Author Topic: Pop quiz (Read 175141 times)

Redlight · « **Reply #2000 on:** 06 February, 2014, 08:54:11 pm »

Too quick!

Happily, George Martin dropped the idea of calling Please Please Me "Off the Beatle Track"

Over to you….

clarion · « **Reply #2001 on:** 06 February, 2014, 10:04:35 pm »

Quote from: Redlight on 06 February, 2014, 08:54:11 pm

Too quick!

Sorry! I just happened to have read about Everest recently.

clarion · « **Reply #2002 on:** 06 February, 2014, 10:08:20 pm »

OK. Other than being lead singers, what links the lead singers of this disparate set of bands?

Genesis

The Famous Flames

Foo Fighters

May be easy. Not sure.

Redlight · « **Reply #2003 on:** 06 February, 2014, 10:44:14 pm »

I don't know the Famous Flames but I seem to recall that Peter Gabriel started out playing drums… as did one Dave Grohl, so that would be my guess.

clarion · « **Reply #2004 on:** 06 February, 2014, 10:46:59 pm »

Pete Gabriel is not a drummer. Well, he's a multi-instrumentalist, so probably does play drums, though he wasn't the drummer for Genesis.

Dave Grohl was a drummer, true.

Keep going...

Eccentrica Gallumbits · « **Reply #2005 on:** 07 February, 2014, 10:11:13 am »

Phil Collins is said to be a drummer and he was lead singer of Genesis.

clarion · « **Reply #2006 on:** 07 February, 2014, 10:14:41 am »

I like that. but why do you say

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said to be a a drummer

, whereas you accept his ludicrous claims to be a singer at face value?

Definitely on the right lines now. Does nobody know who The Famous Flames are? Or, crucially, who they were billed as backing for (eventually)?

Peter · « **Reply #2007 on:** 07 February, 2014, 10:40:18 am »

Well, that bit's easy - James Brown. I'm not aware that he was a drummer, though he did replace Troy (I think) COLLINS when he joined that group.

clarion · « **Reply #2008 on:** 07 February, 2014, 10:43:51 am »

Ha! I didn't even know that.

But who was the Famous Flames' drummer when they changed from being a vocal band?

Peter · « **Reply #2009 on:** 07 February, 2014, 11:12:44 am »

Well, hush my mouth - it seems it was none other than the afore-mentioned James Brown!

clarion · « **Reply #2010 on:** 07 February, 2014, 11:20:33 am »

I was prompted to this by a video of the Famous Flames I was watching with TGL on my phone while we were washing up (isn't technology a marvellous thing?

) in which Mr Brown, after collapsing alarmingly onstage several times, and having a cape draped around him before being led to the side of the stage, where his sheer determination to continue overcame his debilitating condition in a somewhat heroic fashion, took a short break by sitting down on the edge of the band riser, then taking over the sticks duties for a short while. TGL was surprised, so I told him that JB had been a drummer, just like Dave Grohl...

Well, that was rather a team effort, with all three of you putting the work in, but, purely because of posting first, I'll award that to Redlight, despite only getting one of the singers right.

Well,

pcolbeck · « **Reply #2011 on:** 07 February, 2014, 11:22:21 am »

Quote from: Eccentrica Gallumbits on 07 February, 2014, 10:11:13 am

Phil Collins is said to be a drummer and he was lead singer of Genesis.

He's a really good drummer (and producer for that matter) pity they let him sing though.

clarion · « **Reply #2012 on:** 07 February, 2014, 11:24:37 am »

I think he is a good drummer, and quite an innovative producer. Just a bit of a tosser with a whiny voice and whiny opinions.

Oh - and he is still guilty of Not Being Peter Gabriel.

Eccentrica Gallumbits · « **Reply #2013 on:** 07 February, 2014, 12:31:20 pm »

But he is the inspiration for the utterly marvellous http://www.philrotica.com/

pcolbeck · « **Reply #2014 on:** 07 February, 2014, 12:50:22 pm »

Quote from: clarion on 07 February, 2014, 11:24:37 am

I think he is a good drummer, and quite an innovative producer. Just a bit of a tosser with a whiny voice and whiny opinions.

Oh - and he is still guilty of Not Being Peter Gabriel.

He gets forgiven everything though for playing drums on Grace and Danger as well as keeping John Martyn from imploding completely and then producing Glorious Fool.

clarion · « **Reply #2015 on:** 07 February, 2014, 01:03:31 pm »

Quote from: Eccentrica Gallumbits on 07 February, 2014, 12:31:20 pm

But he is the inspiration for the utterly marvellous http://www.philrotica.com/

Public Safety Warning: Do NOT click this link!

Redlight · « **Reply #2016 on:** 07 February, 2014, 06:17:34 pm »

I hereby claim my victory - although in the interest of pedantry (who, me?) will mention that in an interview for the BBC's Classic Albums series, Peter Gabriel explains his interest in rhythm by stating that before he was a singer he was a drummer - not professionally, of course. And I have, on one occasion, seen him playing drums with Genesis.

Another question to follow soon….

Redlight · « **Reply #2017 on:** 08 February, 2014, 10:43:03 pm »

Who was Sugar Bear and whose suicide did he prevent?

clarion · « **Reply #2018 on:** 08 February, 2014, 10:54:22 pm »

Don't know, but I know which song it is. I'll keep schtum in case someone knows the identity of Sugar Bear.

Redlight · « **Reply #2019 on:** 09 February, 2014, 11:18:18 am »

Quote from: clarion on 08 February, 2014, 10:54:22 pm

Don't know, but I know which song it is. I'll keep schtum in case someone knows the identity of Sugar Bear.

If you have the original album, the answer is on the lyric sheet...

clarion · « **Reply #2020 on:** 09 February, 2014, 02:17:55 pm »

I've never had any of his records.

clarion · « **Reply #2021 on:** 11 February, 2014, 03:52:49 pm »

OK, rather than let this drop too far down the list, shall I share the little bit that I know.

I think it's Someone Saved My Life Tonight by Elton John (lyrics by Bernie Taupin, but I think it's about an event in Elton's life), although it's not about a suicide, but, rather, a metaphorical loss of life. Anyway, that meantions a Sugar Bear (who is the 'someone'), but I don't know who that was.

Someone might be able to pick it up from there (assuming I'm right so far).

Redlight · « **Reply #2022 on:** 22 February, 2014, 09:50:22 am »

In the absence of any takers, Clarion is right. John was on the verge of getting married and was talked out of it by Long John Baldry (in whose band he had played) who helped him to accept his homosexuality. On the original Captain Fantastic album, the lyrics to Someone Saved My Life Tonight bear the note: With thanks to LJB.

I guess that leaves it to me to come up with another more interesting question

clarion · « **Reply #2023 on:** 22 February, 2014, 10:47:00 am »

After I'd put my last post in, and, knowing that I'd not get the last bit, I googled, and was surprised by his identity.

Peter · « **Reply #2024 on:** 22 February, 2014, 10:52:28 am »

Redlight, your question was perfectly interesting, so much so that I researched and found the answer but didn't feel I should post it. Please come up with another!