Friday, June 6. 2008
During the recoring of Pink Floyd`s Wish you were here album, during the song wish you were here after the intro while the three notes after the intro were being played, Syd Barret walked into the studio. And it tripped all of them out.
He showed up over
Axl roses name is William, or Bill Bailey famous in the UK for being both the subject of an old wartime ditty (Bill Bailey, wont you please come home....) and the name of one of Britains top comedians (who interestingly enough is a classically trained mus
Here`s a fun fact, taken from the Beatles Anthology...Jimmy Page produced the A side of the Stone`s Satisfaction LP at BBC Studios. The Beatles sat in on that session after they returned from their American Tour (when they performed on the Ed Sullivan Sho
Pink floyd got Paul McCartney to do some spoken word on dark side but he wasn`t recording with the Beatles on an Abbey Road but was recording Red Rose Speedway one of his inferior solo albums. Also Smells Like Teen Spirit was not an advertising slogan but
The Floyd we know today was formed in 1965 from the following bands, who I don`t feel like listing their info: Leonard`s Lodgers, The Abdabs, and The Tea Set. Their name did come from the above mentioned Blues Musicians, they turned professional on Februa
During the recording of `The Dark Side Of The Moon`, the guys from Pink Floyd wrote on little papers questions like `Are you afraid of death?` and gave them to everyboy that was working at Abbey Road studio at the time. This included all the roadies, sou
The three...symbols? in the cover of The Police`s `Ghost In The Machine` are supposed to represent the band`s three integrants...though no one knows why or which is which.
Actually, the 3 symbols are supposed to be LED depictions of the band members
Another backwards message in a famous cd. If the song `Empty Spaces` from `The Wall` is played backwards, you can hear the phrase `You have now discovered the secret message of Rock `N Roll...please write.`
the message is actually `congratulations,
Dave Grohl have four Bonham tattoos all over his body.
Jimi got the inspiration for `Purple Haze` after having a dream where he could walk underwater,
or he was just high on acid at the time and thought he was actually walking under water.
The Ramones got their name & the idea of all of them having the same last name from Paul McCartney. McCartney called himself Paul Ramon in 1960 when the Silver Beatles (as they were known then) undertook a Scottish tour as backing group for singer Johnny
Rick Nielsen`s five neck guitar consists of one 12 string neck, one fretless, one was a telecaster stlyed pickups, one had humbuckers with a floyd rose bridge, and one with standard humbuckers
5150 is also a LA police code.
It apparently code for an escaped lunatic.
Stevie Ray Vaughan was the guitarist on David Bowie`s `Let`s Dance` album
Al Kooper, who played organ on Dylan`s `Like A Rolling Stone,` had never played organ before the session. He had turned up to the studio hoping to play guitar and, finding an excellent guitarist (Mike Bloomfield) already on hand, sat down at the organ ins
