You pick a group, any group and I'll tell you a story about them.

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   Shirley Andersonposted 15 years ago

   I love the Stray Cats....wish they'd made more music.
   
   I did not know that Klaatu was based an hour away from me!  Cool.
   
   Thx, oh wise one, oh Wizard of all things musical.  I just knew you'd be able to answer my questions.
   
   I have to say it again - YOU ROCK!  (both literally and figuratively)

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   Astralbexposted 15 years ago

   Hi
   
   Your doing an excellent job DJ
   
   If you fancy adding Tangerine Dream to that long list of your's I'd be interested to see where they are now.

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      DJ Funktualposted 15 years agoin reply to this

      Thanks Astralbex and may I say...based on your avatar I was expecting you to say ADAM & THE ANTS!   "We're just following ancient history, if I strip for me you, will you strip for me? ohuhoh!"
      That's a line from from STRIP by ADAM ANT ~~ I was not coming on to her! 

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         Astralbexposted 15 years agoin reply to this

         LOL
         
         Well bless him Adams an old chap now but I loved him back in the 80's.My favorite track must be 'Kings of the Wild Frontier'. Feel free to add him to the list.
         
         'Standing' by so you can 'Deliver'! .....you can come on to me 'Prince Charming' any time you like!    hehe

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            DJ Funktualposted 15 years agoin reply to this

            Careful there..."I'm desperate but not serious."  Little miss Goody Two Shoes.

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   quotationsposted 15 years ago

   Hi DJ,
   
   I used to love listening to Voice of  the Beehive from the 80s and 90s. What can you tell me about them?

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      DJ Funktualposted 15 years agoin reply to this

      WINNER WINNER WINNER WINNER WINNER WINNER WINNER WINNER WINNER WINNER WINNER WINNER WINNER **&*&^$%$@!  tilt tilt TILT....*
      
      CONGRATULATIONS QUOTATIONS YOU'VE JUST WON !!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!
      
      winner winner winner winner winner winner winner winner 
      
      THERE HAS BEEN A SECRET CONTEST GOING ON THIS WHOLE TIME!!!!
      
      and the WINNER IS quotations!     Congratulations.
      
      By suggesting ONE of the 20 rare groups I listed on my PC!
      
      WOW WOW WOW WOW WOW WOW WOW WOW
      
      QUOTATIONS HAS DONE IT!!!!!!!
      
      A ~~~VOICE OF THE BEEHIVE~~~ POSTING WILL APPEAR ASAP!!!!

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   DJ Funktualposted 15 years ago

   MY LOVE AFFAIR WITH VOICE OF THE BEEHIVE BEGAN WITH THEIR VERY FIRST SONG....called.......THE BEAT OF LOVE.  http://youtube.com/watch?v=EJMjpXoHxRI
   
   (words t.bryn/music t.bryn, brad nack)
   
   (temptation rap by m. brooke)
   
   
   The beat of love is a nasty one.
   
   it's a flame from the devils fire.
   
   'cause nothing is stronger than boys and their eyes
   
   and it's worse when you know he's a liar.
   
   it's just the beat of love.
   
   
   
   the beat of love is a nasty one
   
   they promise you heaven they promise you fun then the
   
   next thing you know you are down on the floor
   
   and you think you're in love
   
   oh heaven above
   
   it's just the beat of love.
   
   
   
   you take my mind and you cheat it.
   
   you take my body and heat it
   
   then you take my heart and you beat it
   
   and the beat of love goes on.
   
   
   
   it's just the beat of love
   
   
   
   the beat of love is a nasty one
   
   people bang on the door to get in
   
   then one they're inside they just want to be free
   
   and they bang at the doors with a beat they can't see
   
   it's the beat of love.
   
   
   
   it's just the beat of love.
   
   
   
   the beat of love is a nasty one
   
   there are all kinds of ways to get banged.
   
   they'll tell you is violence they'll tell you it's sex
   
   they'll tell you that it's all the same.
   
   
   
   the beat of love is a nasty one
   
   there all kinds of ways to go down
   
   she slams her hips and then she slams the door
   
   and then wonders why he's not around
   
   
   
   love is a life nerve
   
   a mission
   
   a principle
   
   the grand passion
   
   temptation
   
   
   
   it's just the beat of love.
   
   WOO HOO WOO HOO!!!!!!

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   DJ Funktualposted 15 years ago

   THEIR DEBUT ALBUM
   let it bee
   ~~ featured the following amazing tracks..
   
