Ask a rock & roll trivia question and see if anyone knows the answer W/O using Google - Part 5

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(Guesses Are Always Welcome)

1) What was the original name of "Heart"? (answered)

2) How did ABBA get it's name? (answered)

3) What was the original name of The Sex Pistols?

4) Who was the highest-paid performer at Woodstock? (answered)

5) When Bill Graham agreed to help out at Woodstock, he had one condition, what was that condition? (answered)

6) What band holds the Guinness World's Record for longest-running rock group fan club?

7) What was the name of the band Jerry Jeff Walker co-founded in the late 1960's?

8) What was the original name of The Ramones?

9) What band did Billy Joel co-found before he went solo?

10) What was Pink Floyd's original name? (answered)

11) What was the only band ever to be paid not be on The Ed Sullivan Show? (answered)





More Rock & Roll Trivia Questions from Part 4:
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[Docreed2003]

1. 11). Is Country Joe and the Fish...lol

I know some of the others but I'll save some for the rest of the folks 😉

[red dog 1]

12. Ding!

[yonder]

2. I'd guess the Rolling Stones for #11.

Maybe the Who. Gotta be a British band.

Edit: Welp, what do I know?

[red dog 1]

13. It was Country Joe & the Fish

[yonder]

21. Yeah thanks, I saw post #1 right after I posted

and was the reason for my edit. Found out today where the Stones actually did play on his show.

So much for my Brit band theory.

[red dog 1]

34. Ed Sullivan didn't like Country Joe's great anti-war song "I Feel Like I'm Fixin' to Die"

(which was the song Country Joe wanted to play)

[NanceGreggs]

3. Some answers ...

(2) The name ABBA came from the first names of its members - Agnetha, Bjorn, Benny, and Annifrid.

(9) Billy Joel's band was "The Hassles".

[FuzzyRabbit]

4. 1)White Heart

[red dog 1]

14. White Heart is not their original name

[FuzzyRabbit]

22. You are correct.

First name was The Army, then Hocus Pocus, and then White heart. The first time I saw them they were White Heart.

[red dog 1]

24. I love Heart!

[happybird]

5. 10: they had a few

Tea Set
Sigma 6
Screaming Abdabs

and one or two more I can’t remember

[red dog 1]

15. Ding!

(You forgot Spectrum Five, Leonard's Lodgers & the Meggadeaths)

[musette_sf]

6. is # 5

that they put Santana on the bill?

[musette_sf]

8. The Airplane had just done a free show in Central Park a few weeks before,

at which Santana opened and blew me and everyone else away.

[red dog 1]

16. That's it!

[musette_sf]

7. # 9

Hassles or Vagrants??? (NYC area radio ads for the Action House hyped these two Long Island bands like crazy back in the 60s.)

I'm going with the Hassles.

[NanceGreggs]

9. The Vagrants ...

... became popular due to member Leslie West, who later co-founded Mountain.

I grew up on Long Island, and was in the audience the night West last performed with The Vagrants at a then-popular LI bar.

No Long Islander missed the irony when Billy Joel went on to fame and fortune, as it was The Hassles' flamboyant lead singer, Johnny Dizek, who everyone assumed was destined for stardom.

Those were the days, my friend - when we would end a night of bar-hopping by catching the last set of The Rascals performing at some Long Island bar before heading to an open-all-night diner for coffee and a pile of greasy French fries.

[musette_sf]

10. Ah yes, I remember the (then-Young) Rascals

in ads for Long Island clubs as well.

I was a little bit young for going to the Hassles-Vagrants-Rascals gigs. My bar-hopping nights were more around Max's, Village clubs like the Bitter End, and later, the Bottom Line. My Long Island bar days were pretty much centered around My Father's Place.

[NanceGreggs]

11. I guess I've given my age away ...

... by recalling which bands were the up-and-comers during my somewhat misspent youth on the Island!

[red dog 1]

17. He joined The Hassles in late 1965, but left the band in 1969 to co-found another band ( a duo)

with Hassles drummer Jon Small.

[Mister Ed]

38. I think that duo was named Attila? n/t

[red dog 1]

46. That's it!

[red dog 1]

18. What was Bob Dylan's only number one hit?

(On Billboard)

[happybird]

19. Guessing Rainy Day Woman 12 & 35 or

Mr. Tambourine Man.

