I just came across something I wrote back in 2000 that made me laugh. Take the '70s rock trivia quiz. Answers to be posted later.

Maybe you are pulling off that 70s look that’s come back strong: feathered long hair, patches on your fading flared jeans, suede jacket with fringe, too tight rainbow colored three-quartered t-shirt and oooh yeah, a comfy pair of moccassins. But have you really got your 1970s FM rock n’ roll down? Back in the day, the real "heads" as they were called kept track of rock’s increasingly complex who’s who with an incredible amount of detail, even if they did most of their research lying on couches in smoke-filled, black-light lit rooms studying liner-notes to a pumping 8-track stereo. Maybe it’s time to get reacquainted with some of the stars of 1970s, the rockers, the singer-songwriters and even folkies that shaped the party decade’s golden sounds. Come on, turn the knob up and imagine that you are a ‘70s rock trivia "head" and check out XXXXXX.com’s ‘70s Rock Trivia Quiz. Warning. This isn’t Brady Bunch stuff. If you don’t know which New York City band dressed up in black and white make-up, elevator heels, had a hit with "Beth" and met the Phantom of the Park in 1976, then don’t even bother. (Answer: Kiss, man).

1. According to legend, what British titans of ‘70s rock renamed themselves (at Keith Moon and John Entwhistle’s suggestion) after going down badly in front of Scandinavian royalty on an early tour as The New Yardbirds?
a. Queen
b. Led Zeppelin
c. Jethro Tull
d. Deep Purple

2. What Canadian-born ‘70s rock singer/songwriter briefly played in the first mostly white act (the Mynah Birds with Rick James) signed to Detroit’s famous soul label Motown Records in the mid-1960s?
a. Emitt Rhodes
b. Todd Rundgren
c. Neil Young
d. Peter Frampton

3. "Bron-Y-Aur" was the name of Led Zeppelin’s what?
a. rare species of pet shark to which they were partial.
b. overweight Indian tour manager
c. Satanic spiritual guru
d. Cottage in Snowdonia, Wales where the band wrote much of their folk influenced acoustic material.

4. October 20, 1977 was a dark day for Southern rock because on that day…
a. Greg Allman quit The Allman Brothers to begin a successful solo career.
b. Molly Hatchet swore off drinking.
c. The Carpenters played a sold-out show in Atlanta, Georgia where fans behaved decently toward one another, cleaned-up after themselves, applauded the duo’s icky songs and went home thoroughly entertained.
d. A plane crash outside of Gillsburg, Mississippi killed Lynyrd Skynyrd’s Ronnie Van Zant, guitarist Steve Gaines and his sister Cassie, one of the group's backing vocalists.

5. Walter Becker (bass) and Donald Fagen (vocals, keyboards) met at Bard College and played in band called Bad Rock Group in the late 1960s. In the 1970s they went by the name Steely Dan after a dildo in William Burroughs' Naked Lunch and made jazz-influenced records chock full of FM hits. Who was their drummer back in the early days?
a. Steve Martin
b. Tom Waits
c. Chevy Chase
d. Max Weinberg

6. Two years before Stevie Nicks and Lindsey Buckingham joined Fleetwood Mac, they were romantically and artistically attached, recording an album for Polydor called Buckingham-Nicks (1973). It stiffed, but ended up catching the ear of one Mick Fleetwood looking for a new guitar player. Stevie Nicks says that her major complaint about the album (done a few years before Buckingham told her "Go Your Own Way" on an A-side for the Mac) was what?

a. The fluorescent lights had been "too friggin bright" in the studio during the recording session throwing her off key.
b. Her ex-boyfriend Buckingham sounds more "feminine and mystical" than she does.
c. That Buckingham convinced her to pose bare-chested with him for the album cover, explaining that it was "for the sake of art."
d. That Fleetwood Mac never played or recorded any songs from the album.


7. Crosby, Stills, Nash and Young were the ‘70s first real supergroup. Their three-part harmonies, powerful often politically aware songwriting made them instantly huge at a time when hard rock was the big thing. Which of the following CSN&Y factoids is false?
a. The second CSN&Y gig was Woodstock, where they sang the Joni Mitchell penned "Woodstock." However, they also played with the Rolling Stones at the hellish, violent Altamont Speedway Concert, just snuck out early to play a more groovy UCLA gig that night.
b. In 1970, National Guardsmen shot and killed four students at Kent State. CSN&Y recorded and released Young’s "Ohio" within ten days of the event.
c. Sometimes CSNY’s skyrocketing career looked as if David Crosby had made a deal with the Devil. The same day that the band’s first album went gold, David Crosby's lady, Christine Gale Hinton, was killed in a head-on collision as she took the couple’s cats to the vet in his VW bus.
d. While other groups were using more than 21 microphones, CSN&Y refused technological upgrades, playing stadium concerts using only three mikes.

8. Most lazy critics assume that the punk rock explosion was a reaction to the dullness of the music of the 1970s. History, however tends to favor the theory that punks were well studied in glam rock and power pop, and built on the mod and garage music of the ‘60s. Some punks, such as Joe Strummer of the Clash were even ex-hippy folk. What ‘70s guitar rock hero from the wrong side of the tracks was so knocked out by punk that he celebrated it by joining an "authentic" punk group?
a. Alex Chilton, who quit his pop band Big Star and started a group in New York called Television.
b. Geezer Butler of Black Sabbath, who joined a group with ex-members of Generation X called Evil Empire.
c. Phil Lynott of Thin Lizzy, who formed a bad-boy all-star group with ex-Sex Pistols Steve Jones and Paul Cook called The Greedy Bastards.
d. Randy Bachman from Bachman Turner Overdrive, who after cutting his hair into a mohawk on a dare, liked it so much that he guested with the political punk band Crass.

9. Yes, for better or worse pioneered the progressive rock sound of the 70s and broke new ground in spiritual flakiness and muzo embellishment. Jon Andersen wrote one Yes album inspired by Portrait of a Yogi and the Shastric scriptures he discovered in the East. What did Yes manager Brian Lane do to create the proper atmosphere for recording 1972’s hit album Tales from Topographic Oceans?
a. Sent the band aboard an ocean liner with nothing but instruments, curry and rice to record in the South China Sea.
b. He brought Indian Gurus for each member of the band, available to teach meditation 24 hours a day.
c. To give the studio the feel of a rural village, he had a picket fence built around the band, equipment set in bales of hay, and a full-size cardboard cow with mechanical udders.
d. Shaved his head except for a pony tail, dressed in silk robes, crossed his legs like Buddha and sat in Yes’ studio until the album was finished.

10. The Eagles were one of the most commercially successful bands on the 1970s. Their Greatest Hits has now outsold Michael Jackson’s Thriller and is the best selling album of all time. The Eagles, however weren’t always stars. They were LA session musicians assembled by producer John Boylan as the backing band for what singer?

a. James Taylor
b. Linda Ronstadt
c. Carly Simon
d. Cher