Author Topic: Pop quiz  (Read 174277 times)

Martin

Re: Pop quiz
« Reply #525 on: 25 January, 2010, 07:19:06 pm »
Bright Eyes?

no that was Mike Batt

a clue;
it was released (as were the solo albums) in 1975

jogler

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Re: Pop quiz
« Reply #526 on: 25 January, 2010, 07:29:45 pm »
my little town

Martin

Re: Pop quiz
« Reply #527 on: 25 January, 2010, 07:31:11 pm »

Tim Hall

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Re: Pop quiz
« Reply #528 on: 25 January, 2010, 07:37:17 pm »
I'll jump in if Basil still doesn't have a question - a quick and easy one, inspired by remarks in another thread, so googling shouldn't even be necessary...

"I'm sitting in the railway station, got a ticket for my destination..."

Which station? (I'll accept the "official" answer, even though it is disputed.)

d.

I know it's been answered, but I have met someone who says she originated the story that it was written at whichever station in a Liverpool University rag mag in the late 70s.

And by spooky coincidence, one of the disputed stations, according to Wikipedia, is Warrington Bank Quay. I got a train to and from there today.
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jogler

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Re: Pop quiz
« Reply #529 on: 25 January, 2010, 07:41:23 pm »
In 1980, Johhny Cash achieved what distinction?

Re: Pop quiz
« Reply #530 on: 25 January, 2010, 07:44:47 pm »
Cash became the Country Music Hall of Fame's youngest living member

jogler

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Re: Pop quiz
« Reply #531 on: 25 January, 2010, 07:46:11 pm »
correct

Eccentrica Gallumbits

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Re: Pop quiz
« Reply #532 on: 25 January, 2010, 08:49:23 pm »
Bright Eyes?

no that was Mike Batt

Art Garfunkel sang it though. Perhaps Paul Simon thought he could sing it better.
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Re: Pop quiz
« Reply #533 on: 25 January, 2010, 09:26:38 pm »
What have Mark King, of Level 42, Norman Watt-Roy of Ian Dury and the Blockheads, and John Entwistle to be grateful for to The Grateful Dead?

clarion

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Re: Pop quiz
« Reply #534 on: 25 January, 2010, 09:30:35 pm »
Is it that they used the same bass amplification system as Phil Lesh in the Dead's famous Wall of Sound PA?  I think the strings had separate feeds.
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Re: Pop quiz
« Reply #535 on: 25 January, 2010, 09:32:46 pm »
No.... but in a similar ballpark

clarion

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Re: Pop quiz
« Reply #536 on: 25 January, 2010, 09:35:46 pm »
Hmm.  Not sure then.  I'll have a think while I do summat else.
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rogerzilla

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Re: Pop quiz
« Reply #537 on: 25 January, 2010, 09:37:26 pm »
Is it a stupid thumb-based slapping technique?
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Re: Pop quiz
« Reply #538 on: 25 January, 2010, 09:39:54 pm »
Is it a stupid thumb-based slapping technique?

Is there a non-thumb based slapping technique?

But, no....

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Re: Pop quiz
« Reply #539 on: 25 January, 2010, 10:12:16 pm »
The development of the active bass?
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Martin

Re: Pop quiz
« Reply #540 on: 25 January, 2010, 10:15:41 pm »
What have Mark King, of Level 42, Norman Watt-Roy of Ian Dury and the Blockheads, and John Entwistle to be grateful for to The Grateful Dead?

a left handed bass guitar?

(Assuming Mark King is a bassist: I saw a docu-concert about L42 on TV in the 80s and the drummer played his drums "wrong handed")

clarion

  • Tyke
Re: Pop quiz
« Reply #541 on: 25 January, 2010, 10:18:24 pm »
Paul McCartney had a left-handed bass.
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Martin

Re: Pop quiz
« Reply #542 on: 25 January, 2010, 10:19:15 pm »
Paul McCartney had a left-handed bass.

it was more of a cello with a long neck IIRC

Redlight

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Re: Pop quiz
« Reply #543 on: 25 January, 2010, 10:41:22 pm »
Nah,it was a Hohner bass. Gorgeous.  There's a great photo, taken by Chalkie Davis, of it propped up on a guitar stand at Shea Stadium, 1966, with the hand written set list taped to the side.

On the question, were the Grateful Dead the first band to have a Rickenbacker bass?
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JT

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Re: Pop quiz
« Reply #544 on: 26 January, 2010, 09:07:39 am »
What have Mark King, of Level 42, Norman Watt-Roy of Ian Dury and the Blockheads, and John Entwistle to be grateful for to The Grateful Dead?

a left handed bass guitar?

(Assuming Mark King is a bassist: I saw a docu-concert about L42 on TV in the 80s and the drummer played his drums "wrong handed")

Phil Gould that would be. Superb drummer and he often played cack-handed, playing the hi-hats with his left hand.
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Martin

Re: Pop quiz
« Reply #545 on: 26 January, 2010, 09:12:00 am »
Phil Gould that would be. Superb drummer and he often played cack-handed, playing the hi-hats with his left hand.

I remember him saying he got the idea from a legendary jazz drummer whose name escapes me; the drummer got endless stick from his tutor about it and years later when he was a megastar he met the tutor again and said "I didn't do so bad playing wrong handed did I?" to which the tutor replied
"but think how much better you would be if you'd played them properly"

Re: Pop quiz
« Reply #546 on: 26 January, 2010, 09:50:14 am »
The development of the active bass?

Very very close......

PaulF

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Re: Pop quiz
« Reply #547 on: 26 January, 2010, 09:52:34 am »
Fretless bass?

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Re: Pop quiz
« Reply #548 on: 26 January, 2010, 11:09:30 am »
On the question, were the Grateful Dead the first band to have a Rickenbacker bass?

Unlikely, coz the first Rickenbacker bass dates from 1957.
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nicknack

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Re: Pop quiz
« Reply #549 on: 26 January, 2010, 11:14:34 am »
Bass as a midi controller?
There's no vibrations, but wait.