Once in a while, I’ll drop some knowledge in the form of musical trivia. Here’s this week’s 5 trivial tidbits:
1. Axl Rose has a 90 year old wizened oracle who he refers to as Yoda, who lives in the Arizona desert and must be consulted on every decision that pertains to his music career by the record executives and upper management.
2. The “oh!” in EMF’s Unbelieveable is an Andrew Dice Clay sample.
3. Brian Wilson is deaf in his left ear, and his father made him shit on his kitchen floor when he was a young’un.
4. Esteemed British music magazine Wire once wrote a review of the Ghost World soundtrack and wrote something like “This is a great collection of early blues and ragtime, but what’s the deal with the Blueshammer track? This is a horrible song and completely out of place.”, referring to the modern blues rock band that the R.Crumb-type character sits through while he waits to hear the Charley Patton-type headliner.
5. On Tony Iommi’s last day at his job at the metal factory before he planned to focus on music full-time, and at the age of 17, he sliced off his finger tips on his right hand and had to completely re-learn guitar.
-Nick Diamonds I S L A N D S
Howie Doo
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thats cool but everyone knows the tony iommi bit
12.01.08 at 2:41 pm
i second that. and #4 is pointless. oh, and FUCK axl rose.
12.01.08 at 3:15 pm
Galaxie 500 frontman Dean Wareham played an early gig as Speedy and the Castanets who lost a “battle of the bands” to Dan Wilson’s The Love Monsters. Dan Wilson went on to have a gay-ass smash hit in the 90’s called “Closing Time” about being a pussy in a bar and not getting the fat chick he wanted to fuck at the end of the night.
12.01.08 at 3:59 pm
Definitely didn’t know the tony iommi bit…
12.01.08 at 4:03 pm
one time george harrison was the first beatle up a staircase and he tumbled back and all the beatles fell together and their clatter if recorded would’ve been a four-part harmony but instead everyone just felt bad, so bad that every woman on earth shed a single tear without knowing why, and the door to Faerie was sealed forever, rendering the English countryside essentially useless for all time, except it looks okay in good pictures
12.01.08 at 6:11 pm
when the lead singer of joy division died, the rest of the band formed new order!
12.01.08 at 7:13 pm
6. Islands is a horrible and awful sounding band compared to The Unicorns. Their 2nd album “Arm’s Way” sounded like diarrhea & was probably a direct result of the pompous lead singer who lost touch with reality.
12.01.08 at 9:23 pm
7. Alec Empire used to be one of the best breakdancers in Berlin
12.01.08 at 11:13 pm
IS it gay to talk about me?
12.02.08 at 1:26 am
I like boy george.
12.02.08 at 4:24 am
Edge of Seventeen was mistakenly heard by Stevie Nicks from Tom Petty’s wife. SHe was saying, Me and Tom met at the age of seventeen. Stevie heard “edge” because Mrs. Petty is from Florida and talks like that. Then she wrote the song.
12.02.08 at 10:15 am
tony iommi had ceramic caps made to put on his finger stubs. that means he is a cyborg. ha ha “paranoid” was written by a cyborg.
12.02.08 at 1:25 pm
11. John Joseph has over 1,000 “My Little Ponies.”
12.03.08 at 9:05 am