Did you know....

[AxlVanHagar]

How about a thread of some fun facts and trivia about some of the music artists we're into? I was playing Rock Band earlier and got thinking how I like some of the trivia that pops in the game during the loading screens.

Sooo did you know...

That while Jerry Lee Lewis was insanely jealous of Elvis Presley, Elvis was in awe of Jerry's musical ability.

Alan Freed put together a tour that would pit Elvis vs. Jerry Lee for the title of undisputed King of Rock n' Roll but Elvis' induction into the army prevented the tour from happening.

KISS drummer Eric Carr died on the same day as Freddie Mercury.

Peter Criss only played drums on one song for KISS' album Dynasty and did not play at all on Unmasked. The drums were played by Anton Fig who went uncredited.

War Machine by KISS was mostly written by Brian Adams and Jim Vallance.

While on the Ziggy Stardust Tour David Bowie was terrified of Mick Jagger. Mick had threatened to shoot Bowie alleging David had an affair with Bianca Jagger.

The three compliments that mean the most to Alice Cooper are 1) Groucho Marx saying Alice was the last hope for Vaudeville 2) Bob Dylan saying Alice is an overlooked songwriter 3) Tiger Woods saying that he wouldn't give Alice a two side in a game of golf.

Oct. 18 1985 Guns n' Roses played the Country Club in L.A. for $200.00

Oct. 18 1989 Guns n' Roses played the first of 4 shows at the L.A. Coliseum opening for the Rolling Stone's for which they were paid $1 million.

While opening for Ozzy Motley Crue engaged in a gross out contest of one upmanship with Ozzy. Ozzy won by snorting a line of ants and drinking his own urine while wearing a sundress at a hotel pool.

Van Halen were paid $1.5 million to headline the US Festival on Heavy Metal Sunday.

The Clash and Van Halen did not get along at the US Festival which prompted David Lee Roth's infamous line of "I wanna take this time to say that this is real whiskey here... the only people who put iced tea in Jack Daniel's bottles is The Clash, baby!" Usually the band he mentioned was Quiet Riot.

The pre show interview with an "intoxicated" David Lee Roth was actually filmed 2 weeks prior scripted by Roth.

Van Halen pioneered the modern rock music tour with their use of the concert technical contract rider. As one of the first major bands with a travelling stage show, Van Halen had extensive requirements including power availability and stage construction details. Many venues were not equipped to handle the requirements, resulting in damage to band equipment, once nearly killing a roadie. The band's demands were not limited to technical issues: their now-infamous rider specified that a bowl of M&M candies, with all of the brown M&Ms removed, was to be placed in their dressing room. According to David Lee Roth, this was listed in the technical portion of the contract to check if venue staff were correctly honouring the contract as specified. If there was no bowl of M&Ms, or if there were brown M&M's left in the bowl, then the band knew the contract was not being fulfilled entirely correctly and had to check every detail.


And that's all from me for now...:D

[Rockbandfan23467]

Two songs were recorded by Elvis, Bob Dylan, and The Beatles: That's Alright (Mama) and and Yesterday.

Rock and Roll Hell, like War Machine, was also written by Bryan Adams and Jim Vallence with KISS.

Stephen Stills wanted to be in The Monkees.

When the Monkees played their own instruments, their drummer was so good he was invited to join Frank Zappa's band.

Elton John was a backup player for Long John Baldry, who voiced Dr. Robotnik on "The Adventures of Sonic the Hedgehog"

Ben and Jerry's has an ice cream flavor named after Jerry Garcia.

Goth rock band Deadsy features Elijah Bule Allman, son of Gregg Allman and Cher.

Bruce Johnson was Glen Campbell's replacement on a Beach Boys tour, he wrote the Barry Manilow hit "I Write The Songs" about Brian Wilson.

The Beatles got their signiture look from a girlfriend of Stu Stutcliffe, their former Bassist that Paul McCartney killed out of jealousy. :D

Chuck Berry's Johnny B. Goode was sent into sapce on the Voyager.

[Rockbandfan23467]

Bump because this is too cool of a topic and to correct Axl that it's spelled Bryan.(I read an article on Mutt Lange!)

[XxJAPAN4xX]

Not sure if anyone likes them but, Rob Zombie and the lead singer of Powerman 5000, Spyder, are brothers.


Question:

Which serial killer is mentioned in the Ramones song, "Glad To See You Go"?

[OldFogey]

Ben and Jerry's has an ice cream flavor named after Jerry Garcia.



Yep and one for Phish (Phish food).

Good one for Bruce Johnson, too.

[Destromas]

Cherry Garcia is probably my favorite flavor of B&J's. Strawberry cheesecake is pretty good too...

[OldFogey]

Favorite album title, Sparks, "Gratuitous Sax and Senseless Violins"

The band "Little Feat" got their name from Jimmy Carl Black from the Mothers' making a comment about what little feet Lowell George had. The alternate spelling is a tip of the hat to the Beatles.

Ry Cooder played the slide on 'Willin' on the first Feat album because Lowell George had hurt his hand. They re-recorded it for their second album with Lowell playing the slide.

Mike Nesmith of the Monkees wrote Linda Ronstadt's first hit (with the Stone Poneys) "Different Drum." This was before the Monkees, I believe.

Vince Gill started in the country rock back, Pure Prairie League. Craig Fuller from that band would ultimately wind up replacing Lowell George as singer, songwriter and frontman in Little Feat.

Kenny Rogers started out with a psychedelic rock band, the First Edition.

The Carpenters' first hit, "We've Only Just Begun," was first released as a commercial for a bank in California, with the songwriter, Paul Williams, singing.

Two of the songs on Robert Plant and Allison Kraus' 2007 collaboration were written by Gene Clark, principal songwriter for the first version of the Byrds. Bernie Leadon played with Gene in the Dillard/Clark band that originally performed those songs. He left to join another former Byrd, Chris Hillman, in the Flying Burrito Brothers, and ultimately wound up founding the Eagles with Don Henley and Glenn Frey.

Songs about pseudoscience: Zappa, "Cosmik Debris," Sparks, "I Predict."

[AxlVanHagar]

Cool trivia here folks kep it coming. I'm definitely learning some things.

Some Alice Cooper trivia for you since I'm on an Alice kick at the moment.

Did you know...

that Frank Sinatra once covered a song by Alice Cooper? It was at The Hollywood Bowl and the song was I Never Cry. Frank told Alice upon seeing him backstage "You keep writing them kid, and I'll keep singing them."

John Lennon and Alice Cooper became friends over Alice's song Elected from Billion Dollar Babies. Lennon used to stop by the studio everyday when they were recording 'Elected' to listen to the tapes of the song. Evidently, Lennon really loved the song and would tell Alice that the only thing that would have made it better is if Paul had been singing it.

Alice and Jim Morrison were good friends at one point in time and Alice wrote Desperado as a tribute to Jim upon his death. Alice's line "raise a toast to Jimmy's ghost" on From The Inside is also a reference to Morrison.

On The Doors' Roadhouse Blues the line "I woke up this moring and I got myself a beer" is reputably about Jim's drinking partner Alice.

The singer Donovan (Mellow Yellow, Sunshine Superman) is the person doing the high vocal part on Billion Dollar Babies.

Flo and Eddie from The Turtles and Frank Zappa did backing vocals for Alice on From The Inside, Flush The Fashion and Zipper Catches Skin. They also opened for Alice on The Billion Dollar Babies tour.

[Parodygm]

Rob Dickinson, former frontman for Catherine Wheel is the cousin of Iron Maiden's Bruce Dickinson.

[AxlVanHagar]

Rob Dickinson, former frontman for Catherine Wheel is the cousin of Iron Maiden's Bruce Dickinson.

No way! I dind't know that!

[NX013]

Did you know:

Lemmy from motorhead was both a roadie for the Jimi Hendrix Experience and The nice. The Nice included Keith Emerson, who later formed ELP. Known for his stage antics, Keith Emerson would stick a knife into his keyboard and leave the stage. That knife was given to him by Lemmy

[Rockbandfan23467]

Emerson Lake and Palmer was origional going to include a fourth member named(wait for it)............JIMI HENDRIX!

[mlothar16]

After Dark Side of the Moon, Pink Floyd attempted to create an album featuring no actual instruments and instead featured household products and wierd sounds of glass and anything they could. They got so frustrated with that and each other and the music industry that they quit and released wish you were here

Most Probably know this but Garth Brooks released a rock album under the name of Chris Gaines

Paul McCartney wrote Helter Skelter in response the a quote from the Who stating that I can see for miles was their rawest song recorded, McCartney wanted to be raw too

there are 2 seasons of the tv show That 70s Show that feature rock titles, one is all Led Zeppelin titles as their episode titles and one features all who songs (seasons 5 and 6 to be exact)

Michael Stanley is a radio DJ near where I live and will not stop playing concerts, if I hear another commercial for Michael Stanley and the Resonators I will break my radio :)

[OldFogey]

In Rolling Stones' memorial issue about Jerry Garcia, Elvis Costello was quoted as saying of Jerry "he sang with the awfullest voice."

The next month there was a very angry letter from one Elvis Costello saying "what I said was 'he sang with the author's voice.'"

Isn't that just like Wenner's rag to screw up a tribute???

[Pennsylvanian]

Charles Manson lived with Dennis Wilson of The Beach Boys (Who also introduced Manson to some of his family's later murder victims). One of the Beach Boys' songs was actually a Manson original that was inserted by their producer. Some say the rage of this betrayal led Manson deeper into his insanity.

The Sex Pistols once sneaked into a Ramones show, where they were so intimidated by tales of the band that they thought they'd get beat up by either the biker crowd or the band. The Ramones thought the whole ordeal was funny.

Rivers Cuomo of Weezer has written somewhere near 800 songs.

Glenn Danzig has written songs for Johnny Cash and Roy Orbison.

Rob Zombie once worked as a sound technician on Pee Wee's Playhouse.

[a21schizoidman]

On Hurdy Gurdy Man by Donovan the musicians playing the instruments are John Bonham, John Paul Jones, and Jimmy Page

Grand Funk Railroad wrote the song We're An American Band because of an argument with Humble Pie

Todd Rundgren did the motorcycle noises on Bat Out of Hell

[a21schizoidman]

none of the members of Pink Floyd did the vocals for Have A Cigar
Roy Harper did, who was recording at Abbey Road at the time, because Rogers strained his voice on Shine On You Crazy Diamond

also

Syd Barrett walked into the studio when Pink Floyd was recording Shine On You Crazy Diamond, a song about Syd


and


The House of the Rising Sun was originally about a girl

and

Louie Louie by the Kingsmen is a cover originall done by Richard Berry in 1955
another Louie Louie note: the drum fill in the song was done because they only had one take at the song, and the singer thought he was starting the next verse too soon, so he stopped, the band almost panicked when the drummer filled and gave the singer time to recoop and sing it correctly
they paid $36 to record it

[Sayburr]

The House of the Rising Sun was originally about a girl


"House Of The Rising Sun" is a traditional Folk song that was first recorded in 1920 and tells a story about a brothel in New Orleans named after Madame Marianne Le Soleil Levant (which means "Rising Sun" in French). It was open for business from 1862, when Union Troops occupied the town, until 1874, when it was closed due to complaints by neighbors.

[Sayburr]

The line from Chuck Berry's Johnny B. Goode, "That little country boy could play" was originally written as, "That little colored boy can play." Berry knew that in order to get the song played on the radio, he would have to change that lyric.

