1910 Fruitgum Company. Not a Boy Band - Barbershop Quartet hybrid.
1910 Fruitgum Company. Not a Boy Band - Barbershop Quartet hybrid.
Stars in Battledress
I expected some tryingtobehip indieband but they are actually very good ☺
10cc
(surely someone recall how they got their name....LOL)
Four "fake Shemps" perhaps?
Nurse With Wound - not sure what I expected, but I love it
If Iron Maiden are "lightweight", then I'm just fine with that. Melodic I have no problem. And if that's what "power metal" is (though my understanding is Maiden had something like a decade's jump on most of the power metal bands), then I should probably check out more power metal.
Don't tell 'Arry that. He professes a lifelong hatred of all things "punk", to the point of refusing to credit the DIY ethos of punk toward inspire Maiden towards self releasing their first EP.
To me, they always sounded like a blend of progressive rock and heavy metal, done much more tastefully than any of the so called "prog metal" bands (the ones I've heard anyway), with the occasional radio friendly single (because, as Darryl Hall once noted, "ya gotta have something in 4/4 time"). I never heard them as "punky", until it was pointed out that there was a "punk" aesthetic present on the first album, whether 'Arry wants to admit it or not.
Florida. The band was from Florida. Jacksonville, to be exact. Leonard Skinner was, I believe, Gary Rossington and Ronnie Van Zandt's high school gym teacher, who was supposedly notorious for punishing male students for having long hair. Skinner himself was interviewed once and he said "Lots of teachers at our school punished students for violating the dress code, but it was just my luck, a couple of my students ended up in a band".
When I was in high school, a lot of kids had that reaction. I had a couple Grateful Dead shirts (one with the SKullfuck cover, another with the Blues For Allah cover), and I gather between those two and the band name, they thought the Dead were a metal band. Then one day, for whatever reason, I had brought one of the Dead books I had to school, and I remember one of my classmates seeing a picture of them onstage, and saying "They don't look like a heavy metal band".
But it did pave the way for one of my favorite lines on The Venture Brothers, where Dr. Girlfriend complains about Phantom Limb siccing his "stooges" on her, in this case, Iggy Pop and Klaus Nomi. Klaus responds, "But I wasn't in the Stooges!".
The original band name was simply The Mothers, which was chosen because Frank wanted to convey the point that the band was comprised of "real motherfuckers", meaning top flight musicians. "Of Invention" was added to placate MGM, who determined that "The Mothers" was too suggestive or inflammatory or whatever.
What would make you expect Barbershop Quartet?
I remember the first time I saw the band's name used in some kind of "pop music" quiz in a magazine, I thought it was made up, I didn't think there could have possibly been a band called the 1910 Fruitgum Company. To this day, I have no idea what they sang, or even if I've ever heard them (remember, I was born in 1973, so I missed the era when "oldies" weren't yet "oldies").
Hurtleturtled Out of Heaven - an electronic music composition, on CD and vinyl
https://michaelpdawson.bandcamp.com
http://www.waysidemusic.com/Music-Pr...MCD-spc-7.aspx
I think the Grass Roots was one of the bands I saw a few years ago, on a bill with Mickey Dolenz and Flo & Eddie. I think there was a fourth group on the bill, but I can't remember who it was, and I can't remember what the big hit that was played at the end of their set was.
Grass Roots were different session musicians on different singles. I don't think any of them actually played at the same time until it was decided to assemble a band to play some of the hits live.
I saw Flo & Eddie, The Grass Roots, Paul Revere & The Raiders, Peter Noone and somebody else -- Johnny River? -- at the Puyallup State Fair about 1994. It was a surprisingly good show.
Oh, and the Beach Boys the year after that. I think Mike Love was the only original member there.
Smoking Popes. Sounds like a punk band, but was prog. Snarky Puppy would have been my first choice as well.
I'm not lazy. I just work so fast I'm always done.
<Sigh> Because anytime the period from 1890-1918 is depicted in pop culture, the musical presentation is 4 guys with white long sleeved shirts, red and white striped vests, and cork hats standing under a gazebo in a village square singing "Sweet Adeline" or "My Fucking Bonny Lies Over The Ocean."
"And your little sister's immaculate virginity wings away on the bony shoulders of a young horse named George who stole surreptitiously into her geography revision."
Occasional musical musings on https://darkelffile.blogspot.com/
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