I'm with Don here.

I'm into a wide variety of musical genres and regard myself as a "reasonably knowledgable layman". But when I was under 30, even though I was nearer to the eras severasl of the questions refer to than are today's under 30s, I would have had problems with some of them.

To berate youngsters for not knowing that "Bang A Gong" was originally a T Rex number is faintly ridiculous. As a 20 year old ~I had no idea that some of the songs recorded by rock or prog-rock bands were covers of old blues numbers.

I must have been 25 before I realised that "Crossroads" and "Going Up The Country" to name just 2 of many, weren't original to Cream and Canned Heat, and probably near 30 before I became aware that Barbara Ann was recorded by The Regents several years before The Beach Boys had success with it.

I also notice that the eras covered by Josepp's questionnaire essentially end in the mid-late 60s, so there's about a 45 year gap up to the modern day. Perhaps it says more about the biases in Josepp's own knowledge? Yes, a lot of modern music is crap, but so was a lot of the older stuff. In the 60s my own parents were aware of the "plastic" pop put out by bands like Freddie and The Dreamers and Herman's Hermits but blithely unaware of the more progressive or interesting stuff their kids were *actually* listening to. They'd never heard of Pink Floyd, The Nice or Fairport Convention at the time.

I suspect it's the same now. The "oldies" in my (and Josepp's) generation are aware through mainstream media of people like Justin Bieber, but some good stuff, put out by bands on their own labels, or on indie labels like Rough Trade or Unlabel (usually on vinyl as well as CD and download) passes almost all of us by.

Here's a couple for you Josepp, to be answered without looking them up:

- What bands did Katriona Gilmore and Jamie Roberts play for before concentrating on playing as a Duo?

- What other band does Katriona Gilmore currently play with in addition to the Gilmore-Roberts duo?

- What band does female violinist Geri Holton play with?

- What is Geri Holton's second instrument?

- What is the real name of British teenage blues artist/ Diddley Bow maker "BluesBeaten Redshaw"?