Fascinating trivia about musicians

Kebabkid

Funkfingers said:

Kebabkid said:

Mike Nesbit from The Monkees 

Who?

I think that you meant Nesmith.

It is true that his mother created Liquid Paper for typing corrections.

Nominative determinacy should have had the Nesmith family making its fortune from a combination of instant coffee and potato crisps.

Sorry, ironically, I stand corrected..Nesmith

LionAquaLooper

Rivers Cuomo used to have one leg longer than the other. Underwent corrective surgery which involved breaking a bone on the shorter leg and having it stretched gradually 4 times a day (shudder).

Billy Corgan is addicted to pro wrestling and owns the NWA (National Wrestling Alliance). 

RocknRollDave

Bob Mould refuses to play any venue that uses Cilit Bang.

Sporky

LionAquaLooper said:

Rivers Cuomo used to have one leg longer than the other. Underwent corrective surgery which involved breaking a bone on the longer leg and having it stretched gradually 4 times a day (shudder).

Wouldn't that make the disparity greater?

HerbieTheRadDorklift

racefaceec90 said:

robert fripp is tone deaf according to his wiki page. 

Have you heard his solo on Boys Keep Swinging?

Grangousier

That's Adrian Belew. You're thinking of Fashion. 

(Which I think is an amazing bit of playing. Some fairly audacious harmony to take into the top 10.)

LionAquaLooper

Sporky said:

LionAquaLooper said:

Rivers Cuomo used to have one leg longer than the other. Underwent corrective surgery which involved breaking a bone on the longer leg and having it stretched gradually 4 times a day (shudder).

Wouldn't that make the disparity greater?

Haha you're right! Wrong way round. Good thing I wasn't his surgeon (or anyone's for that matter)!
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HerbieTheRadDorklift

Grangousier said:

That's Adrian Belew. You're thinking of Fashion. 

(Which I think is an amazing bit of playing. Some fairly audacious harmony to take into the top 10.)

Equally terrible solo imo

EricTheWeary

HerbieTheRadDorklift said:

racefaceec90 said:

robert fripp is tone deaf according to his wiki page. 

Have you heard his solo on Boys Keep Swinging?

Grangousier said:

That's Adrian Belew. You're thinking of Fashion. 

(Which I think is an amazing bit of playing. Some fairly audacious harmony to take into the top 10.)

Belew plays the solo on Boys. 
Brian Robertson (Thin Lizzy, Motorhead, etc) played with Bowie briefly and,IIRC, said the hardest thing he'd ever had to play were the Belew parts on that. 

PolarityMan

Frank Sinatra was actually 2 midgets is a suit which is why there is no existing footage that shows both his upper and lower body in the same shot.

fretfinder

RocknRollDave said:

Bob Mould refuses to play any venue that uses Cilit Bang.

On first reading I thought that said Clit Bang and had something to do with groupies! 

RocknRollDave

Barry White - famous as the king of lurve songs - died whilst I was on my honeymoon. I saw it reported on the TV in the bar of our hotel.

I took the fact that the Walrus of Love died during my honeymoon as a bad omen in our marriage.


We’ve been divorced 15 years now.

Supportact

EricTheWeary said:

Neil said:

Matt Bellamy of Muse's father George was guitarist in The Tornados.
They were first British band to have a number one in both the UK and USA with Telstar.

Clem Cattini, drummer for The Tornados, is believed to have appeared on more UK number one singles than any other musician. Such as Grandad by Clive Dunn. Also apparently nearly a member of Led Zep as he knew John Paul Jones from session work. 

This is true. He also drummed in the Wombles. 

Emp_Fab

Slade used to live together in a council house in Birmingham...

koneguitarist

HFunkfingers said:

Kebabkid said:

Mike Nesbit from The Monkees 

Who?

I think that you meant Nesmith.

It is true that his mother created Liquid Paper for typing corrections.

Nominative determinacy should have had the Nesmith family making its fortune from a combination of instant coffee and potato crisps.

Think he is credited with MTV as well.

Danny1969

Abba invented the Zoom band practice, well before covid times 

lustycourtier

Dontgiveupyourdayjob said:

The bass player for Suede, Mat Osman, is the older brother of Richard Osman of Pointless and crime novel fame. Not wanting to be outdone by his baby brother, he's also turned his hand to writing and has published two historical fiction/crime novels himself. I've read the 1st one, it wasn't bad! 

And Ricky Gervais was Suedes first manager. Richard is also registered blind. 

thermionic

PolarityMan said:

Fred Durst was actually a biochemistry major and co-authored several influential papers on genome editing grains.

Pretty sure this isn’t true. Are you confusing him with Dexter Holland of The Offspring, who has a PhD in molecular biology (specifically, protein-coding regions of HIV genomes)?

guitars4you

Rod Temperton - A man few have ever heard of - A man from Cleethorpes/Grimsby who previously worked in the fish industry for Ross - Yet just about everyone on planet earth has heard some of his songs

He wrote Boogie Nights (Heatwave) Thriller, Off the Wall, Rock with you for Michael Jackson and for G Benson Give me the night - Amongst other songs

AlbertC

Rod Temperton