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Buffalo, NY (PRWEB) May 07, 2012

Fairwood Studios has officially launched the first Indie Allstars music bundle. The bundle of fifteen albums aims to raise money for both the Electronic Frontier Foundation and VH1 Save the Music, as well as bring high-quality music to more music fans.

The Indie Allstars bundle offers a diverse collection of independently-released music, created by a group of fifteen artists and musical groups from around the world. The collection includes the 1999 re-recording of Buckner & Garcia’s gold-certified Pac-Man Fever album, as well as 2006 Salon.com National Song Search Contest winners The Main Drag. Other highly-awarded bands participating include Toronto Fringe Festival winner Stagehands and Guitar Center Fresh Cuts contributor The Blue News. These artists were selected as high-quality representatives for a wide mix of genres, including both popular genres, such as hip-hop and blues, and specialized niche styles, such as instrumental heavy metal and Latin gypsy folk. Full information about the artists can be found at http://www.indie-allstars.com/.

The bundle is available in a flexible name-your-own-price format, with a $ 0.59 minimum purchase price. Buyers have the option to send some or all of their purchase amount to the Electronic Frontier Foundation and/or VH1 Save the Music. All purchases include ten full-length albums in high-quality MP3 format, compatible with iPod and similar media players. Buyers who pay above the average payment also receive five EP albums, along with FLAC copies of all albums. These copies, meant for enthusiast listeners, are an even higher quality than is available in many digital music stores.

We’re very excited to launch our first bundle, said Robert Witko, founder of Fairwood Studios. These projects are a great asset to independent content creators of all stripes, as well as helping charities that do great work for the online creative world. We try to apply whatever ideas we can to show people music they didn’t know they’d like, and we’re confident this bundle will do precisely that.

The bundle will be available for two weeks. Music fans can purchase the bundle through May 19th at the bundle’s website, http://www.indie-allstars.com. A sampler of the albums included in the bundle is available on the website, along with additional information on the artists and charities.

About Fairwood Studios: Since 2009, Fairwood Studios has worked to bring independent and interesting music to Harmonix’s Rock Band video game franchise through the Rock Band Network. Their years of digital music production and promotion have made Fairwood Studios a highly respected name in their field. More information about Fairwood Studios and their projects can be found at http://www.fairwoodstudios.com.

The founding years

The name “Grass Roots” originated in 1965 as the name of a band project by the Los Angeles, California songwriter and producer duo of P.F. Sloan and Steve Barri. Sloan and Barri had written several songs in an attempt by their record company, Dunhill Records to cash in on the budding folk rock movement. One of these songs was “Where Were You When I Needed You,” which was recorded by Sloan and Barri and a now forgotten line-up of studio musicians. Sloan provided the lead vocals and played guitar. The song was released under “The Grass Roots” name and sent, as a demo, to several radio stations of the San Francisco Bay area.

When moderate interest in this new band arose, Sloan and Barri went to look for a group that could incorporate The Grass Roots name. They found one in a San Francisco group named “The Bedouins” and cut a new version with that band’s lead vocalist, Willie Fulton. In 1965, the Grass Roots got their first official airplay on Southern California radio stations, such as KGB(AM) in San Diego and KHJ in Los Angeles with a version of the Bob Dylan song, “Mr. Jones (Ballad Of A Thin Man)”. For some months, The Bedouins were the first “real” Grass Roots but the partnership with Sloan and Barri broke up when the band demanded more space for their own more blues rock-oriented material (which their producers were not willing to give them). Willie Fulton, Denny Ellis, and David Stensen went back to San Francisco, with drummer Joel Larson the only one who remained (he was to become a member of a later Grass Roots line-up, as well). In the meantime, the second version of “Where Were You When I Needed You” peaked in the top 40 in mid-1966; an album of the same name sold poorly, probably because there were no Grass Roots anymore to promote it at the time of its release.

The years of success

The group’s third and by far most successful incarnation was finally found in a Los Angeles band,

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Early years

Roger Harry Daltrey was born in the Hammersmith area of London, but was raised in Acton, the same working class suburban neighborhood that produced fellow Who members Pete Townshend and John Entwistle. He was one of three children born to parents Irene and Harry Daltrey, and grew up with two sisters, Gillian and Carol. Harry Daltrey worked for a water closet manufacturer, and Irene Daltrey was told she would be unable to have children because of losing a kidney in 1937. Nevertheless, she went into labour during a World War II air raid and gave birth to her son at the nearby Hammersmith Hospital, West London. At the age of three, the young Roger swallowed a rusty nail which had to be surgically removed, leaving a visible scar. At the age of five, the rust from the nail caused an ulcer in his stomach which required him to be hospitalised.

Daltrey attended Victoria Primary School and then Acton County Grammar School for boys along with Pete Townshend and John Entwistle. He showed academic promise in the English state school system, ranking at the top of his class on the eleven plus examination that led to his enrollment at the Acton County Grammar School. His parents hoped he would eventually continue on to study at the university, but Daltrey turned out to be a self-described “school rebel” and developed a dedicated interest in the emerging rock and roll music scene instead.

He made his first guitar from a block of wood and formed a skiffle band called The Detours. When his father bought him an Epiphone guitar in 1959, he became the lead guitarist for the band and soon afterward was expelled from school for smoking. Describing the post-war times, Pete Townshend wrote in his autobiography, “Until he was expelled, Roger had been a good pupil. Then he heard Elvis and transmogrified into a Teddy Boy with an electric guitar and a dress-sneer. Was it simply rock roll? It was obvious to a young man as intelligent as

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