And his brother Ray (Gentle Giant's bass player extraordinaire) went on to produce The Sugarcubes' major label debut album Life's Too Good ...which introduced the world to the vocal stylings of Björk.
Ah what a tangled web we weave...
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Unusual Rock Trivia?
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And his brother Ray (Gentle Giant's bass player extraordinaire) went on to produce The Sugarcubes' major label debut album Life's Too Good ...which introduced the world to the vocal stylings of Björk.
Ah what a tangled web we weave...
Ha! Since we have local totally unknown and nonsense rock trivia is that - actually - Chip Taylor tried out my Klein electric guitar PLUS a newly bought Bad Cat amp with cowhide dressing, back in 2007 when he visited the music shop I used to work in. He had a gig in town and dropped by in the afternoon. We - of course - knew who he was, so he couldn't escape. He was just shaking his head, and giggled a bit at the gear, and wondered *** that Klein was all about.
I don't know what these trivias are called. When someone no-no bumps into a world famous guy, or musicians in off-kilter or everyday situations. In Sweden we have these "admiration of inane merits" called "I met Lassie". Stems from someone who's families dog actually played the lead role as LASSIE in those Lassie films of the 60s. So, the merit is of "I met someone who had this dog, or this or that". Don't know if there's an english meme, or proverb for that particular instance of unusual rock nonsense trivia.
Yes, but my stance was before that even, but that documentary confirms it, big time and then some ten times over. Deep sixes any mitigating demeanor he may have. Mostly through interviews with Bruce who himself had some kind of bi-polarity. However, most things between those two where drug infused anyway, and that's not only weed or alcohol.
Is this a Beatles reunion track?
This Harrison track, "Dehradun,"was written in India in 1968 at the Maharishi Mahesh Yogi's retreat,
where of course much of "The White Album" was penned.
This song has never been officially released, although George plays a bit of the song on ukulele during the Beatles
garden jam toward the end of The Beatles Anthology Documentary.
The version presented is said to have been recorded in 1970 during the sessions for George's first proper solo album,
All Things Must Pass (1970). However, the comment below (which I culled from the Youtube comments) makes a compelling argument that the track was actually recorded with the aid of Paul and Ringo only after George had revived it for the documentary.
I'm all ears to see who knows the skinny on this.
Here's the Youtube "Beatles Reunion" theory (not mine) for your consideration, Beatle People:
I read the link and listened to the recording. It is the same recording I heard a couple of years after the Anthology stuff was released. In the video you mentioned above, George states that he wrote the song while in India but had never recorded it "to this day". His voice on the recording sounds like it sounded on his recordings from the mid 90's and NOT like his singing from the 60's, and the reverb sound and overall clarity and lack of analog equipment "warmth" also lead me to firmly believe that the recording in question was done after the conversation with Paul and Ringo that we saw in the Anthology documentary. I believe it is Paul on bass and I'm 99% sure Ringo is on drums, because it is his style of drumming. George must be the acoustic guitarist and the only singer on the track. About 2 years before this particular track mysteriously and anonymously appeared on the internet, I had found the same track, but with only George's vocal and his acoustic guitar, and NOTHING ELSE. A couple years later, the completed track appeared on the net, again anonymously and without any accompanying information. I believe Paul and Ringo completed the basic accompanying tracks and released it into the wild, as Paul has done with so many Beatles tracks from the vaults. To sum up, I do not believe any of this track was recorded earlier than the Anthology reunion, as George said he had never recorded it "to this day". Paul and Ringo remembered the track because no doubt they had heard George playing it back in 67 in India. Any speculation about this track being recorded in the 60's is unmerited speculation, in my humble opinion. What you are hearing is George, Paul and Ringo, without any taped participation from John.
This Harrison track, "Dehradun,"was written in India in 1968 at the Maharishi Mahesh Yogi's retreat,
where of course much of "The White Album" was penned.
This song has never been officially released, although George plays a bit of the song on ukulele during the Beatles
garden jam toward the end of The Beatles Anthology Documentary.
The version presented is said to have been recorded in 1970 during the sessions for George's first proper solo album,
All Things Must Pass (1970). However, the comment below (which I culled from the Youtube comments) makes a compelling argument that the track was actually recorded with the aid of Paul and Ringo only after George had revived it for the documentary.
I'm all ears to see who knows the skinny on this.
