Just looked it up and saw he did an album cover for Steely Dan. It reminded me that Chevy Chase was an early drummer for Steely Dan (well, before they became "Steely Dan")
replyThe album: Aja -- a masterpiece.
replyNot according to Wikipedia: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Aja_(album)#Title_and_packagin...
replybut he did do a bunch for America: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Phil_Hartman#Discography
Thanks for the correction -- I was hasty with my search and trusted the link that proclaimed that he did it.
replyMight not be wrong. The Wikipedia article states that it is incomplete.
reply> Steve Martin is one of the best banjo players out there
replyAnd he’s great with a lasso!
I love his albums with Edie Brickell, he’s good with Steep Canyon Rangers, and more recently have heard him shine with Alison Brown (banjo), Sierra Hull (mandolin), and others in his latest tour.
If you’re looking for the top banjo players technically, you might check out Béla Fleck, Jens Kruger, Noam Pikelny, Tony Trischka, Bill Keith, Don Reno, and Earl Scruggs. I’ve personally heard superhuman performances by Jens Kruger in-person and I grew up on Scruggs.
I have a fond memory of my dad taking me to see Roy Clark when I was a little guy.
replyHedy Lamarr was a prolific inventor. Among other things, she developed a frequency-hopping spread spectrum radio transmission technique for torpedo guidance and donated the patent to the US Navy during WW2.
replyI believe that the frequency hopping technique is still used everywhere today, for things like wi-fi and Bluetooth.
replyThat's "Headley!" (Blazing Saddles reference).
replyAnd of course, there's Sir Doctor Brian May.
Many of the early electronic musicians were basically engineers (you had to be, to use some of those old synthesizers).
For completeness: Billy Connolly was also a banjo player.
replyI believe that the banjo is common in Celtic bands. There's a pretty strong relationship between the music of Appalachia, and Gaelic music.
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