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Delvin
Will the real _____ please stand up
February 24, 2021 01:42AM
Two musicians in two different bands with the same name?

I can think of two examples off the top of my head: Brett Anderson (the singers in The Donnas and Suede) and Chris Martin (the singer in Coldplay, and DJ Guru in Gang Starr).

And yeah, I'm trying to tie this to a radio show. Thanks.
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breno
Re: Will the real _____ please stand up
February 24, 2021 02:56AM
Roger Taylor springs to mind. One is the drummer for Queen and the other is the drummer for Duran Duran. Unless it's the other way around.

Mick Jones
David Robinson (Cars and Modern Lovers/15-60-75 aka The Numbers Band)



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MrFab
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February 24, 2021 03:22AM
I am not the Oakland rapper Mistah F.A.B.

In case you were wondering.
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Delvin
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February 24, 2021 12:48PM
> I am not the Oakland rapper Mistah F.A.B.
>
> In case you were wondering.

Actually, I've always assumed the rapper gets mistaken for you.
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Bip
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February 24, 2021 05:46AM
Davey Jones — monkees and Bowie
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DuckRabbit
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February 24, 2021 08:49AM
This is stretching a little: Anthony Braxton (saxophone / composer); Toni Braxton (singer)
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Michael Toland
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February 24, 2021 09:06AM
Eric Johnson - virtuoso Texas guitarist (and if you decide to play him, I highly recommend you stick to his first two records Tones and Ah Via Musicom, or the two Live From Austin TX albums that cover shows around those albums, and ignore the rest of his career)
Eric Johnson - guitarist for Archers of Loaf
Eric Johnson - guitarist for the Fruit Bats and Nathaniel Rateliff & the Night Sweats

Bill Evans - innovative jazz piano player
Bill Evans - jazz saxophonist who played with Miles Davis in the 80s

Avishai Cohen - jazz bassist originally from Israel (who added his middle initial E. once the other Cohen signed to ECM and started getting more press)
Avishai Cohen - jazz trumpter originally from Israel
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Delvin
Re: Will the real _____ please stand up
February 24, 2021 12:56PM
> Eric Johnson - virtuoso Texas guitarist

My wife & I are big fans. We've seen him perform several times — and looking back, it feels like we haven't seen him enough. The first time she saw him play, she said, "His guitar sounds like honey tastes."

And we agree, Mr. Toland — Tones and Ah Via Musicom are his two essential studio albums. Especially Ah Via; that one's all killer, no filler. His subsequent studio work isn't bad, but doesn't scale the heights like those first two releases.



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Michael Toland
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February 24, 2021 02:28PM
He's fallen into a soft rock honeytrap of late - too many wide-eyed, sentimental, gooey, New Age philosophy ballads on his last few records. Plus a lame fusion record (something you'd think he'd be good at, given his work with the Electromagnets in the 70s) with guitarist Mike Stern.

I saw him a lot at Rockefellers in Houston in the years between Tones and Ah Via, when it wasn't clear when or even if the latter was ever coming out. Those were great shows - no commercial pressure, no mainstream accolades of guitar heroism (he was mainly known by subscribers to Guitar Player at that point), a willingness to take chances that would disappear once he started selling records. That all changed once he got on the radio, alas. Suddenly he started filling up every bit of empty space with some sort of fill in order to fulfill fans' expectations of guitar orgy, even on songs that had been tastefully arranged before. I quit following him after that.

Having said that, I saw him a couple of years ago doing Ah Via in its entirety, and he had the old fire and, most importantly, taste back. I was reviewing the show for the Austin Chronicle, but almost didn't get the chance. My reviews of his last few records had been pretty negative (you'd think at some point the editor would stop assigning his albums to me), and his management didn't want me to do the coverage. Somehow my editor talked them into it.
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ira
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February 24, 2021 10:15AM
there's a white memphis guitar player named Robert Johnson who put out an album
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zwirnm
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February 24, 2021 11:15AM
Mike Mills is a video producer who has made the music videos for Everything But the Girl, Air, the National, and many more, in addition to feature films and shorts. There is a different Mike Mills who played bass in R.E.M.
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breno
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February 24, 2021 11:30AM
Peter Wolf (J Geils & Solo/Zappa keyboardist & prolific producer)
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zoo
Re: Will the real _____ please stand up
February 24, 2021 11:54AM
Bruce Watson - Big Country and Foreigner....though the one in Foreigner joined in 2011 and the band hasn't recorded anew album since 2009 (I had to look that up, BTW...I don't know my Foreigner history that well).

