Myths in Prog & Rock?

[Udi Koomran]

Robery Wyatt took acid and spread his wings and flew out of a window

[notallwhowander]

Progeezer is actually a Highlander, and vanquishes other immortals during prog-rock light shows.

[Classic Progressive]

I've been told some women love to get naked and dance to Roundabout, apparently there's proof. But still a myth for me.

Also, I saw the guy who looks like Jesus in the white robes once at a concert. He sold me some blotter, and I saw a whole lot more for another day and a half.......... Or that whole scenario was my vision on a mescaline high I had back in 77. Hummmmm a trip within a trip... Not sure how this story relates to the topic but there was prog involved, I am sure of it.

[Wah3]

Phil Collins watching someone drowning, then writing In The Air Tonight.

Ozzie Osbourne biting off the head of a bat on stage. Oh wait that one may actually be true.

[WytchCrypt]

Ask Heather Mills.Long-haired bearded people at a Genesis show??? There's no other explanation!!!

Obviously a myth...everyone knows the way to see God is play Black Sabbath at 78rpm

[Oreb]

The minstrel Marillion in the books Song of Ice and Fire is named after the band.

'Gates of Delirium' is based on Tolstoy's War and Peace.

[HONDO]

Alice Cooper passed around a chalice and audience members spit in it and he drank the sputum filled chalice.

[trurl]

Alice Cooper passed around a chalice and audience members spit in it and he drank the sputum filled chalice.

I've heard a lot of rumors about Alice but that one is new...

[Kcrimso]

Vangelis played on Olias Of Sunhillow. False of course (or is it?).

[GuitarGeek]

Ozzie Osbourne biting off the head of a bat on stage. Oh wait that one may actually be true.

It is true. Ozzy said someone threw it onstage, and he thought it was a rubber bat. Then after the concert, had to get I forget how many shots for the rabies or whatever.

And while we're at it, he also bit the head off a dove during a record company conference, also.

[Rufus]

PJ Proby sang many of Elvis' s hits!!

[Rufus]

I've heard a lot of rumors about Alice but that one is new...

Yeah, the Chicken incident comes to mind!!!

[GuitarGeek]

If we may step out of the rock realm for a second, I recall reading that there was a rumor at one point that porn star turned disco queen Andrea True was born a man. There were so many people who bought into that it spawned a further rumor that Andrea True wasn't born a man.

Wasn't there talk at some stage that Mick and Keith had something to do with Brian Jones' death?

Also talk that John Lennon and Brian Epstein had an affair?

Lou Reed meant Metal Machine Music as a great big one fingered salute to his record company.

Pat Metheny meant Zero Tolerance For Silence as a one fingered salute to his record company.

[Oreb]

It is true. ... And while we're at it, he also bit the head off a dove during a record company conference, also.

Which is why Osborne's status as a drug-fucked loser is no myth,

[davis]

Which is why Osborne's status as a drug-fucked loser is no myth,

I'd probably be the same if I had to live with his wife.

[PeterG]

Who? I thought it was common knowledge that Raphael Ravenscroft played the iconic sax hook on that.

You have to have been in the UK at the time. Bob Holness was a well known radio actor and TV quiz host.
I knew his daughter Roz very well, she was in Toto Coelo, for those who remember them

[Kavus Torabi]

Frank Zappa took a shit on stage, said 'Beat that' and Captain Beefheart ate it.

[Kavus Torabi]

Christian Vander took a shit on stage, said 'Beat that' and Yoshida Tatsuya ate it.

[Kavus Torabi]

she was in Toto Coelo, for those who remember them

I Eat Canibal. I remember well.

[walt]

Someone actually defined what prog is.

[PeterG]

I Eat Canibal. I remember well.

And their other "hit" Dracula's Tango. Those girls was stunners, every one of them! I knew Roz Holness when she was running a new age shop in the King's Road in the 90s.

[SymfoZone]

Read in some magazine that Sky guitarist John Williams is now a film score composer...

[Lopez]

Three that I heard in high school:

1. Ginger Baker injected LSD into his brain and had less than a year to live (that was in 1968).

2. Mark Farner got boo'ed so bad at a Grand Funk concert, that he put his guitar down, said, "If anyone can play better, let him come up here," to which Eric Clapton stepped out of the audience.

3. There was a Monterey curse. That explains why so many performers and famous attendees (Brian Jones being one) of that '67 fest died young.

[walt]

Alice Cooper was really Eddie Haskell("you look very nice,Mrs Cleaver")

[Jerjo]

I've been told some women love to get naked and dance to Roundabout, apparently there's proof. But still a myth for me.

Some of us were lucky enough to DL that one when it came out. It's no myth.

My wife and I were at a Rush concert and during Roll the Bones she started dancing on the landing by our seats. I think some Rush fans behind us swooned at the sight of an actual woman at a Rush show and others were outraged that she actually made Roll the Bones interesting.