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Unusual Rock Trivia?
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Hated those salad bowl guitars. Always trying to jump out of your lap.Must have been an Ovation with that curved back.
Bachman-Turner Overdrive’s 1974 album “Not Fragile” featured the Randy Bachman penned hit, “You Ain’t Seen Nothin’ Yet.” While in the studio, Bachman jokingly recorded a track of him stammering the song’s main line, “You ain’t seen nothin’ yet,” to poke fun at his brother Gary, who had a stammer. While the band never intended to use the track on the album, the record company heard it and insisted, and the song became the band’s only #1 hit.
Add to that….at the end of WW II, a US Army Intelligence officer, Jack Mullin, while investigating secret Nazi technology, discovered a sound recording process on magnetic tape(developed by the German BASF company) that was far superior to wire recording or shellac discs. He somehow privately brought back machines and tape to the US, and sought to partner with the Ampex company, which only manufactured precision electric motors at that point. At a product demonstration in California, he attracted the attention of multi-media singing star Bing Crosby, who got involved with the company. Crosby then in turn gifted the second model of a multitrack recorder(developed originally for film audio)to his friend and guitarist, Les Paul…
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The amount of information you have readily available in your brain sometimes makes me think you are 200 years old or that you have lived several 30 year lifetimes and retained your consciousness across them... or you have hyperthymesia.
You contribute so much interesting feedback in thread after thread after thread.
Thanks…I used to do this kind of stuff for a living, so to speak…25 years in record wholesale and retail, you learn all sorts of trivia(plus just being fascinated by all of it). In addition, I had to know more about music I couldn’t care less about than the casual fans of such. Then I ended up in a joint where we had to contend with customers like this…
But yeah, I am 200 years old, don’t tell anyone. I’ve just had some work done.
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That robot's face looks a lot like Robin Williams...what movie is that pic from?
Supertramp’s album came out in 1979 and featured its mega-hit “The Logical Song,” which won an Ivor Novello award for best song musically and lyrically. While the song was based on Supertramp singer and keyboardist Roger Hodgson’s own life and penned by him, and he spent two weeks in the studio working on the final version, there was also a part of the song that was unplanned, the result of a happy accident. Someone in the studio was playing a Mattel electronic football game and as Hodgson recollects, “We’d hear that sound over and over, coming from the other room. I think, at some point, we decided: Why don’t we put the sound on it? And it worked. We were always looking to create new sounds,” which is how the distinctive stutter of “D-D-D-D-digital” came about.
Former Gong bassist Mike Howlett started a new band in 1977 called Strontium 90 with three other members. They recorded some demos and played a few gigs. The three others continued to work together and found great success. You might have heard of them: The Police. Sting, Stewart Copeland and Andy Summers.
In 1973, Lennon hired Spector to helm a record of rock ‘n’ roll cover songs. Spector routinely arrived late to the studio, high on amyl nitrate, wearing elaborate costumes (one night a surgeon, the next a karate expert) with an ever-present pistol tucked in a hip holster. One night, for a prank, Spector fired the gun in the control room, inches from the former Beatle’s ear. An enraged Lennon yelled, “Phil, if you’re going to kill me, kill me. But don’t f**k with my ears. I need 'em.” Another time, Spector pulled his gun and chased Lennon through the hallways of the studio, screaming threats.
When Spector later disappeared with the master tapes, Lennon’s label Capitol Records had to buy them back for $90,000. The Rock ‘n’ Roll album, which Lennon called “jinxed,” finally came out in 1975. Lennon later said of Spector, “I’m fond of his work a lot. His personality I’m not crazy about.”
When Spector later disappeared with the master tapes, Lennon’s label Capitol Records had to buy them back for $90,000. The Rock ‘n’ Roll album, which Lennon called “jinxed,” finally came out in 1975. Lennon later said of Spector, “I’m fond of his work a lot. His personality I’m not crazy about.”
I’ve always been fascinated with this story. It was part of an overall race with the Soviets to gather post war technology and personnel.
Who knows what would of happened if they had gotten to Werner Von Braun first. Bing Crosby loved the idea of being able to pre record his show at his leisure. It gave him more time to golf!
Spector pulled that crap with the Ramones, who at one session wanted to call it a day. He pulled out his piece, and they were like, “Just go ahead, try it, we’re outta here”. Nothing happened.
Steve Howe appears on the cover of YES’ 2nd lp, yet did not play on it
Regarding the the recording of Tom Petty’s Hard Promises album.
About midway through recording, producer Jimmy Iovine called up John Lennon, whom he had worked with on previous records. Upon hearing where the Heartbreakers were recording, Lennon got in touch with Iovine again and told him that he planned to come and visit the group in the studio and maybe help them out on a few tracks.
This meeting of rock gods was not to be, as Lennon was killed in December of 1980, just before he was set to book a flight to LA. Still reeling from the grief, Petty decided to press the first copies of the record with a sentimental twist to immortalize his idol. For those fans who bought the first copies of the record, there is a visible etching in the vinyl that says proudly "We Love You JL," putting Lennon at the center of one of the band's greatest albums.
About midway through recording, producer Jimmy Iovine called up John Lennon, whom he had worked with on previous records. Upon hearing where the Heartbreakers were recording, Lennon got in touch with Iovine again and told him that he planned to come and visit the group in the studio and maybe help them out on a few tracks.
This meeting of rock gods was not to be, as Lennon was killed in December of 1980, just before he was set to book a flight to LA. Still reeling from the grief, Petty decided to press the first copies of the record with a sentimental twist to immortalize his idol. For those fans who bought the first copies of the record, there is a visible etching in the vinyl that says proudly "We Love You JL," putting Lennon at the center of one of the band's greatest albums.
"Blinded by the Light" is a song written and recorded by Bruce Springsteen, a song which first appeared on his 1973 debut album Greetings from Asbury Park, N.J. A cover by British rock band Manfred Mann's Earth Band reached number one on the Billboard Hot 100 in the United States in February 1977 and was also a top ten hit in the United Kingdom, New Zealand, and Canada.
Manfred Mann's Earth Band released a version of the song on their 1976 album The Roaring Silence. Their version includes the "Chopsticks" melody played on piano near the end of the bridge of the song. The track reached No. 1 on both the Billboard Hot 100 and the Canadian RPM charts. Manfred Mann's Earth Band's recording of "Blinded by the Light" is Springsteen's only No. 1 single as a songwriter on the Hot 100.
Manfred Mann on Midnight Special VHS version.
Manfred Mann's Earth Band released a version of the song on their 1976 album The Roaring Silence. Their version includes the "Chopsticks" melody played on piano near the end of the bridge of the song. The track reached No. 1 on both the Billboard Hot 100 and the Canadian RPM charts. Manfred Mann's Earth Band's recording of "Blinded by the Light" is Springsteen's only No. 1 single as a songwriter on the Hot 100.
Manfred Mann on Midnight Special VHS version.
They do a similar version of Springsteen’s For You also.
