Ted Nugent
I really really want to like this but it's so wrong! L....I....K....E
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Unusual Rock Trivia?
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I really really want to like this but it's so wrong! L....I....K....E
No, not that they used it as a springboard. If Z detected from the get go that they were too unique, like beyond their technical skills in terms of that they wrote their own material it would've stuck out like a sore thumb. I remember Ponty once said in interview if Zappa should gather together his "all-star" band again he said "No, I am too big for him now..." like it was late 80s or something, a few years before he bit the dust. I mean Z bit the dust. McLaughlin wanted to swap out Goodman, because he was no-Goodman. Stated way early in this post. He complained over the other band members "preparation" so to speak, at home alone, and mr Goodman could never ever ramp it up towards messsrs Cobham, McLaughlin, Hammers extreme monster virtuosity. Ponty was more in that vein that they could trade licks at equal speed, if it ever came to that. Z wasn't too fond of Jack Bruce's sole bass track on the Apostrophe album, the title tune. He thought Bruce played solos all of the time during that number. There were no solid holding down...
Same here, just saw him half of the times he was here in Scandinavia, like 3 times of 6-8. Didn't care for all his stuff, but more liked his funny band of the end of 70s, when he had some amusing music and musicians and made mock of things, like Tv-evangelists and so on. He released so much, one couldn't keep up, and hadn't got the right producers nerve to kill his darlings. He just released albums like "shut up and play your guitar" and sequels to that, and it grow old very fast. One couldn't keep up with the pace he released albums. And those "hard" ones with some sort of serious classical music with orchestra I skipped big time. I did like his political "social gadfly" stance though, when it came to those censorship things with "parental advisory" and such things. Now, nuff of this and back to the original script. Nonsens trivia...
I still respect his body of work
but yea, this headline brought tears to my eyes, too >Millions Mourn As Rocker/Activist Ted Nugent, Age 67, Found Alive - National/World News
Does "own encounter" counts? That not can be verified or denied through official media?
In that case, you know the "I met Lassie" thing, I think I used to wear - illegally - Thin Lizzies drummer Brian Downeys bomber jacket way back. I didn't know it at the time, though. When I was about 15, one of my friends sold me a bomber jacket he did thought looked ugly. I'd fancy it. I took it for a misplaced christmas gift, or birthday present he wanted to get rid of, because we had the same size. Very warm in the winter. Bought it for ... like ... 3-4 dollars, brand new. Then a year later on, he revealed to me that while in concert in Lund, with Thin Lizzy, they found a trunk open to their limo that they arrived in. I was NOT at that concert, but a gang of 5-6 people with my friend in "raided" the trunk of material, including this bomber jacket. He said. Allegedly. Now, considering Brian Downeys short stature in that band, compared to tall Phil Lynott, they "decided" it would belong to them/him. No roadies went with the limo, just the band and their manager perhaps... They must've give the limo driver a very very hard roasting for not locking the trunk properly...
I just bought the jacket in "good faith". I did not believe it until I read some interviews years later, that the band didn't have fond memories of that gig, just because something stolen out of the trunk of the limo. One can wonder too, why leave anything inside any car? We musicians knows this...
I didn't care much for Lizzy, but I was like that back then, that if I heard beforehand that he collected this by illicit means, I would've not bought it.
In that case, you know the "I met Lassie" thing, I think I used to wear - illegally - Thin Lizzies drummer Brian Downeys bomber jacket way back. I didn't know it at the time, though. When I was about 15, one of my friends sold me a bomber jacket he did thought looked ugly. I'd fancy it. I took it for a misplaced christmas gift, or birthday present he wanted to get rid of, because we had the same size. Very warm in the winter. Bought it for ... like ... 3-4 dollars, brand new. Then a year later on, he revealed to me that while in concert in Lund, with Thin Lizzy, they found a trunk open to their limo that they arrived in. I was NOT at that concert, but a gang of 5-6 people with my friend in "raided" the trunk of material, including this bomber jacket. He said. Allegedly. Now, considering Brian Downeys short stature in that band, compared to tall Phil Lynott, they "decided" it would belong to them/him. No roadies went with the limo, just the band and their manager perhaps... They must've give the limo driver a very very hard roasting for not locking the trunk properly...
I just bought the jacket in "good faith". I did not believe it until I read some interviews years later, that the band didn't have fond memories of that gig, just because something stolen out of the trunk of the limo. One can wonder too, why leave anything inside any car? We musicians knows this...
I didn't care much for Lizzy, but I was like that back then, that if I heard beforehand that he collected this by illicit means, I would've not bought it.
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Jay Ferguson has had a quite musical career with different things. He had hit songs as a member of the bands Spirit and Jo Jo Gunne as well as solo hits. He has been a soundtrack composer for many movies and TV shows including the theme to the NBC-TV version of The Office and the current soundtrack composer for NCIS: Los Angeles.
Bud Light's "Real Men of Genius" radio ads ("Real American Heroes" prior to 9/11) were sung by Dave Bickler, lead singer for Survivor ("Eye of the Tiger").
Survivor's Jim Peterik was lead singer/guitarist for The Ides of March ("Vehicle").
