Book 'em Dano, Questions

1/ What shock rocker has a new book out-of all things-on golf?

2/ What 70s and 80s hellraiser no longer with us has a new biography coming in May?

3/ What famous rock star was offering mega bucks for an autobiography, and actually began, but grew bored and quit?

4/ What Bruce Spizer book is now an instant collectible?

5/ Who, among many, should write a book?

ANSWERS LAST TIME OUT

1/ The Live Earth concerts

2/ A box office bomb

3/ That depends on how.

4/ York, Mexico, Hampshire

5/ Used it in the tub for fun

Daft Questions

Oi!

1/ What is the name for the July 7,2007 concert for the enviro?

2/ What does "Grindhouse" mean?

3/ How many does it take to screw in a light-bulb?

4/ What's "new" in the USA?

5/ What did Zappa and the boys do with the mud-shark?

ANSWERS LAST TIME OUT

1/ I Don't Care Anymore

2/ The LA Express

3/ Miss O'Dell, of which there are two versions

4/ Gretsch

5/ The Day The World Gets Round

The Quiet One Questions

Stig meanwhile...

1/ What was the title of a b-side left off the Dark Horse LP?

2/ What group worked with George Harrison in 1974 and was also the first to be signed to Dark Horse records?

3/ What was the title of a b-side left off Living in the Material World?

4/ What make of guitar did George mostly employ in 1963?

5/ What song was performed only once during the Dark Horse Tour?

ANSWERS LAST TIME OUT:

1/ About 10,000 Boomer Babies were born per day at the height of the boom.

2/ About 80 million in the US, and another 10 mill in Canada.

3/ According to the PBS doc on the Boomers, 60 is about the new 40.

4/ The Beaver was for sure a Boomer-born 1948-but Wally missed by one year- born 1945.

5/ Woodstock! What were they thinking?!!!

Boomer Questions

Er...ah

1/ According to a recent PBS doc, how many babies were born every 8 seconds at the height of the Baby Boom brat explosion?

2/ How many total Boomer were born in North America?

3/ What's the "new" 60?

4/ Was the Beav a Boomer? Was Wally?

5/ Regarding the PBS doc, what seminal BB event somehow got no mention?

ANSWERS LAST TIME OUT:

1/ The Doors vinyl set will include the rare mono mix of the band's debut 1967 effort.

2/ The complete final performance as rendered at Bill Graham's Fillmore West, 1972

3/ Easy Action, but it is still in print, on CD. Check it out.

4/ Raunch and Roll, with Jim Dandy (to the rescue) and Black Oak Arkansas

5/ Massey Hall is in Toronto, Ontario, Canada

Music Questions

Yep, music:

1/ The Doors will release a special vinyl set of their 6 original LPs later this year. What makes it special?

2/ The Jefferson Airplane released last month a famous live concert. What was it?

3/ What was the title of Alice Cooper's second album, a much overlooked gem in the rough.

4/ Rhino handmade will release a special expanded edition of a very raunchy 70s band seminal live album. What is that LP?

5/ Neil Young just released Live at Massey Hall. Where is the venue located?

ANSWERS LAST TIME OUT:

1/ The immortal, Beverly Hillbillies

2/ Two. Jethro and Elly.

3/ Based on a real NYC detective, Toma was first, but lasted only one season.

4/ The Dick Van Dyke Show finished up during the 1965-6 season-when many other major sit-coms appeared for the first time in colour-but Rob and Laura stayed monochrome.

5/ Jonas

US Telly Questions

YES, US etc:

1/ What long running sit-com made its debut, incredibly, now some 45 years ago this coming September?

2/ Concerning the above which of the original major cast members are still with us?

3/ What came first, Toma, or Beretta?

4/ Was the Dick Van Dyke show ever broadcast in colour?

5/ What was Gilligan's skipper's first name?


ANSWERS LAST TIME OUT:

1/ the Cheap Show was a bizarre, one season game show with Dan Rowan featuring Oscar the Wonder Rodent. (No joke)

2/ Young Americans, two years late for its 30 year anniversary

3/ Do the Oz. Yech!

4/ Phil Spector at his first court appearance for murder, in 2003. (You had to see it, to believe it)

5/ NBC, for the most part.

All sorts of questions

Yes, all sorts of Q's

1/ What was the Cheap Show?

2/ What famous David Bowie album is being released shortly in 5.1?

3/ What is perhaps, arguably, the "worst" John Lennon solo song?

4/ What was, arguably, the worst hair-do in rock history?

5/ What television network televised the original AFL?


ANSWERS LAST TIME OUT:

1/ The Complete 1965 Shea Stadium Concert and Plastic Ono Band outtakes.

2/ Once, in 1965. The 1966 concert, as George Harrison wryly noted "only" drew about 40,000.

3/ The Help! digipack replicates the original vinyl gate-fold cover.

4/ No one knows.

5/ May Pang