re: Share A Bit Of Music Trivia

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Before joining the Eagles, Don Fender lives in Gainesville, FL for a time. He worked in a music store and gave guitar lessons. He had a young student named Tom Petty.

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Felder was a nexus of that Gainesville scene. In addition to Stephen Stills and, obviously, Bernie Leadon, he also hung out with the Allman Brothers - as they were all about the same age and all before any of them were famous (including his young guitar student Petty).


The "Rosanna" posts reminded me of one:

Most of the love songs on Purple Rain were inspired by Prince's feelings towards sometime girlfriend Susannah Melvoin (I think they were engaged at one point). Her identical twin sister was the rhythm guitarist for The Revolution, Wendy Melvoin (and also of longtime musical association/romantic partnership with Revolution keyboardist Lisa Coleman).

The Melvoins older brother, Jonathan was the touring keyboardist for The Smashing Pumpkins, overdosed on heroin with Jimmy Chamberlin (obviously the latter survived) and his death was one of the reasons Chamberlin was fired by Billy Corgan (the first time).

Melvoin's death inspired a number of songs, including SPCA staple, Angel by Sara Mclachlan.

The Melvoins father, Mike Melvoin was the keyboardist for The Wrecking Crew.