NIMMERVOLL'S NOTES
Posted by Allans Billy Hyde , Monday, February 14, 2011 3:17 PM
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| Ed Nimmervoll is a legendary Australian rock music journalist, author and historian. He worked on rock magazines Go-Set (1966-1974) and Juke (1975-1992) both as a journalist and as an editor. Since 2000, Nimmervoll has been editor of HowlSpace, a website detailing Australian rock music history, providing artist profiles, news and video interviews. DID YOU KNOW? Early in the songwriting for Kings Of Leon’s debut release, the ‘Holy Roller Novocaine’ EP, producer Angelo Petraglia handed Caleb Followill the ’72 Gibson ES-325 Angelo found on eBay for $900. It’s been on every Kings Of Leon album since. MILESTONE February Revolutions. In February 1949 this week, RCA Records issued the first ever 45rpm single, a record size which made jukeboxes possible. In 1981, the world's first CD player was demonstrated in Europe creating new possibilities for consumption of music. DID YOU HEAR THAT? The recording quality of Johnny Cash’s ‘At Folsom Prison’ album was so bad it took three months to mix. Secretly producer Bob Johnson overdubbed instruments and crowd sounds in England. The hollering “inmates” you hear have English accents. JAILBAIT In 1994, aged 19, 50 Cent was arrested and sentenced to nine years in prison on cocaine trafficking charges. He served three and, on his release, did a demo of the rap songs he had been writing on the walls of his cell. QUOTE UNQUOTE The Who’s singer Roger Daltrey said: “We were too rough at the edges to be a pop group.” BEEP BEEP In February 1964 Beatle George Harrison bought himself a Series One gunmetal grey E-Type Jaguar, registration number 499 HLX, and it was from the driver's seat that he asked Pattie Boyd to marry him. ABOUT A SONG R.E.M. guitarist Peter Buck wrote the main riff and chorus to the song ‘Losing My Religion” one day while watching television. Buck had just bought a mandolin and was attempting to learn how to play it, recording the music as he practiced. When Buck played back his attempts to master the instrument, he heard the riff and thought it might make a good basis for a song. The title, "Losing My Religion" comes from a Southern American expression meaning to be pushed to the limit. |
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