ITT: Post Pointless Music Trivia You Know

Greg Lake was in King Crimson before joining Emerson, Lake and Palmer

>>72698653
Wasn't he in Curved Air too?

>>72698685
That's Stewart Copeland, the drummer for the Police

>>72698704
Yup. I googled. I knew somebody had been in Curved Air. Lol

>>72698653
Michael Jackson was initially black but turned into a white due to a skin condition, he nose also unflattened for some reason.

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KISS really stands for Knights in Satan's Service

>>72698653
>>72698653
Sweet Dreams singing - lyrics and melody was improvised and recorded on the spot by Annie Lennox over the synth beat

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

Moe tucker lives in my hometown.

Before forming the band Sade lead singer Sade Adu used to work as a clothing designer for Spandau Ballet

Before becoming an AOR titan with Steve Perry at the helm, Journey were originally a prog rock supergroup formed by former members of Santana and The Jeff Beck Group.

Seriously, it's weird how relatively few people have ever heard the OG Journey albums. They're great.

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

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>Henry Rollins saved Blixa Bargeld's life
Idk if that's pointless but anyway

>>72698653
The Blue Monday single 12 inch vinyl's silver packaging was so expensive, the label lost money with each copy sold. They didn't care because they thought it wouldn't sell much. But it became the best selling 12 inch single of all time.

This is a cover song

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ruQQ5UvICvA

This is the original

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=pPD8Ja64mRU

Aimee Mann and Nicki Minaj were guest VAs on a cartoon once

>>72698904
Was that the one that looked like a giant floppy disc?

>>72698878
Yeah, it always really annoyed me how they turned into a dodgy AOR group when they were a pretty good Prog group before it.
Apparently the label forced them to change line-up and sound because they weren't shifting enough units.
Fuck record labels.

Mozart heard Allegri's Miserere performed when he was 14, went home and wrote it down

>>72698897
How'd he do that?
also wtf i love henry rollins now
>>72699017
Other songs that are surprisingly covers:
Baha Men - Who Let the Dogs Out
The Wurzels - Combine Harvester (I don't mean of the Melanie tune, I mean it's a cover of another version of it, originally done by the bloke who played Fr. Fintan Stack on Father Ted)
Stevie Wonder - Superstition (sort of. He wrote it for Jeff Beck, and Beck recorded and was supposed to release his version first, but it ended up getting delayed by the label so much that Stevie's ended up out first)

>>72699085
Yeah

>>72698878
I heard it was a guy who wrote and recorded the first album by himself in a studio then got it on radio, then assembled the band

>>72699164
Nah, you're thinking of Boston

>>72699180
k

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Nobody knows who played the flute on Cyprus Avenue or Beside You from Van Morrison's Astral Weeks.

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>>72699204
It was actually me

>>72699222
Trips of Flute truth

Joe Meek was an independent producer in the 50s and 60s, influential, did a lots of hits. He was gay and tone deaf. He kicked out a young Rod Stewart from his studio 'cause he didn't like him. He ended up shooting his landlady dead and himself and died.

>>72699222
No it was me you lying TWAT look at my NAME

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>>72699204
WHAT THE FUCK

>>72699250
Maybe we all did...

noel gallagher started his career in music as a roadie for the inspiral carpets but he was fired for being a lazy shit

>>72698653
2/3 of Husker Du are faggots and the one with the moustache wasn't

This is a cover song

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

This is the original

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=vt1Pwfnh5pc

The drummer of Superchunk and the Mountain Goats is the sidekick of a weekly comedy podcast that makes 24k per month on patreon

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Blur's drummer (the one that bullied Nardwuar) is now a Labour councillor in Norfolk
I'd say that's karma

one of the guys from ace of base was a nazi and there is a compilation album of his old neo-nazi band which includes bangers with titles like "white power, nigger slaughter"

>>72699384
wtf i love ace of base now

The film Irreversible has an hour long low frequency sound that makes people sick and walk out.

long may you run by neil young is an ode to his old car

Trent Reznor fucked and forgot Courtney Love. When asked about him later she said 'more like three inch nail'

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>>72699160
They were driving somewhere. The driver was on heroin. Blixa had to take a wee and there was no stops nearby. He opened the car door at 80 km/h and Rollins pulled him back from falling out of moving car. Blixa didn't say a word during the drive after that

>>72699492
Courtney Love is quite probably the granddaughter of Marlon Brando

Lady Gaga instead of saying pu pu polker face in the song sometimes says 'fuck her face'

At the start of Roxanne, you can hear Sting sitting on a piano keyboard accidentally and someone laughs

on kanye west's song "ultralight beam", there is a sample of a counter-terrorist yelling "flashbang!" from counter-strike. it's at 1:50 and it's very faint

>>72699644
That's Sting laughing.

>>72699699
holy shit

The kick drum from NIN's Closer is taken from Nightclubbing by Iggy Pop

In the Ramones drummer transition of Marky to Richie Ramone in the 80s, one of the fill-ins was Blondie's drummer Clem Burke under the name Elvis Ramone. But only lasted 2 gigs as he was too slow for them

>>72699706
I'm pretty sure it was Stewart

>>72699743
The intro sample for "Big Man With A Gun" is allegedly a porn actress having an orgasm and was recorded and manipulated by Tommy Lee

Radiohead have, on at least one occasion, covered Rhinestone Cowboy by Glen Campbell
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=sy6OEvb1or8

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ben gibbard from death cab for cutie runs ultramarathons. last year he finished a 100 mile race in about 25 hours

>>72699706
>>72699816
Never mind you're right anon it's Sting

Justin Broadrick (of Godfesh, Jesu, Final), was the original drummer for Napalm Death in 80s.

