lies, rumors, and erroneous information spread about musicians at your school as a wee thing

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'Michael Jackson is a woman' - I actually believed this when I was 8, and tried in vain to convince my 12 year old cousin about this. By the way he (my cousin!) was the only Accept fan I ever knew, he had tons of Udo Dirckschneider posters in his room.

matulageci, Thursday, 4 March 2004 15:30 (twenty years ago) link

I've recently been trying to convince Alice (3) that MJ is not a woman.

mark grout (mark grout), Thursday, 4 March 2004 15:34 (twenty years ago) link

LUTHER VANDROSS WANTING A HAMBURGER BUT ONLY HAVING TWO DONUTS INSTEAD OF A ROLL SO USING THEM INSTEAD

I've been recounting this story for years (except it was his favourite snack, not a one-off thing). I'll be needing pretty strong proof it never happened before I stop

DJ Mencap (DJ Mencap), Thursday, 4 March 2004 15:42 (twenty years ago) link

Old work colleague said her dad knew Rod in the '60s and that Rod was rent.

suzy (suzy), Thursday, 4 March 2004 15:48 (twenty years ago) link

bill the cat died of aids
ad rock=skreech

kephm, Thursday, 4 March 2004 15:50 (twenty years ago) link

ad-rock was just skreech's brother - everybody knows that
Michael and Dustin Diamond. Shit. This is obvious.

matulageci, Thursday, 4 March 2004 15:53 (twenty years ago) link

Mike D, not Ad Rock.

rainman (rainman), Thursday, 4 March 2004 15:56 (twenty years ago) link

hey fuckhead, define everyone . thanks kisses xpost

kephm, Thursday, 4 March 2004 15:58 (twenty years ago) link

Stomach pump story got passed on to poor Jewel at my school.

original bgm, Thursday, 4 March 2004 15:59 (twenty years ago) link

is jewel the first woman to inherit it?

strongo hulkington (dubplatestyle), Thursday, 4 March 2004 15:59 (twenty years ago) link

A Kiss comic book was printed with their blood in the ink. (How is it the stories about Kiss are more interesting than the freakin' band, eh?) (Hosers.)

I thought Luther ADMITTED to doing that! I'll swear on a Bible / Spin Alt. Guide / holy book of choice I saw some ET segment where he described that whole sordid scenario.

David R. (popshots75`), Thursday, 4 March 2004 16:04 (twenty years ago) link

The Rod Stewart story which had turned into the Marc Almond story had turned into the Alanis Morrisette story by the time I was in school.

roxymuzak (roxymuzak), Thursday, 4 March 2004 16:07 (twenty years ago) link

the only one I can remember was of ozzy tossing 5 kittens out into the audience and saying he wouldn't start the show until all five were killed and thrown back on stage.

Jonathan (Jonathan), Thursday, 4 March 2004 16:08 (twenty years ago) link

"What was Marc Bolan's last hit?"

It was "Wrap a yellow mini 'round an old oak tree" wasn't it?

Oh, I'm so so sorry, I just couldn't stop that - I'm afraid my computer is suffering from tourettes syndrome.

Stewart Osborne (Stewart Osborne), Thursday, 4 March 2004 16:17 (twenty years ago) link

bollocks is it...

mark grout (mark grout), Thursday, 4 March 2004 16:19 (twenty years ago) link

My stepbrother was adamant that Rage Against The Machine were a nazi band when I was just getting into them, age about 13. He said they were called that because they think black people are machines. "It's a shame cos their music is really good," he noted. The really sad thing is I spent ages studying their lyrics for any evidence of his claim. Didn't find much.

DJ Mencap (DJ Mencap), Thursday, 4 March 2004 16:26 (twenty years ago) link

"bollocks is it... "

Yours too eh? It's a fucking pain in the fucking arse, isn't it you bastard?

Stewart Osborne (Stewart Osborne), Thursday, 4 March 2004 16:30 (twenty years ago) link

Ozzy did the drinking of bucket of passed-around spit in the vers. I heard.

Ozzy hung a midget onstage.

Ozzy killed a bunch of dobermans onstage with a chainsaw.

