What are your fun facts about bands? I saw this fun fact on Twitter the other day.
Fun fact: "Lester Bangs, birthday party, cheesecake, jellybean, boom" refers to R.E.M. going to Lester Bangs birthday party when they were on tour & so broke they hadn't eaten anything that day & then gorging on cake & candy.
— Rain Surname (@Rain_Surname) March 20, 2022
Gives me a chance to torture you with this…
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Ian Gillan, lead singer for Deep Purple, was also the original Jesus on the Jesus Christ Superstar album.
Film director Norman Jewison contacted Gillan to reprise the role in the film, but Gillan declined. Which is seriously too goddamned bad because Ted Neeley sucked.
Skankin Pickle is the only band to ever work the quadratic equation into a song…
and special bonus…Mary Schneider is probably the only woman to yodel multiple overtures together!
Father John Misty (J Tillman), noted for a fondness for drugs and alcohol, was raised in a strict evangelical Christian household.
In Rockville Maryland, I believe!
Lee Maye, of Arthur Lee Maye & the Crowns was not only a very fine doo-wop singer with several hits, but later he also had an 11-year career in major league baseball as a top-tier outfielder. In 1964, he hit .304 with the Milwaukee Braves and drove in 74 RBI and led the league in doubles.
There have been other professional athletes who tried to use their notoriety to propel music careers, but as far as I know, Arthur Lee Maye is the only one to have FIRST had the successful music career and then to later go on to have an honest-to-god pro-ball career.
That’s a very cool fun fact! I’m looking forward to sharing it with my music and baseball loving nephews
What’s Going On featured backup vocals by Mel Farr, Charlie Sandess and Lem Barney of the Detroit Lions and Dave Bing of the Pistons.
https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/What%27s_Going_On_(Marvin_Gaye_album)
And the vocal coach on those sessions was Harvey Fuqua, one of the original Moonglows. Fuqua not only founded the Moonglows, but was instrumental in creating the Motown label (originally Anna Records after Anna Gordy) with his wife Gwen Gordy. In fact, he introduced Marvin Gaye to Barry Gordy, and the rest is history.
I heard an interview with Graham Nash where he talked about visiting Neil Young at his ranch Young was having an LP mixed at his home studio. Nash claims Young had a barn and a garage both filled with speakers facing outwards. And he rowed Nash and himself out onto his lake in a canoe and communicated with the engineer by bullhorn, yelling things like “ more garage”. Don’t know if it’s true but it’s a funny story.
Powderfinger
Before he made it big as a comedian, Phil Hartman designed album covers including these for Steely Dan and The Firesign Theatre.
This too
In 1981, The Clash served as the semi-anonymous backing band for a full album by Ellen Foley, the then-girlfriend of guitarist Mick Jones. She’s known for her duet with Meat Loaf on “Paradise by the Dashboard Light,” as well as for playing a public defender, I believe, on the first season of Night Court.
The album in question is called Spirit of St. Louis (named after her hometown). I’ve never listened to it myself, but it’s apparently . . . not the greatest. (Of course, shortly before this, they’d just finishing working on Sandinista!, which has some good stuff but suffers in some of the ways that a triple album full of material probably would anyway.)
If there’s ever a celebrity that I truly miss, it’s Phil Hartman.
Yeah, I almost would’ve accepted the past few years if he’d back on the show instead of Alec Baldwin. . . .
Dolly Parton entered a Dolly Parton Drag Queen Contest and lost – getting the least applause of any of the others.