Rock and R&B Trivia, Part Trois

[BFrank]

What '60s rock group, with jazz influences, featured a father/son team?

Spirit.

Ed Cassidy was Randy California's stepfather.

[Jazzooo]

Correct--I'm actually having a hard time coming up with more difficult trivia.

Without checking, I'm assuming most can tell us the brands of instruments most commonly associated with each of the Beatles, right? Bonus points if you remember when Paul changed basses.

And what brand of drums did Dave Clark play?

Brand of guitar made popular by The Ventures? (Guitarists will all know this one)

[David Gitin]

Isn't that Smoke on the Water?

also

Sky Pilot - Eric Burdon & the Animals.

Yes, I wonder if I morphed Grateful Dead's "Fire on the Mountain" with
"Smoke on the Water?"

[Jazzooo]

Maybe my instrument trivia questions are tougher than I thought!

The two most essential string emulating keyboards of prog rock which used tape loops to produce their sound? One starts with an M and one with a C...

[BFrank]

Maybe my instrument trivia questions are tougher than I thought!

The two most essential string emulating keyboards of prog rock which used tape loops to produce their sound? One starts with an M and one with a C...

Mellotron is one! (a fav of the Moody Blues, among others)

[Jazzooo]

yes, and the other?

[stereojack]

What '60s rock group, with jazz influences, featured a father/son team?

That would be Spirit, although I believe it was father and stepson.

[Cem]

Maybe my instrument trivia questions are tougher than I thought!

The two most essential string emulating keyboards of prog rock which used tape loops to produce their sound? One starts with an M and one with a C...

Moog is one, I think.

[Squaredancecalling Steve]

Clavinet?

Still no takers on the punk rock anthem featuring bagpipes?

[stereojack]

Moog is one, I think.

Melotron for the "M"

[Squaredancecalling Steve]

Still no takers on the punk rock anthem featuring bagpipes?

[Jazzooo]

Melotron for the "M"

Right, and the C is for "Chamberlin."

Anybody for the ventures' guitars or Dave Clark's drums?

[stereojack]

Anybody for the ventures' guitars or Dave Clark's drums?

Ventures played Mosrite.

[Jazzooo]

There you go! Mosrite is indeed correct.

http://www.mosriteguitars.com/

How about the Beatles most commonly-identified brands of individual instruments?

[Squaredancecalling Steve]

The 11-year-old boy who played piano on Jesse Belvin's "Goodnight My Love" went on to become a major disco/ soul star -- who is he?

[stereojack]

Just a guess - Billy Preston?

[Squaredancecalling Steve]

Not Billy Preston

A bigger star with over a dozen R&B top ten hits

[Robert de St. Loup]

Little Stevie?

[Squaredancecalling Steve]

No, you gotta get the disco in there, too

I would guess this is one of our Daryll's favorite singers

[Squaredancecalling Steve]

Barry White!

[Squaredancecalling Steve]

Which R&B great died under circumstances that suggest he may have been killed in a race-related murder?
The artist had just performed in the first integrated concert in a key southern city, all performers had received death threats, and there were suspicions his car's tires had been tampered with

[Blue Train]

and it was Little Rock & his wife died as well.....and it's the 11-year-old Barry White on piano for this song.

[Blue Train]

What current Professor of Linguistics on which a character of Bones is based on....was a founding member of a group that once opened for Jimi Hendrix, the Mothers of Invention, and the Grateful Dead?

[Squaredancecalling Steve]

Other headliners on the bill with Jesse Belvin were Sam Cooke, Jackie Wilson, and Little Willie John -- all four of them died young!

Jesse was 27

[stereojack]

What current Professor of Linguistics on which a character of Bones is based on....was a founding member of a group that once opened for Jimi Hendrix, the Mothers of Invention, and the Grateful Dead?

Ken Weaver of the Fugs?

[bluenoter]

What current Professor of Linguistics on which a character of Bones is based on....was a founding member of a group that once opened for Jimi Hendrix, the Mothers of Invention, and the Grateful Dead?

I Googled it. Great hints are available for the group, but the person? Come on.

[steve(thelil)]

Which member of the Monkees was NOT actually a primate?

[Bourne]

None.

[Squaredancecalling Steve]

Which member of the Monkees was NOT actually a primate?

Cheetah (Rivera)

[Bourne]

There you go! Mosrite is indeed correct.

http://www.mosriteguitars.com/

How about the Beatles most commonly-identified brands of individual instruments?

Hofner bass is the only one that springs immediately to mind.