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Unusual Rock Trivia?
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I might venture to say, that at its core, rock and roll is an attitude. An ever so slightly “pushy” one too. 
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The original rock and roll, as well as other forms of music, seemed to be about bringing people together.
I think the earliest rock 'n' rollers were just doing what they do. Their music wasn't designed to be anti-establishment, but when it became obvious that the establishment was vehemently against this newfangled jungle "devil's music," then it became the rebels' choice. I don't think Chuck Berry and Carl Perkins and other early rockers were deliberately trying to "stick it to The Man."
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The album cover for Paul Simon's 1973 album There Goes Rhymin' Simon was desgined by Milton Glaser, who also designed the album cover for The Band's Music From Big Pink and also designed the I Love New York logo.
The album cover for Paul Simon's 1973 album There Goes Rhymin' Simon was desgined by Milton Glaser, who also designed the album cover for The Band's Music From Big Pink and also designed the I Love New York logo.
First album I ever said, "mom, I want to buy this album." I was 8, 9 tops. Still listen to it.
My sister did that work.
I only had to borrow it from her (as well as his first solo record).
In a 2006 interview for Sound On Sound Magazine, #DonaldFagen stated that he and Becker told recording engineer Roger Nichols:
"'It's too bad that we can't get a machine to play the beat we want, with full-frequency drum sounds, and to be able to move the snare drum and kick drum around independently.' Nichols replied 'I can do that.' This was back in 1978 or something, so we said 'You can do that???' To which he said 'Yes, all I need is $150,000.' So we gave him the money out of our recording budget, and six weeks later he came in with this machine and that is how it all started."
Nichols named the drum machine "Wendel." Subsequently, Wendel was awarded a platinum record.
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"'It's too bad that we can't get a machine to play the beat we want, with full-frequency drum sounds, and to be able to move the snare drum and kick drum around independently.' Nichols replied 'I can do that.' This was back in 1978 or something, so we said 'You can do that???' To which he said 'Yes, all I need is $150,000.' So we gave him the money out of our recording budget, and six weeks later he came in with this machine and that is how it all started."
Nichols named the drum machine "Wendel." Subsequently, Wendel was awarded a platinum record.
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Art Garfunkel sang the theme song to the popular TV show Brooklyn Bridge, which aired on CBS from 1991 to 1994. Created by Gary David Goldberg (who also created Family Ties), the show was set in 1950s Brooklyn and starred Marion Ross. I just saw a few episodes recently on Catchy Comedy, and it's actually a really good show! It needs more recognition, though.
The Everly Brothers hit song Take A Message To Mary Producer Archie Bleyer created a more elaborate arrangement, including the sound of a coke bottle being hit by a drumstick.
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Man, the Everly Brothers sounded SO good together. They were one of the first acts that just slayed me with their beautiful harmonies. Thanks for posting this. I had kinda' forgotten about this one!
A lot to disagree with on that. There was a real sense of community in the punk scene (albeit of misfits of various kinds - but then a lot of early rock had plenty of rebellion in it, too), at least as far as I experienced it in San Francisco in the late 70's-early 80's. And a lot of those bands absolutely could rock and really play; SVT (with Jack Casady), Dead Kennedys (Klaus/Geoffrey is a great bass player), The Avengers (Jimmy Wilsey!), X and many others. Seeing a then unknown Gang of 4 at Temple Beautiful is still one of the hardest rocking shows I ever witnessed. Sure, there were some really sloppy ones, too. And it was a blurry line between punk, new wave, alternative rock, power pop, ska influenced and a lot of other stuff (including the more arty/avant garde stuff like the Ralph Records bands) that was all part of the larger scene in general and playing the same venues (and weird genre mash ups like seeing Rova Saxophone Quartet or Mark Pauline/Survival Research Laboratories sharing bills with punk bands).
Musician Billy Ocean has three lungs. The third lung is an extra pulmonary node central to his medically normal lungs
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The REM song Stand served as the theme song for the short lived sitcom Get A Life, a sitcom that aired in 1990 and starred Chris Elliott as a middle aged paperboy who still lives with his parents. Chris father, Bob Elliott, was also a cast member of the show, as was Brian Doyle Murray, who is the brother of Bill Murray. The closing theme for the show was composed by Stewart Levin, who also worked on some of the songs for the soundtrack of the 1982 film An Officer And A Gentleman.
