Post some music trivia here

[abcdefz]

Marc Bolan of T. Rex played duel lead guitar (with Jeff Lynne) on ELO's "Ma Ma Ma Belle."

I did not know that. That song has such a great sound, it makes perfect sense.

[MC Moot]

Tom Petty and Eric Idle serenaded George Harrison in his final moments on this planet.....:( (y)

[abcdefz]

Are you serious? I didn't know that, either.

[MC Moot]

Are you serious? I didn't know that, either.

Yep, I read about in Idle's "Fat,Greedy Bastard Tour"...a very moving chapter,he covers the attack on Harrisons life and how it felt it really damaged George in spirit,health and soul...very harrowing......the second thing that came instantly to mind when I read this thread was Waylon Jenning's giving up his seat on Buddy Holly's doomed flight and joking with the guy he gave the ticket to "I hope your plane crashes,then!"....Yikes!!!

P.S: Chuck Klostermans "Killing Yourself to Live: 85% of a true story" is a great read on such matters

[abcdefz]

Buddy Holly once did some girl that Little Richard was fondling. I guess they were touring together and Little Richard had the woman's breasts out and Buddy Holly was walking past or something. Little Richard waved him in, Buddy did her from behind in this weird pseudo-threeway, zipped up, and got out onstage.

This is thirdhand -- a co-worker told me he read it in Little Richard's autobiography, I think.

[MC Moot]

Buddy Holly once did some girl that Little Richard was fondling..

Huh,and here I wuz thinkin Chuck Berry was the original freakster....

Fairfax High School L.A Alumni:Lenny Kravitz ,Anthony Kiedis, Flea,Hillel Slovak, Jack Irons and Slash....

[zorra_chiflada]

in the green jelly song "3 little pigs" (you know the one with the claymation video) maynard james keenan did the falsetto-ey voice of the pigs.

[zorra_chiflada]

jimi hendrix's death certificate was signed by the head of the australian greens party (and hobart resident) bob brown

[Lex Diamonds]

Johnny Depp played slide guitar on Oasis' song "Fade In/Out", from Be Here Now. (y)

[MC Moot]

The same gang of Jamaican rude boys that held Johnny Cash and his family hostage during a home invasion/robbery, later went on to shoot and kill Peter Tosh in an almost identical scheme……

[ggirlballa]

courtney love punched kathleen hanna backstage at lollapalooza 95'

[ggirlballa]

LLCoolJ heard an early version of Run DMC's "Peter Piper" and he copied the bells for his song "Rock the Bells" Run was angry at LL & made him change up the bell sample untill it sounded like it does now on "Rock the Bells' (both songs have vey dope & distinctive beats)

[adam_f]

Of all people, Pharoahe Monch ghostwrote Diddy's new album.

[DipDipDive]

Screech and Mike D from the Beastie Boys are brothers!

[TurdBerglar]

jimmy hendrix played guitar!

freddy mercury was gay!

elvis is dead!

[camo]

phil collins apparently wrote the theme tune to captian planet!

[Lex Diamonds]

jimmy hendrix played guitar!

freddy mercury was gay!

elvis is dead!
lol x3

[abcdefz]

Sonny Curtis, of the Crickets, later wrote "I Fought the Law" as well as the theme song for the Mary Tyler Moore Show. ("You're Gonna Make it After All" or whatever it was called.)

[icy manipulator]

Easy Lover is a really great song to do on kareoke(y)

[Lex Diamonds]

Jay-Z wrote Still DRE.

[MC Moot]

Sgt Peppers was originally laid down without Ringo’s participation at all.…Paul played all the drum parts…..when Ringo was made aware he threatened to quit immediately…..believe it or not, in order to keep him in the band they covered his kit and the studio with roses and the master tapes all strewn over his drums…..

[abcdefz]

I didn't know that.

Didn't he quit during the white album sessions, too?

[abcdefz]

P.S. That's Glen Campbell's guitar all over Pet Sounds. I think the only Beach Boy playing an instrument on that whole album is Brian.

[cj hood]

run dmc's "peter piper" was inspired by utfo's (w/force mds) "fairy tale lover".....

[Genocide Tulips]

I didn't know that.

Didn't he quit during the white album sessions, too?

Yeah, it was around that time. I didn't know about the Sgt. Peppers story though.

[abcdefz]

I'd heard about the flowers part, too. Apparently that was his weakness, eh?

How funny. You think of Ringo as the easygoing one.

[abcdefz]

Madonna's Like a Prayer LP was actually patchouli-scented when it first shipped.

[MC Moot]

yes,flowers,hashish and big honking ruby rings.....the story was related on one of the anthology episodes....that may be my favorite media musical collection....I LOVE the anthology....:cool:

[abcdefz]

Fleeetwood Mac's Tusk was the first album with a recording budget of over a million dollars.

-- which sounds pretty damned indulgent until you realize they built a studio with the money.

