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The Accelerators: Music, History, Career & Measurement

The Accelerators were an American rock band from Raleigh, North Carolina, United States. They were formed in 1982 by singer/guitarist Gerald Duncan and released five albums. Writer and critic Peter Eichenberger described the band as "one of the best rock 'n roll bands in the world great songs perfectly rendered."

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The Accelerators topic overview

The analysis highlights Music, History, Career and Measurement as prominent areas in the source structure around The Accelerators.

Related topics: 63
Source areas: 3
Connected nodes: 66
Extracted relationships: 204
Concept neighborhoods: 16
Bridge connections: 66

What this topic covers Research coverage

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History · 39 topics

Hiatus and break up · 21 topics

Overview · 3 topics

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Key facts & relationships

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Also known as: Accelerators
Genres: Alternative rock College rock Rockabilly Power pop Roots rock
Labels: Dolphin Profile Sound Asleep Records
Origin: Raleigh, North Carolina, United States
Past members: Gerald Duncan · Doug Whelchel · Chris Moran · Keller "Skip" Anderson · Mike Johns
Spinoff of: Moon Pie

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Start with these areas

History

Arrogance BBC BBC Two Billboard Springsteen

Hiatus and break up

Bob Mould Caitlyn Cary Clay Aiken Corrosion of Conformity Emmy Award

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Overview

Rock Rock music
Raleigh Raleigh, North Carolina
North Carolina

History

Greenville, S.C Greenville, South Carolina
Dick Hodgin Dick Hodgin?action=edit&redlink=1
Record Bar
Leave My Heart
Don Dixon Don Dixon (musician)
Arrogance Arrogance (band)
Mitch Easter
Lets Active Let's Active
R.E.M.
The Smithereens
Billboard Billboard (magazine)
The Village Voice
Rolling Stone
Dave Marsh
Springsteen Bruce Springsteen
The Clash
Chapel Hill Chapel Hill, North Carolina
Nick Lowe
Los Angeles
Geoffrey Cheshire III Geoffrey Cheshire III?action=edit&redlink=1
Waking Waves Records Waking Waves Records?action=edit&redlink=1
BBC
The Old Grey Whistle Test
The Brewery The Brewery (music venue)
BBC Two
New Music Seminar
Cory Robbins
Profile Records
Dream Train
Upstate South Carolina
Jon Wurster
Rod Abernathy Rod Abernethy
Grammy Grammy Awards
Janet Perr
John Cougar John Mellencamp
Mercury Mercury Records
Run-D.M.C.
Hip-hop Hip hop music
Jag Studio Jag Studio?action=edit&redlink=1

Hiatus and break up

Fluffy Fluffy (band)
Superchunk
Clay Aiken
Corrosion of Conformity
Hootie and the Blowfish Hootie & the Blowfish
Lynyrd Skynard Lynyrd Skynyrd
Emmy Award Emmy Awards
Whiskeytown
Patty Hurst Shifter Patty Hurst Shifter?action=edit&redlink=1
Michael Rank Michael Rank (musician)
Caitlyn Cary Caitlin Cary
Son Volt
Keith Urban
Ryan Adams
The Mountain Goats
Bob Mould
Katy Perry
Rocket from the Crypt
The New Pornographers
Tres Chicas
Terry Anderson Terry Anderson (musician)

Advanced semantic analysis

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How The Accelerators connects Entity context

The extracted context around The Accelerators shows recurring relationship patterns in the source. For example, The Accelerators → Billboard, Both, Brad Rice, Chris Moran, City, Cory Robbins, Dick Hodgin, Don Dixon, Doug Whelchel, Dream Train, Duncan, Grammy, Heart, Janet Perr, Johns--who, Jon Wurster, Keller Anderson, King's Motel, Leave My Heart, Love Another extracted example is The Accelerators → American, Andy Kershaw's, BBC Two, BBC's, British, Cheshire, Cheshire's, Collection, Comboland, Covering, Europe, Greetings, In, It, Leave My Heart, Mitch Easter, North Carolina, October, One American, Raleigh. Use these groups to spot repeated connection types before inspecting the individual relationships.

The Accelerators

Top relations

related to Profile Records · 38

The Accelerators → Billboard, Both, Brad Rice, Chris Moran, City, Cory Robbins, Dick Hodgin, Don Dixon, Doug Whelchel, Dream Train, Duncan, Grammy, Heart, Janet Perr, Johns--who, Jon Wurster, Keller Anderson, King's Motel, Leave My Heart, Love

related to Comboland · 33

The Accelerators → American, Andy Kershaw's, BBC Two, BBC's, British, Cheshire, Cheshire's, Collection, Comboland, Covering, Europe, Greetings, In, It, Leave My Heart, Mitch Easter, North Carolina, October, One American, Raleigh

related to Hiatus and break up · 33

The Accelerators → After, Although Duncan, Automatic Slim, Bartholomew, Bartholomews, Because, Bo Taylor, Brad Rice, Dave Bartholomew, Dream Train, Duncan, Finger, Fluffy, Guitarist Taylor, He, June, Mark Auble, Michael Batts, Mike Johns, Nearer

related to Dolphin Records · 24

The Accelerators → Accelerators, After, Arrogance, Billboard, Despite, Dixon, Dolphin, Dolphin Records, Don Dixon, Drive-in Studio, Easter, However, In, Leave My Heart, Lets Active, Mitch Easter's, Mondo Montage, Moon Pie, Raleigh, Record Bar

related to D.E.S. and Sound Asleep Records · 19

The Accelerators → Because, Charles Desmond White, Chris Henderson, Dave Bartholomew, Duncan, For Nearer, Hodgin, In, Jag Studio, Jerker Emanuelson, Nearer, Raleigh, Records, Road Chill, Ron Bartholomew, Sound Asleep, Sound Asleep Records, Swedish, Unsuccessful

related to history · 16

The Accelerators → Anderson, Chris Moran, Dick Hodgin, Doug Whelchel, EP, Gerald Duncan, Greenville, Hard Times, In, Keller, Moon Pie, Musically, Raleigh, Skip, The, Welcome

related to New Music Seminar · 14

The Accelerators → According, And, Billboard, I've, In July, It, Jean Rosenbluth, Lonestar Roadhouse, Manhattan, New Music Seminar, New York, New York City, North Carolina, The

