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  • #24372
    Michael
    Participant

    Lee’s thread was a lot of fun, so here is another little game.

    We are an English band who despite having 18 albums, only had 1 top 10 hit (UK/US). We changed our name not too long after being formed. We have been around for over 30 years.

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    • #71025
      lee_UK
      Participant

      I was just going to come in with my ‘Hits of the 70’s/80’s’ list and steal the show, the answer wasn’t in there, but thats not going to stop me. 😀

    • #71021
      1bassleft
      Participant

      Neither was I, Mike; I just made it up (although it sounded just too plausible). Until you’d posted that it existed and had watched it, I’d have never believed it.

    • #71089
      Michael
      Participant

      I wasn’t familiar with the adults only version of Golden Girls. Until now. There really is a Hell.

    • #71087
      1bassleft
      Participant

      😳 , I ought to congrat Shake. Well done, chum. Have you got a twister for us?

    • #71051
      1bassleft
      Participant

      👿 , “Golden Girls” turned up on my search of all your clues, but I got sidetracked by “Moonlighting”. I thought you said a 1985 “popular” show. Golden Girls sucked Major League; even the inevitable adult-DVD ripoff was worse than Shaving Ryan’s Privates

    • #71033
      Michael
      Participant

      lol nah you got it. Lucky I didn’t say it was 1bassleft’s favourite tv show — woulda got it sooner.

    • #78957
      shakedown_04092
      Participant

      Andrew Gold by chance???

      He wrote the theme song for Golden Girls (NOT my favorite show, btw) called “Thank You For Being a Friend” and it was sung by some girl (?). Also played a few different instruments….

      I don’t think that’s it though. Damnit! This is hard!

    • #78961
      shakedown_04092
      Participant

      Nope, that can’t be it, because Portnoy sang the version on Cheers, and your previous clues said he didn’t sing the TV version….nor do many of the other previous clues work.

      ….hmmmmm…..

    • #71040
      shakedown_04092
      Participant

      [quote=”Michael”]American Show which began in 1985. Very famous show.

      Could well have been YOUR favourite show.[/quote]

      Aha! Was looking at the clues again and I finally got it. Should’ve gotten it sooner. The “your” favorite show gave it away. I was thinking…”why me?” and then it came to me.

      The tv show is Cheers, and the author of it is Gary Portnoy, who also penned the theme songs to “Punky Brewster” and “Mr. Belvedere”

      Wait, Cheers premiered in 1982…..uh oh……but that’s gotta be it. I can’t think of any others. If that’s not it I’m stumped.

    • #78885
      Michael
      Participant

      American Show which began in 1985. Very famous show.

      Could well have been YOUR favourite show.

      The other began 92 I believe.

      You guys should really thank me for being a friend giving all these clues. Shheeeesh.

    • #71031
      shakedown_04092
      Participant

      Ugh….no idea Mike. Don’t know if that’s really worthy of a post, but oh well…..

      What year(s) did this famous TV show(s) run that you wrote the song(s) for? And was it an American show?

    • #71090
      Michael
      Participant

      I indeed took the google root!! after 5 days of tearing my hair out, you really think I wasn’t gonna resort to wikipedia! 😆

      Yes, some would say the artist in my new question is both soft rock and a soft cock.

      I know you can’t possibly be bagging out Toto for real though.

    • #78889
      1bassleft
      Participant

      Wasn’t Dorothy’s dog called “Toto”? If the drummer in question is from that shite, LA bunch of softies, I haven’t got a hope of answering this one.

    • #71076
      1bassleft
      Participant

      BTW, Shake “1st Canband to have a US #1” finally made it WikiGoogliable. Not saying that Mike did take that dishonourable route, of course…

    • #71083
      Michael
      Participant

      Lee on a game show? The editor would have to cut out 4 hours of him piping off every band to ever record a song 🙂

      Speaking of TV… this one ties in….

      I’ve gotta goody:

      – I’m American
      – One of my songs was used for a very popular TV show (though I did not sing the TV version)
      – I also sang the song for another popular TV show.
      – Despite having television ‘hits’, I still had regular hits in the 70s.
      – I’ve played and co-produced with a band whose name has numbers in it
      – I’ve played alongside the drummer from a band with the same name as a famous dog from a yellow brick road.
      – I play multiple instruments, including guitar and piano.
      – (new clue) soft rock

      let the games begin……..

    • #126877
      shakedown_04092
      Participant

      NEXT!

