 1978.
ZOOM encouraged children to "turn off the TV and do it!" On the show, a rotating cast of seven kids (known as ZOOMers) performed various activities such as games, plays, poems, recipes, jokes, and science experiments, all suggested by viewer contributions.
Music News of the World (Hi-Fi) (770 words)
Zoom, the 50-year-old guitarist who basically invented the punk-rockabilly sound of the pioneering L.A. band and who has been, for all intents and purposes, incommunicado for the past 14 years, has decided to end his long silence and join his former mates for a pair of reunion dates in L.A. and San Francisco in February.
The guitarist, who said he didn't leave the band because he was angry, but rather because he just wasn't having fun anymore, said the four successful rehearsals the band has had so far have made the shift back into the X fold that much easier.
It just seems like a lot of people wanted to see us together again," Zoom said, adding that it was the first time the four had been in the same room together outside of their lawyers' offices in more than a decade.
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