O/T Music Quiz PART 1

No.9 - just to do my quota. The Pixies did a track "Stormy Weather". Is it them? Pure fluke that I had heard this one because they're not on my radar screen normally.

Is Geetarman's answer (Reply 13) on the Zeppelin question correct, Zil?

In case you're unable to sort out his links, he's saying Muddy Waters "You Need Love" and Zeppelin's "Whole Lotta Love"

For the third part of the Beatles question, I'll go with Billy Preston who I think got a credit on "Get Back"

CT, No.9 isn't The Pixies but you're right with "Get Back" and Billy Preston.

To tidy up the question, the Beatles' tally was a remarkable 251 songs.

Geetar is incorrect with his bluesman/Led Zep answer but I'll be back soon with the correct answer and several more clues.

No. 2 For the double album the first side was an affectionate parody of the do wop songs he'd been brought up on, except for "Who Are The Brain Police?"

This presaged Side 2 which was altogether different. Avant garde, political, discordant, way ahead of its time. The band and the master musician who led them before his tragically premature death?

No. 6. Clanton had the American hit, our **** idol covered it. Vincent Eugene Craddock was this man's given birth. He always carried a knife and naturally had one with him in the cramped car heading for Heathrow when it crashed killing a fledgling Eddie Cochran.

Ironically Gene Vincent survived the crash. Ian Dury's hero had spent most of his life wanting to die and finally got his wish at the age of 36.

You can also throw into the mix, Lana del Rey and Neil Diamond.

Here we go then with the answer to Q.5.

I'm a big fan of led Zeppelin. I saw them in England, the Robert Plant Band in Budapest and Plant and Page in Germany. I have all their studio albums but what I don't like about them was the way they would take an old blues song, add a bit of layering and then pass the whole thing off as their own work.

This meant, or means, the original songwriters received no song credits or royalties whilst Led Zep themselves made multi millions.

The man whose song was chosen by Carl Sagan for inclusion on the album to be placed aboard Voyager 1 was written by Blind Willie Johnson and was called "Dark was the night, cold was the ground." Many years after it was written, Led Zep took this song, built on it, and called it "In My Time Of Dying."

No credit was ever given to Johnson but sadly that was often their modus operandi. Johnson also wrote "Nobody's Fault But Mine." Does his appear on the album credits? No, it doesn't.

Other Zeppelin songs that

Thanks for that, Zilzal.

The story about Johnson was awful but worth telling. I think a few of the old blues players fared a bit better as a result of the revival of interest in their music in the fifties and sixties (Mississippi John Hurt being a fair example) but a lot were neglected badly. The US does not have a good record with its black musicians and LZ's complete disregard for those they copied is disheartening and shameful.

While Bert Jansch didn't suffer financially, their stealing of his version of "Blackwater Slide" is another example of the cynicism with which they approached other peoples' output.

This has been an excellent quiz. Thank you!

Boys and girls, many thanks for taking part in my music quiz.

The time has now come to reveal some answers if only in the interests of tidying up the MM house.

Q2. The first band ever to make their first album a double album was:

The Mothers Of Invention, led from the front by Frank Zappa. The LP was called "Freak Out".

Q.6 . The two words sought were "Blue Jeans" as in...

Venus In Blue Jeans - Jimmy Clanton

Bluejeans and Moonbeams - Captain Beefhear

Blue Jean Bop - Gene Vincent

Blue Jeans - Lana del Rey

Forever in Blue Jeans - Neil Diamond

and all the way from New Jersey in 2009 those aggressive rockers

The Gaslight Anthem - Blue Jeans and Torn White T-shirt

7. Murray Street - SONIC YOUTH
Shakin Street - MC5

9. They're playing the Barbican in London in November and they are...Pere Ubu

pere is french for father. The artiness is taken from thyeir major influence...French Avant Garde theatre, hence the play "Ubu Roi" by Alfred Jarry.
Roi is French for king.

Success was never on their mind but they are always pushing back boundaries and experimenting with discordant sounds.

1. Guitar World said this man's early solos influenced every major rock guitarist from Clapton to Duane Allman, Ted Nugent to Mike Bloomfield. He was also the guitar mentor of Stevie Ray Vaughan,

In 1980 Guitar World ranked "Memphis" as the first among rock's Top 5 landmark guitar recordings.

The pitch bending tremolo arm found on many electric guitars became known as the whammy bar in recognition of his aggressive and rapid manipulation of the device on his 1963 song "Wham".

He has also been rated by many as a better gospel singer than Elvis, and all Elvis'

Thanks, Zilzal. I can console myself by knowing that I was nowhere close to the answer on any of these.

You never commented on whether I had the right answer to the question in Part Two about fish and the Chelsea Hotel. I took a stab at Paul Kantner and Hot Tuna after your subsequent clue. Anywhere close?