Bizarre Musical Facts That Almost Nobody Knows....

[Psalad]

Waylon Jennings played guitar in buddy holly's band.

[robj144]

The lead singer of the punk band Bad Religion, Greg Graffin, has a Ph. D. in zoology, I believe, from Cornell. He also has lectured at Cornell and the University of California.

[tbeltrans]

Originally Posted by hovishead

Bob Dylan was born a woman.

Is this really true?

From https://rockhall.com/inductees/bob-dylan/bio/:

Bob Dylan was born Robert Zimmerman on May 24, 1941, in Duluth, Minnesota, and grew up in the iron-mining town of Hibbing.

...which is the way I have always heard it. Stranger things have happened, I guess.

Tony

[Fatstrat]

I was truck driving in California when John Denver died. And heard a report on the radio once and only once that he was decapitated in the crash and his head was not recovered.

[hovishead]

Originally Posted by tbeltrans

Is this really true?

From https://rockhall.com/inductees/bob-dylan/bio/:

Bob Dylan was born Robert Zimmerman on May 24, 1941, in Duluth, Minnesota, and grew up in the iron-mining town of Hibbing.

...which is the way I have always heard it. Stranger things have happened, I guess.

Tony

Sorry, I was just kidding.

Barbra Streisand once opened for the Kingston Trio.

[tbeltrans]

Originally Posted by hovishead

Sorry, I was just kidding.

Whew!! These days, as a "politically correct" friend of mine said when I asked her why people refer to a single person nowadays as "they", said that "gender is very fluid, so we try to avoid referring to it so nobody is offended". So I tend to question, rather that refute a claim as you jokingly made because I am essentially being told that "anything goes...". In any case, I suppose I am too old and set in my ways to be "politically correct".

Tony

[Chicago Sandy]

Originally Posted by Dru Edwards

Good point. I think it comes down to in 1989 was Jethro Tull a better hard rock band then Metallica was a metal band? Actually, was Jethro Tull even considered a hard rock band in '89 (outside of the Grammy's)?

The Grammy submission and subsequent nominating process almost ensures at least a one-year delay between a nominee’s most recent hit and the actual award. (The Oscars, Emmys and Tonys take place in closer-to-real time). So maybe that ’89 Grammy for Jethro Tull reflects a prior period when it WAS still more of a rock band (or the Academy voters’ inability until then to award in that specific genre, thus making up for lost time).

[YamaYairi]

Steven Wilson started the progressive rock band, Porcupine Tree as a joke. He wrote all the songs, played all the instruments and fabricated a back story of the band, including fake band member's names. When the band started getting attention and gig offers, Wilson had to put together a real band.

[MikeBmusic]

Originally Posted by BlackmoresNight

Ian Gillian of Deep Purple fame played Jesus in the first production of Jesus Christ Superstar.

Actually, he sang the part on the studio album release, but I don't think he ever did any live productions of it. I saw a version in 71 (I think, maybe 72) that Yvonne Elliman as Mary M (she was also on the original album).

[MikeBmusic]

The first version of Alice Cooper's 1972 hit song 'Elected' was recorded in 1968, but when the production couldn't be completed in time to release it before the 1968 elections, the band re-recorded it as 'Reflected' and it is on thier first ablum, 'Pretties For You'.

[Bluepoet]

Donovan did the falsetto voice on Alice Cooper's, "Billion Dollar Babies" hit...

http://ultimateclassicrock.com/donovan-alice-cooper/

Timothy B. Schmidt sang back-up on "Rikki Don't Lose That Number," among other hits.

[PorkPieGuy]

Anton Fig (think the drummer for Paul Schaffer and the CBS Orchestra a la David Letterman) played drums on all but one song on Kiss's 1979 album Dynasty and every song on their 1980 album Unmasked.

[slaski]

Canadian band Klaatu, who I assume took that name from 1950s Sci fi movie "The Day the Earth stood still", were at one time rumoured to be the (secretly reformed) Beatles!