In 1979 "Georgia on My Mind" became the official state song of Georgia.

Wrote, composed, whatever, yes?

I knew his middle name too, but am drawing a blank right now.

had a profound influence on ska, rocksteady and reggae - who is he? 😀

admired the work of this country, country-rock and bluegrass player. Born in Maine from a French-Canadian family. Who was he?

I know he was in the Byrds but I can't remember his name, will ponder for a while

*as a teenager I had posters of Jimi and Jimmy on my bedroom wall - how cool was I?

both a session guy and later as a full member. He collaborated with Gene Parsons to create the B-Bender, allowing a guitarist to play pedal steel effects with a Telecaster. He died at 29 while packing up after a show, victim of a drunk-driver. A wonderful and inventive player.

I had posters of Bob Dylan and Easy Rider.

oh wow, what a talent he was

I remember the Radio Caroline DJs talking about his greatness

Clarence singing with his B-Bender, Ry on slide.

what a tragic duo, they died in the same year

I know Clarence's wife and 11 yr old son died a few years after Clarence passed, do you know what happened to them? So sad.

Daughter Michelle was orphaned at the age of 15.

dreadful

even Keith Richards thought so. Gram sang at the funeral for Clarence, he died about 3-4 months later from excess alcohol and morphine. His body was hijacked by road manager Phil Kaufman. A drunken Kaufman took the coffin to Joshua Tree NP and set it ablaze. He partially burned the body, only got cited for destruction of a corpse.

Weird and bizarre stuff!

See some recent posts about Clarence.

Counting drummers who appeared on camera in the two Spinal Tap films, and those who have played in Spinal Tap's concerts, how many people who were drummers in real life have played with Spinal Tap?

best left unsolved, you really can't dust for vomit.

Russ Kunkel: played Peter "James" Bond in This is Spinal Tap
Ric Parnell: played Mick Shrimpton in This is Spinal Tap, and performed on their first two albums. In 2022 he became the first actual Spinal Tap drummer to die in real life.
Gsry Wallis, Jody Linscott, Mick Fleetwood, Gregg Bissonette and Todd Sucherman all played a small number of concerts with the band.
Valerie Franco: played Didi Crockett in Spinal Tap: The End Continues.

So...eight drummers. More than six but less than eighteen.

and his All-Stars in 2014. He would co-drum with Ringo, or when Ringo would only sing, or when Ringo would take a rest (being 76 at the time). I saw Mick Fleetwood with Fleetwood Mac in 1978 in Cleveland.

The only two who I knew of that were actual drummers were Ric Parnell and Valerie Franco.

What famous singer/songwriter wrote the song?

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Tikki

with a cover of a Beatles song?

called the Big Bopper...what was his real name?

the same song. This band featured 2 different lead singers who later each had solo songs which hit #1.

Also name the song and the 2 singers.

Hint: the band was from Canada.

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Arthur. Took me a while to remember his first name.