Quiz time

[Iain]

Humble Pie???

[Doughboy]

Framps was in The herd.

[Shedhand]

got a lot of framptons stuff..Humble Pie was his first gig. He was only a kid, in his late teens I think. Showin' my age now... :o

[Tex B]

Humble Pie???

that's the one. I've eaten plenty in my day. You get the (3 day old) iced vovo.

Still think he's one of the best guitar players ever.

Tex

[Iain]

Keep on the same stream, a bit earlier though, who wrote and played Frightened City?

[Ivan in Oz]

Iain,
Me thinks it is he who "TALKS" with his Guitar.
The Pumkin eater,
and I have some of his LPs on CD.

PS
I enjoy cryptics sometimes
a 1000kG of Framed Pram.....I'm pretty sure I am correct; for a change:confused:

[Iain]

:confused: :confused: :confused:

[Bleedin Thumb]

Lets wake the quiz!

Which famous musician composed the opening music for the MS Windows 95 operating system (yes all 3.4 seconds of it).

[Doughboy]

Mick Jagger

[Grunt]

Brian Eno

[Bleedin Thumb]

Close , you got the pommie bit right

Edit That didn't take you long Grunt,well done son...haveagoyamug.

[Doughboy]

Keith Richards

[Bleedin Thumb]

Doughboy are you listening to the Stones? No Grunt got it. Eno from 801 fame ( and a few others )

[Doughboy]

Yes I see that .... I am just pississtent

[Bleedin Thumb]

Ok Why dont you ask if its Charlie Watts.

[watson]

The musician's labourer???
noel

[Bleedin Thumb]

That a bit cruel Noel, he speaks very highly of you!

[Doughboy]

I am sure my mother still has a bottle of ENO in the cupboard. I wonder how he feels about this.

Pete

[Bob Willson]

Famous?
Doesn't that imply that everybody would know of him?
I don't remember the name at all.
Course, that could be a function of age too.

I'll ask a question.

About 30/35 years ago when computers were just coming in Dick Smith sold a magical brand of computer.
For 23 points. What was the name of the computer, what was the standard memory for that computer, what was it's processor and how much did it cost? Oh, and how big was it's hard drive? :)

[silentC]

Dick Smith Wizzard
1kb of RAM
8-bit Rockwell 6502A CPU
FIIK

[Bob Willson]

Sorry silent, that is not the magical one that I am thinking of.

Remember again.

[silentC]

Come on, you can't get much more magical than a Wizzard!!

[Bob Willson]

Come on, you can't get much more magical than a Wizzard!!

Not much more magical no, but think synonyms.

[silentC]

Has me stumped. The only other computers I can think of from that era were the Tandy TRS-80 and the Commodore C64 and Vic-20. I had a C64. We learnt BASIC at school on a TRS-80

[Grunt]

Was it the System 80, 16k Ram, Z80 for around $800? With the Cassette Hard Drive.

[Bob Willson]

Nope, not the system 80, that was a sort of do-it-yourself computer.
This was a proper full blown computer SYNONYMOUS with a wizard.

[Bob Willson]

Some synonyms of wizard are:

1. (2) ace, adept, sensation, maven, virtuoso, genius, hotshot, star, whiz, whizz, wizard, wiz -- (someone who is dazzlingly skilled in any field)
2. magician, wizard, necromancer -- (one who practices magic or sorcery)

[Felder]

Has me stumped. The only other computers I can think of from that era were the Tandy TRS-80 and the Commodore C64 and Vic-20. I had a C64. We learnt BASIC at school on a TRS-80

Don't forget the Microbee.

[Grunt]

Well it's got to be the Sorcerer

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Exidy_Sorcerer

[silentC]

Well it's got to be the Sorcerer

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Exidy_Sorcerer
Well there you go. Never even heard of it.

[Bleedin Thumb]

Don't ask me I spent the 70's and 80's listening to music.

People like Brian Eno Bob, founding member of Roxy music, father of electronic ambiance, producer, performance artist and keyboard genius who has collaborated with some of the worlds best contemporary musicians, - not staring at black screens with green square lettering.:D

Well OK I did do a bit of that too, whilst listening to music.:2tsup:

[silentC]

That is really weird. Just as I read you post, "A New Career in a New Town" came on. As you know, that's off Low, which was a Bowie album that Eno features heavily on.

[Grunt]

Early Talking Heads were produced by Brian Eno, he became the '5th' Talking Head in the same way George Martin was the '5th' Beetle.

Eno also produced U2.

[Bleedin Thumb]

That is really weird. Just as I read you post, "A New Career in a New Town" came on. As you know, that's off Low, which was a Bowie album that Eno features heavily on.

