Music Trivia Game
 

Okay, I got a new game. Not sure if it should be here or in Nothingland, but it's about music, so I put it here.

Here's how it works.

One person posts a music trivia question. If you know the answer, post it. First person to get it right gets to ask another question. DON'T post another question until you are confirmed correct.
EDIT: NO GOOGLE. Please. Honour system.
I'll start.

Where did the band Pink Floyd get its name?

The effeminate barber named Floyd in the Andy Griffith show.

It's one of the advanced moves in the kama sutra.

Also named after Floyd the barber. He got around.;)

Taken from the names of two old jazz musicians, one of whom was "floyd lastname" and the other of whom was "firstname pink".

Pink Anderson and Floyd Council. UT's close enough, he gets it.

I'm a WINNAH!!!

Next question.

Not including bass, ten different guitarists have played with Fleetwood Mac. Name two of them.

Lindsay Buckingham and Bob Welch?

????

You are correct ma'am!

Lindsey Buckingham
Peter Green
Dave Mason
Jeremy Spencer
Danny Kirwan
Bob Welch
Bob Weston
Dave Walker
Billy Burnette
Rick Vito

name two of the original Runaways. *the all girl band*

Joan Jett and Lita Ford?

And Cherie Currie and Sandy West and.. anyone else? I forget.

I lessthanthree Joan Jett.

Joan Jett and LIta Ford will do...the other original member was Jackie Fox.

You get to pose the Q!

I know theres some 10cc fans around here...

What is that 'ahhhhhh'ing noise in I'm Not In Love?

Groupies. ;)

groupies deserves to win....

but maybe a mellotron....

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.

Wow... I go again?

Name two bands Mick Ronson has played with OR produced for.

Molly Hatchet and The Wiggles



Did you know that Mr Rodgers was the original drummer for (The New Yardbirds) Led Zeppelin?

don't worry. that's a lie. dirty filthy lie that I never believed in the first place. Really. Stupid Uncle Mike, Jerk.

:lol:

There doesn't seem to be one on the table.

According to the RIAA, which single was the first to go platinum?

You mean the RIAA has a role besides suing grandmothers, orphans, and disabled vets for piracy?

Uh, there is one that hasnt been answered:

Mott the Hoople and David Bowie.

I was on a brief hiatus (bad week at work with several schedule switches) ... here's the missing question:

Listen to this clip.

What is the instrument?

(I'll supply the name of the Artist if folks are too confused.)

Fixed link. Guess away.

I can't get link to work...:(

john cage - 4 mins 32 seconds?

or even the sound of one hand clapping?

pfui. Worked fine at home. I'll have to find another version of the clip. (found. post above fixed and tested)

Eek, that's creepy. Is it Marilyn Manson, or Primus? (I have no idea what the instrument is.)

wolf, it reminds me of Laura Anderson, but I don't know the instrument.

Oboe?

It is Laurie Anderson, and of course, it's a trick question. I usually offer money to people if they can guess what she's playing. I have never had to give up the money.

Nope, no oboe.

Her head. She has a microphone inside her mouth. Or is it the violin with a recorder head and the bow that has magnetic tape instead of horsehair?

I love Laurie Anderson but I haven't heard her in years. Thanks for making me 21 again for a bit!

Close but no guitar. She has done both, but neither is the case for Closed Circuit Baby.

Rubber band stretched between the fingers and plucked? At least, that's what it sounds like when I do that. Always been fascinated with the idea of using that as a bass instrument.

can't think of the name and the rules are no googling, but it sounds like one of those things that makes sound out of electrical current manipulated be the distance of ones hands from the instrument. I know. This is a shitty answer/guess.

^theremin

edit: not theramin

Did I hear the right song? I heard nothing but low freq stuff. Although a theremin can do low freq stuff, it really didn't sound like one to me at all.

Definitely Laurie Anderson, though.

It sounds like her and some rubberbandy-like thing, but all either A) run through an effects unit which adds a metallic echo, or B) performed into a metallic pipe-like thing and micd at the other end of that thing.

Not a rubber band or a theremin ... UT's guess B is closest, but still not quite it.

Do you want to keep trying or be let off the hook?

didgeradoo?

I saw her play "herself" - she hit different parts of her body/clothing, producing different sounds. Is that it?

I've seen her do that as well, but it's not this particular cut.

Skin flute? Male organ?

Nope.

I'll post the answer if nobody gets it by the time I get home from work.