Oh! I Always Get Those Two Mixed Up!

Those two must have been mentioned before. I'd add Champion Jack Dupree for good measure.

Cambyses I/II (Persian emperors)
Cyaxares I/II (Median kings)

Alyattes (Lydian king)
Astyages (Median king)

stevie ray vaughan
stevie van zandt

Wait until you hear about Ronnie, Donny and Johnny Van Zant

Johnny Van Zant
Jimmie Vaughan

Anker
Belkin

I think I've been merrily buying products from each for years thinking they were the same brand

cuir, French for "leather"
cuivre, French for "copper"

^otm

Anker
Belkin

tbf they're probably made in the same Chinese factories

Louis Aragon
Andre Breton

i'm getting into Stina Nordenstam and don't think i will mix them up again xp

― The true speed of Billy Joel (Deflatormouse)

update: i'm still getting those two mixed up

nam phrik
nước chấm

Love and Rockets
Cowboy Junkies

why? no idea

Chuck Israels
Israel Crosby

Pigbag
Rip Rig + Panic

Gaz Coombes
Cass McCombs

Wasn't sure if it was Chris Evans, Chris Hemsworth, or Chris Pine who had starred as "Oz" in American Pie, but it turned out to be Chris Klein.

Peace, man, your Chris conglomeration (Chrispalooza? Chrisbundance? Chrisgestion?) Put me in mind of the Dermot Mulroney/Dylan McDermott nexus

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=XGqSn5Cnw74

Jean Redpath
Jean Ritchie
Jeannie Robertson
Jeanie C Riley

Let's not forget their male cousins

John C Riley
Jean Ralphio Saperstein

frederick wiseman
william klein

― budo jeru, Monday, August 17, 2020 6:11 PM (two years ago) bookmarkflaglink

add william friedkin to this

all are alive, william friedkin the youngest at 87

James Dillon
James MacMillan

frederick wiseman
william klein

― budo jeru, Monday, August 17, 2020 6:11 PM (two years ago) bookmarkflaglink

add william friedkin to this

― budo jeru, Tuesday, May 23, 2023 10:19 PM (two days ago) bookmarkflaglink

all are alive, william friedkin the youngest at 87

― budo jeru, Tuesday, May 23, 2023 10:19 PM (two days ago) bookmarkflaglink

William Klein died last year, one way to tell them apart.

finally got them straightened out, but back when --

Denis Villeneuve
Olivier Assayas

xp oops

the last famous person you were surprised to discover was actually still dead

Mary Kay Place
Mary Beth Hurt

Long thread to search, so maybe this has been mentioned before: George Maharis (Route 66, just died) and George Chakiris (West Side Story).

^Was just thinking the exact same thing

I literally mixed them up when I read the post in the obituary thread.

Might've posted this one before, but:

Karen Allen
Karen Black

Karen Allen
Brooke Adams

Karen Allen, Brooke Adams, and Margot Kidder were once so similar looking that they joked about making a movie together

Lock thread!

I feel like we have discussed the Margot Kidder / Karen Allen / Debra Winger before

karen allen best

Irwin Winkler
Henry Winkler

Carroll Baker
Sue Lyon

Graham Parker
Graham Bond

I could never keep Graham Parker and Graham Parsons apart until the No Depression era, when the later's reputation totally eclipsed the Pazz & Jop fav.

Harry Chapin
Harry Nilsson

(Not really, but I did talk about the one not long ago when I meant the other)

Carroll Baker
Sue Lyon

Harry Chapin
Harry Nilsson

(Not really, but I did talk about the one not long ago when I meant the other)

xp -- it may have been but I wasn't going to open the whole thread to find out.

Royal Blood
Surfer Blood
Weyes Blood

my other, much-maligned thread

Which one?

Future Edition, for when we're all addle-brained.

Oh! I Always Got Those Two Mixed Up: Future Edition

xp -- it may have been but I wasn't going to open the whole thread to find out.

stevie ray vaughan
stevie van zandt

― mark s, Thursday, 4 May 2023 18:21 (four weeks ago) bookmarkflaglink

We went to see Bruce Springsteen and the E Street Band on Tuesday and I've only just realised that I've been mixing up these two when talking about it pre- and post-gig for the last few weeks when a friend incredulously replied to my retelling of events that he didn't know Stevie Ray Vaughan was in the E Street Band. Bah.