    • #78873
      lee_UK
      Participant

      C’mon Mike, get your thinking head on.
      And no Aussie outback yeehaw croc wrestling shelia thumping outfits please. 😆

    • #71079
      shakedown_04092
      Participant

      PS – you guys have seen the old U.S. tv show “Name That Tune”, I assume? (forgive me if this program originated elsewhere….I have only seen it on U.S. tv…..) But as for our previous aformentioned band, it made me think of that show:

      Lee: “Bob, I can name that band in 1……2……3……clues!” etc. etc. etc.

      Michael: “Bob, I can name that band in 6 clues! (with a lil’ help from some pics)”

      Good show, anyways. I miss it, even though it was before my time. I used to watch the re-runs.

      Sorry, back to our regularly scheduled program….

    • #71092
      shakedown_04092
      Participant

      So I can assume you guys finally see all the “can you GUESS WHO it is now?” references??? Geez, and to think, I thought you’d get it in the first clue or two! I hope I didn’t set the bar too high because I think I got lucky….I don’t think I’m as good at this game as y’all are; I was having a hard time at some of the previous bands/artists. “Guess” those clues were harder than I thought…

      So what gave it away? Was it the pics? or the final Canadian #1 hit clue?

      Well, it was fun anyways. Who’s next?

    • #126876
      1bassleft
      Participant

      and I thought “guess who?” were a Roger Daltrey tribute band.Looks like Mike has to do the next Triv (good one, Shake, btw)

    • #78915
      Guitar Expert
      Keymaster

      lol the Guess Who

      damn, u had me tearing my hair out

      Edit: Oops I’m logged in as GNW. – Michael

    • #78919
      shakedown_04092
      Participant

      Nooooooo! C’mon!

      #http://i135.photobucket.com/albums/q127/shakedown_04092/220px-Guesswho.jpg
      Here’s a real pic ^

      And for my FINAL clue (all but giving it away):

      CLUE #6:

      They were the first Canadian rock group to have a #1 hit in the U.S.

      Now go ahead….search your search engines and cheat!…..hell, at this point, it may be your only hope! You guys are gonna die when you find out who it is and how I’ve spelled it out for ya. 😆

    • #78881
      Michael
      Participant

      harry nilsson
      edit: oh wait, forgot it’s a band

    • #126874
      shakedown_04092
      Participant

      Lee, you are painstakingly close at this point. I think the only group you’ve left out is the one that is the answer to this question. You really do need to put these clues together though, because I think you already know it if you do. I’ve basically written it into the clues for you; you’ll be kicking yourself once you see it:

      [code:1]CLUE #1:

      This group, originally formed in 1960, was one of the first to establish a major successful following in their own country while still residing there. You know them by their more popular name, which they eventually were forced to switch to shortly after their first hit (a cover song, btw), which made it to #1 in their country.

      CLUE #2:

      Their immediate follow-ups to their first hit were met with major success in their country, but with little success elsewhere. Remember when I told you you know them by their later, more popular name? Well, that popular name became permanant in 1965 when the person for whom the band was originally named for left the band shortly after their new keyboardist and lead vocalist arrived (sorry, can’t give away the year yet).

      CLUE #3:

      This new keyboardist and the group’s guitatrist became the bands main composers until lifestyle differences led the guitarist to leave the group during their unfinished 1970 album, and he subsequently formed another band, which eventually evolved into a supergroup (which I can’t name).

      CLUE #4:

      Remember, their first #1 hit was only a #1 in their country (not the UK, btw). And they only had one #1 in the U.S., which was famously covered/remade a few years back (more like 10 years back, I think).

      So….those are some good clues. Can you guess who it is now?

      CLUE #5:

      In 1965, when their first hit (a cover) went #1 in their country, it went to #22 in the U.S., but their first U.S. top 10 didn’t hit until 4 years later. Their only #1 in the U.S. was also released with an awesome B-side track, but if I gave the name of either song you’d surely get it. You guys just HAVE to guess who it is now!!!

      Ok, you talked me into it: the country is Canada.

      Who’s next?[/code:1]

      I’ve filled in some of the previously omitted years above, so that should help, but now I’m giving it away with this playbill:

      #http://i135.photobucket.com/albums/q127/shakedown_04092/250px-Guess_Whoposter.jpg

    • #78869
      lee_UK
      Participant

      OK the gloves are off,
      Gordon Lightfoot, Joni Mitchell, Leonard Cohen, Denny Doherty (of The Mamas & the Papas), David Clayton-Thomas, Neil Young, Andy Kim, Zal Yanovsky (of The Lovin’ Spoonful), John Kay (of Steppenwolf), and Ian & Sylvia ??? or Stan Rogers, Murray McLauchlan, Bruce Cockburn and Willie P. Bennett???

