It was not their original name.
(I just read through this whole thread and saw their original name somewhere on or around post 222).

Leto is right. I remember hearing this on "The Deep End". It was something about not putting the band's name on the record and putting "guess who?" instead to drum up interest.

Yeah, that's more or less how it went.

Okay here is Post 222:

This band, originally called Chad Allen and The Reflections, was the first Canadian band to have a number 1 hit in the US. They later had it's members break off to form a new band called Brave Belt, until that band also changed it's name.

What were the final (and well known) names of those 2 bands?

(this was Guess Who? & BTO)

Next Question:

What is the band and it's tune on the credits for Guitar Hero III?

Damn, now I have to get Guitar Hero to try figure out the answer to this.

This one seems dead, should we move on?

go ahead. By the way, it is Dragonfire's Through the Fire and the Flames.



Sticky - maybe you have a decent Q.

Correction: Dragonforce. I actually have a Dragonforce shirt on right now. Inhuman Rampage! Ha.

ya, my bad (and bad typing!) thanks!

Leto, I think you still have the right of way.

okay Sticky, I thought you would throw one up. Let me think...

alright, What was Eric Clapton's only #1 song and who wrote it?

I shot the sheriff and I think Marley wrote it.

Commander Coo-Coo Bananas knows his music.

Hmm, heres one. tough for most.

Moby claims to have briefly sang for which punk band as a youth.

I'm sure the songs right, but will wait for Stick to confirm the author.

Per the OP rules:

Answer the question correctly, you get to ask the next question. Wait for the asker to confirm that you are correct.

And you can't simply Google the answer, have to know it.

I've been waiting for a while for one that I didn't have to Google.

You got it Tully Mars. It's your game.

Thanks, got confussed and thought Stick asked the Q.

Anyway, this is likely an easy one:

What did the 60's rock band known as "Fat White Under Belly" become?

I guess this is not that easy.

Yeah, Tully. You're going to have learn us all about the 'fat white underbelly' and then post another question. :p

Ok, really thought this was easy. They still play small clubs in NYC under this name. Usually with little or no announcement.

Their fans have been told they should not fear death, well at least the person who brings it. Not sure if their fans would like the movie "Cloverfield" because I haven't the monster yet. But I'm sure he has to go too.

lol, okay

Blue Oyster Cult?

Kansas?

I bow to your superior music knowledge.

Your question.

This one is probably pretty easy, too...

Which is the most frequently covered Bob Dylan song?

I'm gonna have to go with All Along the Watchtower.

I'll go with "Blowin' In The Wind"

God of Thunder is correct.

Your question!

Actually, BÖC used to play as Soft White Underbelly. Also occasionally played small clubs under the name Mama's Bra.

/ We now return you to your regularly scheduled game, already in progress.

Gezz, no wonder no one got it. I've had it as Fat White Underbelly in my head since the mid 80's. D'oh!

Okay, I now bow to your superior musical knowledge.

It's not superior musical knowledge. It's knowledge of superior music. You didn't know that Blue Öyster Cult is the best band in the local Galactic cluster? For shame. Merely Hearing the name Blue Öyster Cult can make a measurable positive difference in your level of coolness.
:D

I know the first time I saw them was 1980 at something called the "Oregon Jam" Heart, Joan Jet, BOC and Foreigner. Foreigner was huge at the time and was the so called head liner. Heart opened and their sound system sucked. It was over 100 out and I was thinking I can't believe I paid $12 for this. Then Jet came out and tore the place up. I kind of figured after that it might be all down hill, until the BOC put her to shame. Then Foreigner came out so coke up they didn't even know their own songs, people booed... then people left.

Anyway BOC's been a main stay of mine since.

Still think who ever put Heart and BOC on the same ticket should be shot. I heard later the promoter turned down Molly Hatchet in favor of Heart.

Oooh, I'm up.

We'll stick with Dylan...

In 1988 Dylan joined George Harrison, Tom Petty, Jeff Lyne and Roy Orbison to form what group?

The Traveling Wilburys.

