Post rock trivia questions & see if anyone knows the answer without using Google

[red dog 1]

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Post as many as you want to.
Guesses are welcome.



1) What is Bryan Adams' most popular song ?(In terms of record sales) (Answered)

2 What was the address of the Grateful Dead's Haight-Ashbury house?

3) In August, 1972, the # 1 hit single was "Brandy"...What was the name of the group? (Answered)

4) Who was Jerry Garcia's Best Man at his marriage to Sara Ruppenthal, (April 23, 1963)?

5) Name a non-performer inducted into the Rock and Roll Hall of Fame?
(Besides Allen Freed, Sam Phillips, Ahmet Ertegun, Clive Davis and Dick Clark)

[EYESORE 9001]

1. For #1, I'm guessing 'Everything I Do'

#3 is Looking Glass. Song came out the year I graduated high school, so the name of the band got repeated often enough in those early years that I could never forget their name.

#5, I believe, is pioneering DJ Alan Freed.

[red dog 1]

4. Good guesses!

For # 5 you're right...Freed was part of the first group inducted in 1986, along with Sam Phillips, also a "non-performer"

(I'll have to edit the OP because I read that someone else was the only non-performer inducted into the Rock and Roll Hall of Fame)

[Docreed2003]

2. 5). Sam Phillips was the first "non-performer" inducted into the Rock Hall

He was including with the first group of inductees in 1986

[red dog 1]

7. Ding!

(Allen Freed was also inducted with the others in the 1st group in 1986)

[Mad_Dem_X]

3. #3 - Looking Glass

ETA: Should have read the other posts before I posted.

[red dog 1]

5. That's OK, you still got it.

[Harker]

6. 1. "Cuts Like a Knife.". ?

[red dog 1]

8. Nope, it was "Everything I Do I Do For You"

[Good guess, though]

[WestMichRad]

9. For #5...

Ahmet Ertegun (sp?), co-founder and longtime head of Atlantic Records? If not in the Hall, he darn well should be. Signed a LOT of great talent that others took a pass on.

[red dog 1]

12. Ding!

(From Wikipedia)

"In 1987, (Ahmet) Ertegun was inducted into the Rock & Roll Hall of Fame, of which he himself was a founder"





(If you haven't seen the movie "Cadillac Records" you should...The guy playing Ertegun is great, and so are all the other actors, including Beyonce Knowles as Etta James)

[WestMichRad]

14. Is there another non-performer...

In the R&R HOF? (Besides the 3 already named)

I suggest that George Martin should be, if he’s not. Although I’m not a huge Beatles fan, his work producing their albums was innovative and terrific.

Cadillac Records is indeed a good movie!

[red dog 1]

15. Yes, there is one more "non-performer" who was inducted into the Rock & Roll Hall of Fame

[lpbk2713]

22. I f there's one more ...

I 'll guess Dick Clark.

[red dog 1]

23. You're right!

Well done!

Dick Clark was inducted, but there's at least one more non-performer who was inducted into the Rock & Roll Hall of Fame.

[Brother Buzz]

10. Who was Bob Weir's roommate....

at the Grateful Dead's Victorian house on Ashbury?

[red dog 1]

11. I'm gonna take a real wild guess here, because I remember reading about Bob Weir's roommate,

a long time ago,

Was it Neal Cassady?

[Brother Buzz]

13. Indeed, Neal Cassady

I was gobsmacked when I learned that, and I can't remember what was first; Bob Weir traveling with the Merry Pranksters or Neal Cassady becoming his roommate.

Bob Weir was always an enigma to me, not unlike Neal Cassady. And I need to underscore the word was; a boatload of the stuff that mystified me was clarified in the film: The Other One: The Long Strange Trip of Bob Weir (2015).

[red dog 1]

16. I wasn't sure about it being him

[Brother Buzz]

17. I feel like a dancing bear at the circus

They expect it of me.
They give me whatever I want.
So I do it.

So...four years later....he was dead.

Neal Cassady is still an enigma in my mind. I wish I could write a fairy book ending to his life, but that was not to be.

[red dog 1]

18. "Sometimes I sits and thinks. Other times I sits and drinks, but mostly I just sit."

[Brother Buzz]

19. As strange as it sounds, Neal Cassady didn't drink.

And he never just sat; he was always moving. Always.

Again, he's an enigma in my mind, but I've come to realize he was horribly insecure, and he truly feared his secret would be discovered.

[red dog 1]

21. One of the people who was on the Ken Kesey "Merry Pranksters" bus trip to the East Coast & back

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said of Neal Cassady (who did most of the driving on that trip)

"He never slept, he never ate, and he never stopped talking!"

[red dog 1]

28. He's one of my heroes, btw

And he likely died from an overdose of some type of "downer"...not from booze, and not from "the elements".

No autopsy was done because he died in Mexico and wasn't a Mexican citizen.

[Brother Buzz]

29. By accounts from people he was with the night before, he died from an overdose

I found it curious, he never visited Druid Heights, a magical place all his friends frequented. I wonder if it was a self-imposed absence.

Factoid: The Hot Tub was invented there by and old friend and mentor of mine, Ed Stiles

[ProfessorGAC]

20. #5: George Martin

He just has to have been inducted. Also, Phil Spector? Mutt Lange? John Hammond?

[WestMichRad]

24. #5: Clive Davis

… in addition to the others already named above. Davis was head of Columbia records for several years, then Arista records, then the RCA Music group… signed many artists who became well known acts including Janis Joplin, Sly & the Family Stone, Santana, Chicago, Bruce Springsteen, Billy Joel, Blood Sweat & Tears, Aerosmith, Pink Floyd and may others. Pretty solid list there, eh?

[red dog 1]

27. Ding!

[Tikki]

25. "40k" by GEE TEE...this song is about dying in the 40K.

What is the 40K?

Tikki

[red dog 1]

26. Jerry Garcia enlisted in the Army

A) Where was he stationed?

B) What type of discharge did he get?

[Brother Buzz]

30. Gary Busey was a session drummer at Leon Russell's Tulsa, Oklahoma recording studio (The Church)

What name was used on his credits?

[Niagara]

31. What's the name of Jon Bon Jovi's non-profit Community Restaurant?

[red dog 1]

32. Before co-founding The Warlocks, what instrument did Jerry Garcia usually play?

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[Brother Buzz]

35. Garcia played a reasonable banjo

The banjo was essential to a Jug band

[red dog 1]

36. Ding!.......He was an excellent banjo player

[red dog 1]

33. Creedence Clearwater Revival (CCR) started out as a band in Junior High school

What was the original name of the band?

("The Golliwogs" came later)

[Brother Buzz]

34. I just finished John Fogerty's book....

Fortunate Son: My Life, My Music, so I know (actually knew it before I read the book) but I won't be a spoiler, except to say it was a reasonably successful local band.

Fantasy Records didn't like the name and came up with Golliwogs, and pushed it on them. John, alone, came up with the name, Creedence Clearwater Revival; it was an easy sell to the band.

[red dog 1]

37. Thanks for that.

(CCR is one of my all-time favorite bands)