   1) The Beat of Love***
   2) Sorrow Floats
   3) Don't Call Me Baby***
   4) Man On The Moon
   5) What You Have Is Enough
   6) Oh Love
   7) I Walk The Earth***
   8) Trust Me
   9) I Say Nothing***
   10) There's a Barbarian in the Back of My Car***
   11) Just a City
   12) This Weak
   13) Jesus
   
   THEIR SOPHOMORE EFFORT
   honey lingers
   ~~ featured these little ditties..
   1) Monsters and Angels***
   2) Adonis Blue
   3) I Think I Love You***
   4) Look At Me
   5) Beauty To My Eyes
   6) Just Like You
   7) Little Gods
   8) I'm Shooting Cupid
   9) Say It
   10) Perfect Place
   
   THEIR BREAKTHROUGH ALBUM
   sex & misery
   ~~featured a more polished sound and some airplay..
   1) Scary Kisses***
   2) New Day
   3) Angel Come Down
   4) Moon of Dust
   5) I'm Still In Love
   6) Love Looked Inside
   7) Playing House
   8) Heavenly
   9) Blue in Paradise
   10) So Hard***
   11) Moonblind
   
   WINNER WINNER WINNER WINNER WINNER ~~~~~ quotations~~~~~~
   
   You HaVe BrOken mY BraIn!!
   
   #@$^%&(*987362775092839yij]pgjbmnofpdsbm
   oyjrb -ba\0gi d[z\hk-=xgis-
   n rd]-u0kl,og-ds]uv0xduhjbn9uj09y-5im] 09yujod;ginbx'
   
   I shot a video for a VOICE OF THE BEEHIVE studio freakout..
   it is uploading into youtube....
   stay tuned..

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   quotationsposted 15 years ago

   Wow DJ I never met anyone else who liked the Voice of The Beehive! I'm amazed.
   
   My favorite song of theirs was Say It and I also liked Monsters and Angels.

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      DJ Funktualposted 15 years agoin reply to this

      The albums are progressively worse since the debut I think.
      
      I WALK THE EARTH is such a chill vibe.   the Beat of Love though is the one that takes me right back.  That song could have been huge if anybody had heard it.

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   DJ Funktualposted 15 years ago

   R.E.M. ~~~  (Rapid Eye Movement)
   Michael Stipe  - 1/4/60  ~~ Peter Buck 12/6/56 ~~ Mike Mills 12/17/56 ~~ Bill Berry 7/31/58
   RECORDED >> 1981 - PRESENT
   HOMETOWN >> Athens Georgia
   SUPRISE >> Recorded with Warren Zevon as HINDU LOVE GODS in 1990
   MEDIC >> Bill Berry suffered a Brain Aneurysm onstage in Lausanne, Switzerland 3/1/95 left the group in October '97
   
   Masterpiece - LOSING MY RELIGION 1991 - R.E.M were trying to shed their Big Rock  reputation when they recorded this "Freak Hit" -MS in which the lead instrument is the Mandolin.  http://youtube.com/watch?v=2NQeSIkw3X0  Timeless Video as well.
   
   My Favorite - Orange Crush
   
   Essentials
   
   Superman
   Radio Free Europe ~~ first released on Hib-tone then later for I.R.S Records
   So. Central Rain (I'm Sorry)
   (Don't Go Back to) Rockville
   Can't Get There From Here
   Driver 8
   Fall On Me
   The One I Love
   It's The End of the World As We Know It (And I Feel Fine)
   Finest Worksong
   Stand ~~~ Which Became The Theme to Chris Elliott's Hilariously Bad sitcom "Get a Life"
   Radio Song '89 ~~ featurng legendary Rapper KRS-One
   Losing My Religion
   Shiny Happy People featuring Kate Pierson of The B-52's
   Drive
   Man On The Moon ~~~ Tribute to the mad genius ANDY KAUFMAN
   Everybody Hurts
   What's The Frequency, Kenneth?
   Bang and Blame
   Strange Currencies
   E-Bow The Letter  ~~featuring Patti Smith
   Bad Day
   All The Way To Reno
   The Sidewinder Sleeps Tonight
   Nightswimming
   Imitaton of Life
   Daysleeper
   The Great Beyond
   Animal
   All The Right Friends
   Supernatural Superserious
   
   ESSENTIAL ALBUMS >> MURMUR, OUT OF TIME & AUTOMATIC FOR THE PEOPLE
   
   FAMOUS LAST WORDS???   "I do think we touch on a wider range of music than just about anyone out there right now.  I don't think we get enough credit for doing it" - PETER BUCK
   
   NAH! ~~ 2007 inductee class for The Rock-n-Roll Hall of Fame
   
   Grandmaster Flash & The Furious Five
   R.E.M.
   The Ronettes
   Patti Smith
   Van Halen
   
   But the real story of R.E.M can only be told be college DJs across America who made them an unstoppable force in the alternative/underground-college scene.  Just Like U2, the smaller crowds could not contain them!   
   
   A Solid Band of the 1980s ~~ An all too rare statement I think.
   
   In 1980 (just hours before a gig) the band still had no name so they had some friends write stuff on the church wall in chalk.  The suggestions that were reportedly kicked around were..
   Slut Bank, Cans of Piss and Twisted Kites
   
   Needless to say they went on that night as TWISTED KITES..true story.

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   DJ Funktualposted 15 years ago

   the Lynyrd Skynyrd story is this...they named themselves after High School Sportsmaster Leonard Skinner who infamously hated "long-hairs". 
   
