"Rock" musicians today are a bunch of Dryballs.

RonMexico

When you look back at the antics of rock bands in the 60's,70's, 80's and early 90's there was some absolutely legendary bad behaviour going on whether it was drink, drugs, sex or all three and a bit more. When you look at what is categorised as "rock" today all I can see is a bunch of safe, boring, woe-is-me type pansy-assed, tree hugging vegan twats.

So I am just wondering what is your favourite story about the antics of Keith Moon, Jim Morrison, Keith Richards, Ozzy, Bonham, Iggy and all the rest of the lads.

One of my favourites comes from Danny Sugarman's book Wonderland Avenue. He was manager of The Doors and later Iggy Pop. One time he got a call from the airport police asking him could he identify a passenger who had just arrived from London. Turns out it was Iggy, who for some bizarre reason had decided to strip naked halfway over the Atlantic and cover himself from head to toe in camoflage paint...as you do.

Borneo Fnctn

It's not real music unless the musician is scagged off his tits.

mikom

RonMexico wrote: »

When you look at what is categorised as "rock" today all I can see is a bunch of safe, boring, woe-is-me type pansy-assed, tree hugging vegan twats.

Bullshit, the Jonas brothers are class..........

Wooden Jesus

Give the Jonas brothers some lsd and your gonna get a pretty awesome rock story

epgc3fyqirnbsx

Borneo Fnctn wrote: »

It's not real music unless the musician is scagged off his tits.

But today its not real unless they are vegan and drink wheatgrass

ToniTuddle

RonMexico wrote: »

When you look back at the antics of rock bands in the 60's,70's, 80's and early 90's there was some absolutely legendary bad behaviour going on whether it was drink, drugs, sex or all three and a bit more. When you look at what is categorised as "rock" today all I can see is a bunch of safe, boring, woe-is-me type pansy-assed, tree hugging vegan twats.

Aint alot of those rockers...dead from their excessive partying ways!

Hmmm me thinks ones nowadays want to stay alive!

fulhamfanincork

These days all the rollers of rock smoke weed.

RonMexico

It was good to see Axl Rose step back into the limelight recently and show that he hasn't changed a bit

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

Last time he went on tour he attacked a security guard in Sweden and bit his leg.

Borneo Fnctn

Axl Rose is a proper legend.

galwayrush

Todays 'artists' are too busy perfecting their miming.:rolleyes:

Rhyme

The last time I saw Iggy Pop, he was power-drilling coconuts in the middle of the jungle. I miss that guy.

RonMexico

I posted this already in the Stones thread but I think it is worth posting again. Some guy jumps onstage and before security can get to him Keith Richards sorts him out with his guitar

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=D7g3s44FZlY

Bodhisopha

The last time i saw Iggy Pop he was selling insurance on a tv advert.


I don't know why, but a story that sticks out for me is Motley Crue going as many days as they could without washing while fukking groupies every day.

Beasty

RonMexico wrote: »

So I am just wondering what is your favourite story about the antics of Keith Moon, Jim Morrison, Keith Richards, Ozzy, Bonham, Iggy and all the rest of the lads.

"Moon the Loon" driving the Cadillac into the swimming pool is one of my favourites

Bodhisopha

I also like the stories of Mike Patton getting on to the guns n roses tour bus and putting a sh1t in Axl Rose's orange juice. Also, unscrewing the tops of hotel room hair dryers, putting sh1t in and putting them back together. Also, putting turds behind hotel room air vents.

Rhyme

Bodhisopha wrote: »

I also like the stories of Mike Patton getting on to the guns n roses tour bus and putting a sh1t in Axl Rose's orange juice. Also, unscrewing the tops of hotel room hair dryers, putting sh1t in and putting them back together. Also, putting turds behind hotel room air vents.

Too much poop.

ColmDawson

OP, you seem to be forgetting one of the most important musical figures of the century so far.

Donny Tourette. He can dick on the Sex Pistols, you know.

Borneo Fnctn

Bodhisopha wrote: »

I also like the stories of Mike Patton getting on to the guns n roses tour bus and putting a sh1t in Axl Rose's orange juice. Also, unscrewing the tops of hotel room hair dryers, putting sh1t in and putting them back together. Also, putting turds behind hotel room air vents.

Mike Patton is also an absolute hero. I saw Faith No More at the Olympia in August. It was a blinder of a show.

RonMexico

I'd throw Donny off the Cliffs of Moher if I had the chance.

DublinWriter

Beasty wrote: »

"Moon the Loon" driving the Cadillac into the swimming pool is one of my favourites

...and has since been disproven as complete BS.

However, there are far better Keith Moon stories.

RonMexico

You can see here why Johnny Depp decided to base Captain Jack Sparrow on Keith Richards :pac:

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

Retrovertigo

Bodhisopha wrote: »

I also like the stories of Mike Patton getting on to the guns n roses tour bus and putting a sh1t in Axl Rose's orange juice. Also, unscrewing the tops of hotel room hair dryers, putting sh1t in and putting them back together. Also, putting turds behind hotel room air vents.

