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.Send us anything FUNNY!!. JANUARY 2012
.... .MUSIC QUIZ

1. Blues legend McKinley Morganfield is better known as who ?

2. Three of the world's top guitarists Eric Clapton, Jeff Beck and Jimmy Page all gained an international reputation from playing in which band back in the 60s ?

3. Dropout Bear is the mascot for which multi Grammy award winning artist ?

4. Brothers Nathan, Caleb, Matthew and Jared make up which US band ?

5. In the summer of 1967 promoter Chet Helms told >> "who" << that his band would never make it in the San Francisco Music Scene playing Latin fusion and suggested that he should keep his day job washing dishes ?

6. In 2010 AC/DC won the 'Best Hard Rock Performance' Grammy for which track?

7. In which decade was Lynyrd Skynyrd's song Free Bird's solo named the 3rd greatest guitar solo by Guitar World ?

8. Which UK group had the world's first platinum-selling double album in 1967 ?

9. The album "For A Few Guitars More" is a tribute album to which award winning composer and what music?

10. Which UK / Canadian singer was the voice of Doctor Ivo Robotnik in The Adventures of Sonic the Hedgehog ?


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1. Muddy Waters

2. The Yardbirds

3. Kanye West

4. Kings of Leon

5. Carlos Santana

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6. "War Machine" from their Black Ice album

7. In October 2008,

8. Cream with "Wheels of Fire" - peaked at No.3 in the UK and a No.1 in the US

9. A tribute to Ennio Morricone's Spaghetti Western Themes

10. Long John Baldry - "I hate that Hedgehog!"

AC/DCLynyrd SkynyrdCream Ennio MorriconeLong John Baldry

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JANUARY 2011
MUSIC QUIZ

1. The 1988 American biographical film "Bird", produced and directed by Clint Eastwood of a screenplay written by Joel Oliansky, is a tribute to the life and music of which jazz musician ?

2. Who was the first musician or artist to receive a gold record for Sun Records back in the 50's ?

3. Which to date, is the best selling of all Led Zeppelin's albums ?

4. Which three-time Grammy winner was Motown's first Funk Brother, first pianist and first house bandleader?

5. Who was the pioneer of electric guitar design and production, who designed in collaboration with guitarist Les Paul, the solid body electric guitar the legendary "Gibson Les Paul" originally developed in the early 1950s ?

6. Who sang in the bands The Colonials, The Halifax Three, and The Big Three, prior to the Mamas and the Papas ?

7. Multi-award winning Michael Brecker was influential and versatile on which instrument?

8. The Rolling Stone magazine was named after whose 1948 song / 1950 hit of the same name ?

9. Which was the last live album released by Fleetwood Mac ?

10. In 1985 what related these 15 acts ~ Prince, Black Sabbath, Sheena Easton, Judas Priest, AC/DC, Cyndi Lauper, Def Leppard, Madonna, Mary Jane Girls, Mercyful Fate, Motley Crüe, Twisted Sister, Vanity, Venom, and W.A.S.P. ?


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1. Jazz saxophonist Charlie Parker.

2. Carl Perkins with Blue Suede Shoes ~ released on January 1st 1956

3. Led Zeppelin IV ~ the album is one of the best-selling albums in history at 32 million units

4. Joe Hunter

5. Ted McCarty

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6. Denny Doherty

7. The saxophone

8. Muddy Waters' blues 1948 song, 1950 hit "Rollin' Stone" ~ it was inducted in the Grammy Hall of Fame in 2000.

9. Fleetwood Mac: Live in Boston ~ released June 15, 2004. The concert was filmed Sept 23 and 24, 2003 at the Fleet Center (now known as the TD Banknorth Garden) in Boston, Massachusetts during the group's Say You Will Tour.

10. They were the PMRC/The Parents Music Resource Centre's "Filthy Fifteen" ... In 1985 the PMRC wrote to music industry presidents and CEOs and requested a rating system for music lyrics and imagery. The letter contained a list of the "filthy fifteen", the artists initially targeted by the PMRC.
01.. Prince - "Darling Nikki" - Sex
02.. Sheena Easton - "Sugar Walls" - Sex
03.. Judas Priest - "Eat Me Alive" - Sex
04.. Vanity - "Strap on Robbie Baby" - Sex
05.. Mötley Crüe - "Bastard" - Violence
06.. AC/DC - "Let Me Put My Love into You" - Sex
07.. Twisted Sister - "We're Not Gonna Take It" - Violence
08.. Madonna - "Dress You Up" - Sex
09.. W.A.S.P. - "Animal (Fuck Like a Beast)" - Sex/Language
10.. Def Leppard - "High 'n' Dry (Saturday Night)" - Drug and alcohol use
11.. Mercyful Fate - "Into the Coven" - Occult
12.. Black Sabbath - "Trashed" - Drug and alcohol use
13.. Mary Jane Girls - "In My House" - Sex
14.. Venom - "Possessed" - Occult
15.. Cyndi Lauper - "She Bop" - Sex
The PMRC also advocated against supposed subliminal backmasking in records, and occasionally (incorrectly) accused bands including
Queen, Iron Maiden, Styx, Rush, Pink Floyd, Van Halen, and Kiss of backmasking to promote Satanism and/or drug use. (backmasking is a recording technique in which a sound or message is recorded backward on to a track that is meant to be played forward).

Denny DohertyMichael BreckerMuddy WatersFleetwood MacTipper Gore, co-founder of the PMRC

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