10 Difficult Classic-Rock Trivia Questions

• vball10set

  vball10set;810444 wrote:#10 Mott the Hoople--I believe it was the guitarist, whose name escapes me--Mick something??

  
  hey SVF, was this answer correct??
• Steel Valley Football

  Yep, Mick Ralphs.
• MoldyDog

  #9 Otis Redding
• Steel Valley Football

  Speedofsand;810478 wrote:really? I knew the peach truck story was wrong. I wish I could remember where I heard that when Duane said 'eat a peach' he was talking about girlfriends in Georgia. Something about Vietnam, make love not war. It's been too many years ago I heard the story.

  
  
  You are very close. In an interview shortly before he died in 1971, Duane was asked what he was doing to help the revolution to which he replied "There ain't no revolution, it's evolution, but every time I'm in Georgia I eat a peach for peace." The album's name was originally slated to be The Kind We Grow in Dixie and the artwork for the album showed a peach. Band members were dissatisfied with the name and the image suggested Duane's quote instead.
  
  I've always been amazed that people are so quick to believe the "killed by a peach truck" story. As if Duane's own brother and friends would make a joke that tasteless in naming the album they were working on when he died.
• Steel Valley Football

  MoldyDog;811168 wrote:#9 Otis Redding

  
  I think that completes the list of people I was looking for.
• Steel Valley Football

  Mohican00;811048 wrote:3 Which former member the Eagles had to sit in for an overly drug-induced David Crosby and sing the high harmony part on Crosby, Stills, and Nash's song "Southern Cross?"
  
  Timothy Schmit
  
  4 What non motor-vehicle related event ACTUALLY inspired the title of the Allman Brother's album "Eat a Peach?"
  
  Duane allman quote before he died
  
  
  8 What now-famous song was rejected by Mott the Hoople which led David Bowie to then write "All the Young Dudes" for the struggling band?
  
  Suffragette city

  
  
  Curly got Timmy Schmit before you, but you were right on Eat a Peach and the Bowie song.
• Sonofanump

  Who is the eighth, Will Rogers?
• Ty Webb

  

  No.3 Don Felder
• Ty Webb

  

  No.3 can't be Tim Schmitt.....he is still in the Eagles
• vball10set

  Steel Valley Football;811145 wrote:Yep, Mick Ralphs.

  
  thanks (I didn't want to violate the "no Google" rule)
• Curly J

  

  Ty Webb;811177 wrote:No.3 Don Felder

  REALLY...SMH
  

  Ty Webb;811178 wrote:No.3 can't be Tim Schmitt.....he is still in the Eagles

  At the time Timothy B Schmit was a former Eagles member as they broke up in 1980. He sat in after the band was broken up. (well on a 14 year vacation or what ever you want to call it).
  
  Damn Gibby, most of this stuff occurred before you were born.
• Steel Valley Football

  Sonofanump;811175 wrote:Who is the eighth, Will Rogers?

  I don't really consider Will Rogers to be a musician. I was going with 10 originally, with Glenn Miller and SR Vaughn, but Vaughn doesn't really count and I figured Miller was too dated.
• Steel Valley Football

  Curly has my line of thinking. Schmit was a former member at the time he sat in for Crosby.
• Curly J

  

  Steel Valley Football;811312 wrote:I don't really consider Will Rogers to be a musician. I was going with 10 originally, with Glenn Miller and SR Vaughn, but Vaughn doesn't really count and I figured Miller was too dated.

  I was going to jokingly say Glenn Miller. I guess he was a 'rocker' back in the day when Big Band was the music of choice. I guess that would be Ultra Classic Rock.
• Steel Valley Football

  The only remaining answer is for #10. Ex-members of Free, Mott the Hoople, and King Crimson formed Bad Company in 1973.
• Steel Valley Football

  Curly J;811331 wrote:I was going to jokingly say Glenn Miller. I guess he was a 'rocker' back in the day when Big Band was the music of choice. I guess that would be Ultra Classic Rock.

  Well, that question kind of covered many genres just because of that type of death being somewhat legendary for musicians in general. Country singer Jim Reeves also died in a plane crash, but I left him off.
• vball10set

  Steel Valley Football;810338 wrote:Same rules apply - no googling! This is a point of pride among music trivia buffs...so if you cheat, you will be banned to your own Music Hell upon your death where you be subjected to listen to the WORST possible music known to you.
  
  Consider yourself warned!
  
  
  
  1 Whose death inspired Ronnie Van Zant to write the tribute song Freebird?
  
  Duane Allman - Mister Twister
  
  
  2 What now-famous singer/guitarist sat in for several years for Brian Wilson for the touring Beach Boys at the beginning of Wilson's mental illness?
  
  Glenn Campbell - Curly J
  
  
  3 Which former member the Eagles had to sit in for an overly drug-induced David Crosby and sing the high harmony part on Crosby, Stills, and Nash's song "Southern Cross?"
  
  Timothy B. Schmitt - Curly J
  
  
  4 What non motor-vehicle related event ACTUALLY inspired the title of the Allman Brother's album "Eat a Peach?"
  
  Speedofsand/Mohican00
  
  
  5 What backup singer sang lead on "Fooled Around and Fell in Love" in 1975; four years before being invited to front an existing, legendary American rock band?
  
  Mickey Thomas - Speedofsand
  
  
  6 What two rock-and-roll legends died four years apart in the same London apartment?
  
  Keith Moon - gerb131
  Mama Cass Elliot - Bigdaddy2003
  
  
  7 What 70's rock band got it's name from an opening line in a song by The Band?
  
  A: Nazareth - Bigdaddy2003
  
  
  8 What now-famous song was rejected by Mott the Hoople which led David Bowie to then write "All the Young Dudes" for the struggling band?
  
  Suffragette City - Mohican00
  
  
  9 Name eight famous musicians who have died in plane crashes, excluding Buddy Holly, Ritchie Valens, & the Big Bopper. *All must be from separate plane crashes.
  
  Ricky Nelson - Ironman92
  John Denver - Ironman92
  Randy Rhodes - sonofanump
  Patsy Cline - power i
  Ronnie Van Zant - sonofanump
  Jim Croce - Ironman92
  Aalyiah - brutus161
  Otis Redding - MoldyDog
  
  
  10 Bad Company formed from the remnants of which three already-famous bands?
  
  Free - Ironman92
  Mott the Hoople - vball10set

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