Jimi Hendrix was hired as the Monkees opening act for their 1967 Summer tour. Unfortunately, US audiences had never seen anything like Hendrix before and booed him off of the stage. He quit the tour after two weeks.

Songwriter Hoyt Axton once revealed that the first line of "Joy To The World", Jeremiah was a bullfrog, was never intended to be in the song. It was just a fill-in line he used until he could come up with better lyrics. He pitched the tune to Three Dog Night when they toured together and they ended up recording it "as is."

During the recording of Ted Nugent's 1976 album "Free For All", singer / guitarist Derek St. Holmes left the band for personal reasons. A singer named Marvin Aday, who would one day be known as Meat Loaf, replaced him on five songs.

In 1984, former Led Zeppelin guitarist Jimmy Page founded a new band called The Firm with ex Bad Company and Free vocalist Paul Rodgers. Page said the group was to be a vehicle to show people that he was not a washed up drug user. In the fall of the same year, he was arrested for possession of cocaine

[AxlVanHagar]

The line from Chuck Berry's Johnny B. Goode, "That little country boy could play" was originally written as, "That little colored boy can play." Berry knew that in order to get the song played on the radio, he would have to change that lyric.

Jimi Hendrix was hired as the Monkees opening act for their 1967 Summer tour. Unfortunately, US audiences had never seen anything like Hendrix before and booed him off of the stage. He quit the tour after two weeks.

Songwriter Hoyt Axton once revealed that the first line of "Joy To The World", Jeremiah was a bullfrog, was never intended to be in the song. It was just a fill-in line he used until he could come up with better lyrics. He pitched the tune to Three Dog Night when they toured together and they ended up recording it "as is."

During the recording of Ted Nugent's 1976 album "Free For All", singer / guitarist Derek St. Holmes left the band for personal reasons. A singer named Marvin Aday, who would one day be known as Meat Loaf, replaced him on five songs.

In 1984, former Led Zeppelin guitarist Jimmy Page founded a new band called The Firm with ex Bad Company and Free vocalist Paul Rodgers. Page said the group was to be a vehicle to show people that he was not a washed up drug user. In the fall of the same year, he was arrested for possession of cocaine

Those are all awesome Sayburr! I knew the one's about Nuge and The Firm but the others I didn't.

[KingofQUEEN92]

After Dark Side of the Moon, Pink Floyd attempted to create an album featuring no actual instruments and instead featured household products and wierd sounds of glass and anything they could. They got so frustrated with that and each other and the music industry that they quit and released wish you were here

Most Probably know this but Garth Brooks released a rock album under the name of Chris Gaines

Paul McCartney wrote Helter Skelter in response the a quote from the Who stating that I can see for miles was their rawest song recorded, McCartney wanted to be raw too

there are 2 seasons of the tv show That 70s Show that feature rock titles, one is all Led Zeppelin titles as their episode titles and one features all who songs (seasons 5 and 6 to be exact)

Michael Stanley is a radio DJ near where I live and will not stop playing concerts, if I hear another commercial for Michael Stanley and the Resonators I will break my radio :)

Dont forget in Season 8 it was Queen songs :)

[a21schizoidman]

Mike Oldfield's Tubular Bells was the first album released on Virgin Records
also, it was used as the soundtrack for the Exorcist, without Oldfield's knowledge, he was told that it was used in the film, but said he would never see it, it would be too scary

On the song Substitute by The Who, the original line was "I look all white, but my dad was black" but for American release the line had to be changed because of the FCC

Al Gore is a huge Zappa fan.

Ian Gillian (lead singer of Deep Purple) was the original Jesus on the recording of Jesus Christ Superstar

Hendrix was green at many concerts before his death

The Grateful Dead were shocked by their instruments at Woodstock

Eddie Van Halen was born in the Netherlands, his full name is Edward Ludwig Van Halen.

John Fogerty started Hooked On Phonics

Meat Loaf was offered to be the lead singer for Foreigner

Neil Young wrote Ohio three weeks before the Kent State shootings

Jethro Tull got their name from a suggestion, they originally chose random names when playing at gigs, Jethro Tull was the one that stuck

Ted Nugent, and Gene Simmons have never touched a drop of alcohol in their lives.

Sylvester Stallone played bass for Pure Prairie League once

Brian Wilson (of the Beach Boys) has Thalassophobia, a fear of the ocean

Rick Allen is right handed

Cass Elliot died in the same apartment as Keith Moon

Les Paul is Steve Miller's godfather

Jimmy Buffett's birthday is December 25

[DSOTM]

jimi hendrix doesnt actually say "scuse me while i kiss this guy"

[a21schizoidman]

Bruce Lee played slide guitar on Stuck in the Middle by Stealer's Wheel

Marvin Gaye's last words were: "*****, this best be an April Fool's joke!"
he was shot by his father on April 1, 1984

Phil Hartman did the cover art for CSN and America.

In 1972, Deep Purple broke the sound barrier at a concert

Hendrix had 3 confirmed kills in Vietnam

John Popper wears a fat-suit

[Rockbandfan23467]

After Ozzy left, Black Sabbath almost choose his replacement to be the hated Michael Bolton.

[a21schizoidman]

Billy Gibbons was Hendrix's favorite guitarists and taught him how to play Fire personally

Dark Side of the Moon spent 1500 weeks on the Billboard Top 200 charts (nearly 29 years)

The platinum rating was invented for the astronomical sales of In-a-gadda-da-vida

[NX013]

During a Chicago concert a guitarist came up to one of the honr players saying " I really liked how the band used horns in the music, and that guitarist is way better than I am." That man was Jimi Hendrix

[OldFogey]

In 1972, Deep Purple broke the sound barrier at a concert



sound barrier
noun ( the sound barrier)
the increased drag, reduced controllability, and other effects that occur when an aircraft approaches the speed of sound, formerly regarded as an obstacle to supersonic flight.

Guess they were really flying high that night :D

[Shredder87]

......Alice Cooper......have never touched a drop of alcohol in their lives.
Wait a minute. I remember seeing something on TV(VH1 I believe.) where he was puking up blood, and that a sign for him to hit rehab. I may be wrong. Axl, help me out here.

[Insane3]

Gentle Giant is the only rock band that used recorder flutes live. They play recorder in the song Advent of Panurge.

[a21schizoidman]

Guess they were really flying high that night :D

"Deep Purple holds the record for the loudest rock concert in recorded history (Pontiac Stadium, 1972) – with a decibel level so loud they broke the sound barrier"

just to clear it up, lol

[Vorral]

My absolute favorite rock trivia would have to be:

Steely Dan is named after a steam-powered sex aid in Stranger in a Strange Land.

Other bits I know right off the top of my head:

Of all the members of Van Halen, only Sammy Hagar and Michael Anthony were present for the induction of the band into the Rock 'n Roll Hall of Fame. Neither man was a member of the band at the time.

Aerosmith's album, Night in the Ruts, while not only being a very poorly disguised play on words, was the only album to feature four guitarists. Joe Perry left in the middle of recording the album to be replaced by Jimmy Crespo, while rhythm guitarist Brad Whitford left to form Whitford-St. Holmes with Ted Nugent's lead singer. Whitford was replaced by Rick Dufay.

Patti Smyth was the first and last person to play CBGB.

Metallica's "Hero of the Day" is about Axl Rose and his inability to not throw a hissy fit when James Hetfield caught on fire in Montreal, causing the fans to riot when Guns 'N Roses refused to come out and play.

While being an anthem for anti-rock sentiment in the 1980s, Ozzy Osbourne's "Killing Yourself to Live" is about late AC/DC singer Bon Scott.

Former guitarist for Powerman 5000, John 5, was the first member of Marilyn Manson's band to not use the name of a 60s sex/fashion icon and a serial killer.

Steve Vai was the guitar player for the devil in Ralph Macchio's "Crossroads." It's still unknown which devil was involved in the production of Britney Spear's "Crossroads." Eric Clapton was unavailable for comment.

Pete Townshend and Jimi Hendrix flipped a coin to see who would close out the Monterey Pop Festival, but only after Jimi Hendrix jumped on a chair and started viciously playing guitar at Townshend.

That's all for now.

[BillLauren]

Here are some Marilyn Manson facts!

- Marilyn Manson is a Reverend at The Church of Satan. He was given that position by Anton Szandor LaVey

- His 1996 album Antichrist Superstar came fifth in Classic Rock Magazine's list of the 30 greatest concept albums of all time.

- His favorite movie is Willy Wonka & The Chocolate Factory (1971).

- Was mentioned in the controversial lyrics of New Radicals' hit song You Get What You Give. In response, Manson stated that he would crack Gregg Alexander's skull for using him in the same sentence as Courtney Love.

- Turned down the role of Dr. Jonathan Crane in the film Batman Begins.

- Many of his paintings have sold for large amounts, usually between $ 5,000 and $ 50,000. His most famous buyers include Jack Osbourne, Nicolas Cage, Dave Navarro, and Andy Dick.

- Is best friends with actress and singer Mandy Moore and has referred to her as his love child.

- The original name of his rock group was Marilyn Manson and The Spooky Kids.

- Has a contact lens style named after him, The Marilyn Manson Look.

- Marilyn Manson was #78 on VH1's 100 Greatest Artist of Hard Rock.

- His favorite vegetable is broccoli.

- Announced that he’s got back together with estranged bassist Twiggy Ramirez for his 2008 ‘Rape The World’ tour, and says that he owes it to Led Zeppelin for burying the hatchet.

- Credits his album ‘Eat Me, Drink Me’ for saving his life as he was close to commit suicide after his wife kicked him out.

- Has a collection of medical prosthetics (artificial limbs, glass eyes, etc.) and vintage metal lunch boxes.

- The original cover of the Mechanical Animals CD caused the album to be banned from many stores because it showed Manson as a naked alien.

- His name comes from combining the first name of famed move starlet -Marilyn Monroe - and the last name of infamous cult leader/mass murderer - Charles Manson.

There you go, knowledge is power!

[Vorral]

More 'cause I'm still awake:

All copies of Van Halen's eponymous release since the firing of Michael Anthony have had Anthony's image removed and digitally replaced by Wolfgang Van Halen, Eddie's son.

Glenn Danzig was once quoted as saying, "Sometimes I have to meditate to keep from killing the world." No. Really.

Van Halen's album "OU812" was a direct response to former lead singer David Lee Roth's solo album "Eat 'Em and Smile."

The album "90125" by Yes is the album number given by Atco, the company that originally released the album. Band members have stated that they named the album thusly because they couldn't come up with a name and the album had to go to press.

Joe Perry, guitarist for Aerosmith, is a licensed pilot.

ZZ Top's "Legs" is the only song to keep its profanity untouched when it played on MTV and radio.

Whitesnake's video for "Is This Love?" to this day shows Tawny Kitaen's nipple.

The first concert that Lynard Skynard played after the death of Ronnie Van Zant featured a version of Freebird that contained no lyrics. There was not a dry eye (or rebel flag) in the house.

The band Nine Inch Nails covers itself in 80 pounds of cornflower for each concert.

Yes, the Nine Inch Nails song "Starf*ckers, Inc." is about Marilyn Manson. Yes, Marilyn Manson has sung the song with Nine Inch Nails live.

More as they come to me.

[polishdog90]

Alice Cooper has never touched a drop of alcohol in his life.


http://i89.photobucket.com/albums/k236/polishdog90/Alice_Cooper.jpg

[Sayburr]

ZZ Top's "Legs" is the only song to keep its profanity untouched when it played on MTV and radio.


Not quite true, The Who's "Who are You" says "Who the F*ck are you".

