Can't believe no one's mentioned Robert Johnson's pact with the devil yet. Or that I missed it if someone did.
who deleted my thread from the rockets forum? This is weird!!! I mentioned a phantom thread, and if anybody knew where it went, and it got deleted! Strange things....
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aw man, that's the stuff urban BBS legends are made of... -- back to the topic ...some say Elvis lives.... age progression image
By all accounts Robert Johnson was nothing special as a guitar player as a young man. He tried to play with the older guys, but really wasn't good enough. He left town for awhile (listen to the song "crossroads"), and one of two things happened: 1. He practiced his ass off and became a great blues player. 2. Made a pact with the devil and became a great blues player. Whatever happened, word spread, and Robert Johnson soon became the best blues player in the country, if not the world.
I heard the same thing with the Ohio Players' "Love Rollercoaster," where a scream can be heard from the backgroud, supposedly from a woman who was stabbed during the recording. Legend has it that the model that appeared naked on their "Honey" album cover was burned and had her modeling career ruined by the shoot, being covered in honey nekked with hot lights and the like... she came back for revenge and was stabbed to death by the keys player. Of course, none if it is true, but it is a great song, and I'm going to see the Players in two weeks. "That woman got a pistol ... laid it down on me..."
Yea, I do because my dad loves him. Personally, I'm not a blues guy, but I remember many of a morning riding to school with my old man listening to Johnson, Muddy Watters, B.B. King, Bo Diddley, John Lee Hooker, Elmore James, Taj Mahal, and my dad's all-time favorite, Howlin' Wolf. I can still hear the melody of "Smokestack Lightning" in my head now. Anyone remember that cheesy movie in which Ralph Macchio beats Steve Vai...lol...in a guitar contest. It had to do with this theme of selling your soul to the devil to become a great blues musician. I think it was called "Crossroads", ironically enough. Not to sound arrogant or anything, but I thought that the old blues musician that sells his soul to the devil was as widely-known of an urban musical legend as the Paul is dead thing.
Yep, but those are just coincidences though. Floyd did write "Echoes", the last track on Meddle, after seeing Kubrick's 2001...it is perfectly synched with the last chapter ("Jupiter and Beyond" I think).
Nobody has mentioned the story of Rod Stewart fellating his entire band after a performance and then having his stomach pumped to remove the liter of spooge in his gut.
Two old standards: - Gene Simmons had a cow's tongue sewn into his mouth. - Geddy Lee sang like that on account of throat cancer. One I got from Dylan's official spokesperson, who broke the story of his near fatal motorcycle accident in the mid-sixties: - He did wreck, but wasn't badly injured. Just wanted out of various obligations and wanted time off to dry out.
I was at a summer camp when I was around 12 yrs. old and some other kid in my cabin dropped his walkman and broke it. Just so happened that when you put in a cassette it would play it backwards. Very true.......... if you listened to the verse in Zeppelin's Stairway to Heaven, "yes there are two pairs you can go by, but in the long run," it said, "here's to my sweet satan." Crazy!!! I would have never believed it. But, after reading Hammer Of The Gods, I'll believe anything about them.
The next line (or the previous line if you're listening to it forward) says "bring me a sandwich". This stuff is not too hard to check out. Just open up your PC's basic sound recording program, record that section of the song. The program should let you reverse the file.
Bob Marley's cancer was a job by the CIA. His message was too positive and he had to be put down by the man..
I've heard the backwards Zeppelin track, too, and what it sounds like to me is "aye ee ay-uh." It takes some imagination to get to "my sweet satan." "Hammer of the Gods" is a great source for some of these tales. Remember the red snapper incident? Another good book for classic rock tales is "The Love You Make" about the Beatles. Speaking of the Beatles, I like the story about Dylan meeting them for the first time and supposedly turning them on to pot. He tells them that that he assumed they smoked pot since the have that song about getting high. Turns out Dylan, like everyone else, thought the "I can't hide" line in "I Wanna Hold Your Hand" was "I get high." And there are all the Ozzy urban legends -- biting the head off a bat, passing a bucket around for fans to spit in (or p*ss, depending on the rumor) which he then drinks from, etc. And dont' forget that Michael Hutchence died of autoerotic asphyxiation... Another rumor I heard is that Adam Clayton is a good bass player. Hey, I'm as big a fan of U2 as the next guy, but why do you think all their bass lines are so simple?
that was a widely believed story in the late 70's. but I doubt it's true... Didn't Page buy Alistair Crowley's castle? It's supposedly haunted because of Crowley's heavy involvment with black magic.
The Ozz thing was true...he did actually bite a bathead on stage.. He talked about it on Behind the Music... LOL @ U2....no doubt there...talk about simplistic basslines.....kinda like ACDC basslines...or JP....easy as hell..... fine by me tho..makes em easier for me to play