   Will always be remembered for SWEET HOME ALABAMA and FREEBIRD
   but don't forget about..
   THAT SMELL
   GIMME THREE STEPS
   WHAT'S YOUR NAME?
   GIMME BACK MY BULLETS (A BAR ROOM FAVORITE)
   SIMPLE MAN  >>  http://youtube.com/watch?v=sHQ_aTjXObs
   CALL ME THE BREEZE (MY FAV)
   SATURDAY NIGHT SPECIAL
   and many more...
   
   "I plan to stick around and watch my baby girl grow up. I also plan to collect for the past ten years of self-abuse." - Ronnie Van Zant  (1/15/48 - 10/20/77)

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      Dorsiposted 15 years agoin reply to this

      I saw them before the plane crash- that was some crazy stuff- I forget how many of them died but it was like most of the band wasn't it?
      I remember it was a day on the green- I was with a bunch of friends- my next door neighbor and his sister- and a few years later he got killed in a car wreck by half moon bay,
      Man those were some good times we had back then, miss all the day on the green concerts- Led Zeppelin, Doobie Brothers, Fleetwood Mac, Buddy  Miles ( Love him !) Rare Earth, George Thoroughgood ( he was awesome) and the Allman Brothers in Oakland (where they took my bottle of tequila away..tehe...) Oh yea and Peter Frampton, when his hair was really long -
      Ah yes those were the days.......thanks for the flashback DJ..........

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         DJ Funktualposted 15 years agoin reply to this

         Of all the people you mentioned, the one I know least about and would most like to learn about is BUDDY MILES.  Since you love him please post a bio.  Inquiring minds want to know!

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   DJ Funktualposted 15 years ago

   ADAM AND THE ANTS
   "the essence of pop is brilliant songs.
   the rest is sex, suversion, style and humour."  - ADAM ANT
   
   the swashbuckling pirate of pretty boy punk scene early on...he would perfect the use of Burundi Drums under a yelping voice in a pantomime style costume. 
   
   Jack Sparrow with a microphone.
   
   ANTics you should know by now are..
   Whip In My Valise
   Kings of the Wild Frontier
   ANTmusic   >  http://youtube.com/watch?v=bPjfD8ulnpw 
   Dog Eat Dog
   Stand and Deliver
   Beat My Guest
   Prince Charming
   Ant Rap
   Desperate But Not Serious
   Friend or Foe
   Goody Two Shoes
   Strip > http://youtube.com/watch?v=_152hzt9Clc
   Puss N Boots
   Apollo 9
   Vive Le Rock
   Room At The Top
   
   So unplug the jukebox and do us all a favor......

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    DJ Funktualposted 15 years ago

    Accept is a German Metal band whose Balls to the Wall (1983) helped solidify them as developers of Speed or Teutonic Thrash Metal.
    
    THE ALBUMS
    
    Accept | I'm a Rebel | Breaker | Restless and Wild | Balls to the Wall | Metal Heart | Russian Roulette | Eat the Heat | Objection Overruled | Death Row | Predator | Rich & Famous
    
    Billboard positions  ~~ US charts
    
    Balls To The Wall - 2/4/84 - #74
    Metal Heart - 3/30/85 - #94
    Russian Roulette - 5/17/86 - #114
    Eat The Heat - 6/24/89 - #139
    
    VERDICT .........eh.

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       PCaholicDotComposted 15 years agoin reply to this

       VERY impressive :-) I am actually not a fan but as a guitar player I can remember being impressed with their almost "classical" metal approach to their solos.
       
       Favorite solo (and song) off the Balls to the wall album is the song "Head Over Heels" a song that still gets me pumped concerning the guitar techniques, solos, and intro to this day.
       
       Anyone who has never heard it I recommend listening to it when you get a chance.

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    DJ Funktualposted 15 years ago

    STING aka Gordon Sumner of The Police (16 Grammys)
    
    Origin of nickname........
    Sting has stated that he gained his nickname while with the Phoenix Jazzmen. He once performed wearing a black and yellow sweater with hooped stripes that bandleader Gordon Solomon had noted made him look like a bumblebee; thus Sumner became "Sting."
    
    
    
    Acting career
    Sting occasionally has ventured into acting. Notable film roles include:
    
    The Ace Face, the King of The Mods, a.k.a. The Bell Boy in the movie adaptation of The Who album Quadrophenia (1979)
    Radio On : Just Like Eddie (1980)
    The angel Helith in the BBC TV film Artemis 81 (1981)
    Martin Taylor, a drifter in Brimstone and Treacle (1982)
    Feyd-Rautha Harkonnen in the movie Dune (1984)
    Mick, a black-marketeer in Plenty (1985)
    Baron Frankenstein in The Bride (1985)
    Himself in the documentary film Bring on the Night (1985)
    A "heroic officer" in The Adventures of Baron Munchausen (1988)
    Finney, a nightclub owner in Stormy Monday (1988)
    Daniel, a British gentleman in Julia and Julia (1988)
    Fledge in The Grotesque (1995), in which he appears nude
    Himself on The Simpsons episode "Radio Bart" (1992)
    J.D., Eddie's father and owner of a bar, in Lock, Stock, and Two Smoking Barrels (1998)
    Himself on the Vicar of Dibley Comic Relief special (2007)
    Himself in Bee Movie (2007)
    
