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The drummer on Skylarking was Prairie Prince. #localangle #rockfacts
October 28, 2026 at 5:51 AM
blackcheeseburger.bsky.social
The Chicago Bears field goal kicker is from the same country as the leader of the English indie band Drugstore.

#rockfacts
October 23, 2026 at 3:18 AM
chrissteller.bsky.social
FACT: After releasing their first albums in 1978, Prince and Molly Hatchet had closely parallel early recording careers, releasing albums one month apart from each other in 1979, 1980, and 1981. #rockfacts
October 19, 2026 at 9:46 PM
chrissteller.bsky.social
Includes Minnesota #localangle #rockfacts:
- Prince's first three albums (with "When You Were Mine" on the "Dirty Mind" album, that Lauper covered on her own first album)
- Janet Jackson "Control"
- Bob Dylan: Blood/Tracks and Knocked/Loaded
- Eddie Cochran - Some of the Best
- Leo Kottke - The Best
manbartlett.com Man Bartlett @manbartlett.com · 24d
desired:

CYNDI LAUPER'S PERSONAL CASSETTE TAPE COLLECTION up for auction

www.liveauctioneers.com/item/2409523...
A photo of Cyndi Lauper’s cassette tape collection on a white background. Some real gems in here including The The, The Beatles, Dylan, The Smiths, Kate Bush, Sinead O’Connor, Tracy Chapman, Pink Floyd, DEVO, Neil Young and so many more. Looks like 231 tapes total (7 columns by 33 rows)
October 8, 2026 at 8:51 PM
chrissteller.bsky.social
*Career … I think this #rockfacts is true … Billboard seems to have messed with their website
October 7, 2026 at 11:17 PM
chrissteller.bsky.social
#rockfacts
October 2, 2026 at 4:32 AM
violethour.bsky.social
Jimmy Page began dating a 25 year old named Scarlett when he was 70. She has the same name as his daughter (albeit with one more T) but is 18 years younger than she is. #RockFacts
September 15, 2026 at 12:59 AM
chrissteller.bsky.social
(If I'm remember that #rockfacts wrong, that's on me, not the author or the radio station! But it seems to check out ... )

