Not a mellotron, but 128 individually recorded and layered tracks of the guys singing a single note, then playing them back using the mixing board sliders to control the attack and decay.

This is one of the more frequently told 10cc stories, because *everyone* thinks it is an incredibly cool thing. Apparently, they eschewed the 'Tron because it just didn't quite sound like they wanted it to.

REM used a much-simplified version of this technique on one of their songs, even going to the extent of running out and buying a Tascam multitrack cassette recorder and recording individual notes to play back when doing that song during a live concert.

Oh, hey...I won that one. That means I get to ask the next trivia question, doesn't it?

What group was conceived and founded by B3 organ wizard/producer Al Kooper?

Blood, Sweat and Tears?

We have a winner!

You go girl!! I'm good on general trivia, but weak on obscure music trivia. I have one great obscure music trivia question, though.

How can I resist that? I'd like to defer my winning to wolf! So, wolf--let rip with your question!

Ok--wolf isn't going to do it.

Question:

Name ONE Bay City Roller.

Eric... Faulker? Faulkner?

Yes, Eric Faulkner, Les Mckeown, Woody Wood, Derek Longmuire.
At one time Alan Longmuire...and Ian Mitchell.
Tom somebody may have been the manager.

Hey, I saw them in concert in 6th grade, what can I say?:smack:

I'll go then.

Where did Steely Dan get its name?

It was a steam powered dildo in a book I never read and forget the name of.

sorry, duh...

In the Grateful Dead song "Wharf Rat", what is the significance of the name Pearly Baker?



Wharf Rat lyrics
Old man down, way down down, down by the docks of the city.
Blind and dirty, asked me for a dime, a dime for a cup of coffee.
I got no dime but I got some time to hear his story.
My name is August West, and I love my Pearly Baker best, more than my wine.
More than my wine - more than my maker, though he's no friend of mine.

Everyone said, I'd come to no good, I knew I would Pearly, believe them.
Half of my life, I spent doin' time for some other fucker's crime,
The other half found me stumbling around and drunk on Burgundy wine.

But I'll get back on my feet someday,
The good Lord willin', if He says I may.
I know that the life I'm livin's no good,
I'll get a new start, live the life I should.
I'll get up and fly away, I'll get up and fly away, fly away.

Pearly's been true, true to me, true to my dyin' day he said,
I said to him, I said to him, "I'm sure she's been."
I said to him, "I'm sure she's been true to you."

I got up and wandered, wandered downtown, nowhere to go but just to hang around.
I've got a girl, named Bonnie Lee, I know that girl's been true to me.
I know she's been, I'm sure she's been true to me.

Just a wild guess, but it is a pearl handled gun?

Hm... Purley Baker was one of the big prohibitionists, could that be a reference to him?

Yup, that's what I was going for. Rev Purley Baker of the anti-saloon league.