Can we have a "Curiosities about musicians" thread?

>>69700580

Kurt Cobain almost got Nirvana to split up for good when he went full Jew on them and attempted to renegotiate the song royalties contracts. He tried to change it to get 90% of the song writing royalties (regardless of author) leaving the other members a measly 5% for each one. Novoselic got pretty mad and even the usually amicable Grohl lost his shit.
It was later found out that Cobain had pulled the move because he had just spent almost his entire bank account on a new mansion.

So much for the man who hated luxury and fame

>>69700580
>71% of people born after 1963 were fathered by one of the four Beatles

"In 2002 The Dillinger Escape Plan made national United Kingdom headlines when, at the prestigious Reading Festival, Puciato defecated in full view onstage, put it into a bag, and threw it into the crowd before smearing the rest onto himself, proclaiming "This is a bag of shit, I just wanted to show you this so you'll recognize it later on throughout the day", in reference to the quality of music he felt was appearing that day of the festival."
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Smg3coINg0E
ABSOLUTE MADMAN

>Nico was described by some friends and colleagues as racist. Her friend Danny Fields, the American journalist who helped her sign to Elektra Records, described her as "Nazi-esque", saying: "Every once in a while there'd be something about Jews and I'd be, 'But Nico, I'm Jewish,' and she was like 'Yes, yes, I don't mean you.' She had a definite Nordic Aryan streak, [the belief] that she was physically, spiritually and creatively superior", a view she appears to have continued to maintain throughout her later years. According to Fields, Nico once attacked a mixed-race woman in a restaurant with a smashed wineglass, saying "I hate black people".

>>69700807
>Zach Hill was described by some friends and colleagues as racist. His friend Stefan Burnett, the American rapper who worked with him in Death Grips, described him as "Nazi-esque", saying: "Every once in a while there'd be something about Blacks and I'd be, 'But Zach, I'm Black,' and he was like 'Yes, yes, I don't mean you.' He had a definite Nordic Aryan streak, [the belief] that he was physically, spiritually and creatively superior", a view he appears to have continued to maintain throughout her later years. According to Fields, Zach Hill once attacked a mixed-race woman in a restaurant with a smashed wineglass, saying "I hate black people".

>>69700937
yes yes but the nico one is real

>>69700580
>After becoming a Born again Christian, Mustaine refuses to perform some of Megadeth's songs, which he says, are completely satanic

So my parents were right in wanting to throw my Megadeth cd's away when I was a teenager.

>>69700950
I know, I just think it's hilarious

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>In 1988, Mustaine caused a riot when Megadeth played a concert in Northern Ireland after he dedicated a song to "the cause," later claiming surprise that this was a euphemism for supporting the Irish Republican Army (IRA)

he cracks me up

>>69700580
Mustaine is such a fucking tool...
https://m.youtube.com/watch?v=FwDbiajBEbk

>>69700968

It's funny because Megadeth doesn't have many explicitly satanic songs. So it really sheds some light on the rumors that metal was satanic. Yeah there in fact seems to have been a lot of satanic stuff going on behind the scenes while the band dismissed them as "playful banter"

>>69700937
>Brian Wilson was described by some friends and colleagues as homophobic. His friend Van Dyke Parks, the American musician who worked with him on during the sessions for the aborted album "Smile", described him as "Nazi-esque", saying: "Every once in a while there'd be something about talentless gay people and I'd be, 'But Brian, I'm talentless and gay,' and he was like 'Yes, yes, I don't mean you.' He had a definite Nordic Aryan streak, [the belief] that he was physically, spiritually and sexually superior", a view he appears to have continued to maintain throughout his later years. According to Fields, Brian Wilson once attacked Elton John in a restaurant with a smashed wineglass, saying "I hate degenerate people".

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The rolling stones are known to have used young mothers with their babies as mules for smuggling their drugs through airports. The mules would usually get paid in drugs as well.

