Unusual Rock Trivia?

[Indiedog]

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.]

Exactly. I did this dance a number of years ago when I wanted larger sizes than the 6/8/10/12 set that I have had for decades. I too discovered that Remo gave up the ghost on them. I purchased the 16” from Steve Weiss. Unfortunately, people either sell used 18” roto toms for insane prices or worse, only include in their full groups, also for crazy prices.

The smaller ones are great, but starting at 16, they become simply magical. And that 18 is a thunder machine. I can still hear Billy Buford doing those amazing rolls back when he was in UK and then his solo tours after that.

You and I can keep the dream alive, Bob…one day we will get our 18’s.

(In the meantime, check out the DW pancake gong drum. It is not a roto Tom but it does make a lovely noise. )

 

[IMMusicRulz]

The background singers on Hip To Be Square by Huey Lewis and the News are none other than the members of the San Francisco 49ers.

Don't ask me how I know this.

 

[SubHuman]

Edwards Hand was a musical group formed by Welshman Rod Edwards (keyboards and vocals) and Englishman Roger Hand (acoustic guitar and vocals In 1969.

Edwards Hand released an eponymous album produced by George Martin who, taking a break from working on The Beatles' White Album, described their music as "exceptional".

Previously known as Picadilly Line the featured musicians were Edwards and Hand along with Alan Hawkshaw (keyboards), Herbie Flowers (bass) and Harold McNair (flute).

Herbie Flowers most famous bass line is the one he created for Lou Reed's "Walk on the Wild Side" from the album Transformer (1972), the only song by Reed to reach the Top 20 in the US.

Their final album, Rainshine, was again produced by Martin in 1971 but, rejected by the band's RCA Victor label.

Here's one of their songs Produced by George Martin:

 

[marchone]

It reminds me of MacArthur Park.

 

[IMMusicRulz]

After The White Stripes split up in 2008, Meg White retired from music and eventually married Jackson Smith, the son of Patti Smith in 2009. They eventually divorced in 2013.

 

[IMMusicRulz]

George Harrison often credited himself as Carl Harrison on some of his earliest Beatles compositions. Part of the reason why George did this was as a tribute to rockabilly guitarist and singer Carl Perkins, who was a profound influence on the Beatles. (The Beatles once covered Carl Perkins’ Matchbox.)

 

[RedVee]

George Harrison often credited himself as Carl Harrison on some of his earliest Beatles compositions. Part of the reason why George did this was as a tribute to rockabilly guitarist and singer Carl Perkins, who was a profound influence on the Beatles. (The Beatles once covered Carl Perkins’ Matchbox.)

And…???
Everybody’s trying to be my baby &
Honey Don’t

 

[roccobass]

• When they were all attending Bard
  College in the late '60s, Chevy Chase was a drummer in one of Steely Dan’s Fagen and Becker's early bands.

 

[IMMusicRulz]

After Mark Evans quit AC/DC in early 1977, Manfred Mann’s Earth Band bassist Colin Pattenden was briefly recruited to play bass before Cliff Williams was eventually contracted.

 

[IMMusicRulz]

Manfred Mann was born in South Africa. He eventually moved to England in the early Sixties to avoid the apartheid movement going on in South Africa.

 

[Skokiaan]

George Harrison often credited himself as Carl Harrison on some of his earliest Beatles compositions. Part of the reason why George did this was as a tribute to rockabilly guitarist and singer Carl Perkins, who was a profound influence on the Beatles. (The Beatles once covered Carl Perkins’ Matchbox.)

He used Carl Harrison as a pseudonym on a single pre-fame tour of Scotland - but never in songwriting credits.

On that tour McCartney was "Paul Ramone," which years later was the inspiration for The Ramones.

 

[Eli_Kyiv]

Peter Frampton taught Billy Cruddup how to play the guitar in preparation for the concert scenes in "Almost Famous" (2000), although ultimately Pearl Jam guitarist Mike McCready provided the guitar track for Stillwater's songs. The band Stillwater's songs were written by Frampton (who also had a small part in the film), the film's writer/director Cameron Crowe, and his ex-wife Nancy Wilson of the rock band Heart (at the age of 18, Crowe wrote the liner notes to the "Frampton Comes Alive!" album).
The music acknowledgments credit Russell Hammond (Cruddup's character) and Stillwater as if they were real authors and performers.
To look like a real rock band, the four actors in Stillwater rehearsed for four hours a night, five nights a week, for six weeks.
Crowe revealed on "Here's the Thing with Alec Baldwin" that after Brad Pitt dropped out of the movie, the casting of Hammond came down to Christian Bale and Crudup with the latter ultimately getting the role.
Happy Birthday, Billy Cruddup!
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[RichardW]

Michael Linsay-Hogg, who filmed and directed the original "Let It Be" movie with the Beatles, is the illegitimate son of actor Orson Welles.

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[roccobass]

Regarding the origin of the Doobie Brothers name….

• The band's name, suggested by a friend (apparently as a joke), was taken from a slang term for a marijuana joint. "Doobie" was a popular word in California culture.
  
  
• When doing press for straight-laced radio stations and publications, they came up with a handy response to the inevitable question, "How did you get your name?" They said it came from the children's TV series Romper Room, which had a character called Do-Bee (a bee).

 

[Richland123]

"American Girl" was the last song performed live in concert by Tom Petty and the Heartbreakers. They played it to close out the encore of their performance on September 25, 2017, at the Hollywood Bowl in Los Angeles, California, the final concert of their 40th Anniversary Tour. Petty died October 2, just over a week later. The song prior to "American Girl" for the encore was "You Wreck Me".

