Unusual Rock Trivia?

[roccobass]

Regarding the creation of his bass part on the studio recording of Elvis Costello’s “Pump it Up”

Bassist Bruce Thomas said of his part, "When I analyzed it, it was actually a hybrid of a riff from the Everly Bros song called "The Price of Love". But with the notes changed to those of a Richard Hell and the Voidoids track called "You Gotta Lose". And then there's an odd bar where I played "You Really Got Me”. It's what I call organic sampling.

 

[IMMusicRulz]

Survivor vocalist Jimi Jamison sang backing vocals on Joe Walsh’s 1987 album Got Any Gum?

 

[roccobass]

• Fleetwood Mac recorded their 1972 album, Bare Trees at the De Lane Lea Music Centre in Wembley, England. The studio, which started out in life some ten miles away in Holborn, England, was acquired in the mid-'60s by Major Jaques De Lane Lea, a French intelligence attaché to the British government, who used the studio to dub English films into French. Known for its sound and range of recording equipment, the studio became a popular haunt of British rock acts including The Animals, Deep Purple, and The Rolling Stones. In October 1966, The Jimi Hendrix Experience recorded their first two songs at the Holborn studio, "Hey Joe" and "Stone Free." In 1969, work began on a new studio in Wembley, England to replace the old. The De Lane Lea Music Centre opened its doors in 1971, after extensive sound testing by then-unsigned glam rock group, Queen.

 

[GregC]

• Fleetwood Mac recorded their 1972 album, Bare Trees at the De Lane Lea Music Centre in Wembley, England. The studio, which started out in life some ten miles away in Holborn, England, was acquired in the mid-'60s by Major Jaques De Lane Lea, a French intelligence attaché to the British government, who used the studio to dub English films into French. Known for its sound and range of recording equipment, the studio became a popular haunt of British rock acts including The Animals, Deep Purple, and The Rolling Stones. In October 1966, The Jimi Hendrix Experience recorded their first two songs at the Holborn studio, "Hey Joe" and "Stone Free." In 1969, work began on a new studio in Wembley, England to replace the old. The De Lane Lea Music Centre opened its doors in 1971, after extensive sound testing by then-unsigned glam rock group, Queen.

It's still around, but it moved again--from the Holborn area of London to Soho. Warner Bros. owns it now, and it's mainly used for TV and film sound. De Lane Lea Studios - Wikipedia

 

[roccobass]

Nick Jameson was the bassist and producer on Foghat’s Fool For the
City album. Probably why his sound is so good. Dave Peverett is listed as sole songwriter on Slow Ride. Maybe not so?


According to drummer Roger Earl the song was created during a jam session with then new bassist Nick Jameson.

Nick had a cassette player and he would record whatever we played there. As I recall it, the whole song was written— the middle part and the bass part and the ending were all Nick's ideas. Basically, Nick wrote the song, but we just jammed on it, and Nick cut the stuff up so it made sense as far as the song goes. And then Dave Peverett, the band's then guitarist and vocalistsaid, 'I've got some words.' That's how that came about (laughs).

The song is arguably the band's signature song also remains a staple of classic rock and is played heavily on classic rock radio stations.

 

[IMMusicRulz]

Kiss member Gene Simmons (who himself is Jewish) called out Blue Oyster Cult vocalist Eric Bloom's Jewish ancestry in a radio interview.

 

[Danny O Danny]

The "some stupid with a flare gun" who "burned the place to the ground" in Deep Purple's "Smoke on the Water" was Zdeněk Špička, a Czechoslovakian living in Montreux, Switzerland (it's believed he had fled the Russian invasion of Czechoslovakia in 1968). The year was 1971, and Deep Purple were recording, using the Rolling Stone's mobile studio, at the Montreux Casino. Frank Zappa and the Mothers of Invention were also at the Montreux Casino, playing a concert to an audience of 2,000. Špička, in the audience at the Zappa show, fired a flare gun into the ceiling (for reasons unknown, but perhaps involving inebriation), which caught on fire and burned down the entire casino. Smoke billowed out over the Lake Geneva shoreline. Fortunately everyone got out safely. Špička fled the scene, and was never appehended.

The great Cincinnati indie band Ass Ponys titled one of their albums "Some Stupid With a Flare Gun".

 

[Eli_Kyiv]

Chuck Berry's music will officially live forever, more or less.

 

[Richland123]

Even though they are well known as a California band, the first member of the Eagles who was born in California was Timothy B. Schmit (Oakland, California).

Glenn Frey (Detroit, Michigan)
Don Henley (Linden, Texas)
Randy Meisner (Scottsbluff, Nebraska)
Bernie Leadon (Minneapolis, Minnesota)
Don Felder (Gainesville, Florida)
Joe Walsh (Wichita, Kansas)

 

[Richland123]

Timothy B. Schmit came up with the term "Parrotheads" referring to Jimmy Buffet's fans. Timothy played in Jimmy's band for a while.

As Timothy tells it. "I was driving to a gig in his car and it's one of those outdoor sheds where, if you come in later, you kind of drive through the people walking from the distant parking lot up to the show grounds. People started noticing there was a big car coming through, and they noticed it was Buffet. They all started going crazy." Schmit referred to them as Parrotheads, playing off the nickname Deadheads given to rabid fans of The Grateful Dead. Timothy said, "I guess he liked that and kept it."

 

[MonetBass]

Thomas Dolby played synth on Foreigner's 4 album. This may have been previously posted, but I don't recall. This is page 100 of this thread after all!

 

[roccobass]

Bob Dylan said on his school yearbook that his ultimate dream was being in Little Richard’s band.

 

[5StringBlues]

Thomas Dolby played synth on Foreigner's 4 album. This may have been previously posted, but I don't recall. This is page 100 of this thread after all!

Also on Def Leppard's Hysteria and Pyromania.

 

[MonetBass]

Also on Def Leppard's Hysteria and Pyromania.

Must be uncredited because I don't see that anywhere, either in the liner notes or on Allmusic.com.

 

[5StringBlues]

Must be uncredited because I don't see that anywhere, either in the liner notes or on Allmusic.com.

"Booker T. Boffin"



Good article here:

Thomas Dolby on Working With David Bowie, Eddie Van Halen, Def Leppard and Foreigner: Exclusive Interview

 

[MonetBass]

"Booker T. Boffin"

Good article here:

Thomas Dolby on Working With David Bowie, Eddie Van Halen, Def Leppard and Foreigner: Exclusive Interview

Hahaha! Nice. Thanks for the link!

 

[IMMusicRulz]

Years before he joined Jefferson Starship, Mickey Thomas was a session singer in San Francisco in the early seventies and actually sang lead vocals on the studio version of Fooled Around and Fell In Love by Elvin Bishop

 

[Polish Thunder]

Years before he joined Jefferson Starship, Mickey Thomas was a session singer in San Francisco in the early seventies and actually sang lead vocals on the studio version of Fooled Around and Fell In Love by Elvin Bishop

Mickey also performed with Elvin Bishop when Elvin was on The Midnight Special.

 

[roccobass]

Sally Kellerman R.I.P
The original Hot Lips in the MASH movie. She also dated Grand Funk’s Mark Farner who wrote “Sally” for her.

Sally Kellerman, Hot Lips Houlihan in ‘M*A*S*H’, Dead at 84

 

[Bob_Ross]

Mickey also performed with Elvin Bishop when Elvin was on The Midnight Special.

And I'm pretty sure that's Donny Baldwin on drums in that video, who joined Mickey again to play with Starship.
Any idea who the girl singer is? I could almost convince my self that's Ellen Foley, but I'm probably way off base.