Unusual Rock Trivia?

[Richland123]

Mike Hazlewood and Albert Hammond, who wrote and recorded many hit songs, are also credited as co-writers as well as they received a portion of the royalties of the 1992 Radiohead song, "Creep". Due to similarities to "The Air That I Breathe", which was originally recorded by Hammond and later a big hit for the The Hollies, Radiohead was successfully sued for plagiarism. "Creep" used a chord progression taken from "The Air That I Breathe" in its verse, and a melody from the latter in the bridge following the second chorus.

 

[Eli_Kyiv]

Mike Hazlewood and Albert Hammond, who wrote and recorded many hit songs, are also credited as co-writers as well as they received a portion of the royalties of the 1992 Radiohead song, "Creep". Due to similarities to "The Air That I Breathe", which was originally recorded by Hammond and later a big hit for the The Hollies, Radiohead was successfully sued for plagiarism. "Creep" used a chord progression taken from "The Air That I Breathe" in its verse, and a melody from the latter in the bridge following the second chorus.

In turn, Russian band Masha i Medvedi (Mary and Bears) used "Creep" harmony and melody as a base for their 1997 hit "Lyubochka". I never heard about any lawsuits in this regard though.

 

[Michedelic]

Life after 9/18/70....
While Buddy Miles already had a solo career, and went back to it upon the dissolution of BOG, Mitch Mitchell, after doing some gigs with Jack Bruce and guitarist Larry Coryell and working with Eddie Kramer on preparing The Cry Of Love for release, found his way into an American band, Ramatam, which featured Blues Image/Iron Butterfly guitarist Mike Pinera, and another lead player, April Lawton, who was quite the proto-shredder...

Mitchell left after the first album, and they did one more...

Not a lot is known about Lawton, she has since passed away, and there was an urban legend that she was a transsexual. Similarly, Billy Cox teamed up with a female guitarist, Char Vinnedge, in 1971 for an album, Nitro Function, attributed to Cox but the bulk of the work was done by her...

She had emerged from a Michigan all-female garage rock band, the Lov’d Ones...

Cox had also played with Miles and then did a tour with Charlie Daniels.
After Noel Redding was bounced out of the Experience, he ended up in LA doing some tracks for a British forerunner of Alice Cooper, Screaming Lord Sutch. Being of minimal vocal talent(but an outrage on stage), the album is regarded as one of the worst of the period, in spite of participation by Jimmy Page and John Bonham(among others)...they were told that they were just doing a bunch of demos...


In 1972, Redding appeared on what was essentially a post-Spirit Randy California solo album, along with former Spirit drummer(and Randy’s step-dad)Ed Cassidy, Kapt. Kopter...

Randy having had history with Hendrix as being the 15 year old second guitarist in Hendrix’s pick-up band when Chas Chandler found him. Redding was also at that time involved with a trio, Road...

 

[Richland123]

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I have that first Ramatam album.

 

[Bob_Ross]

In 1952, American composer John Cage created a song titled “4’33”. It consisted of four minutes and 33 seconds of silence.

Actually, it's a common misconception that Cage's 4'33" consists of four minutes and 33 seconds of "silence". What it consists of -- and Cage made this explicit in the program notes for the piece, although performers rarely remind the audiences of this crucial distinction -- is four minutes and 33 seconds of whatever sounds occur in the venue when the performer does not make any overt contribution to that soundscape. It was composed as a deep listening exercise: Cage was very attuned to natural ambiences, and was striving to present the sounds that exist everywhere as something musical and/or something worth listening to.

So a typical live performance of 4'33" consists of four minutes and 33 seconds of air conditioner hum, distant traffic sounds, lots of people breathing and coughing and shuffling their feet uncomfortably, and often at least one person whispering "this is bullsh*t!"

But it never consists of silence.

 

[felonious69]

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When the Wilson Sisters met the Van Halen Brothers.... an excerpt from the memoirs of Heart....
When The Van Halen Brothers Met The Wilson Sisters

Nancy is still YUMMY!

 

[Richland123]

Before Derek, Phil, & Ray Shulman formed Gentle Giant, they had a band called Simon Dupree and the Big Sound in the 1960s that had a few songs in the U.K. Their song "Kites" was a Top 10 U.K. hit. One of their singles "Broken Hearted Pirates" featured an uncredited actor/musician Dudley Moore on piano.

When their keyboard player Eric Hine was ill, Reginald Dwight (later Elton John) was hired to fill in for a 1967 tour in Scotland. They thought about asking him to be a permanent member. They recorded his song "I'm Going Home" and he also played on their songs "Laughing Boy From Nowhere" and "Give It All back". The band members laughed when he told them he was adopting the stage name of Elton John.

