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[red dog 1]

What was the first American TV show The Rolling Stones ever appeared on?

[calguy]

1. Why was Paul McCartney barefoot on the Abbey Road album cover?

[Ishoutandscream2]

3. It was a hot day

He had previously been wearing sandals.

[JustABozoOnThisBus]

18. Paul was dead.

He got better.

[skylucy]

2. The Hollywood Palace?

[Ishoutandscream2]

4. I believe you're correct.

Nt

[red dog 1]

22. Was that a TV show?

[Ishoutandscream2]

5. Bill Wyman, bass player of the Stones.

Wyman was not his birth name. What is?

[Eko]

6. Be suprised if anyone can tell me this one.

What band pleaded guilty to disturbing the peace and paid $50,000.00 fine for taking a black man into a diner full of racists?

[walkingman]

7. Allman Brothers - I remember it well. I could tell you a story about getting

arrested simply for having long hair one night in Birmingham in 1971 (when this occurred) but I won't. The late 60's and early 70's were extraordinary times.



Peace

[Eko]

8. Wow!

Way surprised someone knew that. Good article about it from Butch. I think you win this one for the day!!
Eko.

[PBC_Democrat]

9. What Songwriter Wrote the Following Three Songs?

Total Eclipse of the Heart
It's All Coming Back to Me
Two Out of Three Ain't Bad

[FakeNoose]

10. Jim Steinman

[Lochloosa]

11. How many fingers did Jerry Garcia have?

[walkingman]

12. Nine Fingers ☮

[Lochloosa]

13. 7

2 thumbs.

[VGNonly]

42. Tony Iommi of Black Sabbath

and Phil Keagy of Glass Harp also lost parts of fingers.

[ProfessorGAC]

83. Tony Actually Wore Prosthetic Tips

In the rock doc, The End of The End, there's a closeup of his right hand while warming up b4 their final show. How he plays with those is a mystery. Looks so uncomfortable & he can't feel the string.
That's some serious dedication to the craft.
I think i would have flipped the guitar over and relearned opposite hand.
I've played a lefty guitar and could do it, after 20 minutes or so. But, it would take a lot of time to be good that way.

[Chipper Chat]

14. What 40s big band had a rock n roll hit in 1959

And what was it?

[walkingman]

15. Just a guess?? .....The Ray Anthony Orchestra (former trumpeter in Glen Miller)

Peter Gunn (written by Henry Mancini) ❓

[Chipper Chat]

17. Jimmy Dorsey - So Rare

I remember it was hard to dance to. '59 was a transition year from jitterbug to frugging.

[jmowreader]

16. What connects Arlo Guthrie with Norman Rockwell?

[DFW]

19. Stockbridge, Massachusetts?

(Happened to have passed through once, and they don't let you forget it!)

[jmowreader]

20. It's a little more complex than that

Everyone here should know the intro to that song:

You can get anything you want at Alice's Restaurant.
You can get anything you want at Alice's Restaurant.
Walk right it. It's around the back.
Just a half a mile from the railroad track.
You can get anything you want at Alice's Restaurant.

Alice's Restaurant was not the name of the restaurant, it was the name of the song. The name of the restaurant was The Back Room. It was at 40 Main Street, Stockbridge. This is a two-story building. On the ground floor at the time Arlo threw the half-ton of garbage over the side of the cliff, the Main Street side of the building was occupied by Stockbridge's grocery store. The back side of the building was The Back Room. And the entire second floor was Norman Rockwell's studio.

After the grocery store closed, no new one was built...but there are a LOT of towns in Mass that don't have grocery stores.

[DFW]

21. I didn't know about Rockwell's studio being at the same location as the Back Room

I can be happy I even knew about Stockbridge! My knowledge of Massachusetts is mostly limited to Boston, Provincetown, Truro and Wellfleet. Alice had a small gallery in P-Town as recently as a few years ago, but I don't know if that's still the situation.

[Mr.Bill]

24. I listened to that song so much when I was in high school,

one day I was bored in class so I wrote out the lyrics to the entire song from memory.

[red dog 1]

23. What band is Rick Nielsen the lead guitarist of?

[Mr.Bill]

25. Cheap Trick

What band did Rick Huxley play bass in?

