Is it true...?

[Indigo_Dingo]

Just post rumours people have told you about Rock bands, stars and songs here, to find if they are true, false, or if no-one knows. I'll go first.

Is it true that the moaning on Rocket Queen in Appetite for Destruction is a taping of Axel Rose having sex with a hooker?

[sa_nick]

This one's not so much a rumour, I think it's confirmed, but it's still cool...

The beginning of NIN's Mr Self Destruct is a sample from the early George Lucas film THX-1138. The sound sampled is a civilian being beaten by a robot police officer.

[JudasHendrix]

The best rock scandal ever had to be Led Zeppelin's "Shark Episode" (also sometimes referred to as the "Red Snapper Incident").

I'm not going to link it here, because it's incredibly inappropriate, but man. Wow.

Also, all those Guns n' Roses riots. *****in'.

[Blue88]

I heard that on the song "Roller Coaster of Love," someone was murdered outside the studio. They say you can hear him scream during a short break in the music. I listened to it, and you do hear a scream way off in the background.

I've also heard that the song In-A-Gadda-Da-Vida is actually the transcription of a funeral and a burial sped up, and that if you slowed it down you could hear the sounds of crying and dirt being scraped by a shovel. I'm pretty sure that's fake.

The growling in O Green World by the Gorillaz. They say it's "ghosts." It's obviously not a ghost, but what is it? And you hear weird whispers in the background of their song Clint Eastwood.

I also heard that some European death metal band's lead singer killed himself, and when the other members of the band found him, they took pictures of his body to put on their next album before callign the police.

The Jesus and Mary Chain riots. I guess at their shows they would only play a 10-minute set, and the whole time they would just play feedback and stand with their backs to the audience, refusing to speak. This led to every one of their shows ending in a riot.

Backwards messages in songs. There are too many to say here.

[modestmouse15]

I heard that on the song "Roller Coaster of Love," someone was murdered outside the studio. They say you can hear him scream during a short break in the music. I listened to it, and you do hear a scream way off in the background.



I've heard this also on an urban legends site, and the story as I recall it went like this: the model for the Ohio Players' album cover is shown posing on glass, pouring honey from a ladle on herself. According to legend, there were certain chemicals in the glass that reacted to the honey, and her legs were glued to the glass. When she ripped them off, she lost the skin on her legs, which ruined her modeling career. When she stormed in and threatened to sue the band for all that they were worth, the band's manager shot her dead, right outside the studio. The band was recording "Love Rollercoaster" at the time, and the scream can be heard in the background.

Personally I think it's just a sound effect or maybe the sound guys messing around, but it's still an interesting story.

[hmxsean]

Personally I think it's just a sound effect or maybe the sound guys messing around, but it's still an interesting story.

This should clear everything up

http://media.ebaumsworld.com/2006/06/urbanlegends.html

Or not...

[cmg4894]

I've also heard that the song In-A-Gadda-Da-Vida is actually the transcription of a funeral and a burial sped up, and that if you slowed it down you could hear the sounds of crying and dirt being scraped by a shovel. I'm pretty sure that's fake.



The title is really from the lead singer being so wasted. The guitar player is the one who wrote the music and lyrics. It was supposed to be "In The Garden Of Eden". But since the singer was wasted, that is how it came out and the band liked it.

[BlackHole]

Stonehenge with accompanied song of the same name. The best thing ever. When they performed there was supposed to be this life-size replica of Stonehenge, but they didn't have the money(Spinal Tap), but they had the prototype the size of a small LEGO set. So that was released.

[JudasHendrix]

...are you referring to the song in "This Is Spinal Tap"? Because if so, it was not Lego and they did indeed have the money. What happened was Nigel drew a blueprint/sketch on a napkin and mislabeled the dimensions with " (inches) instead of ' (feet).

[BlackHole]

You do realize that I was referencing it not sayiing it was a Lego set. Spinal Tap reforming.

[TheIceCreamMan]

Paul McCartney is dead.

[Frankenlife]

I heard about the Led Zeplin shark incedent at the hotel it happened at. The Edgewater Inn in Seattle has a great bar.

[JudasHendrix]

Paul McCartney is dead.

You're lying.

TELL ME YOU'RE ****ING LYING

[polishdog90]

Keith Richards snorted his dad!

[herbmanj]

well we got to bring ozzy into this.

Bit the head off a bat.

Bit the head off a bird in a meetting.

Snorted a line of ants.

[AxlVanHagar]

Just post rumours people have told you about Rock bands, stars and songs here, to find if they are true, false, or if no-one knows. I'll go first.

Is it true that the moaning on Rocket Queen in Appetite for Destruction is a taping of Axel Rose having sex with a hooker?

Partially true. She wasn't a hooker. ;) Her name is Adriana Smith and she was a stripper and a very good friend of the band, especially Axl and Slash. She was drinking buddies with Slash and had a bit of a crush on Axl. Originally she was Steven Adler's girlfriend.

