Unusual Rock Trivia?

[tangentmusic]

Black Sabbath’s forth album was supposed to be called Snowblind, as a tip of the hat to their gregarious consumption of cocaine during the recording sessions of this self produced LP. The record contains the song of the same name, but the Warners record label wanted no part of that title, so they settled on the not too imaginative Vol 4

 

[GregC]

In 2012, Guns N Roses guitarist Slash started his own film production company, Slasher Films, which specializes in horror films.

Doesn't look like the company did much. One feature-length film and a couple shorts. Last social media post I found was from 2014.

 

[Richland123]

The TV musical sitcom show The Partridge Family was loosely based on the real-life musical family The Cowsills, a popular band in the late 1960s and early 1970s, that included five brothers and one sister ranging in age from 8 to 19 and their mother, Barbara Cowsill.

 

[roccobass]

Ben Vaughn: Rambler 65(1997)
Car culture in rock’n’roll reached its lo-fiapotheosis when American musician and producer Ben Vaughn recorded an entire album inside his vintage Rambler. The mixing board was in the front seat, and the eight-track reel-to-reel was in the back, where Vaughn did most of the singing and playing. No room for an isolation booth? Vaughn was able to fashion one out of the Rambler’s very roomy trunk. The same year as the album’s release, Repo Man director Alex Cox directed a 25-minute rockumentary about its creation.

 

[roccobass]

Chris Hadfield: Space Sessions: Songs From A Tin Can (2015)
Can you moonlight when you’re up by the moon? Yes, you can, as Canadian astronaut Hadfield proved when he took advantage of his position helming the International Space Station to record the first (and so far only) album ever made outside of Earth’s atmosphere. As the title suggests, he recorded a zero-gravity cover version of David Bowie’s “Space Oddity” (a viral video sensation in 2013) alongside a set of all his own, which had rather less gravitas.

 

[RayWithFlats]

Chris Hadfield: Space Sessions: Songs From A Tin Can (2015)
Can you moonlight when you’re up by the moon? Yes, you can, as Canadian astronaut Hadfield proved when he took advantage of his position helming the International Space Station to record the first (and so far only) album ever made outside of Earth’s atmosphere. As the title suggests, he recorded a zero-gravity cover version of David Bowie’s “Space Oddity” (a viral video sensation in 2013) alongside a set of all his own, which had rather less gravitas.

Hope he got everything he needed on the original sessions, “Uh, Chris, we need some overdubs on track 3, you launch in two hours.”

 

[IMMusicRulz]

Although no backing vocalists are credited on the original studio version of Don McLean's 1971 hit American Pie, it has been widely rumoured for years that Carly Simon, James Taylor and Harry Chapin were among the backing vocalists on that track.

 

[IMMusicRulz]

Everybody seems to know the album cover for Sticky Fingers by The Rolling Stones, which was designed by Andy Warhol. However, this cover was deemed too risque in Spain, and replaced with an alternate cover, showing a bunch of black fingers popping out of a can of evil looking liquid called Fowler's Treacle.

The Spanish releases also deleted the track Sister Morphine from the album program, due to its blatant drug references.

 

[Richland123]

The theme song for the TV sitcom show ALF (which stood for Alien Life Form) was actually written by a musician named "Alf" Clausen. Alf Heiberg Clausen (born March 28, 1941) has scored many episodes of The Simpsons including which he was the sole composer between 1990 and 2017. Clausen has scored or orchestrated music for more than 30 films and television shows, including Moonlighting, The Naked Gun, Ferris Bueller's Day Off, and many others.

 

[IMMusicRulz]

The Offspring and Guns N Roses crossed paths in the weirdest way possible. Guns N Roses lead singer Axl Rose filed a cease and desist order against The Offspring in 2003 when it was revealed that The Offspring's forthcoming album would be called Chinese Democrazy (You Snooze, You Lose), a reference to the long-awaited Guns N Roses album Chinese Democracy, which came out in 2008. However, it was an April Fools joke, and Chinese Democrazy eventually became The Offspring's new album, Splinter, which, confusingly, featured GNR Drummer Josh Freese.

 

[GregC]

The Offspring and Guns N Roses crossed paths in the weirdest way possible. Guns N Roses lead singer Axl Rose filed a cease and desist order against The Offspring in 2003 when it was revealed that The Offspring's forthcoming album would be called Chinese Democrazy (You Snooze, You Lose), a reference to the long-awaited Guns N Roses album Chinese Democracy, which came out in 2008. However, it was an April Fools joke, and Chinese Democrazy eventually became The Offspring's new album, Splinter, which, confusingly, featured GNR Drummer Josh Freese.

Hilarious, I didn’t know this! Gawd, that album title was floating out there forrreverrrr.

Now Josh Freese has played drums for everybody. Besides those two bands: Devo, The Replacements, Weezer, Nine Inch Nails, Perfect Circle, Paramore, Sting, etc.

 

[tangentmusic]

Ringo was the oldest Beatle and yet the youngest

 

[SubHuman]

Paul McCartney was flying back to England after spending a few days in America with his girlfriend Jane Asher, and an innocent comment from roadie Mal Evans and a bit of miscommunication flowered into something bigger and more impactful. “On the way back, I was with our roadie Mal Evans, and on the plane he said, ‘Will you pass the salt and pepper?’ I misheard him and said, ‘What? Seargent Pepper?'”
The Beatles song that was a “happy accident”

 

[SubHuman]

A little autotune humor! Ha!

 

[IMMusicRulz]

I honestly didn’t understand why so many Beach Boys fans were critical of Mike Love until I read that his brother, Stephen Love, who briefly managed The Beach Boys, kidnapped a financial adviser to The Beach Boys, beat him and extorted millions of dollars from him.

 

[MonetBass]

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[Richland123]

When David Lee Roth was leaving Van Halen, Eddie asked Patty Smythe of the band Scandal to replace David.

 

[Richland123]

The controversial song Timothy by The Buoys was written by Rupert Holmes, the same guy who did Escape (The Piña Colada Song), Him, and other songs.

 

[IMMusicRulz]

The Beach Boys album Surf's Up was originally going to be titled Landlocked, due to its ecological theme, but was eventually titled Surf's Up after that track was hastily included at the last minute.

 

[roccobass]

Regarding Gordon Lightfoot’s “Wreck of the Edmund Fitzgerald” when it first came out.

Wreck of the Edmund Fitzgerald” was significantly popular on the radio when it was released in 1976. Each verse is so important to the overall song story that radio programmers didn’t cut it short to make time for more advertisements. All seven verses and about 6.5 minutes of the song were played.