The Downward Spiral was made in Polanskis' house where Sharon Tate was murdered by Charles Manson's groupies. They wrote 'piggy' in her blood on the walls. Manson loved The Beatles who have a song called piggies, 'what they need's a damn good whacking'. I guess Trent wrote his Piggy song there

>>72699699
more insight into the level this music is being targeted towards.

something inside me died a little bit because of the amount of cringe.

>>72699914
He was actually their 5th guitarist, but the first to play on an album by them
Napalm Death lost all of its original members by the second half of that album, where both sides only had one member in common

Michael Gira and Swans were invited to be a part of the infamous 'No Wave' scene in New York in the early 1980s. Gira refused and stepped away from the label (genre) with his music, despite being prolific within the scene at the time.

>>72699960
Michael Gira went out with a pre-fame Madonna

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Aaliyah was a huge Nine Inch Nails fan. She was an early advocate for The Fragile. Trent Reznor and Aaliyah were in talks to collaborate. Her plane crashed with no survivors before it could be finalized

>>72699914
Miles Ratledge plays on the first couple of demos according to MA. He also is a yoga instructor in Denmark nowadays

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Before starting "American Gramaphone" record label and forming "Mannheim Steamroller" Chip Davis wrote and produced the the #1 1970's CB Radio Song "Convoy".

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=RVh179oXFao

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>>72699644
Sting was the first concert after the paris theatre that was shot up reopened a year later. He opened with this song

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=lB6a-iD6ZOY

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Every song on every Carcass album from Symphonies to Heartwork has at least 10 layers of guitar from Bill Steer; Surgical Steel doesn't have it because he couldn't be bothered despite sharing rhythm guitar duties on a Carcass album for once.

The massive neck slide in Eye of Terror by Bolt Thrower isn't Jo Bench's bass, it's a guitar tuned lower than the rest to get the right slackness on the string.

HEALTH's cover of Pictureplane's Goth Star doesn't actually sample the original or use the stems, the band replicated the original sounds themselves and manipulated them to sound identical.

Jupiter Keyes left HEALTH because they stopped doing drugs, and also to concentrate his efforts on Alice Glass' solo album. One song was released from the album two years ago.

>>72699017
I can understand this being surprising for normies but I assumed everyone on /mu/ knew this.

>>72700765
In my case I knew both songs but it took me ages to click they're the same song

>>72700577
>Jupiter Keyes left HEALTH because they stopped doing drugs, and also to concentrate his efforts on Alice Glass' solo album. One song was released from the album two years ago.


I was wondering why he wasn't with them last time I saw them live in like 2015, didn't know he quit.

Sufjan Stevens performed Hotline Bling live more often than Drake in 2016.

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>>72698653

Van Halen didnt like brown M&Ms...

>>72699492
Don't believe her Trent is reported to rock a 7 and a half inch thick cock.

>>72700941
Hey Trent..

>>72700841

that pic tho.

when daniel johnston was young and completely unknown, he didnt make copies of his cassettes. when somebody asked for one or if he wanted to give a copy to somebody he recorded the whole thing again

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Isaac Brock, Julian Koster, Kevin Barnes and Bill Doss had a very short-lived music project together known only as "Mysterious band". The only recording is this, taken from the only gig they played.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=-EwWB0E1TJA

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>>72701166
This is actually really cool anon, thanks for telling me this.

if you listen closely to the intro of 'Saturday Night Inside Out' by the Avalanches there is morse code. a few people are currently trying to decode it

In the early nineties, a band called of teenagers released some terrible punk music under the name 'Darling'. Despite being fairly unknown, they were excited to hear a popular French magazine called Melody Maker had reviewed their new album. But when they saw the review, the album got 0 stars out of 5, and the entire thing just read 'Nothing but a bunch of daft punk'. The band shortly broke up. Thomas and Guy formed daft punk and the rest started a new band called Phoenix

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=7CAFl5WWl5E

Jonny Greenwood been playing the same Telecaster for over a decade, after his initial one was stolen during one of their tours. It is believed he actually had a second one, but that too got stolen, before settling with his current guitar.

The first thing Richard D. James bought with his first paycheck from Warp was a hot dinner.

Once in a Lifetime is the only song on Remain in Light that has a chord change

this is a decently well known one but still interesting. Ben Stiller played drums for a post punk/no wave band called Capital Punishment when he was a teenager.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=KSdyxi3MJW8

>>72700841
they stipulated 'a bowl of M&Ms with all the brown ones taken out' in their rider as a test of comprehension. Van Halen had a huge stage setup at the time that required multiple technicians to engage with, and a lot of it had to be set up by the venue's people ahead of time.

if the band got there and the M&Ms weren't even set up to spec then they would assume other aspects of their technical rider weren't up to scratch and would have to get their team to re-appraise the entire setup.

>>72700808
it's sad because they use triggered recordings of what he brought to the live show, and they've always prided themselves on playing as live as they can. it sucks that Alice Glass fell through for some reason or another but I guess he'll be back in HEALTH at some point.

>>72701431
I'm sure that's what a lot of people buy with a paycheck

American musician Jim Sullivan released this song in 1969 about being abducted by a UFO in the countryside. He went missing weeks later and has never been found

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=gH0l7nIMfw0

Elijah Wood said Portishead' Dummy is the most likely album to get you laid

>>72699246
Here is probably one of his seminal works
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ryrEPzsx1gQ

>>72701651
Needs to be a movie about him. He was paranoid the big studios had bugged his studio and were stealing his ideas. Its inconclusive that they weren't bugging his studio.