I don't have Low but I have Heroes which is great.(On vinyl and I no longer have a turntable:( ) any way Heroes, Low and ....what was that album that was the other Berlin recordings.

And speaking of Berlin, myself and the missus went and saw Lou Reed perform Berlin at the State theater two weeks ago.

I saw him when he was out last "An evening with Lou Reed" = shyte

Berlin on the other hand was FAN BLOODY TASTIC. my wife didn't even like him before but came away saying it was the best concert she had ever been to.
A very special event that was, especially as now I can play my old Velvets and Lou Reed records when she's in the house.
Just have to work on Frank Zappa next.

[silentC]

The other Berlin album is Lodger, which happens to be one of my favourites...

[AlexS]

Don't forget the Microbee.

Right up there with the Hills Hoist, the Triton and the Victa Mower as Australian designs.:rolleyes:

[Bob Willson]

Well it's got to be the Sorcerer

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Exidy_Sorcerer


Yep
My first real computer.
8 K of RAM expandable to 16 K with one expansion pack or to 32K (massive memory) with two expansion packs.
No HDD - used a tape recorder at 300 baud and took 45 minutes to load in a 16K program.

It used an 8088 processor and cost $2000 that long (30 - 35 years) ago.
The price of computers hasn't dropped in that time, you just get a hell of a lot more for your money now.

[Bleedin Thumb]

OK I have a question to wake this thread up.

1. What is the name of the famous singer/songwriter that published a novel that explored the life of Catherine Tekakwitha.....well kind of.
2. Name the title.
3. What was monosyllabalic name of the narraters friend in the novel?

[watson]

Geez Bleeding!
Too esoteric, but I replied anyway just to keep it alive.
Simple answer from me.......

Dunno!
Regards,
Noel

[Bleedin Thumb]

He's Canadian...Jewish......his music has been jokingly described as needle music.

[watson]

OK
for question 1 I'd then have to say,
Leonard Cohen

Noel

[Bleedin Thumb]

Yes the clues weren't that subtle or else extremely depressed Jewish Canadian singer/songwriters are a bit thin on the ground these days!:)

So whats the novel? His last I believe?

[dadpad]

Beautiful dreamers or something?? losers maybe??

Beautiful Losers I think.

What prize do I get if I got it right?

[Shedhand]

1: Leonard Cohen
2: Beautiful Losers
3: Was supposed to be Rufus Wainright but was replaced by Molly Johnson.

What do I get? :wink:

[Driver]

What do I get? :wink:

Two things:

1. The unqualified approbation of all here :rolleyes:
2. The opportunity to dazzle us once more with your erudition by posing the next question.

(Assuming you're right, of course. If you're not then.... :p :p :p :p :p )

[Bleedin Thumb]

Two things:

1. The unqualified approbation of all here :rolleyes:
2. The opportunity to dazzle us once more with your erudition by posing the next question.

(Assuming you're right, of course. If you're not then.... :p :p :p :p :p )


Well your mostly right.. yes Leonard Cohen, Beautiful Losers but his mates name was F.

But you might as well take the unqualified approbation as its going cheap today. As far as dazzling us with some of your eruditeness, just remember that this is a family show and the Mod's are watching you!:cool:

Make it challenging!

[Shedhand]

Making a quiz challenging these days is very difficult because all the dumbheads know how to google so us geniuses can't show off anymore.

hmmm.still thinking of one. :wink:

[Cliff Rogers]

...hmmm.still thinking of one. :wink:

I thought of a really good one but it has been so long since I had a win that I forgot the question. :doh:

[Shedhand]

Ok here it is:

Whose voice was once described by a reviewer as sounding like a duck fart in a bottle on an album sleeve note and what was the artists first album.

[dadpad]

I have no idea but I'm gonna guess Bob Dylan.

Aka robert zimmerman

his debut album was entitled Bob Dylan.

[Iain]

2. The opportunity to dazzle us once more with your erudition by posing the next question.

(Assuming you're right, of course. If you're not then.... :p :p :p :p :p )

I'll keep out of the way, I don't want to be erudited on:p

[Bleedin Thumb]

I wouldn't have a clue, but that wont stop me guessing.
Leo Sawyer voice has that squeaky quality that may have come from a ducks behind.
First album = I feel like dancing ? or something equally banal.

Somehow you don't fit the bill of a Leo Sawyer fan though Sheddie.

Edit 2nd guess The lead singer from YES Ian Anderson ? or was he from Jethro Tull?
Their first album just called YES or maybe Fragile, I only know of those or Tales from a topographic ocean and Relayer...doesn't matter they all sounded the same to me. Also - Close to the edge.....or was that Hawkwind...damn memory, might just google after all.

[Shedhand]

Nope, nope, nope and nope.