Chris/Christopher Cross - Ultravox and the guy that sang "Sailing" and that dreadful theme song from the movie Arthur

Roger Miller - Mission of Burma and country singer
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Michael Toland
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February 25, 2021 11:45AM
"Bruce Watson - Big Country and Foreigner....though the one in Foreigner joined in 2011 and the band hasn't recorded anew album since 2009 (I had to look that up, BTW...I don't know my Foreigner history that well)."

I thought all this time that it was the same guy - I figured the Big Country Watson had bills to pay. Good to know it's not the same dude.
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zwirnm
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February 26, 2021 08:12PM
Thank you for the reminder about the two Roger Millers -- both of whom R.E.M. covered! ("King of the Road" and "Strange")

Also, not the same full name, but Mary Lou Lord covered both Freedy Johnston and Daniel Johnston....
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Delvin
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February 24, 2021 01:14PM
I suppose I could make some case for Johnny Cash, Johnny Paycheck, Johnny Green, Johnny Dollar ...
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breno
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February 24, 2021 01:15PM
Fred Smith!!!!!
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zoo
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February 24, 2021 03:01PM
William (Willie/Bill) Nelson

Dave Stewart - Eurythmics guy and National Health/Hatfield & the North keyboardist
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Michael Toland
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February 24, 2021 03:03PM
Ooh, good one with the Dave Stewarts. It's the reason the Eurythmics guitarist uses "David A. Stewart" for his production credit.

What about Dave Allen the Gang of Four/Shriekback guitarist and Dave Allen the British producer (for the Cure, among others)?
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zoo
Re: Will the real _____ please stand up
February 24, 2021 06:03PM
Michael Toland Wrote:
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> Ooh, good one with the Dave Stewarts. It's the
> reason the Eurythmics guitarist uses "David A.
> Stewart" for his production credit.
>
> What about Dave Allen the Gang of Four/Shriekback
> guitarist and Dave Allen the British producer (for
> the Cure, among others)?

There's also Daevid Allen of Gong and Soft Machine
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zoo
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February 24, 2021 06:26PM
More are coming to me:

Chris Wood - Traffic sax/flautist and Medeski, Martin, and Wood bassist

James Taylor - THE JT and the other JT of James Taylor Quartet

Brian Robertson - Thin Lizzy guitarist and Brian James (born Brian Robertson) guitarist of The Damned/Lords of the New Church
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Delvin
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February 25, 2021 01:02PM
> James Taylor - THE JT and the other JT of James Taylor Quartet

Plus a third James Taylor, the lead singer of Kool & the Gang.
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Five*Words
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February 24, 2021 10:56PM
...And surf guitarist Davie Allan, of Davie Allan & the Arrows.



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Post-Punk Monk
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March 05, 2021 12:18PM
Michael Toland Wrote:
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> Ooh, good one with the Dave Stewarts. It's the
> reason the Eurythmics guitarist uses "David A.
> Stewart" for his production credit.
>
> What about Dave Allen the Gang of Four/Shriekback
> guitarist and Dave Allen the British producer (for
> the Cure, among others)?

The two Dave Allens [Cure/GO4] vexed me until only recently! Had no idea they were two entities!
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Michael Toland
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February 24, 2021 10:30PM
There's also Billy "Bass" Nelson from Funkadelic and O.G. Funk.
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Michael Toland
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February 25, 2021 05:16PM
"Dave Stewart - Eurythmics guy and National Health/Hatfield & the North keyboardist"

There's also another British producer/songwriter named David Stewart, who co-wrote and produced the BTS single "Dynamite."
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MrFab
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February 24, 2021 06:51PM
Country pioneer Jimmy Rogers “The Singing Brakeman” and recently deceased pop crooner of the same name.