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>>72701673
There is one
It's pretty good for a relatively small-scale British production

>>72701651
The Tornados rhythm guitarist George Bellamy is the father of Matthew Bellamy (Muse)

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The only piece of music on this album that isn't a sample are the opera vocals on the song 'Electricity, which were sung by Australian singer Antoinette Halloran. She was never paid for her contribution and sued the band in the mid 2000's. They were so broke that they had to ask Modular to pay for them

Thom Yorke and Colin Greenwood made out in college
The woman who took the picture on the cover of "London Calling" hated that picture
David Bowie's stage name was Tom Jones for a while in the 60s until the other Tom Jones got popular
Karen O's tears in the "Maps" music video were real because the guy she's singing the song about was supposed to show up to the video shoot but didn't

>>72701691
oh sweet I might watch it

The first song ever played on BBC Radio 1 was Flower in the Rain by the Move

Lollapalooza was created by Perry Farrell as a farewell tour for Jane's Addiction's break up in 1991

>>72701720
>Thom Yorke and Colin Greenwood made out in college
Source? I did once read an interview with one of the guys from the Beta Band who said he briefly went out with their singer when Thom was unsure of his sexuality so it wouldn't surprise me, but I didn't know if I should believe that or not. I've also heard Colin's bisexual, but it rarely gets mentioned.

DID YOU GUYS KNOW THAT DARK SIDE OF THE MOON AND THE WIZARD OF OZ TOTALLY SYNC UP

Gary Glitter is innocent

Mizutani from Les Rallizes Dénudés almost never did interviews, except for that one time he decided to do one through fax, luckily for him they could barely get it working, so the interview was cancelled, knowing him he probably did that on purpose

>>72701446
neat

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Gibby Haynes was the first TV presenter to report on JFK being assassinated. He was a children's TV host and was at the scene at the time so was defacto presenter for the local TV news after it happened.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=x_0cyKe4RTU
Relatedly, DJ John Peel managed to get into the press area of Lee Harvey Oswald's arraignment by falsely claiming to be a reporter for the Liverpool Echo during his early career as a DJ in America.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=0aHDJy0R8nQ

>>72701944
Gibby Haynes' father, that should be

Scarlett Johanssen did an EP a while ago. Bowie sings with her on this Tom Waits cover.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=USiLOQFW3X4

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>>72701446
>tfw too pleb to even understand how this is possible

>>72701704
kek

>>72702099
what do you mean? it's just a sort of funky vamp type thing based on african rhythms. if you listen to the guitar in the background you can hear that most of the time it's just playing a single chord with some embellishments.

>>72702099
That's because its a lie

Here's a one chord beatles song, its 51 years old

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=7UjvdZm-Tu8

>>72701446
bullshit

Houses in Motion and Listening Wind do too

>>72701704
sad kek

>>72702178
it's not a lie, and that song has a chord change at the end of the verse things. listen to the mellotron

>>72702203
What I did was start playing the album and in the first 10 seconds it changes chords twice so that was enough for me

Birdhouse in Your Soul by They Might be Giants has 18 key changes in 3 and a half minutes

>>72702203
You could argue it repeats I - I7 or you could be me and say it stays on I7

>>72702223
>>72702203
>>72702178
>>72702099
I think you guys are confusing a chord change and a key change.

>>72702256
I'm not

>>72702256
i'm not. show me where on born under punches there is a chord change

>>72702339
The first song.

i - VI - IV - i is the chord progression

>>72702446
I mean iv not IV

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>>72701166
they actually do have an official "record release" on a compilation/sampler album. I'm not sure if it's the same song as the linked one. It was only ever released in japan

>>72702446
G minor, Eb, C minor, Gminor

>>72702446
no it's not, what the fuck are you talking about. there is literally no instrument in there playing anything but a g minor. the guitar is playing a g minor with some embellishments, the bass is in g minor, the arpeggios over the top are a g minor.

and not just the key, it stays on a g minor chord the entire time

>>72701110
I remember hearing that in the documentary. Someone should try to compile them all and take the best cuts from each for a master edition. The edition's for most of his albums passed around now are pretty great now, but it's possible some might be better.

>>72702515
Wrong. Bass plays the first G, 2nd guitar the Eb, bass C and G

>>72699204
spoopy

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>>72702492
Yeah, that's it

RHCP were originally called "Tony Flow and the Magnificent Masters of Mayhem". Their first two gigs as a band in early 1983 were performed under this name.

Thundercat lost his virginity at 26

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>>72702560
but that's wrong you fucking retard

>>72699115
>Apparently the label forced them to change line-up and sound because they weren't shifting enough units.

The guys were starving and Columbia threatened to dump them if they didn't accept Steve Perry. Problem was, he was a big soul fan--his musical heroes were people like Aretha Franklin, Nina Simone, and the Bee Gees, and he didn't like any rock harder than Bread or Free, so once they took him aboard, there was no chance of ever doing heavy rock again.

>>72702674
Can understand how its tricky for you, but that's it

>>72702796
the guitar doesn't play an Eb, it plays a G and a D.

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This line in the Simpsons episode with the Red Hot Chili Peppers isn't just a silly joke name Barney made up, it's a reference to Pub Rock band Chili Willi and the Red Hot Peppers, which featured Residents' collaborator Snakefinger as a member.

Scotty Moore managed Elvis during the Sun Records period, before they went major label and Colonel Parker took over the helm. Although Elvis was a millionaire celebrity by the time he was drafted into the Army, he paid the Jordanaires a pittance, just about $150 a month along with a $1000 Christmas bonus.

>>72700577
>the massive neck slide etc
I had no clue, either way you can barely hear her bass sadly

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Julian Glover is Robert Wyatt's half brother.

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I still remember many Slipknot facts.

>Jim Root (#4) is not on the album cover for the self titled album, ex-guitarist Josh Brainard (wearing black mask on the left) is.

>>72699222
Trips I guess so

Al Atkinson was the original frontman of Judas Priest. His songwriting was more pub rock; closer to Status Quo or Foghat than Black Sabbath, and several early Priest songs were adapted from his leftover material--Victim of Changes in its original form was more of a boogie blues song and less metal than it became.

