101 things you didn't know about rock'n'roll

[BrownEyedBoy]

http://www.ultimate-guitar.com/colu..._things_you_didnt_know_about_rock_n_roll.html


Pretty interesting read.


EDIT: ugh, I meant to put this on Bang & Clatter...

 

[Headache in a Suitcase]

pretty non sports related...

 

[Chizip]

no mods check this forum either so this should be here for a while

 

[IWasBored]

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.

shhhh. hear that? that's the sound of this article's credibility going out the window.

 

[bammo2]

 

[Headache in a Suitcase]

let's count the days till someone notices this thread...

 

[phanan]

tick tock, tick tock

 

[Bonochick]

I'm sorry, what was that?

 

[UberBeaver]

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".

I think Hysteria is the album on which he made his one armed debut, no?

 

[Headache in a Suitcase]

let's try to break all the rules in the FAQs...

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neener neeener neeeener, hewson is a weiner

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stupid eskimos

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ehhh... how bout them 101 rock and roll things... ain't that somethin?

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ok not gonna try this one

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the yankees and peyton manning blow... go sawks

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hehe... he said flaming

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nah

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tick tock tick tock

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waiting... waiting...

 

[Headache in a Suitcase]

I'm sorry, what was that?

doh

 

[Bonochick]

 

[Headache in a Suitcase]

:shakesangryfist:

 

[typhoon]

I'm only halfway through the list, but I already knew most of these.

Some of them are just dumb ("Stairway To Heaven" backwards), some of them sort of miss the point (he really couldn't think of anything more important to say about Highway 61?), some of them so well known that they betray the title of the article (Clapton does the solo on "While My Guitar Gently Weeps"), some of them are a bit wrong (Dark Side of the Moon synchs perfectly with The Wizard of Oz), some of them are totally wrong (aren't the glyphs on Ghost In the Machine supposed to be the band members in profile?); interesting list overall, though. I love the mythology of rock and roll.

 

[Max_theHitman]

Jimi Hendrix used to get *high* before EVERY SHOW by smelling his dirty socks.
I bet you didn´t know that?

 

[Carek1230]

 

[impy13]

I don't get the shit about the crossroads

 

[DeadMansParty]

I don't get the shit about the crossroads

In southern black communities it was a well-known notion that one could go to the crossroads and sell one's soul to the devil. The concept dates back to African Folklore.

And so there were always rumors that Robert Johnson had done just that, from lyrics to his song crossroads " I went down to the crossroads, fell down on my knee's, I asked the lord above, save poor bob please" and I believe to my soul now,
Poor Bob is sinkin down". Its just a story to explain why all the greats die at 27.