[Reaper Eclipse]

Nobody here probably cares, but I like the band and I thought it was a pretty cool fact, but;

Hoobastank front man Doug Robb's brother, Tom Robb used to be a body guard for Metallica. (not sure if he still is though.)

[Vorral]

Not quite true, The Who's "Who are You" says "Who the F*ck are you".

Very true, but if you noticed, I threw in the little MTV part there, as in their early days MTV would censor the stupidest things, especially if there was the thought that it could be construed as dirty. But you are correct with The Who.

[a21schizoidman]

Keith Emerson IS human.

[AxlVanHagar]

Wait a minute. I remember seeing something on TV(VH1 I believe.) where he was puking up blood, and that a sign for him to hit rehab. I may be wrong. Axl, help me out here.


Yep Alice was a huuuuuuuuuuge alcoholic back in the day. Wound up drying out in an insane asylum back in the 70's which is where all the songs on From The Inside came from.

Alice was President of the Hollywood Vampires. A drinking club founded by him and Harry Nilsson and Keith Moon. It was a room upsatirs in the Rainbow in Hollywood. They even had their own softball team. From Alice's book Golf Monster....

"It was a last man standing kind of drinking club. We would all show up, go upstairs and all night long you would see nothing but rock stars and celebrities drinking and looking down on the night club audience. Every night we'd wait wait to see what Keith Moon would do. One night he showed up dressed as Nun. The next he came in dressed like Adolph Hitler. The next night a french maid. By the end of the night we would be crawling down the stairs and someone would drive us home. The next night back to the Lair.

One night Bruce Springsteen was invited to The Lair. It was when the press dubbed him "The new Bob Dylan."

"Sit down Bruce, I've got to talk to you about something." Bruce was wearing cowboy boots and sat down beside Bernie Taupin who was a Vampire at the time. I said "Look you're really talented but don't let them sell you as the new Dylan. That's suicide. You're Bruce Springsteen not Bob Dylan."

Then Bernie tapped him on the shoulder, "Bruce I've got to tell you something." Bernie startd talking to Bruce and while he had Bruce's attention I poured my drink into his boot.

After Bernie I got his attention back and while Bruce spoke to me Bernie poured his drink into Bruce's other boot. We did this all night. By the end the poor guy was sloshing around everywhere. The whole room was in hysterics."

Alice's drinks of choice were VO Canadian Club and Coke, Budweiser Beer, whiskey. His drinking almost killed him.

Here's a very emaciated sick Alice perfroming live from The Strange Case of Alice Cooper. He had dried out but fell off the wagon almost immediately and was back to being a drunk. As a fane this stuff is hard to watch as I can see how sick he is and how close he came to killing himself.
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[OldFogey]

Jim Messina was an engineer for Buffalo Springfield, and wound up replacing Bruce Palmer as the band's bassist when Bruce got busted. He also produced the last Springfield album. After Springfield split up he and Richie Furay from Springfield formed Poco. Poco can lay a pretty good claim to being the original country rock band, altho' the Byrds were right there, too. Then Messina discovered Kenny Loggins. Loggins and Messina were great. Probably not a fashionable choice on this forum, but so solid musically and great, great tunes. Loggins is and was a killer singer. He did become to MOR for my tastes, tho'.

Anyway, another bass player becomes a great lead player....

A taste of Poco -- good feelin' to know. Killer song. Crummy audio
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[Rockbandfan23467]

Jerry Garcia produced the Counterculture classic Surrealistic Pillow.

[OldFogey]

Jerry Garcia produced the Counterculture classic Surrealistic Pillow.

Not sure where you got your info. My copy says it was produced by Rick Jarrard.

There is some dispute over whether he played guitar on the album.

[Insane3]

I remember a good one!
Eric Clapton fell in "love" with a french model (Carla Bruni) but she left him for Mic Jagger. Very recently, Carla Bruni got married with France's president Sarkozy lol!!

[Rockbandfan23467]

Not sure where you got your info. My copy says it was produced by Rick Jarrard.

There is some dispute over whether he played guitar on the album.

Legends of Rock (A book). It reads:

"Though listed in album credits as a spiritual advisor, Jerry Garcia was really the secret producer of the Airplane's classic album Surrealistic Pillow"

[gusano311]

david bowie had a band in the early 90s called tin machine. tony and hunt sales the sons of soupy sales where in the band.
corys parks former bassist for nasville ***** brother is cherokee parks former nbaer and duke blue devil.
mark anthony chavez former adema singer is jonathan davies half brother.
on the zombie connection with power man 5000. john tempesta drummer for zombie bro played in power man 5000 mike tempesta.
joey ramone dated ronnie spector.
todd rundgren raised liv tyler has his daughter.
meatloafs daughter dates scott ian.

[OldFogey]

Legends of Rock (A book). It reads:

"Though listed in album credits as a spiritual advisor, Jerry Garcia was really the secret producer of the Airplane's classic album Surrealistic Pillow"

hmmm ... never heard that. Can't say I detect his hand in the production -- all the singers sing in tune ;)

Thx

Update: found this info on the web http://www.deaddisc.com/ot/Surrealistic_Pillow.htm:

Garcia's non-playing role ("musical and spiritual adviser") can be assumed from statements made by members of Jefferson Airplane.

According to Jorma Kaukonen;

"Jerry could be credited with really being the producer in the real sense of the word in that he was one of us and he knew what to do with the band .... He really was the producer who arranged those songs..."
Paul Kantner in an interview with Dark Star magazine in the late 1970s said;
"We had an RCA producer, but Garcia did the art side of it."
Garcia on the other hand downplayed his role, defining it at one time as;
"... a sort of go-between between them and their producer, I helped out with some arrangements and stuff - I just hung out."
...
Most versions of the 'how the album got it's title' story indicate that it was Garcia who suggested at one point that it was "as surrealistic as a pillow". The quote has though been attributed to others.

[a21schizoidman]

Jim Messina was an engineer for Buffalo Springfield, and wound up replacing Bruce Palmer as the band's bassist when Bruce got busted. He also produced the last Springfield album. After Springfield split up he and Richie Furay from Springfield formed Poco. Poco can lay a pretty good claim to being the original country rock band, altho' the Byrds were right there, too. Then Messina discovered Kenny Loggins. Loggins and Messina were great. Probably not a fashionable choice on this forum, but so solid musically and great, great tunes. Loggins is and was a killer singer. He did become to MOR for my tastes, tho'.

Anyway, another bass player becomes a great lead player....

A taste of Poco -- good feelin' to know. Killer song. Crummy audio
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I dnk about Loggins & Messina for RB, but Kenny Loggins' solo work would be fun to play. Esp. Don't Fight It, Danger Zone, and Footloose, IMO

[OldFogey]

More on Poco --

the original bass player in Poco was one Randy Meissner. With Furay and Messina already providing leadership for Poco, Randy left to form his own group, the Eagles. He was replaced in Poco by Timothy B. Schmit. Later, he found that Don Henley and Glenn Frey were the de facto leaders of the Eagles, so he left again, to be replace by -- Timothy B. Schmit.

The Wheel of Life turns round and round....

[Vorral]

S'more from me:

The song "Sweet Emotion" by Aerosmith is about Joe Perry's first wife.

Singer Tori Amos once covered Slayer's "Raining Blood." It did not appear on Guitar Hero.

In 1987, MTV threatened to ban George Michaels' video of "I Want Your Sex," citing that it would cause a rise in teenage sexual activity. Michaels recorded a "cleaner" version of the song for MTV, replacing the word sex with the word love. Five years later, MTV shows the video for Madonna's "Erotica." All of it.

While accepting numerous Video Music Awards for "Losing My Religion," Michael Stipe of R.E.M. changed his shirt 14 times, each shirt brandishing a new political statement.

1,000 **** DJs, fronted by Ministry lead singer Al Jourgenson, got its name when Jourgenson was sorting through a box of bootleg mixes of Ministry songs, turned to his drummer Paul Barker and said, "This sounds like it was made by a thousand **** DJs." Also of note about 1,000 **** DJs, their original recorded version of Black Sabbath's "Supernaut" was sung by Trent Reznor before Nine Inch Nails' "Pretty Hate Machine" was released.

Judas Priest lead singer Rob Halford is widely credited for establishing metal's look of leather and studs. Halford has stated that he thinks its amazing that people started emulating his style of dress as he was a big fan of the underground *** bondage scene going on in London at the time, whose style of dress included leather and studs.

Rammstein is named after the Ramstein Air Force base in Germany, host to the deadliest crash in air show history.

More when I think of them.

[Vorral]

More from me:

If you have a fancy-shmancy CD player that can rewind into backwards time on the first track of Rammstein's Reise Reise album, you can hear the black box recording of JAL123, a Japanese airliner. Rammstein has a thing for plane crashes.

Trent Reznor was asked before the release of "With Teeth" if there was any song that he would love to cover. He stated that he would love to do a faithful recreation of Depeche Mode's "Personal Jesus," but "someone already beat me to it." Somewhere in the distance, Marilyn Manson leaned back, smiled, and drank himself into a green fairy-chasing stupor.

Although Dee Snider of Twisted Sister is Jewish, he and his band released "Twisted Christmas" as a thank you to all their fans who stuck with the band.

During the 90s, Henry Rollins came down with a strained voice and was sent to see a noted voice and speech therapist. After extensive testing Rollins, a noted non-drinker, non-smoker. and non-drug user, was told that he had the vocal cords of a man who drank a bottle of Jack Daniels daily, smoked 3 packs of cigarettes and had a $4000 cocaine habit.

Henry Rollins has a personal on-again, off-again vendetta against Michael Bolton. Bolton is unaware of this and cannot understand why angry twenty-somethings keep calling him Bolthead.

[Runesmith]

This one might be a little too, ahem...much for the forums, but I did find it pretty funny when VH1 mentioned it in their "One Hundred Most Shocking Moments in Rock and Roll" special:

An all-female grunge band by the name of L7 gained a certain amount of notoriety for their performance at the 1992 Reading Festival, when lead vocalist/guitarist Donita Sparks removed her used tampon off-stage and threw it into the crowd yelling "Eat my used tampon, motherf*ckers!" in protest against the mud being thrown by the crowd.

[Sayburr]

Trent Reznor was asked before the release of "With Teeth" if there was any song that he would love to cover. He stated that he would love to do a faithful recreation of Depeche Mode's "Personal Jesus," but "someone already beat me to it." Somewhere in the distance, Marilyn Manson leaned back, smiled, and drank himself into a green fairy-chasing stupor.


I believe he was refering to Johnny Cash's verson. The same way Trent said "Hurt" is no longer one of his songs because Cash made it his own before he died.

[Steef]

KISS drummer Eric Carr died on the same day as Freddie Mercury.



That I didn't know!

[Vorral]

I believe he was refering to Johnny Cash's verson. The same way Trent said "Hurt" is no longer one of his songs because Cash made it his own before he died.
This is also true.

[AxlVanHagar]

Canadian rocker Sass Jordan was considered as lead singer for Van Halen after Sammy Hagar quit/got fired. She spent a few days at Eddie's 5150 studio auditioning with the band. Ultimately they went with Gary Cherone from Extreme.

[Rockbandfan23467]

^EVH also considered Patti Symth of Scandal when DLR quit/got fired.

[Rockbandfan23467]

This will only matter to Fogey, and he probably knew this, but:

Robben Ford played lead guitar on two tracks on the KISS album Creatures of the Night, I Still Love You and Rock And Roll Hell. He was uncredited.