      Rush, Bachman-Turner Overdrive, Bruce Cockburn, April Wine, Pat Travers and Neil Young???

      Crosby, Stills, Nash & Young??????????? 😈

    • #71093
      shakedown_04092
      Participant

      Oh man….that would be a dead giveaway. Let’s try a more obvious clue (though you really need to look at some of the last ones….I mean, I’m spelling it out for you!):

      CLUE #5:

      In 1965, when their first hit (a cover) went #1 in their country, it went to #22 in the U.S., but their first U.S. top 10 didn’t hit until 4 years later. Their only #1 in the U.S. was also released with an awesome B-side track, but if I gave the name of either song you’d surely get it. You guys just HAVE to guess who it is now!!!

      Ok, you talked me into it: the country is Canada.

      Who’s next?

    • #71091
      lee_UK
      Participant

      Ive spent an hour looking for the silver platter….

      Give us the country of origin!!

    • #78893
      Michael
      Participant

      hrrrmmm… I just spent an hour looking at different bands. I’m surely missing an obvious one.

    • #71045
      shakedown_04092
      Participant

      I can’t give any more clues, that last one handed it to you on a silver platter. 😯

    • #78905
      lee_UK
      Participant

      I think they are Australian… over to you Mike.

      umm. or Canadian, could be Outer Mongolian.

      Bee Gees were around in the 60’s, Canadian could be Neil Young, Crazy Horse?

    • #71085
      shakedown_04092
      Participant

      Waaaahahahahaha you guys are funny! But wrong, still.

      CLUE #4:

      Remember, their first #1 hit was only a #1 in their country (not the UK, btw). And they only had one #1 in the U.S., which was famously covered/remade a few years back (more like 10 years back, I think).

      So….those are some good clues. Can you guess who it is now?

    • #126875
      lee_UK
      Participant

      They may well lead to ‘The Contours’ door, and you may well be knocking on that door, but nobody is answering Mike, try shouting through the letterbox.

    • #78877
      Michael
      Participant

      The clues all lead to the Contours. Well some do.

    • #71088
      lee_UK
      Participant

      They had a number 1 ? i think they did, wasn’t ‘ do you love me’? a chart stormer?

    • #78912
      Michael
      Participant

      Slightly contoured

    • #71028
      lee_UK
      Participant

      Are you saying that with a straight face?

    • #71042
      Michael
      Participant

      The Contours

    • #71037
      lee_UK
      Participant

      That last one sounded like a stab in the dark Mike, and Justins band has been named, it was in my onslaught of who’s who at the cavern top 50 list.
      Mind you he was a Brum wasn’t he???

    • #71049
      Michael
      Participant

      Mike Sheridan and The Nightriders

    • #71019
      Michael
      Participant

      Moody Blues

    • #126873
      shakedown_04092
      Participant

      [quote=”lee_UK”]Johnny Sandon and the Searchers, Johnny left in 62′ but the band carried on playing the Cavern under the name The Searchers, they had major success in UK (Motherland) and some good success in US (Disneyland).

      Next.. :lol:[/quote]

      Sorry, Lee. Wrong again. Here’s the next clue, this should do it:

      CLUE #3:

      This new keyboardist and the group’s guitatrist became the bands main composers until lifestyle differences led the guitarist to leave the group during their unfinished 197_ album, and he subsequently formed another band, which eventually evolved into a supergroup (which I can’t name).

    • #126872
      lee_UK
      Participant

      Johnny Sandon and the Searchers, Johnny left in 62′ but the band carried on playing the Cavern under the name The Searchers, they had major success in UK (Motherland) and some good success in US (Disneyland).

      Next.. 😆

    • #71081
      shakedown_04092
      Participant

      Geez, Lee, you’re like a spastic tourettes kid with a bunch of pixie sticks! You came close with one of your guesses, but I’m not saying which one. Ok, here ya go:

      CLUE #2:

      Their immediate follow-ups to their first hit were met with major success in their country, but with little success elsewhere. Remember when I told you you know them by their later, more popular name? Well, that popular name became permanant in 196_ when the person for whom the band was originally named for left the band shortly after their new keyboardist and lead vocalist arrived (sorry, can’t give away the year yet).

      Let’s see how you do on this one. I might need to give another clue.

    • #78897
      lee_UK
      Participant

      locomotive?

    • #78908
      lee_UK
      Participant

      the move???

    • #71047
      lee_UK
      Participant

      the fortunes?

