Boot Questions

YES, BOOT QUESTIONS

1/ What group had a famous boot entitled, Liver Than You'll Ever Be?

2/ What three acts are said to be the most booted?

3/ What two boot series arguably completely changed the bootleg landscape?

4/ What group was booted in Posters, Incense and Strobe Candles?

5/ Who was the artist featured in Rich For Poor?

ANSWERS LAST TIME OUT

1/ A lunchtime!

2/ Stand up, as Dirk was merely an amateur drinker.

3/ No, but Let it Be, did win an Oscar.

4/ Leppo was the so-called "5th Rutle."

5/ 20 minutes, their second record, even longer.

Rutle Questions

YES, RUTLE QUESTIONS

1/ How long did the Rutles music last?

2/ What did Nasty invite Dirk to do when they first met?

3/ Did Let it Rot ever win an Oskar?

4/ Who was the "fifth" Rutle?

5/ How long did it take to record Meet the Rutles?

ANSWERS LAST TIME OUT

1/ Midnight Cowboy

2/ Jon Voight and Dustin Hoffman. (Both lost)

3/ Hillary Swank

4/ The two big ones of 1973 were The Exorcist and The Sting. The Sting carried the day.

5/ Lawrence of Arabia, 1962

I Write The Questions Electric

OSCARS and SUCH

1/ What was the only movie rated X to receive an Academy Award nom?

2/ In the above movie, two actors were nomed for best. Who were they?

3/ What Academy best actress winner made less than $5000 salary for her work in 1999?

4/ In 1973, a comedy upset the front-runner for most Oscars. What were the two films, and who won the day?

5/ What movie should have got Peter O'Toole a best actor Oscar?

ANSWERS LAST TIME OUT

1/ Ringo Starr shouting "I've got blisters on me fingers," after completing the marathon take.

2/ To best the Who, who claimed to have made the heaviest record ever, in early 1968.

3/ Believe it or not, Charlie invited the Fabs to join The Family, at last according to the book, Helter Skelter, based on the Manson case and trial.

4/ The mono HS is a minute shorter, is sped up, has a louder lead vocal, and contains weird beeping sounds throughout, that the stereo version is lacking.

5/ Believe it or not, again, yes, HS was on the B side of the reissue of Got To Get You Into My Life, circa 1976. Due to the publicity surrounding the CBS TV movie Helter Skelter, of course no AM radio station dared to play it. And a bizarre choice indeed to accompany a jaunty tune like Life.

Look Out! Questions

1/ What was tacked on to the end of the stereo version of Helter Skelter from the complete, 22 minute take?

2/ What was Paul McCartney's explanation for the "heaviness" of Helter Skelter?

3/ What did Charles Manson write to the Beatles about in early 1969?

4/ What is so different about the mono version of HS?

5/ Was HS ever released as a single?

ANSWERS LAST TIME OUT

1/ Chicago 1, before they even knew there would be about 29 more.

2/ Meet The Press, which was also one of the first to be reguarly boradcat in colour.

3/ About 200MPH, and pulling up to 25 G's, about triple that of the fastest fighter jet.

4/ Runt

5/ Young Americans, although two years late for it's 30 anny.

Questions 67&68 Questions

A WHOLE BUNCH OF STUFF

1/ What Chicago Transit Authority album has a song that contains "The whole world is watching?"

2/ What is the longest running US network TV show?

3/ How fast can a peregrine falcon dive, as seen on PBS Nature?

4/ What was the name of Todd Rundgren's first solo album?

5/ What famous David Bowie album will soon be issued in 5.1?

ANSWERS LAST TIME OUT

1/ The book White Death, was about the famous Blizzard of '77, that hit Buffalo and parts of Western New York and southern Ontario in January, 1977.

2/ Listen the Snow is Falling, a b side to Happy X-Mass.

3/ The NHL is off to merry olde England, and London towne to start the 2007-8 season.

4/ Portage and Main, where it recently was really 40 below.

5/ Foreigner

Winter of Discontent Questions

GENERAL COLD&SUCH

1/ What was the book "White Death" about?

2/ Yoko Ono once wrote a song about frozen precip. What was it?

3/ The National Hockey League will play a regular season game next year overseas. Where?