Urban myth.

minidazzler

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=xRkA6zugNMQ

K-Ren

Ah yes, Keith Moon. Here's a description of life with John Lennon and Keith recording in Santa Monica.

"Keith Moon's entrance was always the most flamboyant. Wearing nothing underneath, he would throw on a long brown leather coat spilt up to the backside, so that when he turned around his naked rear was always in view. Then he would put on ankle-high boots and a flowing white scarf.

As soon as John spotted him, John would rise and say "The baron's up. How are you today Baron Von Moon?"

"Splendid Mr. Lennon, absolutely splendid." After getting dressed he'd be talking a mile a minute.

"Mr. Lennon, did I ever tell you about the day I decided my hotel room would look better with the furniture nailed to the ceiling?" Baron Von moon asked.

"Tell us," John demanded.

"It was a major undertaking, Mr. Lennon. I got the roadies, and we started with the bed. We got some ladders. First we tied the mattress to the bed. Then we glued down the pillows, sheets and blankets. We turned the bed upside down, hoisted it up on our shoulders, and drove some big spikes through it into the ceiling. It was a true joy to behold. We did the bureau next- of course, we took the drawers out first. We glued the lampshade to the lamp before we glued that to the bureau. We also had to glue the chairs. They proved the most difficult and slippery. But we did not stop until the job was done. It was such an improvement."

Cool guy.

Dancor

If you can, pick up a copy of Motley Crew's book ''The Dirt''.
Some great road stories in it. Slash's book is a good read too.

Bodhisopha

Retrovertigo wrote: »

Urban myth.

Rock antics are shrouded in myth.

I would wager that at least one of those is true. Fingers crossed it's the Axl Rose one.

Bodhisopha

How about the story of Marilyn Manson touring with the Jim Rose circus; They had groupies drink lots of soap water to see which one would lose control of herself first and empty herself into a bowl. After the laxative effects kicked in to the first girl one of the Jim Rose guys - this guy - http://www.dikenga.com/films/firecracker/photographs/castimages/the_enigma.jpg - picked up the bowl and gulped down the contents.

tooler08

Bodhisopha wrote: »

I also like the stories of Mike Patton getting on to the guns n roses tour bus and putting a sh1t in Axl Rose's orange juice. Also, unscrewing the tops of hotel room hair dryers, putting sh1t in and putting them back together. Also, putting turds behind hotel room air vents.

Mike Patton is full of sh!t...literally

telecaster

It's all been done. Any new band carrying on with ''Rockstar Antics" will be written of as contrived parodies when they throw their first tv out the window.

Also what was deemed ''outrageous" in the oldey days can seem rather tame behaviour these days. I'm sure people in rock bands still get drunk and silly things happen to them. It's all a bit passe.

Bodhisopha

tooler08 wrote: »

Mike Patton is full of sh!t...literally

How so?

the_barfly1

DublinWriter wrote: »

...and has since been disproven as complete BS.

However, there are far better Keith Moon stories.

Agreed, Moon didnt drive any cadillac into a swimming pool.
It was actually a Lincoln Continental.
On the fifth floor of the hotel.

Bodhisopha

Keith Moon strikes me as someone who was genuinely mental as oppossed to someone who knew that as a rock star they could get away with more than they ought to be allowed to get away with.

RonMexico

I always found the antics surrounding the making of Chinese Democracy to be hilarious. Axl & Buckethead have a few too many screws loose

Here are a few examples

1997 - Geffen executive Todd Sullivan is given the job of prying the next Guns N' Roses album out of the clutches of Rose, now the band's sole owner. The label thinks that fresh ears might help, and they want to team Guns with a new producer. Sullivan sends Rose a box of CD's by different produces to see if anyone appeals to him. A few days later he will learn that Axl threw the CDs in his driveway without listening to them, and then ran over them with his car until they were just bits of crushed plastic.

Sullivan meets with Rose, who plays him some sketches the band has been trying to develop. Sullivan responds with enthusiasm, and suggests that Axl try to bear down and complete some of these songs. Axl stares at Sullivan and then says, "Hmmm, bear down and complete some of these songs." Sullivan then gets a call from Geffen chairman, Eddie Rosenblatt, informing him he is no longer working with Guns N' Roses.

February 11, 1997 - On a visit to his spiritual advisors in Arizona, Rose is arrested at the Phoenix airport and charged with threatening a security worker searching his luggage. He will later plead guilty to disturbing the peace, fined, and given a day in jail. :pac:

March 2001 - Interscrope brings in Tom Zutaut--the only recording executive ever to get any original music out of Guns N' Roses--to try to get Chinese Democracy finished. He is offered a major bonus if the album is ready by the end of 2001. CD's of alternate instrumental takes will be driven to Axl almost every day. Buckethead will then threaten to quit, and have to be coddled. He will make Axl take him to Disneyland, and then demand that the studio build a chicken wire coop, in which he'll then record his solos.

2001 - Producer Greg Wattenberg is hired to work on Axl's vocal tracks, which seems to be Chinese Democracy's final stumbling block. He'll wait six excruciating weeks to meet Axl, be granted only a twenty-minute interview in the studio, at four in the morning, and ultimately decide to go home.

