09-12-2016, 07:49
One more guess before I give up:
Pioneers = Slade
Pioneers = Slade
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09-12-2016, 11:21
incorrect bob_32, sorry mate...
all will be revealed shortly, assuming there are no more takers.
"BTO....Bachman,Turner,Overweight
They were big in the 70s....for five minutes,on a Saturday,after lunch..." - Me 2014. 
09-12-2016, 13:38
I donât have any idea about most of these but based on your clue would hazard a guess at Rain morphing into Oasis? That clue, and the fact that both are watery names speaks to me â which doesnât necessarily follow, but oh well! Lol!
I have two to contribute though ⦠Daddy, as they were thankfully briefly referred to, became exceedingly well known under a much more free-spirited name ⦠also a single word. Spice bears absolutely no resemblance to the name following, which actually is a proper name â¦
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09-12-2016, 23:00
Rain = Oasis, you are quite correct Ruby:
Rain was taken as their original name as it was Liam's favourite Beatle song, came off the Revolver album, when Noel started writing original material the name was changed. as for your two other contributions, i'll have to go away and think about them, thanks for joining in and participating in the game. all the other missing/incorrect names in my list will now be posted.
"BTO....Bachman,Turner,Overweight
They were big in the 70s....for five minutes,on a Saturday,after lunch..." - Me 2014.
10-12-2016, 01:37
CRAZY-HORSE Wrote:Rain = Oasis, you are quite correct Ruby:I would never have guessed The Beatles, because I thought the line-up as we know it did not happen until they were calling themselves the Beatles, or possibly the Silver Beatles, certainly not while John and Paul were calling themselves The Quarrymen. Starfish/Coldplay: I don't know why they started with the name Starfish, but it has apparently been a popular band name; there have been at least three bands called Starfish, which may be why they felt the need to change their name. I am curious (Yellow) about why they chose "Coldplay". Does it mean something? As for #10, you'll have to explain that one. Was there an amputee in the band?
10-12-2016, 22:03
This came up before, when I posted Terry Reid in BOTD, so I checked it out again. Hope I have my facts straight!
Re the birth of Led Zep, seems that when the Yarbirds were in the process of slowly fizzling out, Jimmy Page was talking about a âsupergroupâ comprising himself, Jeff Beck, John Entwistle and Keith Moon with either Steve Winwood or Steve Marriott as vocalist (who JP had set as his benchmark for a singer, and who, incidentally, already had Robert Plant as a huge fan). As you say, CH, Marriott turned him down and that group never formed, obviously, and the Yardbirds straggled along until playing their last gig about a year and a half later. They still had a remaining contractual obligation to tour Scandinavia though, at which point, after getting the go ahead from management, Page approached Terry Reid to come on board as singer, who in turn pointed him in the direction of Robert Plant and John Bonham who was also in Band of Joy. John Paul Jones had already played a couple of sessions with Page so applied for the bass vacancy, and voila ⦠a touring New Yardbirds was formed. They gelled, fortunately, and had to drop the New Yardbirds name just before releasing their debut, which theyâd already recorded, as one of the erstwhile common or garden Yardbirds was making a fuss about it all. Probably not a bad thing as Led Zeppelin was infinitely the more inspired title. Anyway ⦠Terry Reidâs another story altogether â revered by many, it would seem, itâs something of a mystery that he never became hugely famous ⦠most likely to do with the fact that he didnât enjoy being told what to do, or how to play and sing, so he just carried on doing his own thing. This is the preview of a doccie thatâs in the process of being made about him ⦠Superlungs â http://www.mysuperlungs.com/ ⦠interesting stuff ⦠and this is the title track from his album Seed of Memory ⦠[video=youtube;MgshmDZGZaA]https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=MgshmDZGZaA[/video]
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For anyone who might be interested, there are genealogies of rock which have been compiled by a gentleman named Pete Frame who used to be a journalist/music magazine editor and who is also an author on the subject.
Iâm surprised heâs still sane (or maybe heâs not!?). A hugely complex exercise!! https://familyofrock.net/
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11-12-2016, 06:26
Ruby Wrote:For anyone who might be interested, there are genealogies of rock which have been compiled by a gentleman named Pete Frame who used to be a journalist/music magazine editor and who is also an author on the subject.I believe there was a book "Rock Family Trees", or some title like that, which a friend owned during the 1980s. The writer listed something like 105 different line-ups of John Mayall's Blues Breakers.
11-12-2016, 06:29
Ruby Wrote:I donât have any idea about most of these but based on your clue would hazard a guess at Rain morphing into Oasis? That clue, and the fact that both are watery names speaks to me â which doesnât necessarily follow, but oh well! Lol!"Daddy". What a dreadful band name. I gather "Spice" is no relation to a certain all-girl band?
11-12-2016, 07:11
bob_32_116 Wrote:"Daddy". What a dreadful band name. Absolutely horrible! So ill advised. And no, Spice has less than zero to do with those girls. Ok â there are cryptic clues in the way I originally described these bands, but they may be a little too vague, so: Daddy changed their name so as not to be confused with Daddy Longlegs and their eventual name was taken from an autobiography. Unrelated, but a further clue; Christopher McCandless used this as the surname of his alter ego. Spice changed their name to that of a fictional character, primarily because the authorâs work was experiencing a resurgence in popularity at the time. Hope that helps!
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