adam schlesinger wrote the music for that thing you do.
adam schlesinger wrote the music for that thing you do.
who wrote the music for that thing you do?
adam schlesinger
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the thing is mentioned in the hawkwind bio book 'space daze' and also in the book about the john peel sessions. when they first formed in the mid 1980s, they were part of the thriving nyc noise rock art scene (live skull, unsane, sonic youth, white zombie, angel rot, etc.), later morphing into a more progressive acid rock sounding band over the years. the thing are written about in various rock history books as being one of the very first bands from the 1980s to emerge from the noise rock scene to develop the a musical style later known as stoner rock. originally the band called their music "psychedelic punk" and later "acid core". the thing were doing a different type of post-punk music, while most bands at the time were still doing either cro-mags / agnostic front styled hardcore punk or sonic youth influenced experimental/weird music. the thing mixed no wave noise, acid rock, metal, 70s rock, psychedelic, progressive rock, and gothic rock. in the last decade or so, it has become known as stoner rock. a year or two after they started playing live, fellow nj artists monster magnet (and ny bands: bench, blood farmers, hed, and others) also began playing a similar style of music, which later influenced kyuss (leading to fu manchu and queens of the stone age). groups such as white zombie and tool also later became very popular as they went on to further develop a sound that the thing had helped develop. even one of my bloody valentine 's guitarists cited the thing's "texture guitar" as a major influence, after meeting the thing guitarist, sal canzonieri. their live shows were attended by many well known bands, such as the pixies (who wrote a song about hearing their music called "the thing", which they released on the album complete 'b' sides), lemmy from motorhead, milk, th' faith healers, silverfish, and von lmo (the thing guitarist sal canzonieri later played with von lmo in an updated version of red transistor), and others. the thing opened for happy mondays at cbgb and outdrew them. the show featured many special effects that were later used by bands such as white zombie.
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