Here's the Youtube "Beatles Reunion" theory (not mine) for your consideration, Beatle People:
I read the link and listened to the recording. It is the same recording I heard a couple of years after the Anthology stuff was released. In the video you mentioned above, George states that he wrote the song while in India but had never recorded it "to this day". His voice on the recording sounds like it sounded on his recordings from the mid 90's and NOT like his singing from the 60's, and the reverb sound and overall clarity and lack of analog equipment "warmth" also lead me to firmly believe that the recording in question was done after the conversation with Paul and Ringo that we saw in the Anthology documentary. I believe it is Paul on bass and I'm 99% sure Ringo is on drums, because it is his style of drumming. George must be the acoustic guitarist and the only singer on the track. About 2 years before this particular track mysteriously and anonymously appeared on the internet, I had found the same track, but with only George's vocal and his acoustic guitar, and NOTHING ELSE. A couple years later, the completed track appeared on the net, again anonymously and without any accompanying information. I believe Paul and Ringo completed the basic accompanying tracks and released it into the wild, as Paul has done with so many Beatles tracks from the vaults. To sum up, I do not believe any of this track was recorded earlier than the Anthology reunion, as George said he had never recorded it "to this day". Paul and Ringo remembered the track because no doubt they had heard George playing it back in 67 in India. Any speculation about this track being recorded in the 60's is unmerited speculation, in my humble opinion. What you are hearing is George, Paul and Ringo, without any taped participation from John.
Anyone remembers Canadian prog-poppers/rockers KLAATU being allegedly Beatles under pseudonym? By the press, not them. The DID sounded like them in their more psychedelic/symphonic latter days.
I remember the moment quite well, and while it wasn't exactly "Paul Is Dead," I also recall fans pointing to corroborating clues, such as this promo badge from Ringo's "Goodnight Vienna" LP.
Bought the first album. Didn't
care for it. I still have it. Its only been played 2 or 3 times.
I just tried to find any sort of quote that says George never recorded this song, and I couldn't. Instead, I found lots of sources that said this was recorded for "All Things Must Pass" but not included. Whoever said this was recorded in the 90's is full of crap. Nothing at all about that recording sounds like 90's. That totally sounds like it was recorded in 1970. Doubtful it's the Beatles, though. Unfortunately, musicians weren't given individual credits for each song. But it's known that members of Clapton's band, Badfinger, and friends like Klaus Voorman and Gary Wright played on the sessions, and Phil Spector is said to have played a lot of the basic tracks, too. The bass on that sounds like something Klaus would play, but who knows?
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Still on the subject of the Fabs: Here is first music recorded together by John and Paul after The Beatles broke up.
The jam took place at Burbank Studios in Burbank, CA on March 28, 1974, Macca and Linda dropping in on John's session with Jesse Ed Davis and Bobby Keys (John was producing Harry Nilsson's 'Pussy Cats' album).
Also present at the session is Stevie Wonder. Lennon can be heard to ask him as the tape begins: "You want a snort, Steve? A toot? It's goin' around." It's that sort of druggy, ramshackle jam, and frankly makes it difficult to envision just why everyone was slavering for a Beatles reunion. But in any case, John and Paul can be clearly heard here harmonizing (or at least trying to).
more info on the jam:
The History of John Lennon and Paul McCartney's Only Post-Beatles Session
The jam took place at Burbank Studios in Burbank, CA on March 28, 1974, Macca and Linda dropping in on John's session with Jesse Ed Davis and Bobby Keys (John was producing Harry Nilsson's 'Pussy Cats' album).
Also present at the session is Stevie Wonder. Lennon can be heard to ask him as the tape begins: "You want a snort, Steve? A toot? It's goin' around." It's that sort of druggy, ramshackle jam, and frankly makes it difficult to envision just why everyone was slavering for a Beatles reunion. But in any case, John and Paul can be clearly heard here harmonizing (or at least trying to).
more info on the jam:
The History of John Lennon and Paul McCartney's Only Post-Beatles Session
Always fun to hear rock stars play just as badly at jam sessions as you get at any backyard barbecue in Florida 
Always fun to hear rock stars play just as badly at jam sessions as you get at any backyard barbecue in Florida
Right? "Hey, I can do that!"
Actually replace "Bruce" with "Bond": I'm pretty sure Jack had been sacked and re-sacked at knifepoint by that time, and those bass notes are just Graham's feet. The song was written by Baker, who reportedly used the royalties to buy a car. The bass-guitar-less Graham Bond Organisation line-up was here and occasionally augmented with Nigerian trumpeter Mike Falana, who'd played with the three others and Bruce in the John Burch Octet before their joining Korner (yes, in my first post on the thread, quod whoever may have missed it videat, I'd forgot to mention Dick was also a member of Blues, Inc.).
Speaking of Nigeria and Ginger Baker, he moved there for six years, opened a recording studio and collaborated with Fela Kuti, and when Paul McCartney flew there to record Band on the Run (an interesting adventure unto itself, I'm told) one of the tracks was laid down at Baker's.
