Read Ebook {PDF EPUB} Midnight Miles by Maroon 5 Maroon 5 Book Goes Backstage At Jane Tours, Addresses Drummer's Health Struggles. Maroon 5 spent three and a half years touring to support their Grammy-winning . It was a journey filled with backstage naps on dirty couches, new tattoos, sweaty gigs and venues left littered with empty beer cups — and now they have nearly 300 pages documenting the experience. "Midnight Miles: On the Road Through 5 Continents & 17 Countries," due this week from MTV Books, is the story of the group's lengthy trek, told mainly through photographs taken by Christopher Wray-McCann that take the reader backstage, onstage and just about anywhere else you can imagine — with a few insights from the bandmembers scribbled along the way. The band is already in the process of making its next album (which frontman promises will be "f---ing good"), and hopes that its next tour will be an even bigger love affair with Maroon 5 fans, even if one of their members may not be able to join them. "Midnight Miles" includes several pages of text from Ryan Dusick as the drummer describes the challenges he faced as he began to experience health problems on the road. The following is an excerpt of Levine's writings (including his unusual formatting) in "Midnight Miles": I figure, why not just spout out my real emotions as they come? I'm sure my words will be properly edited and chopped so that I sound coherent and articulate. Anyway, I . just can't believe this moment is actually upon me. contributed to writing two number-one hits. have two new siblings (a brother, Sam, and a sister, Liza). fell out of love. lost an aunt and an uncle. (Marjorie Williams and Jack Cooper, two people who made indelible impressions on my life in almost completely opposite ways.) became a relatively well-adjusted adult. am plagued with that overwhelming pressure of delivering it all again. have never been more excited, turned on, and energized about life. am extraordinarily lucky and grateful for the amazing life I've been given. feel things more than ever. lost a drummer, but, hopefully, not a friend. have grown weary of politics and try to avoid them at all costs. traveled and seen a pretty substantial chunk of the world. watched the world around me expand. continue to be a sponge. continue to try to open my mind more everyday. have an unbelievable group of friends, my extended family. (They know who they are.) got a golden retriever named Frankie who is one of the best creatures in the world. In his section of "Midnight Miles," Dusick explains what happened to him on the road: When we returned from Europe to start our first full-length headlining tour of the States, everything came to a head. I was utterly exhausted and jet-lagged to an unreasonable degree, yet our first single was finally starting to take off and . our schedule only intensified. We played three sold- out nights at the House of Blues, with TV appearances early each day, and by the end of the third show, my right arm was shaking so hard I was incapable of signing my own autograph. By the middle of the tour, exhaustion, intense pain in my right arm, and subsequently deteriorating coordination playing the drums rendered me unable to continue. There we were, finally beginning to experience the success for which we had worked and dreamed about so long, and I couldn't keep up. Before I took my first break from touring, I lived with the daily anguish of knowing that it was just a matter of time before my body would give out on me. Every show was a rush of adrenaline and pain, excitement and agony. I finally went home for a week to rest, flying in our good friend, Ryland Steen, to take my place for a few shows. When I returned I was so determined to rise above the pain that I somehow managed to keep it together through the end of the tour. . Sadly, my difficulties performing lingered. We had another long year of touring ahead of us, and I did anything I could to avoid pondering the worst. We kicked off another European tour with promises of a break when we got home, but it was not to be. When we received our "revised" itinerary, we were at the airport in Milan, and I broke down. I saw another break evaporate and I could barely function. I knew I was near the end and it wouldn't be long before my grip would fail. From there we went to Australia, where my exhaustion and pain reached new depths, and then straight into a college tour of the States, during which my performances were feeble at best. Halfway through that tour, I deteriorated to such a degree that both of my arms were pretty much useless. Josh Day . was kind enough to sit in for me while I went home to undergo tests and physical therapy, expecting to have to miss a couple months of touring. There we were, enjoying ever more success, achieving unbelievable things, and I was on my way home. Over the next nine months I underwent every kind of exam and therapy imaginable, all the time thinking about the band performing without me. . assumed the drumming duties. No one could get a firm grip on what had gone wrong and how it could be resolved. . All I knew is that I couldn't play the drums. 