"Test your Seattle music savvy"

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In celebration of Bumbershoot, Seattle Times has a music quiz. Send them the correct answers, get a chance to win some tickets.

1. True or False: The original lyrics to "Louie Louie," made famous by the Portland band the Kingsmen and released by Seattle's Jerden label, were pornographic and had to be changed in subsequent versions.

2. True or False: Jimi Hendrix played his last Seattle show in the old stadium, the Kingdome.

3. True or False: Seattle's music unions were segregated until 1964.

4. The Seattle Opera and Pacific Northwest Ballet currently perform in Marion Oliver McCaw Hall at Seattle Center. What was the original name of this building, and when did it open?

5. Which Seattle jazz musician's name is misspelled on the music map?

6. Pearl Jam and Soundgarden rehearsed in this famous Belltown studio.

7. Jimi Hendrix, Quincy Jones and Ernestine Anderson went to Garfield High School. Which Seattle high school did Kenny G attend?

8. One of folk singer Woody Guthrie's most famous songs is about Washington state. What is it called?

9. If you're in Sir Mix-A-Lot's 1989 hit, "Posse on Broadway," who made your hamburger and fries?

10. While producer Bruce Pavitt was laying the groundwork for the grunge movement with his zine, Subterranean Pop, he also wrote for another eccentric and innovative music magazine in Olympia. What was it called?

http://seattletimes.nwsource.com/html/artsentertainment/2002465442_musicmapquiz02.html

I think that the music map refered to one of the questions above is the new Seattle music map they're unveiling at bumbershoot. But I'm sure ILMers can answer all the rest of these.

lyra (lyra), Saturday, 3 September 2005 01:40 (nineteen years ago)

8. "Roll On Columbia"

van der who (van smack), Saturday, 3 September 2005 02:05 (nineteen years ago)

4. The Opera House? 1962?
9. Dick's!
10. Op

jergins (jergins), Saturday, 3 September 2005 16:33 (nineteen years ago)


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