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Originally posted by ExittheLemming ExittheLemming wrote:

If you play Jon Anderson's vocals backwards you won't hear any subliminal Satanic messages (they just make a lot more sense that way) Confused

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I'm not positive if this qualifies as obscure enough, but Phil Collins plays drums on Howard Jones' 80's hit "No One Is To Blame."
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Originally posted by ExittheLemming ExittheLemming wrote:

If you play Jon Anderson's vocals backwards you won't hear any subliminal Satanic messages (they just make a lot more sense that way) Confused

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Originally posted by thwok thwok wrote:

I'm not positive if this qualifies as obscure enough, but Phil Collins plays drums on Howard Jones' 80's hit "No One Is To Blame."

That was the second version of the song, and PC drummed and sang harmonies on it.
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Post Options Post Options   Thanks (0) Thanks(0)   Quote Tom Ozric Quote  Post ReplyReply Direct Link To This Post Posted: June 07 2014 at 20:35
Don't know if anyone came across this tidbit of info yet - upon reading an interview with session-ace Mo Foster, bassist with Affinity (and many others....), he revealed that the flute featured early on in the track Cocoanut Grove, track 2, side 2 of the wonderful Affinty s/t album, was performed by VDGG's David Jackson !!
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Originally posted by AreYouHuman AreYouHuman wrote:

Originally posted by thwok thwok wrote:

I'm not positive if this qualifies as obscure enough, but Phil Collins plays drums on Howard Jones' 80's hit "No One Is To Blame."

That was the second version of the song, and PC drummed and sang harmonies on it.

All less obscure than the fact that Phil Collins (not PC, thank you) once produced Adam Ant, whatever the song was.
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Originally posted by claugroi claugroi wrote:


Originally posted by ExittheLemming ExittheLemming wrote:

If you play Jon Anderson's vocals backwards you won't hear any subliminal Satanic messages (they just make a lot more sense that way)

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Bill Bruford's last known response to Jon Anderson before quitting Yes: "What?"
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Originally posted by secret84truths secret84truths wrote:

Obscure facts concerning italian band names: Le Orme's original name idea was "Le Ombre" to pay a tribute to The Shadows but in Venice "Le Ombre" means "wine glasses" and so they changed their mind and chose Le Orme version (it means footprints). Another important italian symphonic band (Premiata Forneria Marconi) chose this name because Mauro Pagani knew an actual baker's shop called like that: they liked the idea of a name that reminds something that you make (it could be bread or music) but they also wanted to add something prestigius, so they added Premiata (=prize winning). 

There was an American compilation album of PFM in the 70s, on the poorly-distributed label Peters International, the title of which was a translation of the band’s name: The Award-Winning Marconi Bakery.
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And while we're on the subject of PFM, there was a late '70s ad in a musician's magazine (can't remember the mag's name or what product was being advertised) where one of PFM's members was misidentified as belonging to "BFM". The lads and I had a good chuckle coming up with what that abbreviation stood for.
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In the seventies, a high school in Ottawa, Canada invited PFM to come over and play a concert and the band did so, flying all the way from Italy over on about a moment's notice.
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Scroll to about 0:16 in this Cheap Trick video, and Rick Wakeman's name appears. Looks like he played on the German show, Rockpop.




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Originally posted by Rednight Rednight wrote:

Originally posted by claugroi claugroi wrote:


Originally posted by ExittheLemming ExittheLemming wrote:

If you play Jon Anderson's vocals backwards you won't hear any subliminal Satanic messages (they just make a lot more sense that way)

Confused

True !

Bill Bruford's last known response to Jon Anderson before quitting Yes: "What?"

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I didn't know that Renaissance opened for Steely Dan several times.

Originally posted by Renaissance on Facebook Renaissance on Facebook wrote:

Something different for Saturday and some trivia you may not know. In the 70's Renaissance opened up for several Steely Dan shows, brilliant experience for all. Annie and John Tout did a press conference along with Donald Fagen to promote the shows, lots of press and camera's, exciting times. Then later in the 90's Annie Haslam saw this show in Philadelphia with The NY Rock and Soul review featuringDonald Fagen, Michael McDonald, Drew Zingg and Phoebe Snow who would later become a close friend. The guitarist in the revue was the amazing Drew Zingg who played in Annie's solo band for a time and toured Japan with her in 1991. This is great music with powerful voices and harmonies, please share  and did anyone out there see Annie's band with Drew in it ?


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This has probably already posted but Flea of the Red Hot Chili Peppers featured as the bassist for 9 out of the 10 songs on De-loused In The Comatorium by The Mars Volta
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Originally posted by Metalmarsh89 Metalmarsh89 wrote:

Scroll to about 0:16 in this Cheap Trick video, and Rick Wakeman's name appears. Looks like he played on the German show, Rockpop.

Yes he did, performing Animal Showdown, where incidentally he played The Keytar, one of the very first keytars which was a prototype and never reached commercial production.




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Oh dear. Keytars. I'm sure there's some kind of point to them, but every time someone drags one of the sad things out from behind a cabinet, I just think "Ohhhhh dear, how embarassing". ;-)
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Well, at least the Drumitar never caught on so we can be thankful for small mercies.
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I mentioned this in the video game/PC thread:

The development team of the original Mortal Kombat created the Sega Genesis home version to include the "Blood Code" of "ABACABB" as a tip of the hat to the Genesis album of the same name.
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The beautiful piano intro to Genesis' Firth Of Fifth was normally omitted when they played the song live, and this may have led some people to speculate whether perhaps Tony Banks had any difficulty playing it live. Not at all, the reason was related to the limitations of the equipment of the time. They could not afford taking a real grand piano on tour, so Tony used the RMI Electra-Piano 368 electric piano, but this instrument had 2 important limitations, first of all it did not have a touch-sensitive keyboard, meaning that regardless of how soft or hard you hit the keys, the notes always sounded at a fixed volume. Using a volume pedal could mitigate a bit this problem but for such a dynamic section as that intro this was insufficient. The other problem was that it had a 68 notes keyboard instead of the 88 notes of a real piano, so the highest notes could not be played as they are in the studio recording. Tony had to transpose some sections to a lower octave, something he did not really like, and once while playing it at a gig he got carried away and forgot that he wasn't sitting at a real piano and suddenly ran out of notes and had to stop playing, to the amazement of the other band members. 

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