101 Things You Didn't Know About Rock N' Roll

Hi there. I really wanted to post an article that was entertaining and informative (or kinda), so I decided to do the "101 Things You Didn't Know About Rock N' Roll" (I know you probably know quite a few and that they ain't all about rock but...its a catchy title!). I tried to research as much as I could, but maybe there are some things that aren't (totally) true, so corrections would be greatly apreciated. Also bear in mind that I'm from Argentina (if you are bored, look in a map...I live in the most southern part of the continet...pretty much the World's Ass), and I'm 16 so they might be a few mistakes or weird expressions. I know it's long, but I prefered to do it all in one go. If you think it's too long and you'll get bored, don't read it or post things like "kinda long article...", please.

Anyway, I did my best and here it is:

01. When "Stairway To Heaven" is played backwards, you can hear the phrase "oh here's to my sweet satan..the one who's little path would make me sad, whose power is satan..he'll give you give you 666 there was a little toolshed where he would make us suffer, sad in the part of "if there's a bustle..." (check this, it scared the shit out of me).

02. The mighty final chord of The Beatles' "A Day In The Life" was played by ten hands in three pianos simultaneously: Lennon's, Mc Cartney's, Starr's, Martin's (their manager?) and Evan's (their roadie).

03. The Beach Boys' "Pet Sounds" is called like this because of an insult between bandmates. When Brian Wilson showed Mike Love (the band's singer) the new material, he said "Who the hell is going to listen to this?...the ears of a dog?".

04. Bob Dylan's "Highway 61 Revisited" is named after the route that goes through Bob's home state, Minesota, and enters the Mississippi delta.

05. "London Calling" was part of a catch phrase ("Good morning America, this is the London Calling!") of a BBC show during World War II, of which the The Clash's guitarists Joe Strummer was a fan.

06. The night of Jimi's first gig, Jeff Beck was coming out of the club and outside he ran into Eric Clapton and Pete Townshend. With a frightened expression he told them "I think we're in trouble here!".

07. Dave Grohl (Nirvana, Foo Fighters) has Bonzo's (Led Zeppelin's drummer) symbol, three intersecting symbols tattooed on his forearm.

08. "Layla" was written by Eric Clapton to steal George Harrison's wife, Patty Boid. Layla was the nickname Eric had given her inspired by a turkish legend (not so sure about that) in which Layla was the main character.

09. Zepp's "Black Dog" is called like this because when they were recording the song, a huge black dog entered the studio, that was located in a rather ...rural setting.

10. The Young brothers´s sister was the one who recommended the school uniform to Angus for their first gig (Angus's age was publicized as being 15 to go with the school boy outfit) (thanx Evil Kid 93).

11. Steve Morse's (Deep Purple) guitar has 11 different pickup positions.

12. In 1968 Jimi Hendrix bought a studio located in the 52 West Eight Street, Greewnwich Village, New York, with the idea of transforming it into a nightclub. His sound tecnician convinced him of turning it into a studio and in August 27th 1970 "Electric Lady" officialy opened it's doors. Both recording rooms haven't changed a bit since Jimi jammed there (one still has the same paints hanging on the walls and sofas, and the other -Purple Haze- still has the purple console). When The Clash recorded "Sandinista!" there, they swear Jimi's spirit added an extra guitar line in the album. That may sound weird (and stoned) but the truth is that doors close on their own, floors creak and a magic can be sensed in the air (or so they say).

13. 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.

14. The Yardbirds were the ones who gave Clapton the nickname "Slowhand".

15. According to the South Park kids, The Cure's "Disintegration" is the best album of all times.

16. Def Leppard's drummer, Rick Allen, lost an arm in a car crash in the mid-eighties. However, Rick decided to keep on playing, and learned to do it with his feet and some programmed drum lines. The band continued as normal, and their next album with their "new" drummer was "Pyromania".

17. Mitch Mitchell, The Jimi Hendrix Experience's drummer took his first drum lessons with Jim Marshall (that's right, the guy who made amps!)

18. Van Halen's "5150" is named after Eddie's Peavey 5150 amp, which is built exclusively for him.

19. "Smells Like Teen Spirit" was the name (or slogan..not so sure) of a deodorant brand.

20. Jimi got the inspiration for "Purple Haze" after having a dream where he could walk underwater.

21. The "Government Yard In Trench Town" houses given by the government where Bob Marley lived in the late '50s.

22. The solo in The Beatle's "While My Guitar Gently Weeps" is played by Clapton.

23. "Freebird" is dedicated to Duane Allman (The Allman brother's band).

24. Axl's "Sweet Child" was Erin Everly, daughter of Don Everly (from the Everly Brothers). Axl and Erin got married, but their marriage only lasted a month (talk about a wasted song).

25. Slash's favourite song is "Nobody's Fault" by Aerosmith. As he said, "first heard it at the house of a girl I wanted to date. I went to her house, talked for a while, smoked a joint, and then she put the cd (Rocks), it hit me like a ton of bricks...and I totally forgot about her".

26. Neil Young wrote "Rockin' In The Free World" after he heard one of the members of Crazy Horse say he liked playing in Europe rather than the Middle East better, because "It's better to rock in the free world". The song became sort of an anthem but really refers to the "pride and guilt of being American".

27. Elton John's real name is Reg Dwight.

28. "Sunday Bloody Sunday" originally started with the phrase "Don't talk to me about the rights of the IRA" but was ultimately changed to "I can't believe the news today" because U2 was afraid that their peace calling would be misunderstood.

29. Black Sabbath's guitarist, Tony Iommi, lost part of two fingers in a "work accident", and it seemed the band was over. However, he managed to continue playing using a device which made his two stump fingers "longer", and tuning the guitar three steps down in order to loosen the strings and bend them more easily. His first song with his new "style" was a damn good one: "Iron Man".

30. Pink Floyd's "Shine On You Crazy Diamond" is dedicated to the band's former leader Syd Barret. Syd used to be the leader...until his schizophrenia and the LSD started to catch up with him, and he became rather insane. The band called David Gilmour, who had given Syd guitar lessons during high shool, and would cover for Syd during concerts, correcting his mistakes and filling in when he started playing along to a different tune. Syd eventually got more and more distanced of the band and David got to be the lead guitarist, but lots of the insanity themes they sing about is related to their former bandmate.

31. On march 20th 1991, Eric Clapton's son Connor fell out of a balcony in his New York department. The sad, beautiful and chick-magnet song "Tears In Heaven" is dedicated to him (along with "The Circus Left The Town").

32. Lynyrd Skynyrd's Ronnie Van Zant is said to be buried with a Neil Young t-shirt, the same he uses on his last cd cover. The admiration between these two musicians was mutual: Young said he'd rather play "Sweet Home Alabama" than "Southern Man" (his own southern anthem).

33. "Smoke On The Water" refers to a Frank Zappa show in Montreux in 1971, where someone lit a flaregun and "burned the place to the ground". This song is also being learned by 750 guitarists as you are reading this (just kidding but...hey have you ever met a guitarist who didn't know it?).

34. If "The Dark Side Of The Moon" is played at the precise moment the MGM lion roars for the second time in the movie "The Wizard Of Oz", the cd is perfectly sinchronized with the movie. I have downloaded the movie with the cd played over it and I can assure you there are parts (the beggining of "Money" and most of "The Great Gig In The Sky") that seem as if it had been done on purpose.

35. Jimi created "Little Wing" in only 145 seconds! that's only two minutes and a half! pretty much the same as the song's lenght!

36. Malcom Young used to play the solos in AC/DC, until one day he told his brother "You do them...cuz they keep busy the hand I use for drinking!".

37. Pink Floyd's original name was Sigma 6. The band included Roger Waters on bass, Nick Mason on drums, Richard Wright on keyboard, Bob Close on guitar, and Syd Barret also on guitar. With Syd’s influence, the band changed their name to The Pink Floyd Sound, named after Pink Anderson and Floyd Council (two bluesmen).

38. Bruce Dickinson (Iron Maiden), Steve Morse and Carter Beauford (Dave Mathews Band's drummer) all share an uncommon passion: on their free time they love to fly aeroplanes (and of course they own a few).

39. Once, a treasured Les Paul Standard that originally belonged to Aerosmith's Joe Perry came into Slash's possesion. Joe had had this guitar (his favourite) taken by his ex-wife or stolen (depending on which story you read), and a dealer eventually got hold of it and offered it to Slash. He snapped it up since it symolized the influence Aerosmith had had on him. Joe pleaded with Slash to have it returned, but he didn't - until Joe's 50th birthday when he presented it as his birthday present.

40. Eric Clapton popularized a setting for lead called "Woman Tone", which basically consists of the neck pickup with tone control rolled back, and is also used by Slash.

41. Steve Vai picked up a guitar for the first time after he heard Zepp's "Heartbreaker". His sister "brought 'Led Zepp II' to my house and that was it. When I heard "Heartbreaker" and that solo...I knew I wanted to play guitar!"

42. The tuning used in "Seven Nation Army" that sounds so...basslike is E A E A C#E in case you ever wondered.

43. One night at a gig, when The Who had just begun, Pete Townshend was experimenting with the feedback he got when he put his guitar near his amp. He accidentally hit the ceiling with the guitar, which caused an awesome sound that was cheered by the (small) audience. Pete tried to repeat that sound with such bad (or good) luck that he broke the guitar's neck. "No one cheered, in fact there was a terrible silence, a "this-guy-is-an-asshole silence, so i finished breaking the guitar acting as if that had been my true intention". On The Who's next performance there were twice as many people.

44. Prince is a huge fan of Hendrix. The song "Purple Rain" is an alegory to "Purple Haze".

45. B.B. King's beatiful guitar is a Gibson ES-355, but is known as Lucille. Actually, King has quite a few of these guitars (and a custom series), all named Lucille. He even dedicated her a song, in which he tells her how much she means to him and the adventures they had together.

46. Slash's real name is Saul Hudson (it is a good thing he changed his name...I'm not so sure he would've been able to inspire a whole generation of guitarists with a name like Saul).

47. "Here we are now, entertain us" was what Kurt would say whenever he entered a party in order to "break the ice".

48. When Brian May was nine he realized that he couldn't play all the songs he wanted to in the acoustic guitar he had gotten two years before, so he decided to change it. However, he didn't have enough money to buy one, so, with a little help from his father, he started building his own ax in 1963. This guitar was finished the next year, and was baptized "Red Special" (it is red, in case you haven't guessed).

49. Elvis liked being generous. Once he drove by a man who was repairing his fence (which was constantly broken by fans), on his shiny brand new truck. The man looked at him admiringly and said "I wish I could have a truck like yours! It is my dream", to which Elvis replied "Do you have a buck?" "Yeah sure" the man gave him a buck. "Here. The truck is yours".

50. We're halfway there! For number 50 I decided to put one of rock's most popular legends:

"If you sit to wait on a crossroads near Missisipi on a moonless night, and you are willing to pay the price, you'll feel a very strange wind. Next, the Devil himslef will tune your guitar and you will be gifted with the ability to play like no one else has before. Of course that in this process you will have exchanged your soul and you will suffer for eternity in hell sooner or later."

This story is the base of the cult to the misterious figure of Robert Johnson, a bluesman who lived and died in Missisipi, at the deadly age of 27 (if you don't believe me ask Jimi, Brian Jones, Janis Joplin... Karen Carpenter anyone?). The legend says it is time to pay the price once you turn 27, so this legend has also been the "logical" explanation for many people to Kurt's and Jimi's death. I also heard that Eric Clapton also performed this agreement with the devil (but apparently found a way to avoid the...payment). The movie "Crossroads" is entirely based on this legend.

