Unusual Rock Trivia?

[Richland123]

According to Jackson Browne, when he was recording his debut album, he asked guitarist Jesse Ed Davis to play on it. He said he played one of the demos for him and Jesse said the song was not for his style and asked if Jackson had another song he could hear. Jackson played him the demo for "Doctor My Eyes" and Jesse said he could play on that. They started recording and Jess played all his guitar parts the first time along in one take and Jackson said it was so good that they kept it that way.

The other musicians on the song were Jackson on piano and vocals, Russ Kunkle on drums, Leland Sklar on bass, and David Crosby and Graham Nash on backing vocals.

 

[Richland123]

Peggy Lee provided speaking and singing voices for several characters in the Disney movie Lady And The Tramp (1955), playing the human Darling, the dog Peg, and the two Siamese cats, Si and Am. She also co-wrote, with Sonny Burke all of the original songs for the film, including "He's A Tramp", "Bella Notte", "La La Lu", "The Siamese Cat Song", and "Peace on Earth".

 

[Richland123]

Did you ever hear all the original Hot Rod Race Songs by Arkie Shibley?

The music is the same for all 5 songs; but, each one is part of the continuous story of racing hot rods.

These songs were the inspiration for the song "Hot Rod Lincoln" by Charlie Ryan in 1955 under the name Charley Ryan and The Livingston Brothers. He did another version of the song in 1959 as Charlie Ryan and the Timberline Riders. The most famous version of the song was by Commander Cody And His Lost Planet Airmen in 1971.

 

[58kites]

Did you ever hear all the original Hot Rod Race Songs by Arkie Shibley?

The music is the same for all 5 songs; but, each one is part of the continuous story of racing hot rods.

These songs were the inspiration for the song "Hot Rod Lincoln" by Charlie Ryan in 1955 under the name Charley Ryan and The Livingston Brothers. He did another version of the song in 1959 as Charlie Ryan and the Timberline Riders. The most famous version of the song was by Commander Cody And His Lost Planet Airmen in 1971.

The Commander Cody version really killed it. Probably listened to it 200 times the year I was 16.

 

[SubHuman]

The only US tour the Beatles didn’t sell out. Beatles at Red Rocks.

 

[IMMusicRulz]

Before they formed The Cars, Ric Ocasek, Greg Hawkes and Ben Orr were part of a folk rock band called Milkwood that was very Neil Young like. It came out in 1972 and has been out of print for decades.

I think Ben Orr played the Rickenbacker 4001 on that record.

 

[MonetBass]

Richland beat you to that one by a few years...
Unusual Rock Trivia?

 

[Richland123]

What connection do the members of Pearl Jam have with The Red Hot Chili Peppers?

Pearl Jam guitarist Mike McCready tells this story.

Drummer Jack Irons was a founding member of The Red Hot Chili Peppers. When Mike McCready, Jeff Ament, Stone Gossard wanted to form a new band, they sent out a five-song demo tape in order to find a singer and a drummer. They gave former Red Hot Chili Peppers drummer Jack Irons the demo to see if he would be interested in joining the band and to distribute the demo to anyone he felt might fit the lead vocal position.

Irons passed on the invitation but gave the demo to his friend, singer Eddie Vedder, who was the lead vocalist for a San Diego band, Bad Radio. He listened to the tape and then penned lyrics and recorded vocals to three of the songs ("Alive", "Once", and "Footsteps"). Vedder sent the tape with his vocals back to the three musicians, who were impressed enough to fly Vedder up to Seattle for an audition. Within a week, Vedder had joined the band.

 

[GregC]

What connection do the members of Pearl Jam have with The Red Hot Chili Peppers?

Pearl Jam guitarist Mike McCready tells this story.

Drummer Jack Irons was a founding member of The Red Hot Chili Peppers. When Mike McCready, Jeff Ament, Stone Gossard wanted to form a new band, they sent out a five-song demo tape in order to find a singer and a drummer. They gave former Red Hot Chili Peppers drummer Jack Irons the demo to see if he would be interested in joining the band and to distribute the demo to anyone he felt might fit the lead vocal position.

