Author Topic: Pop quiz  (Read 174292 times)

Re: Pop quiz
« Reply #275 on: 18 January, 2010, 05:47:08 pm »
Fuck! I used to know everything about Level 42 in the 80s - I dunno, he fucked a cow?
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Re: Pop quiz
« Reply #276 on: 18 January, 2010, 05:52:05 pm »
Didn't he then tell them he was gay, to get out again?  Or was that someone else?
Rick James?

Re: Pop quiz
« Reply #277 on: 18 January, 2010, 07:54:07 pm »
Fuck! I used to know everything about Level 42 in the 80s - I dunno, he fucked a cow?

I said exact.  

I need the breed of cow.

Re: Pop quiz
« Reply #278 on: 18 January, 2010, 08:31:46 pm »
Fuck! I used to know everything about Level 42 in the 80s - I dunno, he fucked a cow?

I said exact.  

I need the breed of cow.

Dexter?
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Re: Pop quiz
« Reply #279 on: 18 January, 2010, 09:18:49 pm »
Was it another affair with the nanny thing, like de Burgh?
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Re: Pop quiz
« Reply #280 on: 18 January, 2010, 10:50:20 pm »
OK.  But I'm off to bed shortly, so I won't be able to adjudicate till the morning.

Which British heavy metal band swapped drummers with which (foreign) support band?
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Re: Pop quiz
« Reply #281 on: 18 January, 2010, 11:44:14 pm »
Certainly was!  Got caught shagging the nanny.  Over to Clarion...

Oh, a goat then - not a cow.
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Re: Pop quiz
« Reply #282 on: 18 January, 2010, 11:47:10 pm »
OK.  But I'm off to bed shortly, so I won't be able to adjudicate till the morning.

Which British heavy metal band swapped drummers with which (foreign) support band?

Diamond Head/Metallica?

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clarion

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Re: Pop quiz
« Reply #283 on: 19 January, 2010, 09:14:34 am »
Nope.  I should say that the support band were actually the support for at least a UK tour for the British band.  And, as another clue, both drummers were English.
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Re: Pop quiz
« Reply #284 on: 19 January, 2010, 09:45:30 am »
I'm guessing Iron Maiden and Trust.
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clarion

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Re: Pop quiz
« Reply #285 on: 19 January, 2010, 09:56:56 am »
Well done, M le Maire.  It's fairly well known, but I thought it might take longer than that.  Nicko McBrain, via a circuitous route, had replaced Jeannot Hanela in the Trust line up, and, after they had toured together, McBrain joined Iron Maiden, while Maiden's stool tenant, Clive Burr, went to Trust.

McBrain frequently appears in the lists of top drummers of all time, and deservedly so, I think.  He tightened up Trust's sound, and helped move them from their punky origins into the realms of (albeit very political) heavy metal, which was more fashionable than it had ever been at that point, with the NWOBHM on the rise.
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Re: Pop quiz
« Reply #286 on: 19 January, 2010, 10:03:47 am »
Yay!

(Thinks)

The Rolling Stones, Hawkwind, The Mekons.  Who played with all three?
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Re: Pop quiz
« Reply #287 on: 19 January, 2010, 10:10:37 am »
Stacia? ;D
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Re: Pop quiz
« Reply #288 on: 19 January, 2010, 10:21:16 am »
The Rolling Stones, Hawkwind, The Mekons.  Who played with all three?

I had to look this up so I won't give away the answer, but you do know there's another name you could add to that list?

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Re: Pop quiz
« Reply #289 on: 19 January, 2010, 10:33:05 am »
*lightbulb goes on*

is that other one The Pretty Things?
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Re: Pop quiz
« Reply #290 on: 19 January, 2010, 10:52:44 am »
OK, I think I am going to plump for Dick Taylor.

Now I have a question (which I didn't a few minutes ago ;D )

EDIT: Having Gewgled, I'm pretty sure of this one, soI'll go ahead with a question.  Hope this one is a shade harder, and takes a bit of guessing.  No NWOBHM involved this time, though. ;)
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Re: Pop quiz
« Reply #291 on: 19 January, 2010, 11:22:13 am »
For a short while in the mid-80s, what precisely did the lead singer of Pulp have in common with the former singer of the Wilde Flowers?
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nicknack

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Re: Pop quiz
« Reply #292 on: 19 January, 2010, 11:29:26 am »
Wheelchair?
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clarion

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Re: Pop quiz
« Reply #293 on: 19 January, 2010, 11:31:37 am »
I need more detail than that, I'm afraid.
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Re: Pop quiz
« Reply #294 on: 19 January, 2010, 11:32:54 am »
Ah. Knowing next to nothing about Jarvis (but lots about RW) I have done the obvious and found that he also fell from a window, but, luckily for him, was not permanently confined.
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citoyen

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Re: Pop quiz
« Reply #295 on: 19 January, 2010, 11:37:41 am »
Performed on Top Of The Pops in a wheelchair?
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Re: Pop quiz
« Reply #296 on: 19 January, 2010, 11:58:45 am »
Clarion is indeed correct - 'tis Dick Taylor.  I didn't mention the Pretty Things coz I didn't want to make it too obvious.
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Re: Pop quiz
« Reply #297 on: 19 January, 2010, 12:02:47 pm »
Ah. Knowing next to nothing about Jarvis (but lots about RW) I have done the obvious and found that he also fell from a window, but, luckily for him, was not permanently confined.

That's what I was looking for!

Yes, Robert Wyatt - perhaps better known as a drummer, but also singer for Wilde Flowers & Soft Machine -  was injured and now uses a wheelchair following a fall from a window at a party in about 1973 IIRC.  Jarvis Cocker also fell from a window at a party in about 1985 (impersonating Superman, I think), which necessitated his performing in a wheelchair for a while.  Fortunately, he soon recovered.
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citoyen

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Re: Pop quiz
« Reply #298 on: 19 January, 2010, 12:07:04 pm »
I didn't mention the Pretty Things coz I didn't want to make it too obvious.

Yes, I guessed that was probably your intention but only after I'd already given away a massive clue... sorry!

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Re: Pop quiz
« Reply #299 on: 19 January, 2010, 01:37:46 pm »
I'll have a go then.

Can I have a connection (there are probably many) between Jimi Hendrix, Janis Joplin and Wings?
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