Okay. All I needed to see was that Ampeg 8 x 10 to make me all teary-eyed and nostalgic.
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Unusual Rock Trivia?
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Okay. All I needed to see was that Ampeg 8 x 10 to make me all teary-eyed and nostalgic.
Liberty DeVitto is not only a great drummer, but he also has a wicked sense of humour! 
…and The Darkness lead singer/guitarist is named Justin Hawkins(his brother Dan is the other guitarist), and…due to Justin’s vocal histrionics, the band got compared to Queen quite often when they first broke…… And he dated TAYLOR swift. And his best friend is a tailor. And ….
Pending the release of "Come and Get It", the band and Apple agreed that the band's name needed to change. Plus, The Iveys were sometimes were confused with The Ivey League. Suggestions were put forward, including the Glass Onion, the Prix, the Cagneys, and Home. Apple Corps' Neil Aspinall proposed "Badfinger", in reference to "Bad Finger Boogie", an early working title of Lennon–McCartney's "With A Little Help From My Friends", as Lennon had hurt his forefinger on a piano and was using only one finger. In December 1969, the band agreed on Badfinger.
However, George Harrison would later state that the band was named after Helga Fabdinger, a stripper the Beatles had known in Hamburg.
The guitarist in this pic of Jethro Tull is the one and only Tony Iommi pre-Black Sabbath.
If I was younger and starting a band I would definitely call my Band Helga Fabdinger!
According to Pitchfork journalist Eric Harvey, A Quiet Storm revitalized Robinson's career after having left his group the Miracles, and typified what would become known as the quiet stormradio format.
The radio format was pioneered in 1976 by Melvin Lindsey, while he was an intern at the Washington, D.C. radio station WHUR-FM. It eventually became regarded as an identifiable subgenre of R&B.Quiet storm was marketed to upscale mature African-American audiences during the 1980s, and fell out of favor with young listeners in the age of hip hop.
So this is weird: That's clearly Mike Gibbons on drums ...isn't it? But he's playing left-handed! Subsequent videos of Badfinger show Gibbons playing drums right-handed. Spooky.
Back in 1977, I had a band we named Zabie Gazanger from a name a guy dubbed a woman who was well endowed. I still have a band shirt with the name on it.
Speaking of strippers that The Beatles worked with, whatever happened to Jan Carson?
Smokey's voice is so good! He was/is a Prolific songwriter too and was a Motown producer/arranger for a lot of artists including his Miracles. He was one of the reasons Motown shot to prominence in the '60's.
The crazy thing is it was a little house turned into a studio!
That Lucious reverb sound was a little chamber in the attic with some speakers and mics inside. It's now a UAD plugin and you can see a model of the reverb chamber.
Simple times with big ideas! Oh yes...and no Autotune or 1000's of plugins and tracks. Just raw talent.
Amazing!
You’re right, he’s a lefty. I think they just had to go in and mine the song, and didn’t bother to reset the kit.
Graeme Edge, drummer of The Moody Blues, was once asked why he had never married his long-time girlfriend.
His answer (an approximation): It's not me. It's her. You see, her first name is: "Sue"
His answer (an approximation): It's not me. It's her. You see, her first name is: "Sue"
Tears for Fears – Everybody Wants to Run The World was written by Roland Orzabal, Ian Stanley and Chris Hughes. “Everybody Wants to Run the World” is a re-recording of the Tears For Fears 1985 hit “Everybody Wants to Rule the World“. The original single was released in March 1985 as the third single from their second album, “Songs from the Big Chair”.
“Everybody Wants to Run The World” was released in 1986 as the theme song for the Sport Aid campaign.
Funny how changing one word can make or break a song!
“Everybody Wants to Run The World” was released in 1986 as the theme song for the Sport Aid campaign.
Funny how changing one word can make or break a song!
Blondie drummer Clem Burke has toured and recorded with many other bands; but, he played drums with The Ramones for a very short time in 1987 using the name Elvis Ramone.
In 2008, Burke founded the Clem Burke Drumming project to investigate the physical and mental-health benefits of drumming.
The Project - Clem Burke Drumming Project
Here is a photo of him on the left with The Ramones.
In 2008, Burke founded the Clem Burke Drumming project to investigate the physical and mental-health benefits of drumming.
The Project - Clem Burke Drumming Project
Here is a photo of him on the left with The Ramones.
It's no wonder - Blondie and The Ramones were the old CBGB buddies.Blondie drummer Clem Burke has toured and recorded with many other bands; but, he played drums with The Ramones for a very short time in 1987 using the name Elvis Ramone.
In 2008, Burke founded the Clem Burke Drumming project to investigate the physical and mental-health benefits of drumming.
The Project - Clem Burke Drumming Project
Here is a photo of him on the left with The Ramones.
The Tourists were a British rock and pop band. They achieved brief success in the late 1970s before the band split in 1980. Two of its members, singer Annie Lennox and guitarist Dave Stewart, went on to international success as the Eurythmics.
Annie sounds a lot LIKE Dusty on this. Good job! (This is my favorite Dusty Springfield song.)