[red dog 1]

26. Cheap Trick is correct

(I don't know the answer to your question)

btw, my favorite Michael Moore is his 2nd (I think) called "The Big One"
and in it, there's a scene where he goes to visit Rick Nielsen at his home, which is just down the street from the Rockford, Illinois mall where MM had a book signing.

[Mr.Bill]

27. There was an episode of American Pickers

where they went and visited him. I think they bought a guitar from him.

[ProfessorGAC]

84. I've Talked With Rick A Half Dozen Times

Hung out with the whole band a couple times.
They are all really nice guys. Very down to earth.
The only reason you'd think they were rock stars is because you already knew they were rock stars.
We opened for them in 1983. (Or '82)
Rick brought 48 guitars to the gig! Hamer was sending him super cool finishes about 2 a month for a few years.
He said his basement looked like Manny's. (Famed NY music store.)

[Aristus]

28. What was the advertising slogan Jim Morrison muttered at the end of "Touch Me"?

n/t

[hamsterjill]

29. Stronger than dirt!

N/t

[Aristus]

30. For the win!

[hamsterjill]

31. Cause I'm an oldie!!!!

I can remember the first time I saw a video of Morrison singing “Touch Me”. I was simply amazed.

And Manzarek on those keys!!!!

[Aristus]

32. I think that was their appearance on The Smothers Brothers.

That was the last time Morrison looked that good. The very next month, bloated and bearded, he was arrested for alleged indecent behavior at the Dinner Key auditorium in Miami.

[hamsterjill]

33. Well, when he looked good...

He looked DAMN good!!! LOL. (Pre-teen crush because my oldest sister liked him and always played the Doors albums).

Sad the way it ended…

[red dog 1]

34. Who was the original female lead singer for The Jefferson Airplane?

(First name will do)

[VGNonly]

38. Signe Toly Anderson

She died the some day as JA guitarist Paul Kattner.

[red dog 1]

35. What rock band is featured in the movie "Blow Up" (1966)?

[VGNonly]

39. Yardbirds

[red dog 1]

48. That's the band!

[VGNonly]

55. Train Kept a Rolling

With Beck and Page!

[Rhiannon12866]

36. I do remember that Ed Sullivan urged them to change the words of their hit song

From "Let's Spend The Night Together" to "Let's Spend Some Time Together." Don't ask me how I know that...

[Harker]

46. And they did...

[Rhiannon12866]

54. Great find! I did not know that...

Like I said, I don't remember how I know that, just a bit of trivia that I picked up somewhere.

[Harker]

59. The Doors had been told not to perform "Light My Fire" without

dropping the line, "Babe, we couldn't get much higher", because Ed took it as a drug reference, but Jim Morrison just let it fly anyhow. Ed was furious, reportedly.

[Rhiannon12866]

61. My parents met Ed Sullivan once, though I don't remember the context

But what I do remember was that my mother hauled me out of my room and in front of the TV the first time the Beatles were on. I was a kid, wasn't paying attention, but she said I needed to see them since this was "history."

[Harker]

62. That was my fifth birthday!

Saw it on the old b&w Silvertone from Sears.

[Rhiannon12866]

63. We had a Zenith!

Memorable birthday!

[Harker]

64. Life's never been the same.

Luckily!

[geardaddy]

37. How did The Ramones get their name?

[VGNonly]

40. Paul McCartney used the name Paul Ramone

when checking into hotels. I guess they liked the name.

[geardaddy]

44. Bingo!

[VGNonly]

41. What was Spirit guitarist

Randy California real name and why?

[Harker]

45. Randy Wolfe.

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You mean why California?

Jimi had two Randys, Wolfe and Powell in a band. They became Randy California and Randy Texas, as I have it.

Edited to correct spelling. My mother was a Wolff. Nobody believes me when I tell them.

[VGNonly]

43. Monika Dannemann was the last girlfriend

of Jimi Hendrix. She was an athlete. What sport?

[Brother Buzz]

47. How many degrees of separation are there between 867-5309/Jenny and The Dharma Bums?

Last edited Fri May 20, 2022, 03:46 PM - Edit history (1)

Actually not degrees, but feet. Some pretty obscure, but honest trivia.

On edit: You can earn extra credit if you can explain how the word, "gobbledygook", fits into the story.

