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Before he eventually married (and played guitar for) Pat Benatar, Neil Giraldo briefly dated actress Linda Blair (the actress from The Exorcist) in the early Seventies.
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Unusual Rock Trivia?
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Neil Young's father Scott was a journalist and sportswriter who worked for a Toronto news agency during the 1940s, and was later a star columnist at Canada's most prestigious daily, The Globe and Mail. Neil wrote of his dad in his 2012 memoir Waging Heavy Peace, "It turns out he taught me everything I need to know. He said 'Just write every day, and you'll be surprised what comes out.'"
Emilio Castillo of Tower of Power showing gratitude to Huey Lewis in an interview.
Huey asked me to go on tour when he hit it big with the Sports album. He called me up and said, "This record is going to the moon. We've got the money, we're wondering if we can hire your horn section to on the road with us."
I'd love to do it, but my main thing in life is Tower of Power the band, not the horn section. We were at a low point in our career, we were not doing well. We didn't have a record deal, we were definitely at a low ebb in the cycle. I told him, "If you promise me that you'll promote my band at every turn, every interview, every way possible, I will do the tour. And also, I want you to bring the band out to certain key cities to do midnight shows at the local nightclub, and I want you to promise me that you guys will come and sit in. Because then it will be a scene."
He was true to his word. He mentioned us in every interview, called us by name several times during the show, and he did a couple of Tower of Power songs in the show every night. Then after the show was done he would always say, "We're all going down to..." Let's say, Toad's Place in New Haven. "Tower of Power's playing a midnight show and we're going to go jam with them."
We'd go play and it would be packed because everybody wanted to see Huey Lewis, and they'd come up and jam with us. We did that in several cities. That really sort of regenerated our career.
Huey asked me to go on tour when he hit it big with the Sports album. He called me up and said, "This record is going to the moon. We've got the money, we're wondering if we can hire your horn section to on the road with us."
I'd love to do it, but my main thing in life is Tower of Power the band, not the horn section. We were at a low point in our career, we were not doing well. We didn't have a record deal, we were definitely at a low ebb in the cycle. I told him, "If you promise me that you'll promote my band at every turn, every interview, every way possible, I will do the tour. And also, I want you to bring the band out to certain key cities to do midnight shows at the local nightclub, and I want you to promise me that you guys will come and sit in. Because then it will be a scene."
He was true to his word. He mentioned us in every interview, called us by name several times during the show, and he did a couple of Tower of Power songs in the show every night. Then after the show was done he would always say, "We're all going down to..." Let's say, Toad's Place in New Haven. "Tower of Power's playing a midnight show and we're going to go jam with them."
We'd go play and it would be packed because everybody wanted to see Huey Lewis, and they'd come up and jam with us. We did that in several cities. That really sort of regenerated our career.
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Juliette Lewis once played in a rock band with Patty Schemel, the drummer for Hole.
Did the 2 bands ever play together as Licks Hole? Ha! Sorry couldn’t resist!
Um…Linda Blair dated pretty much EVERYBODY. LOL.
When Renaissance played my high school in 1975 or so, she commandeered most of the first row for her entourage.
So, would you say that was The Blair Witch Project?
One of Ritchie Blackmore's previous bands prior to Deep Purple, was called the Roman Empire, which performed wearing gladiator outfits.
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Kid Rock once appeared alongside Guy Fieri on an entire episode of Diners Drive Ins and Dives.
Just so I'm clear: Renaissance played your high school and Linda Blair commandeered most of the first row for her entourage?
What's the connection between Blair and your high school? For that matter, what's the connection between Renaissance and your high school? Or was that simply the only available venue with a decent auditorium?
I think it was simply a good auditorium; it easily held the 800 or so students in assemblies, so I bet seating was set for about 1000 people.