    Albums
    The Dream of the Blue Turtles (1985) UK #3, USA #2
    ...Nothing Like the Sun (1987) UK #1, USA #9
    The Soul Cages (1991) UK #1, USA #2
    Ten Summoner's Tales (1993) UK #2, USA #2
    Mercury Falling (1996) UK #4, USA #5
    Brand New Day (1999) UK #5, USA #9
    Sacred Love (2003) UK #3, USA #3
    Songs from the Labyrinth (2006) UK #24, USA #25
    
    HIS FIRST SOLO SINGLE WAS ACTUALLY...
    1982 "Spread a Little Happiness" - - Brimstone and Treacle Soundtrack
    
    Subsequent hits include...
    IF YOU LOVE SOMEBODY SET THEM FREE
    FORTRESS AROUND YOUR HEART (my favorite)
    RUSSIANS
    LOVE IS THE SEVENTH WAVE
    WE'LL BE TOGETHER
    ENGLISHMAN IN NEW YORK (my wife Paula's favorite)
    BE STILL MY BEATING HEART
    ALL THIS TIME
    IF I EVER LOSE MY FAITH IN YOU
    FIELDS OF GOLD
    ALL FOR LOVE (which SUCKS! with ROD STEWART and BRYAN ADAMS)
    WHEN WE DANCE
    BRAND NEW DAY
    DESERT ROSE
    SEND YOUR LOVE

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    DJ Funktualposted 15 years ago

    Mr. Bungle was a side project / Original band for FAITH NO MORE frontman Mike Patton.
    
    Mr. Bungle were known for often tearing through several musical genres within the course of a single song.  Many songs had this unconventional structure and utilized a wide array of instruments and samples. 
    
    An ongoing feud with Red Hot Chili Peppers frontman Anthony Kiedis escalated in the late 1990s, with Kiedis removing Mr. Bungle from a number of large music festivals in Europe and Australasia.
    
    Not actually named after The Bubble Bath but rather the band's name was taken from Lunchroom Manners, a children's educational film which was featured in a Pee Wee Herman HBO special in the early '80s.

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    SweetiePieposted 15 years ago

    Thanks for the biography of Sting, DJ .  I had heard Sting nearly played Fletcher Christian in the movie, The Bounty, which everyone should see if they do not know anything about the history of mutiny on the Bounty because it is the most historically accurate movie of all five made.  However, it is still flawed in that Fletcher did not mutiny because of his Tahitian girlfriend to become wife since he did not even meet Maimiti until after the mutiny.  Anyway, I wonder if the movie would have been any better well received it Sting had starred in it as opposed to Gibson, but that latter did a very good job in my opinion.

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    Constant Walkerposted 15 years ago

    Deep Forest

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    DJ Funktualposted 15 years ago

    PRE-CONTEST STATISTICS
    
    Duran Duran  (requested by Sweetie Pie)
    Fatboy Slim - and all aliases of Norman Cook  (Req: funride)
    Jethro Tull    (Req. Paraglider)
    Van Halen vs. Van Hagar, etc.    (Req. TiffanyDow)
    The Ink Spots   (William F. Torpey)
    Joan Osbourne  (Misha)
    Herman Brood and his Wild Romance  (Mark Knowles)
    Them w/ Van Morrison  (rmr)
    Golden Earring   (Mark Knowles)
    a-ha   (mariankr)
    Tool  (Mike 12572)
    Genesis vs. Phil Collins / Mike & The Mechanics (firetown)
    The Cheiftains  (WRITTEN BY rmr)
    Bing Crosby   (WRITTEN BY William F. Torpey)
    Creedence Clearwater Revival    (kerryg)
    Men At Work   (Sweetie Pie)
    Abba   (compu-smart)
    R.E.M    (Astralbex)
    Mr. Bungle  (lumasiscom)
    Lynyrd Skynyrd  (Dorsi)
    Accept  (PCaholicDotCom aka Peter)
    KLAATU & Stray Cats (Shirley Anderson)
    Adam & The Ants / Adam Ant  (Astralbex)
    VOICE OF THE BEEHIVE  (Quotations)
    
    I DID NOT HONOR THESE REQUESTS..
    
    Ken Dodd and The Diddymen (waynet) 
    Third Day  (SirDent) 
    Tangerine Dream (Astralbex) 
    Deep Forest (Constant Walker)
    Taking Back Sunday (Susan Ng)
    
    BECAUSE I KNOW NOTHING ABOUT THEM.  iF YOU DO....please write it.
    
    The Kaiser Cheifs  >>> is being covered HOPEFULLY? (by carpesomediem)
    
    Exhausted DJ is now seeking this kind of love on MY HUBS.  I'm not gonna link them cause Misha'll get me and it isn't cool but please stop by so that I know my efforts here were not in vain.  OOPS SORRY.  Sycophantic behavioural disorder.. 

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       Constant Walkerposted 15 years agoin reply to this

       Deep Forest, one of my favorite bands. It's considered World Beat. Two men who search the wilds and forests of the world recording music and rhythms. They come back to their studio and edit them into the most beautiful music I've ever heard. All are in languages that I couldn't begin to identify, but still beautiful. YouTube has a lot of their videos ready for the viewing:  http://www.youtube.com/results?search_q … arch_type=  Be sure to check out Sweet Lullaby, one of my favorites.

