The ones I like are listed second.
Snarky Puppy = Skinny Puppy
Phish = Fish
The Wolf Banes = Wolfsbane
The Wolfe Tones =Wolfstone
The ones I like are listed second.
Snarky Puppy = Skinny Puppy
Phish = Fish
The Wolf Banes = Wolfsbane
The Wolfe Tones =Wolfstone
Last edited by PeterG; 11-03-2015 at 04:48 AM.
Beatles = Tape Beatles
Yanni = Iannis Xenakis
Jim Pepper = Pepper Adams
David A. Stewart = Dave Stewart
Andy Pyle = Pip Pyle
Actually happened to me earlier this year...
The work trucks* I drive are rather old and don’t have a place to plug in an MP3 player. Since I gave my transmitter away, that means I’m stuck listening to the radio. And this song comes on. Me: “I know this song! Who sings this again? I know! Jay Gould!”
Duh! It’s Jay Ferguson, a singer and keyboardist who was popular in the 1970s. Jay Gould was an asshole railroad industrialist and was never popular!
*except for The Gator, which doesn’t have a radio, and you couldn’t hear it over the motor even if it did.
Confirmed Bachelors: the dramedy hit of 1883...
Saga = Saga
Deerhunter = The Dear Hunter
Machinehead = Motorhead
For a long time I thought Meri Wilson, who had a novelty hit with "Telephone Man", was the same person as Mary Wilson of The Supremes.
Also I thought James Hendricks, who wrote the Johnny Rivers hit "Summer Rain", was a formalised version of Jimi Hendrix. He was in fact a former husband of Mama Cass Elliot, and unrelated to Jimi.
Last edited by bob_32_116; 11-03-2015 at 04:25 AM.
yes = nomeansno
Certainly not.Originally Posted by PeterG
"Improvisation is not an excuse for musical laziness" - Fred Frith
"[...] things that we never dreamed of doing in Crimson or in any band that I've been in," - Tony Levin speaking of SGM
David Gilmour = David Gilmore
WANTED: Sig-worthy quote.
I am also guilty of that error.
Last edited by PeterG; 11-04-2015 at 07:33 AM.
Also, for quite a long time I thought the James Taylor Quartet, well you know what I thought...but it was because at the time I had no idea what James Taylor was up to and I never listen to jazz or fusion, so had no idea who or what the JTQ was ... so for me it was normal to think that JT now had a quartet on the go....
Nick Drake, Nick Cave
Ian Tamblyn, Ian Tyson
Stealers Wheel, Steeleye Span
Crowbar, Crowbar
John Fogerty, Dan Fogelberg
Martin Sexton, Ron Sexsmith
David Wilcox, David Wilcox
John Mayall, John Mayer
Tommy Bolin, Marc Bolan
Dr. John, Dr. Hook
ELO, ELOY
We are the grandchildren of apes, not angels
But only we are gifted with the eyes to see
On days without FEAR, when our heads are clear
That angels, we could be
(Marillion 2016)
ELO - ELP
Vandenberg - Van der Graaf
fairly true (especially for the first two)
Last edited by Trane; 11-03-2015 at 10:32 AM.
my music collection increased tenfolds when I switched from drug-addicts to complete nutcases.
Steeleye Span = Steely Dan
It's not a name thing, but for some reason I'd get Jackson Browne and Dan Fogelberg mixed up.
Rush = Mahogany Rush... in the 70's, at least. I didn't get them confused, but others did.
I think I may have confused 10CC and Supertramp back then.
You say Mega Ultra Deluxe Special Limited Edition Extended Autographed 5-LP, 3-CD, 4-DVD, 2-BlueRay, 4-Cassette, five 8-Track, MP4 Download plus Demos, Outtakes, Booklet, T-Shirt and Guitar Pick Gold-Leafed Box Set Version like it's a bad thing...
Spirogyra = Spyro Gyra
Me too, but I honestly still couldn't tell ya which is which.
Also, I still have to think a bit extra to sort out Talking Heads and Talk Talk.
Bryan Adams = Ryan Adams
Also,
Peter Hammill= Peter Michael Hamel (ambient electronic musician who was with a German band called Between)
Steve Reich = Steve Roach
King Diamond = King Crimson
Pendragon = Pentangle
On that note, King Diamond = Diamond Head, made more difficult as they were both active in metal in the 80s.
The Replacements = The Residents
Of course it helps that I could not name or recognise a single song by either band.
Well, I like them both, but was slightly confused when I found "The Dark Age Of Love" from the latter:
This Mortal Coil - This Immortal Coil
Slapp Happy - Happy The Man
I first wrote Sad Happy (thanks rcarlberg), which is also a band of course, but I meant the Henry Cow related band.
This brings also:
Sadhappy - Happysad (a Polish band I never have heard)
Last edited by interbellum; 11-04-2015 at 09:23 AM.
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