Interestingly, while "American Girl" is one of the group's most well known songs, it did not chart in the U.S. when it was first released in 1977 but was an FM rock radio hit. It was reissued in 1994 and did not do well on the charts but was on the band's Greatest Hits album. The song reached #9 on the digital chart in 2017 after Tom's passing.

 

[SubHuman]

In 1994, a nearly-destitute David Crosby had a life-saving liver transplant paid for by Phil Collins. There was some controversy over whether David Crosby was given celebrity treatment in receiving his transplant ahead of others since he was a recovering drug addict with Hepatitis C.

 

[Jeff K]

In 1994, a nearly-destitute David Crosby had a life-saving liver transplant paid for by Phil Collins. There was some controversy over whether David Crosby was given celebrity treatment in receiving his transplant ahead of others since he was a recovering drug addict with Hepatitis C.

At the time of Crosby's liver transplant, he and Graham Nash were still good friends. Reportedly, Nash was at Crosby's side just prior to the transplant procedure. Nash, encouraging Crosby to make sure he pulls through, supposedly told him, "Don't you ####ing leave me here alone with Stills!!"

 

[IMMusicRulz]

The members of Blues Traveler once guest starred on an entire episode of Roseanne. I don't remember the entire story, but I believe John Popper plays this old classmate of Dan's who winds up becoming this famous blues singer.
The members of Blues Traveler would resurface alongside John Goodman in a scene in Blues Brothers 2000 a few years later.

 

[SubHuman]

The hilarious prank George Harrison pulled on Phil Collins
George Harrison went out of his way to pay a whole band to spend a day in the studio with him just so he could pull a joke on Phil Collins. His commitment to this prank shows precisely the character that Harrison was and provides a beautiful snapshot into what he was like behind the curtain.

Collins was in his former band Flaming Youth and wouldn’t audition to join Genesis until later on in the same year. Speaking to Classic Rock, Collins recalled about how the opportunity to collaborate with Harrison came about: “Our manager got a call from Ringo Starr’s chauffeur, who said they needed a percussionist, and he suggested me. So I went down to Abbey Road, and Harrison was there and Ringo and Billy Preston and Klaus Voormann and Phil Spector, and we started routing the song,” Collins stated.

The seed for his prank on the Genesis drummer began back in 1970 when Collins was a teenage session musician who grew up in absolute awe of everything Beatles related. The chance to work with Harrison was one that he couldn’t quite believe. Even though he was a nervous wreck, this opportunity was potentially a life-changing one, and Collins grasped it with both hands.

Harrison was recording his debut solo album; All Things Must Pass.

Collins continued: “No one told me what to play, and every time they started the song, Phil Spector would say, ‘Let’s hear guitar and drums,’ or ‘Let’s hear bass and drums.’ I’m not a conga player, so my hands are starting to bleed. And I’m cadging cigarettes off Ringo – I don’t even smoke, I just felt nervous. Anyway, after about two hours of this, Phil Spector says, ‘Okay congas, you play this time.’ And I’d had my mic off, so everybody laughed, but my hands were shot.

“After that they all disappeared – someone said they were watching TV or something – and I was told I could go. A few months later, I buy the album from my local record shop, look at the sleeve notes, and I’m not there. And I’m thinking, ‘There must be some mistake!’ But it’s a different version of the song, and I’m not on it,” he added.
Although, Collins missed out on getting to say that he played on All Things Must Pass, the dedication to the cause that Harrison showed in making those tapes more than makes up for getting cut from the album.

Read the whole story here:

The hilarious prank George Harrison pulled on Phil Collins

 

[Jeff K]

The hilarious prank George Harrison pulled on Phil Collins
George Harrison went out of his way to pay a whole band to spend a day in the studio with him just so he could pull a joke on Phil Collins. His commitment to this prank shows precisely the character that Harrison was and provides a beautiful snapshot into what he was like behind the curtain.

Collins was in his former band Flaming Youth and wouldn’t audition to join Genesis until later on in the same year. Speaking to Classic Rock, Collins recalled about how the opportunity to collaborate with Harrison came about: “Our manager got a call from Ringo Starr’s chauffeur, who said they needed a percussionist, and he suggested me. So I went down to Abbey Road, and Harrison was there and Ringo and Billy Preston and Klaus Voormann and Phil Spector, and we started routing the song,” Collins stated.

The seed for his prank on the Genesis drummer began back in 1970 when Collins was a teenage session musician who grew up in absolute awe of everything Beatles related. The chance to work with Harrison was one that he couldn’t quite believe. Even though he was a nervous wreck, this opportunity was potentially a life-changing one, and Collins grasped it with both hands.

Harrison was recording his debut solo album; All Things Must Pass.

Collins continued: “No one told me what to play, and every time they started the song, Phil Spector would say, ‘Let’s hear guitar and drums,’ or ‘Let’s hear bass and drums.’ I’m not a conga player, so my hands are starting to bleed. And I’m cadging cigarettes off Ringo – I don’t even smoke, I just felt nervous. Anyway, after about two hours of this, Phil Spector says, ‘Okay congas, you play this time.’ And I’d had my mic off, so everybody laughed, but my hands were shot.

“After that they all disappeared – someone said they were watching TV or something – and I was told I could go. A few months later, I buy the album from my local record shop, look at the sleeve notes, and I’m not there. And I’m thinking, ‘There must be some mistake!’ But it’s a different version of the song, and I’m not on it,” he added.
Although, Collins missed out on getting to say that he played on All Things Must Pass, the dedication to the cause that Harrison showed in making those tapes more than makes up for getting cut from the album.

Read the whole story here:

The hilarious prank George Harrison pulled on Phil Collins

I guess it wasn't all bad. Maybe that incident was the "genesis" for the lyrics, "...There must be some misunderstanding. Oh, there must be some kind of mistake..."