101 Things You Didn't Know About Rock & Roll....
09-26-05, 08:16 PM
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101 Things You Didn't Know About Rock & Roll....
09-26-05, 10:03 PM
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As someone noted at the bottom of that page, it was "Hysteria."
16. Def Leppard's drummer, Rick Allen, lost an arm in a car crash in the mid-eighties. However, Rick decided to keep on playing, and learned to do it with his feet and some programmed drum lines. The band continued as normal, and their next album with their "new" drummer was "Pyromania".
16. Def Leppard's drummer, Rick Allen, lost an arm in a car crash in the mid-eighties. However, Rick decided to keep on playing, and learned to do it with his feet and some programmed drum lines. The band continued as normal, and their next album with their "new" drummer was "Pyromania".
09-26-05, 11:19 PM
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103. Billy Gibbons' beard trimmings are actually used as currency in some small towns in Texas.
ok...so I made that up
ok...so I made that up
09-27-05, 06:29 AM
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104. The Led Zeppelin album "In Through the Out Door" was released with 7 different covers. The cover is of a bar with seven people in it. Each cover variation was through the eyes of one of the people(the bartender, girl at jukebox, guy sitting at bar, etc.)
09-27-05, 11:36 AM
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Wow. There's a lot of incorrect stuff in there. I stopped at #1. I've heard "Stairway To Heaven" backwards several times (used to play it on my radio show for Halloween). The only thing you can hear is MAYBE a quick "six six six". That's it. Nothing else. And that means nothing anymore, since the number of the beast has now been found out to be 616, not 666.
09-27-05, 01:19 PM
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05. "London Calling" was part of a catch phrase ("Good morning America, this is the London Calling!") of a BBC show during World War II, of which the The Clash's guitarists Joe Strummer was a fan.
ok.. strummer was 50 when he died in 2002 which means he was born in 1952.. WWII was during the 50s?
25. Slash's favourite song is "Nobody's Fault" by Aerosmith. As he said, "first heard it at the house of a girl I wanted to date. I went to her house, talked for a while, smoked a joint, and then she put the cd (Rocks), it hit me like a ton of bricks...and I totally forgot about her".
ummm.. Slash is quoted as hearing the CD Rocks... wouldn't it be a LP?
ok.. strummer was 50 when he died in 2002 which means he was born in 1952.. WWII was during the 50s?
25. Slash's favourite song is "Nobody's Fault" by Aerosmith. As he said, "first heard it at the house of a girl I wanted to date. I went to her house, talked for a while, smoked a joint, and then she put the cd (Rocks), it hit me like a ton of bricks...and I totally forgot about her".
ummm.. Slash is quoted as hearing the CD Rocks... wouldn't it be a LP?
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09-27-05, 02:11 PM
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Originally Posted by The Bus
Was that list written by a 14-yr old? Half of those facts are either extremely well known or poorly researched.
Originally Posted by The Author of That Crap
I'm 16 so they might be a few mistakes or weird expressions.
I'm 16 so they might be a few mistakes or weird expressions.
09-28-05, 08:54 AM
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18. Van Halen's "5150" is named after Eddie's Peavey 5150 amp, which is built exclusively for him.
09-28-05, 10:10 AM
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Originally Posted by j123vt_99
ummm.. Slash is quoted as hearing the CD Rocks... wouldn't it be a LP?
09-28-05, 02:40 PM
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Originally Posted by Hiro11
No, it was named after police radio code for "escaped mental patient", which is why the band is pictured in straightjackets in the liner notes. That's not exactly uncommon knowledge.
09-28-05, 03:40 PM
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Originally Posted by j123vt_99
05. "London Calling" was part of a catch phrase ("Good morning America, this is the London Calling!") of a BBC show during World War II, of which the The Clash's guitarists Joe Strummer was a fan.
ok.. strummer was 50 when he died in 2002 which means he was born in 1952.. WWII was during the 50s?
ok.. strummer was 50 when he died in 2002 which means he was born in 1952.. WWII was during the 50s?
09-29-05, 08:02 PM
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85. This is why MTV is crap: MTV execs came up with the idea of the "Unplugged" series after seeing Ian Anderson of Jethro Tull do a brief, live acoustic set. But when Anderson later asked about having Jethro Tull appear on "Unplugged," MTV turned him down flat, oin the grounds that the band was too old and didn't have enough appeal among the desired teen demographic
Jethro Tull acoustic would have kicked ass!
Jethro Tull acoustic would have kicked ass!
09-30-05, 05:49 AM
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"This is London calling" was the phrase American and CBS newsman Edward R. Murrow used in his reports from England during WWII.
It wasn't a catchphrase the way the lists writer describes it, and Murrow certainly never said it with an exclamation point, and Murrow's reports were broadcast in the evening in America.
Murrow began his reports from England before America entered WWII in 1941, and his use of the phrase "This is London calling" was a subtle way of asking if the US was going to answer the call and join the UK in the war against Nazi Germany.
It would be correct to say that Strummer, born in 1952, was familiar with the phrase.
To say that anyone was a fan of the Murrow news reports would be like saying that you named your band "America Attacked" because you were a fan of the news coverage on 9-11.
It wasn't a catchphrase the way the lists writer describes it, and Murrow certainly never said it with an exclamation point, and Murrow's reports were broadcast in the evening in America.
Murrow began his reports from England before America entered WWII in 1941, and his use of the phrase "This is London calling" was a subtle way of asking if the US was going to answer the call and join the UK in the war against Nazi Germany.
It would be correct to say that Strummer, born in 1952, was familiar with the phrase.
To say that anyone was a fan of the Murrow news reports would be like saying that you named your band "America Attacked" because you were a fan of the news coverage on 9-11.
