From Wiki: Like other Bond themes before it, Sheena Easton's version was not the only recorded song for the film. Rock band, Blondie also recorded a song for the film that was optioned to the studio. Blondie's "For Your Eyes Only" turns out to be inferior to the one chosen for the film as Sheena Easton's went on to be an award winning song.
I have a friend who toured Europe with Sky maybe eight to ten years ago. He was on MySpace not long before leaving, talking about how he couldn't wait to join up with him and do the tour. As things progressed, his entries got less and less enthusiastic, eventually taking on the tone of "I can't wait until this damned tour is over with." I don't recall his opening up about it. Maybe the next time I see him, I'll ply him with a few shots and see what happens.
The Monkees not being musicians and not being able to play. Mickey Dolenz auditioned for the Monkees playing acoustic guitar version of Johnny B Goode and had taken classical guitar lessons since he was 10 years old. Peter was one of the first to use a banjo in a rock song on Headquarters.
The New Barbarians are the only band to have sold out Madison Square Garden without having put out a record.
That was pretty much what it was like. I'm glad I had the opportunity and it was cool meeting him... but it really was an ordeal.
OK, I am reminded of another Sky story. In 2004 the band I was in at the time played a 3-day garage rock festival in Las Vegas. Lots of bands, perhaps the highest profile one being the Monks, who were tremendous. Kim Fowley was there as MC, as was Sky. At some point, Sky and Kim (who went back decades, of course) got into some kind of borderline-physical altercation in which Sky at least attempted to roundhouse kick Kim. Kim announced that he was going to call the cops, at which point Sky disappeared into the main room where the A-Bones (Billy Miller and Miriam Linna’s band) were playing. Sky, apparently having decided that the safest place to be would be onstage, jumped up there with the band; Billy and Miriam, who were having several people join them as guests as night, were fairly surprised as Sky was not one of them. Sky turned to them and said “OK, we’re gonna do two songs, and if somebody is shooting video, we’re gonna split the profits!” Crazy a$$ dude. More background here, of all places, if you scroll down: R.I.P Sky Saxon... »
Wow man, if there isn't some bio-cum-oral history about Sky Saxon out there already, there really should be...
The Mama's and Papa's having a number 1 record before ever giving a concert. Their first concert was at the Hollywood Bowl.
Interesting. By my rough estimate Glen Campbell may have been the first with I Know There´s An Answer, a year before in early 1966?
So this is possibly bogus. Turns out it was Phil Lesh who the saw the Warlocks single, not Garcia - and Lesh suspects it might have been an early name for the Velvet Underground.
The Warlocks single Phil Lesh saw was on Decca possibly. The Velvet Underground used the Warlocks for gigs and didn't have any records out by that name.
I believe it is fairly well established that all three bands called themselves the Warlocks early on, isn't it? Whether they ever heard of the other bands is probably unknowable, but bands change their names all the time.
That's what I was thinking. I was skeptical of any pre-Velvets single. According to wiki, Frank Beard and Dusty Hill were in the Warlocks, not Gibbons. The Warlocks on Decca appear to have been from Connecticut. I'll bet it's a third band. That's probably it. The Warlocks with Dusty Hill and Frank Beard probably lasted a few weeks at most. They were in a ton of bands together.
The VU only used the Warlocks name for a short time, Lou Redd said they playing college parties and they changed their names so they could get gigs with a new name, once the college heard them play and didn't like them.
I remember when Lou Redd was with the Velvets, along with Maroon Tucker, Sterling Silver Morrison, and John Teal.
At one point in the late '80s there were three bands - one each from the US, UK, and Canada - called the Screaming Trees.
Has anyone mentioned The Mynah Birds? It doesn't get much more absurd than Rick James and Neil Young being in a band together and recording for Motown.
I never realized this it was the only piece! It's in "The Creatures of Prometheus". I was new to classical music at the time I first heard it, in the early 70s, and thought it was rather pretty.
Got one. Talked to my supervisor who grew up in Ireland(has DEEP connections. Their a very close stiches bunch) and used to work at a old rolling skating rink. He was about 23. There adjacent to the roller rink above it, was a studio and band members would go in and do their gigs. Here the catch though. The rooms back then would be so small only one person would be able to go in with their instruments and play with one fender speakers or the like while the others were outside the door. The studio in question was Amen Andrews. Afterwards these "kids" would ask him if they could skate and he'd hand them a pairs and off they went. My supervisor would work the spot lights on them so they could show off. The "kids" in this band? U2. Yes, they roller skated