(This was was kinda gruesome and apparently very specific to my school)

Jimi Hendrix always wore headbands because he had cut on his forhead that he would jam drugs into

(which makes no sense on a number of levels but we didn't really know shit about Hendrix or drugs at the time)

W.A.S.P. stands for either A) We Are Satan's People or B) We Are Sexual Perverts

(This was told to me at a Peter's Brothers semiar The Truth About Rock, a travellling anti-rock "crusade" show my mom took me to)

On the cover of Who's Next, the Who have just urinated on a memorial to deceased British WWII veterens.

M@tt He1geson (Matt Helgeson), Thursday, 4 March 2004 16:35 (twenty years ago) link

Is it true that Gene Simmons cut the little part of his tongue that connects it to the bottom of the mouth, so that he would be able to stick it out really far?

WASP= We are Satan's People

I am not familiar with the stomach pump story. What are the details exactly?

Mitchell (Mitchell), Thursday, 4 March 2004 16:41 (twenty years ago) link

Oh you beat me to the punch with WASP.

I remember hearing that Jimi would soak the headband in heroin and then it would seep into the wound on his forehead.

Mitchell (Mitchell), Thursday, 4 March 2004 16:42 (twenty years ago) link

Very specific version of the Marc Almond story regarding him being notorious for doing his thang in the local park as he was from Southport (my home town).

Jim Robinson (Original Miscreant), Thursday, 4 March 2004 16:46 (twenty years ago) link

Ozzy did hang a midget onstage - as part of the stage act, but still.

We Are Sexual Perverts, according to Blackie Lawless.

Why doesn't the Hendrix thing make sense? I figure it would work pretty well.

DJ Mencap (DJ Mencap), Thursday, 4 March 2004 16:46 (twenty years ago) link

Stomach pump: he/she was filled with fluids. Men's fluids. Men's fluids of LURVE.

Jim Robinson (Original Miscreant), Thursday, 4 March 2004 16:47 (twenty years ago) link

The stomach pump story is that Rock Star is admitted to hospital for some reason (stomach pains probably?) and when his stomach is pumped it turns out he has swallowed a GALLON OF CUM.

(Amount of cum varies by credulity of audience.)

Tico Tico (Tico Tico), Thursday, 4 March 2004 16:48 (twenty years ago) link

... a GALLON OF CUM.
(Amount of cum varies by credulity of audience.)

There's also the varying number of men that the cum came from. I heard anywhere from seven to seventeen.

rainman (rainman), Thursday, 4 March 2004 16:52 (twenty years ago) link

Why doesn't the Hendrix thing make sense? I figure it would work pretty well.

I guess, but wouldn't it be easier and less messy just to shoot up or smoke it?

M@tt He1geson (Matt Helgeson), Thursday, 4 March 2004 16:53 (twenty years ago) link

I vaguely remember being told some extraordinary load of cock and bull about Alice Cooper's live show involving live snakes and stabbing babies and cutting people's heads off with a guillotine and throwing money into the audience and him finally being led off stage in a straight jacket.

Then there was some even more bizarre stuff about some guy in America who used to smear himself in peanut butter and jam and cut himself and throw himself into the audience.

Of course I completely refused to believe any of it it - how gullible did these bastards think I was anyway? And if they were going to invent a character, couldn't they come up with up a slightly more credible name for him than "Iggy Pop"?

Stewart Osborne (Stewart Osborne), Thursday, 4 March 2004 16:57 (twenty years ago) link

GG Allin was going to kill himself onstage.

rainman (rainman), Thursday, 4 March 2004 17:00 (twenty years ago) link

1 gallon of baby gravy between seventeen men works out at .47058823509 of a pint per fella. That's impressive. As for Hendrix, not sure how easy or practical it is to jack up or get out the tin foil in the middle of a show. Not that it ever stopped Shaun Ryder.

DJ Mencap (DJ Mencap), Thursday, 4 March 2004 17:03 (twenty years ago) link

The best part of the stomach-pump legend is the hospital finding it necessary to both measure and DNA-test the sample.

rainman (rainman), Thursday, 4 March 2004 17:07 (twenty years ago) link

When Adam & The Ants first started out, they were a punk band who used to go on stage wearing all sorts of leather and rubber bondage S&M fetish gear and high heels and sing songs with titles like "Beat My Guest", "Whip In My Valise", "Boil In The Bag Man", "Rubber People" and "Bathroom Function"....

What do you mean "liar"? It's all true, every word, honest, I swear it! I saw it with my own eyes!

Stewart Osborne (Stewart Osborne), Thursday, 4 March 2004 17:13 (twenty years ago) link

>GG Allin was going to kill himself onstage.

