While shopping in Melbourne Xena and I picked up this book called Bang Your Head: The Rise and Fall of Heavy Metal. I'm not even 1/8 of the way through it yet and already there's some fucking classic quotes:
'For their stage shows, Van Halen stole lights from apartment complexes. They also made their own flash pots by putting gunpowder in coffee cans that were hooked up to car batteries. Sometimes they would malfunction, and in one quick whoosh!, someone would lose his eyebrows.'
'Barry Levine once walked into [Gene] Simmons' hotel room and saw thirteen women lined up outside the bathroom, including a pregnant girl and twins, waiting to have sex with him inside. "It was almost like they had tickets and they were waiting for their number to be called, like at a deli."'
'Miss Christine introduced the Alice Cooper band to [Frank] Zappa, who told them to come by this house the next day at seven o'clock. The band arrived at 7AM the following morning and started jamming in Zappa's basement. He came down the stairs in his underwear, groggy and confused, with a mug of coffee in his hand. "I meant 7 at night!" he told them.'
'One night when [Ritchie] Blackmore went into a 17-minute guitar solo, [Ian] Gillan sneaked a groupie underneath Jon Lord's Hammond organ and had sex with time to spare. "Thank God for the long solo," he said years after the event. To this day he doesn't know the girl's name, stating "We weren't properly introduced"'.
'For their stage shows, Van Halen stole lights from apartment complexes. They also made their own flash pots by putting gunpowder in coffee cans that were hooked up to car batteries. Sometimes they would malfunction, and in one quick whoosh!, someone would lose his eyebrows.'
'Barry Levine once walked into [Gene] Simmons' hotel room and saw thirteen women lined up outside the bathroom, including a pregnant girl and twins, waiting to have sex with him inside. "It was almost like they had tickets and they were waiting for their number to be called, like at a deli."'
'Miss Christine introduced the Alice Cooper band to [Frank] Zappa, who told them to come by this house the next day at seven o'clock. The band arrived at 7AM the following morning and started jamming in Zappa's basement. He came down the stairs in his underwear, groggy and confused, with a mug of coffee in his hand. "I meant 7 at night!" he told them.'
'One night when [Ritchie] Blackmore went into a 17-minute guitar solo, [Ian] Gillan sneaked a groupie underneath Jon Lord's Hammond organ and had sex with time to spare. "Thank God for the long solo," he said years after the event. To this day he doesn't know the girl's name, stating "We weren't properly introduced"'.