That’s so funny about Anthony/Toni Braxton. How did I not notice that before?
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ira
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February 24, 2021 07:46PM
i just stumbled on another - Arthur Alexander of the Sorrows and the great singer-songwriter of the same name
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Five*Words
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February 24, 2021 10:21PM
British producer Mike Hedges and late Windham Hill guitarist Michael Hedges.

Jumpin’ Gene Simmons and, well, jackass Gene Simmons.

Australian bassist Chris Bailey of the Angels and Australian Chris Bailey of the Saints. (Bonus for the religious theme?)

Paul Collins of the Nerves and the Beat, and Paul Collins, bassist of Beirut.

British producer Peter Walsh and Apartments and former Go-Between Peter Milton Walsh.



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breno
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February 28, 2021 07:27AM
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Jumpin' Gene Simmons and, well, jackass Gene Simmons

And let's not forget germaphobe-averse Jean Simmons, the beautiful and talented English singer/actress whose career never took off the way it should've because the proto-Weinstein Howard Hughes was pissed she wouldn't do him. I'm sure a selection from the Guys and Dolls soundtrack would fit in great right after "Strutter" or some such.



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That One Guy
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February 28, 2021 01:11PM
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Aitch
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February 25, 2021 12:40AM
Steve Miller - The Steve Miller Band and The Moodists.
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Michael Toland
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February 25, 2021 09:04AM
"Steve Miller - The Steve Miller Band and The Moodists."

And the singer for Electric Frankenstein.
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Delvin
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February 25, 2021 11:08AM
> He's fallen into a soft rock honeytrap of late -

And lo, another band name is born.
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Michael Toland
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March 08, 2021 03:54PM
Or album title:

"Let's listen to a cut from Soft Rock Honeytrap, the new album by Jackass Gene Simmons."



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Delvin
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February 25, 2021 03:21PM
Ricky Nelson, the pop singer and Father Knows Best star
Rick Nelson, the guitarist from Cheap Trick (if you believe the back cover of Standing on the Edge's first issue)
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Delvin
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February 25, 2021 03:54PM
Alan White, the drummer for Yes and the drummer for Oasis.
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breno
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February 25, 2021 05:08PM
Andy Bell - Ride & Oasis/Erasure
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breno
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February 25, 2021 07:42PM
There are two Laura Rogers, and both would also qualify for band of sisters - one is one of the reasonably well-known folkie act Secret Sisters and the other was one of the mostly forgotten (but pretty good) Brooklyn post-punk revivalists the Rogers Sisters.
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Delvin
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February 25, 2021 05:29PM
Peter Banks, the original guitarist for Yes / Peter Banks, keyboardist for After the Fire.
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breno
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February 25, 2021 07:56PM
Stew of the Negro Problem and star of the Broadway hit/ Spike Lee joint Passing Strange's actual name is Mark Stewart, same as the vocalist for the Pop Group.
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Neilantman
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February 26, 2021 02:27AM
Nancy Wilson : Heart and Jazz Singer.

Brian Wilson : Beach Boys and ex-pitcher SF Giants.



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Delvin
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February 26, 2021 12:20PM
Man, I thought I'd be doing well to fill an hour of the next 20FR installment with this theme. Thanks to you gents, I may just have a full program.
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breno
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February 27, 2021 10:01AM
JJ Cale's actual first name was John.