51. In the 50's, Little Richard kicked Jimi Hendrix out of his band for stealing the spotlight: Jimi wouldn't wear the uniform Richard had imposed (since he wanted all the attention to his figure) and the audience was delighted with his guitarist's eccentric way of dressing.

52. The blues singer and guitarist Blind Willie McTell was also known as: Pig'N'Whistle Red, Hot Shot Willie, Blind Sammie, Red Hot Willie, Georgia Bill, Peg and Whistle Red and Barrelhouse Sammie. (bad joke: "Did you receive the Blind Willie McTell disc I asked you for?" "No, but I just got this Pig'N'Whistle Red disc. Listen to it!"...."Oh my god I love it! Forget Blind Willie, I'll take every Pig'N'Whistle disc you have!!!")

53. "Yesterday" first appeared in 1965. By 1967, there were 466 versions of the song. Nowadays there are more than 4000 versions.

54. The Sex Pistols were banned almost in every part of the UK, so they started touring under the name SPOT (Sex Pistols On Tour).

55. Steve Vai has a very..uncommon hobby: beekeping. He got into it by chance, when a group of bees decided to live in his backyard...and now he sells honey and the (surprisingly large amounts of) money made goes directly to his "Make A Noise" fundation.

56. James Hetfield got the idea for "Nothing Else Matters" one day he was talking on the phone and with his free hand strummed the strings in a particular order. He hung up and inmediately started working on the song.

57. 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, sound technicians, the Irish doorman, and even Paul McCartney (who was recording "Abbey Road" with the Fab Four on the same studio). The answers to the questions were recorded, and the best ones were put on the disc. However, Paul's answers weren't put on the disc because "he tried to be funny".

58. The Sex Pistols' arch-demon manager Malcolm McLaren used to give them words that he wanted them to brainstorm and make songs from. One of these words was "submission". McLaren expected a song about handcuffs and rubber masks, but the boys gave him a song about a submarine mission, just to piss him off. Get it? Sub-mission. Good shit. (Thank you oh great Nolan Whyte)

59. 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".

60. In Freddie Mercury's video "The Great Pretender", one of the women that sing with him is actually the band's drummer Roger Taylor disguised as one.

61. At age 47, the Rolling Stones' bassist, Bill Wyman, began a relationship with 13-year old Mandy Smith, with her mother's blessing. Six years later, they were married, but the marriage only lasted a year. Not long after, Bill's 30-year-old son Stephen married Mandy's mother, age 46. That made Stephen a stepfather to his former stepmother. If Bill and Mandy had remained married, Stephen would have been his father's father-in-law and his own grandpa. (OK this was really confusing and weird...i put it only to see if any stones fan can confirm this pervert story).

62. Lynyrd Skynyrd took their name from a high school teacher named Leonard Skinner who had suspended several students for having long hair.

63. Jim Morrison found the name "The Doors" for his rock band in the title of Aldous Huxley's book "The Doors Of Perception", which extolls the use of hallucinogenic drugs. (The other day I saw a guy who looked kinda stoned reading it on the subway..and when I got near him to read the back part of the book...he gave me a paranoic look and got down on the next stop running! I'm not kiddin you!)

64. Guns And Roses recorded the beautiful "Patience" one night they were totally drunk (maybe that explains why the song is perfect for a it-doesn't-matter-if-the-bitch-left-you-have-another-beer-and-howl-along-with-us night). The next morning when the band heard what they had recorded they thought it was a hell of a song, but needed to be re-recorded since Axl could be heard puking his guts out in the middle of the it.

65. Unlike pretty much every rockstar, Frank Zappa didn't like beer. He used to say his body "gets along better with pepper, tobacco and coffee". This is kinda contradictory cuz Frank said "You can't be a real country unless you have a beer and an airline. It helps if you have some kind of a football team or some nuclear weapons, but at the very least you need a beer."

66. One of Rick Nielsen's (Cheap Trick) guitars has five (yes, 5!) necks (I'm gonna need some help here...one neck is a regular one... other is a fretless...a 12-stringed one...but what about the other two??)

67. Pearl Jam's Eddie Vedder liked so much The Who, and looked up so much to Townshend (probably because of the lack of a fatherly figure in his life) that he claimed that he "should be sending Pete Townshed a card for Fathers Day". (Thanx GoodNite_AmyLee)

68. Ummagumma (a Pink Floyd cd) is (british) slang for sex.

69. The Beatles used to go out and get wasted, laid, high and do fun stuff with some members of the Rolling Stones and...the Bee Gees.

70. The name AC/DC was suggested by Angus and Malcolm's sister Margaret Young, who saw a label that read AC/DC on the back of a vacuum cleaner. The Young brothers thought it was a good name for their band, because "it had something to do with electricity, so it seemed to fit" (thanx Evil Kid 93...again).

71. Bob Dylan said on his school yearbook that his ultimate dream was being in Little Richard's band.

72. The "always amazing, Mr." Steve Vai, in colaboration with Ibanez, literally put himself into a project called the JEM VAI2K DNA guitar - a limited-edition release of the JEM. The fun thing is "Ibanez used my blood – a lot of my blood – in the guitar's swirling paint job. Maybe a hundred years from now, when someone decides to clone me from the blood in the paint, my clone will finally figure out how get his music on the radio." Ahhh Steve, Steve...always so funny and...insane.

73. Sting's real name is Gordon Summer.

74. Foo Fighters is what the US air force used to call the OVNIS in the 40's.

75. Pink Floyd's "Wish You Were Here" LP was originally released in blue plastic shrink wrap; you could not see the cover unless you bought it.

76. The playing time as for "Stairway To Heaven" is longer than it took Plant & Page to write it (they needed one more song for the album.) Yes folks, the song is FILLER!

77. Waylon Jennings was Buddy Holly's bass player. Once, they were deciding how they were going to travel, he lost a coin toss, and took the bus instead of the plane. According to Jennings before his death, Buddy Holly said something to the extent of "I hope you freeze on the bus," and Jennings replied, "I hope your plane crashes." Guess what happened......that's right you guessed.

78. Two songs were recorded by the Beatles, Bob Dylan, and Elvis: "That's Alright, Mama" and "Yesterday".

79. When The Who were recording "My Generation," John Entwhistle used a newly-available-in-the-UK Danelectro bass, and kept breaking bass strings during the solo. Since replacement strings were not yet available, he had to go out a buy a new bass to be able to get the full set (talk about shopping sprees:P)

80. Pete Townshend (sorry, another Who bit) thought he was lifting his now-famous Windmill move from Keith Richards, because Pete saw Keith doing it as the curtain was rising at a Stones show. Later, after Pete had made it his big move, he talked with Keith about it and realized Keith was just stretching out his arm before starting to play...

81. Special offer! Three x one!

Roy Harper sang lead vocals on Pink Floyd's "Have A Cigar" on the Wish You Were Here album. It is the only song in the Floyd canon, that a member of Pink Floyd didn't sing. (I don't really know who the guy is..but there's a song by Zepp called "Hats Off - To Roy Harper" so the guy must be good at whatever he does.

There is only one line in Pink Floyd's "One Of These Days." Nick Mason, the drummer recorded the line ... "One of these days, I'm going to cut you into little pieces." That is the only line he ever sang on a Floyd album.

Mason the only member to play on every Pink Floyd album.

Everyone knows John Bonham died by aspirating his own vomit after drinking too much; not everyone knows that alcohol almost killed him on the day he was born. The doctor who was on-call to deliver him was drunk, and a suitable replacement was inexplicably difficult to find.

83. Cass Elliot (Mama Cass of The Mamas & Papas) and Keith Moon of The Who that died in the apartment of the same singer/songwriter: Harry Nilsson.

84. Kerry King of Slayer played guitar for Beastie Boys' "No Sleep Till Brooklyn". Who said death metal and hip hop couldn't work together? (Don't post something like "Hey what about Linkin Park or Limp Bizkit?" or I will personally hunt you down and kick your ass)

85. This is why MTV is crap: MTV execs came up with the idea of the "Unplugged" series after seeing Ian Anderson of Jethro Tull do a brief, live acoustic set. But when Anderson later asked about having Jethro Tull appear on "Unplugged," MTV turned him down flat, oin the grounds that the band was too old and didn't have enough appeal among the desired teen demographic.

86. The Van Halen brothers were born in the Netherlands and trained as concert pianists. The name of the band was originally Mammoth.

87. Axl Rose's real name is William Bailey.

88. According to Paul McCartney, the "you" in "Got to Get You Into My Life" was marijuana.

89. In the Beatles' "A Day In The Life," there's a bit in the orchestral score where the musicians were told "start on the lowest note your instrument can play, and gradually work your way up to the highest note your instrument can play." (and they did)

90. Eddie Van Halen plays the guitar solo in the middle of Michael Jackson's Beat It.

91. You know that Jimi Hendrix was the last act at Woodstock, but do you know who played right before him? Sha Na Na. (Now that's something for you to show off with your hippie friends...or parents)

92. Sting sings back up on Dire Straits' "Money For Nothing".

93. The memorable reverse-echo effect on Led Zeppelin's "Whole Lotta Love" (Woman.... you need) was actually do to track bleed-through that sound-engineer Eddie Kramer couldn't get rid of, and so added reverb to.

94. of the three members of ZZ Top, the only one who doesn't have a beard is the one whose name is 'Beard'. What a curious thing, ain't it?:P

95. Randy Meisner joined Poco as the bassist, but left before their first album. Luckily for him, he got the same job for the Eagles. Timothy B. Schmidt replaced him in Poco. Right before the Eagles recorded their monster hit Hotel California, Randy left to pursue a solo career. His replacement: Timothy B. Schmidt! (Makes you wonder if Schmidt follows Meisner around to see if he's happy in his current band.)

96. The money used to score the heroin that killed Sid Vicious was given to him by his mother, who was under the impression he was going to use the money to just buy cocaine (What a mom!).

97. A few of the band members Of the Yardbirds were in a pub discussing what name to use for what would become Led Zepp. Someone suggested "The New Yardbirds", and The Who's drummer Keith Moon replied: "That will go over like a lead balloon!". Then they changed balloon for zeppelin nad decided to spell it Led so people in the US wouldn't try to pronounce it "leed".

98. The group UB40 (That's right! Red, Red Wine..) took their name from the form used by the unemployment office in Britain.

99. Before Clapton became known for playing Stratocasters (largely, it is thought, because Hendrix played Strats), he played a 1959 Gibson Les Paul - largely because electric blues guitarists like Mike Bloomfield played one. But when Clapton's famous "Beano" Les Paul was stolen, he never went back.

100. 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 instead. After the first take the session producer told Dylan to lose the organ part; Dylan replied that he wanted it louder.

101. Stevie Ray Vaughan was the guitarist on David Bowie's "Let's Dance" album (country meets glam? it turned out just fine)

So that was it! hopefully you liked it and learned a lot of useless facts to tell your friends, relatives, neighbors and barbers (why not? when i get my hair cut we always talk aboout stuff like this with my barber..usually listening to deep purple, jethro tull or SRV)

Smile
-Agustin

Comments

[joe_barge]

I thought the movie "Crossroads" was with Britnney Spears.

[voodoochilli499]

meh i knew most of it already, but its still good to add a little random knowlage to the noggin from time to time

[Hypnot1st]

Nice stuff, but most of the facts are just a little off (probably word of mouth loss)

[sithian476]

3 x 1 = 3, not 4!

[TheEndHasNoEnd]

nice facts dude!

[tallica1708]

really great article. when i started to read this article, i was first. well look at how many have posted in that time^^^. interesting but not the most useful info for my exams tomorrow morning.

[flurk`]

er... for fact 66 one fretless, one 12 string, one normal, one with a floyd rose, and one with vintage pickups(i think)

[klaheto]

awsome man, i love when people create kool stuff like this made from info gathered around the place.

[neverserious88]

this is the most poorly written article i have ever read.... how could UG actually publish this garbage?!?

[trepkos]

that was great! i like 61, nice and confusing.

That may sound weird (and stoned) but the truth is that doors close on their own, floors creak and a magic can be sensed in the air (or so they say).

That's called wind.

[RIP GnR]

Yeah, I know some of it, but there was a lot of stuff I didn't know, thanks.

[CheckOutSerafin]

Thanks dude, nice article

[dry_county]

Hey what about Linkin Park or Limp Bizkit?

[zeppelin_05]

Nice article though I'd like to debunk two of those so called facts: #57 The Beatle's Abbey Road was released on 1969, Pink Floyd's Dark Side of the Moon was released on 1973...so unless the recording thing you mentioned happened while Mcartney was recording solo, it's not true. #76 Led Zeppelin's Stairway to Heaven was definetely not filler it was written while they were recording the album at Headley Grange, and they instantly knew it was gonna be big, so much they didn't even record it at Headley Grange were they recorded the rest of the songs, and waited for a proper studio, and secondly they printed the lyrics on the album Jacket, which was something they rarely did.

[PLOP]

nice article! i knew about half of it but some it was pretty cool..i wanna try the wizard of oz thing or the thing in missisipi and dyin at the age of 27

[Hong Siah]

nice

[20sacksam]

Pretty cool stuff. I did know most of it, but there was a lot of stuff i didn't know either

[Punk_Dude2005]

Kerry King of Slayer played guitar for Beastie Boys'

I think he played for Sum 41 also

[punkrocklove999]

cool

[thejester]

not bad, some stuff thats off, but entertaining good work 4stars

[thejester]

8 stars rather i guess they changed that fact

[Emenius Sleepus]

lol Britney Spears shamed a great movie with great music.

[slashdotcom]

on 89, john lennon asked i the musicians cold play like an orgasm feels like, and the result was low to high and then back. good article!

[atc228]

nice info dude, very interesting

[liam177lewis]

very cool

[patduganz]

I really dug fact #82. Also, your spelling and grammar were just simply amazing. Cheers!

[The_New_Slash]

awesome...and crossroads is a movie with britney spears, but also a movie with the karate-kid dude playing guitar and winning a duel against steve vai...

[DaveGilmour1189]

pretty good, but most of this stuff ive heard before. For the zep naming, i heard that zepplin opened for the who, after they got off stage, Plant asked Keith moon how he thought they did, to which moon replied, "You guys crashed like a lead zepplin."

[altronataku]

here's another one.

on the day of cliff burton(metallica)'s death, the band was fighting over who gets the best beds on the tourbus. they used a game of cards to see who will get which bed. cliff won against kirk with an ace of spades. later during the evening when they were sleeping, the bus toppled over, which killed cliff in the position that he was in. had cliff not have won the card game, kirk hammet would have been no more.

[Volkl]

Took me ages to read, but well done, very interesting.

[stringmagician]

i liked it, it was very cool, but i know #6 was crap

[x_themetalfan_x]

^ That's just plain creepy.

RIP Cliff

[x_themetalfan_x]

Missed a quote :P

on the day of cliff burton(metallica)'s death, the band was fighting over who gets the best beds on the tourbus. they used a game of cards to see who will get which bed. cliff won against kirk with an ace of spades. later during the evening when they were sleeping, the bus toppled over, which killed cliff in the position that he was in. had cliff not have won the card game, kirk hammet would have been no more.

[EpitaphMan440]

Actually Neil Young and the Ron Van Zant didn?t get along at all. Sweet home Alabama was written after he heard "Southern Man" . It's was a retaliatory song so to say. Young's song was poking fun at the southern culture, like racial discrimination and religious zealots, among other things. So, thats just to set it straight. Because a "Southern Man Don't Need him round anyhow".

[GNR4EVER]

^ Wow...That is Creepy.
R.I.P. Cliff Burton

Not a bad article by the way

[GNR4EVER]

Wow...That is Creepy.

That was to the story about Cliff btw

[P.B.]

lots of interesting stuff i didn't need to know. But i had fun reading it anyway!

[Smokey Amp]

Pretty good, alot of stuff I didn't know. Although, this article is very badly written.

Still nice to read though.

[GuitarJunkie]

the thing w/stairway to heaven is bullshit, the number one fact...but anyway...this was alright

[Frith]

That was awesome!!

[Evil Kid 93]

that stairway thing is fake. if you listen to it backwards, you can't hear anything but gibberish, but if you read the "satanic message" while listening to it backwards then you'll hear it. trust me, it works; i've tried this on a friend, and this happened, so it's fake.

[Pure_Morning]

Its an ok article. 5150 is also a LA police code.

[WiKiD]

i agree with evil kid 93, the backwards stairway this is fake. i cant believe i actually listened to the whole thing backwards.

[DaddyTwoFoot]

#19 is wrong. Teen Spirit is the name of a deodorant brand. Kurt was hanging out with a girl, and she spraypainted the words "Kurt Smells like Teen Spirit" on the wall. He thought it was some revolutionary saying, when she honestly thought he smelled like the deodorant.
Kurt later stated that he'd never even heard of the brand.

[DorkusMalorkus]

I have a problem with #50. Karen Carpenter didn't die at 27. She died when she was 33.

[2ndslash]

jimi hendrix wrote stairway to heaven actually

[Gong]

Pretty nice article man. Need more like this even if not everything is 100% true!

[BLACKRAVEN]

it wasnt kerry king with the beastie boys i heard it was zakk wylde, kerry only did the video. good article though, i got pretty flamed for my first 1 so dnt worry about it

RAVEN

[MikeMan01]

Great stuff, bring us more!

[steveharrisrox]

kept me entratained the whole time

[Hobo_fisherman]

I never learnt to play Smoke on the water- waste of time if you ask me

[God withus]

altronataku wrote:

here's another one.

on the day of cliff burton(metallica)'s death, the band was fighting over who gets the best beds on the tourbus. they used a game of cards to see who will get which bed. cliff won against kirk with an ace of spades. later during the evening when they were sleeping, the bus toppled over, which killed cliff in the position that he was in. had cliff not have won the card game, kirk hammet would have been no more.

WOW thats creepy....

Anyway good stuff. Pretty informative

[ObscuredByLight]

jimi hendrix wrote stairway to heaven actually

I thought Led Zeppelin wrote Stairway to Heaven while high off morroccan weed or something. Never hear that Hendrix wrote it.

[innuendo_247]

"84. Kerry King of Slayer played guitar for Beastie Boys' "No Sleep Till Brooklyn". Who said death metal and hip hop couldn't work together? (Don't post something like "Hey what about Linkin Park or Limp Bizkit?" or I will personally hunt you down and kick your ass)"

That is EXACTLY what I was thinking when I read your reply. Well done you! good article too

[pbnjammer]

the stuff about the beatles was stupid, they used to hang with the stones? no crap. everyone hung with everyone back then. you dont even know that george martin was the beatle's producer bleh

[pbnjammer]

sorry for double post bu ti just saw this and--JIMI DID NOT RIGHT STAIRWAY TO HEAVEN

[johnnykaos]

yeh jimmy did wing the solo on stairway to heaven but not the whole song. they recorded 3 (i think) different solos and they chose the best 1. yeh thats from an interview guitar world had with him. that was a pretty nice article cept for little things

[theDOORS123]

i thought that unplugged was made after that acoustic bon jovi performance?

[5150man]

Hey guys...i'm glad you liked it.....and of course, some information was bound to be wrong, so thanks to the guys who corrected the things who were wrong....and as for those who think the whole article was crappy and poorly written..screw you! i warned you at the beggining!

S
ilentDeftone wrote:

That may sound weird (and stoned) but the truth is that doors close on their own, floors creak and a magic can be sensed in the air (or so they say).
That's called wind.

..you really made me laugh:P

and lastly...

[b]neverserious88[
/b] wrote:

this is the most poorly written article i have ever read.... how could UG actually publish this garbage?!?

you probably didn't read all the "why music today/punk/emo/guitarists nowadays suck" articles

[the_cheat22]

dry_county wrote:

Hey what about Linkin Park or Limp Bizkit?

that's hilarious

[wanna_lick_me?]

neverserious88:


this is the most poorly written article i have ever read.... how could UG actually publish this garbage?!?

go f.u.c.k a dog and die, u dip.s.h.it.

awesome article!!! 5 stars all the way. And btw, i live in Paraguay, and trust me, Argentina seems like a superpower comapared to this shithole in which i reside.

[wanna_lick_me?]

patduganz:
I really dug fact #82. Also, your spelling and grammar were just simply amazing. Cheers!

indeed! 82 was also my favorite

[cointurtlemoose]

There's no way I read all that, but the first ones were pretty interesting.

[RIP GnR]

Yeah, 4 stars just because some of the info was incorrect

[pumpkins_rule]

I already knew 8 of the top 10.

[xdespairfactor]

wow that was awesome

[Scourge441]

Fantastic article. Perfect 10 (first I've given out for an article since the new ratings started).

[angusrox]

The name AC/DC was suggested by Angus and Malcolm's sister Margaret Young, who saw a label that read AC/DC on the back of a vacuum cleaner. The Young brothers thought it was a good name for their band, because "it had something to do with electricity, so it seemed to fit" (thanx Evil Kid 93...again).

it was on a sewing machine while she made adjustments to his outfit.

Other than small things, it was a great article!!

[LatinRoller89]

i like the Paul McCartney one, you gotta have mary jane in your life

[newyorkdolls138]

I knew most of those, but great article!

[cygnusX1]

5150 is also a LA police code.

It apparently code for an escaped lunatic.

If Bill and Mandy had remained married, Stephen would have been his father's father-in-law and his own grandpa.

It also would have made Bill Wyman father-in-law's father. His own grandfather and a pedophile.

But good article though

[rifftrader]

Very good article man! OK, I might be wrong, but the following point you made may be a little mistaken:

"32. Lynyrd Skynyrd's Ronnie Van Zant is said to be buried with a Neil Young t-shirt, the same he uses on his last cd cover. The admiration between these two musicians was mutual: Young said he'd rather play "Sweet Home Alabama" than "Southern Man" (his own southern anthem)."

I thought that "Sweet Home Alabama" was Lynyrd Skynyrd's positive answer to Neil Young's song "Alabama" (I think it was called), which painted the South in a negative light. Then again I might be wrong!

Anyways, great article!

[breadfan82]

Cool article, man. Small discrepancies, but nothing too major. Informative.

[_RockOnForever_]

interesting stuff. good researching man.

[RNRSoldier]

That's an awesome article man. Whoever said that it was garbage, you're just an annoying heckler and no one else who read that article agrees with you or gives a damn.