    • #71053
      lee_UK
      Participant

      the rockin’ berries?

    • #78901
      lee_UK
      Participant

      traffic?

    • #70931
      lee_UK
      Participant

      moody blues?

    • #70888
      lee_UK
      Participant

      the dakotas?? uumm did they have a number 1??

    • #70937
      lee_UK
      Participant

      The Fourmost??????? 😆

    • #70890
      lee_UK
      Participant

      Rory Storm and the Hurricanes????

    • #70939
      lee_UK
      Participant

      The Big Three?

    • #70936
      lee_UK
      Participant

      The Undertakers?

    • #70924
      lee_UK
      Participant

      the swinging blue jeans?

    • #70934
      lee_UK
      Participant

      the tremeloes?

    • #70899
      lee_UK
      Participant

      the animals?

    • #70929
      lee_UK
      Participant

      the zombies?

    • #70935
      lee_UK
      Participant

      the searchers?

    • #70906
      lee_UK
      Participant

      the hollies?

    • #70912
      lee_UK
      Participant

      hermans hermits?

    • #70897
      lee_UK
      Participant

      the searchers?

    • #70903
      lee_UK
      Participant

      johnny kidd and the pirates?

    • #70942
      lee_UK
      Participant

      elton john?

    • #70928
      lee_UK
      Participant

      the he be gee bees? or the bee gees?

    • #70922
      lee_UK
      Participant

      i do like a fast moving quiz…

    • #70932
      lee_UK
      Participant

      the new seekers?

    • #70910
      lee_UK
      Participant

      The rolling stones? 🙄

    • #70908
      lee_UK
      Participant

      Spencer Davis group?

    • #70943
      lee_UK
      Participant

      Dave Clark 5?

    • #70925
      lee_UK
      Participant

      The KInks?

    • #70919
      lee_UK
      Participant

      The Small Faces?

    • #70917
      lee_UK
      Participant

      The Who?

    • #70920
      lee_UK
      Participant

      Beatles?

    • #70933
      lee_UK
      Participant

      Gerry and the Pacemakers?

    • #70927
      lee_UK
      Participant

      Freddie and the dreamers?

    • #70938
      Michael
      Participant

      Ive done some research… it aint as easy as you make it out to be. 1 more clue
      🙂

    • #70923
      lee_UK
      Participant

      Umm.. 😯

    • #70921
      shakedown_04092
      Participant

      Not even ONE guess??? C’mon!

    • #70895
      shakedown_04092
      Participant

      I’ll give’er a shot:

      CLUE #1:

      This group, originally formed in 1960, was one of the first to establish a major successful following in their own country while still residing there. You know them by their more popular name, which they eventually were forced to switch to shortly after their first hit (a cover song, btw), which made it to #1 in their country.

      I think I’ve already given TMI…..you guys are too good & will probably get it right away. I’ll start here though & work my way down.

    • #70914
      Michael
      Participant

      those tutes were a bigger let down than my erotic phone service for the deaf was.

      I think glw is in the US

      Tim, Shakedown, anyone else?

    • #70915
      lee_UK
      Participant

      How about glw, seeing as he missed out on his question earlier?
      and dont offer prizes Mike, you know those on-line tuition minutes is the kiss of death!

    • #70883
      Michael
      Participant

      Lido Shuffle — very catchy and I was listening to it the other day which gave me the idea for my question.

      Whose next… I think I’m gonna have to try and dig up some prizes. Yeah, that’ll make it fun.

    • #70911
      lee_UK
      Participant

      I was playing his album yesterday, the one where he’s sitting on a bench on the cover, has a song Lila? Lilo?? didnt know he played guitar, distinctive voice though.

    • #70904
      Michael
      Participant

      😆 I can’t go on, the answer is Boz Scaggs

    • #70901
      lee_UK
      Participant

      [quote=”Michael”]Not quite as well known, or as handsome.

      New clues:

      – First album: 1965

      – Still popular in Japan

      – Has a son who is a writer for Rolling Stone

      – Hard to understand when singing, subtitles recommended

      #http://i9.photobucket.com/albums/a76/guitarczar/whoami1.jpg

      Cooooome on, too easy now.[/quote]

      He looks a little bit, clicky fingers rock’n’roll, come on lets a move it and a groove it baby.

    • #70913
      lee_UK
      Participant

      It would be easier if somebody took the black cardboard box off his head, is he also holding a large noob in his right hand?

    • #70893
      Michael
      Participant

      Not quite as well known, or as handsome.

