Obscure Non-Prog Music Facts

When Canadian heavy rock band Moxy were recording their debut album in Van Nuys, California in 1975, guitarist Tommy Bolin was recording next door; he joined in with Moxy,and a lot of the solo lead guitar in the Moxy debut is from Bolin.

richardh wrote: Brit glam rock band The Sweet started out as a 'front' for record producers Nicky Chinn and Mike Chapman who used session musicians and The Sweet just mimed on Top Of The Pops and the like. Their first release (1969) was 'Funny funny' which was a rip off The Archies 'Sugar Sugar'. I'm not exactly when The Sweet started writing and playing on their own songs but guess it was 1971- 1972.Their last hit was 'Love Is Like Oxygen' in 1978.    The Sweet were the first band I ever saw live (1980) and gave me permanent hearing damage   I remember going to see The Carl Palmer band about 10 years ago and who should walk in and sit at the back of the auditorium - Andy Scott! Still completely recognisable. Nowadays he is most famous for doing a van advert on TV.   http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=kJS_eio4DTc

I remember hearing a few years ago that the drummer for The Sweet passed away. I remember them most for their album "Desolation Boulevard". In the early to mid seventies, they had some hits that were pretty big in Canada-i remember hearing them a lot on the radio and at dances when i was a teen in the seventies. Who could forget "Ballroom Blitz" or "Little Willy".
    Sorry, but i can't watch youtube videos from my own computer, but will check that link out at my sister's.

presdoug wrote: richardh wrote: Brit glam rock band The Sweet started out as a 'front' for record producers Nicky Chinn and Mike Chapman who used session musicians and The Sweet just mimed on Top Of The Pops and the like. Their first release (1969) was 'Funny funny' which was a rip off The Archies 'Sugar Sugar'. I'm not exactly when The Sweet started writing and playing on their own songs but guess it was 1971- 1972.Their last hit was 'Love Is Like Oxygen' in 1978.    The Sweet were the first band I ever saw live (1980) and gave me permanent hearing damage   I remember going to see The Carl Palmer band about 10 years ago and who should walk in and sit at the back of the auditorium - Andy Scott! Still completely recognisable. Nowadays he is most famous for doing a van advert on TV.   http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=kJS_eio4DTc   I remember hearing a few years ago that the drummer for The Sweet passed away. I remember them most for their album "Desolation Boulevard". In the early to mid seventies, they had some hits that were pretty big in Canada-i remember hearing them a lot on the radio and at dances when i was a teen in the seventies. Who could forget "Ballroom Blitz" or "Little Willy".     Sorry, but i can't watch youtube videos from my own computer, but will check that link out at my sister's.

First record I ever bought was Ballroom Blitz I still listen to Give Us A Wink occasionally. Action (the album version) has my favourite intro to a song ever.

richardh wrote: presdoug wrote: richardh wrote: Brit glam rock band The Sweet started out as a 'front' for record producers Nicky Chinn and Mike Chapman who used session musicians and The Sweet just mimed on Top Of The Pops and the like. Their first release (1969) was 'Funny funny' which was a rip off The Archies 'Sugar Sugar'. I'm not exactly when The Sweet started writing and playing on their own songs but guess it was 1971- 1972.Their last hit was 'Love Is Like Oxygen' in 1978.    The Sweet were the first band I ever saw live (1980) and gave me permanent hearing damage   I remember going to see The Carl Palmer band about 10 years ago and who should walk in and sit at the back of the auditorium - Andy Scott! Still completely recognisable. Nowadays he is most famous for doing a van advert on TV.   http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=kJS_eio4DTc   I remember hearing a few years ago that the drummer for The Sweet passed away. I remember them most for their album "Desolation Boulevard". In the early to mid seventies, they had some hits that were pretty big in Canada-i remember hearing them a lot on the radio and at dances when i was a teen in the seventies. Who could forget "Ballroom Blitz" or "Little Willy".     Sorry, but i can't watch youtube videos from my own computer, but will check that link out at my sister's. First record I ever bought was Ballroom Blitz I still listen to Give Us A Wink occasionally. Action (the album version) has my favourite intro to a song ever.