[a21schizoidman]

David Gilmour has played bass a few times in Pink Floyd. He played one of two in One of these Days (Nick Mason did the vocals in the song) and he played bass on Pigs

Another Pink Floyd one: Rick Wright does a majority of the vocal work.

The Beatles' Come Together was not allowed play on the radio in Britain because of its reference to Coca-Cola

Jethro Tull won the first Heavy Metal Grammy, they beat out Metallica

Husker Du got their name when playing a cover of the Talking Heads' Psycho Killer, and the singer forgot the French lyrics, an audience member shouted out "Husker du?" which translates to "don't you remember?"

[AxlVanHagar]

This will only matter to Fogey, and he probably knew this, but:

Robben Ford played lead guitar on two tracks on the KISS album Creatures of the Night, I Still Love You and Rock And Roll Hell. He was uncredited.

GAH! How did I miss that one when I mentioned Creatures...earlier. Nice save!:D The real question is what make up style would he have used if he joined the band?:D Any idea's Fogey?

Actually here's another tidbit from the Creatures of the Night KISS era.

Another guitar player was considered to replace Ace Frehley as his time with the band was coming to an end. He was already a legendary player and household name and actually rehearsed with the band once or twice. His name is Edward Van Halen. Eddie was very despondent over the infighting with Van Halen and was ready to quit VH all together. He and Gene Simmons came up with the possibility of joining KISS.

Ohh! Another KISS one popped into my head. Paul Stanley almost was the producer for Guns n' Roses Appetite For Destruction.

[Rockbandfan23467]

Billy Gibbons and Dusty Hill were offered a million dollars to shave their beards. They turned it down.

[NX013]

^just remembered another ZZ top one

The only member of ZZ top that doesn't have a beard is the bands drummer, Frank Beard.

[bluepotato44]

Alice Cooper owns a bar in Clevland by Jacobs Field named Coopersville.
Maliyn Manson has small camo apperence in the movie "Lost Highway"
Before Primus, Les Claypool tyied out for the bass spot in Metallica after Cliff
died. It was quoted that they didnt like his "plucky style"
Dez Fafara from Devildriver/ CoalChamber once had a contract to write 13
volumes of chirldren's books. one that i know was called "Finding Blackie"
it was about kids crossing a path with a black cat.

[BedBeats]

-In the movie Fargo.....where theres a wide winter-time shot of a man walking across a field.....that man was Prince.

-That guy on Celebrity Rehab, Bob Forest, was The Red Hot Chili Peppers first roadie.....he was also John Frusciante's drug partner for a long while.

-John 5 of Rob Zombie/Manson/2wo is a sex addict.

-Johnny Fay of The Tragically Hip has herpes.

-There are no credits on the great P.I.L. release "Album".....but the band on almost all tracks are: Steve Vai/Jah Wobble/Ginger Baker/Tony Williams.

-Jeff Burrows of Canada's Tea Party was asked to join Pearl Jam after drummer Jack Irons quit.

-Gary Numan is a certified pilot......he also sports a hair transplant.

-The first American rock star to meet U2 on their first ever tour....was Bruce Springsteen.

-Guitarist John Frusciante auditioned...and susequently turned down a gig from Zappa.

-Prince is among Steve Vai's favourite guitar players.

-Legend has it that many of the Bee Gee's recordings are very meticulously done. Drum takes have each componant (hi-hat...then snare...then kicks..etc..) recorded separately, as a take each.

-Lee Scratch Perry used to blow weed smoke over master tapes and bury them in the ground...leave them for a day to a week....and proclaim them mixed.

-Tommy Lee nearly became a ballet dancer....before discovering the drumset.

....Hmmm thats all off the top of my head.....this is a great thread!

[AxlVanHagar]

--Prince is among Steve Vai's favourite guitar players.

!

Very true. And the admiration seems to go both ways. There is bootleg of a Prince concert in Japan where during a Prince guitar solo he winds up covering Touching Tongues from Vai's Sex & Religion.

[BedBeats]

Very true. And the admiration seems to go both ways. There is bootleg of a Prince concert in Japan where during a Prince guitar solo he winds up covering Touching Tongues from Vai's Sex & Religion.

WHAT!!!????

Thats rad!!

I gotta find that...

[OldFogey]

Originally Posted by Rockbandfan23467
This will only matter to Fogey, and he probably knew this, but:

Robben Ford played lead guitar on two tracks on the KISS album Creatures of the Night, I Still Love You and Rock And Roll Hell. He was uncredited.

Seems to be true, although not well publicized.

I Still Love You. Short break at 2:20. Easily could be Robben. Real solo at about 3:50. Clearly sounds like Robben. Love that phrasing. Outro at about 5:40.
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Rock and Roll Hell solo is pretty short. Starts about 2:25. Could be Robben, but it would take a little more room to stretch out for me to tell for sure.
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On the whole -- the relatively short solos don't play to Robben' strengths as a soloist. He's a master at composing solos on the spot. But it is nice to see him meld into this other style so nicely.

Thx, RBF.


GAH! How did I miss that one when I mentioned Creatures...earlier. Nice save!:D The real question is what make up style would he have used if he joined the band?:D Any idea's Fogey?


um, I just can't picture that. Flat out of ideas there.

[Ramirez16]

GAH! How did I miss that one when I mentioned Creatures...earlier. Nice save!:D The real question is what make up style would he have used if he joined the band?:D Any idea's Fogey?

Actually here's another tidbit from the Creatures of the Night KISS era.

Another guitar player was considered to replace Ace Frehley as his time with the band was coming to an end. He was already a legendary player and household name and actually rehearsed with the band once or twice. His name is Edward Van Halen. Eddie was very despondent over the infighting with Van Halen and was ready to quit VH all together. He and Gene Simmons came up with the possibility of joining KISS.

Ohh! Another KISS one popped into my head. Paul Stanley almost was the producer for Guns n' Roses Appetite For Destruction.Gene was trying to get both the Van Halens brothers in Kiss before Van Halen came out with their first album. Ace and Peter were already acting up.

[a21schizoidman]

Carl Palmer originally wanted to be a session drummer, but his father told him to just play in a band, he took his father's advice.

AC/DC got their name from a sewing machine.

Angus Young's sister Margot gave him the idea to wear his school uniform on stage.

Angus and Malcolm's older brother George was a member of the Easybeats (Friday on my Mind)

Stevie Ray Vaughan was booed off stage his first time playing at the Montreux Blues Festival (where Bowie discovered him)

Les Paul's first successful solid body electric guitar was a steel beam, it was fully functional, but too heavy for conventional play.

Les Paul pretty much invented multi-track recording.

John Sebastian was not scheduled to perform at Woodstock, they asked him to play because they were having trouble getting the musicians in by helicopter.

Billy Joel attented Woodstock.

Everyone except Ravi Shankar played for free at the Montery Pop Festival.

Noel Redding was actually a guitarist, but was picked to play bass because Hendrix liked his hair.

The Doors were supposed to play at Woodstock, but cancelled, it was not because of Morrisons arrests or paranoia of what he would do on stage, contrary to popular belief.

The Moody Blues, Tommy James and the Shondells, Frank Zappa and the Mothers, Procol Harum, Led Zeppelin, Jethro Tull, The Byrds, Free, and Spirit were all asked to perform at Woodstock, and all either cancelled or declined.

Iron Butterfly was the only band on the bill not able to make it to Woodstock, because they got stuck at the airport.

You can buy a cast of Jimi Hendrix's acutal penis online.

Aerosmith was the band that was supposed to be on Lynyrd Skynyrd's phantom plane....

The Chicago Bears are the only sports team that has been nominated for a Grammy

[AxlVanHagar]

Seems to be true, although not well publicized.

I Still Love You. Short break at 2:20. Easily could be Robben. Real solo at about 3:50. Clearly sounds like Robben. Love that phrasing. Outro at about 5:40.
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Rock and Roll Hell solo is pretty short. Starts about 2:25. Could be Robben, but it would take a little more room to stretch out for me to tell for sure.
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On the whole -- the relatively short solos don't play to Robben' strengths as a soloist. He's a master at composing solos on the spot. But it is nice to see him meld into this other style so nicely.

Thx, RBF.



um, I just can't picture that. Flat out of ideas there.

Went diggin through my bookshelf for some more clarification on this. Seems pretty accepted that that is in fact Ford on those two tracks though I found this interesting. From Black Diamond : The Unauthorized Biography of KISS...

"There still reamins some confusionas to who exactly played what on this album. With Vinnie's (Vinnie Vincent)experience at playing lead guitar, and with his insistence in sticking around the studio since he had plenty of free time on his hands, it was decided to let him attempt to play lead in one of the songs. When Vinnie's solo was chosen over Paul Stanley's for "I Still Love You" he was asked to play on a few other tracks as well. Thus Vinnie performed on "I Still Love You", "Danger", "War Machine", and "Killers". Bob Kulick was brought in again to help with some of the tracks, including an attempt at "Creatures of the Night" which was not used. Bob Stewart, Robben Ford and Steve Ferris were alaso brought in but there is no exact information to state which songs actually feature their performances. This is partly due to the band letting everyone have a go at the solo's in the songs, including one story that stated Eddie Van Halen, Jimmy Page, Paul Stanley, Randy Rhodes, Bob Kulick,Robben Ford and Steve Ferris and others attempted the guitar solo on "Creatures of the Night" only to have the winner be Eric Carr who also made an attempt. This is difficult to believe as Eric stated this as fact in one of his last written interviews before his death while in 1990 he was adamant that it was Steve Ferris that did the solo. Still, the other band members have agreed with Eric's later sentiment so it may well be true. If nothing else Eric did indeed play bass on "I Still Love You" a song Gene was not happy with at the time."

Interesting stuff. Any guesses as to who the soloist on this track is from the list above?
Creatures of the Night
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[OldFogey]

Went diggin through my bookshelf for some more clarification on this. Seems pretty accepted that that is in fact Ford on those two tracks though I found this interesting. From Black Diamond : The Unauthorized Biography of KISS...

"There still reamins some confusionas to who exactly played what on this album. With Vinnie's (Vinnie Vincent)experience at playing lead guitar, and with his insistence in sticking around the studio since he had plenty of free time on his hands, it was decided to let him attempt to play lead in one of the songs. When Vinnie's solo was chosen over Paul Stanley's for "I Still Love You" he was asked to play on a few other tracks as well. Thus Vinnie performed on "I Still Love You", "Danger", "War Machine", and "Killers". Bob Kulick was brought in again to help with some of the tracks, including an attempt at "Creatures of the Night" which was not used. Bob Stewart, Robben Ford and Steve Ferris were alaso brought in but there is no exact information to state which songs actually feature their performances. This is partly due to the band letting everyone have a go at the solo's in the songs, including one story that stated Eddie Van Halen, Jimmy Page, Paul Stanley, Randy Rhodes, Bob Kulick,Robben Ford and Steve Ferris and others attempted the guitar solo on "Creatures of the Night" only to have the winner be Eric Carr who also made an attempt. This is difficult to believe as Eric stated this as fact in one of his last written interviews before his death while in 1990 he was adamant that it was Steve Ferris that did the solo. Still, the other band members have agreed with Eric's later sentiment so it may well be true. If nothing else Eric did indeed play bass on "I Still Love You" a song Gene was not happy with at the time."

Interesting stuff. Any guesses as to who the soloist on this track is from the list above?
Creatures of the Night
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I listened to that track -- I don't have a clue who might have played it.

