Post your rock 'n roll trivia here.

[darkstar]

She wrote that? He played guitar on that track? They sold more albums than Elvis? Etc.

I'll start. Credence Clearwater Revival had 5 songs go to #2, but never once had a song at #1.

[Capn Sunshine]

1. The the "Beat Farmers" started life as a early grunge wave rock band in San Diego

Now they're a "Country" band.
huh.

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=xA-iwS_sAPc

Beat Farmers at Tio Lios back in the day.

[Va Lefty]

4. Saw The Beat Farmers Live in '87

They were great!! So sad to lose Buddy and Country Dick so young.
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=iquVd12M4lQ

[Oeditpus Rex]

8. I don't think of them as 'country'

KPIG plays 'em a lot, but, like KPIG, they're quite eclectic.

RIP, Country Dick. :patriot:



Note: The KPIG contingent at the World's Shortest Parade each July 4 in Aptos marches to "Happy Boy." :bounce:

[Va Lefty]

2. Backup vocalists on Don Henly's "Building The Perfect Beast"

Belinda Carlisle
Lindsey Buckingham
Martha Davis
Patty Smyth

[opiate69]

3. Tony Iommi of Black Sabbath

originally replaced Mick Abrahams as guitarist of Jethro Tull. His tenure lasted about 2 weeks, and he can be seen playing "A song for Jeffery" with the band on the Rolling Stones' Rock n Roll Circus movie.

[Commie Pinko Dirtbag]

5. Genesis had auditions to replace Peter Gabriel as a singer and...

...every candidate would be corrected by Phil Collins on the lines of "no, Peter didn't sing like that, he sang like THIS..." After a dozen or so candidates, it became clear the replacement they were looking for was their own drummer.

[mitchum]

6. The great Link Wray played guitar on the execrable "Seasons In The Sun"

[mitchum]

7. Chuck Berry only had one song go to #1

"My Ding-a-ling"

[ghostsofgiants]

9. Not that anyone who knows anything about anarchism wouldn't realize this, but the Sex Pistols...

Were never anarchists.

[HuskerDU]

10. Monkees of punk rock!

Dee Dee Ramone was briefly in GG Allin's Murder Junkies.

[mitchum]

11. David Johansen is making the jingle jangle sounds on Aerosmith's "Back In The Saddle"

[HuskerDU]

12. DJ get's around does he not?

Blackie (Guzman) Lawless was briefly a member of the New York Dolls.

[mitchum]

14. I always thought that incident was emblematic of David Jo's addiction...

he knew that Aerosmith was just a piss poor dumbed down rip off of the Dolls, but Tyler had the drugs and the limos...and David Jo wanted access to them.
Steven Tyler isn't fit to carry David Jo's cigarette case.

[HuskerDU]

16. True true. And DJ married Cyrinda (the) Foxe first too!

Sooo many bands contrived to be what the Dolls were for real.

[Va Lefty]

13. Steely Dan

Future Steely Dan frontmen Walter Becker and Donald Fagan met at Bard College in NY. One of the first bands they played in together was called "The Bad Rock Group" which featured non other than future SNL star Chevy Chase on drums.

[mitchum]

15. Didn't they also play in Jay & The Americans?

[Va Lefty]

17. As Ed McMahon would say

"You are correct, sir" I think Fagan cut several tracks with them. Not sure any of them were ever released.

[HuskerDU]

18. SNL alum John Belushi played drums for the Dead boys

for a few gigs when their drummer was injured in a street fight. (at least I think that is true anyway!)

[mitchum]

19. That is true

[Tikki]

20. In "Blitzrieg Bop" someone (prob the record label) suggested the lyric...

change...
Hey ho, let's go
Shoot'em in the back now
What they want, I don't know
They're all reved up and ready to go...


to "Shouting in the back row"...DeeDee said "NO WAY".


Tikki

[Oeditpus Rex]

27. Whenever 'Blitzkrieg Bop' is played at Dodger Stadium

as it is at sports venues all across the country, I think, "You guys in the front office don't know any of the words beyond 'Hey, ho, let's go,' do you?"

:D

[SoxFan]

21. Elvis Costello's first wife

was a member of the Pogues. Cait O"Riordan played bass on "Red Roses for Me" and Rum, Sodomy, and the Lash" before leaving the group.

[Jade Fox]

22. He was married once before that.....

Krall is his third wife.

[HuskerDU]

23. Mike Watt (minutemen, fIREHOSE etc etc current Stooges) was

married to ex-Black Flag bassist Kira Roessler(sp?). They currently have a double bass musical project called dos.

Tony Iommi and Lita Ford were married for a while in the 80s.

[carly denise pt deux]

24. Charles Manson wrote a song that the Beach Boys made their own and recorded

manson and his family were living with Dennis Wilson, the drummer for the Beach Boys. Manson wrote a song called "Cease to Exist", they turned around the lyrics and made it their own, calling it first "Cease to resist", then again changed the name to "Never Learn Not to Love"

Dennis was so afraid of manson and his family, that he moved out of his beautiful home at 14400 Sunset Dr., leaving the family to live in it.

Carly

[Joe Fields]

25. Neil Young's Hearse was responsible for him becoming a member

of Buffalo Springfield.

When Stephen Stills was recruiting members for the new band, he hadn't given Neil Young any thought. But one day, he spotted a Hearse with Ontario license plates at an intersection in L.A., and knew it had to be Young, whom he had played with once, up in Canada. Stills made him the offer and we know the rest.

