NAME THAT TUNE
WORDLESS WEDNESDAY
Congrats to the following for knowing the following:
BAND: Vanilla Fudge
ALBUM: Vanilla Fudge
SONG: Ticket To Ride
MEMBERS:
Mark Stein
Tim Bogart
Carmine Appice
Vince Martell
Thank you to Turnbaby for pointing out that yesterday Ray Ray McElrathbey was named the 2007 FED EX ORANGE BOWL-FWAA COURAGE AWARD. The award is given to a player, coach or support person who shows courage on or off the field.
What did this young man do to win the award? Well we profiled him back in September HERE and you can also read about him and the award HERE. Good things do happen to good people.
And before we get to the music...and the no words! Something happended yesterday afternoon and the dark blue background on the site just disappeared. We asked a few people and they could not see it either.
An emergency email was dispatched to SANNI (The winner of the January 2, 2007 BESTEST BLOG OF THE DAY!) Hopefully she will come running with the calvery and some assistance... bear with us until then please. ALL IS BETTER THANKS AGAIN SANNI!
We only had two bad comments about the blue, but that does not mean that one day you will see it has darkened... always tinkering...
Well, something else...hehehehe a new link on the side is to BAG WINE RUMINATIONS. It is the brainchild (or would that be conceived monster!) of Matt-Man (not my Matt), who we have run across on blogs all the time. This weekend, laying in bed, we decided to visit and man what a blast!
He was away, but his friend Gouda Girl hosted a retrospective and reran three posts about a dinner party Matt-Man gave. Go search those posts out and this is a warning...do not drink any liquids while reading or cover your keyboard and monitor with plastic.
Now it is time for me to shut up and give you a chance to play the game.
REMEMBER GIVE US:
The Band, members at the time the song was recorded, album, album the song first appeared on.
Get them all correct and the first three get their name in LIGHTS!
Dug into the vault...later we will give you some info on this interesting band.
WORDLESS WEDNESDAY
Congrats to the following for knowing the following:
BAND: Vanilla Fudge
ALBUM: Vanilla Fudge
SONG: Ticket To Ride
MEMBERS:
Mark Stein
Tim Bogart
Carmine Appice
Vince Martell
A short history on THE VANILLA FUDGE:
Originally formed in 1965 after breaking away from another band Stein, Bogert and drummer Joey Brennan formed the Electric Pigeons. This was later changed to The pigeons.
Vince Martell joined shortly after.
An R&B cover band they spent time between NJ and Long island. They along with other east coast bands such as The vagrants (know who played lead guitar in this band?), The Illusion, The Good Rats, The Hassles (know who played organ in this band?), and a west coast bang The Sparrows (know who they became?) were in the background hidden behind the British Invasion and the west coast sound…but they worked the clubs hard up and down the eastern seaboard.
The Vagrants were one of the first bands to make elaborate productions out of other peoples music and The Pigeons took up with this idea of building inspired new arrangements to the covers they played.
Near the end of 1966, Joey Brennan left and carmine Appice joined the band lending his special qualities to their arrangements.
Early 1967 The Pigeons became the Vanilla Fudge.
At this time touring bands were constantly waging war on each other. The west coast bands vs. the east coasters and even within the east coast contingent, bands did not like each other.
One of the bands that warred with the Vanilla Fudge was Frank Zappa & the Mothers of Invention. Zappa even wrote a song lambasting the VF as “teen combo” of adolescent sexual deviants (Do you know the song?)
In 1969 a brand new band opened for the Vanilla Fudge when the Jeff Beck band backed out (YES, The VF were the headliners!)…this band toured with the Fudge for most of the fall…The band…Led Zeppelin.
This is an abbreviated history taken from the official web site for the band. To read the entire history and see how many bands the fudge played with over the years, you can find it HERE.
OH, the Guitar player from The Vagrants? Leslie West and many for that band became Mountain.
The organ player for the Hassles? Billy Joel.
The Sparrows? They became Steppenwolf.
The Song…I am not really sure of this one...Do YOU know?
On a personal note, I have original music by the Illusion (GREAT FREAKIN BAND!) and The Good Rats, who I also helped get gigs in Rochester, NY while in school there and one of my friends is mentioned in one of their songs.