That's cool, Richard. I also remember with fondness their hit "Fox On The Run" which was also huge in Canada.

Master of Time wrote: I don't know how obscure this is, but Franz Liszt is Wagner's father-in-law. Wagner also died two years before Franz Liszt which prompted him to write the elegy "At the Grave of Richard Wagner".

I did not know about that elegy-interesting. Is it for piano or orchestra?

presdoug wrote: richardh wrote: presdoug wrote: richardh wrote: presdoug wrote: richardh wrote: Brit glam rock band The Sweet started out as a 'front' for record producers Nicky Chinn and Mike Chapman who used session musicians and The Sweet just mimed on Top Of The Pops and the like. Their first release (1969) was 'Funny funny' which was a rip off The Archies 'Sugar Sugar'. I'm not exactly when The Sweet started writing and playing on their own songs but guess it was 1971- 1972.Their last hit was 'Love Is Like Oxygen' in 1978.    The Sweet were the first band I ever saw live (1980) and gave me permanent hearing damage   I remember going to see The Carl Palmer band about 10 years ago and who should walk in and sit at the back of the auditorium - Andy Scott! Still completely recognisable. Nowadays he is most famous for doing a van advert on TV.   http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=kJS_eio4DTc   I remember hearing a few years ago that the drummer for The Sweet passed away. I remember them most for their album "Desolation Boulevard". In the early to mid seventies, they had some hits that were pretty big in Canada-i remember hearing them a lot on the radio and at dances when i was a teen in the seventies. Who could forget "Ballroom Blitz" or "Little Willy".     Sorry, but i can't watch youtube videos from my own computer, but will check that link out at my sister's. First record I ever bought was Ballroom Blitz I still listen to Give Us A Wink occasionally. Action (the album version) has my favourite intro to a song ever. That's cool, Richard. I also remember with fondness their hit "Fox On The Run" which was also huge in Canada. yep I love that as well. I also remember "Love Is Like Oxygen" doing well in Canada, too.I like that hit, as well.

 The world premiere of Anton Bruckner's 3rd Symphony was a fiasco-it left the conductor Bruckner in tears. Before the finish of the second movement, most of the audience had got up and left (thinking WTF is this?) A few music students stayed behind to console Bruckner-and one of them was a young Gustav Mahler.

Composer Richard Wagner was a follower of the philosopher Arthur Schoepenhauer.

Composer Gustav Mahler once said to conductor Bruno Walter-"No one understands me as much as you."

In the middle of the 19th Century, Beethoven's remains were removed and re-interred somewhere else. They were available for the public to view, and composer Anton Bruckner went to see them. When he was bending over the casket, he lost his pince-nez, and no doubt, it is in the coffin with Beethoven!

British conductor Sir Malcolm Sargent had a tendency to fondle his colleague's wives.

French conductor Pierre Monteux lost a brother at the concentration camp Belsen during the war. Monteux had jewish roots.

Composer Richard Wagner detested the 10 Commandments because it included one "Thou shalt not commit adultery", which Wagner was good at doing with Cosima von Bulow.

Conductor Arturo Toscanini once said "If i could kill a man, it would be Mussolini."
    
And Toscanini on composer Richard Strauss-"As a composer, i take my hat off to you, but as a man, i put on seven hats."

At one point, some of Benito Mussolini's thugs beat up Toscanini to try to intimidate him.

Richie Blackmore joined The Sweet on stage during their gig in Santa Monica to jam with them on All Right Now in tribute to guitarist Paul Kossoff (Free) who had died earlier that week.

Edited by Dean - July 01 2012 at 19:11

Thurston Moore of Sonic Youth got into Can after he found a copy of Ege Bamyasi in a 49c bin of some store.