The actor Jake Weber (Appearing in the TV series Medium) was one such mule. His mother died from a drug overdose at the Rolling Stones' private villa. And Weber himself admitted he smuggled drugs for Mick Jaeger personally when he was 8

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Mustaine had practiced black magic in his teenage years, which became inspiration for a couple of songs on the second album Peace Sells... but Who's Buying?. Mustaine stated that he no longer wishes to play those tracks because of his changed spiritual beliefs. He said of one such song, "The Conjuring"

>Performance wise, 'The Conjuring' is one of the heaviest songs on the record, but unfortunately it's got black magic in it and I promised that I wouldn't play it any more, because there's a lot of instructions for hexes in that song. When I got into black magic I put a couple of spells on people when I was a teenager and it haunted me forever, and I've had so much torment. So I look back now and I think, 'Hmm, I don't wanna play "The Conjuring".

>>69700807
Not gonna lie, I actually can't listen to her music now anymore after finding out about this.

>>69701386
It's probably not true. Fields has made shit up before

>>69701386
lmao you faggot

Jimmy Page was actually a black man untill he paid a couple of million £ to make his skin white, people erroneously think he stole black music whereas he simply shared tunes of his black brethren.

>>69701386
meh. just don't think too much about it

>>69700807
she was raped by an African American army sergeant which lead to her racism.

>>69701386
what else did you expect from the frigid bitch
dissociate music and artist
she's right anyway

>Varg claims to have been a theistic satanist during his youth. He claims to have cast curses/hexes on people he disliked and that these were actually successful.
>After becoming a Born again pagan, Varg refuses to perform some of Burzum's songs, which he says, are completely satanic

>>69701386
you fucking faggot

>>69701386
you should stick to beyonce

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>>69701595
stop vargposting

>>69701386
Go back to Solange and Beyoncé, fag

I bet the edgelords on this thread would love to get assaulted solely because of their aspect

>>69701998
getting assaulted and insulted by young nico would be hot af tbqh

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>>69702020
>Nico will never slice your face up while calling you a clon
Why live?

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>>69700743
I can believe it

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>When we’re on tour, I try to find a massage parlor wherever we go. It’s become a ritual – wandering around the seedy district at three in the morning, searching for some action. I prefer the full body massage with a ‘happy ending’. It can start to feel kind of empty after a while, but you can meet some really cool people. A lot of times it’s the older ladies I really like – they have this nice maternal vibe. The reason I started with the prostitutes was solely to work on my negotiating skills. Once I mastered negotiating with a naked woman asking me for money, dealing with Interscope was a piece of cake.

>>69702244
Just a reminder that Rivers' mother was a massage therapist if "maternal vibe" wasn't weird enough

>>69702272
His parents raised him in a hippy cult if massage therapist wasn't weird enough.

>>69702244
I always enjoy how the sexual depraved anons who hide their fetishes post this and go "look at this creep".

>>69701062
kek, what cause did he think he was supporting?

>>69701386
She had a falling out with fields, I don't think too much of it

Ian Curtis allegedly faked his death and moved to Iceland, where he got plastic surgery and joined the cast of the show Lazy Town, where he plays the role of Robbie Rotten. Here he is performing one of his most popular songs since 1980:
https://m.youtube.com/watch?v=PfYnvDL0Qcw

>>69702381
Supposedly the cause of metal, which makes sense actually because he saw people selling bootleg Megadeth merch with "support the cause" on it before he played that show.

>>69700807
they told me perfect women don't exist

>>69702481
Well she doesn't any more
Also, she was a heroin addict

>>69702481

shes not perfect
her singing is just lou reed doing a gay voice

>>69702494
you can get a dog to do anything if you give them treats, same thing with addicts

>>69702546
Did you intend for that to sound as sinister as it did?

>>69702571
yes, i meant i was going to spread heroin on my asshole and have her lick it off

>>69701386
Yeah agreed. It makes it hard not to think about

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>>69701899
go back to /pol/ faggots

>>69702624
this is not a safe space, sorry faggot

>>69700632
Him lying about being a loser in high school really hurt my high school loser heart ngl

>>69702703
it's not a safe space for you either, retard. as long as you faggots try to shit up the board with your 8th grade edginess, I'll be here to tell you fuck off back to /pol/. I can't wait for the day you say something to a black guy and you get your ass kicked by a group of angry nig nogs.