      New clues:

      – First album: 1965

      – Still popular in Japan

      – Has a son who is a writer for Rolling Stone

      – Hard to understand when singing, subtitles recommended

      #http://i9.photobucket.com/albums/a76/guitarczar/whoami1.jpg

      Cooooome on, too easy now.

    • #70880
      lee_UK
      Participant

      umm, I was thinking Neil Young to start, what with Crosby Nash etc but he’s Canadian and had more than 1 LP before he united with other musicians, he’s not much of a guitarist either, i know some of his 1 note solo’s go on for 32 bars+ but to me he’s no guitar player.

      Is it someone very famous for guitar? like Edgar Winter?

    • #70918
      Michael
      Participant

      Sorry Lee. I was a little vague.

      More clues:

      I was highschool classmates with another famous guitarist who would later go onto have many hits in a band named after himself. I performed on that artist’s first two albums.

      I also performed in many different bands with the above famous artist.

      I still tour.

      My first album’s name is also my first name.

    • #70930
      lee_UK
      Participant

      The clue was, I was born in 1945.

      Fire at will.

    • #70941
      Tim
      Participant

      I’ve forgotten the question…

    • #70886
      lee_UK
      Participant

      Thats my entire CD collection, somebody else care to take a guess? unless of course Mike wants to give out a decent clue?? 😆

    • #70884
      lee_UK
      Participant

      The Dagenham Girl Pipers Band?

    • #70909
      lee_UK
      Participant

      OJ Simpson?

    • #70916
      lee_UK
      Participant

      The Hoff?

    • #70940
      lee_UK
      Participant

      Black Lace?

    • #70926
      lee_UK
      Participant

      Brotherhood of man?

    • #70784
      lee_UK
      Participant

      Frank Ifield ?

    • #70792
      lee_UK
      Participant

      Poor old Johnny Ray?

    • #70781
      lee_UK
      Participant

      Accoustica?

    • #70771
      lee_UK
      Participant

      Hanson?

    • #70763
      lee_UK
      Participant

      K C and the Sunshine Band?

    • #70777
      lee_UK
      Participant

      Nelson Mandella?

    • #70778
      lee_UK
      Participant

      Terry McCann?

    • #70752
      lee_UK
      Participant

      Clive ‘no jive’ Dunn?

    • #70782
      lee_UK
      Participant

      Led Zep?

    • #70783
      lee_UK
      Participant

      Craig David?

    • #70756
      lee_UK
      Participant

      Tina Charles?

    • #70755
      lee_UK
      Participant

      Chet Atkins?

    • #70753
      lee_UK
      Participant

      Taj Mahal?

    • #70789
      lee_UK
      Participant

      Garath Gates?

    • #70768
      Michael
      Participant

      I have my ways Lee. I have my ways.

      Who Am I:

      I was born 1944, USA

      I play guitar

      I sing

      My album (which reached #1 in many parts of the world) spawned three hit singles in the 70s.

    • #70790
      lee_UK
      Participant

      Well done Mike, (How did a young whipper snapper like you get those cluses?) they were a big band so i had to keep the clues cryptic, non London was of course Liverpool, McClulloch was also in an early band with Julian Cope who went on to form The Teardrop Explodes (one of my other fav bands of all time) and the other bloke in the band was Pete Wylie who i think went on to Become the Mighty Wah, or was it the Wah?? anyway those 3 were in a band together.
      Utopia on the top floor?? my favourite Bunny record (LP) Heaven up Here.
      Pete de Freitas died, he was the drummer, McCulloch went on with Will Seargent to form ‘Electrafixion’ a great band, i think they recorded 1 CD ‘Burned’ and what a great CD, stand out tracks: Zephyr, and also sister pain.
      Seargent always (nearly always) used a Jaguar/Jazzmaster, McCulloch a Thinline tele, occasionaly a semi acoustic, Pattinson a Jazz bass.
      Still touring and recording to this day.

      Go for it Mike.

    • #70751
      Michael
      Participant

      I guess you had to make it thal easy for us… Echo and the Bunnymen

    • #70793
      Tim
      Participant

      [quote=”lee_UK”] not London.[/quote]

      Birmingham?

    • #70741
      lee_UK
      Participant

      The lead singer was in a band which contained 3 other major artists of that era, all based in the same city – not London.

      They are still around today, but with only 3 of the original 4 line up, Original drummer died in 89, band spit in 90, in 94 the singer and guitarist reformed under another name.
      The band reformed in 97 and have been together since then.

