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post #1 of 25
11/5/09 at 3:28pm
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Figured we needed one in this section as well as in Movies and TV.

Despite their eighties output ZZ Top are a pretty damn good Texas blues band.

Randy California of the Spirit played in Hendrix's first band Jimmy James and the Blue Flames.
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post #2 of 25
11/5/09 at 3:32pm
I just found this out the other day:

The core musicians for Missing Persons (Dale Bozzio, Terry Bozzio, and Warren Cuccurrullo) were all members of Frank Zappa's touring band. Warren even played guitar on Frank's 'Joe's Garage' album.
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post #3 of 25
11/5/09 at 3:35pm
Lemmy Kilmister taught Sid Vicious how to play bass. It did not work.
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post #4 of 25
11/5/09 at 3:36pm
Heh. Wonder how long it'll take PK to find this thread... personally, I can't wait.

Of your two points, the second seems well in keeping with the theme (particularly since there's nothing as handy as IMDB to track down those connections).

Not sure about the first, though: while I heartily agree (Deguello, in particular, is vastly underrated, even by many of the band's fans), I think questions of taste and preferences belong in another thread.
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post #5 of 25
11/5/09 at 3:42pm
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Heh. Wonder how long it'll take PK to find this thread... personally, I can't wait.
OMG, Paul McCartney of Wings fame is the same Paul McCartney from the Beatles!
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post #6 of 25
11/5/09 at 3:44pm
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OMG, Paul McCartney of Wings fame is the same Paul McCartney from the Beatles!
Sounds apocryphal, but I swear that I have twice been in music stores where I heard people "discover" that McCartney was in a band before Wings.
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post #7 of 25
11/5/09 at 3:47pm
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Sounds apocryphal, but I swear that I have twice been in music stores where I heard people "discover" that McCartney was in a band before Wings.
Were they buying CDs by that hot new band, Creed?
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post #8 of 25
11/5/09 at 3:50pm
I'm dating myself just by the fact that they even knew who Wings were. Not sure how many of today's young'uns would.
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post #9 of 25
11/5/09 at 4:07pm
Here are a few compiled from a couple of books I'm reading at the moment (Auslander's Performing Glam Rock and Unterberger's Eight Miles High: Folk Rock's Flight from Haight-Ashbury to Woodstock):

I knew that Marc Bolan had Jewish roots, but I didn't know David Bowie's mom was Jewish, which by some standards makes him a full-fledged non-practicing member of the tribe (moreso than me, in any case, since it's matrilineal, not patrilineal). Jewish bragging rights for yet another entertainment genre!

Christina Applegate's mom, Nancy Priddy, was involved in the early folk-rock scene, inspired a Buffalo Springfield-era Stephen Stills song "Pretty Girl Why" (with which I'm unfamiliar), and sang backup on Leonard Cohen's first album.

Before her first solo album, Joni Mitchell did a bunch of demos in Chicago with an electric blues band backing her up. These are as yet unreleased.
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post #10 of 25
11/5/09 at 4:21pm
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Originally Posted by Ryan S~ View Post

Despite their eighties output ZZ Top are a pretty damn good Texas blues band.
I wish I could still appreciate ZZ Top. So much of their stuff is incredible (Deguello especially) but I am so burned out on them. I was named after Billy Gibbons for fuck sakes. Yes, that's what the G in BillyG stands for, and it's on my birth certificate. But yes, everyone should listen to Deguello.
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post #11 of 25
11/5/09 at 4:27pm
Aussie Pub Rock came from the fact that pubs in Australia were huge to accomodate drinkers due to a 5 PM curfew law. Once the law was lifted, pub owners needed something to take up the space. Ergo, bands started showing up.
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post #12 of 25
11/5/09 at 11:02pm
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Originally Posted by Jeb View Post
Heh. Wonder how long it'll take PK to find this thread... personally, I can't wait.

Of your two points, the second seems well in keeping with the theme (particularly since there's nothing as handy as IMDB to track down those connections).

