undertaker, your hint re: steve earle is good, but his backing band's name is only *part* of xtc's *other* band's name... |
Keep looking, reprince, that should "Help"!
I'll take a guess on Charlie Parker, how about the Euphonium |
Undertaker, YOU THE MAN! +2+2. "Donna Lee" on the euphonium, now that's something. |
I think the Beatles may have had a session musician on one of their very first recorded songs. If I remember correcly, I think a drummer named Alan White played on one of their first singles...not Ringo. XTC's Psychedelic Psuedonym was "The Dukes of Stratosphear" (and it's a very fun album). |
whoa, Phild, I even have that albumn......somewhere...... and couldn't come up with that! +2/+2 from me, 2!
They say that memory is the SECOND thing to go... and I forgot what the first thing was :-) |
Thank you for the kind words regarding this thread.It is a fun topic for sure.Thank you all for the + votes also.I have a tainted reputation here and need all the + votes I can get to keep audiogon from "assgone'ing" me! Im glad you are getting a kick out of this thread Angela.Maybe we can figure out a way to get a game of spin the bottle going here! |
david: don't let all those + votes go to your head, now. just remember that, purportedly, the majority of lottery winners blow their rewards in a year or less. -kelly (who's much happier being your friend than your adversary) |
phild, yes - the dukes of stratosphear. i have two of their albums as well as most of xtc's works. amazing ting to me, is that the dukes sound quite different than xtc even tho it's the same folks... doug s. |
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Well, I'll be, Angela (4-7 post), I did not know that applied to women. wink, wink. |
"Yesterday" began life as "Scrambled Eggs," a lot like my brains these days... |
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. |
hey, Rcprince, I don't know the answer to yours, BUT
"what song do all New York Area radio stations play at noon on Thanksgiving Day? |
Jayboard, you got it,dude. It's amazing how men begin to sqirm when I make the comment that memory is the SECOND thing to go. Silly.... but, then, that's what helps us enjoy this life - all the silly moments :-) |
hey rcprince, how 'bout the fleshtones? |
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? |
rcprince, nope..hint...it's something about a ....no I am not saying yet. There's got to be some greater NYC folks reading this. |
angela: alice's restaurant? that's what they play it in denver, er, boulder. |
Cornfedboy, you type faster than I, that was my next guess as I thought about it. |
EXactly! Kelly! I used to love to switch around the stations and see how close they were to be on time.
Do any other cities have such a tradition? +2/+2 for the cornfedboy! and why that song? |
Rcprince, I gave you +1/+1 for effort :-} |
the subtitle to alice's restaurant is something like "the great thanksgiving day masacree." |
OK, since no one wants to guess which famous rock star likes ladies undies, here is a tough one.
Who played lead guitar for David Bowie on his Glass Spider Tour? This guitar player later formed his own band and is one of my all time favorites. |
rcprince, yure right - another 90 seconds' research told me that it was serpent power which wrote endless tunnel; the fleshtones yust covered it on their album entitled *angry years* whfs in maryland, used to always play alice's restaurant on the turkey kill-fest, but since they sold out, i'm not sure if they still do. perhaps wrnr, whfs' spiritual successor, still does? doug s. |
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What band did Stewart Copeland drum for before the Police |
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? |
Rcprince. The best radio station in NYC, is public radio from Fordham U., WFUV, 90.7. It is listener supported, public radio. A number of the djs from WNEW's best days, are working there now, although I prefered the station with lesser knowns. I am certain Vin Sclesa or Pete Fornatele will play Alice's Restaurant. You can hear the station on the web, as they have Streaming Audio, at www.wfuv.org It is definately worth a listen. |
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? |
Sorry I've been away, been recovering from a concussion! Yes, Yesterday started out as "Scrambled Eggs", that's correct. RCprince, there may be something earlier, but the song "You've Got to Hide Your Love Away" had the flautist by the name of John Scott. |
BTW, another interesting tidbit about Stewart Copeland: What was his father's occupation? |
OK Albert, apparently Rod Stewart used to wear his wife's underwear back in the 70s, so cancel my prior guess. |
albert, peter frampton played lead guitar on bowie's glass spider tour? say it ain't so!!! ;~) doug s. |
mes, this is a tuff one - stu copland drummed for klark kent prior to the police... doug s. |
The Glass Spider tour featured Stevie Ray Vaughn, and also correct about Rod Stewart, guess his were not clean and was just looking to cover himself, right?
Here is another obscure one, what famous female 80's rocker did the intro music for Pee Wee's Playhouse, with our friend Pee Wee Herman?
And where did the band "Heaven 17" get the idea for their name? |
albert, re: the glass spider tour, please explain these: http://www.algonet.se/~bassman/tour/87.html http://www.bowiewonderworld.com/tours/tour87.htm regards, doug s. |
SRV played on Lets Dance (1981), but not the tour due to a contract dispute just before the first tour date. Instead of playing on the Lets Dance tour, SRV went to the studio and recorded Texas Flood. |
Looks like Undertaker4 has the answer Sedond. My data was from a web site called "into the 80's", where I was looking for Stevie Ray Vaughn info.
Either the data for SRV was published at the site, and then the contract dispute happened (and never updated), or they did not care that it was incorrect. I never attended the Glass Spider tour, as I am not a Bowie fan, so I had no personal experience. I admit I would have been tempted to go, if only due to the presence of SRV. |
Great Thread! I would like to throw one out there for ya. Before Jimi Hendrix rose to Rock Icon status he played with a well known R&B band of the times in Puerto Rico. Can anyone guess what R&B band that was? |
Liguy, I know he played in Little Richard's band, and I think he played with Ike and Tina, but I don't know who he went to Puerto Rico with. |
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? |
Liguy, I know he played in Little Richard's band, and I think he played with Ike and Tina, but I don't know who he went to Puerto Rico with. |
Good one , Doug, how 'bout Curved Air. |
The key is R&B and Puerto Rico. I was very surprised when I learned of this little tidbit but Hendrix played for the Isley Bros while they were in Puerto Rico. I don't know if they were touring then or what but maybe someone else knows the answer to that. |
Hendrix with the Isleys in PR? Wish I had seen that. What rock star tried out for the Monkeys and didn't make the cut? |
Where and when did the Dave Brubeck Quartet play their last performance? |
Heaven 17 is the name of a music album in the store that Droogie Alex is looking at in "A Clockwork Orange." |
Here's a question. How did Dave Clark add reverb on the mix of the DC5 #l hit single "Over and Over"? Question two. How many consecutive Top Ten Hits did they score? Have fun, Bluenose |
Bluenose: Did the reverb have something to do with the spacing between heads on a tape deck? I get a lot of this stuff confused, but seem to recall something like that. |
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? |
