Friday, June 6. 2008
Before Clapton became known for playing Stratocasters (largely, it is thought, because Hendrix played Strats), he played a 1959 Gibson Les Paul - largely because electric blues guitarists like Mike Bloomfield played one. But when Clapton`s famous `Beano`
The group UB40 (That`s right! Red, Red Wine..) took their name from the form used by the unemployment office in Britain.
A few of the band members Of the Yardbirds were in a pub discussing what name to use for what would become Led Zepp. Someone suggested `The New Yardbirds`, and The Who`s drummer Keith Moon replied: `That will go over like a lead balloon!`. Then they chan
The money used to score the heroin that killed Sid Vicious was given to him by his mother, who was under the impression he was going to use the money to just buy cocaine (What a mom!).
Randy Meisner joined Poco as the bassist, but left before their first album. Luckily for him, he got the same job for the Eagles. Timothy B. Schmidt replaced him in Poco. Right before the Eagles recorded their monster hit Hotel California, Randy left to p
of the three members of ZZ Top, the only one who doesn`t have a beard is the one whose name is `Beard`. What a curious thing, ain`t it?:P
The memorable reverse-echo effect on Led Zeppelin`s `Whole Lotta Love` (Woman.... you need) was actually do to track bleed-through that sound-engineer Eddie Kramer couldn`t get rid of, and so added reverb to.
Sting sings back up on Dire Straits` `Money For Nothing`.
You know that Jimi Hendrix was the last act at Woodstock, but do you know who played right before him? Sha Na Na. (Now that`s something for you to show off with your hippie friends...or parents)
Eddie Van Halen plays the guitar solo in the middle of Michael Jackson`s Beat It.
In the Beatles` `A Day In The Life,` there`s a bit in the orchestral score where the musicians were told `start on the lowest note your instrument can play, and gradually work your way up to the highest note your instrument can play.` (and they did)
According to Paul McCartney, the `you` in `Got to Get You Into My Life` was marijuana.
The Van Halen brothers were born in the Netherlands and trained as concert pianists. The name of the band was originally Mammoth.
Although the press often refers to them as the `Brothers Gibb`, the band said that they took their name from two friends that helped them out in their early days... Bill Goode and a disc jockey named Bill Gates.
West Coast thrashers Zeke establishes a nasty disposition while cutting teeth on their own brash hardcore punk. A foursome since 1993, Zeke has released a handful of EPs and full-lengths through Wrecking Ball Records and IFA Records, but inked a deal with
