80s Music Fun / Slow News Day
May 3rd, 2007 at 12:58 pm by CrankyOK, since nothing beyond the usual appears to be going on in the world, let’s try something that could be really fun. Or it could really suck*.
It’s called Two Degrees of Phil Collins. The 80s were a busy decade for the diminutive Genesis front man what with stepping in for Peter Gabriel, breaking into movies and endlessly kvetching about the breakup of his marriage over several solo albums.
Here’s how you play. Pick something that is at most two degrees away from Phil Collins. The more obscure the reference, the greater points awarded. Winner recieves a close up photo of Phil’s sweaty forehead from the “Hello, I Must Be Going” album.
For example. Led Zeppelin
1. Phil toured with Robert Plant 82-83.
2. Robert Plant sang for this group called Led Zeppelin.
Easy, right?
Here’s another one for you to solve backwards. Melanie Griffith.
* The management of Six Meat Buffet disavows any association with this contest.
May 3rd, 2007 at 1:30 pm
Phil Collins? PHIL COLLINS?!?!? What the hell, Cranky?
OK, just kidding…I’m OK with Phil Collins even though others might not be. But I think TWO degrees is too easy…next time let’s make it 4 or 6 so we can really get weird.
My EASY entry for now (as I have a tee time approaching) is Earth Wind & Fire.
1. Phil Collins collaborated with Phillip Bailey on Easy Lover…
2. Phillip Bailey sang for Earth Wind and Fire…
I also propose as a rule that nobody be allowed to use We are the World as a link.
Do I get extra points for the tubing?
May 3rd, 2007 at 1:41 pm
Oops…my bad. I don’t think Phil was in We are the World, but he was in Don’t They Know It’s Christmas…
No fair using that linkage either.
May 3rd, 2007 at 2:03 pm
I was about to take a shower and it occurred to me that Phil Collins once guest-starred on Miami Vice.
No, really…it’s true!
And I believe Miami Vice star Don Johnson was married to Melanie Griffith…
Hah! What do I win for THAT, Cranky?
May 3rd, 2007 at 2:05 pm
Phil Collins, Starman
Melanie Griffith, Gettybsurg
May 3rd, 2007 at 2:22 pm
Grr. Maybe I should learn the rules of the game before I start playing. Geez. Disregard previous entry
May 3rd, 2007 at 2:32 pm
Joy Behar
Phil was on the soundtrack of Tarzan, which featured voice of Rosie O’Donnel as a monkey, and Rosie hosted the view with Behar.
May 3rd, 2007 at 3:07 pm
Damn Billy, you’re good. Paleo, I’d say there are no wrong answers here, but you really choked that one
May 3rd, 2007 at 3:08 pm
Also, Billy if you go five or six degrees out, you can go anywhere. If you got something, go for it.
May 3rd, 2007 at 3:18 pm
1. As a kid, my son once put a Phil Collins song on a Mother’s Day tape he made for me.
2. As an environmentalist, I am always talking about something in the air.
May 3rd, 2007 at 8:38 pm
In the documentary about Phillip Workman my blog, ‘Something In The Air Tonight” is the song played at the end.
Phil was in the 1988 movie ‘Buster.’ He also appeared in ‘Oliver’ where he played the Artful Dodger as a young child.
And a better trivia question would have been the two degrees of separation from me.
My ex appeared on Miami Vice with Don as well.
Who played guitar on ‘I Wish It Would Rain Down,’ in 1990 with Collins?
May 3rd, 2007 at 8:39 pm
Ans where is Michelle? She’ll have a better answer than all of us combined.
May 3rd, 2007 at 10:17 pm
So Donna, are you saying that you are one degree from The Phil?
Sharon Cobb is one degree from Nicholas Cage. Now that’s cool!
Was it Clapton?
May 3rd, 2007 at 11:46 pm
Cranky, I’m one degree from Steppenwolf and Mick Jagger!
May 4th, 2007 at 12:42 am
I believe Sharon is also 2 degrees from Chevy Chase as well (Fletch Lives)…
Do I got that correct, Sharon?
I agree with Cranky…I seem to remember that being Clapton…sounds like Clapton too. Can’t really imagine who else that sounds like.
May 4th, 2007 at 12:44 am
Oh yeah…Michele…where are you?
May 4th, 2007 at 1:06 am
Cranky,
It was indeed Eric!
May 4th, 2007 at 8:52 am
Here, and clueless.
May 4th, 2007 at 10:13 am
Let’s see… Phil Collen…
A midget guitar player that replaced Pete Willis, a swarf guitar player in Def Leppard in 1983.