To this day I am still stunned that my chemistry teacher, a Irish Catholic Brother, was able to book a few shows back then at our New Rochelle, NY high school. Livingston Taylor wasn’t too surprising to book since he was just getting started, but landing Renaissance was pretty huge (part of the deal was renting a 9’ Steinway). It doesn’t show up on the somewhat patchy on-line gig lists, but it was a hell of a show. I assume that they simply had a few open dates that he took advantage of.
As far as Ms. Blair, she lived in the area and I guess was a budding Progressive fan. Or maybe it was just a way to show off her clout by springing for a bunch of tickets and insisting they were front row. I think she meant to be noticed because I knew nothing until I showed up for the show. Everyone was talking about her.
I don’t think he made much money for the school, or maybe the Head of the school just didn’t like being in the concert biz, because I don’t think he did but one other show after that.
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Collective Soul named the band after a concept from the classic novel The Fountainheadby Ayn Rand.
According to the Rolling Stone Encyclopedia of Rock & Roll, Tommy Boyce and Bobby Hart wrote more than 300 songs, and sold more than 42 million records as a partnership.
Their partnership made a breakthrough with a song recorded by Chubby Checker, "Lazy Elsie Molly", in 1964. They went on to write hits for Jay & the Americans ("Come a Little Bit Closer"), Paul Revere and the Raiders ("(I'm Not Your) Steppin' Stone"), and The Leaves ("Words"). The latter two songs provided the Monkees with hit B-sides in 1967.
The duo also wrote the theme song of the daytime soap Days of Our Lives. At one point in this period, Hart also co-wrote "Hurt So Bad" for Little Anthony & the Imperials with Teddy Randazzo and his regular songwriting partner, Bobby Weinstein. Boyce co-wrote the song "Hello Pretty Girl", which was a minor hit for singer Ronnie Dove, with Wes Farrell. Boyce also co-wrote the hit "Peaches 'N' Cream" by the Ikettes.
Boyce and Hart wrote, produced and recorded (accompanied by their backing band The Candy Store Prophets) the backing tracks for a large portion of the first season of The Monkees and their accompanying debut album.
During the late 1970s Tommy Boyce moved to England, where he continued his success as a writer/producer. He made a dynamic impact in the UK music world producing such artists as Iggy Pop and Meat Loaf.
Their partnership made a breakthrough with a song recorded by Chubby Checker, "Lazy Elsie Molly", in 1964. They went on to write hits for Jay & the Americans ("Come a Little Bit Closer"), Paul Revere and the Raiders ("(I'm Not Your) Steppin' Stone"), and The Leaves ("Words"). The latter two songs provided the Monkees with hit B-sides in 1967.
The duo also wrote the theme song of the daytime soap Days of Our Lives. At one point in this period, Hart also co-wrote "Hurt So Bad" for Little Anthony & the Imperials with Teddy Randazzo and his regular songwriting partner, Bobby Weinstein. Boyce co-wrote the song "Hello Pretty Girl", which was a minor hit for singer Ronnie Dove, with Wes Farrell. Boyce also co-wrote the hit "Peaches 'N' Cream" by the Ikettes.
Boyce and Hart wrote, produced and recorded (accompanied by their backing band The Candy Store Prophets) the backing tracks for a large portion of the first season of The Monkees and their accompanying debut album.
During the late 1970s Tommy Boyce moved to England, where he continued his success as a writer/producer. He made a dynamic impact in the UK music world producing such artists as Iggy Pop and Meat Loaf.
You forgot their one big hit on their own, a very cool tune, with a great Osborn/Blaine rhythm section performance…
That album cover always cracked me up.
Although Wishbone Ash did not originate the duel lead guitar sound, they were one of the first, and certainly the most influential. It was Wishbone Ash that led Phil Lynott to use two lead guitarists with Thin Lizzy. Although they have produced some fine studio albums, Ash are a band that have to be seen live; nowadays some excellent footage can be found on YouTube and similar sites.
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Whilst John Frusciante played a 62 Strat on the original recording of Under The Bridge, the music video shows him miming with a 62 Fender Jaguar.
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