According to Allmusic.com, Des Barres was a member of Silverhead, Detective, and toured with The Power Station when Robert Palmer bowed out. Nothing about being in the Knack.
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Unusual Rock Trivia?
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Was that from WKRP?People always forget his stint as lead singer for Scum Of The Earth:
He was in there for a cool minute or two,right before they disbanded in '82.
People always forget his stint as lead singer for Scum Of The Earth:
Also,..At the time singing for Detective,the band and their song is featured in the Scum concert scene.
.....The whole album is just killer.
Before David Robinson (drums & vocals) was in The Cars and Jerry Harrison (keyboards and vocals) was in Talking Heads, they both played together in the band Modern Lovers. They are both inductees of The Rock & Roll Hall of Fame with The Cars and Talking Heads respectively.
"Monster Mash" by Bobby "Boris" Pickett Pickett & the Crypt-Kicker 5 actually made the U.S. Pop Chart on three different occasions. It was passed on by every major record label, but after hearing the song, Gary S. Paxton agreed to produce and engineer it on his Garpax Records. Among the musicians who played on it was pianist Leon Russell. The single was a million seller, reaching #1 before Halloween in 1962. It was released again in August 1970, and again in May 1973 and made it to #10. In Britain, the BBC banned the record in 1962 from airplay on the grounds that the song was "too morbid". However, in October 1973, it peaked at #3 on the U.K. chart. For the second time, the record sold over one million copies. The tune inspired many monster themed songs.
It was all over the radio in Sydney in (I think) 73, we based a grade 6 school thingy on it.
I don’t remember it before that.
Indeed!
Les Nesman - "Isn't that an invitation for the worst sort of people"
Cool I dig the video. I was a huge misfits fan way back, but only cared for the stuff before they broke up.
Both Tiffany (I Think We're Alone Now) and Billy Idol (Mony Mony) hit #1 on the Billboard U.S. Singles Chart in the same month, November 1987, with covers of Tommy James & The Shondells songs.
In between the departure of original Journey keyboardist Gregg Rolie (Santana) and the arrival of Jonathan Cain (The Babys), Stevie "Keys" Roseman from Cold Blood was invited to play keyboards on the track "The Party's Over (Hopelessly In Love)", which was the only studio recording on the 1981 live Journey release Captured. Stevie has done other projects with members of Journey over the years.
The title of the song "Judy in Disguise (With Glasses)" by John Fred & His Playboy Band was written in 1967 as a play on words to The Beatles song "Lucy In The Sky With Diamonds" since The Beatles were so popular at the time. Just like many Beatles songs, it features strings, brass, a sitar, piano, bass, guitar, drums, breathing sounds, and dissonant string sounds. Interestingly, it became a #1 U.S. pop chart hit in January 1968 displacing a Beatles song, "Hello, Goodbye", from the top spot.
Frank Zappa was banned from ever performing on Saturday Night Live again after appearing as both the host and musical guest for the October 21, 1978 episode. Zappa allegedly didn't mesh with the cast and crew in the preparation week, then mugged for the camera and made it obvious that he was reading cue cards during the broadcast. Not only was Zappa banned from the "SNL" stage after the stunt, but most of the cast refused to interact with the performer in the "goodnight" segment to end the show.
Love it, he outhipped the hipsters(of the time); doing “I Am The Slime” was pure genius. Of course, later, Belushi invited his buddies, Fear, on the show to destroy everything...
Black Sabbath played their first American gig at my Alma Mater, Rowan University (formally Glassboro State College)