May 4th, 2007 at 11:14 am
OK, I am going to go “6 Degrees of Phil Collins”…lets see where this takes me:
1. Phil Collins was in the Beatles movie Hard Days Night (yes he was, I’m not going to link it, just look it up yourself)
2. Which also had British character actor Wilfred Brambel…who was previously in a 1947 Movie “Odd Man Out” starring…
3. James Mason, who was in a movie production of Julius Caesar with…
4. Marlon Brando. We could of course go so many ways with Brando, but I am going to choose 1951′s Streetcar Named Desire which was written by…
5. Tennessee Williams whose play Sweet Bird of Truth was the inspiration for:
6. This song by The The…
Whew…
May 4th, 2007 at 11:41 am
OK Billy, now you’re just showing off. Bravo.
Yid, next week we’ll have to do a six degrees of Lemmy for you.
May 4th, 2007 at 11:52 am
OK, hot shot I got one for you. Jesus.
Work with me people…
1. Phil Collins produced Frida’s 1983 album.
2. Frida was a member of ABBA
3. To other members of ABBA wrote the 80s musical Chess.
4. Chess featured actor/singer Murray Head.
5. Murray Head’s career debuted with Jesus Christ Superstar.
6. JCSS is more or lessed based on the life of The Son of Man Himself.
Ha!
May 4th, 2007 at 12:06 pm
So Phil Collins, Frida, Murray Head, and Jesus walk into a bar….
That’s just blasphemy, Cranky.
May 4th, 2007 at 3:45 pm
Donna,
How are you one degree from Steppenwolf and Mick?
(Speaking of Steppenwolf, listen to their song ‘The Monster,’–sounds like it was written today)
May 4th, 2007 at 3:56 pm
Cranky,
I used to work at a “World Famous” Rock Radio Station in the late 80′s/early 90′s. I could probably get you that six degrees of Lemmy Kilmeister.
“You can’t resist, the Iron Fist!”
May 4th, 2007 at 5:30 pm
Yiddish…which station? 91X? Or maybe KROQ in LA? KLOS?
May 4th, 2007 at 11:17 pm
Billy,
KNAC “Pure Rock” 105.5 Long Beach. The first station that dared to play the likes of Metallica, Anthrax, WASP, Motley Crue, et. al. in the middle of the day.
\m/
May 4th, 2007 at 11:41 pm
Sharon, Steppenwolf had a concert in Nashville in 1970, and I was standing on the curb outside, attempting to regain my hearing, when the band rode out in their limousine. They rolled down the windows and talked to me and were so enthralled that John Kay moved down the road from my uncle in Middle Tennessee. Well .. maybe that wasn’t the reason.
As for Mick, he and I had the same doctor in an Atlanta suburb. Don’t ask. I didn’t understand it either.
May 5th, 2007 at 9:43 am
Maybe we should play six degrees of Ourselves. See how many famous people we can list. I bet they would be long. Phil Collins bores me to tears.
May 5th, 2007 at 1:19 pm
Oh wow, Yiddish. I’ll have to admit, KNAC was one of those mysteries to me because when I lived in San Diego in the late 80′s I simply could not get the signal. It was too close to some country station. So mostly it was 91X, KPRI and KGB for me…and KLOS when I could get the signal at night. KROQ was also a difficult signal…but I could still get it at times.
When I moved to LA to go to school I tried to get KNAC…but even at UCLA I couldn’t really get the signal. Since 91X was blasted out of Mexico, I continued to listen to that and KROQ.
KNAC was that mystery/rogue radio station I heard about but never heard. I saw the bumper stickers and t-shirts, but sadly never got the opportunity to give the station a serious listen. I know a couple of the DJs came to San Diego to 91X shortly after KNAC left the airwaves and would talk about the craziness there.
Yiddish, I’d love to hear some of the stories if we ever get this Pricktastrope put together…
And gang…since Yiddish worked at KNAC, I am guessing he might be 2 degrees from just about everyone.
May 6th, 2007 at 1:38 am
Donna,
Cool story about Steppenwolf. I still love them. I see Jon Kay over at the First Amendment Center from time to time.
You and Mick had the same doctor?????????
Something about that is creepy. I’m not sure I’d want someone touching me after touching Mick. There’s a high “ick” factor on that visual.
May 6th, 2007 at 7:36 pm
Yeah, that was an interesting, fun time back then, Sharon. Instant camaraderie within the generation and the advance guard. As if we were all in on a big secret. Lots of smiles and happiness, unless you were in Vietnam or the Nixon administration.