Unusual Rock Trivia?

[Michedelic]

I did not! Gonna have to go search for those pics.

Aaaaand…if you can catch a flight real quick, this is going on today at my former place of employment…

When I was there(at the original location), she performed with Don Randi and band for the release of the album with Morrissey, the U2 rhythm section and Sonic Youth members on it(among others).

 

[5StringBlues]

more true confessions coming up, only in the rock trivia thread.

 

[Richland123]

Helen Mary "Jenny" Boyd (born November 8, 1947) was an English former model and is the younger sister of Pattie Boyd (first wife of George Harrison). She was Mick Fleetwood's 1st & 2nd wife. They were married from 1970–76 and again 1977–78. She was also married to King Crimson drummer Ian Wallace.

Jenny Boyd was the inspiration of Donovan's song "Jennifer Juniper" even though they were never in a relationship, although Donovan admitted to having a crush on her.

 

[Richland123]

Before Peter Wolf (born Peter Walter Blankfield on March 7, 1946) joined The J. Geils Band, he moved from New York City to Boston, MA to attend the School Of The Museum Of Fine Arts at Tufts University on a scholarship, where he studied painting. His first roommate was film director David Lynch.

 

[Michael Stanley 2112]

Before Peter Wolf (born Peter Walter Blankfield on March 7, 1946) joined The J. Geils Band, he moved from New York City to Boston, MA to attend the School Of The Museum Of Fine Arts at Tufts University on a scholarship, where he studied painting. His first roommate was film director David Lynch.

.... and his father was an engineering (I think) profe3ssor at Manhattan College (in the Bronx).

 

[MrClassicMetal]

 

[Michedelic]

Helen Mary "Jenny" Boyd (born November 8, 1947) was an English former model and is the younger sister of Pattie Boyd (first wife of George Harrison). She was Mick Fleetwood's 1st & 2nd wife. They were married from 1970–76 and again 1977–78. She was also married to King Crimson drummer Ian Wallace.

Jenny Boyd was the inspiration of Donovan's song "Jennifer Juniper" even though they were never in a relationship, although Donovan admitted to having a crush on her.

So, she fired Mick twice?

 

[58kites]

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Everything I have ever seen or heard from Billy Sheehan is totally in line with that story.
One of the must humble star musicians I've ever seen.
I grew up in Rochester New York (60 miles from Buffalo) and first saw/heard him play at the Penny Arcade (bar) when Talas was coming up 1977/78/79 if I remember right.
He blew everybody away every time, nobody had ever seen anything like him.

 

[nickpc]

Everything I have ever seen or heard from Billy Sheehan is totally in line with that story.
One of the must humble star musicians I've ever seen.
I grew up in Rochester New York (60 miles from Buffalo) and first saw/heard him play at the Penny Arcade (bar) when Talas was coming up 1977/78/79 if I remember right.
He blew everybody away every time, nobody had ever seen anything like him.

I'm not sure how Eddie would have handled someone that busy on bass in the band.

 

[58kites]

I'm not sure how Eddie would have handled someone that busy on bass in the band.

By that account, Eddie and Alex seemed eager to dump Michael Anthony, which I think would have been a mistake.
I think it's not usually a great idea to have a band full of busy players for making popular music.
I'm not a big Rush fan but they pulled that off and recorded hit records for decades.
The Who had busy bass and drums and it worked, but part of that was because Pete kept it simple and because they were a one guitar band.
Hendrix and Mitch Mitchell both wailing away worked but I think they really coordinated their parts well.
I think normally you want Tommy Shannon and Chris Layton behind a player like Stevie Ray Vaughn.
As much as I think Billy Sheehan is a virtuoso bass player, that doesn't usually seem to lend itself to lots of chart topping records.

 

[MrClassicMetal]

Everything I have ever seen or heard from Billy Sheehan is totally in line with that story.
One of the must humble star musicians I've ever seen.
I grew up in Rochester New York (60 miles from Buffalo) and first saw/heard him play at the Penny Arcade (bar) when Talas was coming up 1977/78/79 if I remember right.
He blew everybody away every time, nobody had ever seen anything like him.

Agreed. In the many interviews that I've seen and heard he's always the gentleman, great personality. Zero ego. He's just that guy.

 

[MrClassicMetal]

By that account, Eddie and Alex seemed eager to dump Michael Anthony, which I think would have been a mistake.
I think it's not usually a great idea to have a band full of busy players for making popular music.
I'm not a big Rush fan but they pulled that off and recorded hit records for decades.
The Who had busy bass and drums and it worked, but part of that was because Pete kept it simple and because they were a one guitar band.
Hendrix and Mitch Mitchell both wailing away worked but I think they really coordinated their parts well.
I think normally you want Tommy Shannon and Chris Layton behind a player like Stevie Ray Vaughn.
As much as I think Billy Sheehan is a virtuoso bass player, that doesn't usually seem to lend itself to lots of chart topping records.

Well, Sheehan played with Steve Vai on a few recordings and he was also part of Vai's touring band on many occasions through the years. There's clearly a click between them.




And Sheehan and Paul Gilbert were bandmates in the successful band Mr. Big.



Having said that, VH were perfectly fine with Michael Anthonty. Aside from performing bass duties, his background vocals were awesome.

 

[IMMusicRulz]

Not only was he a successful talk show host, Johnny Carson was also the subject of a Beach Boys song, written by Brian Wilson during the sessions for their 1977 album The Beach Boys Love You.

In 1977, Wilson wrote of the origins for the song:

One morning I was on my way to the studio and I'd been thinking about how I'd seen Johnny on TV the night before and I said to myself, "Goddamn it! There's gotta be some song about Johnny Carson!" I mean, he's been an idol of so many people for so many years and why not a song about Johnny Carson?! So I said, "Fer Chrissakes!" When I got to the studio I sat down and goddamn cranked out a song about him. I'm definitely a fan.

 

[58kites]

Well, Sheehan played with Steve Vai on a few recordings and he was also part of Vai's touring band on many occasions through the years.
There's clearly a click between them.
And Sheehan and Paul Gilbert were bandmates in the successful band Mr. Big.

My point was that bands that are very successful making popular music are not usually two, three, four virtuoso players noodling their brains out together.
Van Halen were successful (rich rock star successful) because they made radio friendly POPular music.
Steve Vai, Joe Satriani and Billy Sheehan never made the money Van Halen made despite their massive technical skills.
Jazz fusion bands don't usually get Bon Jovi rich.
Jeff Beck played rings around Jimmy Page but Jimmy Page's band sold tons of records and he made a lot more money than Jeff Beck.

 

[MrClassicMetal]

My point was that bands that are very successful making popular music are not usually two, three, four virtuoso players noodling their brains out together.
Van Halen were successful (rich rock star successful) because they made radio friendly POPular music.
Steve Vai, Joe Satriani and Billy Sheehan never made the money Van Halen made despite their massive technical skills.
Jazz fusion bands don't usually get Bon Jovi rich.
Jeff Beck played rings around Jimmy Page but Jimmy Page's band sold tons of records and he made a lot more money than Jeff Beck.

I can agree with that. If it's for popular, more radio-friendly music then it's usually better to tone it down a bit.

 

[roccobass]

According to Jeff Wayne, producer of David Essex’s song “Rock On”.

"I can recall the three musicians on the backing track for 'Rock On' all looking around in a mostly empty Advision Studios, Studio 1, wanting to know when the rest of the band were arriving! I explained there weren't any others for that track, and I was relying on them to understand my idea for the production. While the drums and percussion parts were written out, it was definitely Herbie Flowers who grasped immediately that a bass guitar playing a lead riff could fill a large part of the spatial spectrum and he took my idea and turned some basic notes of mine, into his amazing bass riff. Then to top it off, he suggested playing it again an octave higher. So you get this unusual bass sound right up front – now it couldn't have been up front if the arrangement didn't allow the air and the space to be created that way."

Flowers himself noted that, as a reward for devising the double-tracked bass line, he was paid double his normal session fee, and thus received £24 instead of the usual £12. He had earlier created a similar double-tracked bass line for Lou Reed's "Walk on the Wild Side", explaining in a BBC Radio 4 interview that it had also been done because he would be paid double.

 

[Eli_Kyiv]

An original photograph of the mysterious figure on the cover of Led Zeppelin IV has been discovered in an old photo album - and he's been identified
Click the pic

 

[IMMusicRulz]

Earl Klasky was an art director and album cover designer for ABC Records (now part of the Geffen Records) in the late seventies. Klasky designed the album covers for such artists as Della Reese, Tina Turner and Freda Payne, and was the older brother of Arlene Klasky, who along with ex husband Gabor Csupo, created the Klasky Csupo animation company, which produced the animated shows Rugrats and As Told By Ginger.

Earl Klasky also designed the album cover for Levon Helm’s self titled 1978 album, released by ABC Records.

 

[GregC]

Wow.

 

[MCF]

Wow.
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I like that Greg. Thanks for posting it.