>>69702763
Shut up nigger

>>69702763
thats great and i have no problem with that but if your thoughts on an artists music are lowered by their personal lofe and opinions then you never cared about music in the first place

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>>69702709
Sounds like something Courtney would talk him into. That faggot was whipped

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>>69702709
you mean how he lied about almost fucking a retarded chick? Yeah, that rubbed me the wrong way as well... I felt genuinely bad for him and the girl when I head it in the documentary

>>69702810
what does one of those things have to do with the other? you should try thinking before you say something, faggot.

i think racists are stupid and edgy, and if i try to listen to the music of someone who i find stupid, then it doesn't appeal to me

>>69702830
I thought that was just a meme perpetrated so the movie would sell

>>69702886
>what does one of those things have to do with the other
exactly my point, thanks

>>69702830
He didn't really lie about it, he made it up as a joke and the documentary makers didn't bother to fact-check it

>>69702607
>licking heroin

you triggered my autism

>>69700580
>>John Lennon once found a hippie in his yard, the hippie told him his music inspired him and all that yadda yadda.
>>Lennon told him all of his music was literally meaningless, he admitted that none of the songs were meant to convey any deep meaning and that he just assorted a couple of words that made grammatical sense and put them together
>>He then invited the devastated hippie inside to eat

That was literally documented in a Lennon documentary.
Obviously he was being coy. Sure a lot of his material is literal nonsense (the first verse in Happiness is a Warm Gun), but he was just trying to deflect the guy's attention. He even brought him inside to eat like you said, but also let the guy watch a studio session if I recall correctly. Again, if I'm correct, I believe he was working on the Imagine record.

But, you're talking about one of the most devoted songwriters of all time. He was obsessive. His music meant a hell of a lot more to him than he made it seem like with those comments.

>>69703086
Montage of heck would have been 9/10 documentary if it werent for this

>>69703086
I'm pretty unsure about his motives as to why he would tell this story. It didn't seem as something humorous to me. Maybe he was trying to reinforce the narrative of him being a likeable underdog or something.... i dunno.
Seems the whole movie was based on such stories that were either lies or exagerated by Kurt in order for him to get attention.

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>>69700807
Perfection

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too lazy to find it but

Iggy Pop's conversation with Maron on WTF has some gems hidden in there, especially when he starts talking about the early Doors days

>>69701404
nah it's from wikipedia

all the shit from this copypasta is sourced from this exact thing about Nico

>>69703740
But Wikipedia is sourcing Danny Fields

>>69703761
fair enough

From some article i read:

>In 1968, a year that saw the assassinations of Martin Luther King and Bobby Kennedy, a man turned up on the doorstep at the Log Cabin, the ramshackle, open-all-hours-to-all-comers crash pad in Laurel Canyon, Los Angeles, that Zappa and numerous other weird people called home. "My name is Raven. I brought you a present," this stranger announced, handing to Zappa a transparent bag, apparently filled with blood, before pointing a revolver at his chest.

>Calmly, Zappa cajoled and manipulated Raven into walking with him, and numerous spectators, including Zappa's 24-year-old English secretary, to a nearby lake. He then persuaded everyone present to start throwing things into the water, including Raven, who threw in his gun. The secretary, Pauline Butcher, threw in a twig, which "floated on the algae" causing her to look round "apologetically". After that, Zappa, shoved the bag of blood back into Raven's hand, saying: "You must leave now." Raven did. Immediately exhorted by the many witnesses to call the police, Zappa refused. Why? "Because if I call the police, the police will arrest him and he'll go to jail and no one deserves to go to jail."

>>69703841
>no one deserves to go to jail
How can one man be so right?

>>69703841
How does one persuade people to just start throwing shit into a lake?

>>69701386
She was mentally unstable and grew up in 1940s germany, are you really surprised about the racism?

>>69702244
Good ol' Rivers. Fucked up sexually and with Mommy issues for going on 2 decades now

>>69701435

i thought he just lifted them

>>69701113
o i am laffinnnnn

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They say he once started a joke band with an occultist hobo he brawled with at an ally downtown, on the way back from a club.