4/ What street junction did Randy Bachman (Guess Who, BTO) write about as being 40 below?

5/ What late 70s mega rock band sang Cold As Ice?

ANSWERS LAST TIME OUT

1/ She Loves You and All You Need is Love.

2/ We Love You from Their Satanic Majesties Request.

3/ Well, he or she does in song.

4/ What else; LOVE!

5/ Love Songs, which has not (yet) had a (legit) CD release.

All You Need Is Love Day Questions

1/ What was the first, and last Beatles song to have the word, "love" in the title?

2/ What Rolling Stones song with the word "love" in the title had jail sounds on it?

3/ Does Cupid actually exist?

4/ In a later interview, what did George Harrison say he had not given up on?

5/ Did the Beatles ever have a an album devoted to love?

ANSWERS LAST TIME OUT:

1/ Given previous freak-outs, about 5 minutes or so.

2/ Given previous freak-outs, about 6 minutes, or so.

3/ According to several published reports, John Lennon and Paul McCartney were getting along better, and a discussion of a reunion was certainly possible, but George Harrison wanted no fookin' part.

4/ Nostalgia

5/ Partridge Family, Brady Bunch, DeFranco Family, WHAM, Village People, Klaatu

Here I Go Again: Questions!

REUNIONS

1/ What is your best guess at how long it will take for Police-men Sting and Stew Copeland to fall out?

2/ What is your best guess at how long it will take David Lee Roth and Van Halen to get pissed?

3/ How close were the Beatles to a reunion around 1975?

4/ Why does the music buying public adore reunions?

5/ Who should NEVER reunite?

ANSWERS LAST TIME OUT:

1/ From Me To You was reportedly performed by the Fabs at the rehearsal. So far, no confirmed tape of the performance has surfaced, although one bootleg listed it.

2/ Dear old departed Mal Evans was George Harrison for a day.

3/ It has been written that George Harrison got shot full of "vitamins" by a friendly doctor so the quiet one could make the gig.

4/ Murray The K, whom John Lennon referred to as "Wanker The K," and since Mur had no idea what a wanker was, he laughed.

5/ The number of viewers, said to be around 70 million was NOT the record amount of eyes on one TV broadcast, but WAS one of the highest percentage of viewers available as the US population was 200 million, and TV ownership was not a given. A Slate aritcle pegged the number of US viewers at half of all televisons in the country.

Questions About 43 Years Ago Today (Well if you read it, today)

BEATLES:

1/ What song was performed by the Fabs at the afternoon rehearsal of the Feb. 9, 1964, Ed Sullivan Show that WAS NOT performed for the live telecast?

2/ Who stood in for George Harrison at the rehearsal(s).

3/ According to lore, how did a very ill George make it to the show?

4/ Who was the precious NYCity DJ who John Lennon can be heard calling a "wanker" in a famous doc about the Beatles first US visit?

5/ Was the Beatles Feb. 9 performance the most watched TV program in US history?

ANSWERS LAST TIME OUT:

1/ As far as Surround Sound formats go, many experts cite Dolby Digital DVD-A as the "best," followed by DTS and SACD. Arguably, DVD-A posts the best tech numbers, that perhaps your dog can hear.

2/ Bethel, New York.

3/ Kanuckistan's kapitol, Ottawa, Ontario.

4/ Edie was sort of like a modern day Paris Hilton, only a lot more talented. Andy Warhol took Sedgwick under his warped wing, and she died of an OD at age 28. The new movie, Factory Girl, is based on her life.

5/One of the first-if not the first-was the still running Meet the Press on NBC.

Er, some additional Questions!

GENERAL and SUCH

1/ What 5.1 format is "technically" the "best?"

2/ What was the actual location for the 1969 Woodstock Music and Arts festival?

3/ Where did John Lennon meet the Canadian Prime Minister in 1969?

4/ Who was Edie Sedgwick, and why would anyone care?

5/ Name one of the first US TV programs to be regularly broadcast in colour.

ANSWERS LAST TIME OUT:

1/ Why, our very own Sir Pauly Mac!

2/ Cruising, directed by Willy Friedkin, was boycotted by gay groups opposed to the film's violent nature. The soundtrack-including Rough Trade- has not been reissued on CD, either.