    • #70767
      lee_UK
      Participant

      [quote=”1bassleft”]Only three bands formed in 1978? I’m sure I’d got “Nuclear Fusion” started at high school that year. We didn’t gig because I think I was the only member owning a genuine instrument (a Satellite).

      Lee’s clue, “Utopia on the top floor” made me think of Heaven 17 (and the album Penthouse and Pavement, but 1978 is too early (surely?) and they weren’t exactly a guitar band.[/quote]

      Nice thinking Bass, you got the Utopia bit, first part of the name of the LP was ‘Heaven ** ****’ they formed in 78′ but think early to mid 80’s.

    • #70757
      lee_UK
      Participant

      [quote=”Michael”]Only 3 bands formed in 1978 and they’ve all been said Lee.[/quote]

      Someone give him the anti – serum, i hate to see a good guy like Mike suffer, only 3 bands formed in 78′ your having a giraffe.

    • #70775
      glw
      Participant

      [quote=”lee_UK”]GLW has gone AWOL so i’ll post one up. [/quote]

      Sorry, I’ve been a bit busy this last week. I’m off to the States tomorrow and I’ve been going crackers trying to get everything ready.

      Unfortunately it’s work, not pleasure.

    • #70772
      1bassleft
      Participant

      Only three bands formed in 1978? I’m sure I’d got “Nuclear Fusion” started at high school that year. We didn’t gig because I think I was the only member owning a genuine instrument (a Satellite).

      Lee’s clue, “Utopia on the top floor” made me think of Heaven 17 (and the album Penthouse and Pavement, but 1978 is too early (surely?) and they weren’t exactly a guitar band.

    • #70766
      Michael
      Participant

      Only 3 bands formed in 1978 and they’ve all been said Lee.

    • #70770
      lee_UK
      Participant

      Both wrong, the main guitarist nearly always played a Jaguar/Jazzmaster (sometimes a tele) .

      Singer played a Thinline Tele, sometimes a semi acoustic, casino looking thing.

      Bass player always played a Fender Jazz.

      The Drummer played the drums.

      Took off in the early-mid eighties.

      Cryptic clue?? to one of their LP’s (anyone remember those?) :

      Utopia on the top floor.

    • #70747
      1bassleft
      Participant

      Gosh, were PiL formed in 1978? Seems like last year. If that’s not the right answer, the only Jaguar-toting band that I could think of was Television, but they formed well before 1978. Must say, I’m a bit stumped on this one (d’you know how many bassists only played a Jazz?)

    • #70785
      Michael
      Participant

      Public Image

    • #70758
      lee_UK
      Participant

      Whoa back there young Michael, just hold on to those reins my friend,
      Go Go’s? No No’s.
      try again,
      Bass will get it.

    • #70739
      Michael
      Participant

      nice try throwing us off with the boyz line lee. The answer is the Go-Gos

      donate my winnings to charity please

    • #70749
      lee_UK
      Participant

      GLW has gone AWOL so i’ll post one up. For starters im only going to describe the instruments in the Classic line up of the band, formed in 78′ what a band they were.
      The Fender Boyz:

      Fender Telecaster Thinline (mostly)
      Fender Jaguar (nearly always)
      Fender Jazz (always)
      Who cares about the drum kit, they all sound the same.

      i think this one will go in the first guess, might be over to 1Bassleft for the next one.

    • #70764
      Michael
      Participant

      It’s like a shock and awe attack hey Lee. You overwhelm us with answers that we are left with no choice but to handout more and more clues.

      Maybe someone else would like to start a new one and glw can do his after.

    • #70769
      lee_UK
      Participant

      Come on GLW, get on with it, some of us lose sleep trying to research the answers, but i always find the lee_uk method the best, just throw everything in until the fish start floating.

    • #70760
      shakedown_04092
      Participant

      Haha…I should’ve known that! My band started playing “Couldn’t Get It Right” at the request of my uncle. Good song; don’t know much about the band itself though.

    • #70737
      Michael
      Participant

      Glw you next in the question seat.

    • #70754
      1bassleft
      Participant

      Sorry, I was unvoidablied last night. GLW got it in a shockingly quick time. I tried to disguise it with a few dictionary-hunting words like “superlative” and “eponymous” but the man saw through that.

      Yep, Sensational (superlative) Alex Harvey Band (eponymous) it was. They’re still playing even though he died in 1982. I found the pic of him as a boy on a fansite and loved the fact that the characteristic stripey top featured even then.

      Apols for doing such a short-lived brain-twister, but congrats to glw.

    • #70743
      lee_UK
      Participant

      wheres 1bl gone?

