The music bar trivia thread

[bojendyk]

. . . inspired by this recent fact I learned: New York Dolls continued for a whlie after Johnny Thunders left the band. One of his replacements? For about 16 weeks, a 19-year-old Blackie Lawless, who would later form boring metal band/PMRC target W.A.S.P.

The bassist for the Bangles was in a late incarnation of The Runaways, who, we all know, also spawned Joan Jett and Lita Ford.

Post your trivia here.

[Coach_McGuirk]

Alanis Morisette wrote "You Oughta' Know" about the blonde guy from Full House.

[CHICO13]

Lowell George of Little Feat fame once played in Frank Zappa's band until Frank tired of his drug use.

The shocker is that Frank Zappa was very anti-drug use. Everyone who didn't really follow his music thought he must of been wasted on some good sh!t half the time, but very untrue. I read where he warned his musicians before embarking on tour not to do any drugs or be sent home. He felt they owed the audience the very best performance they could give night after night.

[bojendyk]

Lowell George of Little Feat fame once played in Frank Zappa's band until Frank tired of his drug use.

Speaking of Zappa, as every kid who tried to learn guitar in the early 80s knows, Steve Vai got started in Zappa's band. But not as many people know that Vai also played on a Public Image Ltd. record (don't know whether he toured with them, though).

[servotron]

New-Age wanker Yanni played bass and keyboards in several Minneapolis house/bar bands before his successful solo career.

[655321]

Speaking of Zappa, as every kid who tried to learn guitar in the early 80s knows, Steve Vai got started in Zappa's band. But not as many people know that Vai also played on a Public Image Ltd. record (don't know whether he toured with them, though).


He played on 'Album'.

[Toon³]

Stings dad used to deliver milk to my house.

[servotron]

Stings dad used to deliver milk to my house.

So you're saying it's possible that Sting is your half-brother?

[LeperKhan]

New-Age wanker Yanni played bass and keyboards in several Minneapolis house/bar bands before his successful solo career.

Earlier this summer I was visting my girlfriend's family cabin near Battle Lake. We went out to dinner at a supper club there that apparently used to have live music back in the day. Out in the entryway they had a bunch of old calendars and flyers for bands that played there in the 70s and 80s. I was glancing at them, and prominently featured among them was Chameleon, the band Yanni was in. Apparently they were a fairly successful regional act at the time.

[bojendyk]

Many of you probably already know this one, but here it is anyway: Rick James and Neil Young played together in a band called the Mynah Birds in the mid-60s. The band also featured future members of Buffalo Springfield and Steppenwolf.

Dennis Tek (of Australian band Radio Birdman) and Roger Miller (of Mission of Burma) played music together as teenagers.

[CHICO13]

On the Tonight Show, Jimi Hendrix said that Billy Gibbons of ZZ Top was his favorite guitar player.

[Toon³]

So you're saying it's possible that Sting is your half-brother?

:eek: So that explains his mysterious vists every christmas

[bmurphyfl]

I posted this in another thread last year and I'm too lazy to re-type it so I'm just going to do a cut & paste job here:

In the early 60's, shortly after moving to NYC and before he had become famous, Dylan used to take the bus out to Morristown, NJ to visit Woody Guthrie at Greystone Mental Hospital. While there, he'd play a few of Woody's tunes for Woody. Woody enjoyed hearing them so much he told Dylan about a stash of unrecorded and incomplete songs in his basement in his Coney Island house. He told Dylan he could have them.

So, one day Dylan trekked out to Coney Island to find Woody's house. When he got there, Woody's wife was out and Arlo, then only about 10 years old, answered the door with a babysitter. Dylan didn't know the Guthrie family but he talked to Arlo for a few minutes about the box of songs. Arlo didn't know anything about them and Dylan started feeling akward so he left to go back to Manhattan. He never did anything else about those songs.

Well, it turned out that Woody's daughter, Nora, thirty years later, gave the box on songs to Billy Bragg which eventually became the Mermaid Ave. albums Bragg did with Wilco.

And now you know the rest of the story.

[bmurphyfl]

Another good one involves VU & Nico. When Nico was playing with VU, she was also doing solo shows around NYC. Usually, either Lou Reed or John Cale would accompany her with their guitar to play with her. However, they both tired of this and were looking for a way out. So, they started talking to this 16-year-old kid who was hanging around their scene and the clubs. They finally gave him the job of playing guitar for Nico during those solo gigs..

And who was that 16-year-old kid????

Jackson Browne

[obie]

Two "A Day In The Life" facts:

1. The final chord is E Major, and it was made by all four Beatles plus George Martin simultaneously hitting the chord on three different pianos.

2. "A saw a film today, oh boy / the English army had just won the war" is a reference to a real film, How I Won The War, in which John Lennon had a cameo.

[Smiley321]

Peter Tork was accompanied to the tryouts for the Monkees by none other than Steven Stills, his good friend.

Stills didn't make it.

Also, Jimmy Page had bought the rights to the name "The Yardbirds" and Led Zeppelin could easily have been "The New Yardbirds" if Page hadn't been talked out of it.

[655321]

I read somewhere that the riff on You Really Got Me was actually played by Jimmy Page, not Dave Davies.

[nicodemus]

The biggest selling bluegrass album of all time (Old & In The Way's self-titled debut) features Jerry Garcia on banjo.

[YanksFC]

Another good one involves VU & Nico. When Nico was playing with VU, she was also doing solo shows around NYC. Usually, either Lou Reed or John Cale would accompany her with their guitar to play with her. However, they both tired of this and were looking for a way out. So, they started talking to this 16-year-old kid who was hanging around their scene and the clubs. They finally gave him the job of playing guitar for Nico during those solo gigs..

And who was that 16-year-old kid????

Jackson Browne

Now I understand why several songs on Chelsea Girls were written by him.

This is a great thread, by the way. Keep the good stuff coming.

[bojendyk]

I read somewhere that the riff on You Really Got Me was actually played by Jimmy Page, not Dave Davies.

I've heard that, too, but when I looked it up for verification, what I found was something about the Kinks insisting that they really did play on that record, not Page. But I've also heard that Page was a highly sought-after session musician, and that he played on tons and tons of records by British Invasion bands.