Peter Green has some good ones

As the band walked in the studio I noticed an amplifier which I never saw before, so I said to John Mayall, "Where's Eric Clapton?" Mayall answered, "He's not with us anymore, he left us a few weeks ago." I was in a shock of state [sic] but Mayall said, "Don't worry, we got someone better." I said, "Wait a minute, hang on a second, this is ridiculous. You've got someone better? Than Eric Clapton?" John said, "He might not be better now, but you wait, in a couple of years he's going to be the best." Then he introduced me to Peter Green.

As the new iteration of Fleetwood Mac had started to dominate the music charts in the late ’70s, fans had begun to delve into their early work, including that of Green. This meant that Green was owed some handsome royalty checks. However, he had already started giving his money away and selling his guitars.

When the news came of some more cash knocking around with Green’s name on it, he stormed into David Simmon’s office with a shotgun he had smuggled from Canada. He furiously demanded that he never send him any money again and was to give it all away. Simmons called the police, and Green was arrested.

joe_lmr wrote: Thu Apr 10, 2025 1:53 pm

OrthodoxEaster wrote: Thu Apr 10, 2025 10:19 am Mugger—the dogfood-eating former Black Flag roadie, homeless teen runaway, and wild-ass vocalist in the delightfully tongue-in-cheek punk-meal band the Nig-Heist—is now some kinda millionaire investor, father, and Iron Man athlete living in a SoCal gated community.

And the name of...that band allegedly came from something Eugene Robinson would say when he would swipe a cigarette

I can't vouch for the authenticity of this apocryphal story

I can confirm that the phrase comes from a black friend of Mugger's named Eugene. And the thing about the cigarettes. I've seen Mugger quoted saying this and have heard him tell the story in person.

I didn't realize it might be that Eugene, though. Kinda squares w/Mr. Robinson's sense of humor and general outrageousness, sure. But the connection is news to me, if true.

No Trend had a great, loose-cannon drummer named Greg Miller, who came and went from the band several times from 1983 to 1986. At one point, a DC-area musician named Tom Payne replaced him. Payne played his one and only gig w/No Trend in 1984 and was faring poorly. Suddenly, Miller emerged onstage from the audience, said something like "that's not how the songs go," physically removed Payne from the drum stool, and replaced him in the middle of a fucking set, thus returning to the band.

No Trend's tour vehicle was a converted ambulance.

The title and lyrics of the song "Last on Right, Second Row"—from NT's final album, More, recorded in 1988 or so, scrapped by Touch & Go for being too weird, and released more than a decade later—come from pickup graffiti written in the bathroom of Sidney Lust, a drive-in porno (!?) theater in Prince George's County, Maryland. The band members would hang out there and collect notes posted by the swinging patrons: "Horny and willing to try something new," "35 years old, white, and ready to go," "last truck on the right, second row." You can't really make it out in the song, but the last bit is basically singer Jeff Mentges mumbling, reading those notes.

Owen wrote: Thu Apr 10, 2025 1:28 pm I hope this thread goes 100+ pages.

I'll do my best!

Here's another favorite:

When Bob Dylan "went electric" and took The Band out on tour as his backing band in 1966 ("Judas!" etc), Levon didn't want to go to Europe with some folksinger so instead they got the guy who was playing drums for Johnny Rivers at the time. He later had a career as a film/tv actor, it's this guy >>

joe_lmr wrote: Thu Apr 10, 2025 1:56 pm Dead from Mayhem is an extra in this video

May not be recognizable without his brain exposed

More videoed shennanigans

Cosey Fanni Tutti throwing shapes in the "You Make Me Feel (Mighty Real) video



Prog doyen Sherman Helmsley throwing shapes on The Jeffersons to Nektar



Long-haired Pat Smear vibing behind Wendy in "Raspberry Beret"

Slightly obscure but makes me laugh…

In mid 80s Melbourne there was a studs and leather punk band called Depression. They recorded a live album (which is fucking terrible btw) and there was an interview in some street mag about it. In a pure Spinal Tap moment they wanted the cover of the album to be a very deep black. Turned out there was no printer in Australia who could print pure black - so all the covers were printed overseas in China just for this effect - punk rock not

Behold the terrible cover in all its blackness here -

https://www.discogs.com/release/2370761 ... tal-Thrash

Charles Manson co-wrote the Beach Boys' hit, "Never Learn Not to Love".

Joan Jett produced Dischord Records' own Circus Lupus on a seven inch.

Chris Cornell's Soundgarden debut was as a drummer/vocalist.

At one point when Johnny Cash was recording his American series with Rick Rubin, Will Oldham had been invited to come and check out his Shangri-La studio. The day he arrived they'd happened to be recently toying with Bonnie Prince Billy's iconic "I See a Darkness". JC had been struggling with the cadence so Rick suggested Will come into the vocal booth and sing it with him face to face. Within hours of arriving Oldham found himself singing inches away from one of his lifelong heroes eye-to-eye.

Will Oldham was in an early incarnation of Slint, but they stopped asking him to come to practice once they noticed he didn’t know how to play guitar.

Source- recent WTF interview with Oldham

Oh that reminds me - Husker Du were a four-piece too, but they disliked the keyboardist's sound so much they started practicing without him.

Dave N. wrote: Fri Apr 11, 2025 2:25 pm Will Oldham was in an early incarnation of Slint, but they stopped asking him to come to practice once they noticed he didn’t know how to play guitar.

Source- recent WTF interview with Oldham

Oldham also collaborated with noted party animal Andrew WK.