Happy (belated) birthday Kirri! Hope you had a great time with friends and family. Can we have some more Foo facts please, if you don't mind?
Thanking you kindly! I had no real plans and frankly couldn't really get it up for any celebrations the way I used to, but it turned out to be a really nice long weekend of food and live music - two things I truly love.
So I had to do a clean install of my OS and thought i'd been thorough in saving files, but I can't find the Foo Facts notes that i'd saved when I started up again last time, boo-urns. Pardon me if I repeat some stuff.
The original name of the Coattail Riders was Casanova and the Sunshine Band. Then Taylor wanted them to simply be known as the Coattail Riders before the record company tacked his name to the front
After Sound City, Dave was obsessed with the idea of starting a new 24/7 music channel, until someone pointed out that this would make him a TV exec and he noped the fuck out of there
The red coat Pat wore in the ‘Everlong’ video is on display in Copenhagen
Dave donated funds for a young Warren man to restore a 1947 Piper P-12 three-seater plane. He put in the costs for an engine overhaul and the plane bears his signature
When NASA lost contact with its Opportunity rover after a dust storm on Mars, they began sending it music hoping it’d wake up and send back a signal. One of the songs chosen was ‘Everlong’ (”hello, i’ve waited here for you”)
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