Trivia

[runtfan]

Q. To what Dutch hard rock group did the following members belong?

Rinus Gerritsen
Barry Hay
George Kooymans
Cesar Zuiderwijk

Golden Earring?

 

[Orion]

Golden Earring?

good get!

 

[runtfan]

OK, this is a little off the beaten path, but just go with it.

The original lineup of this 70's fusion supergroup featured 5 members,all of different nationalities.
Name the band, the members, and their nationalities.

 

[Orion]

I'm gunna guess Supertramp but I can't name the members and nationalities. Don't give up people. I'm justa guessing.

 

[runtfan]

No, think more jazz/rock.

 

[pooldude]

No, think more jazz/rock.

John McLaughlin & the Mahavishnu Orchestra?

 

[runtfan]

Yep, you got it!

John McLaughlin - England
Jan Hammer - Chekoslovakia
Jerry Goodman - U.S.
Ric Laird - Ireland
Billy Cobham - Panama

 

[pooldude]

Yep, you got it!

John McLaughlin - England
Jan Hammer - Chekoslovakia
Jerry Goodman - U.S.
Ric Laird - Ireland
Billy Cobham - Panama

I went to see Mahavishnu Orchestra in San Diego around '73-'74 knowing that they were all highly respected, monster players. It was when he had an extra big band, maybe 7-8 pieces.

I had to force myself to sit there listening for an hour of the most grueling, & to my ears, atonal scale exercises...al the while telling myself, as an aspiring musician, I should be enjoying myself.

I finally couldn't take it anymore, & walked out of the concert before they finished.

I guess it was my own shortcomings, but I could not get into that band's music.

Yet I very much like guys like Jeff Beck & Jan Hammer & Jean Luc Ponty & Gabor Szabo...


Throw out another 1 Runt.

 

[runtfan]

Yeah, I kinda know what you mean about Mahavishnu Orchestra...they tended to get pretty...obtuse, let's say. Incredible musicians, but pretty hit and miss with their output. I think the original lineup is, man for man, the most impressive, but that lineup never did anything as interesting as "Visions Of The Emerald Beyond" ,which was a completely different lineup.
As far as 70's fusion bands go they were more impressive on paper than on their albums (at least taken as a whole) and apparently in concert also. Return To Forever and Weather Report are much more listenable.

OK, here's an easy one...

What do these bands have in common?...Emerson,Lake, & Palmer,Bad Company,U.K.,Asia, Peter Gabriel,Liquid Tension Experiment

 

[Orion]

OK, here's an easy one...

What do these bands have in common?...Emerson,Lake, & Palmer,Bad Company,U.K.,Asia, Peter Gabriel,Liquid Tension Experiment

Not so easy mate

Either they all played with the London Symphony Orchestra or Tony Levin but then again who hasn't