[Zomby Woof]

38. More Neil Young trivia

He and Rick James were in a band together in the early 1960's in Ontario.

[mitchum]

42. Neil also owns Hank Williams' guitar...

and unlike typical anal collectors, he actually plays the thing.

[BrotherBuzz]

55. More Neil Young trivia

Neil Young's first tour bus was built in Druid Heights, Marin County, California. It was a massive elven dream machine festooned with teak siding, a roof-deck, and syrupy Art Nouveau appliqué. It was built in the same magical enclave that spawned the first hot tub in Marin County, built be Ed Stiles.

One time Stiles used a redwood industrial process tank and a modified flash boiler to construct a hot tub, now a crenellated ruin crumbling into the hillside behind his home. He opened it up to everyone at Druid Heights, and one day he came by to discover a nubile Judy Collins soaking away. "I thought of it as a good thing," he says with a smile. Another visitor was a local dentist who commissioned Stiles to build an improved model in his backyard, which is how the first full-time, filtered, self-regulating Marin County redwood hot tub was born. Stiles built about thirty tubs over the years, but when demand sky-rocketed after a 1971 Sunset magazine article appeared, he chose to retire. "I wasn't interested in it as a business. I thought tubbing was an important social phenomenon. When people get naked together, they no longer carry the pretensions of their careers or identities. It was a great equalizer."

[Joe Fields]

26. Rod Argent used to be the keyboardist for the Zombies

[darkstar]

50. Nice...coinky-dink

or did you recall that I posted "Argent" in your name thread?

:hi:

[mitchum]

28. The Archies did not play their own instruments

shocking, but true

[mac56]

30. The Archies were never the same after Betty and Veronica had that big falling-out

And Jughead started dating the Japanese conceptual artist.

[mitchum]

33. LOL! And don't forget that incident with Hot Dog, the kilo, and the runaway

[rug]

29. The Big Bopper took Waylon Jennings' seat on the plane.

[mitchum]

31. The Big Bopper also took Sonny Curtis' seat and Dion's seat...

depending whether Waylon, Curtis, or Dion is telling the story

[rug]

32. He did have a fat ass.

But it was Waylon.

[mitchum]

34. LMAO!!!

nicely done :)

[johnnie]

40. According to Dion

He wanted to save his money to buy his smack.

[mitchum]

41. See...sometimes heroin addiction can be a good thing

[mitchum]

35. The prostitutes interviewed in "You'll Never Make Love In This Town Again" said that Glen Frey...

was always a gentleman.
However, they also said that Don Henley was an insecure blow hound who sweated alcohol

[HuskerDU]

36. Don Henley joined Mojo Nixon onstage for a rendition of

'Don Henley Must Die.'

[mitchum]

37. True, but I bet that Bernie Leadon has sang that song many more times

[HuskerDU]

39. Put a sharp stick in his eye!

[mitchum]

43. Break on through to affordable higher education...

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=-WIJd2sLuDA

[HuskerDU]

44. El Duce (Eldon Hoke of Mentors and did he know who killed

Cobain fame) was once the drummer for Tommy and the Tupperwares which later evolved into the Screamers. The guy goes from playing in a band with flamboyant homosexuals, to playing in the most infamous sexist/homophobic band in RnR history.

[XemaSab]

45. Courtney Love

had rumored affairs with three other artists in the mid-90's. Well, okay, she married one, dated one, and stalked one.

Name them. :D

[HuskerDU]

46. Cobain

Pumpkin
9 inch nail

She also knew El Duce? How? (I don't know the answer to that one- what was she doing with those scumbag Mentors- oh that answers it!)

[XemaSab]

47. that was FAST...

...but not as fast as Courtney! :D

[HuskerDU]

48. You have to really wonder about a girl who hung out with

a band like the Mentors. 'That girl ain't right!'

[mitchum]

49. El Duce stayed at my house...

when he was known as Beefy and road managing Tex & The Horseheads
He actually seemed like a nice guy

[HuskerDU]

51. I saw the Mentors with Saint Vitus and another band in '87.

(I was 15) Most shocking RnR show I ever saw.

Actually saw him before the show (without the hood) and didn't realize it until they started playing. Mentors were the ultimate Jr High male band- they sucked me in for sure!

'This song goes out to all you drug addict sluts, it's called 'Free Fix for a Fuck!'

[Dr. Strange]

52. Brothers of musicians...

Geoffrey Feiger is the lawyer who became famous for defending Jack Kevorkian. His brother is Doug Feiger, lead singer of The Knack (My Sharona).

Robert Patrick is an actor who played a terminator in Terminator 2 and also was Mulder's replacement in The X-Files. His brother is Richard Patrick, lead singer of Filter.

[mitchum]

53. Nick Cave was once a very pretty young man...

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=toFF3OvBR94

Nick isn't so pretty now (in fact, he looks the photo section of a true crime paperback)
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=WuDP7c3Zd8I

He's an incredible talent, though. Hell, he's a fucking genius.

[njdemocrat106]

54. Ozzy Osbourne is banned from entering San Antonio, Texas.

Why? He urinated on the Alamo.

Stephen Stills auditioned for the Monkees, but was rejected for having bad teeth.

Jimi Hendrix soaked his headband in LSD before performing.

John Lennon was tossed out of a Smothers Brothers concert after heckling them while wearing a tampon on his head.

A whole lot more interesting rock trivia here (answers link is at the top of the page):
http://wso.williams.edu/orgs/trivia/skills/supers/miscreants.html