The Rock and Roll Trivia Thread!

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Permalink Reply by Jon Bard on August 15, 2010 at 1:52pm

Let's begin:

What wildly unlikely American musician played harmonica on Thin Lizzy's landmark LP "Live and Dangerous"?

VISUAL HINT:

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Permalink Reply by Mike Fitzpatrick on August 15, 2010 at 1:55pm

Huey Lewis.


New Question:

Tie Bif Byford, Jello Biafra and Glen Danzig together by way of one historical event.

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Permalink Reply by Jon Bard on August 15, 2010 at 1:58pm

I have no idea, but that must have been an awesome event.

I'll guess though -- did they play on the same bill at, oh, let's say, Donington? (Kinda hard to imagine Jello there, but you never know...)

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Permalink Reply by Mike Fitzpatrick on August 15, 2010 at 8:04pm

The Assassination of JFK.

1) Bif Byford = Saxon = Dallas 1pm
2) Jello Biafra = Dead Kennedys
3) Glen Danzig = The Misfits = "Bullet"

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Permalink Reply by John Thorston on August 16, 2010 at 12:11pm

Nice!

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Permalink Reply by Julie Jurrjens on February 27, 2011 at 8:26am

Oh, that's good.

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Permalink Reply by Stan Schwieger on August 15, 2010 at 2:30pm

I did not know Mr. Huey played with Thin Lizzy--but Mr. Lewis is famously known for playing on Elvis Costello's debut. Too bad Costello's song writing ability did not rub off....

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Permalink Reply by Heikki on August 15, 2010 at 2:40pm

I was thinking about opening completely separate discussion on topic "sounds familiar". We all know that most of stuff has been written already and several times even. Imitation is the highest form of flattery, or? In music everybody steals or borrows. Sometimes it's conscious, sometimes not. Some times one gets caught, other times not. Sometimes you get the feeling that some melody or riff sounds (exactly) like something else. Sometimes you can put your finger on it, sometimes you cannot. I'll give this one shot because I once thought that one artist (known to most RRT members, I presume) had created a fantastic and an original opening/basis for one of his songs in 1996. Later on, I revisited one song from 1976.


Sounded somewhat familiar. Much later, I came across another song from 1971.


Again, I thought I recognized the pattern.

I know the pattern is not completely same, let alone the songs. What these three songs have in common is that the circling structure (melody and rhythm) appeals to my ear and I find it as an "ear catcher" for each of them. Now I wonder where did these latter guys got it from. Finally, to the (absolutely useless trivia) point. Does anyone recognize which power pop artist and song I'm referring to? All apologies if there's no resemblance to anyone else's ears. You can call me paranoid if you wish. But if someone recognizes the pattern and is sure about the originator I would be very happy to learn it myself, too.

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Permalink Reply by John Thorston on August 15, 2010 at 8:30pm

My musical mind doesn't have an answer for you, but it did have pretty much the same exact idea
for a discussion group topic. I had come up with the idea back when I first became a R'N'R Triber.
It came to me when I was listening to CRIME's "San Francisco's Still Doomed".
Perhaps i may be a bit paranoid, as well, but I swear there's a song on there that sounds similar to
BAUHAUS's "Dark Entries." I don't know about you , but I just think it's kind of cool to think of
either the guitarist, Daniel Ash or singer Peter Murphy listening to & getting inspiration from a
SF punk band from 1976.
Then I thought of an earlier comparison I've made between Sam Cooke's "Nothing Can Change This
Love" and Journey's "Lovin' Touchin' Squeezin'. Call me crazy, but listen for yourself.


Still think I'm crazy?

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Permalink Reply by Heikki on August 16, 2010 at 11:38am

Definitely don't. Melody line is apparent. I didn't know that Steve Perry gets so close (to Sam Cooke) in his phrasing, too.

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Permalink Reply by John Thorston on August 16, 2010 at 12:06pm

Exactly! Perry so borrowed from Cooke's phrasing, vocal styling,...you know what Joe had on his
turntable. (i.e., "You make me weak,...", "When I'm alone...")

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Permalink Reply by Thomas Cruz on August 17, 2010 at 10:02pm

Man "Lovin Touchin Squeezin" is my favorite Journey song. But I have a personal rule to always like any song which uses a "Let It Be"-style(or whomever Paul stole that idea from...) coda

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