[blistabass]

your an idiot like almost all of those facts are wrong. Plus i know all of this stuff in its correct form

[NoQuarter2]

[QUOTE=5150man] 01. When "Stairway To Heaven" is played backwards, you can hear the phrase "oh here's to my sweet satan..the one who's little path would make me sad, whose power is satan..he'll give you give you 666 there was a little toolshed where he would make us suffer, sad in the part of "if there's a bustle..." (check this, it scared the shit out of me). [/QUOTE]
I think that was tampered by someone in the studio as a prank on Robert and Jimmy, I read it in a magazine, Jimmy said (talking about his reaction), "I swear I sullied my pants."
The first time I heard I sullied my pants :P

[NoQuarter2]

^^ crap whatever just read it lol... :/

[grim1]

5150 is not named after the the amp it's the other way around and Def Leppards album following the accident was Hysteria

[Cyrus6789]

Hahahahaahahah #82 im such an idiot.

[Hello_12]

Holy crap..... I looked for # 82 forever... I feel dumb

[FollowtheReaper]

This sucked, alot of this shit was obvious and other things were false.

[xSepulturax]

Dude, u called ****ing SLAYER death metal *slaps*


cool info though

[Roostashag]

Most of these facts are stupid little legends that immature children think are reeal because rock stars live such an amazing life and everything people say about them is the truth. Here';s just some of the many examples that are complete and total bullshit. the final chord of A day in the life is just lennon hitting a chord by himself because he couldn't think of anythgin else to put. The stairway to heaven thins is bullshit. It only works if u **** with the song. Shine On You Crazy Diamond is not dedicated to Syd. It's Wish You were here. You should really researcg much of these facts before you put them down on the internet for people to bash you.

[Comet]

!(5150)It apparently code for an escaped lunatic."
JAJAJAJJA thats really cool, i ve got a 5150 right in my back yard... really good article, lots of impossible to find info too.
"blistabass" you re a jerk, **** you and buy yourself a dick, thats all i´ve got to say. cheers 10 *

[music.phreak]

Hey, I liked it and enjoyed it! I also found it very usefull, so don't be so down on yourself! plus I read all the way through it! Good Job!

ttyl

[loyd]

aahh. is there a DVD for the movie crossroads??.. i wanna see or buy it.. nice article man.. informative but alittle off..

[JimiSlashPage]

Cool Article. Some of it I already knew, but still good. 5 stars!

[JimiSlashPage]

Err... I meant I give it a 10.

[Jau_Peacecraft]

i wouldn't nessesarily define the cure as rock n'roll, unless you're talking about their easy cure days, but thats even a stretch as they were post punk back then In addition, who the fuc* didn't see that south park episode when kyle says that? if you didn't , you fail at south park.

anyways, interesting article, was a fun read but It would help if none of them were rumours/legends [But then again, a lot of rock n' roll is that].

[rock_guitargod]

Ac/Dc go there name from a sewing machien not a vacuum

[rock_guitargod]

whoever the dick is that sayin hendrix wrote stairway to heaven then go fry your head you fag....zeppelin wrote stairway to heaven and it was the first song Robert Plant wrote the lyrics for and Page let Plant write all the lyrics afterwards!

[Athanathios]

Very interesting, Anybody else got any more cool trivia?

[pacsta rocka]

what about linkin park or sucky ass limp bizkit

[pistols]

97-wasn't it because they showed Eddie VH a sample of their stuff and he said "that'll go down like a lead zeppelin if you release it"?

[fahd]

http://www.albinoblacksheep.com/flash/stairway.php

this is the correct link to your first fact.
Great job budy you really are a hard worker. \m/

[Muppet]

Cool article, dude! You get into every genre.

But Slayer doesn't plat death metal, they play thrash metal

[cantshreddave]

that must have taken you a while, hats off

Roy Harper sang lead vocals on Pink Floyd's "Have A Cigar" on the Wish You Were Here album. It is the only song in the Floyd canon, that a member of Pink Floyd didn't sing. (I don't really know who the guy is..but there's a song by Zepp called "Hats Off - To Roy Harper" so the guy must be good at whatever he does.

slight prob with this one though, obviously the great gig in the sky was not sung by the floyd, i think the womans name is clare torry, rick wright called the recording a "one off"

[lynx]

for number 66 .. 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 if i'm not mistaken

[Vinura]

this rocks man

you legend

im gonna try 50 some day

[Davidleerothsha]

Here is one:
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 Gentle.

[mypoorbrain]

This is a pretty stupid and pointless article. Post some sources or corroborating evidence, everyone, not just the author. "Jimi wrote stairway to heaven while butt****ing a Japanese businessman" That shit's easy to make up, gimme some facts. The piss-poor grammar doesn't make it any easier to read. If you're not going to bother proofreading your article, do us all a favour and don't post it.

[Abyssal]

As someone said before, in a card game cliff won over kirk, and thus died because of that when the bus toppled over. I would have rather seen kirk die, than cliff. Cliff made up a lot of their stuff. What did kirk do? I know theres some kids that are like, Kirk is teh best! hes the best soloist. And they dont know shit all.

[GuitarPro92]

good work!

[selloutpunx]

#50:
I have a 27 tattooed on my arm for that same legend.
there's a lot more musicians who actually died at age 27 however.

[Davidleerothsha]

Oh yeah, you forgot one:
Elvis died while taking a dump.

[newyorkdolls138]

pistols wrote:

97-wasn't it because they showed Eddie VH a sample of their stuff and he said "that'll go down like a lead zeppelin if you release it"?

No, it was Keith Moon.

[crazydiamondII]

2ndslash wrote:

jimi hendrix wrote stairway to heaven actually

you should really research before you make dumbass comments like that.

[fireoptic]

EpitaphMan440 wrote:

Actually Neil Young and the Ron Van Zant didn?t get along at all. Sweet home Alabama was written after he heard "Southern Man" . It's was a retaliatory song so to say. Young's song was poking fun at the southern culture, like racial discrimination and religious zealots, among other things. So, thats just to set it straight. Because a "Southern Man Don't Need him round anyhow".

Yeah, and then they settled their differences and became best friends.. They got along great..

^ Twas

And he said Led Zeppelin originally, not Lead Balloon.

And Stairway to Heaven was not filler, and was not written in less than 5 minutes.

[fireoptic]

2ndslash wrote:

jimi hendrix wrote stairway to heaven actually

Are you ****ing retarded? Jimi Hendrix wasn't even alive to ever hear Stairway to Heaven. Led Zeppelin wrote Stairway to Heaven in 1971, Hendrix died in 1970.. dumbass

[PistolPeet]

pretty ace man

[fireoptic]

pistols wrote:

97-wasn't it because they showed Eddie VH a sample of their stuff and he said "that'll go down like a lead zeppelin if you release it"?

What the FUCK?? Eddie Van Halen wasn't even famous when Led Zeppelin was started.. Why would they go to Van Halen? He was a nobody for until about another 5 years...

[fireoptic]

Abyssal wrote:

As someone said before, in a card game cliff won over kirk, and thus died because of that when the bus toppled over. I would have rather seen kirk die, than cliff. Cliff made up a lot of their stuff. What did kirk do? I know theres some kids that are like, Kirk is teh best! hes the best soloist. And they dont know shit all.

Your an ass hole. Why should Kirk die just becuase he didn't write as much for Metallica? So you'd like to see Kirk Hammett die just so you can get a couple more Metallica tunes?? Your a prick. Just because Cliff had more overall talent doesn't mean Kirk should die for it.. ass hole.. By the way, Kirk did alot more than you'll ever do, and many will ever do. Rest in Peace Cliff Burton.

[Tim_5150]

nice... but why didn't you put in SkidRow's Sebastian Bach having a relationship with Judas Priest's Rob Halford?

[bullet theory]

good article ,i learnt lots ! (not in a sarcastic tone like many others)

[EvanRice52]

Thanks, now i'm off to Missisippi with my Les Paul!

[bluespunk57]

#101: Stevie was not country, he was blues, with some small country influences in some of his songs. But he was blues.

[dnextslash]

bluespunk he played blues guitar but his overall sound was country so shut the **** up

[dnextslash]

half those things i think everyone already knew it should be like 50 things you didnt know about rock n roll

[IlIk2plygUItAr]

damn #61 is messed up....

[RhoadsSRV8290]

I have a major problem with #101

"101. Stevie Ray Vaughan was the guitarist on David Bowie's "Let's Dance" album (country meets glam? it turned out just fine)"

Are you suggesting that SRV is country?

[xchris78]

fireoptic:
Abyssal wrote:

As someone said before, in a card game cliff won over kirk, and thus died because of that when the bus toppled over. I would have rather seen kirk die, than cliff. Cliff made up a lot of their stuff. What did kirk do? I know theres some kids that are like, Kirk is teh best! hes the best soloist. And they dont know shit all.


Your an ass hole. Why should Kirk die just becuase he didn't write as much for Metallica? So you'd like to see Kirk Hammett die just so you can get a couple more Metallica tunes?? Your a prick. Just because Cliff had more overall talent doesn't mean Kirk should die for it.. ass hole.. By the way, Kirk did alot more than you'll ever do, and many will ever do. Rest in Peace Cliff Burton.
POSTED: 09/25/2005 - 10:15 am / quote |

Amen to that!

[stiff-upper-lip]

good article, some of the stuff made me chuckle like the Steve Vai honey. hehehe, am gona av to get some. but dude, AC/DC got their name from the back of their sisters SOWING machine, not vacum cleaner. but nice job. some things are obvious and everyone already knew them like the Stairway backwards and the smells like teen spirit.

[toolmns]

OVNIS are called UFO's in english

[Ace_Ventuora]

Are all these facts real? Good work

[coquet]

very fugking interesting, at least

[Stryker_66]

I thought it was fun to read, as the author warned in the beginning about accuracy....c'mon shit gets twisted when it passes through the web. For all the complainers, don't read the f'ing thing, good job 5150man

[slashdotcom]

AC/DC got there name from a washingmachine. Angus or his sister saw it while hiding behind it.

[evening_crow]

"Teen Spirit" was the name of a deodorant by Old Spice. Kurt was hanging out with his girlfriend and her friend and he read "Kurt smells like teen spirit" spray painted on the wall. He didn't know teen spirit was the name of a deodorant after the song came out.
Also, Kurt once went with his bandmate once after just writing a new song. He showed it to them and they liked it so they asked him for its title. He didn't have one for it at the time, so they asked him what it was about and Kurt said it was "About A Girl."

[dandesmond]

Nice job. 10/10

[guitar_freak523]

this article is poorly written

8. Van Halen's "5150" is named after Eddie's Peavey 5150 amp, which is built exclusively for him.

it is not why its named that, it was named after the studio which got its name from 5150 the police code for an escaped mental patient.

[The Book]

for people commenting on 82) he says there r 3 for the price of 1 and then posts 4... the first 3 r related to pink floyd and the 4th one is supopsed to be 82)

[stiff-upper-lip]

oi slashdotcom. argh. its friggin sowing machine.

[kjohnson08]

20. 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.

[kjohnson08]

and with the pink floyd and wizard of oz thing, you press play the third time the lion roars.

[farcry]

sonixon:
^ Twas

And he said Led Zeppelin originally, not Lead Balloon.

And Stairway to Heaven was not filler, and was not written in less than 5 minutes.

on an interview with robert plant he admits it. A show about the magic of zeppelin song writing. He said they needed a song and they wrote it in the studio in a very short time. Plant admits that he has no idea what the lyrics are supposed to mean, they rhyme that's all. Good article though.

[farcry]

btw Stairway to Heaven is the song that has been played the most in the history of humanity, at least once on the radio every 3 minutes since it's release. And constantly by guitar players around the world. Think about that.

[farcry]

btw Stairway to Heaven is the song that has been played the most in the history of humanity, at least once on the radio every 3 minutes since it's release. And constantly by guitar players around the world. Think about that.