More specifically, he was going to come onstage with a revolver, fire the first five shots into the audience, and kill himself with the final bullet.

Phil Freeman (Phil Freeman), Thursday, 4 March 2004 17:16 (twenty years ago) link

Mick Jagger was assassinated onstage by a crazed fan when I was in Junior High School. Also heard "dude, Ian's like a TOTAL ALCOHOLIC since Minor Threat broke up" a fair bit.

The Kiss comic book - blood ink is true, although it was just a tiny bit of blood used.

Colin Meeder (Mert), Thursday, 4 March 2004 17:39 (twenty years ago) link

Michael Stipe was dying of AIDS.

maypang (maypang), Thursday, 4 March 2004 17:59 (twenty years ago) link

Robert Plant and Ozzy Osbourne were the same person.

dleone (dleone), Thursday, 4 March 2004 18:01 (twenty years ago) link

How come Rob Halford was never a target of the stomach-pump story?

Phil Freeman (Phil Freeman), Thursday, 4 March 2004 18:24 (twenty years ago) link

Cos the kids at school who liked metal were scary?

Tico Tico (Tico Tico), Thursday, 4 March 2004 18:29 (twenty years ago) link

Stomach pump story was Lil' Kim for me.

Colin Beckett (Colin Beckett), Thursday, 4 March 2004 18:32 (twenty years ago) link

Also: Lil' Bow Wow raped by bodyguard.

Colin Beckett (Colin Beckett), Thursday, 4 March 2004 18:34 (twenty years ago) link

I remember recently hearing a rumor that Bow Wow was going to release a scathing mix tape dis freestyle against 50 Cent, after he mentioned him in that 8 Mile soundtrack song, where he says something about R Kelly stealing Bow Wow's "bitch". Never happnned as far as I know.

M@tt He1geson (Matt Helgeson), Thursday, 4 March 2004 18:37 (twenty years ago) link

when I was in 7th grade my sister told me someone from Guns N Roses OD'd. I told that to like 2 people in homeroom, and by the end of the day some kid was crying and told me G 'N R's tour bus drove off a cliff.

Dan Selzer (Dan Selzer), Thursday, 4 March 2004 18:51 (twenty years ago) link

I heard the stomach pump story with one of Bros. so so far we have...

elton john
rod stewart
marc almond
billy idol
fine young canibals
one of Bros.
'lil kim
ricky martin
jewel

tomp (tomp), Thursday, 4 March 2004 19:01 (twenty years ago) link

I heard the 'throw kittens into the crowd' story with Marilyn Manson, although it was puppies. Also, that he would tell fans to bring bibles to tear up and burn on stage.

derrick (derrick), Thursday, 4 March 2004 20:04 (twenty years ago) link

All the best on-stage horror stories are true.

Phil Freeman (Phil Freeman), Thursday, 4 March 2004 20:10 (twenty years ago) link

CD-R GO!: Best Of Musicians Who Had A Liter Of Semen Pumped Out Of Their Stomach

M@tt He1geson (Matt Helgeson), Thursday, 4 March 2004 20:12 (twenty years ago) link

I heard the stomach pumping thing about Lil' Kim.

T. Weiss (Timmy), Thursday, 4 March 2004 21:04 (twenty years ago) link

In middle school my cousin told me that Marilyn Manson filled large squirt guns (Super Soakers they were called back then?) with semen and shot it into the audience at a show. or several shows.

mallory ahern (chicago, now!), Thursday, 4 March 2004 22:42 (twenty years ago) link

oh and that a girl got pregnant of it.

mallory ahern (chicago, now!), Thursday, 4 March 2004 22:42 (twenty years ago) link

In middle school my cousin told me that Marilyn Manson filled large squirt guns (Super Soakers they were called back then?) with semen and shot it into the audience at a show. or several shows.

I wonder if this evolved out of some stories about Gwar, they always shoot that fake semen (I dearly hope) out of their stage penis thing.

oh and that a girl got pregnant of it.

Wow. Marilyn is quite a marksman.

M@tt He1geson (Matt Helgeson), Thursday, 4 March 2004 22:51 (twenty years ago) link

Pearl Jam was named after the band circle-jerked onto a biscuit (or toast or something) and shared it.

miloauckerman (miloauckerman), Thursday, 4 March 2004 22:53 (twenty years ago) link


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