I don't know Vinnie -- do you think the I Still Love You solo sounds like him, Axl? It's really over extended solos that I think the difference would be great enough to be absolutely sure. The first break could easily be someone else. The most Robbenesque lick is the turnaround at the 4:10 mark. The more I listen the less it seems to have Robben's legato style. So, I'm not sure.

On the Robben Ford discussion group they seem to think Robben played the track, for whatever that's worth.

[AxlVanHagar]

I have a real hard time believing I Still Love You is Vinnie Vincent. I just don't hear it. Vinnie was one of those players that sounded like a fly buzzing around your ear, widdlywiddlywiddlywiddlywiddlywiddly. Have hard time seeing him be able to slow down and do something with the phrasing and melody like in that solo. Listen to this and see if you agree.

An example of Vinnie's *ahem* talents. This is the Vinnie Vincent Invasion, he formed it after leaving KISS. Also a cookie to who guesses the bass player and singer of this vid is without looking it up. :p

Boyz Are Gonna Rock
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[OldFogey]

I have a real hard time believing I Still Love You is Vinnie Vincent. I just don't hear it. Vinnie was one of those players that sounded like a fly buzzing around your ear, widdlywiddlywiddlywiddlywiddlywiddly. Have hard time seeing him be able to slow down and do something with the phrasing and melody like in that solo. Listen to this and see if you agree.

An example of Vinnie's *ahem* talents. This is the Vinnie Vincent Invasion, he formed it after leaving KISS. Also a cookie to who guesses the bass player and singer of this vid is without looking it up. :p

Boyz Are Gonna Rock
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Well I listened to as much as I could :D

If I had to choose between that and Robben as a guess about who might have performed the track, I definitely think it's got more Robben about it. If so, then he adapted his style and even his sound to the music, which you would definitely expect a player of his caliber to do. And like I said, that turnaround does sound like him.

On further listening, the outro really starts to sound like Robben -- and it sounds like things were really just starting to get interesting....

[AxlVanHagar]

Well I listened to as much as I could :D

.

LOL! Yea I hear ya, VVI were terrible even by 80's metal standards which I was and still am a fan of.

[a21schizoidman]

Keith Moon played the drums on the Jeff Beck song Beck's Bolero

[NX013]

Led Zeppelin's name was made by Keith Moon because he said that the whole thing will blow over like as lead balloon

[BhindBluEyes430]

You could fill a whole page with keith moon facts. The most entertaining drummer of all time

He once blew up a Drum set for a performance on the "Smoothers brothers show". Instead of using the recomended amount he insisted on adding twice as much. Then while nobody was looking stole another charge making it 3X the first amount. He set the explosion off right as Pete was infront of the set. Seting petes hair on fire. Moon suffered inurys from a Cymbal hiting him in the arm.

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[a21schizoidman]

Rare Earth was the first white band to get signed by a black record label

[Vorral]

I have a real hard time believing I Still Love You is Vinnie Vincent. I just don't hear it. Vinnie was one of those players that sounded like a fly buzzing around your ear, widdlywiddlywiddlywiddlywiddlywiddly. Have hard time seeing him be able to slow down and do something with the phrasing and melody like in that solo. Listen to this and see if you agree.

An example of Vinnie's *ahem* talents. This is the Vinnie Vincent Invasion, he formed it after leaving KISS. Also a cookie to who guesses the bass player and singer of this vid is without looking it up. :p

Boyz Are Gonna Rock
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I know the lead singer from the Vinnie Vincent Invasion was Mark Slaughter. The bass player...not so much. I remember reading an article from Mark saying that he left VVI because Vinnie was drunk and abusive pretty much all the time, and that made being in the band intolerable. So, unfortunately, VVI is directly responsible for Slaughter. So, I must go Fly To the Angels. Pity me. I'll need it.

[Cosma]

Ted Nugent, Alice Cooper, and Gene Simmons have never touched a drop of alcohol in their lives.



Alice Cooper spent alot of his early years on the road trashed

[Cosma]

Ok some that I've heard, too tired to verify them properly right now

Kip Winger played bass on an Alice Cooper album

Bruce Springsteen's "Dancing in the Dark" is where Courtney Cox got her start

Blue Oyster Cult arrived to a concert in Denver one time via parachute

According to Alice Cooper the concept for the album Trash went like this
"We've killed him, commited him and sent him to hell, let's get Alice laid"

again with the Coop, his father was a baptist preacher

Steven Tyler and Joe Perry traded nose powder for gun powder, Both have class 3 firearm licenses which means they can own automatic weapons

a couple of these I'm sure of, some I'm a little fuzzy on and some may have details wrong

[AxlVanHagar]

Ok some that I've heard, too tired to verify them properly right now

Kip Winger played bass on an Alice Cooper album

Yep, Constrictor, Alice's comeback album in the 80's. Kip also played bass on that tour




According to Alice Cooper the concept for the album Trash went like this
"We've killed him, commited him and sent him to hell, let's get Alice laid"

Also correct. The entire album is laced with sexual innuendo. With AIDS and other sex worthy items so news worthy Alice felt it time to put his spin and sex in the 80's


again with the Coop, his father was a baptist preacher


Partially true. Alice's dad, Ether Maroni "Mick" Furnier was an elder in the Church of Jesus Christ that Alice's grandfather Thurman Sylvester Furnier headed. He started as an unpaid pastor and moved on to preaching. He preached every third Sunday. Alice's father in law on the other hand is a Baptist preacher. Somewhere about 20 years ago Alice became a Born Again Christian. The exact date seems to be a little sketchy.

[JukeBoxHero]

Blue Oyster Cult arrived to a concert in Denver one time via parachute

If that is 100% true than that tidbit is awesome! :)

[brakeonthroo]

Sweet Thanks for the facts.

[Cosma]

Thanks for the verifications Axl

[Cosma]

New one that I just remembered and verified as best as possible

Alice Cooper was Linda Blair's date for the premier of the Exorcist

[Runesmith]

Yeah Yeah Yeah's lead vocalist Karen O. was offered a spread in Playboy, but declined due to "the type of audience the magazine attracts".

Dave Navarro of Jane's Addiction and Flea of the Red Hot Chili Peppers played guitar and bass, respectively, on Alanis Morisette's "You Oughta Know".

Despite commonly accepted myth, Jimmy Page and John Bonham did not actually play on Donovan's "Hurdy Gurdy Man", although John Paul Jones did. The real line-up was Donovan (acoustic guitar), John Paul Jones (bass), Alan Parker (electric guitar), and Clem Cattini (drums).

(Now that I think about it, Hurdy Gurdy Man would make an excellent Rock Band song...hmm.)

[OldFogey]

Despite commonly accepted myth, Jimmy Page and John Bonham did not actually play on Donovan's "Hurdy Gurdy Man", although John Paul Jones did. The real line-up was Donovan (acoustic guitar), John Paul Jones (bass), Alan Parker (electric guitar), and Clem Cattini (drums).

(Now that I think about it, Hurdy Gurdy Man would make an excellent Rock Band song...hmm.)

Where did you get that information? I have the Donovan album and Page and Bonham are listed.

[Runesmith]

Where did you get that information? I have the Donovan album and Page and Bonham are listed.

http://songfacts.com/detail.php?id=1097

[OldFogey]

http://songfacts.com/detail.php?id=1097

That looks authoritative. Thanks. Sure is weird they would credit those guys if they weren't involved.

[a21schizoidman]

The band America (Horse With No Name, Ventura Highway, Sister Golden Hair, Tin Man, etc..) is from Great Britain

[OldFogey]

The band America (Horse With No Name, Ventura Highway, Sister Golden Hair, Tin Man, etc..) is from Great Britain

Well of the original three, two were American and one was English.

[a21schizoidman]

Well of the original three, two were American and one was English.

yes, but the band formed in London

and all their mothers were British

[OldFogey]

yes, but the band formed in London

and all their mothers were British

Good info. (pad)

[Rockbandfan23467]

Also, The JHE were 2/3 British. Hendrix himself was American. So anyone who says Americans can't make good muic can suck it!

[Rockbandfan23467]

The following artists are technichly One-Hit Wonders:
Jimi Hendrix
Frank Zappa
Lou Reed
Radiohead
Phish
Janis Joplin
The Greatful Dead
Rush
Iggy Pop
Faith No More
Siouxie and The Banshees
The Church
The Allman Brothers Band
System of a Down


The following techinchly aren't One-Hit Wonders:
The Fugges
Jars of Clay
Great White
Billy Ray Cyrus
A-Ha
Take That
BBMak
All Saints
Frankie Goes To Hollywood
Robbie Williams
The Verve
Blur

[OldFogey]

WHen Mick Taylor left the Stones, he was going to join a band with Jack Bruce. But then Bruce got the invite to play with Zappa. For a taste of what we might have had in store for us if things had worked out the way they should, follow this link:
http://youtube.com/watch?v=pcoHWBvRihk

Sorry, embedding is disabled.

[Ledgo2]

According to Townshend, Moon's reputation for erratic behaviour was something in which he took pride and cultivated. Once, when The Who was on its way to an airport to catch a flight to their next concert, Moon suddenly insisted that they return to their hotel, saying frantically, "I forgot something. We've got to go back!" When the limo returned, Moon ran to his room, grabbed the TV while it was still plugged in via extension cord, threw it out the window and into the pool. He then jumped back into the limousine, sighing with relief, "I nearly forgot."


Phil Collins is the first real-world person to make an appearance in Grand Theft Auto, he appeared in Vice City Stories, where the player must save him from a gang trying to kill him in three missions. The player can purchase tickets and watch a animated performance of "In The Air Tonight"


BB King named his guitar "Lucille", because during a gig, two men fought over a lady named "Lucille" and knocked over a bucket of burning kerosene, and started a fire. BB King, once out of the building, went back in realising he left his guitar. After he rescued it, he named it "Lucille" to remind him never to do something like that again.


Some believe Stevie Ray Vaughan had survived the intial crash and got out of the helicopter, but died due to injuries. This one sounds a bit fishy, but it could be possible.

Guns N Roses guitarist Slash was born to a white father and african-american mother, his mom was a costume designer for David Bowie.

David Geffen gave Slash his nickname because he was "Always in a hurry, zipping from one place to another"

Billy Gibbons does the deep devil voice for the Nickelback song "Rock Star"

Billy Gibbons owns a rubber guitar, which he often "puts knifes in" I need to continue to look this one up, so don't take it as true. I read it on a site, and I believe there was a picture.

[mercuryshadow09]

Brian Hugh Warner ( aka Marylin Manson) and Billy Corgan (Smashing Pumpkin's) worked in a record store together.

Joe Perry of Aerosmith is rumored to be left handed despite the fact that he play's guitar right handed.

There is a large rock at the end of Steven Tyler's driveway that say's Windsaloft.

Dee Snider has a poodle with a pink mohawk.

Jason Newstead played bass for Flotsam and Jetsam before joining Metallica.

[AxlVanHagar]

Woot! Welcome to the History boards Mercury!:)

[mercuryshadow09]

Woot! Welcome to the History boards Mercury!:)

Thank's don't know why i never came here before.

[NX013]

Robert Fripp is another lefty guitarist who plays right handed

[mercuryshadow09]

Robert Fripp is another lefty guitarist who plays right handed

So is Tom Scholtz from Boston.

[Shredder87]

Thank's don't know why i never came here before.
We're all great kats here my good chum.

Pantera played a song on SpongeBob Squarpants

Mike Patton of Faith No More fame severed nerves(or tendons. One of the two.) on his right hand when jumping into the crowd, landing on glass during his second show. He has no feeling on it, but can use it. Quite the contrary to what doctors said, which the opposite would happen.