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          DJ Funktualposted 15 years agoin reply to this

          THANK YOU !  Awesome!

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    Mishaposted 15 years ago

    Hey DJ,
    
    I got one more for you. This time I know nothing about them, I just stumbled upon a video on youtube.
    
    So, how about - *drumroll* - Jefferson Airplane ?

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       kerrygposted 15 years agoin reply to this

       Yes, please!

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          DJ Funktualposted 15 years agoin reply to this

          Jefferson Airplane is Next!!!!!
          
          But it's the weekend....so I gotta go shake some butts...You guys take over til tomorrow!

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             DJ Funktualposted 15 years agoin reply to this

             JEFFERSON AIRPLANE / JEFFERSON STARSHIP / STARSHIP
             
             I write them this way because these are three VERY DIFFERENT GROUPS.
             
             VERY VERY VERY VERY DIFFERENT, OKAY?
             
             First of all it MUST BE SAID that Jefferson Airplane which will be heretofore referred to as (JA) was a bona fide awesome, gnarly, _____insert your favorite outdated phrase here______
             but most of all they WEerrre GRrrrrooOOoVvvyy Man!   The darlings of the town that was the psychedic San Francisco Sixties.
             
             
             
             JEFFERSON AIRPLANE (1967-1971) recorded for the RCA Victor Label
             
             They were inducted into the Rock-n-Roll Hall of Fame in 1996 along with..
             
             DAVID BOWIE > (whose cameo on the HBO series "EXTRAS" is one of the funniest things I have ever seen.  He sings a song about Ricky Gervais called "Little Fat Man with a Pug-Nosed Face" that gives me perma-grin thinking about it.)
             
             LITTLE WILLIE JOHN > (whose "Need Your Love So Bad" is Paula & My WEDDING SONG.  Can I Get an AAAwwwww?)   AAAWWW!
             
             GLADYS KNIGHT & THE PIPS
             PINK FLOYD
             THE SHIRELLES
             THE VELVET UNDERGROUND
             and PETE SEEGER.
             
             JA was originally led by Marty Balin (who left in '71 and rejoined in '75 by which time they were already (JS)) and Grace Slick (who left in June '78 and returned in January '81) and featured guitarist Paul Kantner (who left in '84 taking the JEFFERSON out of the name with him-due to legal details), guitarist Jorma Kaukonen, bassist Jack Casady, and their newly found second drummer Spencer Dryden.
             
             ~~ Original Drummer Skip Spence formed MOBY GRAPE.
             ~~ Dryden left in 1970 to join NEW RIDERS OF THE PURPLE SAGE and was consequently replaced by Joey Covington.
             ~~ Kaukonen & Casady left in '74 to go full-time with HOT TUNA
             
             songs we love by Jefferson Airplane are...
             1967s  >> SOMEBODY TO LOVE (went to #5) >> WHITE RABBIT (went to #8)
             They never again reached the TOP 40 (probably because they were too high but who am I to judge?) but they did have other songs we know like...
             BALLAD OF YOU & ME & POONEIL
             WATCH HER RIDE
             GREASY HEART
             CROWN OF CREATION
             the tremendous VOLUNTEERS in '69 and finally PRETTY AS YOU FEEL in 1971 (right around the time I was born....once again.    AAAAWWW!)
             
             ALBUMS WE LOVE... Surrealistic Pillow >> After Bathing At Baxter's >> Volunteers
             
             "IN THE 1960S THEY ALL TREATED US LIKE WE WERE GREAT PHILOSOPHER GODS THAT KNEW ALL THE ANSWERS....(obscenity)....WE WERE THE FLYING SAUCERS."
                                                                                             ...~~ Paul Kantner
             
             Jefferson Airplane was named after a spliff or what kids today call a blunt.  Some band members would later say that they named themselves after Blues Guitarist BLIND LEMON JEFFERSON, but come on.  Everybody knew what it meant back then.
             
             SURPRISING FACTS about JA!
             1) Grace Slick was NOT the original female vocalist, Signe Toly Anderson was.  However when the summer of love came too soon for her and she got pregnant with her Love Child she also got canned in favor of Slick who was at the time playing with a band called THE GREAT SOCIETY
             
             2) Paul Kantner is the ONLY native San Franciscan in the group.
             3) The Alice in Wonderland On Acid Themed "White Rabbit" appeared on the album Sgt. Pepper as well as Surrealistic Pillow.
             4) In April 1980 GRACE SLICK had a solo single called SEASONS that peaked on the charts at........fake drumroll.........#95.  Ha!
             5) Somebody To Love was originally recorded by The Great Society on NORTH BEACH RECORDS in '66 and it was actually called SOMEONE TO LOVE!
             7) Jefferson Starship did not always SUCK! 
             follow me..
             
             JEFFERSON STARSHIP (1974-1984) Recorded for GRUNT RECORDS
             
             BY 1974 THE LINEUP...
             Slick & Kantner whose musical partnership sometimes rivaled their intense emotional relationship.  Guitarist Craig Chaquico, Bassist Pete Sears, Drummer John Barbata and like I said Balin came back.
             