Yep, It's all right.

Tully's right and so are you MM

Ball's in your court.

Inspired by GOT's signature, who covered The Police song Demolition Man in 1981?

Grace Jones?

Correctamundo!

I guess the questions are getting too easy...

Your turn!

Where did Mick Jagger and Kieth Richards first meet?

In a public bathroom in London. A young Larry Craig was visiting that side of the pond and was trying to play footsie with both of them at once (talk about your wide stances). I understand that Richards held his legs while Jagger flushed, and they've been fast friends ever since.

Did I get it right?

No but if the writers strike ends I'm thinking you can get hired at the Daily Show.

They went to primary school together then later met up in a London art school where Mick was starting to play around with bands and started talking to a young man named Brian Jones.

Got it, your question sir.

We are stuck

Pan answered so it's his game, right?

If Sticky says we're stuck, then I am inclined to believe him.

Then I'm on board with a Q from anyone who would like to post one.

Let's do this one.

SSJTWIZTA posted it prematurely earlier in the thread and I was really interested to find out what the answer is.

Works for me though I have no idea what is the answer. Last Punk band I like was the Kinks. Not even sure people still see them as punk. But in their day... They were the prince of the punks.

The KINKS were more than just punk.... they were the greatest band ever.

Sorry abut being late, in all honesty I forgot I answered.

I have no idea on the current question.

Ah, one I FINALLY know off the top of my head. "Vatican Commandos". An old roommate of mine had the CD, and it sounds nothing like the later stuff.

The Kinks were great, but they were no more punk than the Beatles were. They contributed, but they predate Richard Hell, and the idea that HE started the movement isn't necessarily true. Personally, I point to The Sex Pistols because they got the politics (or lack thereof) into the music, and that was the critical ingredient to define the genre. In my opinion, as uneducated as it is.

/threadjack

SSJTWIZTA - did I get it right?

I dunno, consider The Kinks and The Who to be the sort of common-law uncles of punk rock.

Robert Johnson was the great, great, great grandfather of them all, but none of them were "punk". Like I said, there were definitely some contributions, but none of them earn the actual label.

Well, I disagree with you. But then I also think Neil Young was grunge before anyone in music used the term.

Back the the original thread-

Is the answer correct?

Due to the absence of SSJTWIZTA, I wiki'd it.

You are correct Jazz. It was Vatican Commandos.

You're up, sir.

Well, I'm not much a one for labels anyway...and, personally, I don't think The Sex Pistols earned the right to be called the original anything. They were pre-dated by almost an entire decade by MC5 and the Stooges...and technically, The Ramones.

But many people consider bands like The Kinks and The Who to have been the precursors of it all. And considering the fluidity of musical evolution, I have no problem associating them with the punk movement. They definitely shared much of the working-class malcontent and anti-social values that became the warcry of the punk rock movement.

I completely agree that bands like The Kinks and The Who set the foundation for punk rock to be born into.

As far as the first punk band; well, that debate will never end conclusively. It's too hard to call.

Well since we're in the punk vein, let's continue. Johnny Rotten (nee Lydon) gave Sid Vicious his stage name when the latter joined The Sex Pistols. Who was the original Sid Vicious?

As far as The Who goes, I guess I always associate them with Rockers vs. Mods. The true punks were anti-everything, at least in the beginning. Then it changed to something else that let abortions like Avril Lavigne (sp?) call herself "punk".

punk comes out of all kinds of things--the who and early kinks among them--- but more directly, it comes out of the legion of garage bands that defined the semi-underground of the rock-n-roll back when it was of interest. long ago. anyway, in my capacity as old fart, i can say that i listened alot--and i mean alot--to the stooges when i was in high school and so when i first heard uk punk i didnt get it at all because it seemed like there was no there there. now that i've listened to alot of uk punk in retrospect, most of it seems like nice pop music. the stooges plus slade. add reggae/ska and you get the clash. etc.

so far as i am concerned, the minutemen embodied everything punk was.
it figures that at the time, alot of punk kids didn't like them.
too strange. too much captain beefheart (the eternal punk in a way)

and that about sums it up.

so it follows that, in 2008, "punk" is to radical as an edsel is to new.