CLUE:
Known more for his prodigious acoustic guitar virtuosity than his duck fart vocals. One of the few artists who can make a 12 string sound acceptable.

[Grunt]

I'd say Neil Young.

[watson]

Leo Kottke??

[Shedhand]

Leo Kottke?? half points. :2tsup: And first album?

[watson]

Oh Bugger!

I only got into Leo in the last fifteen years.....so due to other priorities I probably missed the first one!
Something with "Orange" in the title.

I refuse to Google it.....keeps the grey matter going.
Regards,
Noel

[Bleedin Thumb]

Hey I got the Leo right do I get quarter points?

Was the album self titled.. black and white cover?

Can't recall him ever singing, might be a blessing

[Carry Pine]

The only Leo Kotke album I ever had was stolen. Only heard it twice. "Chewin' Pine".

....and Bleedin' Thumb... don't send any rude text messages to the contact listed as 'GWB' on that red phone. Could lead to breaking down of doors and stint in orange clothes.

Carry Pine

[Shedhand]

His first release was ....."six & twelve string guitar" followed by "Circle Round the Sun" (and if you have a copy of that one laying around you are sitting on a mint).

Give it Watto... :2tsup:

[watson]

Ok Ta!
Here's one:
Mentor of Stevie Ray Vaughan.
Played a 1958 Gibson Flying "V"
What name....and the name of his first album
Regards,
Noel

[Andy Mac]

I straight away thought of Johnny Winter, being another Texas blues guitar legend, but not knowing his guitar preferences I went searching: http://www.yee.ch/winter/Guitar/flyingv/flyinV.html:2tsup:
I won't cheat any further by Googling his first album...I have a number of them but not his first! Saw him live at Festival Hall in Brisbane in the mid 80's, wonderful stuff!:cool: :D

Cheers,

[watson]

Good try Andy,
Its not Johnny Winter.......I saw the Mystery Man in the mid 80's too but at smaller venues than Festival Hall.
He spent most of the late 70's in jail for beating a man to death who had ran into his wife with a car. (she died at the scene)
Regards,
Noel

[Andy Mac]

Bugger....:(

[Shedhand]

Ok Ta!
Here's one:
Mentor of Stevie Ray Vaughan.
Played a 1958 Gibson Flying "V"
What name....and the name of his first album
Regards,
NoelHis brother? Jimmy?

[watson]

Good thought....but nope.
Here's a photo...complete with Flying V.

[Bleedin Thumb]

Thats not Roy Buchanan is it?

Nah Roy was a telecaster type guy.

[Andy Mac]

That does look a bit like Roy Buchanon, but can't seem to enlarge that photo. If it is, he died (committed suicide?) in prison, but I think he was in there for some minor felony. He could play...saw/heard him too, in the Valley, bleeding ears almost!:C :D

Cheers,

[watson]

Roy would have been great to hear...............but nope!

Further clue......born in Indiana in 1941

Regards,
Noel

[Bleedin Thumb]

I wish I had got to see Roy as well..oh well

Is it one of the guitarists from ZZ Top, I don't know their names, but it sounds like your after a solo artist anyway.

[watson]

Yep, he produced solo albums under his own name.....from about 1963........Later did some duet tracks with Stevie Ray Vaughan and a feller called Spencer Leslie.
Regards,
Noel

PS. The Flying V is the big clue!

[watson]

OK.....maybe a bit too esoteric.......but one of the first to play it loud/fast.and dirty!

Site as follows:
www.lonniemack.com

First album from 1963.."The Wham of that Memphis Man"

Damn!

Regards,
Noel

[Bleedin Thumb]

You may well be his only Australian fan Noel.
Seen as no one got that try again, remember make it challenging....something a google wont turn up.

[watson]

G'day Bleedin'
You're probably right......no, I can remember a lot of nights in the early 70's spent listening to Lonnie Mack records with a lot of other muso's.....geez maybe I'm getting old.
OK thinking cap is on...

I'll be back.
Regards,
Noel

ps ...I've got three lunch dates with Brian next month....should I go formal???

[AlexS]

I can remember a lot of nights in the early 70's

...again, you may be the only one who can.:D

[Shedhand]

?Jeez Noel. Were you a Monk? I don't remember anything between 1968 and 1980 :doh::C

[watson]

No ....Not a monk :U
Joined the army in 67............out in 87.
Most of the things I saw I remember....including Lonnie Mack.

I'm refurbishing brain cells at the moment...trying to come up with an entertaining question.
Geez .....I can't beleive that the world isn't a Lonnie Mack fan.......

Working on it

Regards,
Noel

[Bleedin Thumb]

If you don't mind Noel, while were waiting for your round I might just get in a small top up.

Name a famous 80's author's father. The author I'm taking about wrote a novel called Success and his dad is pretty well know as well.

