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Album #1

The Smoker You Drink, The Player you Get

Bonus Question: This artist was a frequent member of what popular 70's/80's group.

Album #2

You can Tune a Piano... but you can't Tuna Fish

Bonus Question: Where did this bands name come from?

Green stuff for correct answers till its gone!
 
jlabsher

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Sorry about that chief.
Walsh was also in James Gang which came from Ohio, Cincy I believe. Funk 49 was their big hit. Walsh was boffing Stevie Nicks for awhile too, after the Rocky Mtn Way days. REO was formed in Champaign/Urbana IL at the U of I. They played at my high school prom a few years before I was there, and still sell out concerts in STL.

Bonus answer, after Joe Walsh left the James Gang, Tommy Bolin joined them. Tommy Bolin subsequently died of drug related causes (after leaving James Gang) in an airplane while sitting in the seat next to Ozzy.
 
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Tonio

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jlabsher said:
Bonus answer, after Joe Walsh left the James Gang, Tommy Bolin joined them. Tommy Bolin subsequently died of drug related causes (after leaving James Gang) in an airplane while sitting in the seat next to Ozzy.
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Hadn't heard that about Bolin and Ozzy. I know he joined Deep Purple some time after leaving the James Gang. During the band's last tour, a bad drug fix in his arm left him virtually unable to play. I don't know what demons haunted Bolin, but it didn't help to try to follow Joe Walsh and Richie Blackmore.
 
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Danzig said:
REO Speedwagon named their band after a flat bed truck, Ransom Eli Olds
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My understanding was they got the name from the Fire trucks built by Diamond REO, Hence "REO Speedwagon"
 
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kwillia said:
My turn, my turn!

"Excuse me, while I kiss this guy"

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Did you mean: "Excuse me, while I kiss the sky". Jimmy Hendrix?
 
Danzig

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just did a search http://www.speedwagon.com/questions.html

Where did the band get its name? From a flatbed truck, first built in the early 1900's. It was very high-speed and heavy-duty for its day, and was considered a milestone in the history of transportation. It was sometimes outfitted as a fire engine. The letters REO are the initials of Ransom Eli Olds, who went on to create the Oldsmobile. Click here for some photos------> http://www.speedwagon.com/carpix.html
 
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Danzig said:
just did a search http://www.speedwagon.com/questions.html

Where did the band get its name? From a flatbed truck, first built in the early 1900's. It was very high-speed and heavy-duty for its day, and was considered a milestone in the history of transportation. It was sometimes outfitted as a fire engine. The letters REO are the initials of Ransom Eli Olds, who went on to create the Oldsmobile. Click here for some photos------> http://www.speedwagon.com/carpix.html
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:dork: Thanks, Damn, didn't even have the correct answer for my own question :lmao:
 
Tonio

Tonio

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Danzig said:
just did a search http://www.speedwagon.com/questions.html

Where did the band get its name? From a flatbed truck, first built in the early 1900's. It was very high-speed and heavy-duty for its day, and was considered a milestone in the history of transportation. It was sometimes outfitted as a fire engine. The letters REO are the initials of Ransom Eli Olds, who went on to create the Oldsmobile. Click here for some photos------> http://www.speedwagon.com/carpix.html
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When I was 14 we moved into a rental house. One of the bedrooms used to be a little boys' room and the wallpaper had antique cars on it. One of the cars was indeed the REO Speedwagon. This was right when Hi Infidelity came out, too.
 
kwillia

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rhumbpunch said:
Did you mean: "Excuse me, while I kiss the sky". Jimmy Hendrix?
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Yep. :biggrin: I looooved listening to Hendrix around about my jr/sr years in high school and my brother totally ruined that song for me once he sang it the wrong way... :tantrum
 
Danzig

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What Metal band STOLE their name from what was going to be a title of a monthly magazine about metal music?

And who? (more than one person) played secretly on some of the KISS albums cause Ace was to wasted?
 
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kwillia said:
Yep. :biggrin: I looooved listening to Hendrix around about my jr/sr years in high school and my brother totally ruined that song for me once he sang it the wrong way... :tantrum
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Like Danzig pointed out, many a song lyric has been mis-sung/quoted.

Do you remember a 70's bubble gum song, with the lyrics:

"Whoa, Whoa, Whoa its magic..."

A friend always thought it went like this:

"Whoa, Whoa, Whoa its My D*ck..."
 
Danzig

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easy one

What band was Randy Rhodes in before joining OzzY

OzzY later stole this same bands bass player
 
jlabsher

jlabsher

Sorry about that chief.
Danzig said:
easy one

What band was Randy Rhodes in before joining OzzY

OzzY later stole this same bands bass player
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Would it be Quiet Riot?

Actually, I googled Tommy Bolin and found that the story about him & Ozzy may not be true, even though I heard it from somebody in the business around 1983, the Des Moines paper has a pic of the funeral. http://desmoinesregister.com/extras/iowans/bolin.html

Amazingly I saw the Ozzy show the night before the bird/bat incident (which happened in Iowa), and met Ozzy & the band @ the time. He had to be dressed by Sharon even then.
 
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