From their website: BIO — Three Dog Night
The band’s now-famous name refers to native Australian hunters in the outback who huddled with their dogs for warmth on cold nights; the coldest being a “three dog night”.
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From their website: BIO — Three Dog Night
The band’s now-famous name refers to native Australian hunters in the outback who huddled with their dogs for warmth on cold nights; the coldest being a “three dog night”.
Lol! I already had their website saved to my favorites. This was the easiest reach for me.
Lol! I already had their website saved to my favorites. This was the easiest reach for me.
Low hanging fruit or not. I didn't want to type it all out. I've been spending most of my day/energy on Twitter, today.
Steve Vai explains how he accessed his dark side to play Jack Butler
“There was a time in my life when I was very willing and able to project a very dark aura. I discovered that it was having a detrimental effect on my mental and physical health and I actually spiraled into a black hole. Fortunately for me I was able to claw my way out after several years.
“During the filming of Crossroads, I allowed that aura to permeate me once again. It was difficult because it’s easy to be sucked back into that way of thinking and behaving again. The music was more or less secondary to the attitude. I don’t usually go to that particular place very much anymore. You become what you create, and in those early days I was creating a lot of dark stuff.”
Steve Vai reflects on his role in Crossroads: “The guitar duel was energetic and well laid out – kids responded to that”
“There was a time in my life when I was very willing and able to project a very dark aura. I discovered that it was having a detrimental effect on my mental and physical health and I actually spiraled into a black hole. Fortunately for me I was able to claw my way out after several years.
“During the filming of Crossroads, I allowed that aura to permeate me once again. It was difficult because it’s easy to be sucked back into that way of thinking and behaving again. The music was more or less secondary to the attitude. I don’t usually go to that particular place very much anymore. You become what you create, and in those early days I was creating a lot of dark stuff.”
Steve Vai reflects on his role in Crossroads: “The guitar duel was energetic and well laid out – kids responded to that”
Bob Eubanks, host of the popular 60’s Newlywed TV game show, started out as a Radio DJ in the 50’s.
During the 1960s, he was also the first producer of the Beatles in their 1964 and 1965 Hollywood Bowl concerts and the Rolling Stones concerts during the first two years of their American tour.
While still living in Los Angeles, he also produced such artists as Barry Manilow, The Supremes, Dolly Parton, Bob Dylan, Elton John, and Merle Haggard, among others.
During the 1960s, he was also the first producer of the Beatles in their 1964 and 1965 Hollywood Bowl concerts and the Rolling Stones concerts during the first two years of their American tour.
While still living in Los Angeles, he also produced such artists as Barry Manilow, The Supremes, Dolly Parton, Bob Dylan, Elton John, and Merle Haggard, among others.
Likeable British physicist, TV presenter and general polymath Prof Brian Cox was in the UK band Dare in the late 1980s
Dare (band) - Wikipedia
Dare (band) - Wikipedia
If you delve into Elton John's history, it is gospel that his first gig in North America was at the Troubadour in L.A in 1970. This however is incorrect. He actually did a 5 night stand at the 250 seat University of Waterloo (Ontario, Canada) student pub as a warm up before going to L.A. See the link below explaining this. The local promoter was a student named Joe Recchia who ended up bringing many huge acts through my town including Led Zep (!!), Jethro Tull, ELP, Black Sabbath etc. Most of them played at the University or occasionally at the local hockey rink before making it big.
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More local trivia- when the Guess Who came through town, they played at a local curling rink (now a hardware store) - between songs Randy Bachman was changing a broken string when he started noodling around and riffing- the crowd of kids responded so the band started jamming and on the spot came up with the classic song "American Woman".
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More local trivia- when the Guess Who came through town, they played at a local curling rink (now a hardware store) - between songs Randy Bachman was changing a broken string when he started noodling around and riffing- the crowd of kids responded so the band started jamming and on the spot came up with the classic song "American Woman".
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Wait...is Michael Stanley really Elon Musk?!
If I had that kind of money, d'ya think I'd be talking about basses or buying oodles of 'em?
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Alice Cooper is the godfather of Dave Mustaine.
Whilst Gavin Rossdale is known as the lead singer and only constant member of Bush, as well as the first husband of Gwen Stefani, he also pursued an acting career, once having guest starred on an episode of Criminal Minds.
Dave Grohl once visited Lemmy's apartment and said it smelled really bad.
Whilst Gavin Rossdale is known as the lead singer and only constant member of Bush, as well as the first husband of Gwen Stefani, he also pursued an acting career, once having guest starred on an episode of Criminal Minds.
Dave Grohl once visited Lemmy's apartment and said it smelled really bad.
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This does not surprise me even a little.
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Wink Martindale (Winston Conrad "Wink" Martindale) was a TV game show host and radio personality for decades and he was also a recording act. This record was a million + selling pop hit.
In 1963, on the cusp of conquering the world, the Beatles did a short music video with 16 year old British pop star Helen Shapiro.
George mockingly slaps her around the 1:35 minute mark then pretends to beg for her forgiveness.