[Rockbandfan23467]

Pantera played a song on SpongeBob Squarpants


Sorry, I don't know how to embedle. (http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=J6eJoVG8jP4)

[Julio_Strikes_Back]

Fun Rock Band fact: Train Kept a Rollin was the first song Led Zeppelin played at their final concert with John Bonham (Berlin 1980)

[Rockbandfan23467]

Fun Rock Band fact: Train Kept a Rollin was the first song Led Zeppelin played at their final concert with John Bonham (Berlin 1980)It was also one of the first songs they played together.

[a21schizoidman]

Led Zeppelin was originally known as the New Yardbirds

SRV played guitar on Bowie's Let's Dance album

[OldFogey]

Sorry, I don't know how to embedle. (http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=J6eJoVG8jP4)

Oh I can't wait 'til my kids see that episode!

To embed -- usually there's a field right under the url for embedding. Just copy and paste that into the url field here in the forum. Sometimes emdedding is disabled for some vids, tho'

[Runesmith]

Oh! I had no idea they used a Pantera song in that episode. Motörhead also did a song for the Spongebob Squarepants movie soundtrack.

[AxlVanHagar]

Folk singer Woody Guthrie was a suspect for the murder of Elizabeth SHort AKA The Black Dahlia.

Marilyn Manson did a series of water color paintings based on the murder in 2002.

[NX013]

Brian May hates his curly hair

[Cosma]

SRV was the first unsigned act to play at Montreux

Was the first white player to win the W.C. Handy National Blues Awards for "Entertainer of the Year" and "Blues Instrumentalist of the Year"

[CEDRICtheFOETUS]

Filter's lead singer Richard Patrick is brother to Robert Patrick, AKA T-1000 in Terminator 2 and Agent Doggett in X-Files.

[a21schizoidman]

Robert Fripp is not a person, he is a force of Nature

If you take a picture at a KC concert, he stops playing (I have this confirmed from someone that went to one)

[Ledgo2]

Scholz of Boston wrote Mike Huckabee asking him not to play "More than a Feeling" with his band while he toured. Writing...

"While I’m flattered that you are fond of my song, I’m shocked that you would use it and the name Boston to promote yourself without my consent. Your campaign’s use of "More Than a Feeling", coupled with the representation of one of your supporters as a member "of Boston", clearly implies that the band Boston, and specifically one of its members, has endorsed your candidacy, neither of which is true."

Billy Gibbons named his 1959 Gibson Les Paul "Miss Pearly Gates"

Axl Rose plays a DJ in Grand Theft Auto:San Andreas for the radio station "K-DST" as Tommy "The Nightmare" Smith.

[Sayburr]

Billy Gibbions was considered by Jimi Hendrix to be one of the Top Guitarists around he even once said that Billy Gibbons was America's Best guitarist . Jimi actually gave Billy his Pink Strat . Billy fonrdly recalled the moment with the guitar legend .

"I was in the motel one night practicing in my room and this dude stuck his head in the door and said, 'Hey-y man, I thought I heard something going on in here.' It was Jimi Hendrix. I was speechless. I couldn't move. He took my guitar away and lay down across the bed with his head dangling towards the floor, looking at the ceiling. He'd run off this incredible line and then look up at me and said, (in Hendrix space-drawl tones) 'Say, man, c'n you do that?' Then he'd laugh and play some more. After that he started teaching me. I learned a lot from him.""

[Head For METAL]

Lars' father, Torben Ulrich, who was an acclaimed tennis pro from the late 1970s into the early 1980s, was also a musician, playing jazz with such giants as Stan Getz and Miles Davis; legendary saxophonist Dexter Gordon is Ulrich's godfather. In February 1973, Torben Ulrich obtained five passes for five of his friends to a Deep Purple concert that was being held in the same Copenhagen stadium as one of his tournaments. When it was discovered that one of the friends could not go, their ticket was handed over to the nine year-old Lars. The young Ulrich found himself mesmerized by the performance, buying the band's Fireball album the very next day. The concert and the album had a considerable impact on Ulrich, inspiring his entrance into the world of rock and roll and later on, heavy metal. As a result of his newfound interest in music, he received his first drum kit at the age of thirteen, a Ludwig.

[M-57]

Chuck Berry wrote Johny B' Good after Hearing Marty (Michael J. Fox) playing it at Hill Vally High School Dance Lol

[a21schizoidman]

Billy Gibbions was considered by Jimi Hendrix to be one of the Top Guitarists around he even once said that Billy Gibbons was America's Best guitarist . Jimi actually gave Billy his Pink Strat . Billy fonrdly recalled the moment with the guitar legend .

"I was in the motel one night practicing in my room and this dude stuck his head in the door and said, 'Hey-y man, I thought I heard something going on in here.' It was Jimi Hendrix. I was speechless. I couldn't move. He took my guitar away and lay down across the bed with his head dangling towards the floor, looking at the ceiling. He'd run off this incredible line and then look up at me and said, (in Hendrix space-drawl tones) 'Say, man, c'n you do that?' Then he'd laugh and play some more. After that he started teaching me. I learned a lot from him.""

Hendrix actually taught him personally how to play "Fire" (heard the story at the ZZ Top concert last year)

[CEDRICtheFOETUS]

Jarvis Cocker (Pulp), while no relation to Joe Cocker, Fellow Sheffield musician Joe Cocker was a friend of the family and babysat for Jarvis on occasions.

[Rockbandfan23467]

Slash and Steve Adler tried to join Poison.

Slash is one of two Non Americans in GNR history.

[fighting69th]

Hendrix actually taught him personally how to play "Fire" (heard the story at the ZZ Top concert last year)

Was it Billy Gibbons that tried to duplicate the fuzzy tone of Mark Knopfler or vice versa?

[a21schizoidman]

Eddie Van Halen started out on drums, and Alex Van Halen started out on guitar, but to pay off the drum kit, EVH had to get a job, and while he was at work, Alex would play his drum kit, eventually Alex got better than Eddie at drums and they switched instruments

[Pennsylvanian]

In the video for The Smashing Pumpkins' song "Tonight Tonight," the male lead in the "play" is played by Tom Kenny, the man who currently does the voice of Spongebob Squarepants.

[Julio_Strikes_Back]

Everybody was in the Yardbirds. I think I was for a few years.

Eric Clapton (Cream, solo) and Jimmy Page (Led Zeppelin, The Firm, Page and Plant) and Jeff Beck (Jeff Beck group) were all guitarists.

The Yardbirds eventually became the New Yardbirds, which consisted of Robert Plant (Plant and the Strange Sensation, Plant and the Honeydrippers, solo career, Page and Plant), John Baldwin (Mutual Admiration society, REM, Foo Fighters, Butthole Surfers, solo career), Jimmy Page (Yardbirds, The Firm, Page and Plant) and John Henry Bonham (Terry Webb and the Spiders, Crawling King Snakes). The New Yardbirds changed their name to Led Zeppelin, as did Baldwin change his name to John Paul Jones, a naval hero form the American Revolution.

[OldFogey]

Everybody was in the Yardbirds. I think I was for a few years.

Eric Clapton (Cream, solo) and Jimmy Page (Led Zeppelin, The Firm, Page and Plant) and Jeff Beck (Jeff Beck group) were all guitarists.

The Yardbirds eventually became the New Yardbirds, which consisted of Robert Plant (Plant and the Strange Sensation, Plant and the Honeydrippers, solo career, Page and Plant), John Baldwin (Mutual Admiration society, REM, Foo Fighters, Butthole Surfers, solo career), Jimmy Page (Yardbirds, The Firm, Page and Plant) and John Henry Bonham (Terry Webb and the Spiders, Crawling King Snakes). The New Yardbirds changed their name to Led Zeppelin, as did Baldwin change his name to John Paul Jones, a naval hero form the American Revolution.

The original lead singer for the Yardbirds, Keith Relf, died of a heart attack brought on by electrocution from an ungrounded electrical guitar.

[NX013]

Everyone who Eric Clapton worked with died tragically:

Duane Allman - Motorcycle crash
SRV - helicopter crash
Carl Radle - kidney infection
Keith Relfb - electric shock

[Rockbandfan23467]

^Don't forget George Harrison.


The 3 best selling debut albums of all time are, in order, Boston, Cracked Rear View, and Appitite for Destruction.


Led Zeppelin IV is the best selling metal album of all time, if you concider them metal. If not, then the honor goes to The Black Album

[AxlVanHagar]

Heavy Metal band Quiet Riot was founded in 1973 by Randy Rhoads and Kelly Garni.

Quiet Riot was the first Metal band to have a a #1 album. The album , Metal Health, was the first album to not feature Randy Rhoads on it.

[fighting69th]

Heavy Metal band Quiet Riot was founded in 1973 by Randy Rhoads and Kelly Garni.

Quiet Riot was the first Metal band to have a a #1 album. The album , Metal Health, was the first album to not feature Randy Rhoads on it.

Pretty popular clip with RR in QR

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[AxlVanHagar]

Great clip 69th! Thx for sharing that, I hadn't seen that one before. Amazing hammer on and pull off at around the 2 minute mark. Geez he was fluid! Also kinda cool to hear an early version of the Crazy Train riff towards the end of the solo for a couple of seconds.

[NX013]

Another Quiet Riot one:

The song Thunderbird off Metal Health is a tribute to Randy Rhoads

ANd a Fripp one:

In 1984 Fripp began using the New Standard Tuning the tuning is from Low to high:

C
G
D
A
E
G

[fighting69th]

Great clip 69th! Thx for sharing that, I hadn't seen that one before. Amazing hammer on and pull off at around the 2 minute mark. Geez he was fluid! Also kinda cool to hear an early version of the Crazy Train riff towards the end of the solo for a couple of seconds.

Can you imagine seeing that live? I would acted like the people in Back To The Future when McFly played Johnny B. Good lol

[Rockbandfan23467]

Quiet Riot was the first Metal band to have a a #1 album. The album , Metal Health, was the first album to not feature Randy Rhoads on it.

Is this counting arguably metal bands such as AC/DC, Van Halen, Led Zeppelin, Cream, Aerosmith, The JHE, etc.?

[CEDRICtheFOETUS]

John Lennon often expressed his dislike for Winston Churchill, the former British Prime Minister that he was named after. He felt so strongly that he had his middle name changed from Winston to Ono after he married Yoko.

[Rockbandfan23467]

Ted Nuget was once Father of The Year.

[CEDRICtheFOETUS]

For their first two appearances on The Ed Sullivan Show, The Beatles were paid just $3500 per show. The expenses alone to bring them to America totalled over $50,000, which was paid for by Brian Epstein.

[CEDRICtheFOETUS]

None of The Beatles played instruments on Eleanor Rigby, though John Lennon and George Harrison did contribute harmony and backing vocals. Instead, Paul McCartney used a string octet of studio musicians, composed of four violins, two cellos, and two violas all working off a score written by producer George Martin.

[Rockbandfan23467]

Brian Epstein was gay and had a mancrush on Lennon.

[Rockbandfan23467]

Question:

Which serial killer is mentioned in the Ramones song, "Glad To See You Go"?

Charles Manson.

[AxlVanHagar]

Velver Revolver's album Contraband is the fastest selling debut album in American rock history.

[Shredder87]

Kerry King of Slayer fame didn't know he was balding until somebody told him he was. He also thinks he knows what he's playing. hahahahahahah

I love Slayer, but god damn, take a lesson or two!

Edit:
Where the hell have you been hiding at Axl?! It's seemed like you've been gone for like ever.

