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Last edited Sun Aug 22, 2021, 06:26 PM - Edit history (4)
(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:
https://democraticunderground.com/10181531816
Docreed2003
(16,858 posts)I know some of the others but I'll save some for the rest of the folks 😉
red dog 1
(27,799 posts)yonder
(9,665 posts)Maybe the Who. Gotta be a British band.
Edit: Welp, what do I know?
red dog 1
(27,799 posts)yonder
(9,665 posts)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
(27,799 posts)(which was the song Country Joe wanted to play)
NanceGreggs
(27,814 posts)(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
(1,967 posts)red dog 1
(27,799 posts)FuzzyRabbit
(1,967 posts)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
(27,799 posts)happybird
(4,606 posts)Tea Set
Sigma 6
Screaming Abdabs
and one or two more I cant remember
(You forgot Spectrum Five, Leonard's Lodgers & the Meggadeaths)
musette_sf
(10,200 posts)that they put Santana on the bill?
musette_sf
(10,200 posts)at which Santana opened and blew me and everyone else away.
red dog 1
(27,799 posts)musette_sf
(10,200 posts)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
(27,814 posts)... 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
(10,200 posts)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
(27,814 posts)... by recalling which bands were the up-and-comers during my somewhat misspent youth on the Island!
red dog 1
(27,799 posts)with Hassles drummer Jon Small.
Mister Ed
(5,932 posts)red dog 1
(27,799 posts)red dog 1
(27,799 posts)(On Billboard)
happybird
(4,606 posts)Mr. Tambourine Man.
red dog 1
(27,799 posts)Harker
(14,018 posts)red dog 1
(27,799 posts)(It's a great song)
Harker
(14,018 posts)red dog 1
(27,799 posts)(Too bad Dylan wrote over 600 songs)
Harker
(14,018 posts)"Dow-wow" according to Axl Rose.
Warren Zevon recorded my favorite version.
red dog 1
(27,799 posts)Harker
(14,018 posts)A song I heard once. And only part of it.
Brother Buzz
(36,427 posts)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
(111,094 posts)The Byrds?
red dog 1
(27,799 posts)red dog 1
(27,799 posts)Mister Ed
(5,932 posts)red dog 1
(27,799 posts)red dog 1
(27,799 posts)MatthewHatesTrump2
(915 posts)Harker
(14,018 posts)Ah. Way late
red dog 1
(27,799 posts)Way to go, Hark!
Harker
(14,018 posts)thanks, Red!
red dog 1
(27,799 posts)(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
(14,018 posts)red dog 1
(27,799 posts)Wolf Frankula
(3,600 posts)I knew they banned Keith Moon, so I assume they banned the others. Keithy Boy liked wrecking hotel rooms.
Wolf
red dog 1
(27,799 posts)"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
(27,799 posts)Last edited Thu Aug 19, 2021, 04:16 PM - Edit history (1)
Because the townspeople wouldn't allow it.
red dog 1
(27,799 posts)musette_sf
(10,200 posts)red dog 1
(27,799 posts)(Thanks for posting that video)
red dog 1
(27,799 posts)(It was at Bedford College, London)
MatthewHatesTrump2
(915 posts)red dog 1
(27,799 posts)red dog 1
(27,799 posts)Harker
(14,018 posts)ETA... argh. "Purple Haze"?
red dog 1
(27,799 posts)discntnt_irny_srcsm
(18,479 posts)...All Along The Watchtower.
Harker
(14,018 posts)red dog 1
(27,799 posts)discntnt_irny_srcsm
(18,479 posts)MatthewHatesTrump2
(915 posts)Or The Ramones?
red dog 1
(27,799 posts)It is Queen
Harker
(14,018 posts)And who wrote it?
Not exactly rock 'n' roll...
Willie Nelson
Harker
(14,018 posts)For bonus points, what two other C&W artists died in the same plane crash?
Harker
(14,018 posts)What two blues artists make up the name?
happybird
(4,606 posts)Harker
(14,018 posts)Right on.
MatthewHatesTrump2
(915 posts)red dog 1
(27,799 posts)red dog 1
(27,799 posts)happybird
(4,606 posts)red dog 1
(27,799 posts)red dog 1
(27,799 posts)GReedDiamond
(5,312 posts)He's So Fine.