Eddie Van Halen originally wanted to call his band Rat Salad after the Black Sabbath instrumental. He also considered Genesis until finding out that there was already a band with that name. Gene Simmons, who paid for their initial demo recording, wanted them to call themselves "Daddy Longlegs". It was ultimately David Lee Roth who decided that they should just call themselves Van Halen because "It sounds cool. People will wonder if Van Halen is a person or a place."

>>72702967
I'll add onto the Priest lore. During the recording for British Steel, it took place at John Lennon's mansion as the estate rented it out for musicians. And during songs like Metal Gods they got creative with sound effects, such as a whipped guitar cord at 2:45, and the mechanical marching at the end consisting of slamming Lennon's silverware on the counter

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=om6OMMozG1E

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The drum machine used in the recording of Ween's The Pod was an Alesis HR16

Anthony Kiedis was born in Michigan, a somewhat unplanned child to parents who weren't quite looking forward to having a baby. His father, who had little interest in anything other than selling drugs and having sex, soon deserted his family and went to Los Angeles, leaving Kiedis to be raised by his mother. When he was 9, he announced that he wanted to move to LA and live with his father. Although the elder Kiedis was not terribly enthusiastic about this, he soon warmed to the boy.

By the 5th grade, Kiedis was doing cocaine and lost his virginity at the age of 12 to his father's girlfriend. He recalled "She was 19 and a redhead. My dad told me I was free to have at it if I wanted." He also said that his father had a small jewel attached to the middle finger of his left hand, which he later learned was his special finger for diddling pussies. The RHCP song Purple Stain references this with the line "Put my middle finger in/Your monthly blood is what I win".

>>72703086
>>72702967
Rob Halford also kickstarted the 80s metal trend of leather, chains, etc. as a tortured cry of his closeted dom gay self in late 70s England. For their first big show in native Birmingham he felt living as straight was too much, so he took to the stage in fetish gear. Joke was on him, as it became the go-to clothing for metal bands from then on.

>>72703241
i actually think the joke might be on metal fans

>>72702895
>death grips are actually the drummer, dj and percusionist from slipknow without masks
not many people know this, but it's hinted in the sound

During the British Invasion, albums released in the US and UK often differed significantly in terms of the track listing and order of the tracks. In addition, some singles were UK-only and did not see the light of day in North America.

British law at that time forbade studio recordings of popular music to be played OTA, so bands would record a special radio version for the BBC.

>>72703241
The irony of that is that Halford by his own admission never actually practiced BDSM. I wouldn't say the leather and studs idea was totally original either since it was an important part of punk rock fashion.

Priest in the early days wore the typical 70s British glam rock wardrobe which made them look like Jedi knights, but this was going out of fashion by 1978 so switching costumes was inevitable.

>>72703275
depends on your point of view i guess. when your only way of self-expression is the clothes you wear (homosexuality was still a legal grey area the time) then seeing it co-opted by a very straight culture must not have been fun.

James Hetfield threw his voice out during Metallica's 1992 tour and needed vocal coaching to be able to talk properly, let along sing. This has been blamed on producer Bob Rock making him sing TBA in an unnatural key for his voice.

>>72703324
Besides which, KISS were wearing leather and studs years before Judas Priest. In their case however, they were fairly big, hairy guys who couldn't pull off the colorful British glam wardrobe (although they were Americans, they definitely knew about bands like Slade and drew some influence from them). However, the more aggressive leather outfits perhaps also appealed more to American tastes.

>>72703324
true that, i may be getting my facts mixed up. either way, Halford re-introduced leather and chains and spandex into the nascent NWOBHM at least in part as an expression of a frustratedly closeted gay man. the fact that it was widely embraced doesn't say anything about the artists themselves, but must've made him smile.

>>72703241
>>72703397
Priest went full leather for the 1979 tour. The 1978 tour saw them drop the flowing robes and Halford wore a simple black outfit with a leather studded belt for most of the tour, although some shows such as Budokan Hall in Japan still had the robes.

>>72702657
/OURGUY/
So all those songs talking about "omg I'm such a nerd" aren't just bullshit

>>72703377
Apocryphal, as he approached Bob Rock for singing tutelage before the recording of Metallica.
Hetfield also 'broke his arm' literally on the day before the Black Album tour so he could concentrate on singing alone and let a roady play his guitar parts. Broke his arm skateboarding, at the age of 30, when he'd never skateboarded in his life, at a time when it was critical to his career that he was capable of carrying a performance vocally.

Ozzy Osbourne's dismissal from Black Sabbath has generally been blamed on his drug problems, but it probably had as much or more to do with the band simply seeking a change in direction. According to Tony Iommi, "We had some of the material for Heaven and Hell written down by the spring of '79, but Ozzy just couldn't seem to wrap his head around it."'

It's more accurate to say that Sabbath were trying to adapt to the NWOBM sound and Ozzy didn't have the vocals for that.

Imagine John Lennon was suggest not to be played / banned from american radio after 9/11 because it promoted peace. Here's the full list

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/2001_Clear_Channel_memorandum#List_of_songs

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Since today's the anniversary of Twisted Sister's Stay Hungry release, here's a tidbit.
During the release of the album and the exponential rise of the band given the MTV-hype they were riding, guitarist Jay Jay French's father was dying of cancer, so he didn't get to savor the success as his dad was clocking out. So with management verifying that platinum-status was days away, Jay Jay had a platinum album produced and had it delivered to his dad in the hospital a week before he died, on the day it went platinum.

>>72703484
>he'd never skated
he's skated since before 1983 what are you on

The disastrous Beach Boys album Summer in Paradise could have been worse still; the title cut was supposed to feature a rapping duet with Bart Simpson, which the Simpsons producers turned down.

Kirk Hammett also skateboards IIRC. Actually, thrash metal was kind of central to 80s skateboarding culture.

>>72703532
Ozzy absolutely had the vocals for that, but his substance abuse didn't allow for it. The Ardens kept a close watch on his persona balancing his real life, but ultimately you can't stop an addict's downfall. Doesn't contradict what you said but parallels the two stories.

