Anxst

I know this one!

It's Bruce Dickinson. What a weird career move, but reportedly he loves it.

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God of Thunder

That's the guy.

You're up.

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Anxst

Getting hard to think of questions.

We'll go with one about a tour. In 2001, The "Tour of Brotherly Love" featured 3 bands fronted by brothers. One of them was Spacehog. Who were the other 2?

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Punk.of.Ages

Oasis (Noel and Liam Gallagher), and The Black Crowes (Chris and Rich Robinson.)

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Martian

Yes, the Bruce Dickinson.

/cowbell

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Anxst

You know it! That was a great tour.

You're up.

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Punk.of.Ages

Yes it was a good one.

Okay my first question of the thread: This band reportedly went to a garage sale held by Angus and Malcolm Young and bought a box of riffs they never actually turned into songs for $5.00. This band used those riffs in a few of their songs, including their debut single. What band am I talking about.

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roachboy

ac/dc

edit later: my whiskey intake caused me to misread the question.
blech...

dunno.

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pan6467

Just a guess Midnight Oil.

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Punk.of.Ages

Roachboy I completely forgive you as my beer intake probably caused me to word the question horribly. Pan, Midnight Oil is not the correct answer.

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Martian

I have no idea. However, I'm thinking that the band in question is probably from Oz. Based on that and on stylistic similarities in some of the riffs I'll say Jet, although I suspect they're much too recent to be the group in question.

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Seer666

Shot in the dark here. Hoodoo Gurus?

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I'm thinking it's got to be someone close in age.... it could be Inxs

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Punk.of.Ages

Martian it is Jet. It's also rumored they bought some of the Beatles' unused stuff from Paul and used that also. You're up.

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Martian

Are you serious? Even when I was posting that, I didn't think it was the right answer.

I have a bit of a migraine situation going on right now and can't really think clearly, so this is going to be ridiculously easy, but whatever.

Describe the sequence of events that lead to the creation of Deep Purple's iconic song, Smoke on the Water.

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roachboy

on the shores of lake geneva
frank zappa and the mothers were playing the best place around
when some stupid with a flare gun burned the place to the ground.

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Martian

This is not the full story. What happened next?

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- Ben Harper, Show Me A Little Shame

roachboy

geez....i dont remember any more of the song.

i have assiduously avoided deep purple since high school...and was surprised that i remembered that much.

this'll probably be a softball now for someone else
o well.

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Martian

Really? Nobody knows this?

In 1971 Deep Purple was in Montreaux, site of the famous jazz festival, to do some recording. They were recording at the casino there with a mobile studio, where the Mothers of Invention were concurrently playing a show. As noted, "some stupid with a flare gun" fired off a flare inside the casino's concert hall, resulting in a fire that consumed the entire casino (fortunately the studio was saved and due to the actions of "funky Claude," the festival director, no lives were lost).

The band found themselves with a very high tech recording studio and nowhere to actually record. Even worse, "Swiss time was running out;" they only had the studio available for a limited amount of time, and if they couldn't find a site to record they'd be unable to complete the album on schedule.

Eventually, the band "ended up at the Grand Hotel," which they converted into a makeshift studio with the "Rolling Truck Stones thing" (the mobile studio) parked outside. The band was able to lay down all of the tracks and complete the album on schedule; they also recorded a new track written about the events that had just transpired and titled it after the image of the smoke of the casino fire hanging over Lake Geneva.

How about Zep, then. Led Zeppelin included a track on their third album called Bron-Y-Aur Stomp. What's Bron-Y-Aur?

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- Ben Harper, Show Me A Little Shame

Martian

Apparently I'm being too obscure.

Bron-Y-Aur (or, more properly, Bron-Yr-Aur) is a cottage in Wales, owned by Robert Plant's family. Jimmy Page and Robert Plant spent time there in the seventies and wrote several songs, including, unsurprisingly, Bron-Y-Aur Stomp.

I'm going to go for a very easy one now, because I think it's time for someone else to ask a question.

Who was Pink Floyd's Wish You Were Here written for?

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- Ben Harper, Show Me A Little Shame

pan6467

Could it be Syd Barrett?

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Martian

It could be Syd Barrett.

Your question, sir.

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I get through thinkin' now, and the thoughts have left my head
I get through speakin' and I can't remember, not a word that I said

- Ben Harper, Show Me A Little Shame

pan6467

That was an easy one..... let's make a hard one.

Bands seem to go through drummers, the Beatles had Pete Best, SmashMouth has been through many, Spinal Tap's drummers keep blowing up.... but the Kinks had a drummer who actually started with the Rolling Stones and lasted almost 20 years with them.... who was he?

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pan6467

Ok let's try something much easier....

What singer coined the phrase "better to burn out than to fade away"

Bonus if you name the movie and character that used the phrase to nuns.

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Martian

That's clearly Neil Young, in the song Hey Hey, My My, aka Into the Black. As to the movie, I'm not sure.

EDIT - I do want to know about the drummer, though. I wasn't aware that the Stones had ever used a drummer other than Watts.

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I get through cryin' and I'm sadder than before I wept
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I get through speakin' and I can't remember, not a word that I said

- Ben Harper, Show Me A Little Shame

pan6467

Ol' Rust himself. The movie was Highlander, Kurgen said it to nuns in a parish after confronting McLeod and letting him know how good his wife was.

The drummer was Mick Avory, wonder what would have happened if Avory had stayed with the Stones and Watts had become a Kink or they had gotten a Keith Moon. http://www.drummerworld.com/drummers/Mick_Avory.html

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Martian

Ahh, I guess you want a new question now. I'm starting to run dry here...

Jazz maybe?

Easy jazz, to start.

Name the man who's widely credited with creating the jazz subgenre of cool jazz. For bonus points, name the album that started as well.

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- Ben Harper, Show Me A Little Shame

roachboy

miles davis birth of the cool, yes?

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Martian

Yes and yes.
Your question.

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I get through thinkin' now, and the thoughts have left my head
I get through speakin' and I can't remember, not a word that I said

- Ben Harper, Show Me A Little Shame

roachboy

jazz again...

who was the dummer who replaced elvin jones in john coltrane's band in 1965?

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Anxst

I'm just not that knowledgeable about Jazz. I like it, but don't have the fount of useless knowledge of it I do for other genres.

Hit us again, Roachboy!

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Leto

buddy rich?

roachboy

rashied ali

huh....ok so let's go in a totally different direction..

sofia coppola's "lost in translation" featured music by the guitarist and main songwriter from one of my favorite groups of the early 90s.

who's the guitarist?
what was the band?

hint: their last record bankrupted the record label that put up the cash for the project...

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Anxst

Oooh, I think I know this one.

Kevin Shields (I think it's Shields) from My Bloody Valentine?

I believe they drove Creation Records bankrupt.

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roachboy

that would be correct sir.

your move.

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Anxst

We'll go with a weird one I found out recently.

Warren Zevon wrote an ad jingle and sang it (with The Turtles) for what car, in the 70's?

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Anxst

The Camaro, of all things.

Okay, something else. A pretty easy one.

Declan MacManus, big on the scene as a forerunner of New Wave and a bit of a low key punk rocker, is better known by what stage name?

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Leto

Elivs Costello

Anxst

You know it, Leto.

You're up!

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Leto

Okay, here is an easy one. This band recorded a song which described the mystery around Bill Barilko. Bill was the hockey player who scored the winning goal for the Toronto Maple Leafs in the 1951 Stanley Cup final. He disappeared that summer.

Name the song and band.