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How about a quiz?
Posted by Billybob Dylan on 27 October 2010 - 6:41pm.
Massive - can you find the link(s) between:
1. Boris Gardner and the Shipping Forecast?
2. MTV and Liquid Paper?
3. 70s AOR band Bread and Captain Beefheart?
4. 70s prog rock band Yes and Joe Meek?
5. 60s psych band Tomorrow and the Beatles?
6. Little Feat and the Walker Brothers?
7. Buddy Holly and Willie Nelson?
8. Deaf School and the Lightning Seeds?
9. Adam & The Ants and the Vibrators?
10. Roxy Music and 70s prog rockers ELP?
Good luck!
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Off the T of my H
9. Gary Tibbs?
10. EG Management
Yes, you're right ...
... even though I was thinking of something a little more circuitous. There will be more than one acceptable answer for most of these questions.
10.
Davey O'List was in an early The Nice and briefly with Roxy Music!, Keith Emerson went onto EL+P
That's...
... the link I was thinking of.
As opposed to...
Pete Sinfield? Producer of first Roxy LP and lyricist for the better ELP songs (i.e. not Love Beach)
Oh
you're good
Sinfield wrote for Crimson not ELP
although there is is possibly one credit somewhere for Emerson lake and Sinfield but I can't be bothered going through my entire collection of 96 ELP related ephemera to check
Sinfield wrote
much of Karn Evil 9 as well as Benny The Bouncer. Agree it is too late to check the rest. Oh, and Land Of Make Believe by Bucks Fizz, but am buggered if I can make a Roxy connection in that ;-}
9. Gary Tibbs
...links with 10. Roxy Music - he was with them for two years prior to being an Ant
10. Apropos the E.G. connection, in 1970 Ferry auditioned to be the vocalist with King Crimson; although they turned him down, band members later assisted Roxy to become managed by E.G.
Guessing
2. Mike Nesmith
from Wikipedia
3. David Gates produced 2 singles for Captain Beefheart
9. Gary Tibbs
Spot...
... on.
7
Waylon Jennings
4
Steve Howe - early band produced by Joe Meek?
number 8
Enrico Cadillac of Deaf School was in a band with Ian Broudie of the Lightning Seeds but be buggered if i can remember the name.
Big in Japan
maybe?
The Original Mirrors.
Well done so far. Just number 6 left.
and Pete Kircher, the OM drummer went on to
fame and fortune with Status Quo
Was just going to say
Ian Broudie for number 8
1.
Ronald Binge.
Composer of Sailing By, the music used on the shipping forecast, and Elizabethan Serenade which Boris Gardener covered as Elizabethan Reggae. Which is a brilliant record.
Oh.
I thought the No 1 answer was Cromarty. Because the IWTWUWYH's first son was named Boris Cromarty Gardner.
That's much more interesting.
Wonder if he was a fan of this too?
Tomorrow
If I recall correctly their (one?) album featured a trudge through Strawberry Fields Forever
Beefheart
EDIT! Woops! I see this was answered earlier - I jumped in, all excited, because I've got this on vinyl.
A&M EP was recorded/produced by David Gates, later of Bread.
5.
Wikipedia reckons
Tomorrow's September 1967 single "Revolution" was likely the primary inspiration for the John Lennon song "Revolution" which was released a year later.[citation needed] Tomorrow's tongue in cheek lyric "Have your own little revolution, NOW!" sounds like it prompted Lennon's response "You say you want a revolution."
6.
Gary Leeds had to Standells on his Little Feat before he could become a Walker.
- rough translation - Gary Leeds was the drummer in a 60s band called the Standells before joining the Walker Brothers. Lowell George was briefly in said band (not at the same time) before forming t'Feat.
Just No. 6 left.
I'll give you a clue: down by the banks of the river Charles.
6. Little Feat and the Walker Brothers?
I'm not sure this is what you're looking for but Jack Nitzsche worked with the Walker brothers on at least one album. He also worked with Lowell George who played some guitar on the OST album for the film "Performance".
Congratulations...
... to a very knowledgeable Massive!
Now we've finished, I've tried
putting some of the questions into 6DOBS (http://labs.echonest.com/SixDegrees/)
Their suggestion for 5 was entertaining:
Start with Tomorrow
That had member Steve Howe
That was a member of Asia
That had member Chris Slade
That was a member of The Firm
That had member Jimmy Page
That was a member of the Yarbirds
That had member Eric Clapton
That performed on While My Guitar Gently Weeps