The effects of Beer, Drugs and other excesses

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   Rock Music is funny. It has created the most unbelievable scenarios. If you read about them in the Press (Rock or mainstream), you laugh at the incredulity of it all. Truth is always stranger (funnier?) than fiction, so with this in mind, what stories concerning rock that are both true and funny can you recount? I've come up with several that I can remember from the distant past, such as...
In the mid/late 70's, Black Sabbath toured with a pair of dwarves dressed in cowled monk's habits, who danced around the stage during the final number, before jumping into the orchestra pit, which had been rigged out to resemble the fires of hell. Apparently, the road crew became increasingly fed up with the off-stage antics of these vertically challenged characters, who were becoming bigger prats than Sabbath (if that was possible), so they extracted their revenge on the final night of the tour by removing the mattresses from the bottom of the pit! Witnesses to this event said that the screams of pain, coming from the little people after they landed on the concrete floor, could still be heard a good 20 minutes after the audience had left the theatre!

In 1980, Motorhead toured Europe to promote their "Bomber" LP. Their stage-set included a huge lighting rig in the shape of a WWII Lancaster bomber. In the middle of their show in Berlin, Lemmy pointed to the rig, suspended over the audience, saying to them, "Bet you haven't seen one of these over here for a few years, eh?"

The 70's was very good to British pop band Slade. They thoroughly enjoyed the high-life that came their way, especially to their singer Noddy Holder. Whilst on tour, his drinking at the hotel bar was interrupted by a member of the front desk staff. "What's the problem?" inquired Noddy. "No problem, Mr. Holder," replied the receptionist, "It's 8 a.m. I'm your wake-up call!"

Can you recall anything just as daft?

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John McIntyre Members Profile Send Private Message Find Members Posts Add to Buddy List Reviewer page Forum Groupie Joined: February 03 2009 Location: Edinburgh Status: Offline Points: 91	Topic: The effects of Beer, Drugs and other excesses Posted: February 21 2009 at 18:02
	Rock Music is funny. It has created the most unbelievable scenarios. If you read about them in the Press (Rock or mainstream), you laugh at the incredulity of it all. Truth is always stranger (funnier?) than fiction, so with this in mind, what stories concerning rock that are both true and funny can you recount? I've come up with several that I can remember from the distant past, such as... In the mid/late 70's, Black Sabbath toured with a pair of dwarves dressed in cowled monk's habits, who danced around the stage during the final number, before jumping into the orchestra pit, which had been rigged out to resemble the fires of hell. Apparently, the road crew became increasingly fed up with the off-stage antics of these vertically challenged characters, who were becoming bigger prats than Sabbath (if that was possible), so they extracted their revenge on the final night of the tour by removing the mattresses from the bottom of the pit! Witnesses to this event said that the screams of pain, coming from the little people after they landed on the concrete floor, could still be heard a good 20 minutes after the audience had left the theatre! In 1980, Motorhead toured Europe to promote their "Bomber" LP. Their stage-set included a huge lighting rig in the shape of a WWII Lancaster bomber. In the middle of their show in Berlin, Lemmy pointed to the rig, suspended over the audience, saying to them, "Bet you haven't seen one of these over here for a few years, eh?" The 70's was very good to British pop band Slade. They thoroughly enjoyed the high-life that came their way, especially to their singer Noddy Holder. Whilst on tour, his drinking at the hotel bar was interrupted by a member of the front desk staff. "What's the problem?" inquired Noddy. "No problem, Mr. Holder," replied the receptionist, "It's 8 a.m. I'm your wake-up call!" Can you recall anything just as daft?
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John McIntyre Members Profile Send Private Message Find Members Posts Add to Buddy List Reviewer page Forum Groupie Joined: February 03 2009 Location: Edinburgh Status: Offline Points: 91	Posted: February 22 2009 at 12:42
	I doubt if they'll mean much to non-Brits, but there used to be a pop band from Liverpool called The La's (pronounced "The Larrs") who had a solitary hit called "There She Goes". The leader of the band was one Lee Mavers, who, after the hit, let stardom (or drugs or booze - take your pick) go to his his head, and his behaviour in the studio was wont to become rather "erratic". During one long recording session, he was trying to re-create a 60's sound. He had already shipped in the mixing desk from Abbey Road, as used by The Beatles, but he still couldn't get it right. "It's probably the valves in the desk", (for US readers, what we call a valve, you call a tube),"they're too new!!" So, some 60's valves were found in a warehouse in Germany, freighted over and swopped for the existing components. Mavers was still dissatisfied with the sound and disappeared for a couple of days to ponder the problem. On his return, he announced that "the valves...they're too clean - there's no 60's dust on them". The response from the studio staff and his management was never recorded!
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John McIntyre Members Profile Send Private Message Find Members Posts Add to Buddy List Reviewer page Forum Groupie Joined: February 03 2009 Location: Edinburgh Status: Offline Points: 91	Posted: February 23 2009 at 14:33
	Tony Iommi, Black Sabbath’s guitarist, was renowned as being a grumpy sod who took himself far too seriously. At one point in his career, he decided that not enough attention was being paid to his lengthy, preposterous and, quite frankly, bloody dreadful guitar solo. With a proud, snobbish air, he demanded that the rest of the band stay silent, the road crew do the same (on pain of financial retribution) and the audience also be encouraged to keep shtum. The first night of the tour was a prestigious gig at their home town at the Birmingham Odeon. Iommi’s moment became nigh, the lights dimmed, the hall fell silent, expectancy swept around the auditorium as Iommi raised his hand over the strings….. and from the speakers came the immortal words, “Car 292, can you do a pick-up at New Street Station travelling to Cradley Heath?”
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