Ozzy's scene-chasing direction after his Sabbath dismissal shows a bigger hand at play than his alone.

kurt korbein is rip

Henry Rollins was almost killed in an armed robbery (one of his friends was shot in the head). The robbery happened a few days after Rick Rubin came by his apartment in a Rolls-Royce.

>>72703642
The guy from Earth bought Kurt Cobain the shotgun he used to commit suicide

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>>72703552
>Rage Against The Machine - All songs
>Link goes to their discography

Cobain almost scrapped Smells like teen spirit for sounding too much like a Pixies song

>>72703609
James Hetfield broke his arm during the black album tour while skateboarding.

Also, Tom Araya makes a cameo on Suicidal Tendencies' Institutionalized video.

Marilyn Manson originally wanted Antichrist Superstar to have as the cover art a photo of himself naked as a toddler. Interscope refused to use the photo for fear of child pornography charges, although the photo was completely innocent and Manson's genitals were not visible.

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Bob Dylan saw Buddy Holly play live a few days before his fatal plane crash.

Thom Yorke recorded the vocals for Planet Telex while drunk and lying on the floor
Also he recorded the vocals for Fake Plastic Trees after attending a Jeff Buckely concert, and when he finished the song he broke down in tears
Also also, the instrumental for My Iron Lung in the studio version is actually from a live show they did in 94, just cleaned up with some redone vocals.

>>72703685
He injured himself in 1987 during another skateboarding accident.

before pete doherty was known he was interviewed while queuing to buy the new oasis album be here now

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Quba72Xli8o

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John Fahey underwent extensive sexual abuse from his own father as a child.

>>72703822
also pete doherty and liam gallagher have children by the same mother

Hammett saw his dog getting fucked in the ass by his neighbour as a kid

Peter Laughner is an amazing musician and songwriter that was an original member of Pere Ubu and should be more known
>>72703832
Really?

Jimi Hendrix got kicked out the army for masturbating on duty

>>72703957
my hero

>>72703957
Wasn't that part of his extended attempt to get out by pretending to be gay?

>>72699262
damn...

>>72699931
this post screams underage

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>>72703947
Yeah, if you every read Fahey's autobiography, he's pretty explicit about it. It was really fucked up. I can't find the quote from the book, but here's one from an article on his website.

>Under analysis he recalled how he burst out screaming when he first saw a turtle. "When I was about four or five years old I saw what thought was a penis walking across the front lawn," he shudders. "It was just a box turtle, but it kind of upset me..."
>Analysis related the encounter to the memory of being sexually molested by his father. "The obsession comes from the psychic meaning of turtles, reptiles and amphibians. In dreams they symbolise genitalia. That's why I went to a psychoanalyst because I had all these repressed memories."

Les Paul got his name removed off future SG models because he didn't like the guitar

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In the early days of Nine Inch Nail, Trent's TvT manager did not know exactly how to classify the sort of music Reznor was doing and would book him and the band in the most homophobic metal clubs. The patrons would jeer at him, calling him a "faggot" and throw shit at him.

Reznor decided to make their revulsion a reality and would make out with Richard Patrick to infuriate the crowd.

>>72703685
The one time skateboarding went mainstream (late 90s-early 2000s), the results were cancerous beyond all description.

>>72704208
>a few good vidya and a few shitty bands
ehh could've been worse

>>72704126
Bowie opened for NIN's Fragile tour. All the NIN fans booed and jeered Bowie's Outside songs. Outside's could be his best album but NIN lunkheads were impatient.

Ray Charles originated the idea of having a bunch of singing girls in the background of songs. By the 70s, this gimmick was so commonplace that most people believed it had always been there and had no idea of its origins.

>>72704241
Oh, and Rocket Power.

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>>72704252

1995 dissonance tour*

Hearing them boo his fucking childhood idol was probably the first time Reznor came to really hate Generation Xers.

Roy Orbison's mysterious lonely man stage persona was somewhat manufactured since by his own admission, "I've never really been lonely, although growing up in West Texas you certainly can be lonely."

He endured assorted personal tragedies--his wife cheated on him and they broke up, but reconciled in a few months. She died in a motorcycle accident in 1966. While touring Europe a few years later, Orbison's house burned down and one of his two sons died in the blaze. He remarried with a teenage German fangirl he met in Europe, and she managed his career for the rest of his life in addition to bearing him a third son.

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Franz Liszt became so popular that at his concerts women would throw their underwear at him

>>72704382
>this was in the 19th century

rly makes u think

>>72704344
Marilyn Manson's childhood hero too.

>>72704382
They also loved castratos. Here's the only recording of the last one before priests chopping testes off boys so they kept their high singing voice was outlawed and it'll be the creepiest thing you'll hear all week if you have the balls to listen to it

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=KLjvfqnD0ws

The KISS song "Plaster Caster" references a legendary groupie who made plaster casts of rock stars' penises, including Jimi Hendrix's, although she never had anything to do with KISS.

>>72704493
Cynthia Plaster Caster. You can visit her site here, it has a list of everyone she's casted:
http://www.cynthiaplastercaster.com/flash/home.html

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DFA1979's debut album was supposed to feature 17 different songs, but due to a pressing error featured 1 song repeated 17 times. The album went on to gain a cult following, so the band later released a second "album" of this song... repeated 11 times.

>>72699868
holy shit, restecp

>>72703986
didnt he watch m*a*s*h?

>>72704531
I just wanna see Hendrix's dick, someone help me out here

Since RHCP frequently performed in the buff, having a good-looking physique was important for all new recruits to the band. John Frusciante claimed that he was required to strip naked. "For some reason, they needed to see what my erect penis looked like."

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>>72704597

Nikki Sixx ODed on heroin and died in hospital but was miraculous revived. He was discharged, went home and ODed again.

