The Alternative Rock Factfile. It's Back for a Christmas Edition!

[Maude]

Most rehearsal rooms have a few spare kettle leads kicking around for amps but never any spare amp leads for the kettle.

[Norris]

Rubber-lipped Aerosmith singer Steve Tyler once won a trade award for the quality of his grout work

[FinnDave]

Rolling Stones guitarist Keith has never forgiven his brother for going on a summer holiday without him.

[yorks5stringer]

George Zebra did not trouble the charts until he changed his name slightly

Paradoxically Jim Kerr is a member of Mensa

London Grammer all went to private schools

When the Men They Couldn't Hang split up, they formed Slipnot

Pharrell Williams used to be in Hatfield and the North, then left to join Foghat before embarking on a solo career

Genesis were the first ever Rock Band, ever

Both the Arctic Monkeys and Coldplay have a clause in their Concert Contracts forbidding them to share the same bill

Taylor Swift was the unseen member of the Bryds

Cat Stevens tried to join the Byrds but was unsuccessful

Pink Floyd were unsuccessful until Pink joined up with Keith Floyd.

[Bikenbass]

Adele is capable of singing only one note, the other two are autotune.

[Roland Rock]

Seal goes clubbing

[spike]

[quote name='ras52' timestamp='1415726151' post='2603109']
Desmond Dekker has an identical twin brother who works as a bus driver.
[/quote]

And his other brother owns a large power tool company in partnership with the drummer from The Stranglers

[Phil Adams]

Elvis was of Spanish descent. He was christened "El Vis" (meaning, The Fish") owing to his unusual body odour. When aiming for stardom, the Colonel advised him to remove the space in his name, and to have a bath

[leschirons]

[quote name='keeponehandloose' timestamp='1415736941' post='2603284']
when Kansas split up ex members were heard to say
" I guess......"
[/quote]

Correct. They were speaking to Steve Lukather and David Paitch at the time.

[leschirons]

Cheeky "Oirish" 70's popster Gilbert O Sullivan once worked as a pirate in Cornwall.

[Earbrass]

Hawkwind's [i]In Search of Space[/i] and Yes's [i]Close to the Edge[/i] were both inspired by the period when Nik Turner and Jon Anderson shared an inadequately sized bed in a cramped Ladbroke Grove squat.

[yorks5stringer]

Speaking of The Edge, he always stands stage right

George Benson always rates his Hotel beds for firmness when on Tour

Female Bass icon Tal Wilkenfeld is actually just 5'1"

Only early Kenny Rodgers and the First Edition records are prized by collectors

Folk Supergroup The Oysterband only Tour when there is an "R" in the month

Frank Zappa's first band were called "Necessity"

Eastend hardman Danny Dyer left the band he co-founded with Mark Knopfler before their first hit, "Sultans of Swing". Sultans of Swing is of course Cockney rhyming slang

Founder members of the Hollies included Chuck Berry, Ronnie Wood, and Lief Erickson

Happy Mondays frontman Shaun Ryder gave up the music scene to spend more time with his wife Sue running their charity shops

Dionne Warwick has been so far unsuccessful in getting an endorsement from the German Bass makers of the same name. She does however have unlimited access to Warwick Castle when in the UK.

60's barefooted singer Sandy Shaw was born in Seahouses

Edited November 12, 2014 by yorks5stringer

[Norris]

Marianne Faithful had a string of affairs in the 60s

[UglyDog]

The Crowded House song “Weather With You” was originally written by a little-known and short-lived supergroup consisting of Melvyn Gale of ELO, Snowy White, Gene Rains, Sun Ra, and the members of Thunderclap Newman.

[Roland Rock]

Crazy God of Hellfire rocker Arthur Brown, when he removes his face paint, is actually comedian Arthur Smith

[Japhet]

Doctor John is not a Doctor at all. He's a Dentist.

[UglyDog]

It is fairly common knowledge that the band Jefferson Starship was formed by several members of the previous band Jefferson Airplane.
What is less well known is that this previous band had a large number of earlier incarnations, dating right back to the late 18th century string quartet Jefferson Spinning-Jenny.

Edited November 12, 2014 by UglyDog

[flyfisher]

Lynyrd Skynrd were all big rugby fans and named their band in the Welsh tradition of not using vowels.

[Dad3353]

[quote name='UglyDog' timestamp='1415790494' post='2603740']
It is fairly common knowledge that the band Jefferson Starship was formed by several members of the previous band Jefferson Airplane.
What is less well known is that this previous band had a large number of earlier incarnations, dating right back to the late 18th century string quartet Jefferson Spinning-Jenny.
[/quote]

...which reminds me of the occasion when their lead singer was arrested for driving with bald tyres, but the charge was dropped.

[pfretrock]

[quote name='FinnDave' timestamp='1415746562' post='2603452']
Rolling Stones guitarist Keith has never forgiven his brother for going on a summer holiday without him.
[/quote]
Known to his closest friend as 'spider', inventor of The Tour Bus.

[ras52]

The American Meteorological Society withdrew its Seal of Approval from The Weather Girls after an extensive study revealed inaccuracies in their reports.

[yorks5stringer]

Teenage heart-throbs Script all met at Medical School

When Funeral for a Friend broke up, 3 of their members went on to form Ash

[yorks5stringer]

[quote name='ras52' timestamp='1415802607' post='2603932']
The American Meteorological Society withdrew its Seal of Approval from The Weather Girls after an extensive study revealed inaccuracies in their reports.
[/quote]


KC and the Sunshine Band had a similar occurance

[mike f]

Despite their claims, Lindisfarne never actually gained legal ownership of the fog on the Tyne

[yorks5stringer]

Members of Royal Blood include Steve Earle, the Ashbory Dukes, Evelyn "Champagne" King, Prince, and Queen