Author Topic: Pop quiz (Read 175158 times)

Basil · « **Reply #1075 on:** 13 February, 2010, 01:26:05 am »

Quote from: Mr Larrington on 12 February, 2010, 03:51:58 pm

Nope.

Edit: chat amongst yourselves - I'm off home and probably won't be here again until Monday.

OK.
*Bored with waiting till Monday*

I'll pop in with an easy one.

Jefferson Airplane
Captain Beefheart's Magic Band
Lou Reed
The Tornadoes
Generation X's bassist Tony James
Phill Mogg

What's the theme?

Tourist Tony · « **Reply #1076 on:** 13 February, 2010, 05:09:42 am »

Space?
Satellites, Telstar, UFO, Sigue Sigue Sputnik....

jogler · « **Reply #1077 on:** 13 February, 2010, 09:18:18 am »

I have the same thought as TT

Tourist Tony · « **Reply #1078 on:** 13 February, 2010, 09:20:53 am »

Am thinking also "Doc at the radar station"

PaulF · « **Reply #1079 on:** 13 February, 2010, 09:42:31 am »

And Jefferson Airplane morphed into Jefferson Starship

Basil · « **Reply #1080 on:** 13 February, 2010, 10:15:50 am »

Morning.
Sorry, had a bit of a lie-in.

TT is, of course correct. Vehicles in space.
Over to you Tony

No one a Beefheart fan?

nicknack · « **Reply #1081 on:** 13 February, 2010, 12:30:11 pm »

Quote from: Basil on 13 February, 2010, 10:15:50 am

No one a Beefheart fan?

<Puts hand up>

Here!

Wot? You mean, "Rockette Morton takes off into the wind..."?

Basil · « **Reply #1082 on:** 13 February, 2010, 03:54:38 pm »

Yup. Bassist for the good Captain for many years.

Tourist Tony · « **Reply #1083 on:** 13 February, 2010, 05:08:28 pm »

I rhought of Rockette, but with the communication links of Telstar was thinking of "Radar" or Antenna Jimmy Semens....

Lou Reed
Stevie Winwood
James Osterberg
Steve Tyler

Martin · « **Reply #1084 on:** 13 February, 2010, 06:48:29 pm »

Quote from: Tourist Tony on 13 February, 2010, 05:08:28 pm

I rhought of Rockette, but with the communication links of Telstar was thinking of "Radar" or Antenna Jimmy Semens....

Lou Reed
Stevie Winwood
James Osterberg
Steve Tyler

is this the next question?

if so; something to do with walking?

clarion · « **Reply #1085 on:** 13 February, 2010, 07:00:32 pm »

I think it's Wild

Wild One
Walk on the Wild Side
Deuces are Wild...

Tourist Tony · « **Reply #1086 on:** 13 February, 2010, 07:01:43 pm »

Nothing to do with walking

Tourist Tony · « **Reply #1087 on:** 14 February, 2010, 03:47:36 pm »

Need a clue?

clarion · « **Reply #1088 on:** 14 February, 2010, 06:28:47 pm »

So not wild either, then?

Yeah, a clue might move us closer...

Tourist Tony · « **Reply #1089 on:** 14 February, 2010, 08:13:08 pm »

The clue is really in Lou Reed, and in one of Tyler's hits (NOT Walk This Way). One of Winwood's oeuvres then links to them, and Osterberg could be said to be a victim.
Hint: think of Winwood's most famous band, and look for an album title that clicks (sorry) with Lou Reed

Mr Larrington · « **Reply #1090 on:** 15 February, 2010, 08:44:43 am »

Steve Winwood's most famous band was Traffic, who had an album called "The Low Spark of High Heeled Boys", and indeed another called "Shoot Out at the Fantasy Factory". Aerosmith had a hit with "Dude (Looks Like a Lady)". The Velvet Underground were, for a while, the house band of Andy Warhol's Factory, which was famously full of transvestites and so forth, which became the subject of his solo hit "Walk On The Wild Side".

I'm struggling a bit to figure out where The Mighty Ig fits into this, but then he's enough of an oddball that nothing would surprise me.

Alternatively they've all sold car insurance

TheLurker · « **Reply #1091 on:** 15 February, 2010, 09:13:31 am »

Quote from: Dicky Mo on 12 February, 2010, 03:22:24 pm

Quote from: TheLurker on 12 February, 2010, 02:48:34 pm

First song played on Radio 1?

From the BBC themselves...

Quote
As all pop fact fans know, The Move's Flowers In The Rain was the first track to be played on Radio One, chosen to symbolise the era of flower power and guaranteeing an ongoing stream of income for the band.

The only problem is that none of those pop facts is true.

The first track played was in fact Johnny Dankworth's Beefeaters

Hur Hur Hur

*cough* I believe that Flowers in the Rain was the first _complete_ track to be played. Beefeaters was used as intro music rather than played as a recording in its own right. Anyway the judge's decision is final.

Tourist Tony · « **Reply #1092 on:** 15 February, 2010, 09:56:33 am »

Mr Larrington has it--transvestism. The Low Spark is a favourite album/song of mine, and Mr Reed 's walk on the wild side slides nicely into the dude who looks like a lady. [sorry...]

The link to Iggy Pop is simple. Aerosmith's song was allegedly written about an incident in which IP was accompanied to his hotel room by a young lady of questionable gender, and his attitude on discovering that her lady garden was a bit hillier than normally to be anticipated was "Well, waste not..."

Tourist Tony · « **Reply #1093 on:** 15 February, 2010, 09:59:32 am »

Allegedly...

clarion · « **Reply #1094 on:** 15 February, 2010, 10:38:17 am »

Foul! Surely Winwood was most famously in The Spencer Davis Group?

Mr Larrington · « **Reply #1095 on:** 15 February, 2010, 11:11:30 am »

It seems that either nobody knows the answer to my previous question, or else nobody cares that both bands' drummers, Grant Hart and Pete Gill, are gay, so let's think of another...

Ms. Christine Ellen Hynde
Mr. James Newell Osterberg Jr.¹
Ms. Alanis Nadine Morissette
Ms. Malvina Reynolds

Link plz.

1 - a further clue is that Mr Osterberg's physique partially served as the inspiration for the film portrayal of a character who was very interested in the link.

Mr Larrington · « **Reply #1096 on:** 15 February, 2010, 02:39:42 pm »

Hello?

(Tap, tap)

Is this thing on?

nicknack · « **Reply #1097 on:** 15 February, 2010, 02:41:09 pm »

Sshhh!

We're thinking...

nicknack · « **Reply #1098 on:** 15 February, 2010, 02:51:28 pm »

I've got "Brass in Pocket" and "Hand in Pocket" ...

Mr Larrington · « **Reply #1099 on:** 15 February, 2010, 03:18:44 pm »

Close enough for government work - Malvina Reynolds did a song called "Song In My Pocket" while The Stooges did "Cock In My Pocket". I do not think Mr Pop was referring to a male chicken...

According to the DVD extras on the "Lord Of The Rings" fillums, the design of the CGI Gollum was in part based on Iggy with his shirt off - Gollum was, of course, very concerned to know what Bilbo Baggins had in his pocketses.

Author Topic: Pop quiz (Read 175158 times)

Martin