"Rock" musicians today are a bunch of Dryballs.

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 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.

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!

nipplenuts wrote: »

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.")

Oliver Reed is a fcuking hero!

One time in the Chateau Marmont, John Bonham dressed himself up as a waiter and rolled a service cart featuring Jimmy Page as the main course into a roomful of underage girls the guitarist always fancied. :eek:

Another time the band cheered on a woman in their hotel room as she had sex with her Great Dane Their manager spotted an opportunity and decided to fry up a pan of bacon and the shove it into the womans appropriate place so the boys could watch the dog chow it down.