             The Songs we still kinda like by JS are..
             RIDE THE TIGER >> MIRACLES >> PLAY ON LOVE >> ST, CHARLES >> WITH YOUR LOVE >>  COUNT ON ME >> RUNAWAY >> CRAZY FEELIN' >> LIGHT THE SKY ON FIRE >> now if the JS legacy ended there they might have incuded the Starship half of the group into The RnR HOF as well but they weren't because of the crap I will now list and subtitle..
             
             The Downward Spiral to indignity...
             
             BUT FIRST WE HAVE SOME MORE...drumroll please...LINE-UP CHANGES!! 
             
             IN 1979 JEFFERSON STARSHIP MADE THE TERRIBLE HORRIBLE NO GOOD VERY BAD DECISION TO.....oh god! -- if we could just stop this from happening --  REPLACE BALIN AND SLICK WITH..........please somebody make me s t o p  t y p i  n    g  this.....
             
             MICKEY THOMAS .."aaaaaAAAAARRRGGGGLLL!   aaaaaaaAAAAAAAAAAHHHHHH!  nO!
             
             <DEEP DEEP SIGH>  lil toke...
             
             As I was saying about LINEUP CHANGES..
             
             ~~ Paul Kantner, Marty Balin & Jack Casady formed the KBC BAND in '86
             ~~ Aynsley Dunbar replaced Barbata on Drums.
             ~~ Aynsley Dunbvar was also in JOHN MAYALL'S BLUESBREAKERS, THE MOTHERS OF INVENTION & sadly later JOURNEY and like all glorified but disposable musicians he too was in WHITESNAKE.
             
             The songs that this demon seed produced were..
             JANE >> GIRL WITH THE HUNGRY EYES >> grace's song "Seasons" >> FIND YOUR WAY BACK >> STRANGER >> BE MY LADY >> WINDS OF CHANGE >> NO WAY OUT >> LAYIN' IT ON THE LINE
             
             Which mercifully (or unmercifully, I'm not really sure) brings us to the sad third act of the tragic play we know all too well.  THE SELL OUT!
             
             
             
             STARSHIP (1985-1990) recorded for GRUNT RECORDS too.
             
             
             LINEUP AT THIS POINT IS...
             Mickey Thomas and Grace Slick (Vocals)
             Pete Sears (Bass) Craig Chaquico (Guitar)
             and the newly acquired drummer formerly of SNAIL, Mr. DON BALDWIN.
             
             STARSHIP HAD 3 #1 SONGS that were each worse than the previous one....
             WE BUILT THIS CITY (2 weeks) featured actual S.F. icon D.J. LES GARLAND
             SARA (1 week) makes you wanna puke on line at the store every time.
             and whether we want to or not.....we have to acknowledge the song that solidified the fact that they sold their soul to the devil and lived to write about it....
             NOTHINGS GONNA STOP US NOW (theme to the ANDREW McCARTHY / KIM CATTRALL non-romantic non-comedy romantic comedy "Mannequin") and then some meaningless minor hits I'm ashamed to know like "Tomorrow Doesn't Matter Tonight" and "It's Not Over (Til It's Over)" in '87 almost closed the book on this disaster. 
             
             GRACE SLICK FINALLY LEAVES!
             
             They added two more suckers to the sinking ship with Bassist Brett Bloomfield and Keyboardist Mark Morgan.
             
             They recorded "Wild Again" for the soundtrack to the TOM CRUISE movie "Cocktail" and then...
             
             Last AND Least.. "It's Not Enough" (an ironic title at least) went to #12 in the fall of 1989.
             
             
             LATER IN 1989 (perhaps to celebrate the death of STARSHIP) The Original JEFFERSON AIRPLANE RE-UNITED with Balin, Slick, Kantner, Kaukonen, Casady and KENNY ARANOFF
             of John Mellencamp's Band filling in for Dryden on DRUMS.
             
             
             Oh yeah MISHA, KERRYG......I get paid by the word!
             Give it up FOOLS!
             
             p.s. Not one word of this was Cut and Pasted or even looked up online. 
             
             Just me and my books and the will to serve the public as best I can.
             
             NOW GO TO ONE MY HUBS YA BASTAGES! 
             and leave a comment or I wont know it was YOU unless of course you join MY FANCLUB!

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                kerrygposted 15 years agoin reply to this

                Thanks! I am learning all kinds of neat stuff from these bios.
                
                
                
                You write enough hubs and I will be happy to pay you in comments.

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                   DJ Funktualposted 15 years agoin reply to this

                   BEST OFFER YET!  SEE YOU ONE THE HUB http://hubpages.com/hub/The-450-Greates … f-the-80s- LAST ONE THERE IS A RUBIK'S CUBE!

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    Astralbexposted 15 years ago

    Thank you , thank you DJ!
    
    Well written, take a bow for all this hard graft!

