Thanks!
It was actually a bit of work, that one.
OTOH, it was nothing compared to what I went thru to find out more about a band who’s CD I’ve actually owned since the late '80s.
Just this past spring, I spent almost 4 days tracking down a band from the San Francisco area called Trees Of Mystery. I have their CD, Mooks on Parade, which is an amazingly polished, confident, genre-bending little gem of an album, with at least 3 bona fide “excellent” songs on it.
I did a lot of internet searching, which was hard since Trees of Mystery is also a very popular place in California, near SF. Finally, I went to my old friend the telephone. I called clubs, I called radio stations, I called booking agencies, I called newspapers and magazines in SF. I finally ended up tracking down the guy who used to own the studio they recorded the album in studio now gone, he works as an instructor at a college now), and he told me enough about the band members that I was able to track 2 of them down and finally get the story on the band.
I had like 4 pages of notes I had made, with phone numbers and names and when I talked to people and who referred me to who… it was awesome!
ETA: I love doing this type of research; I often spend whole days just “finding stuff out”. If I could get a job doing it, I would.