You know, like Keef recording the riff to Satisfaction while blacked out, etc..



Post some faves.

Listening to Hundred Year Hall this morning led me to this:

John Phillips originally wrote "Me and My Uncle" at a drinking session in a hotel room with Judy Collins and Neil Young (among others) in 1963. According to Grateful Dead Lyric & Song Finder[1]

John often used to tell the story behind "Me and My Uncle". Years ago he began receiving publishing royalties from a song on a Judy Collins record with which he was unfamiliar. It was titled "Me and My Uncle". He called Judy to let her know of the mistake because he hadn't written any such song. She laughed and told him that about a year before, in Arizona after one of her concerts, they had a 'Tequila Night' back at the hotel with Stephen Stills, Neil Young and a few others. They were running a blank cassette and John proceeded to write "Me and My Uncle" on the spot. The next day, John woke up to the tequila sunrise with no recollection of the songwriting incident. Judy kept the cassette from that evening and then, without informing John, recorded the song for her own record. Over the years the song was recorded by several people, and eventually became a standard of the Grateful Dead. John used to joke that, little by little, with each royalty check, the memory of writing the song would come back to him.

Pretty cool story. I don't think i've heard the song though.

That's a great story, but I'm confused- mongerdom is alcoholism? I thought it was pedophilia. What's the word for that?

Mongerdom/Mongering has MANY, MANY meanings. In common parlance, it has come to mean debauched.

I would tend to use molo for pedos.

DHR and whoever, here's a link:


There's some other story I was thinking about wherein David Lee Roth wakes up all bruised up and soar. And he asks the guys what happened the night before, and they said he had jumped out a window, after telling all the folks in the bar he could fly.

He asks one of em "Why didn't you try to stop me?" and the guy says "Stop you? I had $50 that said you could do it!"

I am hazy on some of the details, or the why and wherefore, but it's a pretty god 'un.

I would give anything to hear the tales that went on during the Pay Pack & Follow sessions. In fact that's going on right now.

But for epic tales, one has to mention this:

^ First thing I thought of.

This is a freakin' awesome idea for a thread. I just wish I had a story to add.

Box Tops - The Letter

As legend goes, the producer wanted a certain "raw" sound for the track. Unfortunately, Chilton didn't have the voice for it. He was what, 16? 17? So the producer takes him out for a wild night on the town making sure he drinks and smokes a whole heck of a lot. Also, I believe he didn't let him sleep. They come in and record that track--raw, and a classic is born. Hence why no other Box Tops song sounds quite like that. Listen to Cry Like A Baby's vox for comparison.

There's the Replacements story from the "Pleased To Meet Me" sessions where a guy comes in the morning after a long night to find vomit on the ceiling of the studio.

When asked how that happened, one of the other staffers sez "I guess they threw it up there".