Author Topic: Pop quiz (Read 175787 times)

clarion · « **Reply #1950 on:** 11 July, 2012, 12:26:36 pm »

One is the correct answer! Only one single (and no albums) was released between their being known as Ambrose Slade, and simply Slade. For no apparent reason, it was billed as The Slade, which is a name the band never used anywhere else.

clarion · « **Reply #1951 on:** 11 July, 2012, 04:17:39 pm »

Sorry! Responded on my phone while on a station. Reviewing my post, I see I didn't actually name the single concerned.

ftr, it's Wild Winds Are Blowing (1969)

ferret · « **Reply #1952 on:** 11 July, 2012, 05:18:05 pm »

or perhaps I should have named it ?

anyway heres an easy one, who left Jethro Tull in 1968 and what band did he form

clarion · « **Reply #1953 on:** 11 July, 2012, 05:30:48 pm »

Didn't everyone except Ian leave round about then?

ferret · « **Reply #1954 on:** 11 July, 2012, 07:09:26 pm »

I believe there was a bit of toing and froing going on even Tony Iommi played with them for a very short time, I believe he stood in for the chap who left, at least the one I'm thinking of

clarion · « **Reply #1955 on:** 11 July, 2012, 07:50:51 pm »

Ooh! Ooh! I know the name of the band!

But I don't know the name of the departee.

I did wonder whether it was Iommi you were alluding to, though I think Sabbath came rather later. Never mind, I'll try to remember the fellow's name... $:-\$

Peter · « **Reply #1956 on:** 12 July, 2012, 12:37:11 am »

I think his name was P? Abrahams and the band was Blodwyn Pig, of a blues persuasion, if I remember correctly.

Mr Larrington · « **Reply #1957 on:** 12 July, 2012, 01:44:12 pm »

Now Peter has helpfully supplied most of the answer I can reveal it was Mick Abrahams.

ferret · « **Reply #1958 on:** 12 July, 2012, 02:13:18 pm »

yes quite correct and what a great name Blodwyn Pig and what a great writer and musician,

I'll let you two decide who got it right, I'm not a decisions person

Peter · « **Reply #1959 on:** 12 July, 2012, 08:33:15 pm »

Yes, Mr L, I should have remembered "Mick". When I was at university in Newcastle, I saw him with Jethro Tull and Ten Years After, The Nashville Teens and Peter Bown, all for about ten bob. A fantastic evening - Alvin Lee was a great player, too.

I'll have a go:-

What simian excess links holly and berry?

clarion · « **Reply #1960 on:** 12 July, 2012, 08:46:49 pm »

I can link a Holly and a Berry quite directly, but not through simian excess... $:-\$

clarion · « **Reply #1961 on:** 12 July, 2012, 08:57:38 pm »

And now, thinking about it, I had the wrong Berry. We've got Chuck Berry who recorded Too Much Monkey Business. I guess that was covered by (and I know I should plump rather than hedge my bets) Buddy Holly or The Hollies. Given how many more records they released, I'll go for the latter.

Peter · « **Reply #1962 on:** 12 July, 2012, 09:01:11 pm »

Excellent! I'm guessing you had "Brown-Eyed Handsome Man" in mind, initially?

clarion · « **Reply #1963 on:** 12 July, 2012, 09:07:20 pm »

No, I was with 'Heartbeat' linking Nick Berry to Buddy Holly

Peter · « **Reply #1964 on:** 12 July, 2012, 09:08:17 pm »

Reckon this could be a whole sub-genre!

clarion · « **Reply #1965 on:** 12 July, 2012, 09:44:39 pm »

Not least because my first guess had been Dave Berry!

clarion · « **Reply #1966 on:** 12 July, 2012, 10:27:14 pm »

OK, then.

Richie Havens to Gypsy Sun and Rainbows. What?

Peter · « **Reply #1967 on:** 13 July, 2012, 12:35:27 am »

I think I've got this but I'll leave it for someone else for a bit.

tiermat · « **Reply #1968 on:** 13 July, 2012, 09:44:42 am »

Quote from: clarion on 12 July, 2012, 10:27:14 pm

OK, then.

Richie Havens to Gypsy Sun and Rainbows. What?

Woodstock?

Richie Havens was the first performer @ Woodstock, Mr Hendrix recorded Gypsy Sun and Rainbows @ Ashokan House (the house name I had to google) near Woodstock.

clarion · « **Reply #1969 on:** 13 July, 2012, 09:54:19 am »

Yes, close enough, though I do suspect Peter had it.

Richie Havens opened Woodstock Music & Art Fair (An Aquarian Exposition: 3 Days of Peace & Music according to the poster) even before Swami Satchidananda had given the opening address and blessing.

The closing act was billed (and introduced) as The Jimi Hendrix Experience. However, there had been some contractual issues and changes fo personnel, so Hendrix headed up the set by saying the band name was changed to Gypsy Sun and Rainbows. For short, he said, this was 'A Band of Gypsys', which is a name he and ex-army colleague Billy Cox had used before.

Hendrix was staying and recording near Woodstock at the time.

tiermat · « **Reply #1970 on:** 18 July, 2012, 09:03:53 am »

Moving on, an obscure one (pop and general knowledge in one

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What links a Karl Wilhelm, who later anglicised his name to Charles William, Plante and Metallica?

clarion · « **Reply #1971 on:** 18 July, 2012, 03:45:26 pm »

Karl Wilhelm makes me think of German aristocracy, so, given the Schleswig-Holstein conflation, perhaps Lars Ulrich is a descendant. Plante? Haven't a clue. Only know Lynda La Plante, which, i am guessing, no use whatsoever.

tiermat · « **Reply #1972 on:** 18 July, 2012, 03:46:55 pm »

I hate to say it, but you aren't even close

clarion · « **Reply #1973 on:** 18 July, 2012, 03:51:27 pm »

I didn't think for one moment that I was

tiermat · « **Reply #1974 on:** 19 July, 2012, 09:53:25 am »

Is no-one going to charge ahead with this one? I am sure that we could make light work of the answer....