Hey everybody! So here’s a little fun DZ and I cooked up that will attempt to entertain as well as generate some good discourse. We each wrote a gospel-oriented music trivia question that deals with musicians that everybody’s heard of. Use the comments to answer. While each question has only one main answer, they are somewhat geeked-out, so feel free to answer on multiple levels pertaining to the different references. Additionally, for extra fun on this first installment, see if you can guess who wrote which question. And this is by no means a set format, so let us know if you have any cool ideas!
Question 1:
Which Silverado-inspired music video prominently features the extensive crucifix collection of its singer, who grew up teaching Bible classes at his local Pentecostal church, 3-8 times/week before moving to the other side of the country to earn his living smoking cigarettes?
Question 2:
What son of a conservative Catholic father and Episcopalian mother came to popularity with his seemingly reactionary art and persona with the help of a now classic 1996 cover, half-penned in the early ’80s by a frequent British Bob Dylan-collaborator of the ’80s and ’90s?
(not actual parents of the artist in question)
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These questions are ridiculously hard. I have no idea.
Answer one:
Lloyd W. Fonvielle
Answer two:
Yours truly
(with one factual error in the question)
hint: the cross-country move referenced in question one was immoratalized in another of the same band’s videos…
Is number one: A. Rose?
#2 – Brian Hugh Warner
John Z, check the question again, but you are right in the zone…
John B, congrats on getting #2 right! I’ll leave it to you or someone else to reveal who that is.
jz: number one is not asking for a person.
yeah, I picked up on that, that it’s a video we’re looking for. And I don’t know which one, but I remember Slash’s guitar solo in the desert on was it November Rain? I think we’re def pulling from the later G n R catalog but that’s as much as I can put together. Maybe that’s enough to help someone else get the proper answer?
Hold on–are those actually the parents of the musician in question?
Yeah, I seem to remember a bunch of crucifixes in November Rain’s video.
ding ding ding! The church in the desert where Slash plays that amazing solo was also featured in Silverado.
My favorite part of the video has got to be when the guy jumps into the wedding cake. Absolutely priceless!
The video is part 2 in a trilogy, the first being Don’t Cry and the third being Estranged (you know, the one where Axl swims with the dolphins…).
p.s. the first video from Chinese Democracy is scheduled to drop any day now… watch this space!
Obviously DZ wrote that one…
And “Brian Hugh Warner” is Marilyn Manson. John Bourgeois, good going.