Posted on 04/19/2010 11:35:01 AM PDT by a fool in paradise
And the DK’s are a trio once again...
Who hasn't?
:)
I remember the band name, but I haven’t heard from them in some time either.
What’s odd is that it appears to have happened at a gig.
Odd but not unheard of. Back in the old-time radio days, the critic Alexander Woollcott---the New Yorker theater and literary critic whose Town Crier program was pretty popular in its day---suffered the heart attack that killed him while he was on the air. (He died a day or so later.)
And Jackie Wilson suffered the heart attack that collapsed him into the coma in which he spent almost the entire rest of his life (he came out of it very briefly in 1976, then relapsed and remained comatose until he died in 1984) while performing "Lonely Teardrops" live at the Latin Casino in New Jersey in 1975.
I seem to recall an 80's English punk band named" Scraping Fetus Off the Wheel.
Probably too much cowbell........
I thought that was one of the permutations that Foetus/Jim Thirwell used. And I thought he was more associated with NYC than the UK (but maybe I am just confusing contemporaries from the early 1980s).
. . . But also because that’s one of the most awesome band names I’ve ever heard.
I wouldn't exactly call theirs an "awesome" band name, though it is distinctive enough in its antonymous way. I can think of a lot more awesome band names, regardless of what you did or didn't think of their music. From Quicksilver Messenger Service and the 13th Floor Elevators right on down to Oasis, Rage Against the Machine (great name, good music, meatheaded-Marxist lyrics, alas), and Nirvana. (I always thought that was a great name for the band even if their guiding force's life and inner demons were anything but Nirvana . . . )
I can think of others, too: Blue Oyster Cult, Radiohead, Everclear, Paul Revere and the Raiders (he went through a lot of contortions convincing people Paul Revere really was his name---his given and middle name, in fact), Cream, Grand Funk Railroad (a great name but a so-so band who had a few good selections but whose music was anything but funky in the classic sense), Ministry, Magazine, Mountain, Public Enemy (even if you despise rap/hip-hop you've got to love that name), Grandmaster Flash and the Furious Five (one of the few rap groups I could listen to without getting sick), Wire, Cactus (great name, insufferable music, though there's a hell of a story behind the name), Icicle Works, the Grateful Dead (you had to love the name even if most---not all---of their music was a snooze), Phish, the Frost, Stone Temple Pilots, Guns 'n' Roses (the name was great; a couple of their songs were good), Television, Savoy Brown (I loved their music and their name), Humble Pie, the Brooklyn Bridge (RIP Johnny Maestro and I still say "Welcome Me Love" was your best record), Squeeze, AC/DC, the Clash, the Kinks, the Who, and, needless to say, the Beatles, to name a few . . .
I'll just go with what the article said...
The statement said Clifford’s brain hemorrhage resulted from congenital defects ...
And he thought he was safe because he didn’t play drums for Spinal Tap.
Same thing happened to the drummer of one of my favorite bands...San Diego cowpunk/rockabilly band The Beat Farmers. Their drummer was a big dude named Country Dick Montana—if you’ve ever heard the gag song “Happy Boy,” that’s the Beat Farmers with him singing. Dick collapsed behind his drum set during a performance in Whistler, British Columbia in 1995 and died of a heart attack. He was 40.
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Years ago in the late 70's, there was a local bar band here who had a gig on Halloween night, and so everyone in the band dressed in a costume for the gig. The bassist, "Tiny", (he was 7' tall), came dressed as a Nun ... and went about the evening 'blessing' ppl, mockingly smacking their knuckles with a ruler, and other such sort of mock Nun behavior.
Well, the Lord apparently didn't take too kindly to Tiny's antics that night --- he was killed in a car crash driving home from that gig.
True story.
Flock of Seagulls did some great recordings but watching them on stage was painful. None of them could play to save their lives.
Well the name was a smashup of LA Guns and Axel Rose.
Some of those other names weren't unique (there had been a Nirvana in the 1960s).
But then we're The New Originals...
This was exactly my first thought as well...
Well the name was a smashup of LA Guns and Axel Rose.Actually, it was a melding of L.A. Guns (Tracii Guns, Ole Beich, and Rob Gardner, shortly to be replaced by Saul Hudson [Slash], Duff McKagan, and Steven Adler) and Hollywood Rose (Axl Rose, Izzy Stradlin), the two bands from which the founding Guns 'n' Roses lineup emerged. To be honest, of all that ever had anything to do with Guns 'n' Roses, I like Izzy Stradlin's post-G'n'R music best. There's something to be said for the people who don't forget the roots of the music even if they're pressing them through a contemporary filter.
I remember the 1960s Nirvana. They were a classic example of a name being better than the music. (Blue Cheer is another such example, though if you think about it their debut, Vincebus Eruptum, is one of the great guilty pleasures of its era, assuming you can envision an after-hours jam between Cream and the Jimi Hendrix Experience at which an abundance of booze was consumed before they began playing and Hendrix, Eric Clapton, and Jack Bruce had been invited to give their vocal cords the night off.)
Some other classic band names: Talking Heads, Mott the Hoople, Blodwyn Pig (if you don't remember much about them, folks, try to imagine the original Jethro Tull on laughing gas---the band was the brainchild of original Tull guitarist Mick Abrahams, as it was---which is one reason I enjoyed Blodwyn Pig far more than Jethro Tull, and still think that way of Ahead Rings Out), Hawkwind, the Yardbirds, the Mothers of Invention (maybe the best name a record company forced on a band: they called themselves, originally, just the Mothers, but Verve insisted on "of Invention" out of fear that people would think the band was into some sort of sexual deviancy or some such rot, even though "mothers" as they meant it referred to a sort-of jazz musicians' slang referring to particularly vibrant playing), Ten Years After, Soundgarden, Pearl Jam, Southside Johnny and the Asbury Jukes (love the name, love the music), Vanilla Fudge (the name was way better than most of the music, though they had their moments), Foghat (RIP Lonesome Dave Peverett and Rod Price), Roxy Music . . .
But then we're The New Originals...Funny you should say that---I rather liked the old Originals; at least, the Originals who cut one of Marvin Gaye's best compositions (the doo-wop referencing "Baby, I'm for Real") and took it top twenty in 1969-70 . . .
I think The New Originals was an early name for Spinal Tap...
And I saw Blue Cheer once (a few years ago). They put on a good show with a contemporary psych band (The Black Angels). Some of the excesses of the debut album were true of all acid rock albums of the late 1960s.
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