In reissues of “The Blizzard of Oz” and “Diary of a Madman” Sharon Osbourne replaced Daisely and Kerslakes bass and drum tracks in order to avoid paying them royalties. If you want to hear the original you’ll have to do some digging.
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This is interesting. About 12 years ago in our college alumni bulletin the “where are they now” section a college buddy of mine submitted that he played drums for Queensryche. We were amazed since we never knew he played drums and then became skeptical when we could find nothing on the Internet of the sort.
Now, this story makes me want to re-investigate.
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I’m not aware of any legal action. The story I hear is when Hodgson left Tramp there was a verbal agreement with in band rival Rick Davies that Davies could keep the band name but not play Hodgson’s songs and Hodgson would not play his.
Several years ago Davies hired a Hodgson lookalike-soundalike who played keyboards just like Hodgson and started performing his songs, and Hodgson griped about it to the press. But I’m. To aware of any legal action over it.
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Nah, we’d know them by “Day After Day” and “Baby Blue.” Good songs.
Never insinuated there was any legal action. But again, when Hodgson put out feelers he might be interested in a reunion, Davies was quick to say (politely), go fuck yourself.
But if you Youtube any solo Hodgson, you won’t be hearing any Googbye Stranger though Give a Little Bit is a wonderful 12-string guitar number.
Also No Matter What and Come and Get It. For modern listeners, how could we have the finale to Breaking Bad without Badfinger?
From everything I’ve read and heard I’m with Dweezil on this. I believe that Moon is in that camp. Gail was an awful businessperson. She protected the brand to the point that it was impossible to find his music. It seems that her resentment of Frank fueled her decisions more than good business. Ahmet is worse.
If you can find Dweezil talking on Marc Maron’s show about it he goes into details.
I always remember them because they were the first band the Beatles signed to Apple Records. The collapse of Apple started their legal woes.
Wasn’t there some sort of restraining order in place at one time during the seventies, that when the band members were onstage they could be no less than five feet from each other?
Give a listen to Fogerty’s “The Old Man Down The Road” and then spin CCR’s “Run Through the Jungle.” Damn if it ain’t the same tune.
How about Dennis DeYoung vs Styx.
Sounds similar to Mary’s Danish in the early 90s. Their label supposedly deliberately tanked them and locked them up in an unfulfilled contract. Great band, I was lucky enough to see them a couple of times.
Your memories are probably more accurate than mine. As a clueless child listening to them on the radio in the early 70’s, I thought Badfinger was the Beatles. I figured the name Badfinger was some kind of that groovy hip lingo slang term for the Beatles, like Slowhand was for Clapton and so on. I felt a little less stupid later on when I learned the name Badfinger comes from the working title for With a Little Help from My Friends. That and the band was closely aligned with The Beatles, both financially as you mentioned as well as creatively with Come and Get It written by McCartney and Day After Day produced by Harrison thus giving them a Beatle-esque sound.
Fantastic example. I recall they were planning a reunion tour in the Nineties when at the very last minute DeYoung announced he was allergic to stage lighting and dropped out, leaving them flabbergasted. As far as I know, that was the proverbial final straw in any attempt at performing together. Things then proceeded to escalate over the years, culminating in the lawsuit you referenced.
Shaw confirmed to Dan Rather in an interview last April of this year that a reunion aint ever going to happen. As an aside, replacement Gowan has now been with Styx longer that DeYoung ever was.
Agreed.
And an awful human being, who was married to an even more awful one.
Agreed. Hardly surprising considering how toxic that marriage must have been.
Perhaps Ahmet inherited the worst aspects of both his parents.