Not sure about the first, though: while I heartily agree (Deguello, in particular, is vastly underrated, even by many of the band's fans), I think questions of taste and preferences belong in another thread.
That's a good point. I'm up for leaving preference out of this. Keep it to the facts, as it were.
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post #13 of 25
11/5/09 at 11:03pm
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Aussie Pub Rock came from the fact that pubs in Australia were huge to accomodate drinkers due to a 5 PM curfew law. Once the law was lifted, pub owners needed something to take up the space. Ergo, bands started showing up.
Speaking of Aussie:

I just found out that Mick Thomas was the lead singer for Weddings, Parties, Anything.
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post #14 of 25
11/5/09 at 11:27pm
I saw ZZ Top in concert a few years ago. They still know how to rock the joint. And their encore was a 25 minutes version of La Grange.
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post #15 of 25
11/5/09 at 11:39pm
The Strokes' "Last Night" is a total rip-off of Tom Petty's "American Girl"
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post #16 of 25
11/6/09 at 12:16am
One of the music oddities I've always enjoyed is the E-Streets playing on a lot of Jim Steinman's stuff, like Bat out of Hell and Streets of Fire. I think the Steinman-Springsteen connection's a hoot, especially if you look at how the two were writing Bat and Born to Run at about the same time (though Bat came 2 years after Born). I've listened to those two albums a LOT, and it's very easy to see how if Bat were taken down a notch/Steinman curbed his impulses, it would sound a lot like Born. Just like if Springsteen let himself go nuts in the studio and with the ridiculous lyrics, he might have put out Bat out of Hell instead.
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post #17 of 25
11/6/09 at 12:58am
American Idol's Randy Jackson played bass on Stryper's "Against the Law" record.
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post #18 of 25
11/6/09 at 9:52am
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One of the music oddities I've always enjoyed is the E-Streets playing on a lot of Jim Steinman's stuff, like Bat out of Hell and Streets of Fire. I think the Steinman-Springsteen connection's a hoot, especially if you look at how the two were writing Bat and Born to Run at about the same time (though Bat came 2 years after Born). I've listened to those two albums a LOT, and it's very easy to see how if Bat were taken down a notch/Steinman curbed his impulses, it would sound a lot like Born. Just like if Springsteen let himself go nuts in the studio and with the ridiculous lyrics, he might have put out Bat out of Hell instead.
Musically, "You Took the Words Right Out of My Mouth" sounds like it came right off The River.
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post #19 of 25
11/6/09 at 11:17am
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I'm dating myself just by the fact that they even knew who Wings were. Not sure how many of today's young'uns would.
I just found out a few months ago that Denny Laine, the long-standing faithful guitarist for Wings was the original lead singer for The Moody Blues, way back in the 60s before Justin Hayward joined. In the words of Johnny Carson, "I did not know that!"
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post #20 of 25
11/6/09 at 1:27pm
I just learned that guitarist Jeff "Skunk" Baxter (Steely Dan, Doobies, etc.) got his start as a member of Ultimate Spinach.
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post #21 of 25
11/6/09 at 1:28pm
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In the words of Johnny Carson, "I did not know that!"
Glad I'm not the only one dating themselves in this thread...
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post #22 of 25
11/6/09 at 9:54pm
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Just like if Springsteen let himself go nuts....with the ridiculous lyrics, he might have put out Bat out of Hell instead.
"Wrap you arms around my engines"?

Bruce may be closer than you think.
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post #23 of 25
11/6/09 at 9:55pm
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American Idol's Randy Jackson played bass on Stryper's "Against the Law" record.
I watched the Bio on Randy Jackson, the guy has some serious cred as a hired gun.
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post #24 of 25
11/7/09 at 12:13am
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My wife just recently figure out that it was a Hammond B3 and not a ham and B3. Apparently she thought it was some sort of musician slang for an organ.
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post #25 of 25
6/16/10 at 5:16pm
"There She Goes" isn't about a girl at all.
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