Anyway ...
September 9, 2026 at 2:13 AM
chrissteller.bsky.social
And here is how the story ended for the Dinkytown apartment building at 711 15th Ave. SE, Minneapolis, where an early Dylan tape was made. #rockfacts
C: The Journal, May 15-28, 2014
Full page article: 16 May 15-28, 2014/ journalmpls.com Voices The Weekend Tourist LINDA KOUTSKY SOMETHING'S MISSING IN I’m sorry I didn't get to it sooner. 'This week's destination could have been a national historic site now but it's vanished. A couple weeks ago I read about a new Dinkytown student housing project. 1 recognized the address on 15th Avenue SE — it was where Bob Dylan lived and recorded what's known as the "Minnesota Party Tape." I couldn't believe they were going to tear it down. Wasn't it a designated historic building? I ran over and sure enough, chain link fence surrounded the block. Turns out, it was never nominated for historic status and when the developers wanted to tear it down they got a thumbs-up. With all the talk about losing historic structures in Dinkytown this one disappeared without anyone noticing I know; you're probably thinking. It was an ugly building, why should it have been saved?" Well, something important in our popular culture, and the culture of Minnesotans, happened there. Sometimes that's enough to designate a location historically significant. Carved ornament, architectural style, or being designed by an important architect aren't the only reasons for saving buildings - sometimes it matters what happened there. And something important happened at 711 15th Avenue SE. When Robert Zimmerman came to Minneapolis from Hibbing in 1959 to attend the University of Minnesota he was 19 years old and still trying to find himself. He skipped classes, played folk songs in coffechouses, and friends knew him as "Dillon" For part ofhis time in Dinkytown, the man who became Bob Dylan lived in the center unit of that two-story, nondescript rowhouse. Another teenager, 15-year-old Cleve Pettersen, Lunch break The only remaining Dylan location in Dinkytown, though it's just a shell, is Loring Pasta Bar. Dylan lived on the second floor overlooking the alley when it was Gray's drugstore. An important site in the documentation o Dinkytown. Photos by Linda Koutsky hung around the same coffechouses looking for musicians to record on his new reel-to-reel tape recorder. Bob Dylan agreed. In the fall of 1960 Pettersen went to 711 15th Avenue SE, up the front steps, and into the bay-windowed living room. Dylan and his friends Bonnie Beecher, Cynthia Fisher, and Bil Golfus had just opened a bottle of wine. With Pettersen holding the microphone Dylan played guitar and sang twelve songs. Pettersen never saw him again. Dylan moved to New York. Pettersen graduated from high school, attended the U of M for a while, moved to California, got married, had kids, but he held on to that tape. Every now and then he'd play it for friends, but he never made copies. 1 called him and told him the building was being tom down. He sounded sad, but mostly we talked about the tape. For 44 years he owned one of the very first recordings of Bob Dylan. Only two others are known to exist from the Dinky-town era. In 2004 Petterson decided to share his treasure with us and he donated the tape to the Minnesota Historical Society where you can listen to it in their library today: So I decided to do just that. I headed to the History Center, signed up for a temporary library card, and requested Audiotape 203.A librarian brought out a small box containinga cassette tape (the original's kept in the vaults) then showed me to a table with a tape player WE CAN MAKE AMERS WISTORY. digitalcollections.hclib.org - Private Street of one of music's most influential performers is now a hole in the ground at 711 15th Avenue SE. and headphones. The tape is about a half hour long Songs include "San Francisco Bay Blues, "I'm a Gambler," "Talkin' Merchant Marine," and "Red Rosey Bush." It was amazing to listen to the casual, spontaneous, soon-to-be superstar. Then I drove back to the apartment building. Right there was where it happened. I had driven past it a million times but I only knew it was Dylan's apartment the last couple years. In fact, not a lot of people knew the exact address. It's listed as across the street in at least one well-known Dylan book. But both Pettersen and Tony Glover, of the blues band Koerner, Ray, and Glover, and Dylan's friend and fellow harp player, verified the address. When I asked Glover about it he said: "There were earlier tapes in Hibbing and one in St Paul, but that apartment was where the first tape of young Bob that was heard by people here and there was made? I stood looking at the building behind its chain-link fence. I had just listened to a live performance recorded on that very site 54 years ago. Within those walls history was being made. Bob Dylan was a scruffy, unknown kid from the Iron Range. His meteoric rise and enduring impact on music is immeasurable. Even if you're not a fan you have to appreciate his importance on our culture. And Minnesotans continually claim him as our own. Yet we ignored the opportunity to save this historic piece of property. It could have made a great Bob Dylan museum. Photos: intact building in first photo and construction equipment at demolition site in second photo. Caption: An important site in the documentation of one of music's most influential performers is now a hole in the ground at 711 15th Avenue SE. Dinkytown. Photos by Linda Koutsky Continuation of article: But the dumpsters had arrived. In a last-ditch effort to save it, I wrote to the Preservation Alliance, newspapers, and TV stations. I even tried to convince someone at the Minnesota Historical Society to save the interior for a period room. Then I finally wrote to the developer. 1 knew I wouldn't convince them to stop, so I pleaded to get inside. I thought at least if I could take a few photos and maybe grab some scraps of wood as souvenirs there would be a physical reminder of the place. They were actually more accommodating than I could have imagined. Then on my way over I got a call — they'd uncovered asbestos. I couldn't go in. They saved some wood for me though at the construction trailer. So now I have a piece of Bob Dylan's floor. It's not a museum. And it's not something I can take tourists to and say, "this was the home and site of one of the carliest recordings of Bob Dylan, " but it's my own little piece of history and I'll have to live with that. Send your comments to WeekendTourist@mnpubs.com. For more diversions, follow the Weekend Tourist on Twitter (@WeekendTourist)| Why work with
September 6, 2026 at 8:48 PM
chrissteller.bsky.social
Alas, I learned that #localangle #rockfacts too late to fix the design of my 50th anniversary entry in the 2024 Minnesota State Fair crop art competition. The crudely depicted figure at left is meant to be Arthur Kane. (Made entirely of mustard seed, which was banned that year until it was unbanned)
Crop art piece says youth expo '74 and New York Dolls and has five barely discernible rock musicians on stage
September 1, 2026 at 6:41 PM
chadchartrand.bsky.social
From the breakup behind "Creep" to Michael Stipe’s advice on "How to Disappear Completely," Radiohead lore runs deep.

📺 WATCH FULL ACOUSTIC COVE HERE: youtu.be/MAtHPBMUHew?...

