Sunday, October 31, 2010

10 Music Facts I know that you don't

1) All the members of Rush have Masters Degrees in Music, Music Theory, and Loving.

2) Jack White of the White Stripes used to work odd jobs after dropping out of community college. Before becoming famous with his "sister" Meg (actually they were married and divorced however wanted to keep the band together) he was a talented upholsterist and even worked in a chicken factory like the one in Napoleon Dynamite which he later contributed music to.

3) Gore Verbinski, the director of such films as "The Ring" and the first three "Pirates of the Caribbean" films got his start in the SoCal punk rock scene in the band The Little Kings. He and his band were signed to Epitaph records along with Bad Religion, L7, the Offspring, Rancid, NoFx and Pennywise. He even direct music videos for the bands and worked in the labels marketing department

4) On the topic of the Offspring, Noodles the bands lead guitarist is considerably older than the rest of the group. He was their high school janitor who they only asked to join the band because he was old enough to buy bear.

5) Hip Hop group Bone Thugs N Harmony originally were known as Bone Enterprise. They released their first CD when they were all around the age of 15 with the notable song "Bless Tha 40 oz"

6) Brad Knowel of Sublime was in a very romantic relationship with Gwen Stefani of No Doubt. The two toured together for a very long time until Knowel died of a heroin overdose and Stefani went on to marry UK Kurt Cobain grunge counter part Gavin Rosdale of Bush

7) German Industrial Metal band Rammstein's pyrotechnics are so out of control that they have been banned to play in the U.S.A since 1998 after numerous close calls in numerous venues while on the Family Values Tour.

8)Tool's guitarist, Adam Jones used to jam with guitarist Tom Morello  of Rage Against the Machine and Audioslave before the two parted ways in the early 90's. Morello went off to Harvard to study political science. Jones stayed in LA and created special effects for movies like Jurassic Park. The two got a chance to jam once more at Bonaroo Music Festival in Tennessee.

9) Iggy Pop used to work for drugs as payment from David Bowie. Instead of receiving royalties he would get his monetary worth in speed, dope, heroin, marijuana, and cocaine all which Iggy would use up more than he would sell.

10) Bono of U2 has a third nipple... or so they say.

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