Goodnight Trivia Quiz

Answer: Drums

Born Aloysius Tyrone Foster, Al became one of jazz music's most esteemed and sought after drummers. Known for both his precision and creativity, he was an essential component of Miles Davis' band from the moment he joined in 1972. His work shines on such albums as "Dark Magus"(1977) and "Agharta" (1975), and Davis' comeback album "The Man With the Horn" (1985). Al would earn a Grammy in 1986 for Best Jazz Instrumental for the album "We Want Miles" (1985).

Answer: Drums

Scottish born Muir began his career in free jazz as a member of the Music Improvisation Company, between 1968 and 1971, alongside the unique talents of Derek Bailey and Evan Parker.

In 1972 he was headhunted by Robert Fripp to be the drummer in the latest incarnation of King Crimson. Whilst he performed with standard drums, he added greater value to the band as a percussionist. He was an avant-garde artist with the ability to create unusual sounds with items such as musical saws, rattles, shakes, and miscellaneous drums. He was essential to the success of the their album "Lark's Tongue in Aspic" (1973), after which he left the band to, temporarily, pursue a monastic Buddhist lifestyle.

Answer: Drums

When one mentions the UK rock band The Jam, the name that invariably comes to mind is that of their charismatic front man Paul Weller, and that, after being the genius behind the band's run of 18 consecutive Top 40 singles in Britain between 1977 and 1982, is fair enough. However, an integral part of the band's sound during that time was their incredible rhythm section, made up of Bruce Foxton on bass and the formidable Rick Buckler on drums.

Buckler was as inventive as he was forceful on the skins and you need to listen to numbers such as "The Eton Rifles" (1979) and "Absolute Beginners" (1981) to hear the man at his unconditional best. After the band dissolved in 1982 he remained busy, forming the outfit TimeUK and moving into production work for The Family Cat. He would reunite with Foxton in 2007 as From the Jam.

Answer: Piano/Keyboards

Billy Earheart was the co-founder and the driving force behind the Memphis based Amazing Rhythm Aces, one of the finest country rock bands of the 1970s. The band is best known for their hits "Third Rate Romance" (1975) and the Grammy Award winning "The End is Not in Sight" (1976).

A distinctive talent, he also helped to elevate the works of artists such as B.B. King, Al Green and Tony Joe White, before spending two decades playing for Hank Williams Jr.'s Bama Band.

Answer: Piano/Keyboards

Chris Jasper, as a member of the Isley Brothers during their gold and platinum years - from 1973's "3 + 3" to 1983's "Between the Sheets" - is a Rock and Roll Hall of Fame inductee. A classically trained musician and composer, he was the man responsible for the band's writing, arranging and producing, but it was his artistry on the keyboards that formed the basis of the famous "Isley Brothers Sound".

After the group disbanded, he formed the trio Isley-Jasper-Isley and was the guiding hand behind the groups most celebrated moment, 1985's "Caravan of Love", a track that would become a hit for The Housemartins in 1986.

Answer: Piano/Keyboards

Rick Davies was playing in a band called The Joint, who were spotted by a Dutch millionaire named Stanley August Miesegaes. Stanley did not like the group, but he did like what he saw in the young keyboardist, Rick Davies. He advised Davies to form another band and that he would sponsor them. Consequently, after Davies placed an advertisement in Melody Maker in 1969, Supertramp was born.

Supertramp became one of the first bands to make the transition from psychedelic rock to mainstream pop, thanks to the symbiotic writing skills of Davies and the band's front man, Roger Hodgson. Their breakthrough album was "Crime of the Century" (1974), but it was the LP "Breakfast in America" (1979), with the hits "The Logical Song" and, the Davies penned, "Goodbye Stranger" that saw them conquer the US market.

Answer: Bass

Dave Allen was nothing short of extraordinary as a bass player, creating some of the most innovative bottom lines to ever be committed to vinyl. In 1976 he became one of the founding members of the post-punk band Gang of Four and was an integral member of their groundbreaking debut LP "Entertainment" (1979). Two years later he would leave the band to form Shriekback with keyboard supremo Barry Andrews.

