[ARCHIVED THREAD] - ... Rock Trivia (Page 1 of 3)
Posted: 10/30/2005 3:35:22 PM EDT
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... Amaze us with your obscure Rock & Roll Trivia - I'll start" ... Toni Tennille of Captian & Tennille actually sang on the Pink Floyd album The Wall Your turn ... |
Not really sure if this counts as trivia but Styx played my mom's prom...back when they were known as TW-4 I'm related to the manager to Chicago 60's band The Buckinghams |
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My roommate is the bass player for the metal band Dorcia. www.myspace.com/dorcia ahhahah. yeah. |
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Not too sure on the legitimacy of this one, but here goes: The band that sang the song Love Rollercoaster (can't remember their name for some reason!). At the beginning of the song, you can hear a girl's scream. Supposedly, this is the story: The band hired a girl to come in and be a model for their cover artwork of their upcoming album release. They had the girl kneel down on some type of clear plastic or something, and she had to pour honey all over herself. Well, the honey had some kind of reaction with the plastic stuff and it melted to her legs. After this incident, the models legs were badly scarred. So one day during recording at the studio, this girl burst in and started threatening law suits and all this jazz because the scars had ruined her modelling career. One of the guys in the studio apparently pushed the girl back out the door and there was a struggle.. whereupon a knife was extracted from the mans pocket and he stabbed and killed the girl. Her screams are supposedly the ones you can hear in the beginning of Love Rollercoaster.  Feel free to correct me. This is just rumor stuff as far as I know.
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Toni and Darryl live about 20 something miles South from here.....do I know them?...No Karen Carpenter,she died from anorexia(sp) Sonny Bono,,,I believe Cher had true Love to the end Blue Oyster Cult: circa early 70's at Carson Speedway...missed it(Thankfully) |
You're kidding right? I knew that couldn't be right, so I just searched: Willis was born in 55. Woodstock was in 69. Well holy shit. Accept my apologies. I was wrong. But WTF - Willis was 12 years old then.
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I heard that after a pay disagreement, Bowie rerecorded SRV's parts with another guitarist and the revised version was used in subsequent printings of the tune. |
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February 3,1959 Waylon Jennings gives his plane seat to the Big Bopper,who was running a fever and wasn't comfortable in the bus seats. When Buddy Holly learned that Jennings wasn't going to fly, he said, "Well, I hope your old bus freezes up." Jennings responded, "Well, I hope your plane crashes." This friendly banter of friends would haunt Jennings for years.  |
Bullshit www.steelydan.com/faq.html |
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Fun fact: Jeff Lynne (of Electric Light Orchestra and Traveling Wilburys), produced most of the good Tom Petty and George Harrison albums. Jeff Lynne=pimp daddy Jerry Cantrell (former guitarist/singer of Alice in Chains) is an avid hunter/sportsman and owns a couple AR15's and AK's. Johnny Ramone is a Republican and supporter of RKBA. |
along with recording the leads on the Who's-"I cant explain" and the Kinks-"You really got me" he also appeared on 60% of rock music recorded in England between 1963 and 1966. and since you brought up hermans hermits -John paul jones arranged for them and the Rolling Stones 
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| Stevie Ray Vaughn was "discovered" by David Bowie and Jackson Browne at the Montreux Jazz festival. SRV got heckled by some who didn't like his Texas Blues sound. However, David Bowie and Jackson Browne knew from the first notes SRV played that he had God given talent. Both helped SRV make it, SRV plays lead guitar on several songs on Bowie's " Let's Dance" album. Jackson Browne let SRV use his recording studio for free. |
The name of the band is the Ohio Players. You heard the master 12" remix version of the story. I was in Ohio very close in proximity to them during that timeperiod, and their star guitar player actually dated a girl from my neighborhood. While it was widely spread throughout everywhere at that time, its not true. But the scream is indeed blood curdling. Bootsy Collins, Funk master bass player started his career with James Brown (Co-Writer-Sex Machine) at the ripe young age of 15. He always was funky! "The Worlds only rhinestone rock star doll baby bobba"   ETA: A lot of the R&B at that time was out of Ohio, one way or another. |
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A good many of the 80's rock and hair metal/glam bands such as Bon Jovi, Cinderella, and Skid Row made it to the top on songs ghost written by a little known songwriter named Desmond Child. He also worked with other artists such as Aerosmith, writing some of their biggest hits ("Angel" and "Dude Looks Like a Lady". The same songwriter would become partly responsible for the resurgence of country music when he penned songs for artists such as Trisha Yearwood. While I can't find any documentation on it, I have heard through the grapevine that he also ghost wrote for Garth Brooks. Other artist to release hit singles penned by Child include Joan Jett, Cher, Hanson, and Alice Cooper. Desmond is one of my favorite songwriters, and is probably up there with "Mutt" Lange in terms of talent. As many of you know "Mutt" Lange wrote for and produced records for his wife, Shania Twain. What is less widely known is that "Mutt" Lange was the guy behind the big drums, big guitar sound of AC/DC, and he was the guy that pushed Def Leppard over the top, co writing and producing the smash record "Pyromania". He worked with Def Leppard most of their career after that and was instrumental in returning them to the music scene after Rick Allen lost his arm in the infamous car wreck. The band worked closely with Mutt to field the latest in electronic drum triggers, MIDI equipment, and sampled sounds so that Rick could return to playing at the level required. He has written hit songs for and produced Bryan Adams, Heart, Billy Ocean, and even saved Foreigner when, after album numbers 2 and 3 didn't quite sell what was hoped, he came in and co-wrote/produced the "4" album which spawned the hits "Urgent", "Juke Box Hero" and "Waiting For A Girl Like You". He even sang backup vocals on the record. He produced the Cars album "Heartbeat City". The record had four smash hits, "You Might Think", "Magic", "Hello Again" and "Drive". And he was the sole writer on the hit song, "Lovin' Every Minute of It", by Loverboy, which was pretty much the high point for that band. Too much trivia for you guys? |
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Yabbaza daabza doosey babba, Bootzillas here. William "Bootsy" Collins |