Grace Slick received an invitation to tea at the White House, at the time Richard Nixon was president, and took Abbie Hoffman as her escort. He wore a suit and tie to the occasion, while she wore a black fishnet top, with two three-by-three-inch patches strategically placed, a short black miniskirt, and thigh-high boots. They both took powdered LSD with them, with the intention of dosing Nixon's tea. Sadly, the White House security staff wouldn't allow Abbie Hoffman entry, so Grace refused to go in on her own.
The first recorded version of Tim Buckley's "Song To The Siren" later covered by This Mortal Coil was....Pat Boone.
Along similar lines, when Stephen Stills pulled strings with his contacts at Democratic National HQ to get CSN to meet President Carter, Crosby claimed that one of them -he declined to say who- sparked up a doobie in the Oval Office just for bragging rights I doubt Carter would have minded, he was good friends with Hunter S Thompson, among other heavy drug users...
I was working in a college bookstore and the manager knew I was a big Beatles fan and knew lots of trivia about them. Someone brought in Beatle Trivial Pursuit cards. My manager read a question to himself and starts laughing. He says "Who would know this? Why did Ringo leave India in 1968?" Without a pause I said "The food was too spicy." He stopped laughing and turned the card over then looked at me and said "Why do you know that?"
22 years after the verbal altercation between Mike Love and Van Dyke Parks during the Beach Boys' Smile sessions (leading to Parks walking out of the studio and the project), Parks played accordion on "Kokomo." Not sure if "absurd" is the word. More like delicious irony.
Yes! Boone released it even before Buckley himself did. Jerry Yester who had produced 2 of Tim's albums also produced Pat Boone's Departure album. I'm pretty sure that's how Boone got the song (or maybe he heard Tim sing it on the Monkees' TV show).
Yeah I know, but that was his big hit under that moniker. That song gave him recognition, even though he had already been a darling for the critics when he was in New York Dolls, a band the general public didn't pay attention to.
Where Steely Dan got their name from. It was the name of a vibrator that was 'ripped apart' in William S Burrough's 'Naked Lunch'.
I was born on the same day as Bruce Springsteen's bass player Gary W. Tallent (Oct. 27, 1949), and I also play bass!
Similarly, you can sing the lyrics to Traffic's "Dear Mr. Fantasy" to the "na, na na na na na na" coda of "Hey Jude".
I also believe George was 'poking fun' at Paul, with his 'nah, nah, nah, nah, nah, nah"'s, at the end of "Isn't It A Pity".
That rumor about Rod Stewart (you know the one) was so persistent he felt the need to publically disclaim it.
My wife used to be pleasantly surprised by my knowledge of trivia and pointless facts - "How do you know that?", she would ask... Recently I realised that she's been saying "Why do you know that?" for years... I wonder that myself sometimes... PS - I feel like I'm the only person here who's mother did not invent liquid paper.
I'm not a Pink Floyd fan... but I love this bit of trivia: Roger Waters pushed keyboardist Richard Wright out of the band during The Wall sessions. For The Wall tour, Wright was brought back as a salaried musician. The Wall tour was so outrageously expensive that the band lost a great deal of money (even though the tour was sold out). That debt was paid by the three members of the band. Unlike the corporate members of Pink Floyd, Wright actually made money on The Wall tour.
