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robogone · Post by **robogone** » Fri Aug 27, 2010 1:04 am

OK, I won't ask any questions about upside down guitar stringing this time...

So...

What links:

Chuck Berry
The Buzzcocks
Billy Idol
Elvis Costello

First clue, songwriting.

Resonator63 · Post by **Resonator63** » Sun Aug 29, 2010 1:32 pm

Did they all have their biggest hit with a song not written by them?

GaryG · Post by **GaryG** » Sun Aug 29, 2010 5:27 pm

Blank_Frank wrote:3 sounds like he should be selling them; 2 was the world's greatest guitarist, according to Hendrix, Clapton and Van Halen, except none of them ever actually said it.

sorry to drag this one back but... don't get those clues at all, explain please?

Blank_Frank · Post by **Blank_Frank** » Sun Aug 29, 2010 5:44 pm

GaryG wrote:
Blank_Frank wrote:3 sounds like he should be selling them; 2 was the world's greatest guitarist, according to Hendrix, Clapton and Van Halen, except none of them ever actually said it.
sorry to drag this one back but... don't get those clues at all, explain please?

OK.

1. Cherry Garcia, Ben & Jerry's ice-cream flavour, named after J.G.

3. Tony Iommi - son of Italian immigrants - vaguely racist inference that all Italians are ice-cream salesman.

2. Phil Keaggy. See here. And here.

Hope that makes it all clear

- feel free to ask further questions...

Sorry I've not had a bash at robojam's question, but I'm severely time-constrained at the moment!

GaryG · Post by **GaryG** » Sun Aug 29, 2010 8:39 pm

Blank_Frank wrote:3. Tony Iommi - son of Italian immigrants - vaguely racist inference that all Italians are ice-cream salesman.

Better than the mobster stereotype I guess.

2. Phil Keaggy. See here. And here.

well, you learn something everyday. Never 'eard of him before.

Sorry robojam, we'll concentrate on your question now.

Blank_Frank · Post by **Blank_Frank** » Sun Aug 29, 2010 9:23 pm

GaryG wrote:Never 'eard of him before.

Me neither...

GaryG · Post by **GaryG** » Mon Aug 30, 2010 8:53 pm

I'm trying to get these without googling (valiant but pointless...

) but gave in on this occasion: still nothing.

Clue please?

Blank_Frank · Post by **Blank_Frank** » Tue Aug 31, 2010 9:45 pm

robogone · Post by **robogone** » Tue Aug 31, 2010 9:52 pm

Sorry, I've been really busy.

OK, clue - they all wrote songs about the same pastime. Not a very common thing to write songs about.

knockman · Post by **knockman** » Wed Sep 01, 2010 1:25 am

songs about, or purported to be about, autoeroticism

Chuck Berry - My Ding-a-Ling
The Buzzcocks - Orgasm Addict
Billy Idol - Dancing With Myself
Elvis Costello - Pump It Up

Blank_Frank · Post by **Blank_Frank** » Wed Sep 01, 2010 3:18 am

Damn! Knockman beat me to it! And I was going to say that it was only a "shot in the dark"...

You can add Tubeway Army's "Everyday I Die" to that list; I'm sure there must be more...

GaryG · Post by **GaryG** » Wed Sep 01, 2010 8:32 pm

"Turning Japanese" alledgedly (but denied by the guy who wrote it...)

robogone · Post by **robogone** » Thu Sep 02, 2010 12:41 am

knockman wrote:songs about, or purported to be about, autoeroticism

Chuck Berry - My Ding-a-Ling
The Buzzcocks - Orgasm Addict
Billy Idol - Dancing With Myself
Elvis Costello - Pump It Up

Yes!

I was going to add Turning Japanese by the Vapours, but thought that one might give it away too easily... :hih:

knockman · Post by **knockman** » Thu Sep 02, 2010 3:20 am

Glad the "Turning Japanese" song was not added - having a Japanese spouse and all.

Give me a short while to come up with a question, will try to post soon.

knockman · Post by **knockman** » Thu Sep 02, 2010 4:22 am

OK. Thought I'd take a different direction and make the answer something that can be found here on KVR itself.

Step 1. Visit this mock BBC news page: BBC News - Early man lacked musical skills

Step 2. Identify the recent KVR thread that the above page satirizes

One hint - the thread is not in this, the "Everything Else (Music related)", forum.

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