My favourite thing about imdb.com is the trivia section, where you get to find out interesting bits and pieces and back stories to films, and I really wish that there was a resource like that for music - so I think we should make our own. I'll start!
"The Dave Grohl" trilogy: Louise Post from Veruca Salt used to go out with Dave Grohl. She wrote about missing him in 'Earthcrosser' on the 8 Arms to Hold You album, when they were both touring in seperate places. Then, he dumped her for Winona Ryder, and when Veruca Salt played here in 1997 (anyone else go?) she called him an asshole and played a little song called "I hate the way you live without me" which was very sad and made Nina Gordon all weepy on stage. Then on another Veruca Salt album (which she did by herself) she really spelt out every crappy thing about their relationship in a song called 'Disconnected' which talked about how they were going to have a house together and she was picking out the curtains but it all went wrong - "now I'm on zoloft because you told me I was crazy", and "it's kind of scary when your lover leaves you for a movie star, and you're still in the dark".
I love bands airing their dirty laundry in public when it creates music that you can really connect to.
Who else has stories?
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what was the point of posting this??...
what was the point of posting this??
poor tama. someone posted something ...
poor tama. someone posted something less than positive about dave grohl.
I thought that chick from veruca salt ...
I thought that chick from veruca salt is a dyke....
she probably is now! naughty dave....
she probably is now! naughty dave.
I don't care, this happened back in ...
I don't care, this happened back in 97, he just had a fling with Winona.
Louise just can't get over it that he dumped her, if she is still mad about it now, she need to get a life.
But who really gives a fuck anyway?? this is all old rumors/storys that are dead
// But who really gives a fuck anyway?? ...
// But who really gives a fuck anyway?? this is all old rumors/storys that are dead
The songs still exist and if someone listens to the songs it gives them context and further meaning. Why isn't that interesting?
er... ¿layla is about patti harrison?...
er... ¿layla is about patti harrison?
And didn't Dave Grohl's marriage fall ...
And didn't Dave Grohl's marriage fall apart when his wife went off with the then Foo Fighter's guitarist Pat Smear?
Mr Grohl seems to be attracting as much drama as a Hollywood A-list actor.
I looked up Grohl's profile on IMDB and there's a bit of trivia, but nothing cool as Joanna's saga. Though I did learn that "Dave Grohl was the drummer of a "grundge" or "alternative" band called Nirvana in the early 90s."
[ http://us.imdb.com/name/nm0342970/bio ]
no she didn't leave Dave for ...
no she didn't leave Dave for Pat.
Dave & her broke up, but Pat was still good friends with her. They weren't going out, just friends.
Pat has had a girlfriend for ages, also he is not gay
Um, it's a much less salacious bit of ...
Um, it's a much less salacious bit of trivia, but anyway...
The producers for the film Ghostbusters wanted to get Huey Lewis to do the theme tune. For whatever reason they couldn't get him. So they hired a musician who could do a competent impersonation of a Huey Lewis song. Ray Parker Jr was the man for the job. He's a trained jazz musician (he's appeared on records with Herbie Hancock and others, and released a series of poppy funk records up until Ghostbusters).
Lo and behold, Ray Parker Jr released the Ghostbusters theme and it became a massive hit. Within a few months Huey Lewis sued him for the similarities between the Ghosbusters theme and his song 'I Want A New Drug'. They settled out of court, which I guess means Parker knew he was gonna get fried.
Two Chic (Nile Rogers/Bernard Edwards) ...
Two Chic (Nile Rogers/Bernard Edwards) related ones, both from memory from an interview with Nile I saw in 99:
Nile and Bernard went to go to Studio 54 and got turned away for not looking interesting enough. They were pissed off and went and did the one thing they knew how to: jam. They wrote a tune about how shit the bouncers were with the chorus "ahhhhhh FUCK OFF!". After a bit they realised that what they were playing had a lot of commercial potential, so they changed the lyrical content, eventually settling on a chorus of "ahhhhh FREAK OUT". And the big Chic hit, 'Le Freak', was born.
Nile and Bernard were commissioned to produce an album for Diana Ross. They noticed all the black queens at Studio 54 would dress up as Diana and decided they should cash in on this. Since Diana was a conservative Christian, they had to do this without her realised. So they wrote the song 'I'm Coming Out' and somehow managed to palm it off as being about positivity and turning over a new leaf.
That Diana Ross song was actually later sampled by Puff Daddy for Notorious BIG's 'Mo Money Mo Problems', except I think in that version they have a vocalist redo it as "I'm coming up"? Hmm...
Tricky invited Alison Goldfrapp (now in ...
Tricky invited Alison Goldfrapp (now in the duo Goldfrapp) to sing on a tune for his first album. They went into the studio and he played the tape of a backing track for her. Alison had a bit of a warm up, trying out some ideas for melodies and lyrics that might work. When the track finished Tricky thanked her and said that was it, end of session. The track 'Pumpkin' went on his first album just like that.
One more for tonight. :) Massive ...
One more for tonight. :)
Massive Attack were working on their third album. Mushroom had come up with a track that he thought he should get Madonna to sing on. She'd recently collaborated with MA on a Marvin Gaye cover, so he thought she'd be up for it. He went and played the track to 3D and Daddy G and said he was thinking Madonna. They said they were keen.
Mushroom went off and gave Madge a call, and she was enthusiastic.
Mushroom went back to the others and found the others had called in Liz Fraser from the Cocteau Twins and were going to get her to sing on the backing track Mushroom had come up with. He was so pissed off he took the track and said they couldn't use it. 3D and Daddy G had to come up with something that sounded similar from their memory of Mushroom's track.
And so 'Teardrop' was born.
Yay Jet! You're the trivia king. Now I ...
Yay Jet! You're the trivia king. Now I gotta think of some more bits and pieces. I'm sure I know some more.
er... ¿tears in heaven is about patti & ...
er... ¿tears in heaven is about patti & erics kid who had a choice- being brought up by patti & eric- or death- decided on the latter?
As horrible as that is lena, it made me ...
As horrible as that is lena, it made me crack up at the thought.
"Will you know my name, if I saw you in heaven? Would it be the same, if I saw you in heaven?" *saccharine*
"Oh fuck, I hope to hell it's not the same!!"
Heaps of you probably already know this ...
Heaps of you probably already know this but I was surprised to learn that Ice Cube wrote "Fuck Tha Police" with Dr Dre while completing his architecture degree.
I'm pretty sure Charles Wright who did ...
I'm pretty sure Charles Wright who did 'Express Yourself', later sampled by NWA for their tune of the same name, was Dre's uncle.
Syd Barrett really had a Siamese cat ...
Syd Barrett really had a Siamese cat called Sam. Whether he thought it was Satanic or a bearer of light (Lucifer) I don't know.
The song 'Born in the USA' by Bruce ...
The song 'Born in the USA' by Bruce Springsteen was written for an anti-Vietnam war movie of the same name, which was never released.