Paul was supposedly in another studio.
George mockingly slaps her around the 1:35 minute mark then pretends to beg for her forgiveness.
Paul was supposedly in another studio.
The actor playing the pizza guy who delivers to Spicoli during Mr. Hand’s class in Fast Times at Ridgemont High is the late Taylor Negron, who was Chuck’s cousin.
Cynthia Robinson- (Sly & the Family Stone) in an interview on how she acquired her first trumpet.
It belonged to a local beatnik, who told her she could have it if she played at one of his parties. “It smelled bad, it had all kinds of green crud inside the tubing, so I took it home, cleaned it, soaked it in hot water, cleaned it all out, and it was mine,” !
It belonged to a local beatnik, who told her she could have it if she played at one of his parties. “It smelled bad, it had all kinds of green crud inside the tubing, so I took it home, cleaned it, soaked it in hot water, cleaned it all out, and it was mine,” !
David Bowie was rejected by Apple Records.
In 1968, Bowie’s career was still firmly in its infancy. He was only 21-years-old, but after releasing his debut single as a teenage starlet four years prior, his career never accelerated in the way he envisaged. His self-titled album arrived on Decca Records in 1967, but Bowie sounded like an artist who was unsure of his creative identity and sounded lost.
Every single released on the record flopped, as did the album. Rather than maintaining a belief in Bowie, Decca Records decided to throw him to the wayside and released him from his record deal. Getting dropped was a make or break moment for Bowie. He could have easily given up hope on becoming an artist and settled for a life in the real world, but that wasn’t Bowie.
The trials and tribulations of his stop-start career didn’t affect Bowie’s determination to succeed. In fact, it only enhanced his hunger to become a superstar, but he still needed a label to get his message out there. The dream factory in Bowie’s eyes, and the place which would turn all his aspirations into a possibility, was Apple Records.
The Beatles had been the hottest property on the planet for years before Apple Records became the label that every young artist in London wanted to be on. The association with The Fab Four would have immediately got eyeballs adjusted firmly on a young Bowie, and he was well aware of what a successful launch with the Liverpudlians label could mean.
Bowie’s then-manager, Kenneth Pitt, recalled in his memoirs that he had reservations about the label, and if it weren’t for his artist’s desires, he wouldn’t have even considered Apple. Pitt went on to label them a “deplorable organisation” who showed “sheer amateurism and downright rudeness that confronted us during the next three months, the time it took Apple to give us a decision.”
Apple appointed Peter Asher as their Head of A&R during this time, and communications somehow worsened further. Pitt even said in his biography, “It now seemed to me that his only qualification for joining Apple was that his sister was the actress Jane Asher, girl-friend of Paul McCartney.”
Pitt continued: “It took me some considerable time to make contact with him, but when I did he told me that the label was not interested in David. I asked me if he would let me have a letter to that effect and on July 15 he wrote: ‘As we told you on the phone, Apple Records is not interested in signing David Bowie. The reason is that we don’t feel he’s what we’re looking for at the moment. Thank you for your time.’ Peter Asher couldn’t spare any of his own time to personally sign the terse letter, his name being inscribed by a secretary whose initials were CO,” he damningly wrote.
The Beatles were almost certainly too busy to check every record that flooded their offices, and Apple Records was far from the well-oiled machine that it should have been, considering it was home to the biggest band in the world. In truth, for the most part, it operated as a place for The Beatles to put their money and records through — a Fab Four laundry service.
These setbacks could have made Bowie doubt his abilities, but in the end, it would be Apple Records who would rue a missed opportunity. The following year, Bowie would make a name for himself with his second album, and by 1973 he was the most recognisable pop star on the planet.
In 1974, Bowie would meet John Lennon as an equal. A few months after they met, the two artists would enter the studio together, and the result would see the formation of ‘Fame’, a song that is arguably one of the finest moments of Bowie’s esteemed career. Lennon co-wrote the song with Bowie and Carlos Alomar and John also played guitar and sang backup vocals.
It wasn’t just Lennon who Bowie built up a relationship with from The Fab Four. He and Paul McCartney also grew close over the years. After he died in 2016, Macca shared this heartfelt message: “David was a great star, and I treasure the moments we had together. His music played a very strong part in British musical history, and I’m proud to think of the huge influence he has had on people all around the world.”
Life could have turned out different for Bowie if he did get signed for Apple Records, and it’s likely that his career would never have prospered in the spectacular way it did. As cringe-inducing as it sounds, things work out for the best in the end, and without this heartache, Bowie wouldn’t have evolved into the artist he became.
In 1968, Bowie’s career was still firmly in its infancy. He was only 21-years-old, but after releasing his debut single as a teenage starlet four years prior, his career never accelerated in the way he envisaged. His self-titled album arrived on Decca Records in 1967, but Bowie sounded like an artist who was unsure of his creative identity and sounded lost.
Every single released on the record flopped, as did the album. Rather than maintaining a belief in Bowie, Decca Records decided to throw him to the wayside and released him from his record deal. Getting dropped was a make or break moment for Bowie. He could have easily given up hope on becoming an artist and settled for a life in the real world, but that wasn’t Bowie.