[MC Moot]

Fleeetwood Mac's Tusk was the first album with a recording budget of over a million dollars.

-- which sounds pretty damned indulgent until you realize they built a studio with the money.

The mere mention of Fleetwood Mack always makes me feel like I should wash my hands.....

[Mr Films]

the lead singer of Fountains of Wayne wrote the songs that the fictional band The Wonders perform in That Thing You Do!

[DroppinScience]

Moby was very briefly a singer in the '80s hardcore group, Flipper.

[abcdefz]

(!)

That blows me away. I had a roommate in college who really liked Flipper.

[Otis Driftwood]

Moby was very briefly a singer in the '80s hardcore group, Flipper.
I saw that on American Hardcore. One of the band members got really pissed about it... :D

[abcdefz]

Kind of uncharacteristic:

Springsteen was playing a concert on the day he turned 30. Fans in the crowd passed a birthday cake up to the stage, and he got pissed and threw it back at them.

[steve-onpoint]

Sgt Peppers was originally laid down without Ringo’s participation at all.…Paul played all the drum parts…..when Ringo was made aware he threatened to quit immediately…..believe it or not, in order to keep him in the band they covered his kit and the studio with roses and the master tapes all strewn over his drums…..

Really? (http://www.veoh.com/videos/v224149Epm4ZGQY) :confused:

[abcdefz]

Really? (http://www.veoh.com/videos/v224149Epm4ZGQY) :confused:


That's a 46 minute comment, steve. Can you summarize?

[steve-onpoint]

That's a 46 minute comment, steve. Can you summarize?

I was more or less just sharing the documentary to see if Moot could make any sense of it. It seemed to me that Ringo played a pretty significant role in the album according to the documentary. I remember George Martin and Phil Collins commenting on Ringo's technique and style as a drummer on the album.

I was just confused. That's all. :o

[abcdefz]

Might not be.

I'd heard the story as related to the white album and not Sgt. Pepper's. I'm kinda thinking it probably didn't happen twice, on back to back album sessions no less.

[Auton]

yeah it happened on the white album, not sgt pepper. they were still all buddy-buddy during sgt pepper, even though paul did most of the guitar work and george just sat around alot.

[MC Moot]

huh......my recollection may be mistaken but the way I remember the story was that Ringo was off in India when initial recording began.....I'm sure it was Peppers......this was also what led to the Billy Shears bandleader (Ringo Incognito) reference and even why “A little help from my friends” was written for him…..then again my name is Moot……;)

[abcdefz]

It would make the "I get high with a little help from my friends" line make even more sense...

I just -- I know I've always heard that he split during the white album and they wooed him back with flowers... seems like an odd scenario to play out twice.

[Auton]

I'm just saying what i know from the anthology, the beatlesongs book, and geoff emerick's autobiography. it didn't happen twice. none of them went to india until after sgt pepper. according to those, sorry if i sound like a douche

[steve-onpoint]

I just -- I know I've always heard that he split during the white album and they wooed him back with flowers... seems like an odd scenario to play out twice.

OCD

[abcdefz]

I'm just saying what i know from the anthology, the beatlesongs book, and geoff emerick's autobiography. it didn't happen twice. none of them went to india until after sgt pepper. according to those, sorry if i sound like a douche


You don't sound like a douche -- we're just trying to get it straight.

[MC Moot]

none of them went to india until after sgt pepper.

Nope, I know Harrison,for sure, was there as early as 66' = Norwegian Wood

[Auton]

^ok, yes. that is absolutely correct

[MC Moot]

Back to more trivia though....Bob Dylan apparently intoduced Lennon and Paul to pot....which later caused Elvis to dislike them when he invited them over.....like they were reversing the whole gateway drug theory by starting with speed....hard to believe.....

[abcdefz]

Doing a Google search, I see tons of references to Ringo quitting during the white album (so Paul played drums on "Back in the USSR"), but nothing about quitting during Sgt. Pepper. Maybe somebody else can find something?

Wikipedia also references his "temporary departure" during white album and nothing about leaving during Sgt. Pepper. That's not conclusive; I'm just saying.

[MC Moot]

this is kind of trick,not enitrely related but....http://math.mercyhurst.edu/~griff/sgtpepper/people.html

[Documad]

I hate Sgt. Pepper's. Always have.

When I was a teenager, everyone I knew was convinced that Stevie Nicks was a witch. There were elaborate stories about her coven. It's not trivia. Alas.

[adam_f]

Harry Connick Jr. is only recording music to finance a sequel to Hope Floats.

[camo]

james blunt is shite

[AtoD]

As many have said: Ringo did not quit until the White Album where he left during the Back in the USSR sessions. Paul played drums on that and Dear Prudence before they made Ringo come back, put flowers on his drums and all that. Ringo quit because he felt like he wasn't a part of the band or something. The Beatles visited India between Magical Mystery Tour and the White Album but George visited AFTER Revolver, not BEFORE Norwegian Wood which was much earlier. Norwegian Wood was inspired by Indian musicians on the set of Help! the movie.

