In an interview with Keith Richards,he talked about how the Stones never set out to be an original music band.They were only going to do covers of old blues tunes....Then one night,after a Stones show in a London club,Keith and Mick sat backstage talking and having a drink with Paul McCartney,who said to them that they should start creating their own songs.If for no other reason than it was a big slice of the money pie that was going into someone else's pocket.
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Unusual Rock Trivia?
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"In Johnny Cash’s version of “Wichita Lineman,” there’s a beautiful, heart-stopping comma. That’s all it is, a comma, but it changes the meaning of the song. …"
Johnny Cash’s comma
Johnny Cash’s comma
This song was originally brought in by producer Bob Ezrin for the KISS Destroyer sessions. Ezrin wasn't sure what kind of material he'd be dealing with. He had heard that KISS played simple songs, and believed that this track, originally written as a country song, could fit the bill. KISS demo'd the song with drummer Peter Criss on vocals. The song was not used.
Bruno Mars (Peter Gene Hernandez) got the nickname "Bruno" from his dad, Peter Hernandez, who started calling him "Bruno" at the age of two due to a perceived resemblance to Bruno Sammartino (1935 - 2018), a former WWF wrestler.
Dude, If you or anybody else reading this are not already familiar with that album, please download it and listen to it start to finish, right now. It’s legitimately one of the greatest albums of all time. It has amazing songs, amazing drumming, and some “pretty good” slide guitar.
As for bizarre rock trivia, bass player Berry Oakley is buried next to his bandmate Duane Allman. Both died after motorcycle accidents one year apart.
The Turtle's Flo and Eddie (Howard Kaylan and Mark Volman) sang back up on the T. Rex song Bang A Gong (Get It On), which was originally titled "Get It On", but changed to avoid confusion with the Chase song of the same name.
Is that why? I always wondered why the US used a different name
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When Ron Wood was in the Jeff Beck Group, his then girlfriend was killed in her Mini as she was driving to one of their gigs to see him.
Decades later when his fellow Stones persuaded him to get treatment for his drinking, it finally emerged that her death was the reason he started in the first place
Decades later when his fellow Stones persuaded him to get treatment for his drinking, it finally emerged that her death was the reason he started in the first place
Ha! Good thing they only let him have one vocal per album and Criss stuck with Beth... since it turned out to be one of their biggest radio chart toppers, and this songs lyrics are pretty much the Anti-Criss' version of Beth
Awesome tidbit.
Didn't know that one. Those boys were prolific and got around...
I'm sure it's been mentioned in this thread already that they also recorded and toured extensively with The Mothers&Frank Zappa from the late 60's - mid70's >
Their solo shows covered a lot of musical ground >
As well as interviewed other great musos >
i know you posted this two and a half years ago, but i wanted to mention that i won this single at a carnival game at a local elementary school fundraiser. i had never heard "leader of the pack", bu the other single i won that day, before anyone cared, was "it's raining men".
Yes. This was Chase's only hit. Tragically they were in plane crash that killed leader Bill Chase and three other band members.
That's also Flo & Eddie singing backups on The Psychedelic Furs' hit "Love My Way"
The Turtle's bassist Chip Douglas was hired by The Monkees as a producer after Mike Nesmith heard Douglas' arrangement of "Happy Together". After a brief stint he returned as The Turtle's producer.
Bryan Ferry failed an audition for King Crimson in the lead vocal spot.
Todd Rundgren produced that Furs album, didn't he? No doubt he had the hook up
Bill Wyman left his job in a bookies, saying as he left, "Bye, I'm off to join a rock band", when he met up with Mick, Kieth and Brian they were thin, dishevelled, cold and starving so he used his last pay packet to take them for a meal and a pint
Brian Jones lived on potatoes in those scrapin' years, and swore to eschew the foodstuff when he made it. True to his word, in the last several years of his life he ate no potatoes, not even psychedelic ones