Speaking of Macca and Wings, not far from sir Paul's Scottish retreat in the Kintyre peninsula lies the tiny and private Sanda Island, which was owned by Jack Bruce for some time!
À propos of Jack, I'd also forgot to add he (on bass but especially vocals) and John McLaughlin also played together in Carla Bley's jazz opera Escalator Over the Hill, itself another Who's Who of musicians of disparate provenances: the less-jazzy side included Paul Jones, another Korner alumnus but most of all of Manfred Mann fame (and thus another former bandmate of Bruce, who'd played and sang background vocals on "Pretty Flamingo" before being replaced by Klaus Voormann, already mentioned upthread), a young Linda Ronstadt, and Mothers of Invention keyboard player Don Preston.
(Speaking of Zappa, little need to mention Bruce playing on "Apostrophe’" with Jim Gordon here I guess?)
Speaking of Carla Bley, what does a free jazz pianist have in common with former (John Mayall and) Stones' guitarist Mick Taylor and the Knack drummer Bruce Gary? Why, they all played in the Jack Bruce Band in the mid-Seventies!
A different and earlier band, Jack Bruce & Friends, featured Larry Coryell and Mitch Mitchell, famously drummer for Jimi Hendrix, and before that an employee of Georgie Fame's (he also may or may not have been the drummer Keith Moon claimed to be better than when he auditioned for the Who!), as were in different times (in the former's case obviously) Jon Hiseman and John McLaughlin as mentioned.
Speaking of John, it was through Graham Bond, a sort of Aleister Crowley fanatic, that McLaughlin became interested in the study of the occult, Eastern religion and philosophy - at the time he joined the London Theosophical Society with Big Jim Sullivan (who in turn later on took up the sitar).
Now, the above is mostly (private islands and Nigerian trips excepted maybe) Kevin Bacon stuff and only interesting for fans of the scene; it's there mainly to reiterate that I could seriously go on for days on end with this stuff!
I'm a fan myself!
Mick and the Stones were the most prominent of Alexis Korner's protégés; as for Sting, some time after realising I could hear some Jack Bruce in Sumner's compositions (in the way both would spice up otherwise straight pop chord progressions with unespected little twists), I came into two bits of info that confirmed me in my guess: in an interview I read Sting put Jack's first published solo album, Songs for a Tailor, in his 10 desert island albums, and browsing through his autobiography I found out he saw Bruce perform with the Graham Bond Organisation in Newcastle in his early teens/ OH MY GOSH SOMEONE PUT ME DOWN ALREADY.
And sigged (but allow me a tiny edit), thanks!
Oh, boy, the mixing and the matching: Music and Love does promote much promiscuity
The song "To Know Him Is To Love Him" was written by Phil Spector and recorded when he was a member of the group, The Teddy Bears. It reached #1 in the U.S. for 3 weeks in 1958. The song title was inspired by words on his father's tombstone, "To Know Him Was To Love Him."
I once worked with the gal who sings that...she goes by the name Carol Connors now, and she is one of the nuttiest people I have ever worked with...in a good way
I once worked with the gal who sings that...she goes by the name Carol Connors now, and she is one of the nuttiest people I have ever worked with...in a good way
I just looked up Carol Connors and found that she is quite a songwriter. Among her many credits are co-writer for such hits as "Gonna Fly Now" (with Ayn Robbins and Bill Conti), the theme song from the film Rocky, The Rip Cords "Hey Little Cobra" (with Marshall H, Connors), The Billy Preston/Syreeta Wright duet "With You I'm Born Again" (with David Shire), and many other songs.
Now, that sure is some unusual music trivia.
Yep, she had us play "Gonna Fly Now" as she came out...in her beautiful beaded evening gown and a pair of boxing gloves
I'd consider this both rock related and trivial;15 year old Mick Jagger and his rock climbing shoes. I've seen the full version of this somewhere, but couldn't find it again.
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Joe Walsh and Ringo Starr are brothers-in-law. They are married to the Bach sisters.
British singer Tony Burrows sang the lead vocals on several hit songs under different group names, Edison Lighthouse "Love Grows Where My Rosemary Goes"; White Plains "My Baby Loves Lovin'"; The Pipkins "Gimme Dat Ding"; First Class "Beach Baby" and The Brotherhood Of Man "United We Stand".
Before they became 10cc, Hotlegs was a short-lived English band best known for its hit single "Neanderthal Man" in 1970. The band consisted of Eric Stewart, Kevin Godley, Lol Crème, and – briefly – Graham Gouldman. In 1972, the band was relaunched as 10cc.
