I don't think this is the one you're thinking of, but I recall he had a band Jimmy James and the Blue Flames before the Jimi Hendrix Experience. Same band? |
Here's an obscure one--what is the real name of Terry Cashman (of Cashman, Pistilli and West and "Mickey, Willie and the Babe" fame)? |
This is a nice thread. Undertaker, on your (1) Beatles question, I don't think Ravi Shankar played the sitar on "Within You, Without You", did he? If not, I seem to recall that Eric Clapton played on one of their White Album cuts--was it "While My Guitar Gently Weeps"? Just guesses, my memory's a bit hazy, and it's been a tough day. Maybe I'm confusing that with Harrison playing on Cream's Goodbye album ("Badge")? |
Undertaker, in answer to your Beatles question (2), does Revolution No. 9 (no. 9, no.9, no.9) count as a song? |
Undertaker, I'll try again, you got me looking through my old Beatles albums. Would you consider Anil Bhagwat, the tabla player on "Love You To" from the Revolver album, to be a "featured" artist? I was going to guess the clarinetist from "When I'm 64", but I don't know who that was. One set of questions back at you, probably pretty easy--1. Who was the original organist for Blood, Sweat and Tears; 2. What group did he play with immediately prior to joining BST; and 3. Who was the lead guitarist for that former group? |
Frogman, I'll give you points, but it was 2 out of 3 (the last one was a little bit of a trick question). Steve Katz was the lead guitarist for BST, but NOT the Blues Project, where he was the rhythm guitarist (as we called them back then). Lead guitar honors went to Danny Kalb, who to this day still sticks in my mind as one of the best I ever heard play in those days before wah-wah pedals and other distortion devices other than my old fuzz-box. I understand he still plays in NYC, acoustic these days (a friend of mine ran into him at a flea market in Brooklyn a few years ago, as he was checking out a Blues Project album). Bbloom, I recall Super Session as being after Kooper left BST, but I wasn't thinking of that as a real group in that it more was a recording session--great guitarists there, though, huh? |
Undertaker, your hint wasn't too much help, as that's one of their few albums I never got! Let me try with their producer, George Martin, who played piano on a number of their albums, including the Help album. Otherwise, how about Billy Preston, who played the organ on a number of their releases. Here's a question which I have no idea why I remember it--in the late 60s, there was a group (SF based, I think) which recorded a song "Endless Tunnel", an extremely forgettable acid-rock anthem along the lines of the Doors' "The End". If you listened to WNEW-FM in NYC in the late 60s, you might remember it. Name the group. |
Sedond--nope, try again. It was this group's only song I ever heard played on the radio, but maybe someone from the Bay area around that time knew more of them. The song, which was one of those 10+ minute songs, was about a guy on a train in a tunnel that was going somewhere, he kept asking the conductor where they were headed, and the conductor just "walked on by"---finally, he gets to the motorman, who says I don't know, I'm just following the tracks. Typical 60s acid rock stuff.
Angela, since I'm usually just getting up then, I'm never listening, but I'll guess that it's Bruce Springstein's version of Santa Claus is Coming to Town? |
Cornfedboy, you type faster than I, that was my next guess as I thought about it. |
Sedond, excellent, two points for you. I can't believe anyone ever did a cover of that song! Angela, as Kelly said, Alice's Restaurant is set at Thanksgiving (that's two years ago this Thanksgiving), so the stations picked it up. Back in high school, I actually at one time memorized that song, and can still play the guitar part. With WNEW-FM an all-talk station now, I don't know if there's a station here in NYC that plays it--maybe NPR? |
Thank you Blbloom--I can probably get it from Glen Ridge, my tuner is excellent at picking up weak signals and I've got one of those motorized roof antennas to get the best signal available. Now if I don't sleep in on Thanksgiving...... Oh, and Angela, thanks for the points! Albert, I'm still racking my brain on the women's underwear, for some reason Roger Daltrey rings a bell? |
OK Albert, apparently Rod Stewart used to wear his wife's underwear back in the 70s, so cancel my prior guess. |
Albert, I believe it was Cindi Lauper who did the music on Peewee's Playhouse? And Bluenose, I'm guessing 5 consecutive top 10's for the DC5? |
Undertaker, in answer to a question of yours from way back, as I listened to it the other night, I don't think the Beatles played any instruments on "Eleanor Rigby". |