The trials and tribulations of his stop-start career didn’t affect Bowie’s determination to succeed. In fact, it only enhanced his hunger to become a superstar, but he still needed a label to get his message out there. The dream factory in Bowie’s eyes, and the place which would turn all his aspirations into a possibility, was Apple Records.
The Beatles had been the hottest property on the planet for years before Apple Records became the label that every young artist in London wanted to be on. The association with The Fab Four would have immediately got eyeballs adjusted firmly on a young Bowie, and he was well aware of what a successful launch with the Liverpudlians label could mean.
Bowie’s then-manager, Kenneth Pitt, recalled in his memoirs that he had reservations about the label, and if it weren’t for his artist’s desires, he wouldn’t have even considered Apple. Pitt went on to label them a “deplorable organisation” who showed “sheer amateurism and downright rudeness that confronted us during the next three months, the time it took Apple to give us a decision.”
Apple appointed Peter Asher as their Head of A&R during this time, and communications somehow worsened further. Pitt even said in his biography, “It now seemed to me that his only qualification for joining Apple was that his sister was the actress Jane Asher, girl-friend of Paul McCartney.”
Pitt continued: “It took me some considerable time to make contact with him, but when I did he told me that the label was not interested in David. I asked me if he would let me have a letter to that effect and on July 15 he wrote: ‘As we told you on the phone, Apple Records is not interested in signing David Bowie. The reason is that we don’t feel he’s what we’re looking for at the moment. Thank you for your time.’ Peter Asher couldn’t spare any of his own time to personally sign the terse letter, his name being inscribed by a secretary whose initials were CO,” he damningly wrote.
The Beatles were almost certainly too busy to check every record that flooded their offices, and Apple Records was far from the well-oiled machine that it should have been, considering it was home to the biggest band in the world. In truth, for the most part, it operated as a place for The Beatles to put their money and records through — a Fab Four laundry service.
These setbacks could have made Bowie doubt his abilities, but in the end, it would be Apple Records who would rue a missed opportunity. The following year, Bowie would make a name for himself with his second album, and by 1973 he was the most recognisable pop star on the planet.
In 1974, Bowie would meet John Lennon as an equal. A few months after they met, the two artists would enter the studio together, and the result would see the formation of ‘Fame’, a song that is arguably one of the finest moments of Bowie’s esteemed career. Lennon co-wrote the song with Bowie and Carlos Alomar and John also played guitar and sang backup vocals.
It wasn’t just Lennon who Bowie built up a relationship with from The Fab Four. He and Paul McCartney also grew close over the years. After he died in 2016, Macca shared this heartfelt message: “David was a great star, and I treasure the moments we had together. His music played a very strong part in British musical history, and I’m proud to think of the huge influence he has had on people all around the world.”
Life could have turned out different for Bowie if he did get signed for Apple Records, and it’s likely that his career would never have prospered in the spectacular way it did. As cringe-inducing as it sounds, things work out for the best in the end, and without this heartache, Bowie wouldn’t have evolved into the artist he became.
Why did David Bowie change his name…twice?
David Bowie was in fact born David Robert Jones on January 8, 1947, a fairly unremarkable name for a young man from Brixton.
However, there was another singer who was already in the public eye who had a similar name – Davy Jones of The Monkees.
Before he got to David Bowie, he didn’t want to lose the Jones bit of his name.
So he changed his name and started recording as an artist under the name Tom Jones.
Coincidentally, it was the name of an emerging Welsh musician whose then hit ‘It’s Not So Usual’ made him one of the more popular singers on the British Isles.
So David Robert Jones changed his name to David Bowie.
Despite often being suggested that the singer took his name from the hunting knife, in his book America in the British Imagination: 1945 to the Present, John Lyons wrote: “In 1965, David Jones adopted the name David Bowie in homage to Jim Bowie.” Jim Bowie was a Texan rebel at the Alamo.
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David Bowie was in fact born David Robert Jones on January 8, 1947, a fairly unremarkable name for a young man from Brixton.
However, there was another singer who was already in the public eye who had a similar name – Davy Jones of The Monkees.
Before he got to David Bowie, he didn’t want to lose the Jones bit of his name.
So he changed his name and started recording as an artist under the name Tom Jones.
Coincidentally, it was the name of an emerging Welsh musician whose then hit ‘It’s Not So Usual’ made him one of the more popular singers on the British Isles.
So David Robert Jones changed his name to David Bowie.
Despite often being suggested that the singer took his name from the hunting knife, in his book America in the British Imagination: 1945 to the Present, John Lyons wrote: “In 1965, David Jones adopted the name David Bowie in homage to Jim Bowie.” Jim Bowie was a Texan rebel at the Alamo.
https://cdn.images.express.co.uk/im...-AKA-David-Bowie-2592609.webp?r=1596091393342
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Geezer Butler’s real first name is Terry, and Ozzy Osbourne’s real first name is John.