[Tom Trendy]

Dave Grohl doesn't just have one Bonham tattoo on his forearm, he has four all over his body.

[peace2urmom]

The_New_Slash wrote:

awesome...and crossroads is a movie with britney spears, but also a movie with the karate-kid dude playing guitar and winning a duel against steve vai...

no one could ever win a duel agains steve vai! wat a loser

[Draven Wylde]

#16 - Rick allen lost his arm in a car crash on new years 1984 after pyromania was released. The videos from this era show Rick with 2 arms. Their first release after the accident was Hysteria. Also Jimi's studio was Electric Ladyland not Electric Lady. Good article though.

[GabeWang]

To the "Wish You Were Here was for Syd you retard not shine on lol" dude, Shine On is most definately the tribute to him as it's the bookends of the albm. Wish is just a song that fits the theme and mood.

[GnRrelease_it]

um..didn't robert plant say that the satanic-messages thing is bullshit?

[Hello_12]

This is the best article ive ever read on ultimate guitar.com. Too bad its the first article Ive read.

[kjohnson08]

59. 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, you have discovered the secret message, please send it to old pink, care of the funny farm."

[Zach Strife]

2ndslash wrote:

jimi hendrix wrote stairway to heaven actually

.. *falls over, laughing his ass off*

[guns_zeppelin]

great article

[ravelg]

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, and are quite obvious if you look at them. Sting is in the center with his spiky hair, Stuart Copeland is at the right, with his long face, leaving Andy Summers at left.

Also, Hysteria was Def-Leppard's first album after the accident, not Pyromania. And I'm pretty sure Bob Dylan didn't record "Yesterday", but I've been wrong before.

George Martin was The Beatles' producer, not manager.

Still, a fun article! Good job!

[metaljunkie]

that was flippin sweet, knew about 1/4 of that info...and i heard that zepplin called themselves that because the guy said they would drop like a lead zepplin....

[aprescott_27]

selloutpunx wrote:
#50:
I have a 27 tattooed on my arm for that same legend.
there's a lot more musicians who actually died at age 27 however.
undefined

It's funny becuase there was a guy i knew who died my sophomore year in high school. The number 27 was his thing because of #50 (you can guess where I got the 27 in my user name). Wouldn't really call it a legend, though. Good article. Interesting stuff I never thought I'd know.

[molly's_lips54]

#19 is wrong. Teen Spirit is the name of a deodorant brand. Kurt was hanging out with a girl, and she spraypainted the words "Kurt Smells like Teen Spirit" on the wall. He thought it was some revolutionary saying, when she honestly thought he smelled like the deodorant.
Kurt later stated that he'd never even heard of the brand.

yeah, heres on if it means anything to you: the girl that wrote it on the wall was bikini kill's kathleen hanna

[jpburns88]

this list should not be named 101 things you didnt know about rock n roll. It should be named 101 THINGS YOU SHOULD KNOW ABOUT ROCK N ROLL! Get educated, bitches!

[merabharatmahan]

sexy article man!! but most of it i knew.....

[Gilmour_Rocks]

Pretty good artcile, some stuff i never knew, ....there are some smart arses who know all it, well i'd like to see you pricks get off your lazy arses and correct it then...

[Rhinosaur Bones]

undefined wrote:

undefined

Actually, it was Shine On You Crazy Diamond that was written about Syd. If you actually listened to the lyrics, you'd realise it's pretty obvious.

[Sirup]

did you know that Robert Plant visited here Sweden a while ago... about 9 months ago to 4 months... don't remember.... or maybe it was this summer?! :P)and he got invited to a show... they discussed alot about Led Zeppelin, then they got to the devilish thing, they asked if it was true and said they go a band who would play it backwards... they tried it and Robert Plant said something about they band not been able to sing/play Stairway to Heaven backwards... and he advoided the question of it, about if it was true...

On the other hand I might be wrong as it was a long time ago I saw the show... the tv-show was called "Godnatt Sverige" or something like that... try to download the clip (don't know if it exist in the internet), the whole thing "was" in english :P just in case you are not to smart to think Robert Plant can't speak Swedish

[Nome]

That can't be true about Little Wing! (#35 i beleive) That's rediculous, although Jimi is freakin amazing...

[Killer-Duck]

Nice article!

Some other interesting stuff:
"Michael Jackson owns the rights to Beatle's songs."
"Elvis' backup singers walked out during a concert after his racist remark that their breath 'smelled like catfish.' "

[mechaneko]

an intersting article. not all are true but its this kinda things that makes us all wanna be rock n roll stars. oh, and about jimi's studio, it's called electric ladyland.

[mrbassman]

Martin's (their manager?) producer

[mrbassman]

stairway to heaven devil bit is funny

[arsonite]

that's awesome.

[2ndslash]

jimi hendrix did write stairway to heaven i downloaded a recording of him singing and playing it and since he died in 1970 and led zep "wrote" stairway to heaven in the mid 70s, he must have wrote it. if you wanna hear this recording ill send it to you. email me at [e-mail] and ill send you it

[Rock TABer-><]

Can't say I didnt know all of them but good article anyway. Well done dude.

[Strummin4him]

Young said he'd rather play "Sweet Home Alabama" than "Southern Man" (his own southern anthem).

Southern Man was anti Southern and Sweet Home was the responce sone singing it it "a southern man dont need him around anyhow" talking about the neil

[TheMutts]

good shit bro

[page59]

the backwards echo on whole lotta love was intntional, as said in an interview with Jimmy page, he turned the tape around on the machine to add the echo. and Eddie Kramer wasn't the engineer, i'm fairly sure it was andy Johns, but i know it wasn't kramer.

[Doubleday]

"Ibanez used my blood ? a lot of my blood ? in the guitar's swirling paint job. Maybe a hundred years from now, when someone decides to clone me from the blood in the paint, my clone will finally figure out how get his music on the radio."

HAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHA! That's hilarious! I do feel for him though. Why won't anyone play his stuff on the radio?

[merfsullivan]

EpitaphMan440 wrote:

Actually Neil Young and the Ron Van Zant didn?t get along at all. Sweet home Alabama was written after he heard "Southern Man" . It's was a retaliatory song so to say. Young's song was poking fun at the southern culture, like racial discrimination and religious zealots, among other things. So, thats just to set it straight. Because a "Southern Man Don't Need him round anyhow".

The fact is, Ronnie Van Zant respected Neil Young greatly. Neil Young's song wasn't to poke fun at the south, it was in reaction to racism and what not. Ronnie Van Zant wrote Sweet Home Alabama in reaction to it, to say that not all southern people are that way. Although they did that, they still respected each other greatly.

Oh yeah, and Van Halen played the guitar on the entire track of "Beat It" not just the solo.

[whatamidoinhere]

On #69, the Bee-gees also used to party with Page and Plant

[Danielj]

The last thing-Stevie ray vaughan and dave bowie: Were you joking about the country meets glam thing? Stevie Ray Vaughan has never played a note of country, 100% blues bitch. get it straight

[gmsje]

Love the article, warts and all. Hilarious qualifier up front too.

Day in the Life stuff essentially correct, but the definitive source is "The Complete Beatle Recording Sessions." On page 99, "John, Paul, Ringo and Mal Evans (engineer) sharing three pianos and simultaneously hitting E major...George Martin (producer/arranger 5th Beatle) compounding the sound further on a harmonium (over the 9th track of the pianos take - Number 9? Number 9?)."

Regarding the symphonic buildup in Day in the Life, it's on page 96 of The Complete Beatles Recording Sessions. They used 40 symphony musicians and recorded four tracks with them and overlayed all four tracks, so that you actually hear 160 sounds. George Martin and the engineers somehow rigged up 2 four track recorders to run simultaneously (first time ever done). There were 100 speakers in Abbey Road Studio One that captured the sound of the 24 bar build up to the final E major chord. The orchestra was told to build up through the bars in their own way without doing what the musician next to them was doing. The orchestra was in full dress up clothes and the Beatles had clown add ons that everyone put on. The whole session was videotaped. Also, in attendance were Mick Jagger, Marianne Faithful, Keith Richard, Mike Nesmith (The Monkees), and Donovan. The party idea was later used in the live broadcast of "All You Need is Love."

Regarding the real story of Layla, I think Eric had already made it with Patti Boyd (spelling correction) Harrison and been dumped by her. That's basically the story of the song.

Clapton also initially resisted doing the solo on While My Guitar Gently Weeps, because he thought it would be inappropriate for an outside musician to be on a Beatle recording. Harrison said, so what, it's my song. Also in The Complete...Sessions, page 154.

I hope the stuff about Lynard Skynard and Neil Young making peace is correct. That would be nice to know.

Most interesting fact: Steve Vai the beekeeper! Very cool. No wonder he's so well grounded.

SilentDeftone - Couldn't Jimi be riding in with the wind at Electric Ladyland? That would be thoroughly Jimi.

[Arnni]

57. 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, sound technicians, the Irish doorman, and even Paul McCartney (who was recording "Abbey Road" with the Fab Four on the same studio). The answers to the questions were recorded, and the best ones were put on the disc. However, Paul's answers weren't put on the disc because "he tried to be funny".

paul Macartney was asked this when he was in abbey road recording with Wings and not with the beatles
Abbey road was done in 1969, were as dark side was done in 1973

[crazynickman]

interesting stuff i knew about 2/3 of it but still real interesting... and Layla is actually based on that Turkish legend, Eric was secretly in love with Patti and when she went to him for support when Harrison and her hit the rocks, he used it for the song ("Tried to give you consolation/ when your old amn would let you down/ like a fool i fell in love with you/ you turn my whole world upside down")

[sixteen times]

Good, very good.

[bigt714]

that thing with The Dark Side of the Moon and the Wizard of Oz was done on purpose

[sexy-man]

kool cept ive played stairway to heaven backwards the whole thing and i didnt hear nothin
bunch of bullshit myths

[pitbull510]

pretty kool and only a few spellin errors... i knew almost all of the stuff about gnr tho cuz im a fan but noe i have a better database

[satanic_cigar]

this is more like 48 things i didnt know about rock and roll, but hey, i read a lot. pretty good stuff here.

[jakebarker]

"got to get you into my life" is about lsd, not marijuana. paul was the last one to try it.

[jakebarker]

"got to get you into my life" is about lsd, not marijuana. paul was the last one to try it.

[littledrmmr4]

holy crap that 1st fact, the one about stairway to heaven is crazy. u put the link in wrong though. its http://www.albinoblacksheep.com/flash/stairway.php

good article

[mephest0]

who was the fact checker on this project Bush or Cheney. A good idea ruined by lazy research.

[mephest0]

who was the fact checker on this project Bush or Cheney. A good idea ruined by lazy research.

[guitarkid27]

01. When "Stairway To Heaven" is played backwards, you can hear the phrase "oh here's to my sweet satan..the one who's little path would make me sad, whose power is satan..he'll give you give you 666 there was a little toolshed where he would make us suffer, sad in the part of "if there's a bustle..." (check this, it scared the shit out of me).

can u like put it on here or something?

[ThorMx]

This guys an idiot. What you get for copying and pasting off a website. The 20 facts that are actually right are known by most people and the rest are wrong. Half of them are the typical BS like stairway backwards, where one person heard what you posted and the other million pretended they did when it sounds like every other fuking song backwards.

[floydianslip6]

The only things I can talk about with 100% certainty are the floyd facts:

#30: Not only is Shine on Dedicated to Syd, the entire WYWH album is dedicated to him.

