Crazy times! I still think about Manson and the murders when I hear Helter Skelter. One of my least favorite Beatle songs.
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Unusual Rock Trivia?
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Ry Cooder's Bop Till You Drop album, released in 1979, was the first digitally recorded major-label album in popular music. Bop Till You Drop was recorded on a digital 32-track machine built by 3M.
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At the closing of Blood Sweat and Tears 2nd album, a sound of footsteps can be heard at the end of the album. They were performed on a set of Poll Parrot shoes worn by Lucy Angle Guercio, the wife of the album’s producer, James William Guercio. Guercio went on to produce albums for The Beach Boys and Chicago throughout the seventies.
The Sleaze, Hollywood Metal Band Faster Pussycat formed in 1985 and they derived their name from the Russ Meyer film Faster, Pussycat! Kill! Kill!
The film Faster, Pussycat! Kill! Kill! is a cult classic but it was a commercial and critical failure upon its initial release in 1965. It has since become widely regarded as an important and influential film.
The Band broke up in 1993 but has re-united several times since. In September 2020, Faster Pussycat posted a picture of themselves in the studio on Facebook, working on what appeared to be new material, pre-Covid. They are currently touring 2022.
The film Faster, Pussycat! Kill! Kill! is a cult classic but it was a commercial and critical failure upon its initial release in 1965. It has since become widely regarded as an important and influential film.
The Band broke up in 1993 but has re-united several times since. In September 2020, Faster Pussycat posted a picture of themselves in the studio on Facebook, working on what appeared to be new material, pre-Covid. They are currently touring 2022.
When Ozzy left Black Sabbath and went solo, he really wanted Gary Moore in his band. Moore was an absolute beast at the time, and live he was second to none. But unfortunately it didn't work out.
That's part of the reason why Randy Rhoads got the gig, after Ozzy had second thoughts about George Lynch.
Here's an excerpt of an interview with bassist Dana Strum:
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"Anyway, I suggested Randy right away as the guitar player, and I was shot down immedietly.
Ozzy wanted to get Gary Moore. I only knew he was some guy from Thin Lizzy. I was blown away when I saw Gary. He was the fastest, most blazing lead guitar player I’ve ever seen.
I knew Randy Rhoads didn’t play like that, but I knew he had something. I never laid off my gut instinct.
Gary Moore and Ozzy didn’t hit it off. They lasted two weeks.
We saw Chris Holmes from W.A.S.P. We saw a guy who sang Jimi Hendrix to Ozzy. We looked at all kinds of guys. Finally, I got Ozzy to agree to listen to Randy."
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That's part of the reason why Randy Rhoads got the gig, after Ozzy had second thoughts about George Lynch.
Here's an excerpt of an interview with bassist Dana Strum:
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"Anyway, I suggested Randy right away as the guitar player, and I was shot down immedietly.
Ozzy wanted to get Gary Moore. I only knew he was some guy from Thin Lizzy. I was blown away when I saw Gary. He was the fastest, most blazing lead guitar player I’ve ever seen.
I knew Randy Rhoads didn’t play like that, but I knew he had something. I never laid off my gut instinct.
Gary Moore and Ozzy didn’t hit it off. They lasted two weeks.
We saw Chris Holmes from W.A.S.P. We saw a guy who sang Jimi Hendrix to Ozzy. We looked at all kinds of guys. Finally, I got Ozzy to agree to listen to Randy."
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Kurt Vonnegut’s 1963 novel Cat’s Cradle includes lyrics to a fictional hymn called The Fifty-third Calypso, from a fictional religion called Bokononism:
Oh, a sleeping drunkard
Up in Central Park,
And a lion-hunter
In the jungle dark,
And a Chinese dentist,
And a British queen—
All fit together
In the same machine.
Nice, nice, very nice;
Nice, nice, very nice;
Nice, nice, very nice—
So many different people
In the same device.
Ten years after the publication of Cat’s Cradle, a California prog-pop-rock band named Ambrosia wrote a song incorporating and expanding on Vonnegut’s “Fifty-third Calypso”, called Nice, Nice, Very Nice (sung with a fake Jamaican accent). The song appeared on Ambrosia’s 1975 debut album (engineered by Alan Parsons) and songwriting credit for Nice, Nice, Very Nice is shared between Vonnegut and the band members (who were fans of his books).
In 1976 Vonnegut wrote a letter to the band: “I was at my daughter’s house last night, and the radio was on. By God if the DJ didn’t play our song, and say it was number ten in New York, and say how good you guys are in general. You can imagine the pleasure that gave me. Luck has played an enormous part in my life. Those who know pop music keep telling me how lucky I am to be tied in with you. And I myself am crazy about our song, of course, but what do I know and why wouldn’t I be? This much I have always known, anyway: Music is the only art that’s really worth a damn. I envy you guys.”
