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Let's spread some musical misinformation
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The only famous rock and/or roll musician in New Zealand is Neil Finn. Several of the other 'famous rock musicians' are just Finn in a wig, false nose, etc. There are several folk/rock duos, though, as Flight of the Conchords is only third best. By several, I mean three.
As a New Zealander - I disagree with that! LOL!
Neil is by far the most well known - having been a member of Split Enz, founder of Crowded House and recently replaced Lindsay Buckingham in Fleetwood Mac.....
other popular NZ singers include Dave Dobbyn, Jordan Luck, Ray Columbus (from the 1960's)
Eddie Vedder from Pearl Jam said if he dies he'd like to come back as Neil Finn
That's because Finn is so versatile Vedder is just one of his alter egos, with the right wig.
'New Zealand' is a bowdlerized representation of 'Nude Zealand', originally the name of an annual nineteenth century folk music festival for overzealous nudists, held on the North Island.
The popularity of Nude Zealand exploded. The pastime soon spread across the entire southern hemisphere and clothing, throughout the year, became more or less optional everywhere.
Legislation was passed in 1918 to legitimize the practice and a 'new' name for the region was adopted, to better reflect the proclivities of inhabitants, tidied up, just a bit, in a vain attempt to appease the smattering of intractable wowsers, modestly attired but politically powerful, and still scattered about, flouting the new laws, in a handful of backwater enclaves.
This is the unofficial anthem today of The Land Down Underwear.
Actually Neil Finn comes from Finland, but he thought (mistakenly) that moving to NZ would raise his profile.
Jimi Hendrix got out of the Army in 1961, and had pawned his electric guitar shortly before so he could have some money to celebrate. Not long afterwards he picked up an acoustic guitar to hold him over until he found another electric he liked.
Around that time Jimi ran into an unheard of folkie song and dance man who was in Central Park with a photographer taking pics for the cover of his first album. He asked Jimi if he could borrow his guitar for a couple of pics, and Jimi said something like, "Sure man, just don't do anything crazy like set it on fire."
And that's why the acoustic guitar on the cover of this album is strung for a leftie.
Around that time Jimi ran into an unheard of folkie song and dance man who was in Central Park with a photographer taking pics for the cover of his first album. He asked Jimi if he could borrow his guitar for a couple of pics, and Jimi said something like, "Sure man, just don't do anything crazy like set it on fire."
And that's why the acoustic guitar on the cover of this album is strung for a leftie.
All TV theme songs ever have been written by Rowan Atkinson--using a wide range of pseudonyms.
And a good proportion sound as though they were sung by him.
You know what they say about beans being the musical fruit.
Whenever John Entwistle was performing he would always visualize himself sitting in the middle of a dimly lid up perfectly square room with grey concrete walls surrounding him, and with nothing else being in that room but him and a sandbox with brushed aluminum sides, which he would count the grains of sand of, one by one, to the beat of whatever song he was playing.
Sometimes though, if he felt particularly adventurous that night, he would instead visualize himself doing laundry.
A supposed mindfulness exercise he was taught by his spiritual guide during the late '60's, an Indian greengrocer by the name Apu Nahasapeemapetilon that he accidentally meet one day while shopping, who claimed to be an enlightened yogi.
Sometimes though, if he felt particularly adventurous that night, he would instead visualize himself doing laundry.
A supposed mindfulness exercise he was taught by his spiritual guide during the late '60's, an Indian greengrocer by the name Apu Nahasapeemapetilon that he accidentally meet one day while shopping, who claimed to be an enlightened yogi.
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Finn's brother Tim (arguably more famous) saved Vedder's life
(Drowning at Piha Beach)
Paul Weller before starting the Style Council Flat was a Sales Rep for Polydor Upholstery
His name is real Neil Haakonen, but he was known as 'Neil the Finn' in the small town he moved to, later shortened.
I hear Sting is supposed to play him again in the new version of Dune.
Assuming he passes the audition, as I've heard a plank of wood is also applying for the role.
Wynton Kelly Osbourne revolutionized Jazz Harmony on the Miles Kennedy album "Kind of Purple Rain"