[MC Moot]

I hate Sgt. Pepper's. Always have..

That's crazy talk! You're crazy cat! But you were absolutely on the right track about Stevie Nicks,she shacked up with Jimmy Page in Alistair Crowley's castle........:D

[MC Moot]

The Beatles visited India between Magical Mystery Tour and the White Album but George visited AFTER Revolver, not BEFORE Norwegian Wood which was much earlier. Norwegian Wood was inspired by Indian musicians on the set of Help! the movie.

true,true....

"Despite his (Ravi Shankar's) growing reputation as a composer and teacher, he was generally unknown outside of India until Beatles star George Harrison began experimenting with the sitar on the film set of Help in 1965.

After flirting with the instrument on the track Norwegian Wood, Harrison travelled to India to study with maestro Ravi Shankar.

It was a friendship that was to endure, despite Shankar's objection to the Beatles' experiments with drugs and the hippie generation's misrepresentation of India."

[abcdefz]

It KILLS me that Ravi Shankar got to be a household name. I've only heard one of his albums that I thought was really good. He doesn't hold a candle to Nikhil Banerjee or Vilayat Khan.

[yeahwho]

Upon meeting the band Pink Floyd for the first time, a record company executive asked them "Which one's Pink?"

[abcdefz]

...and they all immediately pointed at Jason London.

[yeahwho]

When asked if it bothered him when people made wise cracks about his big nose, Beatles' drummer Ringo Starr once said "it goes up one nostril and down the other."

One of Jan and Dean's first records was a song called "Linda", written in 1944 by Jack Lawrence, about a friend's two year old daughter, Linda Eastman. That same little girl would grow up to marry Paul McCartney in March, 1969.

[abcdefz]

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[MC Moot]

Stevie Ray Vaughn requested and took his brothers, Jimmie Vaughn's, scheduled seat from him on the fatal helicopter flight that took his life.....

[MC Moot]

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I was thinking it must be something from "With the Beatles"....no?

[abcdefz]

No; I fell for the old legend that Lennon got all the lyrics for "Mr. Kite" from the poster. Instead, he just got the idea and a few phrases. I should've double-checked first.

[MC Moot]

Bob Dylan and Lou Reed have both Co written songs for KISS....

[abcdefz]

I knew Lou helped out on The Elder. What did Bobby do?

[MC Moot]

I knew Lou helped out on The Elder. What did Bobby do?


Not sure,read it in Chuck Klostermans new book.....

[yeahwho]

These go to 11 (http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=N7ca2D2EnqQ&eurl=http%3A%2F%2Ffuelfriends%2Eblogspot%2Ecom%2F)

[Drederick Tatum]

Rick James used to play in a band with Neil Young.

[abcdefz]

Not sure,read it in Chuck Klostermans new book.....


Apparently it's a song called "Waiting for the Morning Light."

Huh.

[MC Moot]

Apparently it's a song called "Waiting for the Morning Light."

Huh.

Maybe they wrote it for passover....;)

[MC Moot]

Flea of the Red Hot's has a very stranger good luck charm/talisman habit.....

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=hYmTxFy_5bM


:confused:

[MC Moot]

Following years of deteriorating health after his paralysis in 1990,which happened in an onstage accident,Curtis Mayfield died very near to being bankrupt.....So,much so that Chuck D "anonymously" financed his funeral service/memorial.....

[Tompz]

Rick James used to play in a band with Neil Young.

called the "The Mynah Birds"

[MC Moot]

In the weeks leading up to Joey Ramones death Kirk Hammet and Stone Gossard helped provide care for him by cooking and cleaning as he had refused a pallative nurse....

[abcdefz]

When Eric Clapton was recording his tribute to Robert Johnson album, he finally had to resort to overdubbing some parts because he couldn't replicate Johnson's playing without it.

[BangkokB]

Primus guitarist originally played in Possessed

Anton Fig played every song on KISS Dynasty except for Peter Criss's Dirty Livin'

"Come On Dave Give me a Break" was said by Producer Ted Templeton

Mob Rules has Kill Ozzy on the Ground

Awakening of the Beast and Faster Pussycat have one thing in common

Christian Rock is an oxymoron

Layne Staley last live shows w/ AiC were bc Scott Weiland had to pull out bc of his drug problems. They opened for KISS for 4 shows~They never toured for The 3 Legged Dog

Phil Collins played on Peter Gabriels 3rd LP and was the 1st to use the gated drum techinque that Phil later used on In the Air Tonight

[MC Moot]

James Brown gave Elvis dance lessons...

And this just in: "Beyonce may be bootylicious, but she needed Shakira to show her how to shake her belly and hips for her new track...".....:D