[Jhail83]

Rush recorded their 11 minute track Xanadu (from A Farewell to Kings) on their first and only studio take.

[AxlVanHagar]

Kerry King of Slayer fame didn't know he was balding until somebody told him he was. He also thinks he knows what he's playing. hahahahahahah

I love Slayer, but god damn, take a lesson or two!

Edit:
Where the hell have you been hiding at Axl?! It's seemed like you've been gone for like ever.

ROFL! And just been busy. Promotion at work so I havent had a lot of spare time lately. Hoping to rectify that in the coming weeks though as I settle in.

[Mushroom]

Axl Rose's real name is Bill Bailey.

[Rockbandfan23467]

"Video Killed The Radio Star" was not only the 1st video played on MTV, but the 1,000,000th? During celebrations for the station's 1,000,000th video airing, they were counting down the 25 most played videos in MTV history. As the countdown was going towards #1, the videos played were also going toward #1,000,000. The 6th most played video in MTV history was "Video Killed The Radio Star" and that just also happened to video play 1,000,000. So this video shares a distinction of having two milestone plays in MTV history.

Courtney Love was Faith No More's lead vocalist for a short time in the early eighties.

On Alice Cooper's song "Billion Dollar Babies" the lyric:

"We go dancing nightly, in the attic,
While the moon is rising in the sky.
If I'm too rough, tell me,
I'm so scared your little head will come off in my hand."

was sung by Donovan.

In 1972 John Taylor (Duran Duran) was kicked out of music class at school for showing more interest in Alice Cooper than the standard curriculum.

Michael Nesmith of the Monkees was the driving force behind the creation of MTV.

In Hey Jude by The Beatles, at 2:58 minutes into the song, you can hear John Lennon say "Ohh! got the wrong chord", then followed by an expletive.

[next jimmy page]

Axl Rose's real name is Bill Bailey.


i thought it was william bruce rose?

[AxlVanHagar]

i thought it was william bruce rose?

This is correct, that is his birth name.

[Runawaytrain20]

Glenn Danzig used to collect animal skulls as a kid.

I'll write some others tommorow

[Runesmith]

Neil Young is part owner of Lionel, LLC, a company that makes toy trains and railroads. Young is also an inventor, and has been named as co-inventor of seven U.S. Patents related to model trains.

[a21schizoidman]

Journey (the band) once had their own arcade video game

<img src="http://www.arcade-history.com/images/game/1227_1.png">

[Cosma]

Journey (the band) once had their own arcade video game

<img src="http://www.arcade-history.com/images/game/1227_1.png">

So did Aerosmith, called revolution X

[Muffster]

A bit of Rush trivia...

Bassist/vocalist Geddy Lee's real name is Gary. His nickname is attributed to his mother who pronounced "Gary" with such a heavy Yiddish accent that it came out sounding like "Geddy." The name stuck and he has been known as Geddy ever since.

"YYZ," the title of a 1981 song from Rush's "Moving Pictures" is the transmitter code for Toronto's Lester B. Pearson International Airport. In a 1990 edition of the band's newsletter, drummer Neil Peart said the song is "loosely based on airport-associated images. Exotic destinations, painful partings, happy landings, that sort of thing.". Peart plays the Morse code for "YYZ" at the beginning of the song.

Guitarist Alex Lifeson owns a restaurant/bar in Toronto called The Orbit Room. Lifeson has been known to make surprise appearances at the club, jamming with the house band, The Dexters.

Rush was once fired from a local club gig because they played so loud the barmaids couldn't hear the customers' orders.

The instrumental song "La Villa Strangiato (An Exercise in Self-Indulgence)" from 1978's "Hemispheres" was reportedly based on some of Lifeson's recurring nightmares. The song is composed of 12 parts with such intriguing titles as "Buenos Nochas, Mein Froinds!", "To sleep, perchance to dream...", "A Lerxst in Wonderland" and "Monsters!". The song's title loosely translates to "the weird city."

Rush came in at No. 28 on VH-1's list of the 100 greatest artists of hard rock. The network aired a program highlighting each of the 100 acts in November, 2000. On the show, Sebastian Bach (of Skid Row) said Rush provided him with more than just musical inspiration. "I actually proposed to my wife because of one of their songs," he said in one of the program's interview segments. "It kind of slapped me back into reality and I went back and put the ring on her finger because of a Rush song."

Early in Rush's career, Lifeson realized that he had to play acoustic guitar for some tunes and then quickly switch to his electric guitar (e.g. "Closer to the Heart"). Proving necessity is the mother of invention, he created a stand that holds his acoustic guitar in an adjustable playing position. He soon began to sell this invention (the Omega Stand) under the company name The Omega Concern. Lifeson's company reportedly also made Lee a back-lit lyric stand and Peart a newspaper/book holder.

[Rollnkutter]

Cheap Trick and Alice Cooper alledgedly got their band names from an Ouija board.

[Rockbandfan23467]

Cheap Trick and Alice Cooper alledgedly got their band names from an Ouija board.

Those are rumors.

[fighting69th]

Journey (the band) once had their own arcade video game

<img src="http://www.arcade-history.com/images/game/1227_1.png">


OMFG I LOVED this game. It was how Stone In Love became my favorite Journey song. Then end level playing bouncer as they were performing. Dude that is awesome.

[Rockbandfan23467]

One Spinal Tap drummer did not die: Mick Fleetwood.

Mike Love sold his soul. The devil was duped, as Mike Love has no soul.

The Canadian government has apologized for Bryan Adams on several occasions :D

[sonicnerd23]

Oh, here's a Rush fact.

Singer Geddy Lee went to the same school as Rick Moranis.

[Hungryfreak]

A little fun fact some might know, at least in part. At one point, Cannibal Corpse got offers to be in two movies; Ace Ventura: Pet Detective and Airheads. They were only able to choose one do to timing, so they ended up picking the former.

[sonicnerd23]

Pet Detective?

[Cosma]

Cheap Trick and Alice Cooper alledgedly got their band names from an Ouija board.

In an interview with the man who would become Alice, he said that he was trying to come up with a name that while sounding innocent could still invoke images of evil, like Lizzy Borden. The result of that was...Alice Cooper

[AxlVanHagar]

In an interview with the man who would become Alice, he said that he was trying to come up with a name that while sounding innocent could still invoke images of evil, like Lizzy Borden. The result of that was...Alice Cooper

Here is the version given by Alice in 'Me Alice':

"The Nazz, it turned out, was already taken. This time we wanted a distinctive name, something that would draw attention to us but not a rock cliché. One boring January evening I said, "How about Alice Cooper?" and everybody said, "No, that's ridiculous." About half an hour later Dick Christian said, "What about that name, Alice Cooper?" But nobody even wanted to discuss it. I thought it was perfect. It was so American and so eerie at the same time. It had the same ring to it that Lizzy Borden did. I knew that if there was really an Alice Cooper somewhere chances were she was an ax murderer.
We forgot about it for a few days until Dick Christain dragged us all over to Alice Paxton's house. Both Charlie Carnal and Dick were friendly with Mrs. Paxton's daughter, who claimed her mother was a clairvoyant and could help us solve our problems. Alice Paxton also had her Ouija board, which she hadn't used in a few years, and we started asking it questions. I wasn't even working the board when we asked if there was a spirit in the room. There was.
The board spelled out the name Alice Cooper.
For three hours everyone drilled the board on Alice Cooper, and we came up with the following story (with a few additional details added by me over the course of some five thousand interviews):

In the early sixteen hundreds scientists and occultists became aware of a celectrial disturbance which seemed to have a strange concentrated effect on the British Isles. There was an odd feeling of unrest and suspicion in the countryside. In the midst of this general feeling of alarm, on February 4 (my birthday), 1623 (not my birthday), in Sussex, England, Alice Cooper was born.
She was the daughter of well-to-do parents and a very strange child. She seemed always to be listening to voices that no one else could hear, often smiling secretly as if she knew the answer to some cosmic joke.
Much of Alice's time was taken up with her sister Christine, who was three years older than she. Christine taught her magic, including the use of strange plants that grew in abundance in the forest, and the techniques of speaking ancient words of old that could make thunder roll and fire burn. On Alice's twelfth birthday her parents died in a mysterious fire, their charred bodies never recovered from the blazing house. One year later little Alice was to witness the death of her sister, Christine, who was accused of being a witch and burned at the stake by the villagers.
A week later little Alice herself was dead, poisoned perhaps by her own hand so she could join her sister Christine in the other world. She was only thirteen years old. Pretty good, huh? Well, it really worked at the time.

I was thrilled with the name, but Neal Smith was disgusted. He finally thought he had gotten into a group that was going to go somewhere, do something important, get him a Rolls-Royce and a mansion in the country and now we were changing our name to something stupid like Alice Cooper!"

While apparently, there are elements of truth to the Ouija board story, much of it can be taken with a grain of salt. However, this story did serve the band very well and is still regularly quoted to this day.

The witch part of the story was fabricated. However, there are aspects of truth concerning the Ouija board (exactly what is still unclear to this day). The name Alice Cooper was something that Alice just came up with.


It was Frank Zappa's idea to change the name from Alice Cooper to Alice Cookies as he wanted to make them more of a comedy/freak act. The band stuck with the name Alice Cooper.

[Hungryfreak]

Pet Detective?

Are you asking if that's the one in the series? If so, then yes. Or are you asking about the movie in general? It's a pretty well known Jim Carrey Movie

Another tidbit about it, Jim Carrey is a metalhead and originally wanted Napalm Death for the part. He wasn't able to get them, though, so he went to his second favorite.

[Rute86]

Were they the band that was playing when he goes to that guy whose password was clam chowder?

[Hungryfreak]

Yup, that concert scene. Here's the whole unedited scene:

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[PastorO Muppets]

Well i dunno if this ones posted yet ...i only got thru page 8 =p

When Van Halen started out, Gene Simmons produced a 2 song demo for them the songs on that demo where "runnin' with the devil " (the first song on there first album with Dave) and "house of pain" (the last song on there last album with dave)...Prophetic? BTW i dont consider the new band anything but a circus act to make money

[AxlVanHagar]

Hey PastorO Muppets, that name seems really familiar to me, did you used to post over at Metal Sludge or some other board with that name?

[AxlVanHagar]

The Beatles and Rolling Stones ALMOST formed a joint record company and recording studio...but it didnt pan out.

In the embryonic days of Emerson, Lake and Palmer, Jimi Hendrix expressed an interest in playing with the group after Mitch Mitchell (who declined the offer to be the original drummer) passed on their details to him.

Greg Lake:
"Yeah, that story is indeed true, to some degree...Mitch Mitchell had told Jimi about us and he said he wanted to explore the idea. Even after Mitch was long out of the picture and we had already settled on Carl, talk about working with Jimi continued. We were supposed to get together and jam with him around August or September of 1970, but he died before we could put it together."

Paul Mc Cartney was visiting John Lennon in NYC and they were watching Saturday Night Live. Lorne Micheals did a skit offering The Beatles $3,000 to reunite-they laughed and almost jumped into a cab and went down there.

Keith Moon and John Entwistle almost formed Zeppelin with Jimmy Page and Steve Marriott.

Bun E. Carlos from Cheap Trick almost took Peter Criss's place behind the drums when Cheap Trick and Kiss toured together. Peter was passed out, so they actually went so far as to start putting the makeup on Bun before Pete woke up.

