| ACDC 12:23 - Nov 6 with 1951 views | Monahoop |
Things not looking too good for the veteran Aussie rockers at present. Angus Young probably unlikely to play again through ill health, now drummer Phil Rudd in court in New Zealand for his part in organizing a murder. I believe a tour and a new album are imminent soon. Hardly the best preparations.
Got me thinking. What other rock stars have been involved in murder or murder plots? There must be others. |  |
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| ACDC on 13:27 - Nov 6 with 1891 views | R_from_afar |
An iconic band which I love so I'm gutted to hear this news.
Here's an artiste - whom MetallicaHoop may know of, who went to "The Big House":
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Burzum
I've never heard his music but am not keen on listening to tracks by a murderer.
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| ACDC on 13:37 - Nov 6 with 1877 views | SonofNorfolt |
Dirty deeds done dirt cheap. |  | | |
| ACDC on 14:20 - Nov 6 with 1824 views | jonno |
Surely it's Malcolm Young that is ill, not Angus. |  | | |
| ACDC on 17:02 - Nov 6 with 1760 views | izlingtonhoop |
The House Martins' drummer:
"In 1993, Whitaker was sent to prison for six years for assaulting former business associate James Hewitt with an axe and setting fire to his house on three occasions."
Didn't end up as murder, but well on the way...
And as I pointed out in another thread Ronan murdered Fairy Tale of New York. |  | | |
| ACDC on 18:03 - Nov 6 with 1706 views | easthertsr |
Surely Phil 'the worst wig, anyone has ever worn ever' Spector is worthy of a mention on this thread? |  | | |
| ACDC on 19:11 - Nov 6 with 1660 views | exiled_dictator |
Vince Neil killed Hanoi Rocks drummer Nicholas "Razzle" Dingley.
Ozzy Osborne killed a bat on stage.
Courtney Love, it could be argued, killed Kurt Cobain.
Keith Moon ran someone over and killed them.
Sid Vicious killed Nancy
And many a musician has killed a perfectly good song. |  |
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| ACDC on 19:42 - Nov 6 with 1627 views | barabajagal |
| ACDC on 19:11 - Nov 6 by exiled_dictator |
Vince Neil killed Hanoi Rocks drummer Nicholas "Razzle" Dingley.
Ozzy Osborne killed a bat on stage.
Courtney Love, it could be argued, killed Kurt Cobain.
Keith Moon ran someone over and killed them.
Sid Vicious killed Nancy
And many a musician has killed a perfectly good song. |
Ozzy claimed the bat was dead, and he thought it was a rubber bat anyway. Didn't he once try to kill Sharon though? |  | | |
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| ACDC on 20:05 - Nov 6 with 1603 views | Monahoop |
| ACDC on 14:20 - Nov 6 by jonno |
Surely it's Malcolm Young that is ill, not Angus. |
You're right Jonno. My mistake, it is indeed Malcolm. | |
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| ACDC on 08:21 - Nov 7 with 1477 views | bosh67 |
Case dropped through lack of evidence. I would imagine that Rudd may have a defamation of character case coming against the police there very soon. |  |
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| ACDC on 08:32 - Nov 7 with 1472 views | MrSheen |
| ACDC on 08:21 - Nov 7 by bosh67 |
Case dropped through lack of evidence. I would imagine that Rudd may have a defamation of character case coming against the police there very soon. |
Still facing charges of making threats to kill and drug possession.
NFNZ - Normal for New Zealand! |  | | |
| ACDC on 11:39 - Nov 7 with 1423 views | GloryHunter |
This is so Spinal Tap. It's always the drummer. |  | | |
| ACDC on 12:37 - Nov 7 with 1404 views | R_from_afar |
There are some amazing, real life Spinal Tap stories out there. The stoner doom band Sleep have had some "adventures". Get this (from their Wikipedia entry; the background to this is that they had received a six figure advance, much of which they are rumoured to have spent on herbal essences):
Under their new contract, they began work on their third album, Dopesmoker, in 1995. Much to the dismay of executives at London records, Dopesmoker was a single song more than one hour long. London Records declared the album unmarketable and refused to release it. Sleep returned to the studio and then submitted their second attempt at the new album. They had retitled it Jerusalem, re-written some of the lyrics and trimmed it down to a "lean" 52 minutes, but it was essentially the same as Dopesmoker. London Records again refused to release it. Frustrated and generally unhappy with the situation, the members of Sleep decided to disband.
I knew about that one but upon delving deeper into their history, I find that one of their original guitarists left to...and it's not often this happens...take up life as a monk!
While I am waffling on to myself, here's my all time favourite story. In a nutshell, sneaky producer and studio owner invite hot shot musicians to a series of parties, ply them with an endless supply of drugs while they jam, then mix together the jams into an album without the artists' knowledge...
One day in 1974, Manuel Göttsching, guitarist for the legendary Krautrock band Ash Ra Tempel, walked into a Berlin record store and heard some wildly cosmic guitar sounds blasting from the speakers. He was shocked to discover that he was listening to a new Krautrock supergroup, and that he in fact was the guitarist. The Cosmic Jokers were the greatest Krautrock supergroup that never was, a cosmic joke even on most of the musicians who played on the sessions, unbeknownst they were members of this new "group." Over several months in early 1973, producer Rolf-Ulrich Kaiser organized several wild acid parties at Dieter Dierks' sound studio, where the musicians played in exchange for a small fee and all the hallucinogens they could ingest. These musicians included Göttsching and Klaus Schulze of Ash Ra Tempel, Jurgen Dollase and Harald Grosskopf of Wallenstein, and Dierks himself. They had all been part of the Cosmic Couriers, a loose group that had musically backed Kaiser-produced records by Swiss artist/poet Sergius Golowin, gypsy Tarot-reader Walter Wegmuller, and even acid guru Timothy Leary the year before.
From these 1973 sessions, The Cosmic Jokers were born, as Kaiser and Dierks edited and mixed the material and slapped it out on vinyl on Kaiser's Kosmiche Musik label without the other musicians knowing anything about it until the records appeared in stores, even as their pictures were posted prominently on the covers.
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| ACDC on 19:06 - Nov 7 with 1342 views | loftboy |
Margin. Gaye was shot by his dad, I don't think it counts though as his dad wasn't a rock drummer! |  |
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| ACDC on 22:53 - Nov 7 with 1303 views | easthertsr |
| ACDC on 19:06 - Nov 7 by loftboy |
Margin. Gaye was shot by his dad, I don't think it counts though as his dad wasn't a rock drummer! |
Margin. Gaye? you're in need of some sexual healing mate! | | | |
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