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.