Zeppelin came very close to reuning after Live Aid with Tony Thompson on drums. They even went as far as to start rehersals with Thompson. Plant has said in interviews that he played bass during most of them while Jones stuck mostly to keyboards. Thompson ended up having some shoulder trouble and the rehersals were scrapped soon afterwards.

Robert Plant was considered for Dio's spot after he left Black Sabbath for the first time. David Coverdale was talked about for the vocal spot at roughly the same time. Rob Halford was talked about by the Sabbath camp after Dio left the second time, and did play one show with them, Ozzy's "Retirement Show" back in the early 90's.

Only 5 rock bands have 2 or more 10 million selling studio albums according to the RIAA.
*Def Leppard - Hysteria and Pyromania
*The Beatles - Sgt Pepper's Lonely Hearts Club Band, the White Album and Abbey Road
*Van Halen - Van Halen and 1984
*Pink Floyd - The Wall and Dark Side Of The Moon
*Led Zeppelin - IV, Led Zeppelin II, Houses Of The Holy and Physical Graffiti

[miche.cs]

Okay, had a great read going through this thread this morning and thought I'd add a few that were rattling about my head:

- Tommy Stinson of The Replacements now plays bass for Axl Rose in what can questionabley be called Guns n Roses

- Bruce Springsteen rectly joined Mike Ness of Social D on stage at the Stone Pony in Jersey for a four song encore. One of the tunes they did was a cover of I Fought the Law.

- Slash was considering a career in BMX racing before music came a calling

- Reputably, Millie Small's 1960s, My Boy Lollipop hit, featured the harmonica playing of one Rod Stewart. (I didn't even know Rod Steward played the harmonica!)

- Guitar probably comes from the word kithara which was the most popular musical instrument in ancient Greece.

[Rockbandfan23467]

Once again, Michael Bolten was concidered Ozzy's spot in Black Sabbath before they went with Dio.

[Sayburr]

When United Artists was preparing to release Electric Light Orchestra's debut album, a company representative tried to place a call to someone connected with the band to find out what the LP should be titled. The caller, having failed to reach the desired party, jotted down the notation "no answer," a phrase which was mistaken for an album title and assigned to the U.S. version of the LP.

[AxlVanHagar]

When United Artists was preparing to release Electric Light Orchestra's debut album, a company representative tried to place a call to someone connected with the band to find out what the LP should be titled. The caller, having failed to reach the desired party, jotted down the notation "no answer," a phrase which was mistaken for an album title and assigned to the U.S. version of the LP.

lol That's awesome!

[Rockbandfan23467]

Hey Jude was recorded while Ringo was in the toliet.

[OldFogey]

Jimi really did sing "'scuse me while I kiss this guy" -- just not on the record.

http://kissthisguy.com/jimi.php

Be sure to watch the video clip

[Hamsterhitman]

Jimi really did sing "'scuse me while I kiss this guy" -- just not on the record.

http://kissthisguy.com/jimi.php

Be sure to watch the video clip


Huh... Whoda thunk?

[BhindBluEyes430]

Funfact about my job (Im a lifeguard at a water park in New Jersey)

Both Bruce springsteen and John Bon Jovi have rented out the water park in which I work. I only worked the Springsteen one. It was fun but it was a lot of rich kids. and they can all swim so it wasen't very interesting at that part lol.

On a side note at my job they play a constant loop of Beach boys hits. Its enough to make you crazy and no all the words :D

[Redonkulous]

Stone Temple Pilot's Core and Velvet Revolver's Libertad were the only two albums Scott Weiland wrote sober.

[Dr_Draco]

Gene Simmons has never touched a drop of alcohol in his life.

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If he doesn't drink, constant exposure to him makes people drink, as shown in the above clip.

[AxlVanHagar]

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If he doesn't drink, constant exposure to him makes people drink, as shown in the above clip.


LMAO! That whole interview is a classic! Ace and Pete having fun, and Gene getting more angry with each passing moment.

[PastorO Muppets]

Hey PastorO Muppets, that name seems really familiar to me, did you used to post over at Metal Sludge or some other board with that name?

no sir i havent but have played a few mmo's with the name

[fighting69th]

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If he doesn't drink, constant exposure to him makes people drink, as shown in the above clip.

It's no wonder he isn't in Gene's band anymore.

[a21schizoidman]

Keith Moon played drums for Jeff Beck in Beck's Bolero

both the Captain & Tennille played backup keyboards for the Beach Boys

[Rockbandfan23467]

The Batman theme song was the inspiration for "Taxman"

[Rockbandfan23467]

Alive by P.O.D. was written by Stevie Wonder.

[Rockbandfan23467]

Mother Mary in "Let It Be" is not a Biblical refrence, Mary was McCartney's mother.

Phil Collens is a terrorist.

[sg327]

Phil Collens is a terrorist.

Maybe that guy is...the Phil Collins I've heard of is a drummer in Genesis. :D

[Rockbandfan23467]

Maybe that guy is...the Phil Collins I've heard of is a drummer in Genesis. :D

Oops. typo. Phil Collins supports a terrorist group. PLO to be exact.

[Rockbandfan23467]

come On And Post In Here!!!!!

[Runesmith]

The B-52s performed the theme song to Nickelodeon's classic cartoon Rocko's Modern Life.

Buckcherry's name is a portmanteau and tribute to early rock n' roller Chuck Berry.

Thenewno2 features Dhani Harrison, George Harrison's son, on vocals and guitar.

Avenged Sevenfold's lead singer, M. Shadows, is known for his conservative political beliefs, an anamoly amongst his contemporaries.

[AeroZeppelinSevenfold]

Buckethead recorded his guitar parts for Chinese Democracy in a chicken coop they had built especially for him.

He also requested a TV to watch pornography while he records, and a dog crapped in is chicken coop, and he was mad at the studio when they cleaned it up.

Buckethead is one weird guy. I read all this in Guitar World.

[Pennsylvanian]

Dexter Holland of The Offspring has a Master's Degree in microbiology.

[Rockbandfan23467]

D'yr Mak'er took forever to record because Bonham couldn't get the beat down.

[Julio_Strikes_Back]

Buckethead recorded his guitar parts for Chinese Democracy in a chicken coop they had built especially for him.

He also requested a TV to watch pornography while he records, and a dog crapped in is chicken coop, and he was mad at the studio when they cleaned it up.

Buckethead is one weird guy. I read all this in Guitar World.
I thought that was common knowledge.:D

[Leon]

jim morrison once almost killed his girlfriend over an arguement about the average lifespan of a golden retriever

courtney love once said kurt cobain would wander around their home in pajamas muttering to himself nearly every night

john bonham didnt like one of jimmy pages girlfriends so he pooped in her purse

[Leon]

another funny one...grace slick kept two medicine cabinets in her home....one for medicine and one for drugs....she didnt ever want to confuse them

[Mystlyfe77]

Were you Aware...

That the term "Did You Know" is actually owned by a rival publishing company?

The intro to Rush's YYZ is actually Morse code for "Y-Y-Z".

The motel that was the scene of Janis Joplin's death in 1970 was right across the street from where Bobby Fuller died in 1966.

"I Heard It Through The Grapevine" has reached the Billboard Hot 100 six times in versions by Marvin Gaye (#1), Gladys Knight (#2), Creedence Clearwater Revival (#43), Roger Troutman (#79), King Curtis (#83) and The California Raisins (#84). The song has also been recorded by dozens of other artists including The Temptations, Ike and Tina Turner, Paul Mauriat and Elton John.

Buddy Holly asked his future wife for a date, 30 seconds after meeting her and proposed later the same week.

Phil Collins was an extra during the filming of the first Beatles' movie A Hard Days Night

[AlliterationAmy]

The intro to Rush's YYZ is actually Morse code for "Y-Y-Z".
to take this a little further: The morse code for "Y" is "-.--" and the morse code for "Z" is "--..". So for the intro to YYZ, they are actually saying "YYZ" in morse code: "-.---.----.. (repeat)"

YYZ is also the 3-letter code for some airport in Canada (possibly Toronto) that no one cares about.

[Mystlyfe77]

to take this a little further: The morse code for "Y" is "-.--" and the morse code for "Z" is "--..". So for the intro to YYZ, they are actually saying "YYZ" in morse code: "-.---.----.. (repeat)"

YYZ is also the 3-letter code for some airport in Canada (possibly Toronto) that no one cares about.

It's Toronto, and apparently Rush cares enough about it to write a song about it. ;)
"It's always a happy day when YYZ appears on our luggage tags," - Neil Peart

[Rockbandfan23467]

AC/DC is the best selling non-pop artist in the world.

[Rockbandfan23467]

I think I'll bump a fun thread.

[Rockbandfan23467]

Did you know that this thread needs to be more active?

[AxlVanHagar]

Heh heh I had forgotten about this thread. Rockbandfan is correct soooo...

Did you know that today is the 24th anniversary of Def Leppard drummer Rick Allen losing his arm in car accident. In honor of these everyone should play at least one song on drums with one hand.:p

[TopazDolphin]

So, there was a more active version of this thread!

Lemme link to what I posted in another thread (http://www.rockband.com/forums/showthread.php?p=1717842#post1717842).

Some more facts:

Stewart Copeland's (The Police) dad was a CIA agent.

Radiohead named themselves after a Talking Heads song.

Steely Dan got their name from a device from William S. Burroughs' Naked Lunch.

Edit:


Maliyn Manson has small camo apperence in the movie "Lost Highway"


That reminds me! Jerry Harrison (Talking Heads) had a cameo in The Darwin Awards. He's one of the guys in the bar.

[AxlVanHagar]

Here's some Bon Jovi Did you knows.........

Bon Jovi's Slippery When Wet album hit #1 on the US album charts twice. The first was in Oct 1986 and then again in Jan 1987. In it's 1986 run it stayed at #1 for 8 weeks, the record for a hard rock album on the Billboard 200.

The album also marked the following firsts for a hard rock band....

two consecutive #1 singles.

three Top 10 Hits. They would later break that record with New Jersey and five Top 10 Hits.

Jon initially hated Livin' On A Prayer and didn't want it on the album. Richie convinced him to include it.

The album cover is nothing more than Jon hastily "writing" the title on a garbage bag that was wet after the original cover featuring a model in a wet T-Shirt was denied.

[sg327]

Don't ask how I got started on this one. The "girl in the corner" in Bob Welch's "Ebony Eyes" video is......Valerie Bertinelli.

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=FnJOsfalSYs

[Chief Stubbs]

Don't know if it's been mentioned before, but Howard Jones of Killswitch Engage is the cousin of hip-hop star Mike Jones.

[l-o-t]

Jethro Tull is actually the name of a 19th century English Agriculturist. They were once mistakenly called Jethro TOE at an early gig.

[a21schizoidman]

Jethro Tull is actually the name of a 19th century English Agriculturist. They were once mistakenly called Jethro TOE at an early gig.

they actually didnt come up with the name themselves, they took random names suggested by ppl because they could never use the same name twice, tull was the only one that stuck

[l-o-t]

they actually didnt come up with the name themselves, they took random names suggested by ppl because they could never use the same name twice, tull was the only one that stuck

That's quite cool! I read somewhere that Ian was just thumbing through an old book or something and like the ring of Jethro Tull. I like your version better though:D It rocks more.

[a21schizoidman]

That's quite cool! I read somewhere that Ian was just thumbing through an old book or something and like the ring of Jethro Tull. I like your version better though:D It rocks more.

ive read the one i gave in several places, one being an Ian Anderson quote, they actually hate the name

[Quinarvy]

Fun Fact:

Slippery When Wet was originally to be titled Guns N' Roses right before GNR took off.