Paul Weller (Jam, Style Council) maintains that one of the many factors contributing to the greatness of Small Faces is the fact that they were all of the same (modest) height -- around 5' 5".
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Unusual Rock Trivia?
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Paul Weller (Jam, Style Council) maintains that one of the many factors contributing to the greatness of Small Faces is the fact that they were all of the same (modest) height -- around 5' 5".
I had a V4B 2-15 cabinet that I bought from a pawn shop. It had "Small Faces" in white spay paint (stenciled) on it. Didn't think much of it when I bought it. It may have been authentic or not, but that cabinet shook the earth. That was the early 80's.
Could have been authentic, since they did attempt a reunion from 75-78 with Rick Willis on bass instead of Ronnie Lane.
Gale Anderson, daughter of Ian Anderson, is married to Andrew Lincoln (Rick from Walking Dead).
Isn't Paul Simon married to Edie Brickell?
She's doing tours with Steve Martin!
She's doing tours with Steve Martin!
In Aussie land, Midnight Oil (Beds Are Burning) lead singer Peter Garrett turned politician (and successfully at that) ended up Minister Of the Environment a couple of years ago. As well as minister for School Education, in their labour party. Under the Rudd goverment. He has since come to his senses, and reforms Midnight Oil to tour in 2017.
Belive it or not, in the same land, former schock rocker of Australia (a mix between Iggy* Pop and Wayne County) *Ignatius Jones fronted the band "Jimmy and the Boyz", ended up doing (as in directing and producing) not only the Sydney 2000 Olympic Games opening and closing ceremonies, but also the New Years Eve 1999-2000 festivities and fireworks in Sydney. When I told about this to an aussie expatriate he just deadpanned and said "what !?!? no, no, no, no, not that guy...pleeeze!". I didn't know zot about him, but he sure did, but it went well, and no complaints at all. From bona fide punk shock rocker to bona fide establishment, in one go.
I guess he dressed up for the occasion!
Belive it or not, in the same land, former schock rocker of Australia (a mix between Iggy* Pop and Wayne County) *Ignatius Jones fronted the band "Jimmy and the Boyz", ended up doing (as in directing and producing) not only the Sydney 2000 Olympic Games opening and closing ceremonies, but also the New Years Eve 1999-2000 festivities and fireworks in Sydney. When I told about this to an aussie expatriate he just deadpanned and said "what !?!? no, no, no, no, not that guy...pleeeze!". I didn't know zot about him, but he sure did, but it went well, and no complaints at all. From bona fide punk shock rocker to bona fide establishment, in one go.
I guess he dressed up for the occasion!
This Baxter stuff, I actually knew about, from years back. It fell into oblivion. Intriguing with this spy stuff. Nice to be reminded of it though! Not too many rock musicians ends up in the kind of work that requires "national security" clearance. I do remember the guy that built the first wireless systems in the 70s (was it Nady?) ended up somewhere similar, but that's producing electronic equipment, not really performing as a rocker. He was the only one around then that built something that worked succesfully on stage without interference from other RF.
Eric Boucher aka Jello Biafra, of the Dead Kennedys, ran for mayor of San Francisco in 1979.
campaign slogan:
"There's always room for Jello"
campaign slogan:
"There's always room for Jello"
The MC5 got their first national attention by being the only band to show up and play at the Yippy Festival of Life. They played on a flatbed trailer, using power borrowed from a hot dog vendor. They were still playing when the police arrived to clear the park, and had to quickly tear down and evacuate their gear (and themselves) before things got completely out of hand.
Abby Hoffman threatened a protest at Woodstock if the promoters didn't let him on stage to talk. After taking some acid, he made the poor decision to interrupt the Who's set and attempt to work up the audience over the imprisonment of former MC5 manager (and top Detroit hippy agitator) John Sinclair. Pete Townshend while sympathetic to his cause, was less than amused by his timing.
Bob Seger was one of five guys who were recruited to play percussion, live in the studio, on the MC5 track Skunk (Sonicly Speaking). He just happened to be in the building that day.
After hearing Eric Clapton, and the subsequent revelation that he would never be the world's greatest guitarist, Ian Anderson took an early 60s Tele he bought from Lemmy to a pawn shop and traded it for a mic. On a whim, he used the remaining store credit to buy his first flute.