Irons passed on the invitation but gave the demo to his friend, singer Eddie Vedder, who was the lead vocalist for a San Diego band, Bad Radio. He listened to the tape and then penned lyrics and recorded vocals to three of the songs ("Alive", "Once", and "Footsteps"). Vedder sent the tape with his vocals back to the three musicians, who were impressed enough to fly Vedder up to Seattle for an audition. Within a week, Vedder had joined the band.

And the connection continues. Just last night I got an email for an Eddie Vedder solo tour next year. The backing band includes longtime RHCP drummer Chad Smith and former RHCP guitarist Josh Klinghoffer.

 

[IMMusicRulz]

Geddy Lee Of Rush was a backing vocalist on Heart’s 2010 album Red Velvet Car.

 

[IMMusicRulz]

Jethro Tull recorded their first single, Sunshine Day, in 1969, with Aeroplane as the B side (co-written by Ian Anderson with bassist Glenn Cornick.)
However, Glenn Cornick and others believe that producer Derek Lawrence purposely used the name Jethro Toe on the label of the single release, because he did not like the name Jethro Tull.

 

[-Asdfgh-]

And the connection continues. Just last night I got an email for an Eddie Vedder solo tour next year. The backing band includes longtime RHCP drummer Chad Smith and former RHCP guitarist Josh Klinghoffer.

Pearl Jam used to do a cover of Save It For Later by The (English) Beat, also covered by Pete Townshend. I can't go into the meaning of the lyrics on a family-friendly forum. Dave Gilmour assisted Townshend in trying to work out the chords and called Dave Wakeling, songwriter of this. Wakeling put the phone down on them, not believing it was them saying "Yes, Dave Gilmour and Pete Townshend normally call about this time of day". The complexity of the chords was because Wakeling tried to copy John Martyn's DADGAD tuning, but came up with DADAAD. Since Wakeling played a right-handed guitar left-handed without restringing it, I suppose it is DAADAD.

In other Beat trivia, Ranking Roger (Roger Charlery) was actually originally a punk drummer before he joined the band aged 16.

Saxophonist Saxa (Lionel someoneorother) generally didn't attend rehearsals and learned the songs from rehearsal tapes.

 

[IMMusicRulz]

I could be entirely wrong, but I believe I read somewhere that Michelle Branch dated race car driver Arie Luyendyk Jr. the both of them grew up together in Phoenix Arizona.

 

[GregC]

I could be entirely wrong, but I believe I read somewhere that Michelle Branch dated race car driver Arie Luyendyk Jr. the both of them grew up together in Phoenix Arizona.

She’s now married to Black Keys drummer Patrick Carney.

 

[IMMusicRulz]

She’s now married to Black Keys drummer Patrick Carney.

I know. My parents and I are both fans of the Black Keys, so that's how I discovered her music.

 

[GregC]

I had no idea. Barbe also played in several notable Athens bands in the '80s such as Mercyland.

 

[IMMusicRulz]

When Edward Van Halen was in high school, he was the bassist in a rock band called Rat Salad, that was named after a track off of Black Sabbath's classic 1970 album Paranoid. The members of Van Halen were all big fans of Black Sabbath, and gigged with them on the Never Say Die! tour in 1978.

 

[roccobass]

Steve Priest (bassist for The Sweet) recalled talking to David Bowie on Top of the Pops: “I was plastering this make-up on, and Bowie's going: 'Oh no, no, no. You've got to be subtle.' Bowie just didn't get it. It isn't supposed to be subtle. I'm supposed to look like an old tart.

 

[IMMusicRulz]

Michael Steele, the bassist for the Bangles, was also in the Runaways for about a month in 1975. She was eventually sacked by producer Kim Fowley over his sexual tension.

 

[Richland123]

In the movie sequence for Singin' In The Rain in which Gene Kelly sings the title song while spinning an umbrella, splashing through puddles, and getting soaked with rain, Kelly was sick with a 103 F fever. Also, the water used in the scene caused Kelly's wool suit to shrink during filming.