1. “The sessions begin on a large, open soundstage at Twickenham Film Studios, London.” is the first line from a book about which band and the recording of which album? The Beatles-Let It Be (Zoot Horn Polo)

2. According to Amazon, the SIPs (Statistically Improbable Phrases) for a book about which group are as follows: relentless driving force, spiralling success.
"Jon Bon Jovi" by Laura Jackson - (Hofstader)

3. A member of which group wrote a good book about Throbbing Gristle? Matmos - Drew Daniel wrote the 33 1/3 book about 20 Jazz Funk Greats (Mere Pseud.)

4. First sentence: “During the 1970s, (x) was British pop's most talismanic, chameleonic character.” Artist and album please. David Bowie - Low (Zoot Horn Polo)

5. Which literary figure connects Emerson, Lake and Palmer, The Justified Ancients of Mu Mu and the Fall? William Blake - they all covered Jerusalem (Mere Pseud.)

6. First sentence: “On the night they met, the summer evening when it all began, the first thing he noticed about him was her height.” From a biography of which group? Sonic Youth - Cappucino and a slice of quiche +1 bonus point for Quizmaster Typo)

7. First sentence from a book about which group? “In 1967, a tired and frustrated (x) sat in the garage of his home in Bournemouth, wondering about the future and thinking about the past”. Bonus points for identifying (x). King Crimson/Michael Giles - Zoot Horn Polo/Mere Pseud

8. “I already called myself (x) before (y). I don’t remember exactly when I came up with that name, but it must have been some time in the late seventies, maybe in 1977”. Please identify (x) and (y).

9. First sentence: “In 1956, when (x) was 15 years old, he lugged his second-hand guitar to Studio City in the San Fernando Valley once a week for a month to take instruction from a jazz guitarist named Howard Roberts”. Who is (x)? Phil Spector - Zoot Horn Polo

10. This is my favourite review of a book about which band? “So open the book, grab a Guiness, blast the tunes, and relive the true punk era, and thank your lucky stars, bittersweet that they may be, that there was never any reunion. This is the best you're gonna get. “ The Clash - New Profile Razor Unit

11. nodal pitches, split refrain, guitar figuration, adjacent songs, modal mixture, harmonic palette, harmonic reduction, open phrases. These are all “Statistically Improbable Phrases” from a book about which artist? Joni Mitchell - Orphiztic

Scorecard:-

Zoot Horn Polo: 7 points
Mere Pseud: 5 points
Hofstadter: 2 points
Cappucino and a slice of quiche: 2 points
New Profile Razor Unit: 1 point
Orphiztic - 1 point
Duckpin - 1 point

1. The Beatles/Let It Be.

CORRECT!

It's from Get Back: The Let It Be Disaster (wonder one the tone of that one could be?)

4. David Bowie/Ziggy Stardust.

One point for David Bowie, but not the right album.

Low.

CORRECT!

The next word was "But..."

5. Dave Thompson?

Incorrect.

Shall we do this via PM from now on? Either the questions are way to narrow or the popularity of the quizmaster is not what it once was. :rolleyes:

Some of them are un-possible. Those SIP ones could be anybody.

Yeah, well I thought: if someone can get Hello Nasty from that review then maybe...

clues will be forthcoming.

9. David Crosby?

Not David Crosby, this guy was big, but not in the same way.

At the risk of causing a tidal wave of disappointment, I'm going out for lunch and the Futurism exhibition, and to think about what I've done....

2. "Jon Bon Jovi" by Laura Jackson

5. HP Lovecraft

MES loves him, "Mu" is from him, no clue re ELP: we don't have them in the house

8. "Adam Ant"; "I met Malcolm McLaren"

11. someone like Yes

11 - Fred Frith

9 - FZ

5. Arthur MAchen

Dude, it's only Tuesday. shouldn't you be back from lunch by now?

3. those twats from RE/Search and Simon Ford are the only Throbbing Gristle books i know about. don't know whether they were in bands though.

6. The Krankies

7. Blur. x = Alex James' dad

That's clever.

I had been working along King Crimson lines.

11. Derek Bailey

7. The Police

on edit Andy Summers

9. x = Jerry Garcia

Nice answer on # 9. Garcia's father, being in music, would have had access to Howard Roberts, one of the most accomplished musicians of the era. Roberts even had a couple of Gibson models named after him. If Howard Roberts were
very big on running scales, then Garcia is your man :lol:

because of your guess, which I suspect is correct, I am going to guess:
#9 - Ricky Nelson

Garcia is wrong. He was born in '42, so the dates don't tally.

Frank Zappa would work, though.

I suppose 8 could be Gary Numan/Tubeway Army...

We will never know: it seems poor Mr Fritter has been stolen from us unless he eats 6 course luncheons at some hincty 5 star restaurant

Frank Zappa got his first guitar in 1957 (only per wikipedia though, so...)

I'm quite enjoying the "teacher has left the room during the exam" vibe. I might give a clue for #10 if he's not back soon.

That has got to be the dullest book I've ever read to the bitter end.

5. William Blake

2. CORRECT! You deserve the point for being the biggest Bon Jovi fan on the FOF!

Not HP Lovecraft, though.

3. I know that Drew Daniel from Matmos contributed a book to the 33 1/3 series about the "20 Jazz Funk Greats" album. Haven't read it, though.

Apologies for my absence, class, I got waylaid at the Tate's Futurist Exhibition.

I'm sorry to say there have been no further correct answers apart from:

5: William Blake (Mere Pseud) which is CORRECT! (All three groups have covered or included exerpts of Jerusalem)

3. Drew Daniel of the mighty Matmos is indeed CORRECT! It's a good book with some great interviews with TG.