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Rock and Roll Heaven Mystery Cache

Hidden : 6/14/2014
Difficulty:
3 out of 5
Terrain:
1.5 out of 5

Size: Size:   micro (micro)

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Geocache Description:

***CACHE IS NOT LOCATED AT POSTED COORDINATES***

If there's a Rock and Roll Heaven, you know they got a hell of a band.

All rockers in this puzzle have been inducted into the Rock and Roll Hall of Fame.

Test your rock and roll knowledge, have fun doing it, and maybe learn a thing or two!

I am always available for hints.


1.

The Beatles referenced me in song 1 on Abbey Road. I won six grammys and was put on a U.S. postage stamp in 1994.What month did I die? = Coordinate A

2.

In 2011, readers of Rolling Stone magazine voted me as "The best drummer of all time". I was an avid collector of antique cars and motorcycles. Each member of my band had their own "symbol". How many circles are in my symbol? = Coordinate B

3.

I grew up in Chicago and graduated from DePaul University with a degree in Economics. My band did not have a bass player, I played organ with one hand and a Fender PianoBass with my other hand. On my band's album "Waiting for the sun", we had a song with two numbers in the title. Multiply those two numbers together = Coordinate C

4.

I'm Uncle Sam

That's who I am

Been hiding out

In a Rock and Roll band

My band toured almost constantly from 1965 until my death in 1995. Ben and Jerry's created an ice cream named after me. Our entire band lived in a house together on Ashbury Street in San Francisco in the 1960's. What was the house number? Take those three numbers and add them together = Coordinate D

5.

I was born in Zanzibar and my real name is Farrokh Bulsara. A genus of frogs has been named after me. How many seas of Rhye are there? = Coordinate E

6.

I am the only woman in the puzzle. I performed at Woodstock. What month was I born? = Coordinate F

7.

I led a wild and crazy lifestyle and my nickname was "The Loon". I regularly destroyed my drum kit and in 1967 I blew up my bass drum with dynamite onstage leaving a piece of a cymbal embedded in my arm. The guitar player in the band was unaware of this prank and he still has hearing loss to this day because of my prank. I routinely destroyed hotel rooms and once drove a Rolls Royce into a swimming pool. In 1973, I passed out during a concert in California after ingesting brandy and horse tranquilizers. My band let a volunteer from the audience play drums for the rest of the concert. What month was the volunteer born? = Coordinate G

8.

I am the only rocker in this puzzle who was murdered. Howard Cosell announced my death to a US national audience on Monday Night Football. How old was I when I died? Take that number and subtract 40 = Coordinate H

9.

Eric Clapton recorded one of my songs and it was a #1 hit for him. My last concert performance was in Pittsburgh in 1980. I was born on the island of Jamaica. Take the name of the town I was born in and subtract a mile= Coordinate I

10.

I am the king of Rock and Roll. How many continents did I perform on during my entire career? = Coordinate J

11.

In 1969, I was the headlining act at Woodstock. There is a song on my second album that has two numbers in the title. Subtract the smaller number from the larger number = Coordinate K

12.

This is a picture of me with my band. I am wearing a hat. We named our band after our Physical Education teacher at Robert E. Lee High School in Jacksonville, Florida. Unfortunately, our plane crashed into a remote swamp in Mississippi on October 20, 1977. Including me, how many people total died in the plane crash? = Coordinate L

13.

I was a founding member of The Rolling Stones. Leopardgeckoman was born on the day that I died. Subtract the day that I died from the month that I died = Coordinate M

14.

At separate times, both Eric Clapton and I were married to the same woman. Responding to a request from Ravi Shankar, I organized a charity event, the Concert for Bangladesh, which took place in 1971, drawing over 40,000 people to two shows in New York's Madison Square Garden. The goal of the event was to raise money to aid starving refugees during the Bangladesh Liberation War. Shankar opened the show, which featured popular musicians such as Bob Dylan, Eric Clapton, Leon Russell, Badfinger, Billy Preston and Ringo Starr. What month did the Concert for Bangladesh occur? = Coordinate N

15.

This is a picture of me being arrested onstage during a concert in New Haven, Connecticut. I created an anagram of my name that I sang in my band's song "L.A. Woman". In 1967, after performing on "The Ed Sullivan Show", my band was told that we would never perform on the show again because I said the word "higher" during our performance. Many refer to me as "The Lizard King". What day in July 1968 did my band perform our historic concert at The Hollywood Bowl? = Coordinate O


Cache is located at North AB degrees CD.EFG West HIJ degrees KL.MNO

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