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       DJ Funktualposted 15 years agoin reply to this

       THANKS ASTRALBEX !   
       
       i DON'T GET MANY CURTAIN CALLS BECAUSE I'M ALWAYS TOO BUST PATTING MYSELF ON THE BACK!
       
       "WELL I STAND HERE...LOOKING AT YOU...WHAT DO I SEE????
       A BIG NOTHING! " ----ADAM ANT
       
       p.s. there's a NEW WAVE video contest going on.....if you hurry and comment you could win it ASTRAL!
       
       http://hubpages.com/hub/TOP-5-Video--Ne … IT-Wonders

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    Mishaposted 15 years ago

    LOL Thank you DJ, it was fun reading

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       DJ Funktualposted 15 years agoin reply to this

       Your Welcome NOW GO WRITE A HUB YA BUM!!!

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    Rhythm City Prod.posted 15 years ago

    DUDE, 450 songs of the 80s was rediculous!  How the hell did you compile all that?  Every genre mixed together too was phat!  How about a BIO on somebody more funky?  Ya know,  like Prince or Chaka.

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    rmrposted 15 years ago

    Ever hear of 3-legged dog? Brief, but interesting history.

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       DJ Funktualposted 15 years agoin reply to this

       Okay great, write it and then we'll all know.

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    Whitney05posted 15 years ago

    Why not turn these requests into hubs? You could do hubs like "fun facts about ..." and have eash one a hub with a few pictures and music videos.

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       DJ Funktualposted 15 years agoin reply to this

       I'll tell you why..Whitney, because No One Would Come and Read Them!
       
       This thread is just about the ONLY satisfaction I get around here.  I am hoping that this thread will promote the idea that I do write good hubs and maybe people will check them out.  Obviously I can't just leave links in here whenever I feel like it, so I try to rely on the reader to make that leap onto my HUBS.
       
       I like conversation and feedback.  Unfortunately I can only find it here.

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          Whitney05posted 15 years agoin reply to this

          You never know... :-\

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    waynetposted 15 years ago

    Being serious for a change....Korn my most favourite band that there is at present!

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       DJ Funktualposted 15 years agoin reply to this

       After their cover of WORD UP?   They are a disaster at this point.  Used to be okay, I guess.
       
       I'm more of a SYSTEM OF A DOWN, RAGE AGAINST THE MACHINE TYPE GUY IN THIS GENRE!  Linkin Puke is still at it unfortunately...

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    DJ Funktualposted 15 years ago

    Okay HUBBERS! The adorable Ms. Whitney05 has gotten me to do my first one.  This will be the first of a series since I never refuse a request. 
    
    THE PICK A GROUP, ANY GROUP: GREATEST HITS HUB!
    
    http://hubpages.com/hub/Pick-A-Group--A … atest-Hits

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    DJ Funktualposted 15 years ago

    If you think you've seen a DJ Funktual video before...think again.  It has been redefined in PART 7 of the Sample Series.   Breakdancers and everything.
    
    I'm not sure if it is still technically spamming or not considering there is no link and this is my thread so to speak..but regardless, I enjoy this too much to risk it.  From now on...the only links allowed on this hub are yours the readers. 
    
    I get enough attention. But OH MY GOD this video will kick your butt - stop it JAMIE!!
    
    As I was saying please feel free to go off the topic of me writing each one.  I wanna know all about the groups you guys like.  Big or Small.
    
    If I write back to your request...YOU WRITE IT!  I don't mean to be rude.  I just can't tell a story I don't know and after having to search for the TOOL story online, Idecided I would never do it again.  TOOL Deserves better.
    
    You like a group...I WANNA KNOW.   
    
    FYI: PRINCE and CHAKA KHAN are next as requested by my buddy at work.

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    Rhythm City Prod.posted 15 years ago

    Yo!   Where's the funk? 
    ~Enoch

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    Mishaposted 15 years ago

    Are you talking to yourself?

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       DJ Funktualposted 15 years agoin reply to this

       No enoch is a guy I work with!  they all have access to the account.

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    DJ Funktualposted 15 years ago

    http://hubpages.com/hub/50-Essential-So … Billy-Joel
    
    http://hubpages.com/hub/25-Essential-Songs-by-RAMONES
    
    I wrote 2 more for you guys but I'm too lazy to type it twice.  Hope this is okay.

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    DJ Funktualposted 15 years ago

    THE 50 ESSENTIAL SONG BY PRINCE
    
    Prince ~ 1979
    1) I Wanna Be Your Lover
    2) Why You Wanna Treat Me So Bad
    
    Dirty Mind ~ 1980
    3) When You Were Mine
    
    Controversy ~ 1981
    4) Controversy
    
    1999 ~ 1982
    5) 1999
    6) How Come U Don't Call Me Anymore? (B-Side to 1999)
    7) Little Red Corvette
    8) Delirious
    
    Purple Rain ~ 1984
    9) When Doves Cry
    10) 17 Days (B-Side to When Doves Cry)
    11) Let's Go Crazy
    12) Erotic City (B-Side to Let's Go Crazy)
    13) I Would Die 4 U
    14) Baby I'm a Star
    15) Take Me With U (with Appolonia)
    16) Darling Nikki
    17) Purple Rain
    
    Around The World in a Day ~ 1985
    18) Raspberry Beret
    19) She's Always in My Hair (B-Side to Raspberry Beret)
    20) Pop Life
    
    Parade ~ 1986
    21) Kiss
    22) Mountains
    23) Anotherloverholenyohead
    
    Sign 'O' The Times ~ 1987
    24) Sign 'O' The Times
    25) U Got The Look (with Sheena Easton)
    26) If I Was Your Girlfriend
    27) I Could Never Take the Place of Your Man
    28) Hot Thing
    29) Starfish & Coffee
    30) Housequake
    
    Lovesexy ~ 1988
    31) Alphabet St.
    
