Sorry about getting back so late. I forgot to reply. Dekay, you've got the right idea. Dave Clark added Sellotape around the capstan and kept adding to it until he got the speed he wanted. Rcprince you're a little short. Would you believe they scored no less than 14 consecutive Top Ten hits, more than anybody except the Beatles of that period....15 consecutive top 20 singles....again sorry about the late reply. cheers, Bluenose |
re: john lennon's death. i was watching monday night football. howard cosell broke the news. my older son, who turns 32 this week, reminded me quite recently that i was so stunned that i awakened him, then a gradeschooler, to tell him, already a beatles fan, the sad, sad news. -kelly |
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". |
I was in a 1966 blue Ford Mustang with 2 friends driving to our favorite bar for nickel drafts. "It was during my college days." I can remember the specific street and the street light we were waiting at when it came over the radio. It was a ice cold day and we were shocked. We were all big fans. Needless to say, we took full advantage of the drink specials when we arrived at the watering hole. |
Ramsti-There is your +2/+2
Question: what were you doing when you first heard John Lennon had been murdered? I was lying in a hotel bed watching the 11 pm news with an old flame....and you?? |
So David99, if no one has pointed this out do I get my points? |
Sorry to get in late on this, however, if my memory serves me correctly John states on the "White" album's, "Glass Onion", that the Walrus was me! Thus meaning that "John" is the Walrus! |
I thought that might be the answer, but was afraid to hazard a guess. I seem to recall that John Anderson did that on his version of "When it Comes to You", the Dire Straits tune that Mark Knopfler played on for him on that album. |
Hey Undertaker ! Great going! You got all four correct!
1) SRV and Double Trouble had actually set up an interview promo/play date to support their new album 'Texas Flood'. It was to be on a day that Bowie's tour was not playing. Bowie heard about it and forbade it. Bowie's band used to call him 'Her Royal Majesty'.
3) SRV was rightfully peeved when he saw the "Let's Dance" video which showed footage of Bowie 'playing' his solo. |
With regard to SRV, here are my guesses:
1. Bowie wanted SRV to drop playing with Double Trouble and play with him exclusively.
2. Sounds like Albert King to me.
3. I have no idea
4. Rocky IV
5. Jackson Browne picked up the tab on SRV's studio time. |
Hey Albert. SRV was far more important than Bowie in making Let's Dance a good album. I used to be a concert security drone and of the performers I've seen Bowie definitely won the God Complex Crown.
Here are some trivia questions on the Bowie/SRV:
1. What led to Stevie quitting the Thin White Dork's tour ?
2. What guitarist's licks did Stevie copy for 'Let's Dance' ?
3. Related to 2, what crummy Bowieesque MTV action ticked off Stevie ?
SRV General:
4. What Rocky movie features stevie (music only) and another music legend known for his taste in guitarists ?
5. Who gave Stevie (3 days!) free studio time to record 'Texas Flood' |
Oh, forgot to say. I gave a +2 for both of you for your expert answers. This was promised in the rules set by David 99. |
Rcprince, correct on Cindi Lauper for Peewees Playhouse music. And Estrnad, very observant! Yes to Clockwork Orange on Heaven 17, a wonderful film by my favorite director, in "2001" and every other year. |
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)? |
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? |
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. |
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 |
Heaven 17 is the name of a music album in the store that Droogie Alex is looking at in "A Clockwork Orange." |
Where and when did the Dave Brubeck Quartet play their last performance? |
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? |
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. |
Good one , Doug, how 'bout Curved Air. |
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. |
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? |
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. |
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. |
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. |
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? |
mes, this is a tuff one - stu copland drummed for klark kent prior to the police... doug s. |
albert, peter frampton played lead guitar on bowie's glass spider tour? say it ain't so!!! ;~) doug s. |
OK Albert, apparently Rod Stewart used to wear his wife's underwear back in the 70s, so cancel my prior guess. |
BTW, another interesting tidbit about Stewart Copeland: What was his father's occupation? |
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. |
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? |
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. |
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? |
What band did Stewart Copeland drum for before the Police |
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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. |
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. |
the subtitle to alice's restaurant is something like "the great thanksgiving day masacree." |
Rcprince, I gave you +1/+1 for effort :-} |
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? |
Cornfedboy, you type faster than I, that was my next guess as I thought about it. |
angela: alice's restaurant? that's what they play it in denver, er, boulder. |
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. |
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? |
hey rcprince, how 'bout the fleshtones? |
