Less Talk More Rokk (Oooo! A Game!)

[Kid_A]

I've been toying with this idea for a while now, and since there's been a lull lately, now seems to be the time to introduce it. Let's just hope it goes somewhere.

The name of the game is Musical Six Degrees of Separation.

You can name a song, a band, a band member, or an album. (I'll consider accepting concert venues if there's a difficulty with certain topics.)

Example:

Led Zeppelin

The Yardbirds. Jimmy page was involved in the project, and the band pretty much evolved into Led Zeppelin.

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The Yardbirds

Eric Clapton. Member of the band.

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Eric Clapton

Cream. Clapton's 60's project.

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Cream

Covered Rollin' & Tumblin, a Muddy Waters tune.

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Muddy Waters

The Rolling Stones named themselves after his song, "Rollin' Stone."



I realize this wasn't a great example, but hopefully you get the idea.

So, let's start off where I left off, I guess.



The Rolling Stones.

[Bird Flu]

David Crosby was a founding member of The Byrds.

[One Of Light]

The Byrds 12-string Rickenbacker-laden sound was a huge inspiration on many artists, most noteably George Harrison and Tom Petty, whose albums with "The Heartbreakers" featured similar guitar textures abound.

[Dan]

Tom Petty once lent his voice to an episode of The Simpons. Another famous musician who followed suit was Mick Jagger.

[coheed]

Mick Jagger and Rob Thomas co-wrote matchbox twenty's hit song "Disease."

[One Of Light]

Rob Thomas was also involved in the writing and recording of two songs with Willie Nelson, one of which was Maria (Shut Up and Kiss Me).

[Kid_A]

Nelson released Across the Borderline in 1993 with many guest artists including Sinéad O'Connor.

[One Of Light]

O'Connor's first hit, "Nothing Compares 2 U," was originally performed by Prince side project The Family.

[Kid_A]

Split!
http://forums.gamewinners.com/forums/showthread.php?t=581572


Prince had barely finished recording tracks for the Family in 1984 when he moved on to recording two more albums, one for himself and one for 80's star Sheila E.

[One Of Light]

Sheila E. collaborated with Gloria Estefan in 2007 on the hit "No Llores," which also featured Carlos Santana and Jose Feliciano.

[Spindrift]

Early congrats on 1k posts, Kid_A. :P

Jose Feliciano is one of many artists to be born blind. Another famous one is Stevie Wonder.

[One Of Light]

Early congrats on 1k posts, Kid_A. :P

Jose Feliciano is one of many artists to be born blind. Another famous one is Stevie Wonder.
Stevie Wonder played on Lenny Kravitz' version of "Deuce" by KISS on the tribute album KISS my A$$.

[Fire King]

Lenny Kravitz opened for Aerosmith on their Rockin' the Joint tour. (Which I saw!)

[One Of Light]

Aerosmith helped usher in the whole rock/rap fusion period with Run-DMC when the latter remixed the former's song "Walk This Way."

[TravisTouchdown]

Who was inducted into the hall of fame by Eminem

[One Of Light]

Who performed on the Grammy awards some years ago with Elton John.
whose middle name is Hercules after he changed it.

[Bird Flu]

Elton John is behind only Madonna and The Beatles in terms of most frequently charting.

[Dan]

Which one am I supposed to refer to?

[Bird Flu]

Madonna. My bad.

[One Of Light]

Madonna met her last husband, Guy Richie, through a long-time friendship with Sting.

[Tequila Sunrise]

After The Police, Sting created a band which was dubbed "The Secret Police" which included the likes of many famous musicians, such as Eric Clapton.

[Fire King]

One of Eric Clapton's most notable live performances was with Dire Straits.

[One Of Light]

Impressed with what he heard from Dire Straits, especially the song "Sultans of Swing," Bob Dylan invited Mark Knopfler to play on his record "Slow Train Coming."

[Kid_A]

Bob Dylan's son Jakob Dylan headed up 90's band The Wallflowers.

[RedHotSun]

After the release of their album Breach, they went on tour with Tom Petty.

[Kid_A]

Tom Petty was in the star-studded band the Traveling Wilburys with Roy Orbison.

[RedHotSun]

Roy Orbison was inducted into the Rock and Roll Hall of Fame in 1987. Another inductee that year was Muddy Waters.

[One Of Light]

Muddy Waters so-called "comeback" LP in the late seventies was not only produced, but also featured some blazing guitar work, by Johnny Winter.

[RedHotSun]

When Johnny Winter and his brother Edgar played at Woodstock, his act was followed by Crosby, Stills, Nash, and Young.

[One Of Light]

One of CSNY's biggest radio songs to this day is their version of Woodstock, originally recorded by Joni Mitchell.

[Tequila Sunrise]

The chorus of Joni Mitchells "Big Yellow Taxi" was used in one of Janet Jacksons hits titled "Got T'il Its Gone" which also featured rapper Q-Tip.

[Kid_A]

Q-Tip the rapper is possibly more famous than Q-Tip, the cotton swap, as a google search brings up the former before it does the latter. Heh.
Q-Tip the rapper is best known for being a member of the group A Tribe Called Quest.

[One Of Light]

A Tribe Called Quest, despite numerous lucrative deal offers in their early days, wound up signing with Jive Records, at the time a small independent label specializing in rap artists. However, later in the life of the label, it wound up being the leaders in the pop resurgence of the 90's, bringing artists such as Britney Spears and the Backstreet Boys to the scene. (I use the term "music" loosely in this circumstance)

[Kid_A]

The Backstreet Boys were founded by boy band mogul Lou Pearlman who also found other groups like O-Town, LFO and N*SYNC.

[One Of Light]

The only member of N*Sync to have a profitable solo career after the fact was Justin Timberlake, and while I'm not a fan, I must admit that he is on ONE song I really like... "Where Is The Love?" by the Black-Eyed Peas.

[TravisTouchdown]

The Black-Eyed peas should be arrested for crimes against music. Also arrested for crimes was DMX

[One Of Light]

DMX is a major douchebag. Another major douchebag that comes to mind is that guy from Death Cab For Cutie, the one who's marrying Zooey Deschanel.

[Tequila Sunrise]

Thought this thread was suppose to support facts and not opinion, try again.

The name "Death Cab For Cutie" was derived from the film Magical Mystery Tour that starred The Beatles

[TravisTouchdown]

The Beatles, much like this thread, were victims of minimodding. Except theirs was by Yoko Ono. Yoko Ono was involved in the production of The Beatles: Rock Band.

Freezepop is also known for working with Harmonix.

[Fire King]

Freezepop made a song dedicated to the webcomic Achewood, Here Comes a Special Boy. MC Frontalot not only wrote the "official" theme song for Achewood, Livin' on the Corner of Dude and Catastrophe, but that song is also featured DLC for Rock Band.