The Romantics were from Detroit, and date back to 1977, so, no.
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Unusual Rock Trivia?
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The Romantics were from Detroit, and date back to 1977, so, no.
"The idea for guitar solos was very spontaneous and everybody said, 'Yes! Definitely' – well, except for George, who was a little apprehensive at first. But he saw how excited John and Paul were so he went along with it.
Truthfully, I think they rather liked the idea of playing together, not really trying to outdo one another per se, but engaging in some real musical bonding.
Yoko was about to go into the studio with John – this was commonplace by now – and he actually told her, 'No, not now. Let me just do this. It'll just take a minute.' That surprised me a bit. Maybe he felt like he was returning to his roots with the boys – who knows?
The order was Paul first, then George, then John, and they went back and forth. They ran down their ideas a few times and before you knew it, they were ready to go. Their amps were lined up together and we recorded their parts on one track.
You could really see the joy in their faces as they played; it was like they were teenagers again. One take was all we needed. The musical telepathy between them was mind-boggling."
Geoff Emerick, sound engineer, explaining the three way guitar solo in THE END
Source: Music Radar website
Robbie's Commentary
THE END is the penultimate song of the last album The Beatles recorded : a fitting curtain closer on a stellar career that shook the world to its foundations and left us a wonderful legacy of magical music that we can cherish forever
Paul was the main driving force behind Abbey Road, and wanted to give The Beatles the send-off they deserved
Also fittingly, the beginning of the song has Ringo doing the only drum solo he had ever performed in his career with The Beatles
It actually took a lot of persuasion from Paul to convince him to do it
And what a drum solo, the perfect lead in to the triple guitar duel between Paul, John and George
As Geoff Emerick said, the boys looked like they were having the time of their lives just like in the old days together
Astonishingly, they nailed it in one take
Paul's final cosmically philosophical line
'And in the end
the love you take
is equal to the love you make', is one of the best known lines in any Beatle song
A philosophy many Beatle fans, including me, have taken to heart ; you get back what you give out
And The Beatles have given plenty!
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Truthfully, I think they rather liked the idea of playing together, not really trying to outdo one another per se, but engaging in some real musical bonding.
Yoko was about to go into the studio with John – this was commonplace by now – and he actually told her, 'No, not now. Let me just do this. It'll just take a minute.' That surprised me a bit. Maybe he felt like he was returning to his roots with the boys – who knows?
The order was Paul first, then George, then John, and they went back and forth. They ran down their ideas a few times and before you knew it, they were ready to go. Their amps were lined up together and we recorded their parts on one track.
You could really see the joy in their faces as they played; it was like they were teenagers again. One take was all we needed. The musical telepathy between them was mind-boggling."
Geoff Emerick, sound engineer, explaining the three way guitar solo in THE END
Source: Music Radar website
Robbie's Commentary
THE END is the penultimate song of the last album The Beatles recorded : a fitting curtain closer on a stellar career that shook the world to its foundations and left us a wonderful legacy of magical music that we can cherish forever
Paul was the main driving force behind Abbey Road, and wanted to give The Beatles the send-off they deserved
Also fittingly, the beginning of the song has Ringo doing the only drum solo he had ever performed in his career with The Beatles
It actually took a lot of persuasion from Paul to convince him to do it
And what a drum solo, the perfect lead in to the triple guitar duel between Paul, John and George
As Geoff Emerick said, the boys looked like they were having the time of their lives just like in the old days together
Astonishingly, they nailed it in one take
Paul's final cosmically philosophical line
'And in the end
the love you take
is equal to the love you make', is one of the best known lines in any Beatle song
A philosophy many Beatle fans, including me, have taken to heart ; you get back what you give out
And The Beatles have given plenty!
