Bonaphone?

she's playing a PVC pipe. She's smacking the top of it with a floppy rubber paddle, kinda like a ping pong paddle.

Nope, and nope.

*ding*

Time's up ...

The correct answer is: Microphone Stand

Which is why UT got closest with "performed into a metallic pipe-like thing and micd at the other end of that thing."

He just missed the leap of illogic necessary for a wholly correct response.

But I will hit the tip jar in honor of the effort. Actually, I'll hit the tip jar because I want to, the response is just a handy excuse.

Try something easier then... What beautiful, tasteful Brit singer/songwriter only found success after Eminem sampled one of her songs... many years after it was originally recorded?

Dido

But that song totally got airplay when it came out, at least around here... I was under the impression she was pretty successful before Eminem, though he definitely introduced her to a new demographic.


Name the popular 60s musician who has since retired from music completely, and now teaches high-level math courses at a university in California.

Zappa?

Zappa is, regrettably, deceased.

Oh, I guess he isn't teaching anymore either?

:blush:

No, he's still teaching. Maybe not higher level math courses, though.

No, not Zappa.

And I've realized it's not entirely accurate to place him squarely in the sixties, so I wish to amend the clue to note that he was also popular in the late fifties, and mostly already retired by the late sixties.

If I go to a "dead/not dead" website, would that be cheating?

This *is* a pop performer and not a novelty performer, right? We're not talking about Tom Lehrer, I am assuming?

You would be assuming wrong. I count Tom Lehrer as a fine musician! :) Elspode is correct...

Always check IotD -- Lehrer retired from teaching five years ago.

Crap, I hadn't realized that! I suck. At least you're not telling me he died, I'd be really upset then.

Peter Tork?

Okay, I guess I get to do another one...lessee....

What did Tony Kaye do many years before becoming the late-80's/early 90's keyboardist for Yes?

Taught high level math?

He attended grade school. ;)

Before he was the keyboardist for Yes, he was the keyboardist for Yes.

...and in-between, The Buggles. UT wins!

You sure about that Buggles?

Nope. I was confused. I will claim that I was still using mind altering substances in those days, and managed to confuse Geoff Downes' stint with Yes with Kaye's.

I surrender my music trivia question-posting rights as penance.

Well you've just answered my trivia question correctly.

But, if you're really surrendering,

Only one Elvis Costello song ever charted in the US as a single. Which one?

Every Day I Write The Book.

...Either that or Allison.

Right the first time, well played

this one's a double question; only ONE needs to be answered.

A.) What colour is Mick Ronson's guitar? Google Image Searching IS okay for this.

B.) What is the only style of guitar playing officially named after a person?

Well, the pics' quality is widely varied, but I finally found a good shot of a blonde/natural finished Les Paul Custom, which seems consistent with most of the other live pics I saw (where I thought for awhile it might have been a goldtop).

BZZZZT. Incorrect.

b. django'esqe?

Slowhand Blues

django'esqe isn't an 'official' style, and slowhand blues isnt named after anyone.

Keep tryin', Elspode.

I need clarification...is this the guitar you are referencing as Mick Ronson's guitar? If so, then are we talking:

1) Original color?
2) Replacement headstock color?
3) Color terminology dispute?

Clearly, I am not the Mick Ronson fan that you are, Ibram... :)

Yes, the original colour.

Eric Clapton?

Is his name Eric Slowhand?

From Spode's link

His nic is Slowhand.:dedhorse:

Laddie...you should have *said* "What is the original color of Mick Ronson's guitar". :rolleyes:

I thought the fact that he expressly allowed Google image searches made it clear it was a trcki question of some sort. Personally, I thought it was going to be something along the lines of "his is in a museum, he actually plays his friend's guitar in concerts..."

No, actually, he's dead, so he doesnt do many concerts.

Jinx got it. It's a BLACK Les Paul Standard, with the top sanded down and revarnished.

So is it too late for me to guess Flamenco?

it is, but you're wrong anyway

*fantasizes about multiple choice questions*

Ok. Describe the original/banned artwork for the GnR Appetite for Destruction album. Bonus points if you name the artist.

Easy, the inner artwork, with the robot and the demon and the chick with the panties around her shins.

Right on, Robot Rape Scene by Robert Williams.

Was the guitar style named after Maybell Carter?

The meaning behind 'Led Zeppelin'? The name of the band.

Isn't it Ibram's turn again?

sorry, I didn't read the rules, Passed over the rules or I'm an idiot or all of the above.

please continue:redface:

I'm sure you aren't an idiot, m'dear. Myself, I'm not so sure about.

no , not you kind sir :)

The guitar style in question is Travis Picking, named after Merle Travis.

Who played guitar in the song China Girl by David Bowie, who co-wrote the song, and why did David Bowie include it on Let's Dance?

More importantly--how does Ibram know all this obscure stuff?

Wasn't that Carlos Alomar?

I know all this stuff 'cause music is my life. And at the moment it's manifesting itself as a Bowie fixation, hence so many bowie/ronson questions. I've got a few others up my sleeve though that ARENT bowie, so yeah.

EDIT: Not Carlos Alomar, no.

No, Elspode, wrong!

Wikipedia sez Iggy Pop cowrote with Bowie in the 70's, and that it was resurrected and popified for Let's Dance.

I have no idea why it was included, though. Perhaps because Bowie was trying to kick smack at the time?

"Officer Barbrady, I call shenanigans!"