It’s ironic the man who was almost asked to be the fifth Beatle wasn’t listed.
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Unusual Rock Trivia?
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Everything I read says no. If you find something to the contrary, by all means, post it up.
I think the Beatles wanted the mystic they were an all self contained band.
Some of the reasons I read range from the “it just wasn’t common practice to do that back then” to Eric and Cream being signed to another label. I dunno.
You’re right there. A lot of pseudonyms were used on various albums because of contracts.Some of the reasons I read range from the “it just wasn’t common practice to do that back then” to Eric and Cream being signed to another label. I dunno.
Yep, for a long time record labels were overly possessive of their artists and didn't recognize the promotional benefits. The band Rockpile mainly put out music through Nick Lowe and Dave Edmunds 'solo" albums in the late '70s and early '80s with the other members backing them up, because Lowe and Edmunds were signed to different labels.
John Lennon: Dr. Winson O'Boogie, Mel Torment, Rev. Fred Ghurkin, and John O'Cean
Paul McCartney: Bernard Webb
Prince: Jamie Starr
Paul McCartney: Bernard Webb
Prince: Jamie Starr
IIRC, Prince is also "Alexander Nevermind" and a few other pseudonyms.
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Regarding the death of bandleader Lowell George by guitarist Fred Tacket while he was on the road with Lowell during his tour as a solo artist. What are close bandmates for?
According to Fred Tackett, "We were driving down the New Jersey Turnpike in this bus and we stopped at this pizza joint off the highway. Everybody in the band shared a cheese pizza but Lowell bought a large pizza with everything on it, carried it to the back of the bus, and he ate the entire pizza by himself. He died two or three days later. So, when people ask me, 'What really killed Lowell?' I say, 'It was a pizza on the New Jersey Turnpike.
According to Fred Tackett, "We were driving down the New Jersey Turnpike in this bus and we stopped at this pizza joint off the highway. Everybody in the band shared a cheese pizza but Lowell bought a large pizza with everything on it, carried it to the back of the bus, and he ate the entire pizza by himself. He died two or three days later. So, when people ask me, 'What really killed Lowell?' I say, 'It was a pizza on the New Jersey Turnpike.
Nice work if you can get it. I never knew this. Rick Wakeman did quite a bit of session work prior to the Strawbs (and eventually Yes). One of them was….
June 1969, Rick played the mellotron on David Bowie’s Space Oddity for a £9 fee as well as several other tracks on the album.
Another bit of early Wakemanism. I’m sure alcohol was not involved!
In 1970 with the Strawbs, Wakeman pushed Salvador Dali off the stage as he made a special guest appearance during his piano solo. He wrote, "I didn't know who he was. I thought, 'Silly old sod, coming on the stage waving his stick“.
June 1969, Rick played the mellotron on David Bowie’s Space Oddity for a £9 fee as well as several other tracks on the album.
Another bit of early Wakemanism. I’m sure alcohol was not involved!
In 1970 with the Strawbs, Wakeman pushed Salvador Dali off the stage as he made a special guest appearance during his piano solo. He wrote, "I didn't know who he was. I thought, 'Silly old sod, coming on the stage waving his stick“.
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Professor Of Rock? Where did he get his degree? That story is not some great revelation, it’s been known for decades. And, somebody’s else’s meddling? More like a visionary move.
S&G’s first album came at the last gasp of the folk boom, and died the death, overlooked. Simon went off to the UK to hang with American ex-pat Jackson C. Frank, and the brilliant British guitarist Davey Graham(from whom he got the tune, “Anji”). Producer Tom Wilson, a rarity at the time, being a black man working with folk and rock acts(he supervised Bob Dylan’s transition to electric, and also oversaw the Velvet Underground’s seminal debut)was quite aware of The Byrds’ success with electric folk-rock(all involved were on the Columbia label). Being impressed with “SOS” as a song, he wisely added electric instruments to transform it from a dated folk dirge to something more modern and urgent. Simon was summoned back to the US as it had become a hit, and they set about to knock out an attendant album.
And what is all that hype in the video tag line about the song “predicting our day”? Simon was singing about his day, and the urgent issues(to him)at that time. They have continued all these decades, if you share his viewpoint. Otherwise, that bit is just clickbait BS, it’s meaningless, pointless, and irrelevant.
Wasn't Tom Wilson also involved in some early Frank Zappa albums? (I know, I could probably just Google that...)