Past members · 13

The Accelerators → Bo Taylor, Brad Rice, Chris Henderson, Chris Moran, Dave Bartholomew, Doug Whelchel, Gerald Duncan, Jon Wurster, Keller "Skip" Anderson, Mark Auble, Michael Batts, Mike Johns, Ron Bartholomew

related to Discography · 8

The Accelerators → Dolphin Records, Dream Train, Leave My Heart, Nearer, Profile Records, Records, Road Chill, Sound Asleep Records

Also known as · 1

The Accelerators → Accelerators

Important terminology

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Important terminology

accelerators band duncan album raleigh profile records new released also rock songs bartholomew nearer carolina dolphin sound hodgin band's leave

The Accelerators relationships Subject–Predicate–Object triples

TTTA extracted 204 structured relationships around The Accelerators. Examples in this analysis include The Accelerators → Also known as → Accelerators and The Accelerators → Genres → Alternative rock College rock Rockabilly Power pop Roots rock. The table shows each extracted connection, where it came from and its confidence.

Subject	Predicate	Object	Confidence	Src
The Accelerators	Also known as	Accelerators	1.00	infobox
The Accelerators	Genres	Alternative rock College rock Rockabilly Power pop Roots rock	1.00	infobox
The Accelerators	Labels	Dolphin Profile Sound Asleep Records	1.00	infobox
The Accelerators	Origin	Raleigh, North Carolina, United States	1.00	infobox
The Accelerators	Past members	Gerald Duncan	1.00	infobox
The Accelerators	Past members	Doug Whelchel	1.00	infobox
The Accelerators	Past members	Chris Moran	1.00	infobox
The Accelerators	Past members	Keller "Skip" Anderson	1.00	infobox
The Accelerators	Past members	Mike Johns	1.00	infobox
The Accelerators	Past members	Brad Rice	1.00	infobox
The Accelerators	Past members	Chris Henderson	1.00	infobox
The Accelerators	Past members	Jon Wurster	1.00	infobox
The Accelerators	Past members	Ron Bartholomew	1.00	infobox
The Accelerators	Past members	Dave Bartholomew	1.00	infobox
The Accelerators	Past members	Michael Batts	1.00	infobox
The Accelerators	Past members	Bo Taylor	1.00	infobox
The Accelerators	Past members	Mark Auble	1.00	infobox
The Accelerators	Spinoff of	Moon Pie	1.00	infobox
The Accelerators	Years active	1982–2000	1.00	infobox

Related concept clusters Concept neighborhoods

The concept neighborhoods around The Accelerators bring nearby vocabulary together. In this analysis, examples include New, Profile and Bands. Use the clusters to find adjacent concepts and terminology that may deserve separate research.

The Accelerators
- New
- Profile
- Bands
- North
- Carolina
- Music
- Band
- Band's
- Heart
- Leave
- Album
- Also
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- Bands
- North
- Carolina
- Music
- Band
- Band's
- Heart
- Leave
- Album
- Also
raleigh
- Comboland
- North
- Rock
- Carolina
- Music
- Hodgin
- Records
- Also
- Bands
- Dolphin
- Members
- Sound
north carolina
- Carolina
- North
- Bands
- Comboland
- Rock
- Raleigh
- One
- Music
- Records
- Also
- New
- Asleep
new music seminar
- Rock
- Raleigh
- One
- Members
- North
- Dave
- Songs
- Band's
- Billboard
- Ron
- Wurster
- Label
upstate south carolina
- North
- Bands
- Comboland
- Rock
- Raleigh
- One
- Music
- Records
- Also
- New
- Albums
- Asleep
jon wurster
- Members
- Dream
- Train
- New
- Asleep
- Band
- Duncan
- Bands
- Comboland
- Dolphin
- North
- One
dave marsh
- Guitarist
- Ron
- Replaced
- Rock
- Music
- Nearer
- Songs
- Duncan
- Dolphin
- Members
- North
- One

Connections between topic areas Semantic bridges

For The Accelerators, one of the stronger structural bridges in this analysis connects The Accelerators with History. Bridges highlight paths between different parts of the map and can reveal research angles that are easy to miss in a flat list.

Min side: 3

The Accelerators — History · splits 27 ⟂ 40

The Accelerators — Hiatus and break up · splits 45 ⟂ 22

The Accelerators — Overview · splits 63 ⟂ 4

Map overview Semantic statistics

The Accelerators

Nodes67

Edges66

Triples204

Avg. degree1.97

Density0.029851

Components1

Source & methodology

TTTA analyzes the structure around The Accelerators to surface related topics, entities, relationships, concept neighborhoods and bridge connections. Use the map to explore areas such as Music, History, Career & Measurement, including less central topics that may reveal useful research gaps. Automatically extracted connections are research leads rather than rewritten encyclopedia content.

Source: Wikipedia — The Accelerators · EN edition · Analysis: TopicsToTalkAbout

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