David Thomas - vocalist for Pere Ubu
David Thomas - vocalist for late 60s/early 70s band Blonde on Blonde
David Thomas - vocalist for Christian a capella soul group Take 6 (a natural fit for Delvin's format!!!)
David Clayton-Thomas - vocalist for Blood, Sweat & Tears

Terry Taylor- leader of Daniel Amos/Swirling Eddies/Lost Dogs
Terry Taylor - guitarist for Tucky Buzzard



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Delvin
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February 27, 2021 12:51PM
David Diamond - lead singer/bassist for The Kings
David Diamond - bassist for Berlin
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ira
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February 27, 2021 01:08PM
Mick Jones (mentioned above) is the pairing that caused me the most grief when I was in charge of the interview archive at Premiere Radio Networks.
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breno
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February 27, 2021 02:30PM
Tim Gane - Stereolab honcho
Tim Gane - drummer for Martha and the Muffins
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breno
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February 27, 2021 03:04PM
Patri(c)k Fitzgerald - punk folkie, "Safety Pin In My Heart"
Patrick Fitzgerald - vocalist/bassist for Kitchens of Distinction

Anne Clark - British post-punk singer-songwriter
Annie Clark - St. Vincent
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That One Guy
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February 28, 2021 12:53AM
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Michael Toland
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February 28, 2021 01:56AM
Yep, he was in the acoustic trio Uncle Walt’s Band with Walter Hyatt in the 70s before having some country hits in the 90s.
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Bip
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February 28, 2021 07:22AM
I just read that Bob James, singer for Montrose after Hagar left, died a few days ago (oddly enough I just mentioned ‘jump on it’,which he sang on, in the crummy album cover thread)

Bob James is the prolific smooth jazz keyboardist who’s song ‘Angela’ was the theme song for tv show Taxi. Love that song.
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Michael Toland
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March 01, 2021 11:01AM
I find most of James' music nauseating, but I do dig the track "Nautilus," from his first album. Supposedly one of the most sampled tracks in hip hop.

Let's get groovy.
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Bip
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March 01, 2021 09:12PM
I certainly shared your distaste for smooth jazz for many years. “NOT real music”, I’d say. Then my college aged son confessed his appreciation for it, in a kitschy way. Where it almost starts to take on an element of hipster coolness (?!?). Likes to study to it, finds it relaxing— where I’d find it vapid. It DOES recreate the aural atmosphere of retail shopping in a previous era.

In all honesty, shopping (or the airport) never really sounded like Eno. Unfortunately.

Then the kid turned me on to this. ‘Mall music of 1974’. Instantly I was trying on red ‘toughskins’ jeans at Sears with my mom.
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MrFab
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March 02, 2021 03:03AM
I think you mean “Come To The Mardi Gras.” The drums/cowbells intro groove got sampled a lot.
And now we have gone COMPLETELY off-topic.
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Bip
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March 02, 2021 06:02AM
Delvin loves music, he won’t mind the detour.... I think

You’re both right, of course. I recognize samples from ‘Nautilus’ in Erik B and Rakim’s ‘follow the leader’ and Slick Rick’s ‘children’s story ‘ among others. Kool DJ Red Alert used that opening pattern as well in his show.

That opening in ‘take me to the mardi gras’ was indeed sampled all over the place. Beasties on ‘hold it now hit it’ etc

I’m no Bob James aficionado, but in 1987-1988 I’d HAD IT with ‘college/alternative rock’ and dove headfirst into hip hop. What a year.



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Michael Toland
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March 02, 2021 10:34AM
Not to get this thread any further off track, but here's a video of Bob James talking about his work being sampled. It's partly a commercial for Tracklib, which I guess is a sample aggregator.

Sample Bob legally, please.

It includes a song that's basically "Angela" with rapping over it.
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Michael Toland
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March 02, 2021 10:26AM
Never heard "Mardi Gras" before, and listening to it now. Yep, that intro sounds tailor-made for hip hop.
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Bip
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March 02, 2021 06:40PM
The question is “how the heck did young inner-city youth come across a worthy snippet on a Bob James album?” Where would they have heard it? James Brown drumbeats and Chic basslines I understand....but where was Bob James being played back then?!?



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Michael Toland
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March 02, 2021 08:54PM
TV and film soundtracks?

I have a friend who’s a major hip hop fiend who came of age in the late 80s/early 90s. His parents listened to Motown, Stax and all kinds of jazz, from hard bop to CTI-style smooth jazz. He told me that the reasons hip hop resonated with him more than, say, the Beatles is because he recognized all the samples from the albums his parents played around the house. I suspect a lot of these rappers’ families listened to all this stuff when the rappers were growing up as well.



