music trivia

[mrtnmoon]

Sgt. Peppers....?

that's the one. don't feel bad, I'm not a huge beatles fan either. I like some of their songs, but I'm not of a mind that every time they farted they created a genius piece of music, like some beatle maniacs seem to believe. their main importance to me is that they were (I'm guessing) a big influence on one of my favorite bands, dada..... I usually describe them as the beatles with jimi hendrix on guitar. they have some beautiful ballads but they can rock it, too and just about every song features some great harmonies.

sorry, got sidetracked.... but I think anyone that loves really good power-poppish (but a little heavier IMO) tunes should check out a little band called dada.

here's another one:
MTV refused to play their first single because of the album cover art. The art was changed. MTV played the song once at 2am. 24 hours later, it was their number one requested song. One year later, the band owned the biggest selling debut album ever.

name the band and the album.

 

[mbbottom]

I sort of know

Guns & Roses, the album cover was a cross, with faces on the points of the cross ? and I have the answer upstairs in a book (the encyclopeadie of Heavy Metal-a must read for all thrashers) but that would not be playing the
game the right way !
...back at ya
Robert Plant & John Bonham came from what band to New Yardbirds/Led Zeplin
P.S. love the thread, just found it, forgive me if question has been asked before
MB

 

[mrtnmoon]

Guns & Roses, the album cover was a cross

...back at ya
Robert Plant & John Bonham came from what band to New Yardbirds/Led Zeppelin
P.S. love the thread, just found it, forgive me if question has been asked before
MB

so we have the artist and a description of the cover.... all we need is the album's title.

welcome to the thread, MB, and thanks for posting a question. as for the answer..... I dunno. it's one of those little bits of info that I'm sure I've read at some point, but I can't seem to retrieve it from my memory banks.

 

[mbbottom]

plant & bonham

my reference is 'Hobstweedle'...with a name like that you can understand
why they left

next one
who is this guy
his most famous album was baker street
bonus question
famous comedian played guitar/banjo with this guy in his early folk singer
days
(admittedly, the bonus question may be tricky for yanks)
cheers
MB

 

[~hellbaby~]

my reference is 'Hobstweedle'...with a name like that you can understand
why they left

next one
who is this guy
his most famous album was baker street
bonus question
famous comedian played guitar/banjo with this guy in his early folk singer
days
(admittedly, the bonus question may be tricky for yanks)
cheers
MB

Jerry Rafferty, was it tiny tim?

 

[~hellbaby~]

What is th eanswer???

 

[mbbottom]

gerry rafferty it was

sorry took me a while to revert...work, life, etc, gets in the way of a good time
Gerry Rafferty best album was Baker Street
his other hit was 'stuck in the middle with you'...his group at the
time was 'Steelers Wheel'....this is the song in Reservoir Dogs when the
bad guy is gonna cut up the good guy (was there a good guy in that movie ??? )
........answer to bonus question was
Billy Connolly....scottish comedian, who did have his own TV show on USA TV maybe 6-7 years ago. He was guitar & banjo with Rafferty in folk days. Legend has it he played lead guitar on 'stuck in the middle with you' but can't verify

...........appetite for destruction was the GnR album from about 3 questions ago
cheers
MB

 

[~hellbaby~]

sorry took me a while to revert...work, life, etc, gets in the way of a good time
Gerry Rafferty best album was Baker Street
his other hit was 'stuck in the middle with you'...his group at the
time was 'Steelers Wheel'....this is the song in Reservoir Dogs when the
bad guy is gonna cut up the good guy (was there a good guy in that movie ??? )
........answer to bonus question was
Billy Connolly....scottish comedian, who did have his own TV show on USA TV maybe 6-7 years ago. He was guitar & banjo with Rafferty in folk days. Legend has it he played lead guitar on 'stuck in the middle with you' but can't verify

...........appetite for destruction was the GnR album from about 3 questions ago
cheers
MB

I forgot about Billy Connolly. Got more Q's?(Q's = questions)

 

[mbbottom]

ok here goes

who played lead guitar for the beatles
who played lead guitar on 'while my guitar gently weeps'
who were the 3 famous lead guitarists in the yardbirds
who played lead guitar for sex pistols
who played lead guitar guns & roses

good luck

 

[~hellbaby~]

who played lead guitar for the beatles
who played lead guitar on 'while my guitar gently weeps'
who were the 3 famous lead guitarists in the yardbirds
who played lead guitar for sex pistols
who played lead guitar guns & roses

good luck

Yardbirds~Clapton, Jeff Beck, Page? I know it was one from Led Zep.