Oh, a sleeping drunkard
Up in Central Park,
And a lion-hunter
In the jungle dark,
And a Chinese dentist,
And a British queen—
All fit together
In the same machine.
Nice, nice, very nice;
Nice, nice, very nice;
Nice, nice, very nice—
So many different people
In the same device.
Ten years after the publication of Cat’s Cradle, a California prog-pop-rock band named Ambrosia wrote a song incorporating and expanding on Vonnegut’s “Fifty-third Calypso”, called Nice, Nice, Very Nice (sung with a fake Jamaican accent). The song appeared on Ambrosia’s 1975 debut album (engineered by Alan Parsons) and songwriting credit for Nice, Nice, Very Nice is shared between Vonnegut and the band members (who were fans of his books).
In 1976 Vonnegut wrote a letter to the band: “I was at my daughter’s house last night, and the radio was on. By God if the DJ didn’t play our song, and say it was number ten in New York, and say how good you guys are in general. You can imagine the pleasure that gave me. Luck has played an enormous part in my life. Those who know pop music keep telling me how lucky I am to be tied in with you. And I myself am crazy about our song, of course, but what do I know and why wouldn’t I be? This much I have always known, anyway: Music is the only art that’s really worth a damn. I envy you guys.”
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It's hard to believe that's the same band who later had hits with "You're The Only Woman (You & I)", "How Much I Feel", and "Biggest Part of Me".
The song "An Old Fashioned Love Song" was written by Paul Williams and originally intended for the Carpenters, who were in the middle of a string of hits including two of Williams' own compositions, "We've Only Just Begun" and "Rainy Days And Mondays". Although this was the first song Williams had written specifically for the Carpenters, Richard Carpenter rejected it, and so Williams recorded his own version of the song in 1971 and also offered the song to Three Dog Night, who also recorded it in 1971 for a big hit. The Carpenters never recorded the song, but did perform it live on television with Carol Burnett a few months later. It was covered by other acts too.
Ambrosia had some good progressive rock songs. I got to see them live on November 24, 1976 opening for Kansas in Johnstown, PA. Ambrosia was great! What a terrific concert with two stellar bands.
Here is a another cool prog song from Ambrosia.
I went to the Cleveland Rock n Roll Hall of Fame today and had a great time with my Family. I saw Randy Rhoad’s guitar and thought about this thread.
Randy was a great guitarist and died way too young!
I watched an interesting documentary on the Carpenters and one thing I had never noticed was Richard Carpenter did not want to be called “the” Carpenters…he thought it was better to be known as Carpenters.
Yes. that is what he wanted. Same as Eagles are not The Eagles.
On the positive side, he is still remembered to this day as one of the greats.
According to a recent interview, the bass intro to the Megadeth song "Peace Sells" was written by vocalist/guitarist/BL Dave Mustaine.
Although I wasn't around then, television screens were small with low resolution. As recently as 15 years ago, I used to watch football games on a 13" portable (color) tv. Can't imagine going back to that now.
I saw Tom Peterson’s (Cheap Trick) 12 string bass at the RnR HoF and it is a monster.
I have an 8 string and I have to practice and build my fretting hand strength up to play it for more then a few songs.
Anyone here play a 12 string bass? Multi-string basses really add to a 3 piece band. That was one sweet axe!
I have an 8 string and I have to practice and build my fretting hand strength up to play it for more then a few songs.
Anyone here play a 12 string bass? Multi-string basses really add to a 3 piece band. That was one sweet axe!
This was ultimately for the best, because if Bowie had been successful with the ballad style he was doing at the time, we may never have gotten Ziggy, etc.
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Three Dog Night vocalist Chuck Negron was once married to the former wife of doors drummer John Densmore.
Does everyone know how "3 Dog Night" got their name so I can just save the fingerwork?
California surf band the Sunrays were organized in 1964 by producer Murry Wilson, following his dismissal as manager of his sons' group, the Beach Boys.
The Sunrays signed to the Tower label and soon issued their debut single, "Outta Gas"; its 1965 follow-up, "I Live for the Sun” was the band's breakthrough hit, reaching the U.S. Top 50. They sound a lot like the Beach Boys and even toured with them as an opening act.
The Sunrays signed to the Tower label and soon issued their debut single, "Outta Gas"; its 1965 follow-up, "I Live for the Sun” was the band's breakthrough hit, reaching the U.S. Top 50. They sound a lot like the Beach Boys and even toured with them as an opening act.