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Bip
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March 03, 2021 09:14AM
I suppose you’re right. I never heard smooth jazz at home or on the radio, but probably did in retail stores without realizing it was burrowing its way into my psyche.

I suppose this explains why early hip hop recycled the same beats so often (i.e. ‘funky drummer’)...so much harder to find good source material back then, pre-internet. You had to somehow find it on a record through trial and error. That took work. (NOT necessarily a function of economic restrictions on record collections, although that probably was a factor also).

Mining Bob James albums for 7 funky seconds...yeegod...no one can convince me that hip hop is for the unimaginative!!
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breno
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March 04, 2021 07:43PM
EDIT: Didn't intend to post this as part of the Bob James digression (which he should name a combo sometime), but there you go. Since I did, I will just put in that James is from Marshall, MO, but is NOT that small town's most famous resident. That honor belongs to Jim the Wonder Dog, a remarkable pooch who had the ability to predict the winner of the Kentucky Derby.

Jack White - bit part actor in Cold Mountain, taxidermy enthusiast
Jack White - drummer for Gary Myrick & the Figures

Jim White - American alt-country singer-songwriter
Jim White - Australian drummer from the Dirty Three, Blackeyed Susans, etc.

Joy White - Reggae singer
Joy (Lynn) White - Country singer

Mark White - sometime vocalist for the Mekons
Mark White - sometime member of ABC
Mark White - bassist for the Spin Doctors

Kevin Bacon - bassist for Comsat Angels
Kevin Bacon - whatever he does in the Bacon Brothers

Robert Grey - Wire
Robbie Grey - Modern English

And homophones:
Siouxsie Sioux
Susie Suh



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Delvin
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March 05, 2021 11:22AM
Awww man, some great ones there, Reno! I really wish I'd remembered the two Jack Whites.
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Delvin
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March 05, 2021 11:23AM
Thanks to all my TP friends for your great suggestions. Many of these will be featured on tonight's installment of Twenty Flight Rock.
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Delvin
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February 28, 2021 01:29PM
"No way! Why should I change? He's the one who sucks! No-talent ass-clown ..."

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Familyman
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February 28, 2021 03:03PM
So glad that the Michael Boltons were mentioned!
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DuckRabbit
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March 01, 2021 08:19AM
Here are homophones, though they're spelled differently:

John Hiatt (singer/songwriter)
John Hyatt (the Three Johns)
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DuckRabbit
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March 01, 2021 07:27PM
Jo Jones ("Papa" Jo Jones) - drummer Count Basie Orchestra etc.
Joe Jones ("Philly" Joe Jones) - drummer Miles Davis Quintet etc.
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Michael Toland
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March 05, 2021 06:33PM
And speaking of jazz drummers:

Dan Weiss - drummer/leader of jazz/metal hybrid Starebaby*, member of Bloody Panda and DNA Orchestra, sideman to Tim Berne, Rudresh Mahanthappa and others
Dan Weiss - drummer for Delvon Lamarr Organ Trio

*And by "jazz/metal hybrid," what it really means is that most of the members of the group (Weiss, keyboardists Craig Taborn and Matt Mitchell, bassist Trevor Dunn, who was in Mr. Bungle and Fantomas) are metal fans and borrow some of the dynamic shifts and arrangement ideas, with a bit of distortion on the guitar. Nothing on the two albums I have really sounds like metal. If you want a "jazz/metal hybrid" that comes from the metal side, try Dyzrhythmia.
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DuckRabbit
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March 05, 2021 09:13PM
Nice. Small world - a friend of mine used to study with Craig Taborn, and we saw Tim Berne together!
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Michael Toland
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March 08, 2021 04:02PM
I think Taborn is a genius. Your friend was lucky, and I bet it was challenging.