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MTV (USA), 2006] Kara’s Flowers signed to Reprise Records and released an album, The Fourth World, in 1997. After a tepid response to the album, the band parted ways with the record label and the members attended college. In 2001, the band regrouped, with guitarist James Valentine added to the line-up, and pursued a new direction under the name Maroon 5.[5] At this point, Carmichael switched to playing keyboards, which has since become his main instrument in the band. After these changes, Maroon 5 signed with Octone Records and released their debut album, Songs About Jane, in June 2002. The album’s lead single “”, received heavy airplay, which helped the album to debut at number six on the Billboard 200 chart.[6] The band won the Grammy Award for Best New Artist in 2005. For the next few years, they toured extensively worldwide in support of Songs About Jane and produced two live recordings: 2004’s 1.22.03.Acoustic and 2005’s Live – Friday the 13th.[7] In 2006, Dusick officially left Maroon 5 after suffering from serious wrist and shoulder injuries and was replaced by Matt Flynn. The band then recorded their second album, It Won’t Be Soon Before Long and released it in May 2007.[8] The album reached number one on the US Billboard 200 chart and the lead single, “”, became the band’s first number-one single on the Billboard Hot 100. In September 2010, Maroon 5 released their third studio album Hands All Over, which was re-released in 2011 to include the single “”. While the original version of the album received mixed reviews, “Moves like Jagger” reached the number one position on the Billboard Hot 100. The band released their fourth album, Overexposed, on June 26, 2012. All four singles of the album were highly successful on the Billboard Hot 100, including second single “One More Night”, which reached number one. In 2014, the band signed with and released their fifth studio album, V, with the very-first line-up of six official band members, as keyboardist and backing vocalist PJ Morton became an official member in 2012. The album debuted atop the Billboard 200. Maroon 5 have sold more than 15 million albums in the United States and 27 million albums worldwide.[9] sumber di atas : maroon 5. Maroon 5's boring Super Bowl 2019 halftime show reflects the band's long, bland career arc. Early in Maroon 5's career, the Los Angeles band played a version of itself on the 8th season of television's “Beverly Hills 90210” in an episode that aired in September of 1997. The group went by the name Kara's Flowers at the time, a high school band struggling to make it in actual reality but seemingly loved within the safe confines of a fictional TV venue. Nearly 22 years later, Maroon 5 performed at the 2019 Super Bowl halftime show to a global audience of many millions. On Sunday, as on the set of “Beverly Hills,” a built-in crowd placed in front of the stage cheered the band on, blurring the line between real fan and paid actor. While most reviewers panned the halftime show as boring, it works as a symbol of Adam Levine and company’s unlikely career arc. While most reviewers panned the halftime show as boring, it works as a symbol of Adam Levine and company’s unlikely arc. Their career as ambassadors mostly of the maligned genre known as blue-eyed soul can be blamed on an unimaginative constellation of label heads, corporate radio focus groups and in-house music curators. It's music with a lasting impact that is most often felt shortly after you've left a department store or a suburban museum cafe. Indeed, one of the greatest tricks the music industry ever pulled was convincing the world that a band as blandly safe as Maroon 5 deserves such a stage. Maroon 5's history is dotted with the kind of happenstance and nepotism that often punctuates the careers of people who grow up within earshot and eyeshot of celebrities in Los Angeles. Adam Levine and actor Jonah Hill are former classmates and Hill officiated Levine’s wedding, as well as helped him nab his first significant acting role in 2013’s “Begin Again.” Hill’s late brother, Jordan Feldstein was Maroon 5’s manager for years, before his untimely death in December of 2017. In an introduction to the 2006 book of photo essays MTV released on the band's early