John Lennon was a notoriously bad driver--after crashing his Aston-Martin while driving through the English Midlands one summer evening in 1969, he turned in his keys and used a chauffeur to drive him around thereafter.

>>72704597
Jimi Hendrix was in a porno, no joke either.

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Jeff Buckley and Elliott Smith met once.

>>72704721
Link?
Supposedly Frank Sinatra once starred in a porno when he was young and needed the money. He was masked in it though. Supposedly, Sammy Davis Jr. found out about this and edited in a few scenes of it into Deep Throat and showed it at a party with only him and Sinatra knowing it was him in the scene. This could be complete bollocks made up by Peter Lawford though

>>72704733
And Lou Barlow took that picture

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>>72703017

They were also called Mammoth prior to switching to VH

>>72704786
I didn't know that! super cool

Madonna's S/T debut album was panned by most reviewers--Robert Christgau was somewhat alone in giving it an A rating. Criticism of the album focused on everything from her vocals to the bubblegum lyrics to putting out a disco record in 1983. The pop icon herself has been dismissive of the album, especially the lyrics, and has said "I'd die happy if I never had to perform Lucky Star or Holiday again for the rest of my life."

>>72704767
https://www.youporn.com/watch/11682617/the-jimi-hendrix-experience-sextape/

Apparently fake tho my bad

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>>72704733
Reminded me of Phil at Nirvana but everyone knows this

Like Judas Priest, AC/DC had a different frontman in their very early days as a pub act in Australia. He was fired by the Young brothers for "creative differences". When they held auditions to find a new vocalist, the pair got something of a kick out of Bon Scott, joking that he was too old to rock (he was 29 while the Young brothers were 18 and 20). Scott however felt that since they were just kids, they needed an experienced hand to guide them.

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Layne Staley was into video games in his final years and apparently played a lot of Metal Gear and Halo. In one of the last photos of him, he is wearing a Metal Gear t-shirt.

>>72703183
thats kinda weird, hes a pretty wild guy so it does make sense

>>72704949
also he's wearing gloves in this photo because his fingers were beginning to go necrotic

>>72704814
But Holiday is great.

Labels flocked to the Seattle alt rock scene in the nineties to sign bands. One label assembled a grunge boy band; Alice in Chains

>>72704949
The fact that this photo is from 1998 and he died 4 years later freaks me out. If he looked that terrible then, just imagine how he was right before he died. Apparently his mom took a photo of him a few months before he died, but it has never been released.

>>72704949
jesus, are there any more photos of layne like this ?

>>72703695
What a coincidence.

>>72702796
http://boards.straightdope.com/sdmb/showthread.php?t=616934

The infamous cover of the Scorpions' Virgin Killer, featuring a nude little girl with shattered glass around her crotch, was replaced in several markets by a generic photo of the band.

The girl in the photo was a 9 year old French model, the cover was shot completely with her mother's permission, and she has claimed since that she has no regrets about doing it. All the same, the Scorpions' record label were afraid of incurring child pornography charges which led to the alternate cover. Frontman Klaus Meine has said that he did not understand at the time why anyone had a problem with the cover, and claims it was a statement about "the loss of innocence once we grow out of childhood". He also said that, growing up in Germany, nudity was not a big deal to him. However, more recently, Meine has said the Virgin Killer cover was in poor taste and he regrets it.

This was the first but not the last Scorpions cover to cause trouble for the band--their next album, Taken By Force, was criticized for showing two boys with toy guns playing in a cemetery that housed the remains of WWII soldiers. The band claimed it was an antiwar statement. After that, 1979's Lovedrive had a cover with a woman in a limousine who had one breast exposed as a piece of bubblegum is being pulled off of it. American retail chains refused to stock the original cover, leading to a more modest version being created for the US market. Again, the band were perplexed by this reaction. "It was just sex and rock-and-roll. I couldn't understand what the problem was." said Klaus Meine. "When we would tour the US, girls were always flashing us at concerts, but they never did that in Europe."

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>>72705098
There are a few, but I don't think any from after 1998 have surfaced. This one is from around late 1996 or 1997. At least he looks somewhat recognizable here, although very thin.

>>72705009
How? Did he inject in his fingers?

>>72704480
this guy is who the high pitched singing on Where The Long Shadows Fall by Current 93 is a sample of.

>>72704047
Geez

The Monks' frontman Gary Burger became mayor of a town in Minnesota decades after he was in the band

>>72705225
Supposedly. Coupled with poor circulation.

>>72698653
Before he formed the Smashing Pumpkins, Billy Corgan was in a band called The Marked. The Marked was named after the birthmarks he and another member of the band had on their arms (red discolorations all up the forearm/hand)

>>72703183
Kiedis also has a misdemeanor conviction for sexual battery and indecent exposure from the late 80s

>>72705344
This stemmed from an incident that occurred while they were performing at a college somewhere; two girls claimed Kiedis made unwanted sexual advances on them. He was also temporarily kicked out of the band until he could get off of drugs.

There's only one good rap song

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=WHEVDiTPBy8

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The Stones' classic "Paint it Black" was originally released under the title "Paint it, Black" due to an error by the record label. This caused some minor controversy at the time due to perceived racism caused by this mistake. The song is still sometimes wrongly credited under this, such as on the song's Youtube upload:
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=O4irXQhgMqg

A statement by John Lennon that the Beatles were bigger than Jesus went over in the United States in a very bad way--it triggered boycotts of the band and burnings of Beatles records by church groups.

Lennon claimed his remarks were taken way out of context and that he meant it in reference to England more than the US since rates of church attendance and religiosity in the UK were noticeably lower.

>>72703695
Ringo Starr was supposed to play with Buddy Holly a couple weeks after he died

Ted Nugent reportedly got out of Vietnam service by urinating and defecating in his pants for a week without changing them, so when he had to undress for the Army physical exam, he repelled them so much that they let him go.