    Batman Soundtrack ~ 1989
    32) Batdance
    
    Graffiti Bridge ~ 1990
    33) Theives in the Temple
    
    Diamonds and Pearls ~ 1991
    34) Gett Off
    35) Cream
    36) Diamonds and Pearls
    37) Money Don't Matter 2Night
    (Symbol) ~ 1992
    38) My Name Is Prince
    39) Sexy MF
    40) The Morning Papers
    41) 7
    
    The Hits - B-Sides ~ 1993
    42) Nothing Compares 2 U (with Rosie Gaines)
    
    The Purple Medley 12" ~ 1993
    43) The Purple Medley (11-Minute version)
    
    The Gold Experience ~ 1995
    44) We March
    45) Gold
    46) 319
    47) The Most Beautiful Girl in the World
    
    Chaos and Disorder ~ 1996
    48) Chaos and Disorder
    
    Musicology ~ 2004
    49) Musicology
    
    3121 ~ 2006
    50) Get On The Boat
    
    ~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~
    
    6 Greatest Prince Covers Ever!
    Manic Monday - The Bangles
    Nothing Compares 2 U - Sinead O'Connor
    I Feel For You - Chaka Khan
    How Come U Don't Call Me? - Alicia Keys
    Sugar Walls - Sheena Easton
    A Love Bizarre - Sheila E.
    
    
    His Dirty Dozen Best Songs
    1~ WHEN DOVES CRY
    2~ I COULD NEVER TAKE THE PLACE OF YOUR MAN
    3~ MONEY DON'T MATTER 2NIGHT
    4~ MUSICOLOGY
    5~ RASPBERRY BERET
    6~ KISS
    7~ I WANNA BE YOUR LOVER
    8~ POP LIFE
    9~ GETT OFF
    10~ EROTIC CITY
    11~ I WOULD DIE 4 U
    12~ U GOT THE LOOK

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       DJ Funktualposted 15 years agoin reply to this

       Sorry there's no STORY per se.

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          rmrposted 15 years agoin reply to this

          I'll bet you could get a story for Soft White Underbelly.

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    knolyourselfposted 15 years ago

    'You pick a group, any group and I'll tell you a story about them.' Not a story, more like have this song, Summertime,
    Janis Joplin - In Concert 1972. Is the backup band Big
    Brother and the Holding Company. Some Sound.

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    DJ Funktualposted 15 years ago

    I could always GET ONE for anybody but I've been telling them off the top of my head so far.
    Accept the Tool story which I looked up.
    
    Queue: #1 ~ Chaka Khan  and  # 2 ~ Soft White Underbelly
    
    p.s. PRINCE RULES!

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    DJ Funktualposted 15 years ago

    Okay, where was I?

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    DaMaGeD_GooDzposted 15 years ago

    I would love some information on M.I.A.  Think you're up for the challenge?

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    DJ Funktualposted 15 years ago

    Oh hell yeah.

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       DaMaGeD_GooDzposted 15 years agoin reply to this

       Great! Can't wait to see what you dig up!

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    DJ Funktualposted 15 years ago

    Sorry to keep you waiting on MIA
    
    Funk Appreciation Month has been taking up most of my time.

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    DJ Funktualposted 15 years ago

    There's a great MIA sample on my new vid, does that count?

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    Pete Maidaposted 14 years ago

    Can't anyone just go to the web and snag up some info?

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    lisafwg01posted 14 years ago

    Ok, I'll play...What can you tell me about Brownsville Station beyond the fact that they originated the song "Smokin in The Boys Room" (Later covered by Motely Crue)?
    
    Bonus points if you can name side B of the original "Smokin In the Boy's Room" 45 (yes, I own it..LOL)

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       DJ Funktualposted 14 years agoin reply to this

       It was "Barefootin"

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    dohn121posted 14 years ago

    The Red Hot Chili Peppers

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    ixwaposted 14 years ago

    Do you know something about P.P. Arnold Kafunta?

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    wsp2469posted 14 years ago

    I don't understand.  We're on the internet.  Anyone can research ANY group.  Perhaps you mean you will include your opinion as well as your research?  See what you can dig up about a band called The Seen. . .two out of three of these guys were house mates of mine in college.  In fact, they still owe me an autographed record!

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    DJ Funktualposted 13 years ago

    Wow, I have not been in hubforums in quite some time.

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    DJ Funktualposted 12 years ago

    Inactive Topic?  Booo!  I worked hard on this ya know!   lol

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