    • #70745
      glw
      Participant

      What about my “Alex Harvey” answer on the last page?

      C’mon – it’s got to be him. The striped shirt. The “Sensational” superlative. The band carrying on in his name after his death.

    • #70773
      lee_UK
      Participant

      [quote=”1bassleft”]OK, move onto the 1970s now. A trademark striped shirt (from an early age, see pic), a superlative (later dropped) and now – Taggart-like, the band play eponymously in his absence. Should be easy enough if you think about it:

      #http://www.imagestation.com/picture/sraid225/p4570d8c64fef2f1d04601df7413e33ea/e8c1b6cd.jpg%5B/quote%5D

      He does look a bit Crazy Diamond, but that was the 60’s…. are they still around?

    • #70776
      lee_UK
      Participant

      Floyd?

    • #70786
      lee_UK
      Participant

      New order, Manics?

    • #70779
      glw
      Participant

      Alex Harvey

    • #70765
      1bassleft
      Participant

      I’d like to say you were close, but you weren’t, so I can’t

    • #70762
      Michael
      Participant

      Sting?

    • #70788
      1bassleft
      Participant

      One leads to the other and vice-versa.

    • #70774
      Michael
      Participant

      Is it the band or the lad we are guessing?

    • #70787
      1bassleft
      Participant

      OK, move onto the 1970s now. A trademark striped shirt (from an early age, see pic), a superlative (later dropped) and now – Taggart-like, the band play eponymously in his absence. Should be easy enough if you think about it:

      #http://www.imagestation.com/picture/sraid225/p4570d8c64fef2f1d04601df7413e33ea/e8c1b6cd.jpg

    • #70780
      lee_UK
      Participant

      Go ahead Bass, set the next one up, make it a bit easier, Noel was a great great guy, and of course i knew Herbie played the Keyboard, and Manfred mans earth band….. and i know that nobody ever walked on the moon, and Elvis is actually still alive in a secret underground bunker in Nevada, Hitler was a Jew, Bill Gates is the real anti-christ and that is a real picture of Mike. 😯

    • #70759
      Michael
      Participant

      😆 Just don’t google image search cock rock.

      Yes you are correct 1b. Climax Blues Band it was.

      Why not start a new Trivia question/thread yourself now?

    • #70791
      1bassleft
      Participant

      Aaaaaah, of course (apols for the earth-moving “aaaaah”).

      Pete Haycock of Climax Blues Band. Before your last clue, I unsuspectingly tried “cock rock” in a search engine and spent half the night scrubbing all references from my history. Wouldn’t want any PC World technician finding Coverdale images on my hard drive.

    • #70761
      Michael
      Participant

      26 hours left to get it.

      Making it really easy, guirtaist mentioned was Haycock. Sooooo easy now.

    • #70633
      Tim
      Participant

      A guy I used to work with (a drummer, to add insult to injury) also met Noel Redding…it’s not fair, he’s my hero, not yours! 🙁

    • #70636
      glw
      Participant

      [quote=”lee_UK”]Did Herbie Hancock ever play in a band?[/quote]
      He played keyboards.

    • #70606
      lee_UK
      Participant

      I met Noel Redding once, got his autograph, shook his right hand while his left was holding a tin of John Smiths, nice fella though.
      Did Herbie Hancock ever play in a band?

    • #70604
      Michael
      Participant

      The band did indeed have a member whose name ended in ‘cock.’ A Guitarist infact.

      However, this clue does not relate to previous clues. Just a coincidence.

    • #70632
      glw
      Participant

      It’ll be a name like Hancock, Hitchcock or something ending in cock.

    • #70635
      Tim
      Participant

      And all this time I thought Jimi was dead, damn!

    • #70593
      lee_UK
      Participant

      Red rooster? so maybe he has red in his name? redman? redding? noel redding? hendrix? hendrix experience?
      Am i getting near?

    • #70620
      Michael
      Participant

      None of the above. Keep on the ‘orgasm’ trail so to speak. Some good attempts though, even if we have only worked out every band name possibly linked to sex.

      Another clue:

      One of the band members has a rooster in his name as well. Not the entire surname, just partial.

    • #70611
      glw
      Participant

      [quote=”Michael”]Lee’s thread was a lot of fun, so here is another little game.

      We are an English band who despite having 18 albums, only had 1 top 10 hit (UK/US). We changed our name not too long after being formed. We have been around for over 30 years.[/quote]

      [quote=”lee_UK”]Manfred man. Game over, what do i get Mike?[/quote]

      Except Manfred Man and Manfred Man’s Earthband were two entirely separate bands.

