OT: Dead hard rockers week

[tom of poland]

66 different members!!
Geeze he must have been a pleasure to work with.

Not. Friends of mine who played in Tactics in 1990 supporting the Fall told me he was a pretty alienating character, and he built a reputation around it. He made some pretty interesting music though.

 

[tom of poland]

Just found out that Grant Fell, bassist and keyboardist for 80s-90s New Zealand band the Headless Chickens died of a heart attack, aged 56.

 

[SadShark]

Pat Torpey 64 - Mr Big.

 

[coolumsharkie]

Life is short. Bugger me.

 

[Card Shark]

Pat Torpey 64 - Mr Big.

Sex in the city??

 

[SadShark]

Hah, nice one Cardy.

Nah, Mr Big “To Be With You” 1992 was one of their hits (they only had one or two others “Just Take My Heart” was another one from memory).

Seriously good drummer. Should start an OT Dead Drummer post. We’ve lost some greats before their time. Jeff Porcaro, Tony Thompson, John Bonham, Keith Moon etc......

 

[carcharias]

Well who was extreme?

I think I’ve thought mr big and extreme were the same band for 25 years now.

 

[coolumsharkie]

Nah same sort of glam rock who got famous with balad style acoustic songs rather than probably their intended pursuit of commercial rock songds that were fairly average.

 

[bad boy bubby]

Didnt the main guy feom Extreme get hitched with Suzi Demarchi of Baby Animals?

 

[carcharias]

Didnt the main guy feom Extreme get hitched with Suzi Demarchi of Baby Animals?

Yes

 

[SadShark]

Extreme lead singer Gary Cherone was lead singer of Van Halen for one album in the late 90’s.

 

[carcharias]

Extreme lead singer Gary Cherone was lead singer of Van Halen for one album in the late 90’s.

Well
That makes sense

I bet that’s a corker!

 

[Quigs]

RIP David Ogden Stiers: Major Winchester on ‘MASH’ Was 75

 

[tom of poland]

Major Winchester was a rock star in that other type of music, I learned today from Wikipedia.

Stiers was the associate conductor for the Newport (Oregon) Symphony Orchestra and the Ernest Bloch Music Festival.[8] He also guest-conducted over 70 orchestras around the world, including the Oregon Mozart Players, the Vancouver Symphony, the Virginia Symphony, the Oregon Chamber Players, the Yaquina (Oregon) Chamber Orchestra, as well as orchestras in San Francisco, San Diego, Los Angeles, Chicago and Toronto.[9][10][11]

 

[taipan]

Sex in the city??

Not lately mate.

 

[Quigs]

What's sex?

 

[Frenzy.]

What's sex?

Kiwi talk

One, two, three, four, five, sex, seven etc

 

[tom of poland]

Jeff St John, who I first saw with Copperwine at a school lunchtime concert in 1971 has died.

For you younger punters, Jeff St John, also known as Jeffrey St. John (born Jeffrey Leo Newton[1] 22 April 1946, in Newtown, Sydney), is an Australian singer who gained fame for top ten hits with Teach Me How to Fly, Big Time Operator[2] and Fool in Love.[3] St John was born with spina bifida.

He appeared with a number of bands during the late 1960s and early 1970s including; John The Syndicate aka The Wild Oats (1965), The Id[4] (1966–67) with Bob Bertles (tenor sax '67), Jeff St John & Yama(1967–68), Jeff St John & Copperwine (1969-72), with Harry Brus (bass 70-72) and Wendy Saddington (co-lead vocals 70-71), Jeff St John Band (1972–73) and, Red Cloud (1975-76)[5]

 

[carcharias]

Jeff St John, who I first saw with Copperwine at a school lunchtime concert in 1971 has died.

For you younger punters, Jeff St John, also known as Jeffrey St. John (born Jeffrey Leo Newton[1] 22 April 1946, in Newtown, Sydney), is an Australian singer who gained fame for top ten hits with Teach Me How to Fly, Big Time Operator[2] and Fool in Love.[3] St John was born with spina bifida.

He appeared with a number of bands during the late 1960s and early 1970s including; John The Syndicate aka The Wild Oats (1965), The Id[4] (1966–67) with Bob Bertles (tenor sax '67), Jeff St John & Yama(1967–68), Jeff St John & Copperwine (1969-72), with Harry Brus (bass 70-72) and Wendy Saddington (co-lead vocals 70-71), Jeff St John Band (1972–73) and, Red Cloud (1975-76)[5]

Did he sing the theme to Simon Townsend’s wonder world?

 

[tom of poland]

I dunno mate, he was pretty active when Wonder World was on the air.