The story of how Born Ruffians got signed to Warp is pretty funny, if anyone wants to hear it

>>72701387
Shit I knew that this is how Daft Punk started but I had no idea the other people formed Phoenix. Thats bretty cool

>>72705555
go on then

>>72705555
tell the story mr digits

Eminem claims that when he first recorded Stan, he recorded an exceptional third verse, save the last few lines. He wanted to rerecord the end, but his engineer was so high he accidentally started recording over the entire take instead of just the last few lines

It'd be nice of some of these were lesser known

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>>72703552
>beastie boys - sabotage

During Planet Telex, you can hear a faint sound at 2:47 in the left channel. This is likely Thom Yorke letting out a fart because he was drunk while recording the vocals.

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Steve Shelley of Sonic Youth was a fan of Townes Van Zandt, and even tried to arrange a recording session for him. Unfortunately Townes was too drunk and suffering from a broken hip to complete the recordings. He then died shortly after from complications of lifelong alcohol abuse.

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The artist to have the most songs banned by the BBC was comedic Reggae singer Judge Dread. He was also the first white artist to have a hit in Jamaica and died while walking off stage after performing

The "Echo" of Echo and the Bunnymen was actually the name of a Roland synthesizer they had stolen from a pawn shop years earlier.

Unknown Pleasures only took six and a half days to produce.

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>>72700099
>with no survivors

Prior to forming the Smiths, Morrissey sang in two Manchester punk bands: The Nosebleeds and Slaughter & the Dogs. Sadly no recordings have been released of Morrissey fronting either band.

>>72699222
trips for truth

Jimi Hendrix legendary Woodstock performance was actually for only 25,000 people or so. Most people had actually left the festival by then

>>72701704
Also check this out. This is how SILY began
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=whYf_ZS8Zbw

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Nick Mason is a massive classic car enthusiast and boasts some exceptionally rare cars in his collection, also a keen amateur racer.

A Simple Desultory Phillipic is about how much Paul Simon hates Bob Dylan.

>>72706649
More like how butthurt they were that he switched from folk to rock. That song really fucking pisses me off.

>>72706636
Yeah, he's raced in the Le Mans 24 hour race a few times. Came 18th once, which isn't bad out of 55 racers.
On a related note, Manic Street Preachers drummer Sean Moore has the 22nd fastest lap ever recorded on the Nurburgring.

>>72704382
he is pretty damn handsome

>>72706662
Well to be quite honest. Folk Dylan was much better than Rock Dylan.

>>72706725
I remember seeing an episode of Top Gear where Jeremy mentioned borrowing Nick Mason's Ferrari, if my memory is correct.

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The original singer of Super Furry Animals was actor Rhys Ifans, who you may know from films such as Notting Hill and the Amazing Spiderman. He left to pursue that line of work before they made any music, but later collaborated with members in a side project called the Peth.

>>72706771
Yeah, that's true. I think the one condition was that he promoted Pink Floyd while driving it, or something, so he dropped a bunch of Floyd reference and played Another Brick in the Wall while driving it.

>>72706758
Nah, sorry. Bringing it All Back Home is where the electric guitars were first brought out and I think it is by far Bob Dylan's best album.

Jimmy Page and Robbie Williams are neighbours and have fallen out over Robbie's renovation of his house, something which Jimmy did like. Robbie has publically called Jimmy "mentally ill" over his objections.

>>72706781
he went to my high school admittedly many many years before me

>>72706865
>Not Blonde on Blonde
I respect your opinion because rock Dylan is pretty damn good. But folk Dylan is better.

>>72706892
should say didn't like

Kanye West's mother died in 2006

Jimi Hendrix and Miles Davis were in planning to record an album together but Jimi died

I think Miles said in his autobiography they had gone as far as booking studio time

>>72706896
But Blonde on Blonde is post-folk period Dylan anon.

Steve Hackett from Genesis invented the two-hang guitar tapping technique and taught his friend Eddie Van Halen how to do it.

>>72706930
Nashville skyline was the last folk album tho.

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The first known user of the "violin bow on guitar" technique was Eddie Phillips of the Creation, who used it on songs such as Painter Man and Makin' Time. Jimmy Page, who popularised the technique, claims to have not known this, despite playing in the same scene at the same time as the band.
The Creation were also the first band to perform the slower paced version of Hey Joe, later adapted by Jimi Hendrix into his classic version.

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Mark Sandman died of a heart attack while touring with his band Morphine

>>72706980
Rather than arguing over folk v rock the way I see it was that Bob Dylan was pretty much fucking consistently brilliant from the start up until his born-again Christian period (and even then, he still came out with some absolutely brilliant songs then and afterwards).

>>72699204
Also
Astral Weeks was made by Van Morrison whilst he was hiding from the mob in Boston because he owed his record company a record and the record label was run by shifty people

>>72707060
You got a point.

>>72706956
He's a day older than Peter Gabirel

>>72701651
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=D8oBFIwB5rA

Joe Meeks produced stuff is fun to listen to

Jerry Garcia plays slide guitar on "Teach Your Children." He traded with CSNY for harmony lessons before recording "Workingman's Dead".

As well as sharing very similar names, both Ryan and Bryan Adams share the same birthday: November 5th
Also on the similar name front Built to Spill have had members called both Brett Nelson and Brett Netson

After Greg Lake left King Crimson in 1970, the band auditioned and rejected a 23-year-old singer named Reginald Dwight, also known as Elton John.

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>>72698827
what happened to her face?

Kanye West and R.E.M sampled the same stock military sounds on "Jesus Walks" and "Orange Crush"

>>72707124
Bryan Ferry auditioned for the Crimson gig as well.