Chris' father, Bob was also part of a radio-turned-comedy duo "Bob & Ray"
Also, Chris' daughter, (?)Abby(?), was in a few episodes of How I Met Your Mother, playing one of Ted's truly psycho girlfriends, while her Father played Lilly's father.
Also, Chris' daughter, (?)Abby(?), was in a few episodes of How I Met Your Mother, playing one of Ted's truly psycho girlfriends, while her Father played Lilly's father.
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For a very brief time, in the mid-1980s, Penny Marshall dated Art Garfunkel, following the death of his girlfriend Laurie Bird in 1979 (and Marshall's crippling divorce from Rob Reiner in 1981.) They never married, but Garfunkel would later claim in interviews that she helped him with his depression. Can you imagine that?
Eric Bell on the unlikely success story of Thin Lizzy’s version of “Whiskey In The Jar.”
Phil Lynott was only messing around when he first started playing the song during an abortive band practice at the beginning of 1972. “Phil picked up my second guitar, the Telecaster, and went up to the microphone and just started singing all these silly songs,” recalled Eric Bell.
“I just sat down, really bored and Brian was on his drum kit reading some magazine. After about 20 minutes, Phil started singing Irish songs and then he started singing “Whiskey In The Jar” just as a joke but, for some strange reason – I think it was just out of boredom and I started playing it with him, then Brian started playing the drums.
About a minute later, the door opened and our manager Ted Carroll come in…”. “Ted kept saying, ‘I was standing down the bottom of the stairs as you were playing that song and I think you might have a hit record there!’” explained Eric. “And we were looking at him like he had landed from Venus! We were going, ‘What? You’ve got to be kidding, mate – we left Ireland to get away from this kind of stuff!’”
It was suggested “Whiskey In The Jar” would be a B-side. Lynott and Eric both donned acoustics for the initial backing track, but Bell just couldn’t fathom a decent electric lead line overdub. Weeks later, inspiration for the intro came during a long car ride after a gig in Wales.
The catchy lead lines came during another car trip – this time while Bell was sitting in the back of a London cab “But, as the driver is talking to me talking to me, I suddenly made a riff in my imagination. I went ‘Duddle dah da dah da dah da dah’ and I thought, ‘That’s it!’”
Luckily, Eric managed to keep the riff in his head for the rest of the journey back to the flat where he grabbed his axe and Lynott’s tape recorder.
“I had the intro, I had the riff and then the solo just came from the riff and that was that.”
Whiskey… was chosen as Lizzy’s next A-side and the band’s name was soon scrawled in the annals of rock history.
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Phil Lynott was only messing around when he first started playing the song during an abortive band practice at the beginning of 1972. “Phil picked up my second guitar, the Telecaster, and went up to the microphone and just started singing all these silly songs,” recalled Eric Bell.
“I just sat down, really bored and Brian was on his drum kit reading some magazine. After about 20 minutes, Phil started singing Irish songs and then he started singing “Whiskey In The Jar” just as a joke but, for some strange reason – I think it was just out of boredom and I started playing it with him, then Brian started playing the drums.
About a minute later, the door opened and our manager Ted Carroll come in…”. “Ted kept saying, ‘I was standing down the bottom of the stairs as you were playing that song and I think you might have a hit record there!’” explained Eric. “And we were looking at him like he had landed from Venus! We were going, ‘What? You’ve got to be kidding, mate – we left Ireland to get away from this kind of stuff!’”
It was suggested “Whiskey In The Jar” would be a B-side. Lynott and Eric both donned acoustics for the initial backing track, but Bell just couldn’t fathom a decent electric lead line overdub. Weeks later, inspiration for the intro came during a long car ride after a gig in Wales.
The catchy lead lines came during another car trip – this time while Bell was sitting in the back of a London cab “But, as the driver is talking to me talking to me, I suddenly made a riff in my imagination. I went ‘Duddle dah da dah da dah da dah’ and I thought, ‘That’s it!’”
Luckily, Eric managed to keep the riff in his head for the rest of the journey back to the flat where he grabbed his axe and Lynott’s tape recorder.
“I had the intro, I had the riff and then the solo just came from the riff and that was that.”
Whiskey… was chosen as Lizzy’s next A-side and the band’s name was soon scrawled in the annals of rock history.
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