He rounded off his career by moving into audio technology and setting up World Domination Records.

Answer: Bass

John Lodge was a member, the bass player, songwriter and co-lead vocalist of the Moody Blues for fifty years. The first album he recorded with the group, "Days of Future Past" (1967), is now seen as one of the foundational albums that define the psychedelic rock era.

Despite being known for his grandiose lyrics and flamboyant arrangements, he was a self-effacing man, the antithesis of a wild rocker and a father committed to his family and Christianity. The band's 1973 hit "I'm Just a Singer (in a Rock and Roll Band)" would sum him up perfectly.

As a bass player he felt that his instrument was for more than merely keeping time and, consequently, he employed it as tool that produced creative and active harmony lines.

Answer: Bass

One of the biggest singles to emerge out of Australia in the 1980s, John Farnham's "You're the Voice" (1986), was blessed with an evocative, fretless bassline... that was the work of the legendary, New Zealand born, Roger McLachlan.

McLachlan was the original bass player for the Little River Band (LRB), appearing on their first two albums - "Little River Band" (1975), which featured the hit singles "Curiosity Killed the Cat" and "It's a Long Way There", and "After Hours" (1976).

After leaving LRB he became a vital member of one of Australia's foremost country rock bands, Stars. Later, he would showcase his versatility by joining the jazz fusion group Pyramid.

Answer: Lead Guitar

Drawing inspiration from Steve Cropper, Mick Ralphs used his guitar to produce heavy blues grooves and some of rock and roll music's most ripping power chords. He became a star as one of the founding members of Mott the Hoople, creating, for the band, such tracks as "Rock and Roll Queen" (1969) and "Thunderbuck Ram" (1970). He would leave the band in 1973, not long after they achieved their major breakthrough with "All the Young Dudes" (1972), to found Bad Company alongside former Free front man Paul Rodgers.

Ralphs would contribute "Can't Get Enough" (1974) to the band's debut, self-titled, album. The song, when released as a single, would top the Billboard Hot 100 chart and push the album's sales through the roof. He followed that up by co-writing, with Rodgers, "Feel Like Making Love" (1975) for that year's "Straight Shooter" album. He would remain with the band until it folded in 1982 and, whilst he stopped touring in 1999, he did rejoin the band for their occasional reunion gigs.

Answer: Lead Guitar

Brian James' contribution to punk rock cannot be overstated. In an interview with Uncut magazine his co-bandmember and bass player of the band The Damned, Captain Sensible, stated "he (James) played me two or three songs, including "New Rose", on acoustic guitar. It sounded radically different to what was around at the time."

In October 1976 "New Rose" was launched upon the British public as the nation's first punk rock single - five weeks ahead of the Sex Pistols' "Anarchy in the UK". Hot on the single's release was their groundbreaking debut album "Damned, Damned, Damned!", which was largely written by James and powered by his snarling guitar leads.

James would quit the band after their second album "Music for Pleasure" (1977) and began to pour his restless energy into a range of new projects. Among these were the formation of the band Tanz Der Youth (with bassist Andy Colqhoun), recording with Iggy Pop and the Australian punk band The Saints. After a string of solo singles, he became the creative force behind the supergroup The Rocketeers.

Answer: Lead Guitar

Before auditioning for KISS, Frehley had played in a range of bands, among them Outrage, The Four Roses and Molimo, without finding much success. He managed to support himself by driving taxis, moving furniture and delivering mail.

He managed to irk both Simmons and Stanley at his audition for KISS, but it was his weirdness - he wore red sneaker and one orange one - and his skill with the guitar that won the pair over. Whilst the former sat well with his "Spaceman" persona in the band, he would ironically quote about the latter "I don't know how to read music, but I'm one of the most famous guitar players in the world."