Should make it hard to google.

[Bleedin Thumb]

Ok clue time. They're poms - both father and son are best selling authors.

It would be a bit amiss of me to make it too easy, so picture if you will a green man standing in the centre of a field in London surrounded by deceased babies.

[ozwinner]

Geez .....I can't beleive that the world isn't a Lonnie Mack fan.......



Or a :roll: fan......:U

Al :q

[Tex B]

It would be a bit amiss of me to make it too easy,



Kingsley & Martin Amis, perhaps?

[watson]

Geez BT,
I'm thinkin' and thinkin', but it really sounds like my Uncle Jack!
Regards,
Noel

[Bleedin Thumb]

Kingsley & Martin Amis, perhaps?


:2tsup: Good one Tex, I'm glad someone reads something other than woodwork mags around here.

Technically speaking its still Watson's round but it may be a dry old argument:D

So Tex if you have a question that will exercise the old brain - fire away.

BTW Watson what is the reference to my uncle Jack?

[watson]

Go for it Tex,,I'm still thinking.
For BT

My Uncle Jack was always a little green around the gills, and he scared us little kids to death....it really did sound as though someone was describing him!
Regards,
Noel

[Bleedin Thumb]

It sounded like a novels' title - I may have been thinking about the David Ireland novel - My Brother Jack.



EDIT as it seems that everyone is too polite to correct me regarding the above statement I will do so myself.

My Brother Jack was infact written by George Johnstone.

[Tex B]

OK. After his book was published, this famous author left the country for a holiday. After a month or so he sent a letter to his publisher.

The letter was: ?


The publisher's reply: !

Who was the author and what was the book?


Tex


PS, just tried googling it and came up with nothing, so maybe people will have to think on this one.

[Tex B]

19th century author. Does that help?

[watson]

Doesn't help yet!
But wouldn't he be just the sort of bloke you'd want as a dinner guest??
"he just never shuts up" "?"
Regards,
Noel

[watson]

Is it Oscar Wilde??

Noel

[Tex B]

French author.

You would have seen the movies and/or the broadway musical, but the books are actually much better.

Tex

[Shedhand]

don't know many. Alexader Dumas and Jean-Paul Satre. I'll go for Satre?

[Bleedin Thumb]

The Broadway musical sounds like Victor Hugo.
The only thing I know of his is les Miserables.

Edit : or it could be Phantom of the Opera by Gaston Leroux ( I had to google to get the author)

Damn you Andrew Lloyd Webber!

[Tex B]

Victor Hugo, Les Mis. You get the golden prize, Bleedin.

Gave away too much in the hints i reckon.

FWIW, Les Miserables is the only fiction book I've ever read more than once. Bit slow at first, but what a fantastic story. Highly recommend it.

And I'm not sure I'd want to see a broadway musical of something written by Sartre :no:

Tex

PS. Hugo also wrote the Hunchback of Notre Dame

[Bleedin Thumb]

Gave away too much in the hints i reckon.

Yeah, there aren't too many French based Broadway Musicals, mind you I forgot about ol Hunchie did Mr Webber have a go at him too?


Anyway What Aussie novel is set mostly inside the Southern Cross Hotel and acurately describes pub culture and its colourful inhabitants.

Written Mid 70's.

The title is a vehicle that will transport you away from your worries.

[Shedhand]

Yeah, there aren't too many French based Broadway Musicals, mind you I forgot about ol Hunchie did Mr Webber have a go at him too?


Anyway What Aussie novel is set mostly inside the Southern Cross Hotel and acurately describes pub culture and its colourful inhabitants.

Written Mid 70's.

The title is a vehicle that will transport you away from your worries."Wife Swap" :D (joking), Don's Party the serious shot.

[Bleedin Thumb]

Nah Sheddie.
Next clue.

The title is also a symbolic reference to a schooner of beer.

EDIT or a pot of beer if you live in Qld, what do mexicans call it ? Twinkie? Thimble?

[Andy Mac]

Glass Canoe by David Ireland

[Bleedin Thumb]

Glass Canoe by David Ireland


Well done Mr Mac That was the one I was after - a very good read too I might add.

Over to you........

[Andy Mac]

a very good read too I might add. Over to you........

Thanks BT,
It was a good read, and I also enjoyed his Unknown Industrial Prisoner, most of his books really...:) Alright it seems to be a book theme here.
An English gardener, wrote a (non-fiction) book in Australia in the middle of the 1800's; tree lover and comrade of a well known horse eater.:?:D Who was he and what was the book?

Cheers,

[Andy Mac]

Clues: As inspector of forests, he warned the govt. that red cedar would be commercially extinct at the current rate of logging. Also discovered the only Australian species of beech; and several plants were named after him.

Cheers,