Axl really wanted to capture a sex act on tape for the song but no one would do it including his girlfriend at the time Erin Everly. They managed to convince Adriana to do it and set up in the recording studio. Axl put down a blanket in one of the booths for singers and he and Adriana went at it for two hours while Tom Zutaut and a couple of engineers recorded the whole thing. So yes what you hear on that song is Axl nailing Adriana. Afterwards Axl and Adriana went back to Axl's hotel room and he played her a song he'd been working on for the last several years called November Rain.

Obviously the tape caused some isssues between Axl and Erin and Steven and Adriana .

Gn'R wern't the only band to do this. Motley Crue did it back in '83 on the Shout At The Devil album for Ten Seconds To Love. Nikki and Tommy got it on in the studio with a couple of groupies for that song and mixed it into the background but it's nowhere near as prominent as it is in Rocket Queen.

[AxlVanHagar]

well we got to bring ozzy into this.

Bit the head off a bat.

Bit the head off a bird in a meetting.

Snorted a line of ants.


You forgot drank his own urine while wearing a sundress.

[AxlVanHagar]

I also heard that some European death metal band's lead singer killed himself, and when the other members of the band found him, they took pictures of his body to put on their next album before callign the police.
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I think that was Mayhem, but someone like Shredder would beable to confirm.




Backwards messages in songs. There are too many to say here.

I know may of these have been disproven but there are quite a few that doexist. Once again I will reference Motley Crue and the Shout At The Devil album. The album contained a warning on it that it may contain backwards messages. There was a real backlash against the "evil of heavy metal" during this time period. I remember seeing people on tv protesting concerts and was accosted by religious zealots at my fair share of shows asking me to repent.:D

At nay rate it got the band some needed publicity but the record did in fact contain a backward message. On the title track Nikki and Tommy chant Jesus is Satan as an underdub. Mick Mars had wanted to record "Why are you listening to this backwards a**hole." But was over ruled by Sixx and Lee.

Iron Maiden has one on the song Still Life as well.

Here's a list of of some for your entertainment.
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_of_backmasked_messages

[polishdog90]

Backwards messages in songs. There are too many to say here.

haha this reminds me of some of the youtube videos I've seen. They think that like every song made by the beatles had a backwards message and the "backwards lyrics" are so far fetched it actually gets pretty funny.

[Quinarvy]

That Black Sabbath is Satanic?

[Shredder87]

I also heard that some European death metal band's lead singer killed himself, and when the other members of the band found him, they took pictures of his body to put on their next album before callign the police.

That was, as Axl pointed out, Mayhem. Eurononymous(The guitarist)walked into Dead's(The singers) house, only to find him dead on the floor by an apparent suicide by shotgun blast to the head. Dead had originally slashed his wrists wide open(With a brand new blade Necrobutcher(The bassist) had bought him as a favor), but(And this is subject to debate) took to long to die and just blasted himself. Eurononymous ran to his local store, bought a disposable camera, called the rest of the band, and took pictures. Hellhammer(The drummer) had mentioned that they had taken some of the skull fragments and make a necklace out of them, and allegedly made soup out of his brains(This isn't true). Out of those pictures, the one on the album cover(Which is a bootleg) was the only picture to come to light, since the camera was "Lost".

There is a controversy involving the guitarists since if you notice on the picture, the knife is on top of the gun. How did it get there??? Though most dismiss it anyways since Dead was apparenlty a really depressed individual fascinated with death, whose suicide was no surprise.

[Rockbandfan23467]

The Zeppelin shark episode, like Jagger and Bowies *** afair, is hard to determine because several sources state both true and false.

[Hungryfreak]

The best rock scandal ever had to be Led Zeppelin's "Shark Episode" (also sometimes referred to as the "Red Snapper Incident").

I'm not going to link it here, because it's incredibly inappropriate, but man. Wow.

Ah yes, an episode worthy of a Zappa parody (Mud Shark, anyone?)

[NX013]

Marylin Manson had his lower ribs removed so he can give himself a blow job.

Stevie Nicks manager had to blow coke up Stevie's ass.

David bowie and Mick Jagger had an affair

[Rockbandfan23467]

Marylin Manson had his lower ribs removed so he can give himself a blow job.

Stevie Nicks manager had to blow coke up Stevie's ass.

David bowie and Mick Jagger had an affair

1. Not true
2. True
3. Half and Half

[Lord_Mhoram]

At nay rate it got the band some needed publicity but the record did in fact contain a backward message. On the title track Nikki and Tommy chant Jesus is Satan as an underdub. Mick Mars had wanted to record "Why are you listening to this backwards a**hole." But was over ruled by Sixx and Lee.

My favorite backwards message was on an album by the Christian rock band Petra. When you played it backwards it said "Why are you looking for the devil when you should be looking for the Lord".

Always thought that funny.

[l-o-t]

You're lying.

TELL ME YOU'RE ****ING LYING

You do know about the "Paul Is Dead" theory right? He's not really, but the Beatles sure had a lot of fun with this putting clues in their songs and album covers starting about the time Revolver came out and continuing until Abbey Road.
Look it up, It's a lot of fun! Just type in Paul is Dead into Google and you should get some results.

