Author Topic: Pop quiz  (Read 174276 times)

PaulF

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Re: Pop quiz
« Reply #1775 on: 12 September, 2011, 11:29:58 am »
Well, I don't know Chocolate, but Blonde On Blonde and Abbey Road both have songs called I Want You, so I'm guessing it's that.

Edit: Reading the question properly doesn't help - I don't know Blood & Chocolate either, but Clarion's ref to the Attractions suggests Elvis Costello, right? Hmm, still doesn't help - not a big fan. Sorry.

d.


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citoyen

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Re: Pop quiz
« Reply #1776 on: 12 September, 2011, 11:34:35 am »
Yay me! OK...

Which non-talking drummers link the Drifters, Velvet Underground and Bob Dylan?

d.
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Re: Pop quiz
« Reply #1777 on: 12 September, 2011, 08:29:21 pm »
Is Jim Keltner the Dylan one?

citoyen

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Re: Pop quiz
« Reply #1778 on: 13 September, 2011, 02:58:34 pm »
You're barking up entirely the wrong tree. "Non-talking drummers" isn't a literal definition. ;)

d.
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clarion

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Re: Pop quiz
« Reply #1779 on: 13 September, 2011, 03:07:18 pm »
I've heard of talking drums, but 'non-talking'?  Eh?  You've set a crackin one there, d. :thumbsup:
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Redlight

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Re: Pop quiz
« Reply #1780 on: 13 September, 2011, 08:32:12 pm »
So are we talking about singing drummers here?  Levon Helm from The Band played with Dylan, of course, and I've heard at least one track with a Mo Tucker vocal.  And didn't Ben E King start out as a drummer - or is there an added twist relating to the "other" Drifters?  Can't work out how to connect them all though.
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citoyen

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Re: Pop quiz
« Reply #1781 on: 13 September, 2011, 11:47:14 pm »
So are we talking about singing drummers here? 

Nope.

Time for a clue?

The link is a group. With another member, they could talk.

d.
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Redlight

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Re: Pop quiz
« Reply #1782 on: 17 September, 2011, 12:10:34 am »
I think you've lost us.

Another hint?
Why should anybody steal a watch when they can steal a bicycle?

citoyen

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Pop quiz
« Reply #1783 on: 17 September, 2011, 12:47:15 am »
Heh. Ok...

The group in question comprise a husband and wife who were formerly members of another more famous group.

d.
"The future's all yours, you lousy bicycles."

Re: Pop quiz
« Reply #1784 on: 17 September, 2011, 01:02:18 am »
So, have we got Delaney and Bonnie, Derek and The Dominoes (silent drumming being "knocking" in doms.)?  The Drifters had some connection with Domino, either an earlier incarnation or connection with Fats.  Bob Dylan called himself Blind Boy Grunt (non-talking) when he played harmonica on someone's record but I'm floundering now!

Re: Pop quiz
« Reply #1785 on: 17 September, 2011, 01:07:10 am »
Oh, hang on Clyde McPhatter (brilliant) was a very early Domino, so we've got Bonnie and Clyde?

Re: Pop quiz
« Reply #1786 on: 17 September, 2011, 12:08:03 pm »
Tom Tom Club?

citoyen

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Re: Pop quiz
« Reply #1787 on: 17 September, 2011, 11:51:33 pm »
Tom Tom Club?

Bingo!

I'll put you all out of your misery...

Tina Weymouth and Chris Frantz were members of Talking Heads (the "non-talking" members*) who went on to form Tom Tom Club ("drummers"). The link was that they covered tracks by those other artists (Under The Boardwalk, Femme Fatale, She Belongs To Me).

Sorry.

d.

*When Talking Heads reformed without David Byrne, they called themselves Heads.
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citoyen

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Re: Pop quiz
« Reply #1788 on: 17 September, 2011, 11:56:22 pm »
So, have we got Delaney and Bonnie, Derek and The Dominoes (silent drumming being "knocking" in doms.)?  The Drifters had some connection with Domino, either an earlier incarnation or connection with Fats.  Bob Dylan called himself Blind Boy Grunt (non-talking) when he played harmonica on someone's record but I'm floundering now!

Paging Ted Rodgers...

d.
"The future's all yours, you lousy bicycles."

Re: Pop quiz
« Reply #1789 on: 18 September, 2011, 01:34:32 am »
Go on d. admit it, I had you worried there, didn't I?!

Re: Pop quiz
« Reply #1790 on: 18 September, 2011, 04:25:37 pm »
What is the connection between Janis Joplin and the Cannondale mountain bike team?

PaulF

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Re: Pop quiz
« Reply #1791 on: 18 September, 2011, 04:41:56 pm »
Both come from Sausalito?

Eccentrica Gallumbits

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Re: Pop quiz
« Reply #1792 on: 18 September, 2011, 04:42:41 pm »
Drugs?
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Re: Pop quiz
« Reply #1793 on: 18 September, 2011, 04:50:15 pm »
No, neither. In fact, JJ's involvement with drugs broke the connection.

Re: Pop quiz
« Reply #1794 on: 27 September, 2011, 10:39:55 am »
I had better offer a clue.
Think of wheels.
Think of Robert Penn.

Eccentrica Gallumbits

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Re: Pop quiz
« Reply #1795 on: 29 September, 2011, 08:17:45 pm »
Still no idea.

Meanwhile, one of the Five Crowns wrote a song, the title of which was also the title of a novella written by an author who had the same surname. Who was he?
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Re: Pop quiz
« Reply #1796 on: 29 September, 2011, 08:42:25 pm »
Still no idea.

Meanwhile, one of the Five Crowns wrote a song, the title of which was also the title of a novella written by an author who had the same surname. Who was he?

Ben E King, Stephen King?  (Stand By Me?)

Eccentrica Gallumbits

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Re: Pop quiz
« Reply #1797 on: 29 September, 2011, 08:54:01 pm »
Yeah  :)
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Re: Pop quiz
« Reply #1798 on: 29 September, 2011, 09:08:50 pm »
The first line of a song by a British "beat combo" is the title of a song by a solo artist who recorded for the same label.  Can you name any of this stuff?

Mr Larrington

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Re: Pop quiz
« Reply #1799 on: 30 September, 2011, 10:52:55 am »
Except that it was only the film which was called Stand By Me.  The novella was called The Body.
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