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What was the first song John Lennon learned to play?
empedocles
(15,751 posts)Mister Ed
(5,896 posts)johnsolaris
(220 posts)Mike Nesmith of the monkees.
Mister Ed
(5,896 posts)Mister Ed
(5,896 posts)Small hint: the song is far from obscure.
Teenage Zombie
(256 posts)I Saw Her Standing There.
Mister Ed
(5,896 posts)I only learned of this fun fact this past week myself.
Mister Ed
(5,896 posts)I only learned this last week. He apparently wrote it when he was fourteen years old, and recorded it many years later, at the end of 1966, as the first of the songs that would eventually make up the "Sgt. Pepper" album.
In a later interview, he said that he wrote the song in a cabaret style because rock 'n' roll had not yet come to be. There was no way at that time for him to imagine what rock 'n' roll was, or that he would one day write rock 'n' roll songs.
red dog 1
(27,647 posts)(It wasn't a song he wrote)
ShazzieB
(15,952 posts)I'm confuzzled!
Brother Buzz
(36,213 posts)Teenage Zombie
(256 posts)Maggie May. (She'll never walk down Lime Street anymore).
red dog 1
(27,647 posts)HUAJIAO
(2,362 posts)johnsolaris
(220 posts)Who played in Linda Rondstat's back up band right before they all became famous !
Mister Ed
(5,896 posts)The Eagles were originally Linda Ronstadt's backup band. They recorded her eponymous album (the one before Heart Like A Wheel), and then went out on tour with her.
The album didn't sell, but their later efforts lifted them all from obscurity.
MerryHolidays
(7,715 posts)Glorfindel
(9,706 posts)Hoyt
(54,770 posts)maxrandb
(15,188 posts)Response to maxrandb (Reply #14)
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maxrandb
(15,188 posts)Mister Ed
(5,896 posts)Was it Jason Bonham, son of Led Zep's drummer John Bonham?
VGNonly
(7,430 posts)son of Ringo
Diamond_Dog
(31,658 posts)Designed their logo?
VGNonly
(7,430 posts)He studied art and graphic design.
Diamond_Dog
(31,658 posts)red dog 1
(27,647 posts)Brother Buzz
(36,213 posts)red dog 1
(27,647 posts)Brother Buzz
(36,213 posts)Carl Perkins?
red dog 1
(27,647 posts)Brother Buzz
(36,213 posts)I took a shot at the rockabilly. Perhaps it was more a rhythm and blues artist
Fats Domino?
red dog 1
(27,647 posts)red dog 1
(27,647 posts)Tikki
(14,537 posts)I believe some of the Turtles were Flo and Eddie.
My 6 year old son danced with me to the Song "Happy Together" for one performance
back in the 70's when I had a College dance class.
By the end of the song I was in tears because he practiced so hard and it came off perfectly.
Tikki
red dog 1
(27,647 posts)gratuitous
(82,849 posts)Who wrote in his memoir: "For people who thought Brian walked on water, I will always be the antichrist."
OriginalGeek
(12,132 posts)wild guess. That's the only Brian/Antichrist combo I could think of lol.
gratuitous
(82,849 posts)I read Love's memoir "My Life as a Beach Boy." Interesting to read the other side of the feud. The Wilson side of the family (Mike's mother is the sister of Brian's father) did screw Mike out of a lot of money, but Mike's such an unsympathetic figure, it's hard to feel sorry for him. But while Brian was struggling with his mental health and addiction issues, it was Mike who kept the band together, playing and touring incessantly to keep the brand profitable.
Another fun relationship fact is that Mike's brother Stan played for the Oregon Ducks during the Kamikaze Kids era under Dick Harter, and Stan's son is Kevin Love of the Cleveland Cavaliers.
OriginalGeek
(12,132 posts)The Beach Boys were the first concert I ever went to. Very early 80's with Delbert McClinton opening up. It was that show that precipitated the show-down with my step-father and his unreasonable control over all our lives and I left home soon after it at the age of 17. I was a high school graduate, seeing a show with my friend on a weekend and he only agreed to let me go if I was home by 10. That number was not arbitrary - it was when he went to bed and he didn't want to have to get up to let me in the house any later. I was not allowed to have my own key. The Beach Boys had barely been on stage for a whole song by 10 so of course I blew that curfew way off and haven't missed talking to that asshole in the 40 years since.
Another fact that may or may not be fun. A year or two later I worked at 6 Flags over Texas as a photographer and Mike Love was in the park and let me take a pic of him. He was really nice to me that day and I felt a little bad associating him with the antichrist above but that was the stories I heard much later and he started it lol. I didn't know anything about band politics or real life politics and all that stuff back then. I barely know much now. But it was a great show and I told him so then. I wish I had gotten a copy of the picture but my boss said it was on company time so it was his pic. (real film back then).
That Beach Boys show also kicked off a life-long love of live music and I have been to thousands of shows since then but the last 15 years or so have been almost exclusively death-metal shows at little clubs.
musette_sf
(10,184 posts)red dog 1
(27,647 posts)Tikki
(14,537 posts)Tikki
red dog 1
(27,647 posts)red dog 1
(27,647 posts)OriginalGeek
(12,132 posts)Or was that a different band and I'm conflating the two?
Either way, the Roots played here at a 2-day festival called Orlando Calling put on by the same guy that promotes the London Calling festival which was very successful but he took a huge bath on this one. Who knew folks wouldn't line up to stand in the hot sun in central Florida in the middle of July for 2 days? I only went because my friend had a 2-day pass but couldn't go and he gave me his passes.
But I'm glad I did - they were not headliners or even close but the Roots and Buddy Guy were the highlights for me and they were magnificent. The headliners were Bob Seger and Kid rock. Bob was fine but Ruck Kid Fock.
Oh and I got to see the Pixies and that was pretty great. Whatever Doobie Brothers were still alive were there too and they were fun.
EDIT TO ADD - NOPE! There IS a band called Nappy Roots but they have nothing to do with the Roots so guessers have another chance to shine!
red dog 1
(27,647 posts)but that's not the name they went by right before they became The Roots
red dog 1
(27,647 posts)jmowreader
(50,451 posts)red dog 1
(27,647 posts)Wolf Frankula
(3,595 posts)His middle name?
Wolf
red dog 1
(27,647 posts)(He had a nick name)
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red dog 1
(27,647 posts)VGNonly
(7,430 posts)attended a Buddy Holly show in Duluth MN on 1-31-59? (Buddy died Feb 3rd)
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