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 Post subject: Rock N Roll myths that are complete bullshit
PostPosted: Mon Sep 19, 2005 12:34 pm 
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So I'm listening to Imus on the way to work this morning and they play 'My Generation' as a bumper....I was thinking how I've always heard that Daltrey stutters the lyrics because he "couldnt read Townshend's handwriting".....then I got to thinking: WHAT A BUNCH OF CRAP!

Jesus, who invents this stuff: publicists? FM afternoon jocks?, bands bored of giving interviews?

Anybody got any others of note? I just thought of three more:

-Keith having his blood switched out.

-Led Zeppelin making a deal w/ the devil and it being the cause of their later tragedies.

-Rod Stewart having to have his stomach pumped because it was full of horse cum. (ok, that one is probably true)

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Most people now know this one isn't true, but I'll say it anyway..

Mama Cass didn't die by choking on a ham sandwich-even if I prefer this to the truth.

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Isn't the Mama Cass choking to death on a ham sandwich an urban legend as well. If memory serves, she died from a cardiac episode.

EDIT: fucking Steve beat me to it.

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YOU CAN'T HANDLE THE TRUTH!!
THE TRUTH IS, MAMA CASS DIED FROM Unintentional exposure to e.coli through "balloon knot" licking.

(This is what really killed Morrison, Hendrix and a few hundred others, its just the government kept it under wraps. It's easy to romanticize someone for living fast and dieing young, on the one hand, and chastize them for being "druggies" on the other. What they were trying to contain is a simultaneous public health problem/christian freak out whence the two divergent sectiosn fo society started either: Licking assholes, OR spontaneously combusting from the very though that nubile young women were having their bungs tongued...who says the government is good for nothing?)

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DumpJack Wrote:
Isn't the Mama Cass choking to death on a ham sandwich an urban legend as well. If memory serves, she died from a cardiac episode.


http://www.snopes.com/music/artists/mamacass.htm
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Senator <> LooGAR Wrote:
YOU CAN'T HANDLE THE TRUTH!!
THE TRUTH IS, MAMA CASS DIED FROM Unintentional exposure to e.coli through "balloon knot" licking.

(This is what really killed Morrison, Hendrix and a few hundred others, its just the government kept it under wraps. It's easy to romanticize someone for living fast and dieing young, on the one hand, and chastize them for being "druggies" on the other. What they were trying to contain is a simultaneous public health problem/christian freak out whence the two divergent sectiosn fo society started either: Licking assholes, OR spontaneously combusting from the very though that nubile young women were having their bungs tongued...who says the government is good for nothing?)


I'll believe all of this because:

a) I don't question rather large individuals who happen to have government connections and may or may not have the ability to hunt down my ass through said government connections if I were to piss them off in the slightest, and
b) there were way too may big-ass words to even attempt to put together on a Monday morning and have the slightest clue of half of what was said, so I can only assume it was one of the most profound statements ever to reach this board and I must stand behind it.

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I always thought that Roger stuttered during My Generation because he was high on something. I'd never heard the lyric/unable to read story before.
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I think Loogar has it a bit wrong. Mama Cass died when she shoved a ham sandwich up someone's ass and then ate it out.

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dnorwood Wrote:
I always thought that Roger stuttered during My Generation because he was high on something. I'd never heard the lyric/unable to read story before.

I had seen somewhere, no idea where now, that he stuttered because it was so cold in the studio. Seem BS to me, because you don't stutter when you're cold. You may tremble, but you don't selectively stutter certain words or phrases.

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Mot, no hoople Wrote:
dnorwood Wrote:
I always thought that Roger stuttered during My Generation because he was high on something. I'd never heard the lyric/unable to read story before.

I had seen somewhere, no idea where now, that he stuttered because it was so cold in the studio. Seem BS to me, because you don't stutter when you're cold. You may tremble, but you don't selectively stutter certain words or phrases.

It's kinda obvious that the stuttered lyrics were pre-planned so it would seem Daltrey was about to say "fuck off" instead of "fade away."
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Roger Daltrey sang the lead vocals with a stutter, which was very unusual. After recording 2 take, manager Kit Lambert suggested to Daltrey that he stutter to sound like a British kid on speed.



Rads was correct as well.....
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When this song was first rehearsed for recording, Roger Daltrey stumbled over the word fade because pete Townshend's writing was so untidy that he couldn't work out what it was meant to say. They all decided to keep this is and add more stuttering, which was a huge success! Also, when there was outcry about what 'other' four letter f-word was implied by the stutter, they were genuinely surprised!

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I think Loogar has it a bit wrong. Mama Cass died when she shoved a ham sandwich up someone's ass and then ate it out.


Unsurprisingly, this is how I am going to die, as well.
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Sergei Bubka Wrote:
Kelly Leak Wrote:
I think Loogar has it a bit wrong. Mama Cass died when she shoved a ham sandwich up someone's ass and then ate it out.


Unsurprisingly, this is how I am going to die, as well.

I'd go for it if it was co-Mama Michelle Phillips' ass.
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