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Music History Quiz 6
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12/10/2007

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Who did the Rolling Stones arrange to keep security at the Altamonte concert?
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The Hell's Angels
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Why did Syd Barret only make one album with Pink Floyd
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Mental instability accelerated by drug use
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About how many people made it to the Woodstock festival of 1969?
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450,000
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What type of music did Aretha Franklin sing and record before being discovered by John Hammond?
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Soul Gospel
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What rock band is touted as "The Greatest Rock n Roll Band" from the 1970's to today?
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he Rolling Stones
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What is a Mellotron?
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The first sampling keyboard, utilizing a magnetic tape loop
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Who originally led the English art rock band Genesis?
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Peter Gabriel
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LP's finally outsold singles by the end of which decade?
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1960's
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What is the name of Led Zeppelin's manager, who successfully challenged live venue contracts moving more money towards the musicians who performed
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Peter Grant
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What record label gave Aretha Franklin the freedom to make pop R & B records in a heavy gospel style?
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Atlantic
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Joni Mitchell collaborated with what famous jazz composer/bassist to set songs inspired by TS Elliot in the 1970's?
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Jaco Pastorious
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When did the Singer Songwriter era begin?
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Early 1970's
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What band's music reveled in black magic fantasy, drugs, and mental illness, and redefined heavy with giant, primitive, scary riffs?
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Black Sabbath
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Which artist mixed a poetic Dylanesque lyric with folk jazz and R&B to create classic albums including Astral Weeks and Moondance?
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Van Morrisson
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What former head of Columbia records began Artista in the early 1970's?
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Clive Davis
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What British group became successful on the basis of a record that was a result of them being hired to make a stereo demonstration record, and went to the top of the charts with Nights in White Satin?
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Moody Blues
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What company first manufactured 24 track Audio Tape Recorders?
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MCI
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What was the longest lasting and most successful progressive rock group?
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Yes
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Who took Columbia Records to profitability in Rock n Roll?
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Clive Davis
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What singer/songwriter of the late 1960's and early 1970's spent time in mental institutions and became known for his confessional honest lyrics?
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James Taylor
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What artist was known as the working man's hero renowned for his marathon concerts?
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Bruce Springstein
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Which production team popularized Bubble Gum?
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Jerry Kasanetz, and Jeff Katz
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What bass player was the first to bring out slap bass?
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Larry Graham
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After Peter Gabriel left, which drummer, who had been mostly backup singing took over as lead singer?
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Phil Collins
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What LP has the record number of weeks on the Billboard charts?
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Pink Floyd's Dark Side of the Moon
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Which British glam rock artist hired Broadway designers to fabricate rock's first full concert stage sets?
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David Bowie
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What year did full built to order recording consoles appear?
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1967
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True or False: Sly Stone had studied composition and Trumpet in college, became a successful radio DJ, and produced records for bands before starting Sly and the Family Stone.
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True
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What rock folk artist devised shocking displays of grandiose violence as a part of the entertainment?
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Alice Cooper
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What San Francisco radio DJ and musician formed a funk band that featured black/white, male/female members?
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Sly Stone
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"The American Tribal Love Rock Musical" Hair appeared in what year?
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1968
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Progressive rock has a strong influence from what other type of music?
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Classical
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hich folk artist cofounded the World Hunger fund?
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Harry Chapin
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When did the big record retail chains begin to appear?
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1970's
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What folk artist has recently been hailed as the godfather of grunge and alternative music?
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Neil Young
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Jimmy Webb is best known as a _______
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Songwriter
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When did the funk style come together under James Brown with Cold Sweat
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1967
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What was the name of James Brown's top notch 1960s funk musicians who made a series of their own recordings under their same name
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The JBs
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Which highly successful publishing veteran of the Brill Building era later picked put all of the early of the early hits for the monkees tv show and records
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Don Kirshner
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where was the rolling stones disastrous free altamont speedway concert originally to be held
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San Francisco Golden Gate Park
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what singer/songwriter spent time in mental institutions and later became known for his artful personal lyrics in songs like fire and rain
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James Taylor
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which of the following folk artists cofounded the world hunger in the 1970s raising more than $5 million to feed famished people around the orld
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Harry Chapin
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what british folk rock band launched the solo careers of both sandy denny and richard thompson
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Fairport Convention
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whose production style was employed on bruce springsteins breakthrough born to run
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Phil spector
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the pioneering led zepplin began as a new improvising version of what famous 1960s british blus rock band
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The yardbirds
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which costume glam rock artist added violent theatrics to their live shows and were voted the gallups polls most popular band in 1977
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Kiss
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Who was the producer to produce Alice Coopers first hit records and went on to produce the first platinum selling kiss release
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Bob Ezrin
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what event led to Santanas signing with Columbia Records in 1969
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Woodstock
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Southern rock gets its sound from what two predominant roots styles
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Blues and Country
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Ronnie Van Zant was the lead singer and songwriter of what southern rock group
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Lynrd Skynrd
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which rock band fused blues and country with additional influences expertly stretching out songs to over 30 minutes becoming the precursor for a wave of southern rock bands that followed them
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The Allman Brothers
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Which group came to become the most successful southern california band their greatest hits release later becoming the all time best selling us release
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The Eagles
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the grateful dead made a shift away from psychedelia towards what style of music in the early 1970s
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Folk and Country
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who produced the eagles first two albums including take it easy as well as many classic albums of the rolling stones, the steve miller band, the csn, and eric clapton
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Glyn Johns
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