Music: Commonalities

Here's a headscratcher from Eric (who successfully solved Thursday's Cryptogram, by the way).

What do these bands have in common?

• Aerosmith
  
• Elton John
  
• Earth, Wind, & Fire
  
• Joe Cocker
  
• Cheap Trick
  

Conversely, what do these bands have in common?

• Chuck Berry
  
• Carl Perkins
  
• The Marvelettes
  
• The Isley Brothers
  

TV: Combos 2

Eric provides some follow-up TV star/TV show combos:

1. Batman becomes president.
   
2. Member of family musical group (and California attorney) joins cast of long-running soap opera.
   
3. SNL alum becomes target of Dan Quayle diatribe.
   
4. South Florida cop wants to be useful in the train yard.
   

TV: Combos

Combine a TV actor with a TV show (spelling mismatches allowed). For example, "Small-town Deputy gets mixed up in California soap opera" would be "Don Knotts Landing". Can you name these other combos?

1. Cheeky English comedian joins the police, is warned to "Be careful out there".
   
2. Texas oilman's drunken wife ends up in hospital.
   
3. Rhoda's mother fights criminals in the Lone Star state.
   
4. Aussie POW learns about love to the strains of Paula Cole.
   
5. Ranching family patriarch decides to give up the rat race and become a farmer.
   

Music: Lose An "I", Part 2

AKA "Eric's Revenge". Eric supplies these 3 (with some modifications by me):

1. Dyslexic Acura model needs you tonight.
   
2. Silent decay of Glam Metal band.
   
3. 80s singer (with the Cruisers) helps collect taxes.
   

That last one does not refer to Eddie and the Cruisers. It's a singer I have never heard of, which is weird. And I've never heard his best known song.

Music: Add A "U"

Name these bands with an added "U":

1. Sports coat I wear to funeral of Kentucky band?
   
2. Modem manufacturer feels like making love?
   
3. UK punk band adopts sexual position with killer whale?
   

Music: Lose An "I"

Name these artists/bands who have lost an "i"?

1. Do these Oklahoma weirdos set vinyl on fire?
   
2. "Guitar George" may know all the chords, but these guys play really bad Fenders.
   
3. Red-haired bottleneck guitarist joins Glam Metal band.
   
4. 80s avant-garde funk outfit seeks the return of a big green ogre.