sex and violence?

That's one correct answer . . . (organ)

roses on a piano or tulips on an organ?

:blush:

OK--Organ and piano?

Go ahead and take it away Spexxvet, I'm tired of this question.

The answer is: organs and ride cymbals.
Duran Duran was going to break away from the 1970s and head in a new direction, driven by the clean robotic pulse of synths and high-hats.

Easy one:

Who wrote most of the lyrics for King Crimson songs?

Hmm, I should know this. Since Fripp is the only continuous member, I'd want to say him, but that is too obvious.

Leaving a choice of Sinfield or Palmer-James...

Gonna say Sinfield.

Umm.. Just a wild guess here..

Fripp? (whoever that is.)

:::shudders at the thought of the horrible, ham-fisted lyrics Bill Bruford would probably write:::

As I recall, KC had a band poet - all he did was lyrics.

Oh yeah! S - something, it starts with S...

I'll throw Greg Lake into the mix, here.

Here I am saying S something and fff has already said Sinfield, I think he is right, Peter Sinfield.

Correct!

Nobody guessed Whetton?

If it was Wetton, the lyrics would be like

it was the heat of the moment
telling us what your heart meant
the heat of the moment
shown in your eyes

But since it was Sinfield, the lyrics were like

On soft grey mornings widows cry,
The wise men share a joke;
I run to grasp divining signs
To satisfy the hoax.
The yellow jester does not play
But gently pulls the strings
And smiles as the puppets dance
In the court of the crimson king.

That's trite - I mean right.

all completeness in the morning
asleep at your side
I'll be waking up the crewmen
banana boat ride

She responds like a limousine


need I go on?

whoops, that was plamer james wasn't it?

Much as I like the Moody Blues, I don't think Days of Future Passed really pulled off the Symphony in Rock thing as well as In the Court of the Crimson King.

Is there a question pending? Foot^3, I think it's your turn.

Oh. yeah. Umm. gimme a minute ot two.

OK we all love Laurie Anderson's oh oh oh oh oh oh Superman like it was our own red headed stepchild, especially because she is using a vocoder.

But what I wanna know is how old is the vocoder technology? Not the exact same one that made Frampton so savagely overplayed in the 70s, but let's say, the granddady. Not so far back as benjamin franklin and his kite, more recent.

And for bonus, what was the big idea behind the vocoder anyway?

I'm guessing it was something that George Martin cooked-up in the Beatles skunkworks heyday? It's just a preamp, isn't it?

Vocoder technology was originally developed in the early days of telephony as a possible method of multiplexing several analogue voice streams over a single line...but I do not know the year.

Els has the intent, how about a decade if not a year?

Um...30's?

I love the Cellar for tidbits of information like this. You learn stuff without even trying.

OK Els. Close enough for the girls I go out with. You're up.

OK...easy one comin' up.

What do you have if you've got a pignose on your belt?

A pigtail on your shoes?

pork butt?

Wireless mic at your mouth? (the battery pack was only thing based on the visual image I developed I could really come up with that was vaguely music related)

The bad date I picked up at the bar last night?

A portable speaker, usually plugged into a guitar, but sometimes used with a microphone.

you mean a foldback speaker?

Nope, not a stage monitor.

After I guessed (incorrectly, as it happens), I checked. Pignose is the brand name, and it runs off AA batteries.

some kind of 'wah-wah' pedal?

Els asked the question, he's the one to confirm that Crimson Ghost is right ... I could have found the wrong device, after all.

CG is close enough for rock and/or roll. Pignose is the brand name of a very small combo amp for imprompteu performance sans electrical connection.

CG, you're up.

OK.

Jackie Coogan (Uncle Fester) married Betty Grable.
In 1940 she divorced him.
In 1943 she married a jazz trumpeter and big band leader.
Who was that band leader?

Glenn Miller?

Louis Armstrong?

Harry Owen?

Glenn Miller played trombone.

Guess it's not him then. :blush:

I don't know my big band leaders that well. I can't imagine Betty Grable getting married to a black man. It would have been scandalous in those days. So that rules out a few right there.

Harry James. Stompin' at the Savoy, man

Lawrence Welk?

DING! DING! DING!

We have a winner!

mrnoodle gets the Kewpi doll.

mrnoodle may not be back for a while, so I'm going to jump in with one to keep the thread going.

Question: What 2-hit wonder from the 60's saw a brief comeback in early 1977 with a hit that spent a few months on the charts and even reached number one? This hit was a new version of a then relatively unknown Bruce Springsteen song.

Gotta be Manfred Mann's Earth Band.

Yep.

His big hits form the 60's : Do Wah Diddy Diddy and Mighty Quinn

His comeback: Blinded by the Light

You're up Els.

What does Lola get?

Whatever Lola wants?

A large adam's apple? :)

I'm trying to run the lyrics through my head, but can't remember them well. Campagne that tastes just like cherry cola?

The Copacabana?

Oh, yeah. She got shot, right?

Oh, I guess...forgot that part.

But I think there is a song...something about "whatever Lola wants, Lola get" but have no idea what it is from.

Lola gets your heart and soul?

Shawnee nails it right off.

Finally!

OK, question:

Though it's almost Friday, we all love our Manic Mondays. What writer/performer wrote Manic Monday (under a pseudonym)?