While Martin Barre was recording the guitar solo for Aqualung, Jimmy Page, who was in the next studio for the initial Led Zeppelin IV sessions, came to the control room to talk to Ian Anderson. He thought about stopping to say hi to Jimmy - he knew him from opening for Zeppelin - but decided to finish the take that ended up on the album.
When Don Airey left his job as invisible keyboard player for Black Sabbath to join Deep Purple, he was replaced by Rick Wakeman's son Adam. Rick has been friends with the band since his session days, when he played on Sabbra Cadabra.
Tony Iommi wasn't actually a member of Jethro Tull when he appeared on TV with them. Even though he hadn't worked out, they didn't have time to find a replacement before the show, so he agreed to do it. Everything but the flute and vocal was canned anyway. Or maybe those were too - I don't really remember now.
Reese Wynans was the original keyboard player for the Allman Brothers Band. After Greg came in, they decided having 2 guitars, 2 drummers, and 2 keyboards was too much, so they let him go.
When he was 17 years old, Neal Schon had to choose between joining Derek and the Dominos or Santana. He later said that Santana asked him first and the band dynamic seemed a lot more stable.
Journey's original drummer was Prairie Prince of The Tubes.
Claude Nobs, AKA Funky Claude from Smoke On The Water, was the promoter behind the Montreaux Jazz Festival, and a volunteer fireman. He's also the announcer at the beginning of the Jethro Tull live album Bursting Out.
I can't figure out for the life of me why my wife says I'm a font of useless knowledge... or why she won't play trivial pursuit with me any more.
Abby Hoffman threatened a protest at Woodstock if the promoters didn't let him on stage to talk. After taking some acid, he made the poor decision to interrupt the Who's set and attempt to work up the audience over the imprisonment of former MC5 manager (and top Detroit hippy agitator) John Sinclair. Pete Townshend while sympathetic to his cause, was less than amused by his timing.
Bob Seger was one of five guys who were recruited to play percussion, live in the studio, on the MC5 track Skunk (Sonicly Speaking). He just happened to be in the building that day.
After hearing Eric Clapton, and the subsequent revelation that he would never be the world's greatest guitarist, Ian Anderson took an early 60s Tele he bought from Lemmy to a pawn shop and traded it for a mic. On a whim, he used the remaining store credit to buy his first flute.
While Martin Barre was recording the guitar solo for Aqualung, Jimmy Page, who was in the next studio for the initial Led Zeppelin IV sessions, came to the control room to talk to Ian Anderson. He thought about stopping to say hi to Jimmy - he knew him from opening for Zeppelin - but decided to finish the take that ended up on the album.
When Don Airey left his job as invisible keyboard player for Black Sabbath to join Deep Purple, he was replaced by Rick Wakeman's son Adam. Rick has been friends with the band since his session days, when he played on Sabbra Cadabra.
Tony Iommi wasn't actually a member of Jethro Tull when he appeared on TV with them. Even though he hadn't worked out, they didn't have time to find a replacement before the show, so he agreed to do it. Everything but the flute and vocal was canned anyway. Or maybe those were too - I don't really remember now.
Reese Wynans was the original keyboard player for the Allman Brothers Band. After Greg came in, they decided having 2 guitars, 2 drummers, and 2 keyboards was too much, so they let him go.
When he was 17 years old, Neal Schon had to choose between joining Derek and the Dominos or Santana. He later said that Santana asked him first and the band dynamic seemed a lot more stable.
Journey's original drummer was Prairie Prince of The Tubes.
Claude Nobs, AKA Funky Claude from Smoke On The Water, was the promoter behind the Montreaux Jazz Festival, and a volunteer fireman. He's also the announcer at the beginning of the Jethro Tull live album Bursting Out.
I can't figure out for the life of me why my wife says I'm a font of useless knowledge... or why she won't play trivial pursuit with me any more.
George Harrison's first proper solo album All Things Must Pass features performances by two prominent yet uncredited musicians.
1. Late in the sessions, Harrison sat with Peter Frampton and overdubbed additional acoustic guitars on many if the album's tracks.