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Even before The Tourists, Annie, Dave, and Peet Coombes(the primary Tourists songwriter)put out a disco-ish single as The Catch…
(Stewart and Coombes had been in a yet earlier folk-rock band, Longdancer)
The Tourists did actually tour the US once in ‘79; I saw them then. Epic released their second album, Reality Effect, but the US version was a combination of better tracks from the UK first and second. While their Dusty cover was certainly an attention getting move, their own material was mix of a new wave/power pop style, with some psychedelic flourishes and chimey Byrds-ish guitar…
After it all fell apart, the couple carried on in the then-new electronic direction, working with Krautrock producer legend Conny Plank, and enlisting the aid of members of Can and(reaching back to an earlier post)Blondie drummer Clem Burke, issuing their debut album(that nobody knows about), In The Garden…
Author Stephen King's early pseudonym pen name was Richard Bachman because King was a fan of Bachman-Turner Overdrive.
Gary Numan is actually 13 days older than Gary Oldman.
We know this not to be true (the send-off part). Abbey Road was never planned to be their final album.
Audio tape exists of a band meeting including John, Paul, and George that occured after Abbey Road was completed. (The tape was made for Ringo, who was not present). On this tape the band discusses their next album. John was quite enthusiastic, stating he, Paul, and George should have four songs each on the next album and Ringo can have two if he wants them.
So they were planning their next album, post-Abbey Road.
Randy Meisner: "What, you again?!!"
IMMusicRulz
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In 1990, Supertramp member Roger Hodgson was approached by Yes to join them as lead vocalist, but he declined the offer. One of the songs he co-wrote with Trevor Rabin, "Walls", appears on Yes's 1994 Talk album, with lyrics revised by Jon Anderson. A version of "Walls" with only Hodgson and Rabin on vocals was released on Rabin's 2003 archival release 90124.
Some extra trivia - The whispered vocals of "Be quiet, big boys don't cry" came from the secretary of Strawberry Studios (the studio the band operated), Kathy Redfern. They were looking for a certain sound when Redfern entered the studio to quietly tell Eric Stewart he had a phone call. When they heard her voice, they knew it was right for the song.
10cc – I’m Not in Love
10cc – I’m Not in Love
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The Dream Theater album Images and Words, released in 1992, was recorded at Bear Tracks Studios, a recording studio in upstate New York that was owned by Spyro Gyra saxophonist Jay Beckenstein. Beckenstein himself plays the soprano saxophone on the track Another Day, a ballad that guitarist John Petrucci wrote for his ailing father.
The Beatles song "Run For Your Life" on the Rubber Soul album was based around a line from an Elvis Presley song "Baby, Let’s Play House", recorded by Presley in 1955, written by Arthur Gunter.
Run For Your Life lyrics
Well, I'd rather see you dead, little girl
Than to be with another man
You better keep your head, little girl
Or I won't know where I am
Baby, Let’s Play House lyrics
Now listen to me baby
Try to understand
I’d rather see you dead, little girl
Than to be with another man
Now baby
Run For Your Life lyrics
Well, I'd rather see you dead, little girl
Than to be with another man
You better keep your head, little girl
Or I won't know where I am
Baby, Let’s Play House lyrics
Now listen to me baby
Try to understand
I’d rather see you dead, little girl
Than to be with another man
Now baby
I'd "rather see someone dead" than to be with another, man, too, but that's just because I don't happen to roll that way.
She was on a list of women that I wished to see naked when I was a kid.
Nancy Sinatra
Cher
I Dream of Genie's Barbara Eden
Bewitched's Elizabeth Montgomery
Raquel Welch
Natalie Wood
Ronnie Spector
Audrey Hepburn
Diana Rigg
Sophia Loren
Ann Margaret
She was on a list of women that I wished to see naked when I was a kid.
Diana Rigg
First Crush!
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Well, did you ever get that issue of Playboy?She was on a list of women that I wished to see naked when I was a kid.
I did not! I had moved on from Playboy to other more explicit porn mags around 1976.
By 1995 when Sinatra was in Playboy I'm sure I was looking at porn on VHS and had forgotten all about those ladies from TV & Movies.
Gonna have to go search for those pics.
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