#34: The only problem with 34 is that it's not gauranteed to work with the CD, due to the fact that different players take longer to read tracks, this is really only properly done with the original record and the original movie; since Oz has been released 3 or 4 times. Even though it still is decent with the CD and rereleases, it's best with the originals. The version circulating on the internet is pretty good.

#37: Sigma 6 was formed in 1963 by students at the Regent Street Polytechnic School Of Architecture for an audition with Geryy Bron (publisher) as an R&B group, they had a repertoire of 18 songs, consisting of some Bo Diddley and Rolling Stones covers. Ken Champman was their manager. The members were:
Nick Mason (drums)
Clive Metcalf (bass)
Keith Noble (vocals)
Sheilagh Nobel (occasional backup vocals)
Vernon Thompson (rythm guitar)
Roger Waters (guitar)
Richard Wright (rythm guitar, piano, organ, brass)

Bob Klose didn't play with Sigma 6, but instead played with "The Pink Floyd Blues Band", the name used from 1964-1965. In that band was:
Roger Barret (That's Syd's real name) (rythm guitar, vocals)
Chris Dennis (vocals)
Bob Klose (guitar, harmonics)
Nick Mason (drums)
Roger Waters (bass guitar, vocals)
Richard Wright (Keyboards, vocals, sax)
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 February 1, 1967 and consisted of Roger Barret (Syd again), Roger Waters, Nick Mason, and Richard Wright. Barret was replaced in 68'. Syd got his nickname from a musician at the riverside jazz club. Prior to actuall being pink Floyd, they went from the Pink Floyd blues Band, to The Pink Floyd Sound, to The Pink Floyd, to just Pink Floyd. The band was OFFICIALLY called Pink FLoyd in 1966.

#57 is 100% true

#68 is also 100%

#75 Is pretty close to 100%, in the U.S. the shrink wrap was blue, in the U.K. it was black.

#81
*Roy Harper did record Have a Cigar, however, Floyd has employed several other musicians to help them out with singing songs, one that has been mentioned, the Great Gig in the Sky, is probably the most well known; the line up was:
Jerry Driscoll (voice)
Clare Torry( vocals)
Puddy Watts (voice)
They have also used animals as well, check out Seamus from the album Meddle.

*Nick Mason was the only through and through member of Floyd, Richard Wright would have also had this title, except for the fact that Waters forced him to leave the band, by threatening to not release the Wall. Wright was abscent for two years, Wright is not featured on the album, The Final Cut.

Awesome article idea, some really nice facts mate!

[floydianslip6]

The only things I can talk about with 100% certainty are the floyd facts:

#30: Not only is Shine on Dedicated to Syd, the entire WYWH album is dedicated to him.

#34: The only problem with 34 is that it's not gauranteed to work with the CD, due to the fact that different players take longer to read tracks, this is really only properly done with the original record and the original movie; since Oz has been released 3 or 4 times. Even though it still is decent with the CD and rereleases, it's best with the originals. The version circulating on the internet is pretty good.

#37: Sigma 6 was formed in 1963 by students at the Regent Street Polytechnic School Of Architecture for an audition with Geryy Bron (publisher) as an R&B group, they had a repertoire of 18 songs, consisting of some Bo Diddley and Rolling Stones covers. Ken Champman was their manager. The members were:
Nick Mason (drums)
Clive Metcalf (bass)
Keith Noble (vocals)
Sheilagh Nobel (occasional backup vocals)
Vernon Thompson (rythm guitar)
Roger Waters (guitar)
Richard Wright (rythm guitar, piano, organ, brass)

Bob Klose didn't play with Sigma 6, but instead played with "The Pink Floyd Blues Band", the name used from 1964-1965. In that band was:
Roger Barret (That's Syd's real name) (rythm guitar, vocals)
Chris Dennis (vocals)
Bob Klose (guitar, harmonics)
Nick Mason (drums)
Roger Waters (bass guitar, vocals)
Richard Wright (Keyboards, vocals, sax)
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 February 1, 1967 and consisted of Roger Barret (Syd again), Roger Waters, Nick Mason, and Richard Wright. Barret was replaced in 68'. Syd got his nickname from a musician at the riverside jazz club. Prior to actuall being pink Floyd, they went from the Pink Floyd blues Band, to The Pink Floyd Sound, to The Pink Floyd, to just Pink Floyd. The band was OFFICIALLY called Pink FLoyd in 1966.

#57 is 100% true

#68 is also 100%

#75 Is pretty close to 100%, in the U.S. the shrink wrap was blue, in the U.K. it was black.

#81
*Roy Harper did record Have a Cigar, however, Floyd has employed several other musicians to help them out with singing songs, one that has been mentioned, the Great Gig in the Sky, is probably the most well known; the line up was:
Jerry Driscoll (voice)
Clare Torry( vocals)
Puddy Watts (voice)
They have also used animals as well, check out Seamus from the album Meddle.

*Nick Mason was the only through and through member of Floyd, Richard Wright would have also had this title, except for the fact that Waters forced him to leave the band, by threatening to not release the Wall. Wright was abscent for two years, Wright is not featured on the album, The Final Cut.

Awesome article idea, some really nice facts mate!

[johnmalkin]

Bloody brilliant mate. Perhaps you could write one '101 facts you ddn't know about Guns N' Roses? lol that would be cool

[Vandalx21]

Yeah I don't think Jimi wrote Stairway only because of the VERY SUBTLE "Lord of the Rings" references within the song ("There's a feelin' I get, When I look to the West", "The Forests will echo with Laughter", "All that Glitters is gold...") Zep were really inspired by LOTR later in their career and wrote a few songs inspired by Tolkien's masterpiece (Over the Hills and Far Away, Misty Mountain Hop, The Battle of Evermore) I've never heard of Hendrix singing of the exploits of Frodo Before.

[VoodooZep]

Some more info on #78

Besides "Yesterday", and "That's All Right", the Beatles, Bob Dylan, and Elvis Presley have all also done a version of the Beatles "Something," and Bob Dylan's "Blowin' in the Wind", and "I Shall Be Released." The Beatles versions of "Blowin in the Wind" and "I Shall Be Released" were done during the "Get Back" sessions. Elvis' version of "I Shall be Released can be found in the "Essential 70s Masters" box set. His version of "Blowin in the Wind" is on the "Platinum-Life in Music" box set. "Something" was performed by Elvis in concert during the 70s. Bob Dylan's version of "Something" can be found on this page: http://bobdylan.com/performances/ There yet may be more songs done by all 3 of these artists but as with most of these mentioned they probably won't be professional recordings (other than the original version of course) but simply outtakes done while recording other work or live versions done in concert.

[VoodooZep]

Some more info on #78

Besides "Yesterday", and "That's All Right", the Beatles, Bob Dylan, and Elvis Presley have all also done a version of the Beatles "Something," and Bob Dylan's "Blowin' in the Wind", and "I Shall Be Released." The Beatles versions of "Blowin in the Wind" and "I Shall Be Released" were done during the "Get Back" sessions. Elvis' version of "I Shall be Released can be found in the "Essential 70s Masters" box set. His version of "Blowin in the Wind" is on the "Platinum-Life in Music" box set. "Something" was performed by Elvis in concert during the 70s. Bob Dylan's version of "Something" can be found on this page: http://bobdylan.com/performances/ There yet may be more songs done by all 3 of these artists but as with most of these mentioned they probably won't be professional recordings (other than the original version of course) but simply outtakes done while recording other work or live versions done in concert.

[VoodooZep]

Some more info on #78

Besides "Yesterday", and "That's All Right", the Beatles, Bob Dylan, and Elvis Presley have all also done a version of the Beatles "Something," and Bob Dylan's "Blowin' in the Wind", and "I Shall Be Released." The Beatles versions of "Blowin in the Wind" and "I Shall Be Released" were done during the "Get Back" sessions. Elvis' version of "I Shall be Released can be found in the "Essential 70s Masters" box set. His version of "Blowin in the Wind" is on the "Platinum-Life in Music" box set. "Something" was performed by Elvis in concert during the 70s. Bob Dylan's version of "Something" can be found on this page: http://bobdylan.com/performances/ There yet may be more songs done by all 3 of these artists but as with most of these mentioned they probably won't be professional recordings (other than the original version of course) but simply outtakes done while recording other work or live versions done in concert.

[snake_eyes31]

Mine's a tale that can't be told, my freedom I hold dear. How years ago in days of old, when magic filled the air. T'was in the darkest depths of Mordor, I met a girl so fair. But Gollum, and the evil one crept up and slipped away with her, her, her....RAMBLE ON !

[snake_eyes31]

Mine's a tale that can't be told, my freedom I hold dear. How years ago in days of old, when magic filled the air. T'was in the darkest depths of Mordor, I met a girl so fair. But Gollum, and the evil one crept up and slipped away with her, her, her...from 'Ramble On'

[snake_eyes31]

Mine's a tale that can't be told, my freedom I hold dear. How years ago in days of old, when magic filled the air. T'was in the darkest depths of Mordor, I met a girl so fair. But Gollum, and the evil one crept up and slipped away with her, her, her....RAMBLE ON !

[clutchcontrol]

cliff won against kirk with an ace of spades.

anything to do with motorhead song?

[clutchcontrol]

snake eyes wtf?

[Lord_Ramone]

Great article but few wrong things Yes, 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 "Kurt Smells Like Teen Spirit" was written on the wall of an apartment by a Girlfriend, Kurt not knowing what it meant thought it was some kind of revoulutionary title when in reality she was merely saying he smelt like a girl(Teen spirit being a girls Deoderant).

[Lord_Ramone]

*Beatles on Abbey Road

[beau05]

nice, but about Van Halen's 5150 record, that album and many other Halen classic's were made at a studio called '5150', so they could possibly have got the name from there or maybe the studio was named after the amp made for Eddie, correct me if im wrong

[beau05]

also i dont know about hendrix writing stairway, but i think he did do a live set playing lead guitar with the band

[ZoSo183]

man i never knew about stairway! nice article

[Harmonius]

Wow, I got credited in that article. None the less great article, really weird about the Rolling Stones Bassist that I didn't know. Man that looked pretty messed up.

[Harmonius]

Ah also Axl Rose is an acrynome for Oral Sex

[fireoptic]

farcry wrote:

btw Stairway to Heaven is the song that has been played the most in the history of humanity, at least once on the radio every 3 minutes since it's release. And constantly by guitar players around the world. Think about that.

actually its happy birthday, you ****.. stairway to heaven got the most radio time

[fireoptic]

beau05 wrote:

also i dont know about hendrix writing stairway, but i think he did do a live set playing lead guitar with the band

HENDRIX DID NOT WRITE STAIRWAY TO HEAVEN!!!! HENDRIX DIED A YEAR BEFORE IT WAS RELEASED!!! duhh!! dumbass

[fireoptic]

clutchcontrol wrote:

cliff won against kirk with an ace of spades.

anything to do with motorhead song?

Ace of Spades came out in 1980...

[fireoptic]

2ndslash wrote:

jimi hendrix did write stairway to heaven i downloaded a recording of him singing and playing it and since he died in 1970 and led zep "wrote" stairway to heaven in the mid 70s, he must have wrote it. if you wanna hear this recording ill send it to you. email me at [e-mail] and ill send you it

you are ****ing retarded.. ITS FAKE!!! Hendrix NEVER HEARD Stairway to Heaven.. You are the dumbest person on Ultimate-Guitar.com Shut the **** up. Anyway, its probably the reggae version Bob Marley did.