2. Phil Collins, a total unknown, played percussion on a few tracks, though nobody remembers which ones. It was his first tine in a recording studio.
Side note: a teenage Phil Collins appears in the Beatles movie A Hard Day's Night. He's in the audience during the performance scene at the end of the movie.
1. Late in the sessions, Harrison sat with Peter Frampton and overdubbed additional acoustic guitars on many if the album's tracks.
2. Phil Collins, a total unknown, played percussion on a few tracks, though nobody remembers which ones. It was his first tine in a recording studio.
Side note: a teenage Phil Collins appears in the Beatles movie A Hard Day's Night. He's in the audience during the performance scene at the end of the movie.
Joe Walsh had often joked about running for office, announcing a mock U.S. presidential campaign in 1980 and a vice presidential campaign in 1992. Walsh ran for President of the United States in 1980, promising to make "Life's Been Good" the new national anthem if he won, and ran on a platform of "Free Gas For Everyone". Though Walsh was only 33 in 1980 and did not meet the 35-year-old requirement to actually assume the office, he said that he wanted to raise public awareness of the election. In 1992, Walsh ran for vice president with Rev. Goat Carson under the slogan "We Want Our Money Back!"
All good useful stuff. Townsend's comments weren't very much in the spirit of the festival, tho, were they? Lol. Hold up, Pete ... Altamont is coming!
Joe Walsh had often joked about running for office, announcing a mock U.S. presidential campaign in 1980 and a vice presidential campaign in 1992. Walsh ran for President of the United States in 1980, promising to make "Life's Been Good" the new national anthem if he won, and ran on a platform of "Free Gas For Everyone". Though Walsh was only 33 in 1980 and did not meet the 35-year-old requirement to actually assume the office, he said that he wanted to raise public awareness of the election. In 1992, Walsh ran for vice president with Rev. Goat Carson under the slogan "We Want Our Money Back!"
I have pick from the VP run, I can tell you first hand that he was in no shape to hold the office at that time...
Joe Walsh had often joked about running for office, announcing a mock U.S. presidential campaign in 1980 and a vice presidential campaign in 1992. Walsh ran for President of the United States in 1980, promising to make "Life's Been Good" the new national anthem if he won, and ran on a platform of "Free Gas For Everyone". Though Walsh was only 33 in 1980 and did not meet the 35-year-old requirement to actually assume the office, he said that he wanted to raise public awareness of the election. In 1992, Walsh ran for vice president with Rev. Goat Carson under the slogan "We Want Our Money Back!"
In summer of '80 I saw the Eagles with Joe Walsh (along with Heart and the Little River Band) at Giant's Stadium.
It was a memorable show. The two hit wonders LRB were enjoyable with Help is on it's Way and Lonesome Loser.
Heart totally rocked out in a stadium context at the zenith of the their fame and skills and then the Eagles (not a popular band to like these days) went nuts with a nearly 4 hour long show. Allegedly this was the the end of their road and they detested each other due to the massively inflated ego of the late Glenn Frey nearly coming to physical blows with Don Felder. The tensions on stage were invisible to the audience and the band simply killed.
Midway through the show (at break) a PA announcement was made touting Joe Walsh for President and he stuck his head and torso out a press box window about 150 feet above the audience doing his best Richard Nixon pose with both hands touting the peace sign. The place went nuts.....
And in Feb of the same year (1980) I saw Pink Floyd's The Wall at one of the three storied nights at Nassau Coliseum - another band with a broken, ego driven internal battle happening but for the most part invisible to the ticket buyer. Needless to say that was one impactful concert experience.
Lobo (born Roland Kent LaVoie), Gram Parsons, Bobby Braddock, and Jim Stafford grew up and had bands together as teenagers.
Y'all had better sit down for this shocker, but U2's Bono wears lifts!
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Kibble, milkbones, and P Basses. And redheads.
If I didn't know better, I'd think that image of Bono was drawn by a caricature artist
everything about him looks awkward
On Cat Stevens album "Mona Bone Jakon" there's an anonymous song in the middle of it, the fairly filler material like song "Katmandu". In the background you can hear flute playing. By none less than Peter Gabriel.