3/ Why, our late, great friend, John Lennon. They exchanged nasty letters in a magazine.

4/ Hot L Baltimore was a 70s' ABC sitcom that never lived up to its hype.

5/ According to various published and video accounts, Dennis Hopper compiled a first cut of approx. 5 hours-which included the famous lost desert segment-before the studio stepped in and pronounced that 90 minutes was fine.

Holy Whatever, More Questions

TV, DVD and SUCH

1/ 40 years after the debut of Batman on TV, who bought Wayne Manor, for real?

2/ What controversial Al Pacino movie with a critically acclaimed soundtrack has not been released on DVD?

3/ Who did Todd Rundgren have a famous feud with?

4/ What was Hot L Baltimore?

5/ When Easy Rider was first edited by Dennis Hopper, how long was the movie?

ANSWERS LAST TIME OUT:

1/ Detroit and Cleveland, although it was actually 3 times for the Browns coming one game from the SB.

2/ A crazy thing called "simulcast," where the Canadian broadcaster on cable gets to remove the US commercials, and insert their own-usually-dumber ones. For instance, few in Canada without a satellite dish have ever seen a "Bud Bowl," live.

3/ Bud Grant (Minnesota Vikings) and Marv Levy (Buffalo Bills) lost 'em all. Bills 4 in a row.

4/ Bit of a trick: San Francisco is 5-0, but so far undefeated at 1-0 are NYJets, Balitmore Ravens, Tampa Bay Bucs., and now Indy Colts.

5/ The Raiders, for Oakland and Los Angeles.

For Sure, More Questions

SUPER BOWL

1/ What two storied NFL teams have never been in the Super Bowl. (Hint: both won several pre SB NFL championships, and one twice came within a game of the Super Bowl in the 80s.)

2/ The Super Bowl is a big ratings winner in Canada, but what machination drives Canuck cable subscribers nuts when they watch the big game?

3/ What two head coaches are 0-8 in the Super Bowl?

4/ What team has never lost a Super Bowl?

5/ Name the only NFL team to win a Super Bowl for two different cities.


ANSWERS LAST TIME OUT:

1/ Chris e-mailed to say that the hey Jude album featured the song hey Jude in a stereo mix for the first time, and Chris was right.

2/ The original Yellow Submarine mono LP was a simple reduction of the stereo version to monophonic sound.

3/ For reasons not clearly defined up to this point, Abbey Road was released in Japan on CD in late 1983. It was later withdrawn.

4/ By the time of the release of Magical Mystery Tour-the last North American issued Beatle album mixed in, and released in the mono format-the balance had shifted to stereo sales.

5/ Arguably-and in fact literally the only person who could be called 'the fifth Beatle" was the late Billy Preston.

Yes, More Questions

The Beatles AGAIN

1/ What was special about the version of Hey Jude on the album Hey Jude?

2/ Was there a mono mixed Yellow Submarine album?

3/ What was the first commercially released Beatles CD?

4/ When beatle albums first appeared in North America, approx 80% were sold in the mono format. What year and album pushed the ratio of stereo over mono, and led to the discontinuation of mono Beatle LP releases in the US.

5/ Who was the only logical "fifth Beatle?"

ANSWERS LAST TIME OUT

1/ Yes, BS&T, and no one seemed to care.

2/ Sorry Fred, so far, the FULL Hendrix ser has NOT been officially released in any legit format.
Two songs sung by a band mate, including Gypsy Woman, have never made the cut.

3/ Yes, those rascally Dead boys would not take a cheque, and forced promoters to go into town and wake a banker, open his vault, and get the band's dough., or no show.

4/ The short-lived Kosmic Blues Band backed Janis, but would soon be out.

5/ Yes Fast Freddy, there was an omission, although the Who's Summertime Blues was NEVER on the original LP soundtrack in any of it's forms; movie only. (A mono boot of the complete Who Woodstock 69 show has circulated, however). But the song that was left off the 25 Anny box that had fans and critics scratching their heads and bitchin', was in fact Wooden Ships, by Crosby Stills, Nash and Young. Finally, the Woodstock Diary I was thinking of was a companion 1994 singles CD release to the box set, that included otherwise unreleased material, including Sly and the Family Stone.