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Post by lavaman on Aug 16, 2021 6:52:02 GMT
Many bluesmen had impressive stage names like Lightning Hopkins or Barbeque Bob. Perhaps the least impressive name was Little Willie John.
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Post by fatfingerjohn on Aug 16, 2021 7:05:18 GMT
Many bluesmen had impressive stage names like Lightning Hopkins or Barbeque Bob. Perhaps the least impressive name was Little Willie John. I'm glad he didn't change it to Fat Finger John ....
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Post by leoroberts on Aug 16, 2021 8:57:59 GMT
Due to its naive alcohol sales policy, Club Tropicana closed after only 3 weeks.
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Post by minorkey on Aug 17, 2021 0:04:37 GMT
Dizzy Gillespie is famous for playing a trumpet with a bell that is angled upwards. How it came about is during a gig one of the dancers tripped and and fell on his trumpet, bending the bell pipe upwards. He liked the sound and so ordered all future trumpets to be made like that. (It has set a trend!)
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Post by leoroberts on Aug 17, 2021 6:17:37 GMT
Ralph McTell's attempt to break the monopoly of the A-Z guides never extended beyond the capital. He accepts that the failure was primarily due to his proposal to act as a personal guide wreaking havoc with his touring schedule.
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Post by Gregg Hermetech on Aug 17, 2021 9:22:38 GMT
The classic "Goth Hat" was invented by Sisters of Mercy guitarist, Wayne Hussey, when bass player Craig Adams threw up all over his hair on the tour bus just before their first US gig of the tour. The venue wouldn't let him in looking/smelling like that, so the tour manager gave him $50 and told him to visit the hat shop opposite to get something to cover it up.
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Post by walkingdecay on Aug 17, 2021 9:45:37 GMT
In his autobiography All You Need Is Ears George Martin describes the way the chicken sound effect at the end of Good Morning morphs into the reprise of Sergeant Pepper's Lonely Hearts Club Band as "The luckiest edit you could ever get." I think the real luck lay in having a producer with ears acute enough to notice the "remarkable similarity" between a particular guitar sound and a single cluck from a chicken.
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Post by andyhowell on Aug 17, 2021 12:08:35 GMT
Many bluesmen had impressive stage names like Lightning Hopkins or Barbeque Bob. Perhaps the least impressive name was Little Willie John. I've always had a soft spot for Peg Leg Howell.
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Post by leoroberts on Aug 17, 2021 14:45:57 GMT
Contrary to popular belief, Queen actually preferred a day at the opera and a night at the races.
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Post by walkingdecay on Jul 28, 2022 11:49:57 GMT
Bill Haley's mother came from Ulverston, Lancs.
Bobby Darin's first single was Rock Island Line, which was a direct lift of Lonnie Donegan's version, spoken intro and all. Lonnie had just made his freak entry into the US charts, generating reversals of the usual practice of UK artists copying American hits.
John Lennon always credited the wretch Ono with the inspiration for Imagine. However, this appears in his 1965 book A Spaniard In The Works, specifically in a poem called The Fat Budgie:
"It would be funny wouldn’t it A budgie on a stick Imagine all the people Laughing til they’re sick."
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Post by walkingdecay on Jul 29, 2022 17:12:51 GMT
Bad Penny Blues by Humphrey Lyttleton, later the model on which Macca built Lady Madonna, became a hit by a series of happy accidents. It was only recorded because Humph's sax player wasn't available, leaving an opening for the piano-led tune they had only jammed on to be used. Once it was done, Humph was keen to go off on holiday and didn't stay for playback, leaving the track at the mercy of that most percipient of producers Denis Preston and his engineer - one Joe Meek.
Meek brought the drums forward, distorted the piano, compressed it and generally added Joe Meekness. The result was a radio friendly hit which traditionalist Humph admitted would have made him furious if he'd heard it before release.
(Someone needs to write a biography of Denis Preston before it's too late, by the way.)
Jefferson Airplane's name harks back to Jorma Kaukonen's blues roots, Blind Jefferson Airplane being an imaginary country bluesman.
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Post by leoroberts on Jul 29, 2022 18:18:48 GMT
My parents would never let me watch Humphrey Littleton and his band play when they appeared on television.
They thought there was too much sax and violins for a child.
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Post by walkingdecay on Jul 30, 2022 8:08:02 GMT
OK, I get it. I'll stop.
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Post by dreadnought28 on Aug 5, 2022 23:58:06 GMT
“Big boys don’t cry repeated several times on 10cc’s I’m Not in Love was spoken by the receptionist at Strawberry Studios. The lead vocal track was actually Eric Stewart’s original demo. It worked better than the numerous takes they tried later.
Oh and Paul Burgess who joined the band when Godley and Crème left played drums with me and friends a few years ago.
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Post by leoroberts on Aug 16, 2022 22:19:09 GMT
Cream and The Jam were never booked to play the same festival as the organisers couldn't decide which they should put on first.
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