Music 'Facts' That People You Know Insist Are True
 

And won't be told otherwise........

My Mother - Insists it was Suzi Quatro who originally sung 'I Love Rock n Roll' in the early 80s and not Joan Jett. When I showed her the youtube video she replied that she still remembered Suzi did it a couple of years earlier.

My Dad - Insists that Billy Gibbons & Dusty Hill of ZZ Top are twin brothers, despite having different surnames.

Friend of mine - Insists that at an Ozzy gig a fan got up on stage and took a huge dump, Ozzy got on his knees and ate it. (Think he's confusing him with GG Allin but he still won't have it.

Guy I used to work with - Phil Collins sang guest lead vocals on Van Halen's 'I'll Wait'


Friend's Dad - Alice Cooper's Schools Out was released in the mid 60s.

Everybody I ever downloaded from on Soulseek - James Brown sings 'Play That Funky Music White Boy'

Eddy Van Halen and my father are firm believers that EVH was the first to use two hand fingertapping on the guitar.

That's funny. I just saw a TV show where Steve Hackett claimed credit for creating the two handed tap. I'm sure he stole it from some old Blues guy. :afro:

When I first heard the song This Means War by Avenged Sevenfold, I thought it was Metallica. :p:

He's definitely the first one that I heard doing it.

Emmett Chapman is widely regarded as the first, but the technique dates as far back as the 1700s with Paganini doing Bach pieces.

I knew it! You're secretly Yngwie Malmsteen! :yikes:

I don't think Yngwie could go for ten minutes without talking about himself, so you're suspicions are off base.

But that's exactly what Yngwie would say, wouldn't it?

Does that mean I'm some kind of Bizarro World Yngwie who can't play guitar?

My grandfather, who isn't known for joking, insists that while researching our family tree he discovered that we are related to Cher in some way.

And you would have to be skinny and have short hair and you would wear your shirts buttoned up to the collar and you would have to be REALLY humble and not drink and and and....

The cosmic question is - Was Yngwie an a-hole before he learned to play guitar or after? I'm thinking he was born that way and the guitar just excuses it. It takes a special kind of person to think, 'Hey - if I unbutton my shirt all the way, women can see my gut better.'

I actually only saw him the first time on That Metal Show and he seemed like he was on pretty good behavior. Once he strapped on that guitar though, it was over. The man is still a monster.

My favorite Yngwie recording:

YNGWIE MALMSTEEN Threatens To Kill Airline Passeng | Video | Break.com

More silly facts and less guitar wankathons please

There was no guitar wankery in my post.

I have a friend that swears they pumped Rod Stewarts stomach and...well you know the rest.

Music is dead man.
-half of the *******s on my Facebook feed.

Paul McCartney played the drum solo on The End from Abbey Road.

:laughing:

That's one I'd never heard. On a related note, most Beatles fans will tell you he plays drums on "Back in the USSR", which is half-true.

My friend's dad still thinks Charlie Watts was the bassist and Bill Wyman was the drummer. :rolleyes: I haven't bothered to correct him.

My mother insist that Richard Marx is the best non christian composer ever.

My sister insist that R & B is the only soulful genre out there

My friend insists this song isn't nirvana cause it doesn't sound like a Nirvana tune
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=5Jja5iWRp1w

Another friend of mine insists music gets no better than U2

Some dude on the Psn once insisted i was gay just cause i like Michael jackson.

Dude, that's not the reason you're gay.

:laughing: I've had former band members frown on the suggestion to cover Love Song by the Cure.

I have in the last year or so convinced them to go with Just Like A Dream though. So all is good.

Is it cause i stick hamsters up my ass??
Cause so far not one of them has complained about it being gay.

Sounds pretty gay.

:laughing:

Yes it does... not as gay as Tin Man by America though.

My friend- If you don't make music that is accessible for everyone you should not make music

I never heard that song until you mentioned it but after listening to it for a minute, i gotta agree with you. :p:

it's not a bad song though.

My dad turned me on to America back in the 70s. They were all over the radio back then.

I don't know how I did it, but back during the 80s I convinced a cover band into doing that particular song. Somewhere doing the course of performing the song (in this hole in the wall biker bar) while I was walking across the stage I tripped on one of the countless speaker and mic chords running all across the floor. And evidently it looked pretty gay to the audience watching. Because, during our next 15 minute break a couple people from the audience suggested we should drop the song from our set list.

I guess I should have been embarrassed, but I wasn't. :D

I don't know how insistent she was about it but my mother used to think The Ramones were a Latin rock band.

Well they did have a "Havana Affair"

half the new threads on mb too

Someone I know from work thinks Dan Fogelberg's name is "Dan Vogelberg." When I tell him it's Fogelberg he always reply the same way "... it's Dan Vogelberg... with a 'v'... Vvvvvvvvvogelberg."


Did you tell your mom they are The Ramones not The Ramóns?

Yep, that's exactly what I said to her. She still pronounces it as "Ramóns" though.

For years my mom thought Roy Orbison was blind. Not just because of the glasses but because of the way he 'acted'. My Step-dad and my step-sister in law like to argue about whether Johnny Cash's first wife was black. Neither of them is a pronounced Johnny Cash fan, so I don't know why they would care, but it's become a real bone of contention. I finally got the new Johnny Cash bio but I don't think I will tell them what I find out. They definitely make family dinners more lively.

If you play Stairway to Heaven backwards you can clearly hear these two phrases.

"Here's to my sweet Satan" and "I sing because I live with Satan."

Maybe this isn't the right place but, here's a couple of lyric misquotes from friends:

Eric Clapton - After Midnight
"Captain midnight, we gonna let it all hang down"

Rush - 2112
"We are the priests, of the devil, I'm serious"

Yes, they insist. It's too funny to show them they're wrong, so I go with it.

I can understand mishearing lyrics but how in the hell do you mishear it when it's the title of the fucking song?

Some people just baffle me.

My mom, who's a huge Billy Joel fan, still thinks the lyrics to Leningrad are: "I was born in '49, a Cold War kid in the coffee time."

I've mentioned to her that it's "McCarthy", not "the coffee", but she must forget, because every time I hear her belting it out, it's always incorrect.

That actually made me laugh. I imagined Geddy actually singing that bit and it cracked me up. He's serious.

We use to play the version from All The Worlds a Stage back in the late 70s, early 80s when disco was still going strong. Imagine a dance floor filled with polyester clad folks trying to work a groove to Overture.

:rofl:

The dudes a total douche, which makes it even funnier.

Has he even bothered to look at any of his albums? I mean, misspell the artist's name on one, bad. Misspell it on them all? Buddy, you got a lawsuit on your hands! :laughing: