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Unusual Rock Trivia?
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From a 2012 NPR article. What a journey for one instrument.
Peter Frampton sold millions of records with the help of a customized Gibson guitar. Three decades ago, that guitar was destroyed in a plane crash ... or so he thought.
That guitar — a shiny black Les Paul with an added pickup — was Frampton's signature instrument.
In 1980, while Frampton was on tour in South America, the guitar was put on a cargo plane in Venezuela, en route to Panama. The plane crashed right after takeoff.
"Basically I'm thinking, 'It's gone,'" Frampton recalls. "But the thing is, I'm also sitting in a restaurant where I can see the pilot's wife. She's waiting in the hotel for her husband, who, unfortunately, didn't make it. So we were all overcome, because people lost their lives as well as our complete stage of gear."
What Frampton didn't know is that the guitar had survived, albeit with some bumps and bruises. It fell into the hands of a musician on the Caribbean island of Curaçao, who owned it for many years before a local guitar collector spotted it and contacted Frampton. After some negotiation, the guitar was returned to Frampton last month.
"It's sort of a matte black now — it's not shiny so much anymore. The binding needs a little bit of work on the neck; the electronics need replacing," Frampton says. He adds, though, that he'll limit repairs on the instrument to "whatever needs to be replaced on it to make it just playable. But it must retain its battle scars."
Frampton says he knows his diehard fans will be clamoring to see him play the unique guitar again, and he's more than happy to comply.
"Oh, it's got to go on the road,"
Peter Frampton sold millions of records with the help of a customized Gibson guitar. Three decades ago, that guitar was destroyed in a plane crash ... or so he thought.
That guitar — a shiny black Les Paul with an added pickup — was Frampton's signature instrument.
In 1980, while Frampton was on tour in South America, the guitar was put on a cargo plane in Venezuela, en route to Panama. The plane crashed right after takeoff.
"Basically I'm thinking, 'It's gone,'" Frampton recalls. "But the thing is, I'm also sitting in a restaurant where I can see the pilot's wife. She's waiting in the hotel for her husband, who, unfortunately, didn't make it. So we were all overcome, because people lost their lives as well as our complete stage of gear."
What Frampton didn't know is that the guitar had survived, albeit with some bumps and bruises. It fell into the hands of a musician on the Caribbean island of Curaçao, who owned it for many years before a local guitar collector spotted it and contacted Frampton. After some negotiation, the guitar was returned to Frampton last month.
"It's sort of a matte black now — it's not shiny so much anymore. The binding needs a little bit of work on the neck; the electronics need replacing," Frampton says. He adds, though, that he'll limit repairs on the instrument to "whatever needs to be replaced on it to make it just playable. But it must retain its battle scars."
Frampton says he knows his diehard fans will be clamoring to see him play the unique guitar again, and he's more than happy to comply.
"Oh, it's got to go on the road,"
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Great Story! I personally don’t own any artificially aged guitars or basses. Most of mine are genuinely aged because they’re old like me Ha! But I agree with Frampton…”limit repairs on the instrument to whatever needs to be replaced on it to make it just playable. But it must retain its battle scars”.From a 2012 NPR article. What a journey for one instrument.
Peter Frampton sold millions of records with the help of a customized Gibson guitar. Three decades ago, that guitar was destroyed in a plane crash ... or so he thought.
That guitar — a shiny black Les Paul with an added pickup — was Frampton's signature instrument.
In 1980, while Frampton was on tour in South America, the guitar was put on a cargo plane in Venezuela, en route to Panama. The plane crashed right after takeoff.
"Basically I'm thinking, 'It's gone,'" Frampton recalls. "But the thing is, I'm also sitting in a restaurant where I can see the pilot's wife. She's waiting in the hotel for her husband, who, unfortunately, didn't make it. So we were all overcome, because people lost their lives as well as our complete stage of gear."
What Frampton didn't know is that the guitar had survived, albeit with some bumps and bruises. It fell into the hands of a musician on the Caribbean island of Curaçao, who owned it for many years before a local guitar collector spotted it and contacted Frampton. After some negotiation, the guitar was returned to Frampton last month.
"It's sort of a matte black now — it's not shiny so much anymore. The binding needs a little bit of work on the neck; the electronics need replacing," Frampton says. He adds, though, that he'll limit repairs on the instrument to "whatever needs to be replaced on it to make it just playable. But it must retain its battle scars."
Frampton says he knows his diehard fans will be clamoring to see him play the unique guitar again, and he's more than happy to comply.
"Oh, it's got to go on the road,"
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From a 2012 NPR article. What a journey for one instrument.
Peter Frampton sold millions of records with the help of a customized Gibson guitar. Three decades ago, that guitar was destroyed in a plane crash ... or so he thought.
That guitar — a shiny black Les Paul with an added pickup — was Frampton's signature instrument.
In 1980, while Frampton was on tour in South America, the guitar was put on a cargo plane in Venezuela, en route to Panama. The plane crashed right after takeoff.
