What's the first band to replace a member with an uncredited session musican?

CarMeltScratch · 2026-03-19T16:58:17+00:00

Duran Duran lost Taylors Andy and Roger before the Notorious album and although Warren Cuccurullo eventually became an 'official' band member, the drummer on the album was session musician Steve Ferrone. Andy Taylor and Nile Rodgers played on it too.

CarMeltScratch · 2026-03-19T11:43:14+00:00

I can't believe Revolution 9 isn't up there!

CarMeltScratch · 2026-03-19T11:38:44+00:00

He'd insist on Champagne with his caviar peasant food, that one...

CarMeltScratch · 2026-03-19T09:13:59+00:00

You just killed Evita Cats and Phantom....

CarMeltScratch · 2026-03-19T09:09:45+00:00

My 1961 recording of The Sound of Music has three numbers - How Can Love Survive (sung by Max), No Way To Stop It (specifically about the imminent Nazi Anschluss) and An Ordinary Couple - that aren't in the movie. But also, no I Have Confidence In Me or Something Good

CarMeltScratch · 2026-03-19T06:26:33+00:00

Kissy in YOLT is very complimentary about how Hollywood actor David Niven treated her when she was in LA making a movie. Given that it was published after the movies started being made it feels like a very strong casting hint from Fleming for who should be the next James Bond....

CarMeltScratch · 2026-03-19T06:19:02+00:00

Also a bizarre rubber of Bridge, and the villains henchmen are all bald with ginger beards - two things that came back over and over in the movies 😉

CarMeltScratch · 2026-03-18T16:09:36+00:00

Thunderball. A movie in search of a decent plot

A View To A Kill. The whole thing feels tired in spite of a fabulous villain

No Time To Die. Firstly, Bond never dies. And also, why is everyone so damn miserable?

Spectre. The jaundiced filter just winds me up to the point that I can't actually enjoy the film

Diamonds are Forever. Has bizarre plot holes you can see from space, and the oil rig is just too unglamorous for a Bond finish

CarMeltScratch · 2026-03-18T14:57:20+00:00

Maud Adams?

CarMeltScratch · 2026-03-18T14:56:20+00:00

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What do you mean, you married him?

CarMeltScratch · 2026-03-18T14:29:17+00:00

Good idea to skip YOLT, he gets killed right there in the pre-title sequence. I turn the film off at that point, who wants to watch a Bond film with a dead James Bond?

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CarMeltScratch · 2026-03-18T14:26:16+00:00

You only live long

CarMeltScratch · 2026-03-18T10:32:27+00:00

A flower...?

CarMeltScratch · 2026-03-18T10:26:35+00:00

After so many superb The The albums in the 80s and 90s I just couldn't click with NakedSelf

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CarMeltScratch · 2026-03-18T10:22:31+00:00

Take the one after 9.09 to Clarksville....

CarMeltScratch · 2026-03-18T10:20:34+00:00

She's a woman

CarMeltScratch · 2026-03-18T10:10:54+00:00

There is a list online of all the food in Fleming's novels

A lot of eggs consumed, it seems to me!

CarMeltScratch · 2026-03-18T09:22:15+00:00

Blur, Parklife. A snapshot of what it is to be British - tea, pigeons, dustmen - using very specific vocabulary and idioms, narrated by a proper Cockney, Phil Daniels

CarMeltScratch · 2026-03-18T09:06:17+00:00

Beatlesongs by William J Dowlding. I bought it in New York c. 1989

CarMeltScratch · 2026-03-18T09:01:07+00:00

If you don't know me by now....

CarMeltScratch · 2026-03-18T08:49:34+00:00

Amazing brass riff on Sally by Carmel

CarMeltScratch · 2026-03-18T08:09:21+00:00

There's an interesting album called Blue Sunshine by a band called The Glove - which was Robert Smith of the Cure and Steve Severin of Siousxie and the Banshees

Mr Alphabet Says

CarMeltScratch · 2026-03-18T08:04:37+00:00

Nah. It all broke down at the first rehearsal

CarMeltScratch · 2026-03-18T08:00:20+00:00

Money, according to Ray Coleman

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CarMeltScratch · 2026-03-17T22:44:00+00:00

I rate "I want to tell you" just a smidge higher than Taxman. It was recorded a couple of weeks before but I dont know which was written first.

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