CRF Trivia

[Big Ears]

Thanks for clearing that up, runtfan.

Axl Rose's 'Sweet Child' was Erin Everly, daughter of Don Everly (from the Everly Brothers). Axl and Erin tied the knot, but their marriage only lasted a month.

Axl Rose's real name is William Bailey. Buckethead's real name is Brian Carroll.

Two songs were recorded by the Beatles, Bob Dylan, and Elvis: 'That's Alright, Mama' and 'Yesterday'. Paul McCartney's mother died when he was young, which is why he believed in yesterday.

 

[Scotty The Rebel]

From Eric Clapton: Biography from Answers.com
Clapton was born on March 30, 1945, in Surrey, England. He was the illegitimate son of Patricia Molly Clapton and a Canadian soldier stationed in England named Edward Fryer. When Fryer returned to his wife in Canada, Clapton's mother left him to be raised by his grandparents, Jack and Rose Clapp. (He received his surname from his mother's first husband, Reginald Clapton.) Clapton was told his grandparents were his parents and his mother was his sister. He did not find out the truth until he was nine years old.

 

[ecisgod]

Some facts that I have heard/read over the years...

Davey Jones of The Monkees used to be a horse jockey

Eric Clapton penned the song Wonderful Tonight while waiting for his then wife Patti Boyd Harrison, who had been previously married to close Clapton friend George Harrison, to get ready for a party at Paul and Linda McCartney's house. The party was their annual homage to Buddy Holly.

Foghat is named after a fake word made up by the band's singer Dave Peverett and his brother during a game of Scrabble

The Crosby, Stills & Nash logo from the mid-'70s into the '80s which featured the initials of their last names intertwined, was designed by Saturday Night Live comedian Phil Hartman.

The song "Summertime Blues" was a US Top 40 hit in three different decades - in the fifties by Eddie Cochran (#8), the sixties by Blue Cheer (#14) and the seventies by The Who (#27).

Reginald Kenneth Dwight changed his stage name to Elton John, taking his first name from Bluesology saxophonist Elton Dean and his last from bluesman, Long John Baldry.

Listen carefully to the begining of The Beatles' song "Come Together", from their Abby Road album. The bass guitar riff nearly obliterates John Lennon saying "Shoot me".

Does Your Mamma Know About Me" was a Top 30 hit in May of 1968 for a group called Bobby Taylor and The Vancouvers. The song was written by one of the band's guitar players, Tommy Chong, who would later team with Cheech Marin as Cheech and Chong.


The chords and structure of Tommy James' 1967 Billboard #10 single, "Mirage", were actually the chords to his previous hit, "I Think We're Alone Now" in reverse, created when it was accidentally played backwards during a writing session

The Allman Brothers' only Billboard Top 10 hit, "Ramblin' Man" was the last song recorded by bassist Berry Oakley before his death in 1972.

"For What It's Worth" by Buffalo Springfield got its title when Stephen Stills first played the song for the group, saying "Here's a new song I wrote, for what it's worth." When he finished playing, he was asked what the title was. Stills said he didn't have one. Someone then replied, "Sure you do. You just said it."

 

[Big Ears]

This says Eric's mother's maiden name was Patricia Clapton (from her biological father, Reginald Clapton). She was unmarried at the time of Eric's birth and his father's name was Edward Fryer. Patricia's mother and stepfather, Rose and Jack Clapp, raised Eric as their own, without legally adopting him. How Eric chose Clapton over Fryer or Clapp is not explained.

Eric Clapton Biography - Facts, Birthday, Life Story - Biography.com

 

[Big Ears]

Not musical, but I just heard this on TV - Bristol, a city in south-west England, has the biggest population of foxes in the world.

 

[Big Ears]

Madonna started her career as a drummer in an 80s band called The Breakfast Club. She went on to become part of another group called Emmy before finally deciding to go it alone as a singer.

Jack White worked as an upholsterer.

The final chord of The Beatles' 'A Day In The Life' was played by five pairs of hands on three pianos simultaneously: John, Paul, Ringo, George Martin and their roadie Mal Evans.

Mal Evans also controlled the alarm clock and counted the measures in the original 24-bar break. The intent was to edit out the alarm clock when the missing section had been filled with music, but as it complemented McCartney's piece (the first line of McCartney's section began with, 'Woke up, got out of bed') the decision was made to keep the ringing, although George Martin later commented that editing it out would have been unfeasible.

At the end of 'A Day in the Life', an ultrasonic whistle, audible only to dogs, was recorded by Paul McCartney for his old English sheepdog Martha. See elsewhere in this thread.

Pop music, a contraction of popular music, was coined in 1926.

Van Halen's request for M&Ms backstage, with all the brown ones removed, appears to be hubris, but is a fiendishly clever method of checking whether the organizers have read the contract or not. The presence of brown M&Ms notifies the band that the concert must be cancelled immediately.

 

[electric funeral]

Music was sent down a telephone line for the first time in 1876, the year the phone was invented.

Bob Dylan’s first professional performance was as opening act for John Lee Hooker at Gerde’s Folk City in New York, 1961


The LP (long-playing) record was invented by Paul Goldmark in 1948. The LP is not dead yet: more than 10 million LPs are sold every year

 

[runtfan]

Before they were known as Journey, Steve Perry called his band Golden Gate Rhythm Section.

I don't know what Steve Perry's band was called, but Journey was around for a few years before Steve Perry joined them for the Infinity album. The Infinity album was Perry's first with the band but was Journey's fourth album.

 

[Jake T]

^^^ Journey was originally called "Golden Gate Rhythm Section", but Steve Perry had nothing to do with the band until the Infinity album.

 

[Big Ears]

Steve Perry was in two bands, Ice and then Alien Project.

This is what Wiki says:

Journey's manager, Walter Herbert, had been given a demo of an Alien Project song, "If You Need Me, Call Me," and was told by Scott Mathews (multi-instrumentalist member of Ice) that the young singer would be a great replacement for current frontman, Robert Fleischman. Fleischman had never moved to Herbert's management, preferring to maintain his previous manager, and had not integrated well with the band's then progressive rock style. Perry was brought on tour and to avoid alarming Fleischman was introduced clandestinely as roadie John Villanueva's Portuguese cousin. He surreptitiously performed a song with Journey during a sound check in Long Beach while Fleischman was away from the stage and Herbert informed the band of the line-up change.

I don't know the reliability of this story, but it would be typical!