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Title: (In)famous Pop Bloopers - You Know One? Post by: The Heartical Don on August 04, 2009, 12:14:40 AM OK, there is the Decca A&R manager who dismissed the very young Beatles with the epochal remark: 'Guitars Are On The Way Out'.
Who said about the Beatles at the dawn of the '60s, when asked to become their producer: 'Nah, Just A Bunch Of Noise, Copying Other People's Music'? If you know the answer, bring up a new one. If you don't, do so too.... Hope this works. I am fond of this kind of trivia. Title: Re: (In)famous Pop Bloopers - You Know One? Post by: Wrightfan on August 04, 2009, 04:20:59 PM That guy who told Elvis to "stick to driving trucks"
Title: Re: (In)famous Pop Bloopers - You Know One? Post by: donald on August 05, 2009, 08:55:29 AM I read in a recent goldmine about a couple of record companies that passed on the Beatles. One a&r guy or manager with Tommy Roe turned down the Beatles when Tommy brought back some recordings the Beatles had given him in England.
On a personal note, I recall seeing a picture of the Stones for the very first time in a newspapaer article of the latest Brit Invasion group. My first impression was that they were unspeakably ugly and weird looking and would never make it. Title: Re: (In)famous Pop Bloopers - You Know One? Post by: The Heartical Don on August 06, 2009, 02:12:17 AM I read in a recent goldmine about a couple of record companies that passed on the Beatles. One a&r guy or manager with Tommy Roe turned down the Beatles when Tommy brought back some recordings the Beatles had given him in England. On a personal note, I recall seeing a picture of the Stones for the very first time in a newspapaer article of the latest Brit Invasion group. My first impression was that they were unspeakably ugly and weird looking and would never make it. You were right re: the Stones, IMHO. Title: Re: (In)famous Pop Bloopers - You Know One? Post by: donald on August 06, 2009, 01:23:57 PM Actually I later learned that they DID make it. :lol
Title: Re: (In)famous Pop Bloopers - You Know One? Post by: Rocker on August 07, 2009, 12:01:37 PM Someone once told I'd never become a big rockstar.... I'm still trying to prove him wrong..... :-[
No really, I guess every band has heard that they'll never make it. Some just did make it, but most didn't. Fogerty was told by some guy to be quiet when he played an early version of "Born on the bayou" at a rehearsal. Johnny Cash told Roy Orbison in the beginning he shouldn't sing that high if he wanna be succesful. Title: Re: (In)famous Pop Bloopers - You Know One? Post by: Alex on August 07, 2009, 05:47:08 PM Would the Lovester's RnR Hall of Fame speech count as a blooper?!! :lol :lol
Title: Re: (In)famous Pop Bloopers - You Know One? Post by: The Heartical Don on August 09, 2009, 11:58:48 PM Would the Lovester's RnR Hall of Fame speech count as a blooper?!! :lol :lol Hmmm... no. It was a well-meant and serious incentive to all other pop greats to put in a lot more effort. Pop was in a state of rigor mortis then, and Mike Love was the only one courageous enough to address the matter. Without the Lovester, the world would have returned to the Charleston, the Foxtrot, and the Quickstep. Mike Love singlehandedly saved rock music, aside from his invention of the internet. He's our own Homo universalis. Title: Re: (In)famous Pop Bloopers - You Know One? Post by: Alex on August 10, 2009, 08:51:47 AM Would the Lovester's RnR Hall of Fame speech count as a blooper?!! :lol :lol Hmmm... no. It was a well-meant and serious incentive to all other pop greats to put in a lot more effort. Pop was in a state of rigor mortis then, and Mike Love was the only one courageous enough to address the matter. Without the Lovester, the world would have returned to the Charleston, the Foxtrot, and the Quickstep. Mike Love singlehandedly saved rock music, aside from his invention of the internet. He's our own Homo universalis. I thought he was just calling a bunch of rock stars to a fight!! :lol :lol :lol Title: Re: (In)famous Pop Bloopers - You Know One? Post by: Jason on August 11, 2009, 10:28:17 PM Would the Lovester's RnR Hall of Fame speech count as a blooper?!! :lol :lol Hmmm... no. It was a well-meant and serious incentive to all other pop greats to put in a lot more effort. Pop was in a state of rigor mortis then, and Mike Love was the only one courageous enough to address the matter. Without the Lovester, the world would have returned to the Charleston, the Foxtrot, and the Quickstep. Mike Love singlehandedly saved rock music, aside from his invention of the internet. He's our own Homo universalis. Michael invented the interwebs? Don't tell Al Gore. :) Title: Re: (In)famous Pop Bloopers - You Know One? Post by: Alex on August 12, 2009, 08:21:59 AM Another blooper: Jimi Hendrix opening for the Monkees!! Though I would have loved to see one of those shows.
Title: Re: (In)famous Pop Bloopers - You Know One? Post by: hypehat on August 12, 2009, 09:14:03 AM Johnny Cash told Roy Orbison in the beginning he shouldn't sing that high if he wanna be succesful. IIRC, he also said he should change his name, because no-one would remember 'Orbison' :lol Title: Re: (In)famous Pop Bloopers - You Know One? Post by: Rocker on August 13, 2009, 10:19:31 AM Another "blooper" : Everyone who tried following Jerry Lee Lewis on stage in the 50s and 60s.
Oh, and what about Sinatra's comments on Rock'n'Roll and it's fans....? |