Look Smart Trivia: Festival Gigs
3Massive festivals aren’t my preferred setting for live music, but there’s no denying they’ve provided some of the most iconic moments in pop music history. And if you weren’t there, it’s easy enough to claim you were. You can’t see much in most of these video captures, but then the view’s never very good at a festival. Be the first to name the performers and festivals these shots are taken from, and you’ll win a $5 Meh coupon. It won’t pay for your ticket, but it’ll get you a nice lighter to wave. Insert signoff catchphrase here!
@jrwofuga named four of our five Modern Design giants yesterday, which was good enough to land that $5 Meh coupon. If you liked #1, check out Steinweiss, the guy who basically invented the album cover as we know it:
- Alex Steinweiss
- Philippe Starck
- Ray Eames
- Alvin Lustig
- Vico Magistretti
AND I made a mistake with Monday’s Young Dennis Hopper quiz. Turns out @sammydog01 had named all five correctly, but I hadn’t seen it before I wrote my winners post. Both @sammydog01 and the announced winner, @curtw4, will get a $5 coupon of their own. Sorry!
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3 is Bob Dylan - must be his first electric set at Newport (Jazz? Folk?) festival.
5 is Queen at Live Aid.
Just off the top of my head, no Google.
Hope this helps someone win $5.
@DennisG2014 Did you see Bohemian Rhapsody? They reproduced the whole Queen Live Aid performance.
@DennisG2014 @sammydog01 Rami Malek deserved every best actor award he won. It was amazing the dedication he put into learning Freddie’s moves.
@sammydog01 Not yet, but I intend to.
Figures @JasonToon. I actually posted the proper list with Alex Steinweiss at #1. But when I saw @jrwofuga’s list I questioned it and deleted it, figuring he was correct. Lesson learned.
@cinoclav glad you didn’t.
@cinoclav I would have been gutted because I googled the title of the album and Warhol did do the cover art for an album of that name. . just not that one.
@jrwofuga Right - I questioned which one did which year. I didn’t read very carefully. Apparently he did this one in 1949.
yay!
I know 3 of 'em.
@jrwofuga 2, 3, 5… The other two are tough.
@cinoclav @jrwofuga I would have thought the red hair would help but maybe not.
@sammydog01 That’s what I thought too, but I can’t place him. The background looks like New York but could be any large city in that era.
@cinoclav I was looking up concerts in Central Park and found the John Butler Trio. They just announced they’re coming here! Never heard of them before. Maybe @JasonToon does- they’re Australian.
Posting what I know just for the hell of it.
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2. Beyonce - Coachella
3. Bob Dylan - Newport Folk Festival
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5. Queen - Live Aid
@cinoclav Same. . . 1 is annoying me.
@cinoclav @jrwofuga Could the festival in 1 be Lollapalooza?
@cinoclav @sammydog01 seems to be pretty old (late 70’s/80s) for that.
@cinoclav @jrwofuga
Good point. You know who has red hair?
@cinoclav @jrwofuga Eagles?
@cinoclav @jrwofuga U2?
@jrwofuga @sammydog01 I went through the Eagles and U2 earlier today. The only details that I hope would help is it looks like the one guitarist has what appears to be a white bucket hat. I can’t tell if the guy on the right is holding another guitar or a sax. There couldn’t be many bands with 4 guitars OR with a sax player.
@cinoclav @jrwofuga @sammydog01 Know who has red hair – Ronald McDonald?
It could’ve happened.
@cinoclav @jrwofuga @phendrick I should have looked him up too.
My first thought for #1 was David Bowie - the hair looks like his Ziggy Stardust era.
I don’t think that’s right though. I have no idea.
¯\_(ツ)_/¯
@DennisG2014 I thought that too but it definitely doesn’t look like the ZS era due to the clothing.
@cinoclav yeah, I think it’s probably early '80s, but there’s not much to go on in that pic!
#1 Does look a bit like NYC and it definitely looks like the '70s, so I googled Central Park festivals in the '70s and found this: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Schaefer_Music_Festival
Holy crap! The lineups were amazing!
So many amazing acts. Wish I was 18 and living in NYC in '68 instead of being one year from being born in Boston.
Bowie wasn’t listed for any of those shows. I’m sure he wasn’t the only one rocking that hair color in that era, but I have no idea who else might have.
@DennisG2014 Wow. Me too. Except for the crowds. On second thought, never mind.
How about the Rolling Stones at Copacabana Beach for 4?
@sammydog01 Hard to tell who it is, but I’m relatively certain it’s not the Stones.
They look like much younger guys.
Re: #1 - did Sting ever have hair that orange? (Dune was close, but not quite that vivid.)
That could definitely be the back of Andy Summers on the left, looks like a Telecaster headstock (which is what he plays). The person on the right is wearing a guitar which is blurred almost to invisibility, but the stance says “bass” to me.
If I were able to find a pic of Sting w/ that color hair, I’d be convinced, but couldn’t find anything close.
BTW - googling “sting red (or orange) hair” yields some weird results.
¯\_(ツ)_/¯
@DennisG2014 The Police have an unfortunate band name for googling.
OK, @cinoclav @DennisG2014 @jrwofuga @sammydog01 and anyone else trying to solve this one - it’s clue time!
Both 1 and 4 are British bands, playing in Britain.
1 is a one-off event from the late 1970s.
4 is a late-1990s edition of an annual festival.
Both bands, while huge, could be generally placed in the lineage of “alternative” or “indie” or “underground” - i.e., not part of the 1960s-spawned classic rock canon.
Here’s another one… each band released an album, twenty years apart (1 in 1977, 4 in 1997), with a song that had the word “police” in the title.
Hope that helps!
@JasonToon In other words we’re not even close. Back to google…
@JasonToon Step by step… I actually thought #4 might be this earlier. Thanks for the hints.
@cinoclav @JasonToon YAY! This was fun.
@JasonToon Did you just see Billy Bragg somewhere on his most recent tour for the inspiration to include the Clash Rock Against Racism still?
@slipperyp No, he played some rural venues in Australia but I couldn’t make it… my most immediate inspiration was recently reading this great book about the whole musical/political scene in 70s/80s Britain - both Billy and the Clash feature prominently: https://www.left-bank.com/book/9781447272694
@JasonToon Cool - I will check it out! I was lucky to see a recent show and he gave an anecdote that was great and went something like this:
“[Ed Sheeran, I mean, I don’t really care for him a lot, but I’ll say this. When I was a bloke growing up in England I saw the Clash play at Rock Against Racism and it was then that I realized I could do this. There wasn’t any production or barriers or intrinsic talent - they were just up there and wanted to change the world and in their way they DID, so I think it’s incredibly important that people have someone they can look up to and who gives them the confidence to just get out there and do it. So I talked with someone at one of Sheeran’s shows about this and he told me “well, I’m just one of his 14 managers”…]” At this point he and the audience have a good laugh about how someone as “regular” as Ed Sheeran only creates an illusion of access in 2019.
Anyway - long story short, Billy is a great storyteller, I’m not, and thanks for the book recommendation and really all your contributions in this series because at I, for one, LOVE IT!
#1- The Clash at the Rock Aganist Racism Carnival / Anti-Nazi festival
@Ignorant YES!
@Ignorant @sammydog01 And #4 is Radiohead at Glastonbury. I listed them above.
@sammydog01 did I win?
@Ignorant
@sammydog01
Added the years…
Damn. The Clash is one of my all-time favorite bands.
It occurred to me it could be them, but I didn’t think any of them ever had that blazing orange hair.
¯\_(ツ)_/¯
@DennisG2014