I'm a big Tim Berne fan as well. I was lucky enough to see him three years in a row here in Austin, once with David Torn and Dave King from the Bad Plus, and twice with his Texas jazz-saluting band Broken Shadows. Not bad for a town that's basically a jazz desert. (For touring acts, that is - we have plenty of great homegrown talent, fortunately.)
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DuckRabbit
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March 08, 2021 04:46PM
Yeah, I agree with you about Craig Taborn. I was lucky enough to be in Ann Arbor when he was a student at University of Michigan. I had the pleasure of seeing him play on many occasions just as he was beginning to become known (playing with James Carter, the great Roscoe Mitchell and with Gerald Cleaver). The combination of Taborn with Tani Tabbal and Jaribu Shahid (very frequent collaborators in those days) was truly wonderful to my ear!
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Michael Toland
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March 02, 2021 03:21PM
This is same-named bands instead of musicians, but there's the Australian Hitmen (a sort-of Radio Birdman spinoff) and the British new wave band of the same name.
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Michael Toland
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March 02, 2021 03:21PM
This is same-named bands instead of musicians, but there's the Australian Hitmen (a sort-of Radio Birdman spinoff) and the British new wave band of the same name.

(Sorry, I don’t know why that posted twice.)



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Delvin
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March 05, 2021 06:01PM
David Palmer — original lead singer of Steely Dan
David Palmer (now Dee Palmer) — keyboardist in Jethro Tull
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Five*Words
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March 05, 2021 09:12PM
...and the David Palmer in Jethro Tull also did a stint in ABC!
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Five*Words
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March 05, 2021 10:22PM
Michael Hampton, guitarist from Funkadelic, and Michael Hampton, singer/guitarist from S.O.A., Faith, Embrace, the Snakes, Manifesto, and Fake Names.

Andy White, Scottish session drummer (Lulu, Tom Jones, Beatles) and Andy White, Irish singer-songwriter.
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Five*Words
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March 05, 2021 11:08PM
Jim Reilly, drummer in Stiff Little Fingers, Red Rockers, and Raindogs, and Jimmy Riley, Jamaican solo singer and vocalist in the Uniques.
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Delvin
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March 06, 2021 12:11AM
REALLY!! Man, that makes at least three "sandwich" blocks I could have done for the show. Makes me wish I had.
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zoo
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March 06, 2021 01:16AM
Five*Words Wrote:
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> ...and the David Palmer in Jethro Tull also did a
> stint in ABC!

The ABC David Palmer was a drummer. He was also in The The and played on the Mind Bomb and Dusk albums. He was the drummer when I saw The The open for Depeche Mode in 1993 or so.
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breno
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March 06, 2021 03:29PM
Paul Young - vocalist for Sad Cafe and Mike & the Mechanics
Paul Young - vocalist for Paul Young
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Heff
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March 06, 2021 03:55PM
I thought this thread was going to beat the legendary Standells thread but not quite. Only twelve posts to go to beat it!
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breno
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March 07, 2021 05:19PM
Norman Blake - stringed instrument virtuoso with Johnny Cash/Kristofferson/Baez/Dirt Band
Norman Blake - Teenage Fanclub



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MrFab
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March 07, 2021 11:22PM
Lock this topic now, Ira! Let no pretenders-to-the-throne conquer the mighty Munsters thread!
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Bip
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March 07, 2021 05:56PM
Ah geez yeah of course those two Paul Youngs. Probably the only two on the whole list that sang on top 5 US hits. And probably in the same year!!
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Delvin
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March 07, 2021 09:07PM
Bryan Adams = Canadian guitarist/singer who had a big hit with "Summer of '69"
Ryan Adams = American guitarist/singer who gets really pissy if anyone in the audience requests "Summer of '69"
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Delvin
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March 07, 2021 09:08PM
> Steve Miller - The Steve Miller Band and The Moodists.
>
> And the singer for Electric Frankenstein.

