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****Hints: This picture is from the late 60s. ***
****He 'was' a drummer for a very successful band. ***
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Kind of looks like Ginger Baker but without the beard
Really? No one thinks he looks like Keith Moon? Damn, and that blows my whole purpose for this thread. I figured everyone would think it was Keith Moon. He looks a LOT like him, and he just happens to be a drummer from the same era! Quite the coincidence, I thought. Guess not.... He's Aynsley Dunbar, who played for Journey for 4 albums starting from the mid 70s. He came REALLY close to being Jimmy Hendrix's drummer, after scoring a tie with Mitch Mitchell, both of whom were liked by Hendrix, so he literally tossed a coin to choose, but Mitch won the toss!
He played for John Mayall's Bluesbreakers, until replaced by Mick Fleetwood b4 he formed Fleetwood Mac.He then started his own short-lived band called "The Retaliation"(retaliation against Mayall for firing him). He played with the Jeff Beck group, follwed by joining Frank Zappa's Mothers of Invention. Then he joined Journey. He played for Jefferson Starship, and later joined Whitesnake during the pinnacle of their success. He also played with Nils Lofgren, Pat Travers and Michael Schenker of the Scorpions.
Really? No one thinks he looks like Keith Moon? Damn, and that blows my whole purpose for this thread. I figured everyone would think it was Keith Moon. He looks a LOT like him, and he just happens to be a drummer from the same era! Quite the coincidence, I thought. Guess not.... He's Aynsley Dunbar, who played for Journey for 4 albums starting from the mid 70s. He came REALLY close to being Jimmy Hendrix's drummer, after scoring a tie with Mitch Mitchell, both of whom were liked by Hendrix, so he literally tossed a coin to choose, but Mitch won the toss!
He played for John Mayall's Bluesbreakers, until replaced by Mick Fleetwood b4 he formed Fleetwood Mac.He then started his own short-lived band called "The Retaliation"(retaliation against Mayall for firing him). He played with the Jeff Beck group, follwed by joining Frank Zappa's Mothers of Invention. Then he joined Journey. He played for Jefferson Starship, and later joined Whitesnake during the pinnacle of their success. He also played with Nils Lofgren, Pat Travers and Michael Schenker of the Scorpions.
He also played with Nils Lofgren, Pat Travers and Michael Schenker of the Scorpions.
****Hints: This picture is from the late 60s. ***
****He 'was' a drummer for a very successful band. ***
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I would find it strange if many here could name such a drummer by sight.
The band would have to be extremely popular or the individual would have to have been somewhat into the band or the actual drummer to be able to identify the person. :shrug:
Really? No one thinks he looks like Keith Moon? Damn, and that blows my whole purpose for this thread. I figured everyone would think it was Keith Moon. He looks a LOT like him, and he just happens to be a drummer from the same era! Quite the coincidence, I thought. Guess not.... He's Aynsley Dunbar, who played for Journey for 4 albums starting from the mid 70s. He came REALLY close to being Jimmy Hendrix's drummer, after scoring a tie with Mitch Mitchell, both of whom were liked by Hendrix, so he literally tossed a coin to choose, but Mitch won the toss!
He played for John Mayall's Bluesbreakers, until replaced by Mick Fleetwood b4 he formed Fleetwood Mac.He then started his own short-lived band called "The Retaliation"(retaliation against Mayall for firing him). He played with the Jeff Beck group, follwed by joining Frank Zappa's Mothers of Invention. Then he joined Journey. He played for Jefferson Starship, and later joined Whitesnake during the pinnacle of their success. He also played with Nils Lofgren, Pat Travers and Michael Schenker of the Scorpions.
Yeah but that's kinda the point of a quiz, to not make it so easy and obvious that everyone instantly knows the answer. If I posted a picture of Ringo Starr or Peter Criss in 1978 in his cat man outfit. But you are right in that this was probably more difficult to answer correctly, due to him being somewhat obscure to most people. I could've pulled a Dennis Miller, and picked some ultra-obscure musician, like the guy who auditioned his cello skills for Mozart in 1781, but wasn't chosen for the orchestra.....lol
****Hints: This picture is from the late 60s. ***
****He 'was' a drummer for a very successful band. ***
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Really? No one thinks he looks like Keith Moon? Damn, and that blows my whole purpose for this thread. I figured everyone would think it was Keith Moon. He looks a LOT like him, and he just happens to be a drummer from the same era! Quite the coincidence, I thought. Guess not.... He's Aynsley Dunbar, who played for Journey for 4 albums starting from the mid 70s. He came REALLY close to being Jimmy Hendrix's drummer, after scoring a tie with Mitch Mitchell, both of whom were liked by Hendrix, so he literally tossed a coin to choose, but Mitch won the toss!
He played for John Mayall's Bluesbreakers, until replaced by Mick Fleetwood b4 he formed Fleetwood Mac.He then started his own short-lived band called "The Retaliation"(retaliation against Mayall for firing him). He played with the Jeff Beck group, follwed by joining Frank Zappa's Mothers of Invention. Then he joined Journey. He played for Jefferson Starship, and later joined Whitesnake during the pinnacle of their success. He also played with Nils Lofgren, Pat Travers and Michael Schenker of the Scorpions.
But what I really want to know, is:
****Hints: This picture is from the late 60s. ***
****He 'was' a drummer for a very successful band. ***
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Nils Lofgren? He's one of my favorite guitarists! Owns the Strat, can kill it on an acoustic, and keeps it moving while tickling the ivories!Saw John Mayall, jefferson airplane and the mothers at one time or another. Love lofgren's guitar playing but never saw Grin. I was lucky enough to grow up in a large northeastern city and was in my teens in the sixties and I've seen a lot of concerts from the day. Went to the atlantic city pop festival and the one at pocono. What a time to be a teen.