Jamming - ROCK TRIVIA

This space is for rock trivia and great rock lyrics, irrespective of whether they have a transferable lesson for us in business.  Please send your additions to dean@academy-of-rock.co.uk and we will add them to the page. 

Great Rock Lyrics

Don't give me no lip, I got enough of my own - Aerosmith, Falling in Love

I'd rather have a bottle in front of me than a frontal lobotomy - Tom Waits

Don't touch my breast, I'm just working at my desk - Sonic Youth, Swimsuit Issue

Don't mind your make-up you'd better make your mind up - Frank Zappa

Despite all the complications, you could dance to a Rock'n'Roll station - Velvet Underground, Rock'n'Roll

Well I woke up this morning and got myself a beer, the future's uncertain and the end is always near - The Doors
 
We are all of us in the gutter, some of us are looking at the stars - The Pretenders (originally an Oscar Wilde quote)
 
Money can't buy you happiness, but it can buy you a yacht big enough to pull up right alongside it
He who knows how will always work for he who knows why - David Lee Roth

Thanks to Kelly Manning, Auckland, New Zealand for the Doors, Pretenders and David Lee Roth quotes!

Bill Bailey on Rock

Here we see some clips of Bill Bailey doing his stage show sending up rock paradigms - A little bit like one of our seminars but without the business lessons and with less smoke!  

YOU TUBE - What Peter Cook does on his nights off

Here we see some clips of Peter when he's not doing blue chip consulting.  Some people have to play golf to relax.  Peter prefers to play guitar.  Some bizarre items here on YOUTUBE

How NOT to do your marketing – the Rock'n'Roll way

The crazy world of rock music does produce its fair share of product failures. Sometimes the product is good but the packaging somehow does damage to the reputation of the band. Have a look at these classic worst album covers of all time for some inspiration on how not to do your marketing.

Worst album covers ever

Jailhouse Rock

Here's an extract from a trial in which a blues singer protests her innocence!  Thanks to Suzanne Looms for this piece

Blues Singer's Woman Permitted To Tell Her Side


CLARKSDALE, MS–Ida Mae Dobbs, longtime woman of Willie "Skipbone" Jackson, called a press conference Tuesday to respond to charges levied against her by the legendary Delta blues singer. Ida Mae Dobbs, woman of blues singer Willie "Skipbone" Jackson 

"Despite what Mr. Jackson would have you believe, I am not an evil-hearted woman who will not let him be," Dobbs told reporters. "I repeat: I am not an evil-hearted woman who will not let him be. To the contrary, my lovin' is so sweet, it tastes just like the apple off the tree." 

Dobbs, accused of causing Jackson pain and breaking his heart by calling out another man's name, categorically denied treating him in a low-down manner. 

"He says he sends for his baby, but I don't come around," Dobbs, a brownskin woman, said. "He says he sends for his baby, but I don't come around. Well, the truth is, I do come, but he is out messing with every gal in town." 

During the press conference, Dobbs also disputed an Aug. 27 statement made by Jackson, who compared her to a dresser because someone is always going through her drawers. 

"My drawers have not been gone through by any man but Willie "Skipbone" Jackson," Dobbs said. "Neither Slim McGee nor Melvin Brown has ever been in my drawers. Nor has Sonny 'Spoonthumb' Perkins, nor any of those other no-good jokers down by the railroad tracks. My policy has always been to keep my drawers closed to everyone but Mr. Jackson, as I am his woman and would never treat him so unkind." 

In addition to denying Jackson's drawer-opening allegations, Dobbs disputed charges of unrestricted sweet-potato-pie distribution, insisting that her pie is available only to Jackson. 

"I do not give out my sweet potato pie arbitrarily, as I am not the sort of no-good doney who engages in such objectionable behavior," Dobbs told reporters. "Only one man can taste my sweet potato pie, and I believe I have made it perfectly clear who that man is." Dobbs noted that the same policy applies to her biscuits, which may be buttered only by Jackson. 

While most of the accusations levied against Dobbs relate to her running around town with other men, she does face one far more serious charge, attempted homicide. On May 5, 1998, Jackson was rushed to the hospital and narrowly escaped death after ingesting nearly five ounces of gasoline. Jackson claimed that Dobbs tried to murder him, serving him a glass of the toxic fuel when he requested water. Dobbs dismissed the episode as "an accident." 

Dobbs, a short-dress, big-legged woman from Coahoma County, said it is not she but Jackson who should be forced to defend himself. According to Dobbs, Jackson frequently has devilment on his mind, staying up until all hours of the night rolling dice and drinking smokestack lightning. 

"Six nights out of seven, he goes off and gets his swerve on while I sit at home by myself. Then he comes knocking on my door at 4 a.m., expecting me to rock him until his back no longer has any bone," Dobbs said. "Is that any way for a man to treat his woman? I don't want to, but if he keeps doing 
me wrong like this, I am going to take my lovin' and give it to another man." 

Added Dobbs: "Skipbone Jackson is going to be the death of me." 

Dobbs said that until she receives an apology from Jackson and a full retraction of all accusations, he will not be given any grinding. 

"Mr. Jackson says that I stay out all night and that I'm not talking right. He says he has rambling on his mind as a result of my treating him so unkind. He says I want every downtown man I meet and says they shouldn't even let me on the street," Dobbs said. "Well, I refuse to allow my name to be dragged through the mud like this any longer. Unless my man puts an end to these unfair attacks on my character, I will neither rock nor roll him to the break of dawn. I am through with his low-down ways."