>>69701113
>and I'd be, 'But Brian, I'm talentless and gay,'
rofl

>>69701386

She is completely correct :)

Thank God you don't listen to her music anymore!

>>69703841
what nigga

>>69703841
this is so cringy

>>69704510
Right? Would have been way cooler to let the guy shoot him only to find out his skin is bulletproof

>>69704510
It's not cringey to me, just seems like a really weird situation. Like oh no this guy is gonna shoot me, good thing I can persuade him to throw his gun into a lake.

>>69704725
I don't mean the whole story is cringey, mostly just the jail thing at the end

>>69704752
Eh, I mostly agree with the sentiment. The modern prison system is fucked.

>>69704771
I agree as well actually, but it's just so preachy
basically the whole story was a setup to a '''''deep''''' phrase

>>69703841
Related:

>In 1965, Zappa was playing with a blues trio in a Latino club in Ontario, California–although the people was a lot more enthusiastic about the four go-go girls onstage dressed in fishnet stockings. A used-car seller offered Zappa $100 for a love-making audiotape. Zappa enlisted the support of one go-go girl, Lorraine Belcher, and “I stayed up most of the night manufacturing this bogus sex tape, fake bedsprings, squeaks and grunts. I overdubbed a musical background and spent hours cutting the laughs out of this thing.”

>When Zappa was about to give the tape, he was arrested, and the police stripped the studio of all documented material. The media was tipped off beforehand, and next day's The Daily Report wrote that "Vice Squad investigators stilled the tape recorders of a free-swinging, a-go-go film and recording studio here Friday and arrested a self-styled movie producer". Zappa was charged with "conspiracy to commit pornography".

>He bailed out Belcher with his royalties from “Memories of El Monte,” a tune he had cowritten for the doo-wop group the Penguins. Too broke to mount an effective defense, Zappa pled nolo contendre and served ten days of a six-month sentence (the rest was suspended). “You can’t appreciate what a jail is and what goes on there unless someone sticks you in one,” Zappa said. “In a way, I guess I have to thank Detective Willis and the evil machinery of the San Bernadino legal system for giving me a chance to see, from that perspective, what the penal system is like in this country, and… how ineffectual and how stupid it is.”

>>69704796
Except it actually happened. It would be cringey if it was a short-story, but the fact that he actually did it is, if anything, cool

>>69702763

>it's not a safe space for you either, retard.

He never claimed it was. Stay upset lol!

>>69700807
Yet the love of her life was Lou Reed, whose birth name is Hyman Scheckleburg, or something similar...

>>69704891

Keep in mind that Nico was a drug-addled MUSICIAN (nearly all musicians are mentally retarded), so it's no surprise that her "racism" is weird and based on Aryan cultism instead of the usual type of "racism", and that she would be completely inconsistent about Jews.

>>69704891
yeah i think his birth name is Schlomo

>>69705051
I thought it was Ding Dong?

>>69700807
Waifu

>>69703841
Based Frank.

>>69704891
>Yet the love of her life was Lou Reed
Is it true?

>>69705158
yeah, she wanted to suck his ding dong

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>>69702763
Neck yourself

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>>69704820
>“I stayed up most of the night manufacturing this bogus sex tape, fake bedsprings, squeaks and grunts. I overdubbed a musical background and spent hours cutting the laughs out of this thing.”
It would have probably took much less time and been more enjoyable to, you know, just have sex and record it, or at least get someone else to and record them.

>>69702763
You should seriously look into killing yourself

>>69705258
That spoils the fun though.

>>69705302
>shagging a bird isn't fun
Are you a poof or summat?

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>>69705037
I dunno m8, I live in Texas & most racists I know will know that one guy who's an "exception"; "you know if all blacks/Mexicans/whatever were like him" yadda yadda, i.e. it just seems to be the nature of most irl racists I've known

The guys in Zeppelin apparently fucked a shark or something.

The Who were reportedly looking for something but nobody really knew what it was. They looked under chairs, under tables and they couldn't find it.

According to Keith Moon, they even went on to ask Bobby Dylan, The beatles and even Timothy leary, but none of them could help them find it.

