marvin Posted January 10, 2008 Author Share Posted January 10, 2008 Did you know that Phil Everly was once considered to join Crosby and Stills before Mama Cass suggested Graham Nash? Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Early Wynn Posted January 10, 2008 Share Posted January 10, 2008 Did you know that Power Pop legend Tommy Keene was at the Raspberries show in Anaheim and said on his board that the show was "awesome." Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Early Wynn Posted January 10, 2008 Share Posted January 10, 2008 did you know that the song, "Dazed and Confused" made famous by Led Zeppelin, was actually written and first recorded by Jake Holmes. However he has never received any royalties or songwriting credit from Jimmy Page and crew. Page first heard the song when Holmes opened for the Yardbirds. He went out and bought Holmes' album the next day...and the rest is history. Apparently Led Zep lifted a lot of songs from from the old blues masters and failed to give writing credit. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
hollies65 Posted January 10, 2008 Share Posted January 10, 2008 Regarding Phil Everly joining Crosby & Stills....While sitting around Mama Cass's pool John Sebastian of the Lovin Spoonful remarking about the need for another voice in the Mix for Crosby and Still's new forming band " The two best high harmony singers in rock are Phil Everly and Graham Nash...good luck getting Nash away from The Hollies with all the hits they're having". Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
hollies65 Posted January 10, 2008 Share Posted January 10, 2008 James Burton played on the Everly Brothers 'Two Yanks In London'. This means that The Hollies ,The Everly's and Burton are on the same tracks. No wonder that record continues to be one of the 60s most overlooked gems. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
hollies65 Posted January 10, 2008 Share Posted January 10, 2008 Ed Cobb, the bass voice of the great 50s vocal group 'The Four Preps' ['26 Miles,Santa Catalina'] wrote the great songs 'Every Little Bit Huts' for Brenda Holloway...'Tainted Love' by Soft Cell and 'Dirty Water' by the Standell whom he produced. He also produced The Chocolate Watch Band. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
JohnO Posted January 10, 2008 Share Posted January 10, 2008 "He also produced The Chocolate Watch Band."Whose latest bass player, Alec Palao (also Sneetches' bassist, former Magic Christian bassist, former Editor/Publisher of Cream Puff War magazine, consultant with Ace and Big Beat Records, and producer/co-producer of the Nuggets series box sets, perhaps the best ever box set in "Zombie Heaven", and recent compilations of The Sonics, Choc. Watch Band, Beau Brummels and numerous others) has forgotten more music trivia of this sort than all of us on this board know, combined!!! Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
marvin Posted January 10, 2008 Author Share Posted January 10, 2008 Did you know that David Crosby said the first time he ever got 'high' was by sniffing a bottle of cough medicine? Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
bahoodore Posted January 10, 2008 Share Posted January 10, 2008 Peter Tork's mother iventented "White-out" or "Liquid -Paper"? Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
bahoodore Posted January 10, 2008 Share Posted January 10, 2008 Blue Weaver, who played keyboards with The Bee Gees, and aslo co-wrote "Don't Throw it all Away (our love)" was once with The Strawbs...as was Rick Wakeman of YES fame.... Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
popdude Posted January 10, 2008 Share Posted January 10, 2008 Peter Tork's mother iventented "White-out" or "Liquid -Paper"? It was Mike Nesmith's mother, not Peter Tork's. Wrong Monkee. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
John P Posted January 10, 2008 Share Posted January 10, 2008 No! Mike Nesmith's mom invented white out not Peter's. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
hollies65 Posted January 10, 2008 Share Posted January 10, 2008 Palao also wrote a GREAT Zombies bio. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
John P Posted January 10, 2008 Share Posted January 10, 2008 Did you know that Tico Torres the drummer of Bon Jovi played in Franke and the knockouts, the band led by Franke Previtte who wrote the hits of "Dirty Dancing". A Eric Carmen connection there. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
marvin Posted January 10, 2008 Author Share Posted January 10, 2008 Did you know that Gary Wright is the keyboardist on Nilsson's "Without You"? He replaced Rick Wakeman who played on the original demo. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
MJ Posted January 10, 2008 Share Posted January 10, 2008 Did you know I didn't know half the stuff you guys are posting LOL - some of it is a bit obscure. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
bahoodore Posted January 10, 2008 Share Posted January 10, 2008 did you know that Mike Nesmisth's mother invented Peter's Tork??? Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
JohnO Posted January 10, 2008 Share Posted January 10, 2008 "....some of it is a bit obscure."I'd say practically all of it's obscure.....interesting, but meaningless... Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
hollies65 Posted January 10, 2008 Share Posted January 10, 2008 Interesting trumps meaningless. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
JohnO Posted January 10, 2008 Share Posted January 10, 2008 Back to the thread.....The late, great Otis Redding thought Ahmet Ertegun's first name was "Omelette", and called him that all the time... Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
JohnO Posted January 10, 2008 Share Posted January 10, 2008 An anecdote about Wash,DC blues singer Little Bobby Parker (whose main riff from "Watch Your Step", his biggest hit from around 1960, was appropriated by The Beatles for "Day Tripper" and arguably "I Feel Fine" as well...). He recorded for the first time in ages in the early 90's (two albums on the Black Top label), and non-stop bitched in an interview about the shoddy production of his first one ("Bent Out Of Shape"). The producer, whose name eludes me now, explained to the interviewer that Parker, when asked to listen to the playback on headphones, used a pair of cheap ($5 or less) phones, the type you use on commercial airliners (!?!).....He refused to use the studio's really good, professional quality headphones, because he (a former hairdresser) spent about 3 hours each morning, doing his hair, and those headphones would mess up his 'do!!! (and a truly magnificent pompadour/konk it was!) A man's got to have his priorities in order! Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
TheScentLady Posted January 10, 2008 Share Posted January 10, 2008 That the piano player on the Hollies' "He Ain't Heavy (He's My Brother)" is Elton John. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
julesberry Posted January 10, 2008 Share Posted January 10, 2008 Stevie Ray Vaughan was featured on David Bowie's Let's Dance album. Bowie wanted Stevie Ray to tour with him but he was going out on the road with Double Trouble. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
angelina Posted January 10, 2008 Share Posted January 10, 2008 <---I'm still trying to imagine Jimi Hendrix as a paratrooper.... 'Scuse me while I kiss the sky...indeed.John Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
JohnO Posted January 10, 2008 Share Posted January 10, 2008 "Stevie Ray Vaughan was featured on David Bowie's Let's Dance album."I remember reading an interview with Memphis guitarist Albert King (clearly one of Vaughan's all-time idols), who, upon hearing the Let's Dance album, asked if Stevie Ray was going to give him his fair share of any royalties or session fees, because SRV, in Albert's words, "stole all his sh*t from me! Those are mostly my licks on that record!" (Seeing as King never got rich from his music and that album was pretty high in the charts at the time...I suspect he was only half-joking!)(If I recall, King also had an absolute fit when someone played Cream's/Clapton's "Strange Brew" for him....the song was basically all Albert's licks, filtered through EC...) Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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