Ray Shulman, Reginald Dwight, Tony Ransley, & Derek Shulman

Elton John & Derek Shulman in 2018

 

[tubedude]

Actually, it's a common misconception that Cage's 4'33" consists of four minutes and 33 seconds of "silence". What it consists of -- and Cage made this explicit in the program notes for the piece, although performers rarely remind the audiences of this crucial distinction -- is four minutes and 33 seconds of whatever sounds occur in the venue when the performer does not make any overt contribution to that soundscape. It was composed as a deep listening exercise: Cage was very attuned to natural ambiences, and was striving to present the sounds that exist everywhere as something musical and/or something worth listening to.

So a typical live performance of 4'33" consists of four minutes and 33 seconds of air conditioner hum, distant traffic sounds, lots of people breathing and coughing and shuffling their feet uncomfortably, and often at least one person whispering "this is bullsh*t!"

But it never consists of silence.

That one person was correct.

 

[fretter]

Chamaeleon Church, featuring Chevy Chase on drums

 

[Richland123]

Bryan Adams, Canadian rock star, took a series of photographs of the United Kingdom's Queen Elizabeth for her golden jubilee in 2002. These photographs were chosen to be used on a Canadian stamp series which was first released in 2003 and rereleased with a color change in 2004.

 

[RichardW]

There was a rumor that stated Hendrix, himself, was supposed to join up, making it: "H.E.L.P"

I once heard Greg Lake comment on this, and IIRC, it was more like he and Hendrix bumped into each other, said "hey, we should jam sometime," and Hendrix OD'd before it could happen. Hard to imagine Hendrix, then a solo superstar, would have fit in ELP which already had three pretty big egos--not to mention the differences in musical tastes and background. But, hey, you never know.

 

[Richland123]

While this is not rock, it is still unusual music trivia in that the same song was a U.S. chart hit by three different acts at the same time in 1949 and again in 1965.

"Red Roses for a Blue Lady" was first recorded by John Laurenz and a #2 U.S. hit in 1949 and was also a U.S. hit that year at the same time for Vaughn Monroe & His Orchestra at #4 and Guy Lombardo & His Royal Canadians at #10. It was also a U.S. hit in 1965 for three different acts all at the same time - Vic Dana at #10, Wayne Newton at #23, and Bert Kaempfert and His Orchestra at #11. All three versions were also listed on Billboard′s Easy Listening chart reaching in 1965 at #2, #3, and #4 respectively.

 

[Michedelic]

I once heard Greg Lake comment on this, and IIRC, it was more like he and Hendrix bumped into each other, said "hey, we should jam sometime," and Hendrix OD'd before it could happen. Hard to imagine Hendrix, then a solo superstar, would have fit in ELP which already had three pretty big egos--not to mention the differences in musical tastes and background. But, hey, you never know.

Really, he OD’d? Tell me about it.

 

[Richland123]

Bo Diddley lived in Los Lunas, New Mexico from 1971 to 1978. While living there, he served for two and a half years as a deputy sheriff in the Valencia County Citizens' Patrol. During that time, he purchased and donated three highway-patrol pursuit cars.

 

[Richland123]

During his last days, Benjamin Orr was a member of a supergroup called Big People with left to right Benjamin Orr (The Cars), Jeff Carlisi (.38 Special), Pat Travers, Derek St. Holmes (Ted Nugent), & Liberty DeVitto (Billy Joel).

According to Jeff Carlisi, the band was touring playing songs from each member's previous hits. They were in the process of discussing recording original tunes when Benjamin became ill and passed away at age 53 from pancreatic cancer.

Just imagine what that band could have done.

Here are a couple videos of them live.

 

[oldrocker]

During his last days, Benjamin Orr was a member of a supergroup called Big People with left to right Benjamin Orr (The Cars), Jeff Carlisi (.38 Special), Pat Travers, Derek St. Holmes (Ted Nugent), & Liberty DeVitto (Billy Joel).

According to Jeff Carlisi, the band was touring playing songs from each member's previous hits. They were in the process of discussing recording original tunes when Benjamin became ill and passed away at age 53 from pancreatic cancer.

Just imagine what that band could have done.

Most bands don't seem to break up when they lose the bass player.

I guess for these guys they couldn't replace the bass player.

 

[b/o 402]

Most bands don't seem to break up when they lose the bass player.

I guess for these guys they couldn't replace the bass player.

 

[Richland123]

In 2009, Adam Schlesinger from Fountains of Wayne, James Iha of the Smashing Pumpkins, Bun E. Carlos of Cheap Trick, and Taylor Hanson of Hanson founded the group Tinted Windows. The result was pure power pop. Tinted Windows released only one album.

The first performance by the band was on March 18, 2009 at Cain's Ballroom in Tulsa, Oklahoma. The band played other live shows across the U.S. and Japan in 2009 and 2010 and appeared on The late Show With David Letterman and Late Night With Jimmy Fallon.

 

[GregC]

This was far more than trivial, but this seems to be a decent place to put this. RIP, Bowie.

 

[Michedelic]

Most bands don't seem to break up when they lose the bass player.

On a formal/press release level, that’s more or less what happened to the Beatles, but realistically they knew it was all over by the time they were recording Abbey Road.