LED ZEPPELIN WROTE STAIRWAY TO HEAVEN, CASE CLOSED

[floydianslip6]

While I don't think that Jimi Hendrix wrote it, you have to realize that just because a song has been written, doesn't mean it's been picked up by a band or released. Some of the original tracks for The Wall were written long before they were released or even played for that matter. The way that they changed from the time that they were first conceived to the time they were released is also a dramatic. So while unlikely, it is conceivable that someone else could have wrote it, at least in part, prior to it being released.

That said, Robert Plant and Jimmy PAGE wrote it.

[rockinlewis]

i liked it.

[Darken Rahl]

Awesome job.... i knew some of it... but over i would give a B+. some of the stuff was bs... but i wouldn't say any more than 2 or 3. And if you do listen to stairway to heaven backwards you will hear it plain as day! Listen to it backwards when it says if there is a bustle in your hedgerow... don't be alamred now.... its the craziest thing in the world. Good Job

[Cerpin_Taxt81]

i doubt anyone will read this, and i don't know if anyone else posted this because i didn't read all of them, but regarding fact 32... neil young and the members of lynyrd skynyrd hated each other. van zant and co. took offense to young's "southern man" which depicted the ignorance and racism that he felt permeated southern culture of the time. "sweet home alabama" explicitly makes fun of neil young. the rumor that van zant was buried in a neil young shirt was funny because if he were dressed in it for burial, it was done ironically. this is common knowledge.

[jh_stratocastin]

yeah im pretty sure it wasn't Eddie Van Halen who played the guitar for Michael Jackson's "beat it" it was Slash of Gun & Roses

[hepzibahbaptist]

awesome man
thats awesome information

[floydianslip6]

^^ Nope, it was Eddie Van Halen, he did it as a favor to Quincy Jones, he wasn't even paid for the solo, nor was he featured on the album.

[PAsistem]

haha. referring to Stairway to Heaven as a "filler" would be blasphemy to some

[PAsistem]

haha. referring to Stairway to Heaven as a "filler" would be blasphemy to some

[coffeeguy9]

Oh, and about Led Zeppelin being influenced by LOTR, just look at "Ramble On" lyrics, as snake_eyes31 tried to say.

[kcfshorty]

IT WAS A GOOD ARTICLE!!! and by the way zeppelin directly refers to the "ringwraiths" in one of their songs....i cant remmember which though...i dont know i remmember when i first got a zeppelin album (good times) i heard it and i was like AWESOME! LOTR REFERENCE!!!

[wildhartlivie]

RE: #50: Karen Carptenter didn't die at 27, she was 32... born 2 Mar 1950, died 4 Feb 1983.....

[Nelsean]

Great article man 8 stars

[hard_as_a__rock]

Good article mate...A little off with some of the facts...all of the AC/DC one's were right no doubt...The Led Zep one's were right on...Dunno bout some of the Clapton one's and the Stones but overall a usful and intrieging piece of information.

[hard_as_a__rock]

Good article mate...Most of the facts were spot on...but you can't get 101 facts right. AC/DC one's were all right and most of the Led Zep one's but i don't know about some of the Clapton one's and the Stones...Also it was Slash who played on "Beat It". Overall an interesting, usful and intrieging article.Good on ya!

[floydianslip6]

Where do you even get the info that Slash played it? Since you guys don't believe us, take 10seconds to google beat it guitar solo. If you find ANYTHING that even sounds like the word Slash post up the link. In the meantime, hopefully we can now put this to rest:
http://www.answers.com/topic/beat-it
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Eddie_Van_Halen
http://www.songfacts.com/detail.lasso?id=459
http://www.ibreathemusic.com/print/16

[ChickenBone]

Slash played it in one of Michael Jackson's concerts...
The recorded one's by EVH.

[Bilzzard_of_Ozz]

Actually Tony Iommi tuned 3 halfsteps down, not 3 steps down. Cannibal Corpse tune 3 steps down, no Sabbath.

[Cal&Chris_Co.]

did anyone notice how the guy who said that this article was crap decided that his name on ultimate-guitar should be "neverserious88"

[guitar_freak523]

16. Def Leppard's drummer, Rick Allen, lost an arm in a car crash in the mid-eighties. However, Rick decided to keep on playing, and learned to do it with his feet and some programmed drum lines. The band continued as normal, and their next album with their "new" drummer was "Pyromania".



it was hyteria


im finding alot of false statements on here so i think this should be deleted

[slashmiester]

I thought it was a good article - nice one

[rustausa]

i loved it

[lesismore666]

i thoguht the backwards pink floyd song quote was cool.

[vanceboy]

hehe...entertaining.

[piecies_81]

Stairway was definatley written by Page and Plant only. The lyrics mostly came from some Celtic book and a lot of there songs were inspired by LOTR. The intro to the song, however is sort of a rip off of a song called Taurus, by the band Spirit, in which Zeppelin was a big fan of. Dazed and Confused lyrics were taken from an old blues song as well as Whole Lotta Love.

[piecies_81]

Heres another interesting fact - Jimmy Page played the guitar on the Kinks - You Really Got Me. He also did a song or two for The Who. Jimmy was actually already a well known name where he grew up, doin session work before he hooked up with The Yardbirds. He even funded the first Zepp album primarily with his own money. Before they were known as Led Zeppelin, they played a few shows as The New Yardbirds, since the Yardbirds still had shows to play. Zepp also played a show under the name The Nobs, because some lady who was related to a man who was named Zeppelin and actually created the flying blimp, opposed of the band and said it was disrespectful of her heritage.

[Epiboy]

epiboy
during the recording of"Wish you Were Here", Roger Waters voice was shot from SOYCD 1. Roy Harper was hanging out in the studio and was asked to sing for "Have a Cigar". He sounds exactly like Waters.

[Dogwillhunt]

Who said Led Zep didn't write Stairway? They wrote it while they were in the studio and I read an interview with Jimmy Page and he said they wrote Stairway in ten minutes.

[piecies_81]

Yeah, plant wrote the lyrics to stairway in almost no time.

[VRluke]

its Van Halen who did the beat it solo man.. some of u just gotta get ur facts right b4 bein so confident =\

[hard_as_a__rock]

Robert Plant wrote the lyrics in ten minuets...but some people think(including me) that there is a lot of meaning behind it, but some people think it is just a lot of rambling. there is a site...i cant quite remember it but it explains stairway in detail giving refences to the bible..."revelations" it sounds pretty tru to its meaning. Just go on google n type stairway to heaven meaning and it should be there somewhere...the web page is black and the writing is white. It changed my perspective about the song. But all of the members of Led Zeppelin were geniouses no doubt...Jimmy with his creative and unusual guitar techniques...Robert with his creative lyrical writing and the many references about war, history and...Lord of the Rings...John with his outstanding speed and wide variety of drumming...and last but certainly the most underestimate and underatted bassist, John Paul Jones with his deep tones that gave Led Zep that feeling of harmony.
As you can see Led Zep are one of my favourite bands not jus tbecause they sound incredible but also because of the creativity and life that goes into thier songs not like the artists of today who make everything so out in the open and who cannot create any meaning to their songs but add an extra YEAH! or ALRIGHT! to the lyrics just to get a hit. And one more thing... F*&K you MTV you bastards who only look for commercial fame!
-|-ROCK IN PEACE-|-

[hard_as_a__rock]

Good article by the way
Sorry people for the spelling mistakes.

[hard_as_a__rock]

Oh... One more thing... if you want an example of MTV commercial influencing just look at Green Day. Need
i say more?

[MoshMaster101]

I already new about 40% of them. I demand 40 more facts!!! Only kidding. It kept me entertained, so thanks!

[emoh]

4. Kerry King of Slayer played guitar for Beastie Boys' "No Sleep Till Brooklyn". Who said death metal and hip hop couldn't work together? (Don't post something like "Hey what about Linkin Park or Limp Bizkit?" or I will personally hunt you down and kick your ass)


Jeff Hanneman off Slayer did!! The other one. Further nice facts.!

[mrmoppel]

Nice one kid! Sting's name is Gordon Sumner and he's originally from Cramlington, a small town in northern england, described by one local comedian as being "the shittest place on earth. It even has a paracetamol (headache tablet...commonly used in overdose) factory at one end and a razor blade factory at the other( true, I live there!!). 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 musician). Small world eh!?! Your 101 has turned into 1001 near enough....

[kidguitarist]

hmmmmm gonna take the ole ax to the crossroads and see what turns up, if i go missing be sure to buy the tapes that come out shortly afterward

[Sirup]

heey! no one wrote back to my post!

[floydianslip6]

As I said before, I liked the article, I think it's kinda neat too because even though not all the facts were 100% it's caused some interesting conversations and made people do a little bit of research, which is nice.

[ac/dcforever]

HEY!!!!!1 AC/DC's NAME CAME OFF OF A SOWING MACHINE!
BELIEVE ME I KNOW

P.S. FUCK MTV! AND THE LINKIN PARK RAP THING, DON'T EVEN SAY U LIKE THEM THEY ARE AN EMBARASS MENT TO ME AND ALL OF THE TRUE ROCKERS EVERYWHERE

R.I.P. BON

ROCK WILL LIVE WITH ANGUS

[ac/dcforever]

by the way if u get guitar one magazine look at the worst dressed rockers angus is on there and that pisses me off!


ROCK AND ROLL WILL NEVER DIE-- BRIAN JOHNSON

[ac/dcforever]

OH YEAH, BON NEVER DIED HE JUST WENT HOME.

[Lymbe]

Dude great article, 5 for the try

P.S: I can't believe the the first guy who posted here mentioned Britney Spears

[SMFar2112]

why the hell did you call SRV country? hes straight blues/rock

[greeneggs'n'ham]

OBVIOUS effort. that was absolutely amazing. 5 stars.

[slash_015]

Very very good article

[2ndslash]

he he good one guys i put that down to see how angry i could get you all. well played. (i dont really have a recording of hendrix doing it since there is no such thing) peace out

[oncomingst0rm]

I also heard that 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.

[floydianslip6]

That's true. He showed up overweight, bald, and without eyebrows. No one recognized him at first. I have a pic from the visit, it's in the Pink Floyd encyclopedia. It's so nuts to see how much he changed over time.

[Sirup]

forgot to say, the stairway to heaven worship thing link doesn't work...

[tiger-sushi]

About story 78. Please note that Elvis, Dylan and the Beatles also recorded "I Forgot To Remember To Forget" (Sun session, Extended basement tapes, Live at the BBC)

[oncomingst0rm]

And also Jimy Page owned Aielister Crowley's (the Founder of Modern Satanism/Occultic Sciences) Old manson and lived in it for a while. Yes if you didnt know he was occultic alon with alot of other bands that played clasic rock. Keith Moon, the Beatles(Not sure who was occultic in the Beatles)

[SFP]

i agree with sirup, the stairway to heaven thing has never worked, but pretty good article

[markenator]

yah that link doesnt work but this place does
http://www.albinoblacksheep.com/flash/stairway.php freaky

[markenator]

freaky is not part of the url i ment it ssounds freaky

[hard_as_a__rock]

ac/dcforever wrote:

HEY!!!!!1 AC/DC's NAME CAME OFF OF A SOWING MACHINE!
BELIEVE ME I KNOW

P.S. FUCK MTV! AND THE LINKIN PARK RAP THING, DON'T EVEN SAY U LIKE THEM THEY ARE AN EMBARASS MENT TO ME AND ALL OF THE TRUE ROCKERS EVERYWHERE

R.I.P. BON

ROCK WILL LIVE WITH ANGUS

Angus and Malcolm got AC/DC off the back of a vacuum cleaner not a sewing machine.