Here are 4 facts you might not know about Thom Yorke & the band! 🎸

#Radiohead #ThomYorke #RockFacts #AltRock
August 30, 2026 at 2:05 PM
westerberghs89.bsky.social
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August 23, 2026 at 9:33 PM
westerberghs89.bsky.social
The boys from Texas named themselves as such to be last in the phone book, a viral move in the early 70s. #RockFacts
August 18, 2026 at 8:47 PM
chrissteller.bsky.social
FACT: Two of Guns n’ Roses’ biggest cover songs, “Knockin’ on Heaven’s Door” and “Live and Let Die,” were both first released on soundtrack albums that came out in the summer of 1973, when All Rose was 11 years old. #rockfacts
August 17, 2026 at 3:20 PM
westerberghs89.bsky.social
#rockfacts
#grassyknoll
queencityjamz.bsky.social QueenCityJamz @queencityjamz.bsky.social · Aug 11
RIP John Kennedy Oswald. The Down Boy has been gone 15 yrs. Also, raise yer hand if you knew Jani Lane's birth name was John Kennedy Oswald. His parents were mfn on a demented Boy Named Sue trip handing him that moniker.
August 14, 2026 at 7:19 PM
chrissteller.bsky.social
I had my doubts, but #localangle Minneapolis shows in 1954 and 1955 by Willie Mae "Big Mama" Thornton appear to be #rockfacts ...

1954: February 19 at the Minneapolis Labor Temple. This was one year after her "Hound Dog" was released as a single.
Newspaper ad from the St. Paul Recorder, February 12, 1954: Double barreled attraction coming!! Johnny Ace and His Orchestra. Featuring Willie Mae "Big Mama" Thornton, Blues Singer Supreme. Friday Night, February 19, at Minneapolis Labor Temple, 114 S.E. 4th St. Minneapolis. Advance Tickets on sale at usual places. Don't Miss this Big Attraction! Same newspaper, same page, same basic information but in brief news article format. Relevant paragraph: "Big Mama" Thornton is a blues stylist. Her most popular tunes at present are, "You Ain't Nothing But A Hound Dog," "Let Your Tears Fall, Baby," and "No Jody for Me."
August 13, 2026 at 11:48 PM
chrissteller.bsky.social
The song “Election Day” by the Replacements, once you know its background, is not really anti-politics or anti-voting. It’s simply pro-alcohol. #rockfacts
chrissteller.bsky.social Chris Steller @chrissteller.bsky.social · Nov 4
Today is the 38th anniversary of the Replacements' arrival at Ardent Studios in Memphis to record the album "Pleased to Meet Me"—only to find that all liquor stores in the city were closed because Nov, 4, 1986 was Election Day.
Thus their protest song: "Election Day"
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August 11, 2026 at 12:30 AM
chrissteller.bsky.social
True #rockfacts plus some speculation!
August 9, 2026 at 5:45 PM
chrissteller.bsky.social
DEVO’s “Satisfaction” started life as “Paint It Black” #rockfacts

www.newyorker.com/culture/cult...
THE NEW YORKER One January afternoon in 1977, Casale's brother Bob came up with a guitar line, the robotic seven-note opening that would replace the original "Satisfaction" riff. The drummer Alan Myers joined in with a typically bizarre Devo beat. "It sounded like some kind of mutated devolved reggae, " Casale said, of the rhythm. "I started laughing, and I came up with a bass part that I thought was a conceptual reggae part. We just kept playing it, and Mark just started singing. "The song Mothersbaugh sang wasn't "Satisfaction" but "Paint It Black." (Mothersbaugh was a huge Stones fan.) But, as the band futzed around, they couldn't get the lyrics to match their jerky rhythm. Then, Casale recalled, "Mark started singing "(I Can't Get No) Satisfaction' to our jam, and that did it"
August 9, 2026 at 8:14 AM
octopolis.bsky.social
And the award for best GROUP costume goes to these three cephalopods for their incredible Over the Garden Wall cosplay!

#octooctober #octopus #halloween #costumes #overthegardenwall #inktober #drawtober #rockfacts
October 29, 2023 at 5:28 PM
henryisreal.bsky.social
#RockFACTS! The infamous rap duo Insane Clown Posse originally attended the Julliard Clown College until introduced to Faygo Rock n Rye at a party. This being a schedule A narcotic they were quickly addicted and dropped out finding the only way to afford their habit was the rap game.
March 5, 2025 at 2:11 PM
henryisreal.bsky.social
R-O-C-K in th F-A-C-T-S #RockFACTS! On the planet moltokko there is an alien race that has been observing us in secret for decades by sending their army of interchangeable Menudo
February 27, 2025 at 1:33 PM
henryisreal.bsky.social
#RockFACTS! When in a vehicle the human foot must go all the way to the floor when the ears process Jesus Built My Hotrod by Ministry
February 23, 2025 at 8:12 PM
henryisreal.bsky.social
Paper scissors #RockFACTS! 4 out of 5 top songs in the US are by Kendrick Lamar this week but in Canada four out of the five are by Dr….. still by Kendrick Lamar. Drake is sad about this
February 22, 2025 at 5:57 PM
henryisreal.bsky.social
#rockFACTS! The #Seal song #KissFromARose was written in code as a hidden recipe for cheese blintzes. Cheese blintz being the favored food of Leopard Seals
February 19, 2025 at 1:45 PM