October 2001 - Gathered around the TV in the recording ,the band watch coverage of protests in Pakistan against the US-led bombardment of Afghanistan. Buckethead learns that an outlet of KFC in Karachi has been set fire to by protesters. Enraged he leaps to his feet - "Thats ****ing it! They've gone too far now! I'm joining the ****ing army!They're not going to hit KFC - no ****ing way! That's it - I can't record anymore. I'm joining the army - now we really are at war." And with that he grabbed his KFC hat, some things from his chicken coop and stormed out of the studio. Not a lot got done that day.


June 2006 - After a sold-out show in Stockholm, and a subsequent celebration at the Café Opera, Axl returns to the Hotel Bern, really drunk, at three a.m. He gets into a shouting match with a young woman. A security guard tries to intervene. Axl smashes a mirror and then bites the security guard on the leg. The police drag him off to jail. International headlines follow the next day along with a $5,000 fine.

Also at one point Buckethead received a gift of a wolf-dog and he let it **** all over the recording studio. He then refused to play when someone wanted to clean it up so they left it there to keep him happy. He also insisted on having hardcore porn on loop in the studio and then there was the time he wiped his jizz all over the walls...:D

telecaster

Keith Moon stories make good reading, but by all accounts he was an utter pain in the hole to be around.

RonMexico

telecaster wrote: »

Keith Moon stories make good reading, but by all accounts he was an utter pain in the hole to be around.

Give me Keith Moon over that boring git Thom Yorke anytime.

telecaster

RonMexico wrote: »

Give me Keith Moon over that boring git Thom Yorke anytime.

WHO THE HELL IS TALKING ABOUT THOM YORKE?

Bodhisopha

RonMexico wrote: »

Give me Keith Moon over that boring git Thom Yorke anytime.

Yeah but Thom Yorke is infinitely more talented than K Moon ever was. I say that as someone who isn't a radiohead fan.

It's swings and roundabouts isn't it.

RonMexico

telecaster wrote: »

WHO THE HELL IS TALKING ABOUT THOM YORKE?

I AM!

Captain Slow IRL

That pussy lead singer from Coldplay as well is another example - he's a vegan and a non-smoker:rolleyes:
Rock on:cool:

RonMexico

Captain Slow IRL wrote: »

That pussy lead singer from Coldplay as well is another example - he's a vegan and a non-smoker:rolleyes:
Rock on:cool:

I'd like to kill him with a trident to the heart. Also the following:

Brandon Flowers
Thom Yorke
All of Keane
All of Franz Ferdinand

minidazzler

You lot will be interested in this I think! How sad that it is true!

http://media.photobucket.com/image/Hard%20core%20scene/mddude/HardcoreScene-nowandthen.jpg

Mr. Presentable

When he found out that Oliver Reed had been signed to work with him in 1974's rock-opera film Tommy, the starstruck Keith Moon decided to introduce himself, arriving by helicopter on the actor's lawn. A furious Reed emerged from the house threatening the intruder with a sword. (The two became great friends, and Reed later credited Moonie with showing him "the way to insanity.")

RonMexico

minidazzler wrote: »

You lot will be interested in this I think! How sad that it is true!

http://media.photobucket.com/image/Hard%20core%20scene/mddude/HardcoreScene-nowandthen.jpg

My eyes !!! My eyes!!! Arrrggghhhh!

Mr. Presentable

Version 2:

Moon moved into the mansion next to Reed, hearing fellow hell raiser Reed lived next door he decided to pay a visit. Being Moon he flew over in his helicopter. Reed, who was in the bath, thought it was journalists or a police raid. He storms out naked with a gun and tries to shoot down the chopper.
Moon survived and as an apology Reed gave him a giant statue of a rhino. Top drummer. Top hell raisers.

Dudess

Apparently Ozzy drank four bottles of vodka in one sitting, then tried to strangle Sharon.

\m/

Mr. Presentable

Sometimes they do the nicest things:

Iggy was committed to a psychiatric hospital in 1975, Bowie was there to lend support as a true friend should; he smuggled drugs into Iggy’s hospital room (with help from Dennis Hopper) to cheer him up.

Dudess

mikom wrote: »

Bullshit, the Jonas brothers are class..........

Man, I'd give anything for them to undergo a conversion and become absolutely debauched.

Bodhisopha

I read a story about either Ozzy or someone from Motley Crue trying to inject Jack Daniels into their veins, but i'm not sure that's true. Wouldn't that kill you?

Dravokivich

tooler08 wrote: »

Mike Patton is full of sh!t...literally

surely he'd bit a bit empty of it now?

anyhow.. i've seen a story once where he made sure press photographers got to be between the barriers and the stage at oone of his shows... then he went and pissed on them at the start of the gig!

- Drav!

Dudess

Iggy was found collapsed on Sunset Boulevard one morning and wearing a dress.

Neo#

Dudess wrote: »

Iggy was found collapsed on Sunset Boulevard one morning and wearing a dress.

Ozzy was arrested wearing a dress too after Sharon took all his clothes so he couldnt go out. He decided he was going out anyway and took one of her dresses!