[Harker]

49. The best trivia, by its very nature, is obscure. n/t

[Harker]

50. What, instead of drums, did Jerry Allison play on "Not Fade Away"? n/t

[red dog 1]

51. Tambourine?

[Harker]

52. Good shot, Red... but that's not it.

[VGNonly]

56. A cardboard box?

Jerry Allison is still living.

[Harker]

57. That's it, V! Cardboard boxes.

He picked up the idea from "Party Doll."

[Harker]

58. He's only 82.

Buddy Holly will always be 22.

I was born less than a week after the fatal crash.

[Mister Ed]

53. Who put the bop in the bop-sh-bop-sh-bop?

Bonus question: who put the ram in the rama-lama-ding-dong?

[Harker]

60. Two of life's great mysteries. n/t

[red dog 1]

65. "Who was that man? I'd like to shake his hand, He brought my baby back to me"

[red dog 1]

66. Who plays lead guitar in The Bryan Adams Band?

[red dog 1]

67. Terry Cath and Robert Lamm were in what band?

[ruet]

68. Im'a Guess Just Because I Know Kath...

was in Chicago. So... Chicago?

[red dog 1]

69. You got it!

[red dog 1]

70. Who sang the hit song "Party Doll"?

[rurallib]

71. just heard that on the oldies station the other day

something like Buddy Knox?

[red dog 1]

72. Ding!

[red dog 1]

73. Who sang "I'm Stickin' With You"?

[Danmel]

74. The velvet underground

What was the original name of The Who?

[red dog 1]

86. Velvet Underground were not the first to record the song "I'm Stickin' With You"

[red dog 1]

87. The What?

(They started out as The Detours)

[GReedDiamond]

75. Which TV Game Show Producer & Host started his career by...

...writing a hit song?

[Brother Buzz]

79. He played it just about every other week on the Gong Show

Chuck Burris(sp?) Palisades Park

[GReedDiamond]

80. Chuck Barris but close enough...

Chuck wrote Palisades Park, which was a hit for Freddy Cannon.

In 2002 the film Confessions of a Dangerous Mind, starring George Clooney and Sam Rockwell as Chuck Barris, was released.

FILM DESCRIPTION:
Chuck Barris is best known to most Americans as the guy who used to host The Gong Show. He was also the creator and producer of The Dating Game, The Newlywed Game, and a handful of other successful game shows in the 1960s and 1970s. But was he also a hired killer working with the CIA? That's the take-it-or-leave-it premise of Confessions of a Dangerous Mind, based on the memoir of the same name by Chuck Barris.

TRAILER:

[Brother Buzz]

81. He came clean and admitted he made up that CIA shit

Although, in fact, he did try to join the CIA

[GReedDiamond]

82. Yeah, but it made for an amusing movie. nt

[red dog 1]

85. Yeah, I read his book, and I wasn't sure if he was kidding or not.

(I didn't know that he tried to join the CIA)

[Brother Buzz]

88. I thought of him as a likable doofus

And felt nothing he said or did was to be taken seriously, but that's just me.

Now, I could believe Dick Clark could have had close ties to to CIA, and by association, Chuck Barris picked up on it, and spun it into his own life; there could be a kernel of truth in all of this

[red dog 1]

89. Well, in my opinion, The Gong Show was hilarious & Chuck Barris was great as host

[Brother Buzz]

90. Well, I guess that's where the likable doofus comes in

The Gong Show had its moments. Hell, Chuck Barris was a great host the time he got gagged and tied up for an entire show.

[red dog 1]

91. The only act on The Gong Show that I hated was "Gene, Gene, the dancing machine"

(who was a guy who worked back stage at the show)

[Brother Buzz]

93. Tommy Tedesco was on The Gong Show - And He Won!

[red dog 1]

92. My favorite regular Gong Show judges were

Jamie Farr, Jaye P. Morgan, Phyllis Diller, Arte Johnson, Pat McCormick and Rip Taylor.

[GReedDiamond]

76. What "anti-disco" event ended in a riot, and what...

...was the name of the idiot radio "shock jock" that conceived and promoted the event?

[Ohiya]

77. Whose name is an anagram of "Mr. Mojo Risin'"

[GReedDiamond]

78. Jim Morrison - nt