no quiz from Jam, so
 

here's a quickie.

what links Crossroads, Duran Duran, and Dolphins?

They are mammals?

One's a song, one's a band, and one's a football team?

wrong and wrong. the answer is music related, and can be found on Aural Moon...

you guys give up so easily?

Miami?
 

Her name is Rio and she dances......

Girls on Film........

Save a Prayer for the morning after.....

and I'm hungry like the wolf.....

more?

not Miami, though not a bad guess.

each of the three clues hints at a different person that played the same instrument in the answer's band (at different times, I believe)

Mike Keneally

is hinted at by Dolphins - what do the other two refer to, and who is the answer?

I guess zappa
 

but haven't really thought about why......

Zappa is the answer, Keneally was a guitarist for Zappa. the other two why's should be easy now...

i could research and think....
 

but it's not coming easily to me. Could be Vinnie C. or Ike or anyone........

the common thread was Zappa guitarists:

Crossroads - Steve Vai played Jack whoever (the devil's guitarist) in the movie Crossroads (and he kicked Ralph Macchio's punk ass in the contest, despite the Bach bullshit!)

Duran Duran - Warren Cucurullo played guitar for both Zappa and later a reformed Duran Duran

Dolphins - Mike Keneally's band for some time was called Beer For Dolphins....

that's right
 

I got Warren and Vinnie mixed up....wasn't Vinnie in Missing Persons with the Bozzios? That Joe's Garage period is fuzzy...

thought Vai was in there somewhere, I'm not a movie buff... sounds like a "Devil went down to Georgia" kind of thing?

Re: that's right
 

Warren and Vinnie (great drummer) and Patrick OHearn as well were all in Missing Persons. I thought the Duran Duran thing was more obscure.

In the climactic scene of "Crossroads", Ralph Macchio has a guitar duel with Steve Vai, the stakes being the soul of an old bluesman harp player who is Macchio's foil throughout the movie. Despite the somewhat predictable ending, it's a pretty entertaining movie.