The Chantays doing surf music on the Lawrence Welk Show
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Unusual Rock Trivia?
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Saw this on the way back home from Arkansas, Kennet MO, Sheryl
Crow's hometown
From 1987 to 1988, Steve Morse worked as a commercial airline co-pilot
Original Dixie Dregs violinist Allen Sloan is an anesthesiologist.
Original Dixie Dregs violinist Allen Sloan is an anesthesiologist.
Frank Zappa wrote this weird song and dialogue by Burt Ward (aka Robin from Batman) and arranged and conducted it. The flip side was arranged and conducted by Zappa.
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...and Andy West (Monster bass player) is a software engineer.
Buddy Holly on ARTHUR MURRAY?????????!!!!!!!!!
… Betty Davis is the [name of her] eponymous debut studio album … released through Just Sunshine Records (an upstart label) in 1973. The album was produced by Greg Errico and features contributions from a number of noted musicians such as Neal Schon, Merl Saunders, Sylvester, Larry Graham, Pete Sears, and The Pointer Sisters.
… The Wire (magazine) placed They Say I'm Different in their list of "100 Records That Set the World on Fire (While No One Was Listening)". In 2017 a documentary called "Betty: They Say I'm Different" was released. …
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In 1973, San Francisco Bay Area band Cold Blood released the album Thriller, featuring the Pointer Sisters on backing vocals.
Stu Cook (Creedence Clearwater Revival bassist) was a member of the country band Southern Pacific for a few albums and hit singles along with Doobie Brothers members Keith Knudsen and John McFee. Here are a few songs that were Top 10 Country hits.
Actor Joe Mantegna played bass guitar in the Chicago area band called The Apocryphals. He is friends with members of the band Chicago as well.
Suzanne Vega's hit "Tom's Diner" was the first song converted to MP3.
In the early 1980s, German electrical engineering doctoral candidate Karlheinz Brandenburg was working on his dissertation. The focus of his research was digital audio encoding and perceptual measurement techniques—research that would go on to become the basis for the digital music revolution and the ubiquitous MP3 format.
To test the quality of the compression algorithms he was crafting, he focused on human vocals. Instrumental music compresses fairly well, but the human ear is highly tuned to detect irregularities in the human voice. Brandenburg was confident that any compression algorithm that could successfully compress the human voice without problems would handle everything else thrown at it just fine.
In order to test his algorithms, he selected the 1987 a cappella version of the hit "Tom’s Diner" by Suzanne Vega as, in his words, “I knew it would be nearly impossible to compress this warm a cappella voice.” He used her voice as a benchmark and refined the algorithms so that not only could they compress instrumental work, but preserve the warmth of human vocals too.
As a result of Brandenburg’s extensive use of "Tom’s Diner" to test audio compression techniques, modern audio engineers informally refer to the song as “The Mother of the MP3”.
In the early 1980s, German electrical engineering doctoral candidate Karlheinz Brandenburg was working on his dissertation. The focus of his research was digital audio encoding and perceptual measurement techniques—research that would go on to become the basis for the digital music revolution and the ubiquitous MP3 format.
To test the quality of the compression algorithms he was crafting, he focused on human vocals. Instrumental music compresses fairly well, but the human ear is highly tuned to detect irregularities in the human voice. Brandenburg was confident that any compression algorithm that could successfully compress the human voice without problems would handle everything else thrown at it just fine.
In order to test his algorithms, he selected the 1987 a cappella version of the hit "Tom’s Diner" by Suzanne Vega as, in his words, “I knew it would be nearly impossible to compress this warm a cappella voice.” He used her voice as a benchmark and refined the algorithms so that not only could they compress instrumental work, but preserve the warmth of human vocals too.
As a result of Brandenburg’s extensive use of "Tom’s Diner" to test audio compression techniques, modern audio engineers informally refer to the song as “The Mother of the MP3”.
Peter Frampton and David Jones (David Bowie), who was three years older, were pupils at Bromley Technical School in England (where Peter's father Owen Frampton was Bowie's art instructor). Peter's band, The Little Ravens, played on the same bill at school as Bowie's band, George and the Dragons. Peter and David were friends and spent time together.
Robert Fripp, Greg Lake and Andy Summers all had the same guitar teacher, one Don Stryke.
Frampton was Bowie’s lead guitarist on the ‘87 Glass Spiders tour. Years later I met the tour drummer, Alan Childs, who was doing a “Rock Of Ages” road show(a friend of mine was the bass player). Alan now works in Las Vegas, and has a very cool podcast...
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A very cool guy. Definitely would not fire.
That last photo reminded me of this...
You can keep your Woodstock, 1966 was the best year for rock’n’roll
This is the story I've always heard.No, I read it the other way, that Keith Emerson didn't really want any guitarist since all of them where too ... inane. If there was one, it would be Hendrix only, but since he had his thing going already, he actually offered the spot to Steve Howe who bowed out*. Now guess what? The initial of those two peoples surnames....
So they stuck with a trio, and cried for ELP.
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* Steve Howe (musician) - Wikipedia
"He then played with members of the progressive rock band The Nice as a potential new member, but decided it was not for him, and left the next day.[18]"
