Some fascinating gossip in this thread. Keep it coming!
He learned all he knows from Tiger Woods.
why isn't the drummer's fiance suing Eddie herself?
is she even still in the picture?
btw, it wasn't his thumb Eddie was sticking out his zipper.
I would guess he's about out of tickets to paradise
Glenn Symmonds was once a member of Automatic Man.
It SOUNDS as if someone above is saying Dave Grohl is from Nirvana, but if so I had no idea. I've actually hardly ever seen any video of Nirvana in action - just a couple of minutes of their Unplugged show for MTV back when they were still newish.
All that grunge stuff was pretty uninteresting to me though. Foo Fighters' music seems boring as hell - I could never understand why they were on SNL, Letterman, etc. so often.
https://pitchfork.com/news/sigur-ros...t-leaves-band/
Trend of the times or ?
You know I consider you a friend, Jed, and I too never "got" what all the fuss was about for grunge music, AND I'm also not impressed much by the Foo people......BUT... anyone who claims to be a music fan and doesn't know that Mr. Foo was Cobain's drummer is living under a much bigger rock than the rest of us.
"My choice early in life was either to be a piano player in a whorehouse or a politician, and to tell the truth, there's hardly any difference"
President Harry S. Truman
Yeah, I hated Nirvana, I mean really, with a passion, and even I knew the other two guys were Krist Novoselic (bass) and Dave Grohl (drums). And the auxiliary guitarist on their last tour was Pat Smear, already a legend (apparently) from his days with The Germs in the early 80's. Smear then went on to play in the first version of The Foo Fighters.
I used to listen to the late night call in show on one of the college stations here. One night, for whatever reason, the host (a Nirvana fan) was talking about Nirvana's bassist, but he called him Krist Cosloveic or something like that. I called up and said, "Steve, I hate that band, you know that, even I know his name is Krist Novoselic!". His response? "Ask me if it really matters".
^^ I hated Nirvana from the beginning for killing Metal music. I wasn't so concerned about the excesses of Hair Metal, but was extremely angered that Thrash and Death Metal went down along with Hair Metal. In the early to mid 90s, I was a huge Thrash and Death Metal fan. In the wake of Cobain's suicide, Ted Nugent was saying he was glad Cobain was dead for various reasons...one of the few times I've agreed with Mr. Nugent.
"Well my son, life is like a beanstalk, isn't it?"--Dalai Lama
Contrary to popular belief, Nirvana did not "kill" heavy metal, . Heavy metal did itself in. Besides glam metal being inundated by what were essentially boy bands, you pretty much the rest of the genre getting carried away with itself. Faster, louder, more distortion, uglier guitar tones, too much double bass drum nonsense, weak production, worse songwriting and don't get me started on the Cookie Monster vocals.
In short, metal killed whatever mainstream appeal it had during the 80's with all the "more metal than thou". Yeah, I realize a genre has to evolve, but the attempts to be "heavier" I think undermined the genre, as did the whole attempts at "sounding evil" or "more evil than..." thing. Dude, if you want to play "evil sounding" music, you're in the wrong genre. You should be playing smooooooth jazz.
Lately, I've come to the belief that one of the reasons so much 70's era hard rock/heavy rock/heavy metal/whatever music sounds as good as it does is the drumming. On various occasions, I've heard it suggested that Bill Ward, Ian Paice, and Peter Criss all had a swing element to their playing, and I think that might be true of the drummers who played on the first three or four Judas Priest records. I'm not sure if "swing" is what I'm responding to, but I feel like there was a "secret ingredient" in the drumming that, in my view, kinda helped define the sound of the respective bands. And when subsequent generations of drummers came along, with the double bass drum crap, the more intricate and regimented drumming, I think it changed the way things sounded, and I'm not sure that change was for the better.
Money actually has a reality show a la "The Osbornes" about him & his family (3 of his 20-something kids are in his band now-maybe to avoid further dalliances).
It's on AXS TV.
Warning: you'll never get these 2 minutes back
https://youtu.be/3WVvD_6w1YY
"My choice early in life was either to be a piano player in a whorehouse or a politician, and to tell the truth, there's hardly any difference"
President Harry S. Truman
"And your little sister's immaculate virginity wings away on the bony shoulders of a young horse named George who stole surreptitiously into her geography revision."
Occasional musical musings on https://darkelffile.blogspot.com/
"My choice early in life was either to be a piano player in a whorehouse or a politician, and to tell the truth, there's hardly any difference"
President Harry S. Truman
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