"Basically I'm thinking, 'It's gone,'" Frampton recalls. "But the thing is, I'm also sitting in a restaurant where I can see the pilot's wife. She's waiting in the hotel for her husband, who, unfortunately, didn't make it. So we were all overcome, because people lost their lives as well as our complete stage of gear."
What Frampton didn't know is that the guitar had survived, albeit with some bumps and bruises. It fell into the hands of a musician on the Caribbean island of Curaçao, who owned it for many years before a local guitar collector spotted it and contacted Frampton. After some negotiation, the guitar was returned to Frampton last month.
"It's sort of a matte black now — it's not shiny so much anymore. The binding needs a little bit of work on the neck; the electronics need replacing," Frampton says. He adds, though, that he'll limit repairs on the instrument to "whatever needs to be replaced on it to make it just playable. But it must retain its battle scars."
Frampton says he knows his diehard fans will be clamoring to see him play the unique guitar again, and he's more than happy to comply.
"Oh, it's got to go on the road,"
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Before seeing an episode of Family Guy and having it explained to me by an American I had never heard of Frampton. I am from the UK. He's largely unknown here.
Oops, yes. I know it very well, I was just too eager to mention the physical item in Swindon. Which is a phrase never before written in English.
I have been on it, although by accident when coming back from a music festival, having taken a detour to Abingdon - I wasn't expecting my route to take me over it. It's potentially on your route back from Glastonbury, depending on which way you go. The roundabout is moderately terrifying, so the lyrics do ring true, although the lyrics are about more generic existential angst, not just about Swindon.
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One of the backup vocals on Evil Woman by ELO is Ellie Greenwich, a legendary songwriter who wrote such songs as Da Doo Ron Ron and Leader of the Pack.
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Bev Bevan, the drummer for the Electric Light Orchestra, also briefly played drums for Black Sabbath in the eighties.
Paul Revere and the Raiders performed a skit/song with Jack Benny on his variety show in 1967.
Frank Bello of Anthrax is drummer Charlie Benante's uncle, even though he's 3 years younger.
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Before he joined AC/DC as their bassist in 1977, Cliff Williams actually played bass in a band called Home, which also included Wishbone Ash guitarist Laurie Wisefield.
Dominique by The Singing Nun
The Singing Nun 1963 track from former Dominican nun Jeannine Deckers is known as the only Belgian track to hit #1 on the American Billboard charts.
Imagine trying to release this as a Pop song today!
Just to add a twist to the story:
Owing to confusion over the terms of the recording contract, she was reduced to poverty, and also experienced a crisis of faith, quitting the order, though still remaining a Catholic. She died by suicide with her lifelong partner, Annie Pécher.
You read all the time how recording execs rip off their clients but ripping off a Nun? New lows!
The Singing Nun 1963 track from former Dominican nun Jeannine Deckers is known as the only Belgian track to hit #1 on the American Billboard charts.
Imagine trying to release this as a Pop song today!
Just to add a twist to the story:
Owing to confusion over the terms of the recording contract, she was reduced to poverty, and also experienced a crisis of faith, quitting the order, though still remaining a Catholic. She died by suicide with her lifelong partner, Annie Pécher.
You read all the time how recording execs rip off their clients but ripping off a Nun? New lows!
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Regarding BTO’s -
You Ain’t Seen Nothin’ Yet…
You Ain’t Seen Nothin’ Yet…
- Randy Bachman produced the Not Fragile album and used this song to test dynamics in the studio, since the guitars would go from quiet to loud.
When the band recorded it, they didn't think it would be released, so they didn't bother perfecting it - or even tuning their instruments. Bachman's vocal was considered a scratch track. This became Bachman's "work song" for testing.
The band only played it for their label after the boss at Mercury, Charlie Fach, heard the eight songs they completed and didn't hear a hit. The engineer suggested playing him the "work song," and Bachman reluctantly agreed.
When Fach heard the song, he loved it, warts and all. In a Link Removed, he explained: "Charlie said, 'I want to put this on the album.' And I said, 'I need to remix it.' And he said, 'Don't touch it. Put it on the way it is. When you play this with the other songs, it just jumps off the turntable.'"
It went to No#1 in the US as well as several other countries.
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I read last week or so that the stutter was a joke to make fun of his brother?
I only just recently discovered that Remo no longer makes large Rototoms; they only make 6 inch, 8 inch, and 10 inch nowadays.
[edit: However, someone hipped me to this Invalid Link Removed that makes 12 inch, 14 inch, and 16 inch Rototom clones, so my desire to one day own a circa-1980 Bruford/Bozzio drum kit may still be possible!
But still no 18 inch, bummer.]
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Talk about creating a stage persona and band name from a real name. Paul Revere Dick (January 7, 1938 – October 4, 2014) was the leader, keyboardist, and (by dropping his last name to create the stage name), namesake of Paul Revere & The Raiders along with their look wearing Revolutionary War soldier outfits. The band became notable for a long string of hit songs from the early 1960s to the early 1970s.
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