[red dog 1]

20. Very good guesses, but nope.

[Harker]

28. Lay Lady Lay? n/t

[red dog 1]

29. Nope, good guess though

(It's a great song)

[Harker]

32. Positively 4th Street?

[red dog 1]

33. Heh, heh, (I'm cracking up here) Nope

(Too bad Dylan wrote over 600 songs)

[Harker]

36. Think I got it... "Knockin' on Heaven's Door"?

"Dow-wow" according to Axl Rose.

Warren Zevon recorded my favorite version.

[red dog 1]

41. Nope, good guess though

[Harker]

43. I gave up and looked it up.

A song I heard once. And only part of it.

[Brother Buzz]

80. Me too. A very poignant song, but because of it's length, it got very little play on the AM radio

The lyrics are one Hell of wall of text, but it's totally a majestic magnum opus.

Oh, but to have been a fly on the wall when he wrote it!

[kentuck]

37. It was the song recorded by another band?

The Byrds?

[red dog 1]

42. Nope

[red dog 1]

23. What was the inspiration for the Led Zeppelin song "Black Dog"?

[red dog 1]

25. Re: Paul McCartney's song "Got to get you into my life"...."You" referred to ___?

[Mister Ed]

39. Marijuana, as he once explained in an interview. n/t

[red dog 1]

40. That's it!

[red dog 1]

26. The Beatles discussed playing at Woodstock, but only upon one condition, what was it?

[MatthewHatesTrump2]

81. That The Plastic Ono Band also play there?

[Harker]

27. 2. From the initial letters of their names.

Ah. Way late

[red dog 1]

30. WinnerWinnerChicken Dinner!

Way to go, Hark!

[Harker]

31. NanceGreggs was way out front on it...

thanks, Red!

[red dog 1]

35. NanceGreggs?

(I'm not familiar with that name)

Check out my brand new DU Lounge post, I think you'll like it.

(I gotta go now)

[Harker]

44. Post 3. n/t

[red dog 1]

45. Which hotel chain banned The Who for life?

[Wolf Frankula]

51. Holiday Inn

I knew they banned Keith Moon, so I assume they banned the others. Keithy Boy liked wrecking hotel rooms.

Wolf

[red dog 1]

68. In 1967, on tour opening for Herman's Hermits, The Who stayed at the Holiday Inn in Flint, Michigan

"fire extinguishers were set off, guests and objects were thrown into the hotel's swimming pool, and a piano was destroyed..The chaos was only ended when police arrived with guns drawn"

[red dog 1]

47. What New York city was the original site chosen for Woodstock to take place in?

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Because the townspeople wouldn't allow it.

[red dog 1]

48. Which Chuck Berry song was covered by both The Beach Boys and The Beatles?

[musette_sf]

50. this one

[red dog 1]

53. Ding!

(Thanks for posting that video)

[red dog 1]

49. How many people showed up for Queen's very first performance?

(It was at Bedford College, London)

[MatthewHatesTrump2]

52. Is number 4 Jimi Hendrix?

[red dog 1]

54. Yes!

[red dog 1]

55. What was the only song by Jimi Hendrix to make the Top 40 charts in America?

[Harker]

57. "Foxy Lady"? n/t

ETA... argh. "Purple Haze"?

[red dog 1]

65. Nope, good guess though

[discntnt_irny_srcsm]

59. I think it's probably my favorite of his...

...All Along The Watchtower.

[Harker]

63. My third pick. n/t

[red dog 1]

64. That's it!

[discntnt_irny_srcsm]

67. No other guitarist sounds like Jimi!

[MatthewHatesTrump2]

56. Is number 6 Queen?

Or The Ramones?

[red dog 1]

66. Ding!

It is Queen

[Harker]

58. What was Patsy Cline's only top ten pop hit?

And who wrote it?

Not exactly rock 'n' roll...

[Zorro]

61. Crazy

Willie Nelson

[Harker]

62. Well done. Right on both.

For bonus points, what two other C&W artists died in the same plane crash?

[Harker]

60. Speaking of Pink Floyd...

What two blues artists make up the name?

[happybird]

74. Pink Anderson and Floyd Council

[Harker]

76. Oh, by the way, which one's Pink?

Right on.

[MatthewHatesTrump2]

69. Is number 3 The Sex Shotguns?

[red dog 1]

70. Ha!

[red dog 1]

71. What rock band released the song "Buddy Holly" on their debut album?

[happybird]

73. Weezer

[red dog 1]

78. That's it!

[red dog 1]

72. George Harrison was sued for plagiarizing what band?

[GReedDiamond]

75. Chiffons?

He's So Fine.

[red dog 1]

77. You got it!

[red dog 1]

79. What band got their name from a book by William Henry Davies?