AND the original keyboardist for Hatfield & the North.
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Five*Words
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March 07, 2021 10:08PM
Charles Parker of Salsoul Orchestra, and Charlie Parker, jazz giant.
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Five*Words
Re: Will the real _____ please stand up
March 07, 2021 10:21PM
Dave Barker, Jamaican vocalist (Techniques, Dave & Ansel, et al) and Dave Barker, label head of the Glass, Paperhouse, Seminal Twang, August, God Bless, and Glass Redux/Glass Miniature imprints.
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Five*Words
Re: Will the real _____ please stand up
March 07, 2021 10:32PM
Robert “Barefootin’” Parker, and Robert Parker, UK guitarist for Walkingseeds and Del-Bloods.
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Five*Words
Re: Will the real _____ please stand up
March 07, 2021 11:03PM
Tim Burgess, frontman of the Charlatans, and Tim Burgess, drummer of (yikes) T’pau.
(Both from greater Manchester.)
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Five*Words
Re: Will the real _____ please stand up
March 07, 2021 11:04PM
Tim Burgess, frontman of the Charlatans, and Tim Burgess, drummer of (yikes) T’pau.
(Both from greater Manchester.)
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zoo
Re: Will the real _____ please stand up
March 07, 2021 11:36PM
Michael Hampton - P-Funk and Embrace (and other hardcore bands)

*** Editing this to acknowledge that Five Words beat me to it a couple of days ago.



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Five*Words
Re: Will the real _____ please stand up
March 08, 2021 12:30AM
Post-Lee Brilleaux Dr. Feelgood
vocalist Pete Gage, and guitarist Pete Gage of Vinegar Joe.
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breno
Re: Will the real _____ please stand up
March 08, 2021 10:39AM
Gary Lane - bassist for the Standells
Gary Lane - vocalist for early 60s pop group Gary Lane & the Garrisons

Jack Marshall - prolific musician, composer of The Munster theme
Jack Marshall - member of Post-Metal band So Hideous

Which leads to:
Brandon Cruz - member of Post-Metal band So Hideous
Brandon Cruz - Dr. Know, Dead Kennedys, The Courtship of Eddie's Father



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breno
Re: Will the real _____ please stand up
December 05, 2024 07:46AM
Reading the news today about the band Sports Team (whose first album I really liked but who I've not bothered keeping up with at all) getting robbed at gunpoint in California put me in mind of this thread. Most articles contained quotes from drummer Al Greenwood, always referring to her as a he, which I reckon is understandable if you don't have a photo of the band sitting in front of you, but kind of lazy. I'm assuming in this case Al is short for Alice, Alexandra or Alison rather than Albert.

Anyhow,

Al Greenwood - Keyboardist for Foreigner
Al Greenwood - drummer for Sports Team



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zwirnm
Re: Will the real _____ please stand up
December 05, 2024 09:31AM
On that note:

Michael Steele, former Republican Lt. Governor of Maryland and prominent anti-Trumper
Michael (Micki) Steele, former bassist for the Bangles

This would have many opportunities for category errors: gender, skin color, role, etc.
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BCE
Re: Will the real _____ please stand up
December 05, 2024 01:14PM
Ann Wilson - country/CCM
Anne Wilson from Heart

Paul Kelly - the one from Australia
Paul Kelly - the one from the U.S.
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zoo
Re: Will the real _____ please stand up
December 05, 2024 02:19PM
I figured there has to be more than one musician named Matt Johnson. From Wikipedia:

Matt Johnson (singer) (born 1961), British singer for the band The The
Matt Johnson, former lead vocalist for metalcore band, Architects.
Matt Johnson (keyboardist) (born 1969), British keyboardist for the funk band Jamiroquai
Matt Johnson (drummer) (born 1970), American drummer for Jeff Buckley
Matt Johnson (country singer) (born 1996), American country singer from Dallas, Texas
Matt Johnson (One True Voice), British singer, member of the group One True Voice
Matt Johnson, guitarist in the band The Autumn Offering
Matt Johnson, bassist for the band Chainsaw Kittens
Matt Johnson, drummer for the band Fat Tulips
Matt Johnson, keyboardist for the band Matt and Kim
Matthew Johnson, co-founder of Fat Possum Records
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