[AxlVanHagar]

My favorite backwards message was on an album by the Christian rock band Petra. When you played it backwards it said "Why are you looking for the devil when you should be looking for the Lord".

Always thought that funny.

HA! HA! Nice.

[AxlVanHagar]

That was, as Axl pointed out, Mayhem. Eurononymous(The guitarist)walked into Dead's(The singers) house, only to find him dead on the floor by an apparent suicide by shotgun blast to the head. Dead had originally slashed his wrists wide open(With a brand new blade Necrobutcher(The bassist) had bought him as a favor), but(And this is subject to debate) took to long to die and just blasted himself. Eurononymous ran to his local store, bought a disposable camera, called the rest of the band, and took pictures. Hellhammer(The drummer) had mentioned that they had taken some of the skull fragments and make a necklace out of them, and allegedly made soup out of his brains(This isn't true). Out of those pictures, the one on the album cover(Which is a bootleg) was the only picture to come to light, since the camera was "Lost".

There is a controversy involving the guitarists since if you notice on the picture, the knife is on top of the gun. How did it get there??? Though most dismiss it anyways since Dead was apparenlty a really depressed individual fascinated with death, whose suicide was no surprise.

I knew you would have the dtails on that one, thanks for clearing that up.

[Insane3]

This one's not so much a rumour, I think it's confirmed, but it's still cool...

The beginning of NIN's Mr Self Destruct is a sample from the early George Lucas film THX-1138. The sound sampled is a civilian being beaten by a robot police officer.

I saw that movie it's boring.

[Insane3]

3. Half and Half

Yeah, Bowie was the only one to have the affair with Jagger. Mick never did anything with Bowie.

[Elegy]

That was, as Axl pointed out, Mayhem. Eurononymous(The guitarist)walked into Dead's(The singers) house, only to find him dead on the floor by an apparent suicide by shotgun blast to the head. Dead had originally slashed his wrists wide open(With a brand new blade Necrobutcher(The bassist) had bought him as a favor), but(And this is subject to debate) took to long to die and just blasted himself. Eurononymous ran to his local store, bought a disposable camera, called the rest of the band, and took pictures. Hellhammer(The drummer) had mentioned that they had taken some of the skull fragments and make a necklace out of them, and allegedly made soup out of his brains(This isn't true). Out of those pictures, the one on the album cover(Which is a bootleg) was the only picture to come to light, since the camera was "Lost".

There is a controversy involving the guitarists since if you notice on the picture, the knife is on top of the gun. How did it get there??? Though most dismiss it anyways since Dead was apparenlty a really depressed individual fascinated with death, whose suicide was no surprise.

Question: (since you see to know about obscure dark metal bands).

Dimmu Borgir: One of my friends who tends to believe anything he hears, said something about one of the members having a necklace made out of the skull fragments of a past member? is this true?

[Hungryfreak]

For one thing, it's black metal. Dark metal is an entirely different thing. As for the necklace, I don't know. It wasn't from a former member if anything, because I'm gussing the necklace would be in reference to one made from Dead's skull, which Eurononymous passed them out to those he deemed 'worthy'. If I were to guess, Hellhammer is the most likely to carry one, but I don't know for a fact.

[Elegy]

For one thing, it's black metal. Dark metal is an entirely different thing. As for the necklace, I don't know. It wasn't from a former member if anything, because I'm gussing the necklace would be in reference to one made from Dead's skull, which Eurononymous passed them out to those he deemed 'worthy'. If I were to guess, Hellhammer is the most likely to carry one, but I don't know for a fact.


yeah, i don't know a lot about the metal sub genres, haha, I just knew there was like satanic metal, black metal, stuff like that, so I thought I could make a genre for the genres and call it dark metal, no clue dark metal was an actual genre, haha

[Hungryfreak]

The general category you're thinking of is probably extreme metal, including subgenres like black metal an death metal. No such thing as satanic metal, either. Black metal is the closest to that.

But lets try to keep genre discussions out of this thread.

[Rockbandfan23467]

Yeah, Bowie was the only one to have the affair with Jagger. Mick never did anything with Bowie.

I ment that there are multiple sources for both to be true and false. No one knows if Mick and David had an afair or not.


Besides, why would you get naked in bed with someone you are afraid of?

[Shredder87]

Question: (since you see to know about obscure dark metal bands).

Dimmu Borgir: One of my friends who tends to believe anything he hears, said something about one of the members having a necklace made out of the skull fragments of a past member? is this true?
Well that member you're talking about it Hellhammer(Mayhem's drummer). He was laying down drum tracks and touring with Dimmu. Though it's still up to debate if he still has that necklace, or if they even made it to begin with.

[Hungryfreak]

No, Eurononymous confirmed the necklaces but denied the brain stew.

[Shredder87]

No, Eurononymous confirmed the necklaces but denied the brain stew.
Everybody did, but it's still up in the air that they even did that. No one has those necklaces to prove it, so it's still up to debate.