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Certainly inspiring stuff.

Got 2 minutes to fill?, What was No.1 on the day you were born?.

Mine, you ask… “Don’t Give Up On Us” - David Soul

Nevermind, we can’t all get lucky!

It seems it is possible to make a relatively naff song into a great song.

Dave Werner plays Paula Abdul’s song ‘Straight Up’

Have to say, it kinda rocks.

Cover Songs

A fun little list of Rock Band Name Origins, how accurate they are, who can say, most of these things are generally hearsay. I suppose only the band members will ever really know the truth.

Here’s a few of my faves

THE BEATLES - 1) original member Stuart Sutcliffe came up with THE BEETLES , as a play on Buddy Holly’s group THE CRICKETS who they loved. They were using the name THE QUARRYMEN and sometimes THE SILVER BEETLES - later it became THE BEATLES emphasizing the BEAT aspect of music (and poetry?). 2) Lennon lists the influence of the film “The Wild One”, which featured a motorcycle gang called the Beetles (unconfirmed). John Lennon is generally credited with combining Beetles and Beat to come up with THE BEATLES spelling. Lennon was also fond of saying he had a vision as a child of a flaming pie in the sky that said “You are Beatles with an “A”

COUNTING CROWS - Comes from old English nursery rhyme which had to do with predicting the future from the numbers of birds seen. Originally the rhyme was about magpies, but as people came over to America, crows were used instead. From the song “A Murder of One” one of the versions of the rhyme goes “one for sorrow, two for joy, three for girls, four for boys, five for
silver, six for gold, seven for a secret never to be told…” Adam Duritz liked the rhyme…

LED ZEPPELIN - Jimmy Page was drinking with Moon and Entwhistle, who were bitching about their band mates Daltrey and Townshend. They joked about the two of them starting a band with Jimmy, and one of them said “Yeah, that will go over like a lead balloon”. When Jimmy formed his own band, he remembered this and thought “Lead Zeppelin” would be good, both from that conversation and the heavy/light contradiction similar to the band named IRON BUTTERFLY. They decided to drop the “a” so Americans wouldn’t mispronounce it.

Just over looking at the Wikimedia Top 100 for August and was pleasantly surprised to see my fave band Live in there.

Pretty cool!

Everybody, sing-along, you know the words !