I thought Hardy Fox was still involved with Cryptic but that he/Chuck Bobuck is no longer with The Residents.
Homer has said, in recent interviews, that Hardy has sold his half of the Cryptic Corp. to Mr. Flynn.... His recent album featured a large amount of music NOT used in the latest Residents album, "Ghosts Of Hope"... We'll soon find out, however, when the new RZ album, "intruders", is released in October!
I also like the story that two of the ZZTop guys were in a fake Zombies band touring and pretending to the real band during the 60s: The True Story Of The Fake Zombies, The Strangest Con In Rock History
Suzi Potier was uninjured in the “A Day in the Life” crash which killed Tara Browne, but died with her husband in 1981...in a car crash: Suki Potier - Wikipedia
drad dog is mixed up - thanks to their Warhol connection, the Velvets shot a pilot for ABC about the wacky adventures of an arty rock band living communally in NYC as counterprogramming to The Monkees, but for some reason it didn’t get picked up.
IS THERE ANY SURVIVING FOOTAGE OF THE VU COMEDY PILOT? THIS IS THE GREATEST NEWS I'VE EVER HEARD!!!!!! EVER!!!! How could ABC pass this up? Imagine some of the story lines and plots...
I'm in! (Love reading these.) I have two, and no Googling! What is the only James Bond movie theme that was a #1 single on the U.S. Hot 100? Also what was Creedence Clearwater Revival's only #1 hit??
An episode called 'Heroin' could have been the first 'show about nothing' beating Seinfeld to it by about 20 years.
When I was a kid growing up in L.A. my next door neighbor friend had an older brother... He was a musician, and often had John Hartford over to the house. They would play outside by the pool in the back yard. c., 1966/67.
As I understand it, Lou Reed and John Cale were embarrassed about the whole thing so they snuck into ABC, stole all the footage and negatives, and threw them into the Hudson. This was one of the real reasons Cale was kicked out, since Reed had second thoughts about what they'd done and it'd been Cale's idea. It's absolutely true, I swear.
I'm going to guess that number one is Live & Let Die. The answer to number two is CCR never had a number one hit.
I don't know if this is absurd, but it's certainly a bizarre factoid: Wait, the New Whitney Houston Documentary Is Scored by a Guy from Stars of the Lid? | Pitchfork For those not in the know, Stars Of The Lid are/were a Texan guitar-based ambient/drone-type group.
Flo and Eddie (The Turtles) sang back up vocals on Springsteen's Hungry Heart, which rose to #5 on the Billboard Top 100. (I won a 1984 Bruce Springsteen trivia contest in Chicago with this answer.)
1971 and 1982. They sang backups on The Psychedelic Furs album Forever Now. That's their backups on Love My Way. I read they added those right as they were about to leave. They heard the song and felt their should be backup vocals on it.
To fill the void, Benmont Tench stepped in and played on every album that wasn't by Nirvana between 1991 and 1999.
Dare are still going strong. Band leader is Darren Wharton, erstwhile Thin Lizzy keyboardist, & their debut album, Out Of The Silence is one of the great British AOR records (not a big pool to make a splash in, admittedly). Over the years their sound has morphed into a kind of windswept, celtic rock which really hits the spot if you're in a certain mood. Regardless, they're much more interesting than the dreary Prof. Cox.