Survivor's Jim Peterik was lead singer/guitarist for The Ides of March ("Vehicle").
Played on Todd Rundgrens "Runt" album as well.
Also co-wrote "This Diamond Ring" for Gary Lewis And The Playboys. Gary is the son of comedian/actor Jerry Lewis.
Average White Band drummers Robbie McIntosh and Steven Farrone, both came from Brian Augers Oblivion Express.
Leon Russell arranged all of Gary's hit songs, too. Never knew Al Kooper wrote it, though. New one on me. Gary was pretty darn heavyweight for his day. Still puts on a good show, too.
That was posted subsequent to me seeing his death in the news.
I had no idea his daughter was married to The Rock until then.
Jim Peterik is also a very successful songwriter. He has written or co-written many songs for acts such as .38 Special, Lynyrd Skynyrd, Blackhawk, Cheap Trick, Sammy Hagar, Van Zant, Brian Wilson, REO Speedwagon, The Beach Boys, and others.
Just with .38 Special, he has co-written Rockin' In To The Night, Hold On Loosely, Wild Eyed Southern Boys, Fantasy Girl, Hittin' And Runnin', Caught Up In You, Chain Lightnin', and You Keep Runnin' Away
Neil Young's new sound on Rust Never Sleeps was inspired by jamming with Devo. After writing and rehearsing the album with Crazy Horse, he spent a few months making a movie called Human Highway, which included a jam with Devo on Hey Hey, My My (Into The Black). That jam was the genesis of Neil's new over the top, teetering on the edge of noise electric sound.
Neil uses a footswitched device called a Whizzer to turn knobs on his amp to exact positions. The original version, built for Rust Never Sleeps, was analog and had a single motor to move a single knob between 2 positions. The current version adjusts 3 knobs and uses a digital controller to store multiple presets.
Before he found his Les Paul, he played Gretsch guitars because, when he was starting out, that's what his local guitar hero, Randy Bachman, played.
Neil uses a footswitched device called a Whizzer to turn knobs on his amp to exact positions. The original version, built for Rust Never Sleeps, was analog and had a single motor to move a single knob between 2 positions. The current version adjusts 3 knobs and uses a digital controller to store multiple presets.
Before he found his Les Paul, he played Gretsch guitars because, when he was starting out, that's what his local guitar hero, Randy Bachman, played.
Actress Liv Tyler (birth name Liv Rundgren) is the biological daughter of Steven Tyler (born Steven Victor Tallarico) and the step daughter of Todd Rundgren.
Anybody mention Shel Silverstein - Wikipedia yet in this thread? A big time writer of children's books ... He was responsible for Johnny Cash's hits 'A Boy Named Sue', and 'Death Row.' Also wrote for Waylon Jennings, Loretta Lynn, & Kris Kristofferson. And did lots of penning for one of my fun fave bands Dr Hook & the Medicine Show 
Here's them doing a live performance of his big hit of theirs 'Cover of the Rolling Stone' >
Here's them doing a live performance of his big hit of theirs 'Cover of the Rolling Stone' >
And her Mom is none other than starlet/pinup girl Bebe Buell.
Randy Bachman isn't just a Gretsch player. He also put together the most extensive collection of vintage Gretsch guitars in the world. After his main player was stolen, during his time with the Guess Who, he put the word out that he was looking for it. Eventually people just started showing up, offering to sell him whatever random Gretsch they happened to have. He never got his guitar back, but, since he was extremely frugal with his expense money, and Gretsch wasn't exactly a hot brand, he bought literally hundreds of them for next to nothing.
When Fred Gretsch bought the company from Baldwin in the 80s, he wanted to reissue some of their classic instruments. Unfortunately the plans for those guitars were all destroyed in a factory fire, so he called Randy and worked out an arrangement to use his collection for reverse engineering. Once they had a prototype done, they would send it to Bachman for feedback. I believe he got to keep the prototypes, but I can't remember for sure.
Later, when Fred wanted to create a Gretsch museum, Randy loaned (and later sold) the collection to him. The Bachman-Gretsch collection, as it's now known, eventually found a home [This invalid link has been removed].
When Fred Gretsch bought the company from Baldwin in the 80s, he wanted to reissue some of their classic instruments. Unfortunately the plans for those guitars were all destroyed in a factory fire, so he called Randy and worked out an arrangement to use his collection for reverse engineering. Once they had a prototype done, they would send it to Bachman for feedback. I believe he got to keep the prototypes, but I can't remember for sure.
Later, when Fred wanted to create a Gretsch museum, Randy loaned (and later sold) the collection to him. The Bachman-Gretsch collection, as it's now known, eventually found a home [This invalid link has been removed].
Richard Thompson and Hugh Cornwell of the Stranglers were classmates and even played together in a band called "the Detectives
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Ron Dante (born Carmine John Granito) was the vocalist on The Archies records, The Cuff Links songs, solo songs, and was a member of the group The Detergents who had a novelty/parody hit song with "Leader Of The Laundromat", and other projects. He also is a record producer having been co-producer of Barry Manilow’s first nine albums among his other credits.
