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Post by pauledwardwagemann on Jun 13, 2006 9:13:41 GMT -5
Robert Plant, who was a big fan of Buffalo Springfield, desperately wanted to meet Neil Young while in LA in 1969 (although he wasnt that interested in meeting Steven Stills who was so dellusion as a coke addict at the time that he would routinely tell people he had done a tour of duty in Vietnam). By chance Peter Tork told Plant that CSNY was rehearsing at the Greek Theater, so Robert and Monkees friend Nancy Retchin got high on mescaline and tore off looking for the rehearsal space. Plant and Retchin were so stoned however that they ended getting lost in Watts, driving throgh the ghetto as Robert yelled out the car window to passerbys "Hey! Where's the Greek Theater?" to folks who had obviously never heard of the Greek Theater.
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Post by Thorngrub on Jun 13, 2006 10:33:53 GMT -5
Of course, everyone should know this already, but I can't help mentioning it as a bonafide "rock-n-roll anecdote", just to get this thread goin ya know:
Janis Joplin gave Leonard Cohen a famous blow job in the Chelsea Hotel.
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Post by pauledwardwagemann on Jun 14, 2006 11:00:42 GMT -5
During John Lennon's 1974 Lost Weekend from Yoko he found himself stumbling into LA's Troubadour club one night with partner-in-crime Hary Nilsson at his side. They were drunk and obnoxious and began making lewd comments at the act on stage (which was the Smothers Brothers). As the lewdness continued, Lennon somehow came across a tampon so he taped it to his forehead and the two continued on, becoming so disruptive that Rat Packer Peter Lawford asked them to quiet down Just then a Troubadour waitress came by and asked Lennon to either shut up or leave. Lennon looked at her and said, "Do you know who I am?"
"Yeah." the young waitress said, "Youre some asshole with a Kotex on his head."
Finally club owner asked the head bouncer to eject Lennon and Nillson from the club. The bouncer came up to Lennon and said, "Look you changed the world--but dont you feel like your acting like a stupid prick?" and then escorted them out.
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Post by pauledwardwagemann on Jun 14, 2006 19:18:05 GMT -5
While performing with The Who on the "Smothers Brothers Comedy Hour" in 1967, Keith Moon decided to surprise the audience by adding an enormous charge of gun powder to the band's standard pyrotechnic display on stage. At the end of "My Generation" Moon detonated his drums and was blown into the air. He was cut by flying shrapnel from his cymbals and the explosion also fried a camera, the studio's monitors, and much of guitarist Pete Townshend's hair as well as leaving Townshend with permanent hearing damage.
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Post by frag on Jun 14, 2006 23:29:11 GMT -5
One of my friends was telling me about a story out of the Motley Crue book...where apparently, after growing bored with untold amounts of sex, they shoved a phone up one girl's girl parts and made her friend call her mom and have a conversation through the violated girl's girl parts.
That's what rock n roll is really all about.
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Post by frag on Jun 14, 2006 23:30:03 GMT -5
...and another one where they got the drummer from Dio arrested while on tour in England.
What about the story of Iggy Pop getting the clap in Please Kill Me?
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Post by pauledwardwagemann on Jun 15, 2006 10:50:45 GMT -5
...and another one where they got the drummer from Dio arrested while on tour in England. What about the story of Iggy Pop getting the clap in Please Kill Me? I read that book not too long ago (less than a year). It ahd a lot of bizaree stories in it, but I cant remember the one about Iggy youre talking about off hand... |
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Post by pauledwardwagemann on Jun 17, 2006 15:29:46 GMT -5
The Beach Boys' Brian Wilson thought that recording his song 'fire' actually caused a rash of fires that swept through LA as he was recorded it. Wilson also thought that the only way he could destroy the master tapes was by burning them...
...now that man was on some gooooooood drugs...
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Post by pauledwardwagemann on Jun 18, 2006 11:45:41 GMT -5
To get rid of unwanted sex pistols bass player glen matlock fellow band mate steve jones fed him a sandwich full of his own seamen--but Glen was reported to have said he didnt notice and that the sandwich was quite nice...
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Post by pauledwardwagemann on Jun 22, 2006 17:22:51 GMT -5
Kurt Cobain bought his first amplifier with money he made by selling his step-fathers guns. Cobain fished the guns out of the Wishkah River after his mother dumped them there when she found out Kurt's step-father had been with another woman.
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Post by pauledwardwagemann on Jun 29, 2006 12:31:43 GMT -5
In March, 1969, Jim Morrison was arrested for exposing himself onstage at a concert in Miami. The self-professed Lizard King was eventually charged with an array of offenses, including profanity, lewd behavior, indecent exposure and public drunkeness.
During the cross-examination, Morrison was asked whether he had indeed exposed himself.
"I dont remember," he replied. "I was too drunk."
(Ironically Morrison was convicted of indecentexposure, but found not guilty of public drunkeness.)
Some time later, Morrison (whose memory had miraculously improved) was asked why he had in fact exposed himself onstage. Morrison replied, ""I wanted to see what it looked like in a spot light."
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