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In memory of Kim Shattuck, who succumbed to ALS on this day in 2019…
Leader, main writer, lead vocalist, and guitarist of punk pop pioneers The Muffs from the early 90's onwards, she got started as bass player in LA's 60's garage rock flavored Pandoras…
..and later filled that role briefly in a reunited Pixies, as well as a side project, the Coolies. She was hilarious, and possessed one of the great screams in rock'n'roll…
Leader, main writer, lead vocalist, and guitarist of punk pop pioneers The Muffs from the early 90's onwards, she got started as bass player in LA's 60's garage rock flavored Pandoras…
..and later filled that role briefly in a reunited Pixies, as well as a side project, the Coolies. She was hilarious, and possessed one of the great screams in rock'n'roll…
in 1974, when Van Halen played at a high school dance they went in with attitude. while the opening band was playing, Eddie and new vocalist David Lee Roth were backstage unplugging their amplifiers one after another, after a while the band either gave up or was forced to quit playing when Dave ran out on stage and shouted, "Well, the band just couldn't cut it! But have no fear, Van Halen is here!"
No, not Spinal Tap - Todd Rundgren's Utopia, 1977
Most of the ST jokes had actual precedent; I saw Yes on the Tales tour, in an arena that was better suited for indoor rodeos. My crew and I had the cheap seats, with a view only of the sides and back, so we had a perfect shot of all the gear and staging/props; we saw Anderson, Howe and Squire get in, and out, of their Roger Dean designed pods(no incidents!).
One of the rear corners of the stage butted up to the front rows of the section we were sitting in. Even before the opening act played(a lone guy with an electric guitar, Charlie Starr, who was blind and did bluesy country stuff), there was a figure who emerged from between the road cases, hopped the railing, and came up the stairs to where we had our vantage point. It was Rick Wakeman. He said he was bored, and wanted to kill time by shooting the breeze with fans, especially us in the crap seats. It didn't last long, just about 10-15 minutes, but it was a cool gesture.
Him being "bored" was about right, he quit the band not long after, and quite frankly, they jumped the shark for me with that album. I did go see the following Relayer tour, and I was done, they were a trainwreck with Moraz.
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I was not into those bands but I had friends who were, and I learned a lot of the lore from them. But it doesn't even have to be metal or prog bands - in a couple of shows U2 got stuck inside a giant lemon on their PopMart tour. Very Spinal Tap.
ABB at The Whisky A Go Go on Oct. 2 1971 with drummer Bobby Caldwell and guitarist Larry 'Rhino' Reinhardt, adjoining Hollywood Hills residents in the process of forming the supergroup Captain Beyond as label mates on Capricorn Records. Duane had under a month to live but was the one to push the company to sign their favorite new band. Rhino and Duane were old buddies, he learned how to play slide using Duane's Coricidin bottles, which can be heard on Captain Beyond's recordings. Bobby was a Floridian who'd been with Johnny Winter And... he's all over that iconic live album, and was about to really cut loose with his new band.
photos taken by Greg Papazian
photos taken by Greg Papazian
Oh, I'm very well aquainted with a non-US band that could be regarded as alternative, or at least "new-wave" when they had their ascendancy in the 80's, then a substantial hit, then a drift over the ensuing years into just a strong cult following. I was within earshot of a bit of band bickering that was reminiscent of the film, a slight 'Jeanine' situation(which of course really goes back to Yoko), then there was a "we shant work together again" personnel change, twice. Plus a couple of "Hello Cleveland" moments; that could happen to any band.
Then, as I worked in record wholesale and retail for nearly 25 years(plus doing sound and doing spot work for club owners), I have so known Paul Shaffer's label rep character, Artie Fufkin, plus Bobbi Flekman, in variations, a number of times.
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the guys in Tap have said sometimes bands think Tap got something from them, andrelate astory, but Tap was unaware of it, they got it from someone else.
''Bill Wyman is credited with inventing the fretless bass in 1961 when he removed the frets from his Framus to fix a buzz, but preferred the resulting sound instead.''
I don't know who you were quoting, but it wasn't the Framus.
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thxI don't know who you were quoting, but it wasn't the Framus.
A discussion from the archives:
Oct. 4 1963 17yr old Eric Clapton debuts with The Yardbirds at the Crawdaddy Club in Richmond, England, replacing Anthony 'Top' Topham.
I assume this has been posted at some point within the last 1300+ pages...