Rotten's dog, I think?

Nope.

ha sorry, i was abscnent.

it was both vatican commando and flipper.

kind of a 2 chances thing

flipper!
what a great band.
carry on....

Looks like it's time for a kick-start on this.

OK contestants, hands on buzzers...

What was the first solo album released after the breakup of The Beatles?

"I don't freaking know!" By "thanks for kick starting this thread"

That or something by Paul.

I know!! Paul's album was first, I don't think it had a title, other than either Paul McCartney or McCartney, the one with the cherries on the cover.

I can probably even name all the songs. Scary, huh?

oh... so it wasn't RAM?

i thought it was george harrison's "all things must pass"...

Actually, I don't think it was any of those...but I'm not sure what the answer is...my instinct says it was a George Harrison album, though, just not 'all things must pass.'

You are correct.

The album was "McCartney"
http://upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedi...albumcover.jpg

George Harrison's "All Things Must Pass" quickly followed. A much better album in my humble opinion.:thumbsup:

I'm not so sure about this...but, whatever. :)

I definitely agree about George's album.

I'm don't know a lot of music trivia, except maybe Beatles stuff, so this is probably an easy question.

Other than solo, Joe Walsh participated in which other bands?

eagles
james gang

those are the only two i remember

I think there was a small stint with an even more obscure attempt at a band, but that's what I was looking for.

You're up, RB :p

ok so let's get obscure and see what happens.

frank zappa created a doo wop band.
they released one album, and the title was the band name.
what is the band/album title?

Joe's Garage?

(just a shot in the dark... I don't think that album was doo wop)

nope.
it was earlier--by quite a bit.

sample lyric:
cheap thrills in the back of my car
cheap thrills how fine they are
etc.

Might be the "Ramblers"

Was it the Persuasions? Or were they pre-exisiting and just picked up for You are What You Is?

this was an album done entirely by a version of the mothers of invention under another name as a doo-wop group....orange cover with an image of a 57 chevy or so, full of cartoon characters in various action poses.

Could it be "Cheap Thrills"?

that's the title of the album.
what was the band name?

hmmmm...are you talking about Cruising with Ruben and the Jets?

that would be correct mm...

yer up.

cool :p

technically, I think the album was recorded as the Mothers...but who fucking cares, lol

okay...let me think of something...

Staying with the Zappa theme:

What shameful event in American history was the concept album 'Thing-Fish' purportedly based on?

I think it was the Tuskegee Experiments. Haven't listened to that album in some time, though.

You are correct, sir. Your question.

I knew it too... after I Googled it.

That almost sounds dirty, anyway next question please.

We'll go with a tough one I read in a trivia game a while back.

In the late 1950's Stan Robinson (the father of Chris and Rich Robinson) had a minor hit single. What was the name of the song?

I think we're stumped here.

I concur, never even heard of these people.

chris and rich robinson are in the black crows.

oh... Now I've heard of them. still stumped.

Ok, I feel dumb. I have some of their stuff.

Like you still don't have a clue.

I know the answer, but I had to use Google to find out. I think it's safe to say nobody's going to get this one, though, and Anxst doesn't seem to be coming back.

Somebody want to move things along here?

I have no problem with that, but I speak only for myself.

Chris and Rich Robinson are the lead singer and lead guitarist of The Black Crowes. Their father, Stan, had a hit with "Boom-a-dip-dip" and used to open for Bill Haley and the Comets.

Alright, too obscure. I'll try again.

This rapper put out a record with Dan the Automator Nakamura and DJ Qbert to critical acclaim as Dr. Octagon, then went on to nearly disown the album as it made too many white people interested in him. Who is he?

kool keith.

ultramagnetics still rule.

You know it!

Hit us, roachboy!

still on the hip-hop tip, as it were:

which west-coast turntablist crew included among its members rhett-matic, melo-d and babu?

Looks like, once again, we are stumped.