The late 60’s – early 70’s on Long Island was a treasure chest of bands playing local clubs and many of the members went on to great things.
To hear more Vanilla Fudge, check them out at bestaudiocodes.com
Yes, it is WORDLESS WEDNESDAY and that means NAME THAT TUNE, but of course we don't always play by the rules here on THE COUCH...OK OK, hardly ever do we play by the rules...
Originally formed in 1965 after breaking away from another band Stein, Bogert and drummer Joey Brennan formed the Electric Pigeons. This was later changed to The pigeons.
Vince Martell joined shortly after.
An R&B cover band they spent time between NJ and Long island. They along with other east coast bands such as The vagrants (know who played lead guitar in this band?), The Illusion, The Good Rats, The Hassles (know who played organ in this band?), and a west coast bang The Sparrows (know who they became?) were in the background hidden behind the British Invasion and the west coast sound…but they worked the clubs hard up and down the eastern seaboard.
The Vagrants were one of the first bands to make elaborate productions out of other peoples music and The Pigeons took up with this idea of building inspired new arrangements to the covers they played.
Near the end of 1966, Joey Brennan left and carmine Appice joined the band lending his special qualities to their arrangements.
Early 1967 The Pigeons became the Vanilla Fudge.
At this time touring bands were constantly waging war on each other. The west coast bands vs. the east coasters and even within the east coast contingent, bands did not like each other.
One of the bands that warred with the Vanilla Fudge was Frank Zappa & the Mothers of Invention. Zappa even wrote a song lambasting the VF as “teen combo” of adolescent sexual deviants (Do you know the song?)
In 1969 a brand new band opened for the Vanilla Fudge when the Jeff Beck band backed out (YES, The VF were the headliners!)…this band toured with the Fudge for most of the fall…The band…Led Zeppelin.
This is an abbreviated history taken from the official web site for the band. To read the entire history and see how many bands the fudge played with over the years, you can find it HERE.
OH, the Guitar player from The Vagrants? Leslie West and many for that band became Mountain.
The organ player for the Hassles? Billy Joel.
The Sparrows? They became Steppenwolf.
The Song…I am not really sure of this one...Do YOU know?
On a personal note, I have original music by the Illusion (GREAT FREAKIN BAND!) and The Good Rats, who I also helped get gigs in Rochester, NY while in school there and one of my friends is mentioned in one of their songs.
The late 60’s – early 70’s on Long Island was a treasure chest of bands playing local clubs and many of the members went on to great things.
To hear more Vanilla Fudge, check them out at bestaudiocodes.com
Yes, it is WORDLESS WEDNESDAY and that means NAME THAT TUNE, but of course we don't always play by the rules here on THE COUCH...OK OK, hardly ever do we play by the rules...
Thank you to Turnbaby for pointing out that yesterday Ray Ray McElrathbey was named the 2007 FED EX ORANGE BOWL-FWAA COURAGE AWARD. The award is given to a player, coach or support person who shows courage on or off the field.What did this young man do to win the award? Well we profiled him back in September HERE and you can also read about him and the award HERE. Good things do happen to good people.
And before we get to the music...and the no words! Something happended yesterday afternoon and the dark blue background on the site just disappeared. We asked a few people and they could not see it either.An emergency email was dispatched to SANNI (The winner of the January 2, 2007 BESTEST BLOG OF THE DAY!) Hopefully she will come running with the calvery and some assistance... bear with us until then please. ALL IS BETTER THANKS AGAIN SANNI!
We only had two bad comments about the blue, but that does not mean that one day you will see it has darkened... always tinkering...Well, something else...hehehehe a new link on the side is to BAG WINE RUMINATIONS. It is the brainchild (or would that be conceived monster!) of Matt-Man (not my Matt), who we have run across on blogs all the time. This weekend, laying in bed, we decided to visit and man what a blast!He was away, but his friend Gouda Girl hosted a retrospective and reran three posts about a dinner party Matt-Man gave. Go search those posts out and this is a warning...do not drink any liquids while reading or cover your keyboard and monitor with plastic.
Now it is time for me to shut up and give you a chance to play the game.REMEMBER GIVE US:
The Band, members at the time the song was recorded, album, album the song first appeared on.
Get them all correct and the first three get their name in LIGHTS!
Dug into the vault...later we will give you some info on this interesting band.