>>72707124
He was also auditioned a second time after the release of Lizard, as was future Roxy Music frontman Bryan Ferry

>>72703183
anthony kiedis also used to suck cocks of mexican gangsters for heroin under a bridge in LA

>>72707132
That's what 72 year olds look like anon

The banging and yelling sounds at the beginning of Nine Inch Nails's Mr. Self Destruct are sampled from George Lucas's movie THX 1138

Christian Rock band Jars of Clay's crossover hit Flood was produced by King Crimson guitarist Adrian Belew

Similarly, cheesy British pop group Bucks Fizz's number 1 hit single The Land of Make Believe had lyrics written by King Crimson's original lyricist Pete Sinfeld. He says that despite the song's upbeat nature it was lyrically a protest against Thatcherism.

>>72706928
this is desu the thing in this thread that depresses me the most

After his original plan of recruiting Jeff Beck, Steve Marriott and Keith Moon for his new band fell through, Jimmy Page asked unknown singer Terry Reid if he'd like to have the vocalist position for what would become Led Zeppelin. Reid turned him down in favour of his solo career. A couple of years later, Ritchie Blackmore, Jon Lord and Ian Paice approached Reid to see if he'd be interested in replacing Rod Evans in Deep Purple. Again, he turned them down in favour of his solo career. Apart from these two, Reid is mostly really only known these days due to Cheap Trick covering one of his songs on their debut album.

>>72704533
DFA1979 debut albums single songs mastering tape was lost when Jesse F. Keelers desk caught on fire and destroyed his Tascam 4 track. The song was replaced with Keelers placing a microphone in a toilet and farting into it for 4 minutes while screaming. A drum machine beat was placed over this after.

The only time that Frank Zappa and David Bowie ever met face to face, the only thing Zappa said was "Fuck you Captain Tom"

>>72706928
>>72707224
Damn that hurts to know, that could have been fucking amazing (although might have also been a steaming pile of shit, unlikely though).

>>72705058
>just imagine how he was right before he died.
Pretty awful. I've heard a few second and third hand accounts from locals, and some of them seem unbelievable. What seems most likely to me is that he was seriously underweight, had lost most of his teeth (and possibly a few fingers), and had sores all over. By all accounts he was unrecognizable. Most people think he was a complete shut-in for those years, but that's not entirely true; at least once a week, he would hang out at a bar he lived above. No one realized it was Layne Staley until after he died.

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Drummer Simon Wolstencroft was the drummer in a band called the Patrol, but quit. After quitting, the band changed their name to the Stone Roses. After this he joined another band called Freak Party. He declined to join his bandmates' new band as he didn't like the singer's voice. This band was the Smiths. He eventually spent roughly a decade as a member of the Fall.

>>72707225
>>72707315
I love ones like these. Wasn't there a guy who was in Soundgarden and Pearl Jam before either of them hit big?

Lyrics from Red (King Crimson) were written by Supertramp's first lyricist

>>72707338
It was Soundgarden and Nirvana, but yeah, Jason Everman. He later joined the army instead.

>>72706404
>The Nosebleeds
Billy Duffy (later of The Cult) played guitar in The Nosebleeds. Later, he also taught his friend Johnny Marr how to play guitar.

Before becoming the voice actor for Lionel Hutz and Troy McClure on the Simpsons, Phil Hartman designed album covers for bands like Poco and America, as well as the logo for Crosby, Stills and Nash.

KLF member Bill Drummond, producer and Lightning Seeds' leader Ian Broudie, producer and Shipbuilding co-writer Clive Langer, Frankie Goes to Hollywood frontman Holly Johnson, Siouxsie & the Banshees and the Slits drummer Budgie and Teardrop Explodes keyboardist and founder of both Zoo and Food record labels David Balfe were all members of the band Big in Japan before launching more successful careers

>>72707354
Yeah, he was a guitarist in Nirvana, and later ended up playing bass with Soundgarden. He's the one who payed the recording fees for Bleach. There are lots of stories like that in grunge, though. Seattle was full of people who were shifting around in each other's bands. Just growing up in the area and being somewhat involved in music, I've run into tons of people who were in bands with someone who ended up famous.

>He later joined the army instead.
He said he joined the army because he was frustrated with music and wanted to be around people he could respect. Kurt died when he was in basic training, and his drill instructor gave him shit about it for weeks.

Then he became a serious bad-ass. Later, he ended up becoming a Ranger and joining Special Forces.

Throbbing Gristle/Coil member Peter "Sleazy" Christopherson was the son of Sir Derman Christopherson, and according to Genesis P-Orridge has had dinner with the Queen

>>72698653
I had no idea, that's really cool. He also did this which was incredible.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=lX47uIzAOMk

Stone Roses' singer Ian Brown was a pupil of weatherman and convicted child sexual abuser Fred Talbot. Brown testified at his trial that Talbot had asked boys in the class if they had masturbated and had shown then gay pornography under the pretext of sex education lessons.

Tom Waits did a collab song with Kool Kieth for a NASA compilation album

>>72703693
Dont you mean the cover of portrait of an american family?

>>72707608
Link?

Arthur Lee of Love was sentenced to 12 years of prison for negligent discharge of a firearm after shooting in the air during an argument with a neighbour

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>>72703668
He also says that while he doesn't believe the Courtney Love conspiracy theories, he says that if he ever found proof that she did kill Kurt then he would personally try to murder her and anyone else involved. Also this picture of them exists

Axl Rose was raped by his stepfather and some dude who drove him to LA.

>>72707666
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ZnRyF-nqgTo

>>72707711
Is that Mark Lanegan in a dress and makeup? That's freaking me out; he's always had the image of being really serious all the time.

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Yngwie Malmstein eats FOOD to stay alive

NEW THREAD
>>72707735

>>72707304
Wikipedia says he only weighed 86 lbs when he died

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>>72707474
>army
>drill instructor

King Crimson opened for Tool for a tour once. Apparently they were booed by impatient Tool fans too.