[Sirup]

OMG!!!! stairway to heaven thing! I thought first that the flash thing was a lie and couldn't be true! but I Sound Forge 5.0 to an ordinary Stairway song in my comp and reversed it to the part in the flash and It sang as it said!

[akkakk]

The answer to the "hendrix" "Stairway to heaven" debate is right here http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Stairway_to_Heaven

Loo
k under "fake versions"... it is a Frank Zappa version

[JaneAsher]

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 Show) in the summer of 1965.

I also saw a fact about Eric Clapton's Layla. Well, there is another Clapton Tune that was inspired by Patty Boyd and probably the most misunderstand rock ballad of all time (just my opinion, not stating fact). Appartently, Boyd and Clapton were attending an event together and Patty was taking entirely too long to get ready, as we women often do. She kept changing her outfit and in a wave of desperation Clapton penned the song, "Wonderful Tonight" (though I've read it was really only the first verse)as a cheeky way of telling her, "Hurry up we're late!"

Come one guys, you all know you do it..."Hunny are you sure I look alright?"..."YES, you look wonderful, can we go...NOW?

Clapton was no different.

PS. Don't let release dates fool you. Many songs are written long before they are recorded and many are recorded in sessions long before they are released.

As far as I know Jimi Hendrix did not write Stairway. However just because he died before its release is not reason enough to diregard the idea or claim it illogical.

That is all...sorry it was so lengthy.

[sabr43]

#18 is complete SHIT. The album 5150 came out long before Peavey developed Eddies signature series amp. 5150 is the Law Enforcement code for someone who is a danger to themself or others due to a mental disorder.

As for the rest of the article, it was entertaining but a few google searches would've been beneficial. A lot of this stuff is twisted out of context.

[freekedoutfish]

mrmoppel wrote: Nice one kid! Sting's name is Gordon Sumner and he's originally from Cramlington, a small town in northern england, described by one local comedian as being "the shittest place on earth. It even has a paracetamol (headache tablet...commonly used in overdose) factory at one end and a razor blade factory at the other( true, I live there!!). 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 musician). Small world eh!?! Your 101 has turned into 1001 near enough....

mrmoppel hes not actually from Cramlington, which is where I live. Hes from around South Sheilds further south in Tyne and Wear I think.

He just taught in Cramlington as a P.E teacher in a school next to the highschool that I went to. He got his name from the yellow and black jumper he used to wear.

A teacher I had in first school worked with him.

[freekedoutfish]

Oh and Cramlington isnt exactly a shit, but Ross Noble, who used to live here, is right in saying its boring as ****!

I mean for god sake, the local library gave him a life times membership for free just to honour him....honestly, what a lucky guy!!!!

[Uzi]

very interesting at first. but nothing special about the last 10 to 20 facts.

[Green_Day_Rock]

"Patience" needed to be re-recorded since Axl could be heard puking his guts out in the middle of the it.

Sorry, but that is just so funny.

[Kobain10491]

great article
cool facts
great for jeopardy questions

[Jett_Moonwing]

If you're a fan of the artists, you'd know this stuff. :P I knew the stuff about Sting, Brian May, Freddie Mercury and Def Leppard's Rick Allen, among others - I knew that Sting sang on Dire Straits' Money For Nothing before I was even a fan (of Sting, that is)

[ivanglam]

As for legend number 1 - Stairway to Heaven Reversed.

- True, but you are missing all the facts.

the entire song is reversable - and makes just as much, if not more sense backwards.

Here are the backwards lyrics :

Plaaaay backwards,
Hear why its sung here, oppositioner..
Allll
on track, all arriving
They all sing, and they are one.
Shall I loathe you now, parishoner?
Oh hear Him, Christian within me.
It stirs my sin; the river,
Oh, she swells with our lousiness.
All my life will end for him?
We're all out of signs,
I know I'm sorta shocked
To hear The Lord,
My God now will save me!

Oh I will n'er be saved,
Because I live with Satan..
One wish today;
That you'll all pray for
Three who will make it here late.
Pray now and you'll see..
The 'Lord' turned me on,
But, oh, I was the shaggy fool..
Clothed in agony,
Lost at a height.
ohh...
There's no escaping it,
Nor his woes..
So here's to my Sweet Satan.
The other's little path
Would make me sad,
Whose power is fake.
He'll give those with him 666.
And all the evil fools,
they know he made
us suffer sadly.
Ohohohoh...
"Family won't get loose,
They've offered me."
Always soothes the worker.
Always will be as we know now
"I see ruins," said he,
"the world they offered me?
Who wished the Lord's fall?"
If we lose feather,
Say you'll save me!

And no wimps can bend the rules..
And no wimps can do..

Hunt next to the shore,
'Cause they see all from there,
See here's the news,
Who walks with mute grief!
Perhaps no-one found thee...
"Heavy, lift me out,"
Spake the Reve,
"Someday, failed, we'll lose one line-up,
They've gotta leave forsaken."

And no wimps can do..
And no wimps can do...

He, who say the lords
Thoth have our laws,
Maat must be superb. Mass is ended..
Over there,
He who should learn thee.
Any moot¹ that serves by my sworn music,
I wish it with snow be shushed,
All for my mass's sake.
Hear why its sung,
here, oppositioner, Ohh..
He who should show
May make his show worthy,
To look, for us, odd.. sickly,
There's one chance - take his show.
Hold thy head,
Hear why its sung here. oppositioner.
Who owns this earth built below?
Oh sweet Israel..


get yourself a copy of the mp3 along with a program to reverse the whole song... NOW THIS, is something that should ahve been put up on that list.

[ACA]

http://www.wwuz.com/ManageFolder/101_littleknown

[joshjhasarrived]

to the first guy that posted: there are two movies called "Crossroads." One has britney spears.

[luv_led_zep]

joe_barge wrote:

I thought the movie "Crossroads" was with Britnney Spears.

hahahahahahaha.....good work! on that i zipped through it

[luv_led_zep]

to guy who wrote all the "lyrics" of stairway backwards i have tried that a million times but it all comes out as gibirish apart from the sweet satan stuff...thats real i even sung it into a mic and played it backwards and it came out like that

[luv_led_zep]

Vandalx21 wrote:

Yeah I don't think Jimi wrote Stairway only because of the VERY SUBTLE "Lord of the Rings" references within the song ("There's a feelin' I get, When I look to the West", "The Forests will echo with Laughter", "All that Glitters is gold..." Zep were really inspired by LOTR later in their career and wrote a few songs inspired by Tolkien's masterpiece (Over the Hills and Far Away, Misty Mountain Hop, The Battle of Evermore) I've never heard of Hendrix singing of the exploits of Frodo Before.

jimmy wrote the riffs and plant wrote most of the vocals he was very much inspired by that crap

[josedominquez]

EpitaphMan440 wrote:

Actually Neil Young and the Ron Van Zant didn?t get along at all. Sweet home Alabama was written after he heard "Southern Man" . It's was a retaliatory song so to say. Young's song was poking fun at the southern culture, like racial discrimination and religious zealots, among other things. So, thats just to set it straight. Because a "Southern Man Don't Need him round anyhow".

they did get along. In "freebirds", a book written by the bands high-school freind/ road manager he talks about writing that sogn as a reaction but he still dug neil youngs music, as neil dug theirs.

Freebird, i dont beleive was dedicated to duane allman. I know it was written after Allen Collins gf asked him "if i left here tommorow, would you even remember me?"

[wyldefrehley]

heres one for you: jimi page copied his "famous" bow solo from an unknown guitarist at a recording studio. He was also stupid enough to copy a muddy waters song. In his earlier band, the yard dogs, "whole lotta love" was created as a kind of demo. when it didnt hit big, the small faces ripped it off and then jimi page in Led Zeppelin ripped it off years later.

[Kunzinator]

Surprised he left out a few Bob Dylan facts, Bob's real name is Robert Zimmerman, In Hibbing, MN there is a restaraunt called Zimmy's in Dylan's honor, the city also has "Dylan Days" during the summer.(Funny thing is Dylan despises the place where he grew up) Highway 61 actually doesn't run through Dylan's birthplace of Hibbing, but it does go through Duluth where he grew up. I live 5 miles from Hibbing, if you were wondering why I know all this, lol.

[70'sdude]

#81, Roy harper was an english folk guitarist who played a kick ass slide guitar

[Isogrifo]

That may sound weird (and stoned) but the truth is that doors close on their own, floors creak and a magic can be sensed in the air (or so they say).
That's called wind.

And it's calling Mary!

[tpot06]

EVH played on Beat It.
SLASH played on Black Or White.

[cannster]

I've read this article so many times...it's super interesting and cool. Good job!!

[Sgt. Pepper]

After Clapton got his 1959 Gibson Les Paul stolen he went round and bought Andy Summer's 1959 Gibson Les Paul off him for £200 because Andy had told him where to buy it. Don't believe me? Read One Train Later

[2sticks....1arm]

Fun stuff.
#16 - After Rick Allen's accident, Hysteria was created rather than Pyromania.
Good reading.

[2sticks....1arm]

#73...Sting's real name is Gordon Sumner (with an 'n') even though he ironically twisted his own name with the album Ten Summoner's Tales. "Summoner" refers to those that would summon people to court for their crimes during the middle ages. Mr. Sumner's surname is actually derived through his lineage from this occupation. So, really, his original name is used in the album's title.
http://www.sting.com/discog/?v=a&a=9&id=16

#70...AC/DC is from the sewing machine that was used by Angus and Malcom's sister (not necessarily to create Angus' uniform which, btw, wasn't his first choice for an onstage gimmick. Zorro, a gorilla and Super-Ang (a parody of Superman) were originally tried).
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/AC/DC

Sorry to rip up your stuff, but your caveat at the beginning sort of asks for editing.

Still, fun reading. Good job.

[lazrockshard]

#50...eric clapton avoid the payment by wrote "tears in heaven"...

[bangus]

- Eddie Van Halen only and I repeat... Only played the solo in Beat It. Steve Lukather from Toto played all the other guitar parts.

- Kerry King played the guitar parts for the Beastie Boys.

- Jimi Hendrix had nothing to do with Stairway To Heaven

- The strange backwards sound you hear in Whole Lotta Love was an effect called a Theramin. Watch Song Remains The Same and you will see one in action.

[EpyPhono]

http://jeffmilner.com/backmasking.htm

^^check out that if you want messed up lyrics. It's questionable though, it's on the net and all...

[Fizzler]

Tony Iommi played all of Paranoid in standard tuning. He didn't downtune until Master of Reality.

[brunova]

very nice... although there are some mistakes... believe me, there allways are ...
i´m also a 16 year old argentinian, here´s my messenger
[e-mail] ... ooh and (integrantes se dic e "members", no "integrants" tipico de argenino)
all in all its one of the best articles ive read ... i should get out more...

[Taj Va]

Papua buen articulo, como decia Luca, el rock existe solo en ingles!!! tengo ganas de conseguir algun laburo en este ambiente, se te ocurre algo??? aca en europa o en cualquier lado

[cornmancer]

SRV ISN'T COUNTRY!!!!

[darthbuttchin]

To be honest, this article was filled with facts that are widely known. A lot of them are either incorrect or not fully explained. Case in point : THe Yardbirds naming Clapton Slowhand. Yes, they did. But why? IT weas after the audiences slow hand clapping whilst he changed a string on stage.

All in all, the article was ok. CLose, but no Cigar.

[Trivium_Child]

I thought Purple haze was written about a bad trip Jimi had . . . .