    • #70613
      lee_UK
      Participant

      Manfred man. Game over, what do i get Mike?

    • #70602
      Tim
      Participant

      [quote=”lee_UK”][quote=”Tim”]The Cure. Formed in ’76, name change in ’78. Lot’s of albums…[/quote]
      You’re just guessing..[/quote]

      I thought that was the point, my bad. 😀

    • #70621
      glw
      Participant

      [quote=”shakedown_04092″]The Sex Pistols?

      Oh wait….they didn’t form in the 60’s. Nevermind.[/quote]

      Neither did they record 18 albums. One album, wasn’t it?

    • #70597
      shakedown_04092
      Participant

      The Sex Pistols?

      Oh wait….they didn’t form in the 60’s. Nevermind.

    • #70607
      glw
      Participant

      [quote=”Michael”]Nope. Think ‘orgasm’

      That’s my final clue. I’ve already given way too many.[/quote]

      That makes me want to say The Buzzcocks, but they were hardly formed in the 60s.

    • #70637
      glw
      Participant

      [quote=”1bassleft”]Hate to be a Kiljoy, but, if I’m right, I didn’t even have to Wikigoogle this one. Led Zeppelin (NME’s top tip for 1968) never had chart single success that I knew of. I remember my undergraduate pub had a 7″ vinyl “Immigrant Song” on the jukebox. I remember we’d put it on often and join in the opening “hyyeeeaarghah”. A candidate for “cool song intros” in fact. IIRC, they came up with the name after a chum said “they’d go down like a lead zeppelin” but I don’t know if they had a diff name prior to that.[/quote]

      Bass, it was supposedly Keith Moon who said they’d go down like a lead balloon. There were a few 7″ vinyls released in the USA but in the UK they had no singles. Didn’t one of their albums (Physical Graffitti, I think) make the US singles chart because it sold so many copies it eclipsed everything? (Or is that just legend?) Also, I believe their original moniker was “The New Yardbirds”.

      Sorry Mike, back to the quiz…

    • #70617
      Michael
      Participant

      Nope. Think ‘orgasm’

      That’s my final clue. I’ve already given way too many.

    • #70595
      1bassleft
      Participant

      Hate to be a Kiljoy, but, if I’m right, I didn’t even have to Wikigoogle this one. Led Zeppelin (NME’s top tip for 1968) never had chart single success that I knew of. I remember my undergraduate pub had a 7″ vinyl “Immigrant Song” on the jukebox. I remember we’d put it on often and join in the opening “hyyeeeaarghah”. A candidate for “cool song intros” in fact. IIRC, they came up with the name after a chum said “they’d go down like a lead zeppelin” but I don’t know if they had a diff name prior to that.

    • #70619
      Michael
      Participant

      None of the above. Formed in the 60s.

    • #70608
      lee_UK
      Participant

      [quote=”Tim”]The Cure. Formed in ’76, name change in ’78. Lot’s of albums…[/quote]
      You’re just guessing..

    • #70626
      Tim
      Participant

      The Cure. Formed in ’76, name change in ’78. Lot’s of albums…

    • #70638
      lee_UK
      Participant

      are Kajagoogoo still going??

    • #70628
      lee_UK
      Participant

      i think ive got it…. is it the Goombay Dance Band?

    • #70589
      lee_UK
      Participant

      mike oldfield?

    • #70605
      lee_UK
      Participant

      deep purple? 8)

    • #70642
      lee_UK
      Participant

      steeleye span?

    • #70631
      lee_UK
      Participant

      mungo jerry?

    • #70599
      lee_UK
      Participant

      windsor davis davies & don estelle??

    • #70627
      lee_UK
      Participant

      procol harum?

    • #70610
      lee_UK
      Participant

      chicory tip?

    • #70591
      lee_UK
      Participant

      Steve harley and the cockney rebel?

    • #70643
      lee_UK
      Participant

      Still going after 30 years? so they formed in the early 70’s? and had a name change after they formed?

    • #70634
      glw
      Participant

      The Strawbs

    • #70629
      Michael
      Participant

      none of ze above

    • #70630
      lee_UK
      Participant

      Has to be The Floyd… but over 30 yrs?? they are more like 40 yrs?

    • #70587
      lee_UK
      Participant

      Herman and the Hermits?

    • #70614
      lee_UK
      Participant

      Dave clark 5 ?

    • #70616
      lee_UK
      Participant

      Moody blues?

    • #70624
      lee_UK
      Participant

      The Mighty Floyd ??

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