Music Trivia

Bobby Vee says they didn't fire him:

In the summer of 1959, the Shadows were on the road when they decided to have a piano player in the band much like Little Richard. Vee's brother Bill knew of a guy, Elston Gunn, who auditioned. Gunn joined the band in time for a dance in Gwinner, N.D. During the performance the band's old and broken down piano died, so Gunn improvised and started dancing and singing instead.

The Shadows lacked the funds to replace the piano, so Gunn left the band. It turned out Gunn's real name was Bob Zimmerman, who became better known as Bob Dylan.

"There is a rumor that we fired him," Vee said. "We didn't fire Bob. We were just a bunch of stumbling 15-year-olds. He was a neat guy with a real rock 'n' roll instinct."

 

Peter Fonda

 

John's "She Said She Said" is another evident sign of his use of LSD. The
song came about following an organised acid trip the year before in San
Diego with various members of the Byrds and actor Peter Fonda, who would
find fame a few years later in the archetypal sixties drug movie Easy
Rider. Fonda says, "he [Lennon] heard me say 'I know what it's like to be
dead'. He looked at me and said 'You're making me feel I've never been
born'."

 

This is too easy if I'm the only one playing...


After graduating (barely), the band moved to Los Angeles, where they became the Spiders. One evening, the bandmates found themselves playing with a ouija board, through which a 17th century witch allegedly spoke to Furnier. Her name? Alice Cooper.