years, musician Graham Nash — of the Hollies, and Crosby, Stills and Nash — basically brags that he single-handedly discovered the group when they played his son's high school graduation at Brentwood School in Los Angeles in July of 1997: "They had played small shows before but this was the first gig I'd seen where they were not only going to play in front of their parents but also, possibly more importantly, their friends. They may have also been slightly nervous knowing that I was there.” — Graham Nash, “Maroon 5: Midnight Miles,” 2006. Nash goes on to reveal he funded an early recording session. Clearly, Maroon 5 has had all the right connections since the very beginning. The band’s early iteration, Kara’s Flowers, was ultimately a botched 1990s project that sounds a bit like Fountains of Wayne or the similar nasally approach employed by then-peers in mostly forgotten bands like Superdrag. Still, while the band’s original name did not survive the jump to the big leagues, it does provide insight into something that has plagued both iterations of this group for years: A clunky sexuality that borders on tactless or immature. The "Kara" in Kara's Flowers was apparently a woman who supposedly the entire band was attracted to. This is exactly the kind of 1990s heterosexuality showcased in romantic comedies that at best feel uncomfortable and outdated, and at worst misogynistic and predatory. These constant unsubtle sexual references are the only smudge in an otherwise squeaky clean image. All you need to know about what America thinks of Maroon 5 is that one of their music videos features the band crashing various weddings in Los Angeles and nobody gets offended. What kind of teenage rebel dreams of growing up to be a wedding singer? Or worse, a wedding singer who crashes weddings without incident due to an immediately apparent harmlessness? Or even worse? A band who pretends to crash weddings. According to a behind-the-scenes interview with USA Today, a wedding photographer reveals that after the initial surprise, the band would have the crowd sit through another take of the same song. Another audience full of imaginary friends. The Super Bowl is a difficult concert for a variety of reasons, both musical and logistical. Beyoncé, Justin Timberlake and Lady Gaga have headlined the past three years, and Rihanna was a much-talked about potential candidate for 2019. The singer reportedly turned down the gig, however, as a show of solidarity for unemployed quarterback Colin Kaepernick and the ongoing NFL national anthem protests. In this context, the choice of Maroon 5 says as much about the mindset of the show’s producers than the artists themselves. It's worth noting that a high point in Maroon 5's career is that they collaborated on a single and accompanying video with Rihanna. For a pop figure as complex as Rihanna, it barely registers in her discography. These collaborations have helped keep Maroon 5 a household name while the cemetery of their early 2000s radio brethren continues to expand. And this is just one easy example of how Maroon 5 and Adam Levine use a seemingly endless array of rap and R&B stars to add depth to their plug-and-play pop songs. These collaborations have helped keep Maroon 5 a household name while the cemetery of their early 2000s radio brethren continues to expand. The group has sold millions of records and certainly knows how to string together a hit, but a lot of its longevity is owed to savvy guest spots — not to mention Adam Levine’s own reality TV side-hustle. Maroon 5 represents the logical public relations conclusion of not just the music industry but most entertainment-related industries; the apolitical strategy of finding artists who will make the most money with the least social impact. The cooperative artist is a genetically modified twist on say, Marlon Brando, but without the giant ripple he caused by rejecting his Oscar at the 1973 Academy Awards in solidarity with Native Americans and their treatment in Hollywood. Well-behaved actors and musicians are the nervous PR rep's dream. They are the silent spokespeople of commerce — willing to sell just enough morsels of hyper-straight and uncontroversial sex so as to stay fairly desirable to the mainstream audience. 28 Belvedere Vodka Sponsors The Maroon 5 Book Launch Of Midnight Miles Premium High Res Photos. Browse 28 belvedere vodka sponsors the maroon 5 book launch of midnight miles stock photos and images available, or start a new search to explore more stock photos and images. Choose your country or region. United States. Hi IBMer! The IBM strategic repository for digital assets such as images and videos is located at dam.ibm.com. 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