Its said that they wont get whatever they're looking for until they die

>>69703841
fake and gay

I saw Flying Lotus at a grocery store in Los Angeles yesterday. I told him how cool it was to meet him in person, but I didn’t want to be a douche and bother him and ask him for photos or anything.
He said, “Oh, like you’re doing now?”
I was taken aback, and all I could say was “Huh?” but he kept cutting me off and going “huh? huh? huh?” and closing his hand shut in front of my face. I walked away and continued with my shopping, and I heard him chuckle as I walked off. When I came to pay for my stuff up front I saw him trying to walk out the doors with like fifteen Milky Ways in his hands without paying.
The girl at the counter was very nice about it and professional, and was like “Sir, you need to pay for those first.” At first he kept pretending to be tired and not hear her, but eventually turned back around and brought them to the counter.
When she took one of the bars and started scanning it multiple times, he stopped her and told her to scan them each individually “to prevent any electrical infetterence,” and then turned around and winked at me. I don’t even think that’s a word. After she scanned each bar and put them in a bag and started to say the price, he kept interrupting her by yawning really loudly.

>>69703940
Have you ever listened to Zappa speak?
If he hadn't been a musician he would've been a serial killer or a cult leader.
One of my aunts was a hangers-on with his group for a while. She's said before that he could talk toothpaste back into the tube.

>>69704752
It happened at what was basically a commune in the 70s, are you surprised?

>>69706270
Took longer than I expected.

>>69704820
The fuck is a love-making audiotape? Did people get their rocks off with audio pornography in the 60's?

>>69707730
People still do

>>69705225
I miss him bros

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>>69701067
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this book is basically one story for this thread after another

>>69709657
Can you give us some samples?

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>>69709714

>Ozzy refused to go on stage until we got him a brandy glass full of brown M&Ms. Jeff Beck popped his head round the door and mentioned that there was a little sweet shop on the edge of town. We broke in and, instead of a guard dog, they've got this bloody great big bengal tiger
>I managed to take out the tiger with a can of mace, but the shopkeeper and his son - that was a different story: we had to beat them to death with their own shoes
>But we got the brandy glass full of brown M&Ms and Ozzy went on stage and played a blinder of a show

>>69710340
I was just thinking about this one and it fucking popped up on the screen. amazing.

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>>69700632

Didn't Cobain write by himself pretty much all of Nirvana's songs, both music and lyrics, except maybe a couple ones?

>>69700580
>>John Lennon once found a hippie in his yard, the hippie told him his music inspired him and all that yadda yadda.
>>Lennon told him all of his music was literally meaningless, he admitted that none of the songs were meant to convey any deep meaning and that he just assorted a couple of words that made grammatical sense and put them together
>>He then invited the devastated hippie inside to eat
theres footage of this iirc

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=27Q_AG_nLIo

>>69703719
any examples

ive heard iggy started the stooges after seeing doors and jim morrison

>>69701998
You guys word things in such gay ways.

>>69701386
When's this alt right meme going to die?

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>>69701386
lol 8.5/10

>>69711798
it's been so long, i don't know if it ever will

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>>69704891
>lou reed repeatedly mistreated during the recording of TVU&N
>she was only on the album because warhol wanted her to be
not quite

>>69710681
nico was so funny

>>69703940
i read a version of the story where he convinced the guy that it was some kind of ritualistic tradition he and his friends did and it was just customary for them or something

>>69702624
Cuckold detected

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>>69705261

Holy shit you guys are so fucking easy to trigger. Gotta vent all that frustration somewhere, eh?

>>69711581
his general stage performance was very much derived from his experience where he saw the doors in concert. he said something like "this guy is getting up on stage and giving the anger people are directing towards him right back, he's blowing up on people, i want to be able to do that"

the entire story being metallic k.o. is great, where he tells a biker gang heckler "if you fuck with me one more time, i'm gonna kick your ass." the guy obviously doesnt quit, iggy dives off the stage, rushes the guy, and gets his ass kicked. club manager starts trying to fight the rest of the stooges and they get a death threat from a bunch of the bikers if they go on stage at their next event (which they do)

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>>69705217
lmfao

>there are no safe spaces!!!! cuck!!!!!
>literally gets triggered by the most mundane shit

really makes u think