 

[mbbottom]

nailed the yardbirds

tony iommi was lead guitar for which band

bonus question:name the song & band
...finished with my woman coz she could'nt help me with my mind,
people think I'm insane coz I think I'm drowning all the time

playing now & the place is a jumping
MB

 

[winepleasures]

black sabbath

black sabbath was the band with Iommi. He played even though he was missing a couple of finger tips..

i know that lyric, but i refuse to look it up. that's cheating..

it'll come to me

 

[~hellbaby~]

Originally Posted by mbbottom
who played lead guitar for the beatles
Paul McCartney?
who played lead guitar on 'while my guitar gently weeps'
Guessing it wasn't a Beatle so Clapton maybe?
who were the 3 famous lead guitarists in the yardbirds
Yardbirds~Clapton, Jeff Beck, Page? I think it was one from Led Zep.
or Paul McCartney, crud I saw a show on it and I don't remember who it was,


__who played lead guitar for sex pistols
Sid Vicious, Nancy Spungen is burried 5 miles from my house. She briefly went to my school before whe was put in a 'special school'
who played lead guitar guns & roses
Axel Rose?
________________

 

[~hellbaby~]

tony iommi was lead guitar for which band

bonus question:name the song & band
...finished with my woman coz she could'nt help me with my mind,
people think I'm insane coz I think I'm drowning all the time

playing now & the place is a jumping
MB

Good Times Bad Times?
LedZep

 

[mrtnmoon]

who played lead guitar for the beatles
who played lead guitar on 'while my guitar gently weeps'
who were the 3 famous lead guitarists in the yardbirds
who played lead guitar for sex pistols
who played lead guitar guns & roses

good luck

I guess george harrison would be considered the lead player for the beatles.

eric clapton played lead on "while my guitar..."

slash was lead for g'n'r

for some reason the name steve jones comes to mind for the sex pistols, so I'll guess him....

 

[winepleasures]

i thought these were obvious...

i didn't respond because i assumed everyone knew these...

beatles lead guitar.....George Harrison

Guns.....Slash

 

[mrtnmoon]

bonus question:name the song & band
...finished with my woman coz she could'nt help me with my mind,
people think I'm insane coz I think I'm drowning all the time

playing now & the place is a jumping
MB

paranoid - black sabbath

 

[~hellbaby~]

The 3 guitarists were??

 

[mrtnmoon]

Billy Connolly....scottish comedian, who did have his own TV show on USA TV maybe 6-7 years ago.

...........appetite for destruction was the GnR album from about 3 questions ago
cheers
MB

some questions triggered by other questions/answers:

what was the first american tv series that featured billy connolly? who did he replace?

what is slash's real name?

 

[mrtnmoon]

The 3 guitarists were??

the ones you guessed...
clapton, beck and page

 

[~hellbaby~]

some questions triggered by other questions/answers:

what was the first american tv series that featured billy connolly? who did he replace?

what is slash's real name?

Head of the class I think, he replaced the guy who was Johnny FEVERon WKRP in Cincinatti, Something Hesse, I think, but all I can think of is Herman and thats not it.

 

[~hellbaby~]

Hessman, Howard Hessman or( maybe I'm thinking of Less Nessman.) Now its driving me nuts, he was the boss on "Rosanne"

 

[mrtnmoon]

Head of the class I think, he replaced the guy who was Johnny FEVERon WKRP in Cincinatti, Something Hesse, I think, but all I can think of is Herman and thats not it.

close enough. it was howard hesseman.

what word was johhny fever fired from a previous radio station for saying on the air?
(ok, some of these are more tv trivia, but what the hell...)

 

[~hellbaby~]

close enough. it was howard hesseman.

what word was johhny fever fired from a previous radio station for saying on the air?
(ok, some of these are more tv trivia, but what the hell...)

I thibk it was something political or contraversial, not a cuss word. or he called someone 'stupid' or something, I remember the show and can't remember the word.

 

[~hellbaby~]

close enough. it was howard hesseman.

what word was johhny fever fired from a previous radio station for saying on the air?
(ok, some of these are more tv trivia, but what the hell...)

Did he refuse to say a word?