Unusual Rock Trivia?

[TyBo]

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.

Thanks for that. The lady does look familiar, but I don't reckon it's Ellen Foley. I believe it's Reni Slais, who spent some time working with Mickey Thomas, and toured with Elvin. Two fine singers with real good stage presence.

I remember hearing "Fooled Around ..." on the radio when it came out, announced as being by Elvin Bishop. I thought, "That ain't no Elvin Bishop singing there. Guitar could be him though." Ol' Crabshaw got hisself a big hit!

 

[Rich Fiscus]

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".

I'm pretty sure I posted this many pages back, but Funky Claude was Claude Nobs, the man behind the Montreux Jazz Festival, and the reason rock stars came to town to record. He was also a volunteer fireman. The band remained friends with him for the rest of his life.

 

[tangentmusic]

In 1971, keyboard wizard Rick Wakeman was offered two gigs at once.

Would he be a part of Bowie’s Spiders From Mars?

We know what happened

 

[Polish Thunder]

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.

Per the comments, it is Reni Slais.

 

[IMMusicRulz]

In 1971, keyboard wizard Rick Wakeman was offered two gigs at once.

Would he be a part of Bowie’s Spiders From Mars?

We know what happened

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Rick Wakeman also played keyboards on Sabbath Bloody Sabbath by Black Sabbath

 

[b/o 402]

Also Rick Wakeman playing piano for this mainstream hit:

 

[Richland123]

Morning Has Broken is actually a church hymn written in 1931 by Eleanor Farjeon.

When I was a teenager in the early 1970s, the Cat Steven's version of the song was a hit. I was surprised to see the song on a Sunday morning on the list of hymns to be sung at a Presbyterian church. It was in the hymnal book.

 

[IMMusicRulz]

Alex Pall of the Chainsmokers was classmates in middle school with Alex Soros, the son of billionaire philanthropist George Soros.

 

[Richland123]

Glenn Frey's song, "Party Town" includes Jimmy Buffet, tennis champ John McEnroe, and music manager Irving Azoff among the revelers singing the chorus.

 

[roccobass]

The Doors were the first to advertise a new album on a billboard.

 

[roccobass]

The Rolling Stones became the first Rock group to ever receive royalties from record sales in Russia when Soviet copyright laws were changed in 1975.

 

[tangentmusic]

Deep Purple’s classic Machine Head was recorded in a blocked off corridor of the closed for the season Grand Hotel using The Rolling Stones mobile unit just outside, because “some stupid with a flare gun” burned the venue they were supposed to use to the ground. December 1971.
But you already knew this, right?

 

[GregC]

 

[Michedelic]

How cool was Johnny Cash that he grew up dirt poor, but ended up where he could be ‘annoyed’ that Elizabeth Taylor would send him flowers.

 

[Aussie Player]

The Beatles had a Number 1 hit in 1964 with the Harrison/Lennon composition "Cry for a Shadow".

 

[Skokiaan]

Morning Has Broken is actually a church hymn written in 1931 by Eleanor Farjeon.

When I was a teenager in the early 1970s, the Cat Steven's version of the song was a hit. I was surprised to see the song on a Sunday morning on the list of hymns to be sung at a Presbyterian church. It was in the hymnal book.

The pianist on "Morning Has Broken" was Rick Wakeman. He wrote the music and created the arrangement. His fee was 9 pounds, which he didn't receive until 30 years later.

 

[IMMusicRulz]

Rick Davies of Supertramp once played in a rock band in the sixties that included Gilbert O‘Sullivan. You know, the guy who sang Alone Again Naturally.

 

[SubHuman]

The Beatles had a Number 1 hit in 1964 with the Harrison/Lennon composition "Cry for a Shadow".

Probably a typo…it was released in 1961 from a Tony Sheridan Album. The Beatles were a backing band known as The Beat Boys and it was a tribute to The Shadows. Great Trivia!
Cry For A Shadow | The Beatles

 

[RedVee]

Morning Has Broken is actually a church hymn written in 1931 by Eleanor Farjeon.

When I was a teenager in the early 1970s, the Cat Steven's version of the song was a hit. I was surprised to see the song on a Sunday morning on the list of hymns to be sung at a Presbyterian church. It was in the hymnal book.

Here too in a Catholic Church. There is another hymn nearby that uses the same music as well.

 

[Michedelic]

Probably a typo…it was released in 1961 from a Tony Sheridan Album. The Beatles were a backing band known as The Beat Boys and it was a tribute to The Shadows. Great Trivia!
Cry For A Shadow | The Beatles

Not a typo, it’s stated in that very link you provided that it was released in 1964. Or, it should be noted, RE-released/reissued, as the track sat in the can for over a couple of years and only seeing light of day as a 45 in France in 1963. In ‘64, it was issued as a single in the UK, Germany, and Australia, but I found no verification that it actually went to #1 in Oz. Typical record company hijinks, Polydor Records put it out to tie in with The Beatles’ new-found popularity on EMI. There was a US release of the Sheridan sessions in that time, an album with a green cover on the MGM label(they had a business relationship with Polydor, eventually it all became Polygram Records)that was padded out by tracks from anonymous NYC session players. Beatlesploitation, as it were.
To add to the trivia, the German recordings were produced by Bert Kaempfert, a successful easy listening/MOR big band leader who had a long string of hits, even in the US. He wrote the song “Red Roses For A Blue Lady”, and employed a jazz guitarist turned electric bassist, Ladi Giesler, who had a bright, staccato style similar to Nashville’s Tic-Tac bass sound.