RE: Sailor's interesting facts
Posted: Sat Aug 12, 2006 2:12 pm

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so............

who has a fact for me?

RE: Sailor's interesting facts
Posted: Sat Aug 12, 2006 7:04 pm

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*thinking thinking thinking*


did you know that leonardo da vinci invented scissors?..

RE: Sailor's interesting facts
Posted: Sun Aug 13, 2006 1:58 pm

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killer!

did you know that the actor who played the steak loving uncle reco in neopoleon dynamite is actually a vegetarian!

RE: Sailor's interesting facts
Posted: Sun Aug 13, 2006 3:44 pm

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the lead singer of KORN plays world of warcraft he has a guild set up with heaps of players and sometimes yo ueven see the dude from korns char running around getting owned lol...AND if youre lucky enough to be in his guild..u can talk to him via vent

RE: Sailor's interesting facts
Posted: Sun Aug 13, 2006 8:08 pm

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You mean Jonothan Davis...

Really.
Thats pretty cool how long will it take to get that good at it?

RE: Sailor's interesting facts
Posted: Mon Aug 14, 2006 12:23 am

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Musical facts.

* The first Rock and roll single was Ike Turner's 'Rocket 88', recorded in 1949.
* The first Heavy metal record was Blue Cheer's 'Vincebus Eruptum'
* The very first still in existence musical sound recording dates from 1903, it was recorded on an Edison Scroll (as in Thomas Edison founder of General Electric, the worlds biggest company). The Edison scroll was patented 10 years before it was invented and originally planned for sending sound letters to people. Bell's telephone made that largely pointless (though at the turn of the century it cost approx $300 a minute to call from London to New York 2006 money)
* Jimmy Webster invented two handed tapping in 1951, 27 years before Van Halen's debut album.
* Tommy Tedesco was the most recorded guitarist in history, no-one on the planet but the deaf wouldn't have heard him, virtually no- one has heard OF him.
* The names of the musical (diatonic) modes come from regions in the ancient mediterranean and near east.
* a prewar martin dreadnaught acoustic guitar can sell for as much as a property in Otara
* a 58 gibson Les paul sunburst can go for as much as a house in invercargill.
* Iron Maiden vocalist Bruce Dickinson wrote a book entitled 'The Adventures of Lord Iffy Boatrace'
* Alesteir Crowley features in the Beatles Sgt Pepper's cover, he also features in rock folklore due to Jimmy Page living in his house, Ozzy Osbourne writing a song about him and iron maiden modelling their album seventh son of a seventh son around his novel "Moonchild".
* music was based on a mathematical rule of 2/3s but JS Bach got rid of that for the sake of versatality, since then western music has been out of tune- however our ears are so used to it we don't even notice.
* The First CD was Dire Straits Brothers in Arms.
* The first indie song to go to number one on the billboard charts was Lisa Loeb's 'Stay'- it had a lot of help from the Swingers' movie soundtrack.
* The first song on MTV was Video killed the radio star.
* The first British act on Live aid was Status Quo, the first American act was the beach boys-
* the first act at woodstock was Richie Havens- He wore a dashiki.
* substantiated rumours have it when the Americans 'Liberated' Iraq the party music of choice was NOT Cat Stevens but in fact Lionel Richie (Father of Nicole Richie). Other Lionel fact the dude had at least one number one hit on the billboard charts every year for nine years straight- am not sure if that is a record but it must be close.
* Some people believe Jim Morrison faked his own death in Paris, there is a possibility of this as only one doctor signed the death certificate (apparently in france it takes two doctors??) and no-one has ever been able to track down the doc in question for an interview- not a lot of people have tried though.
*Gram Parsons, 60's country rocker pretty certainly died, he was buried in a town called Joshua tree and someone stole his skull.
* In the Queen track "was it all worth it' Freddie sings a line "When the hurly Burly's done" some think this is a clue he was soon going to die (the line from MacBeth"WHEN SHALL WE THREE MEET AGAIN, IN THUNDER LIGHTNING OR IN RAIN?.. WHEN THE HURLY BURLY'S DONE..") the three being Brian May, Roger Taylor and John Deacon.
* Paul McCartney claims when the beatles played the Ed Sullivan show there was not a single crime committed in New York during the hour it was on.
* The Piano was invented in 1609 by Bartolomeo Christofori
* If you play Pink Floyds Dark side of the moon along the Wizard of Oz (at exactly the third roar of the lion a lot of strange cioncidences occur
* Dark side of the moon stayed in the billboard top 100 for over 11 years.
* In the OJays Love Rollercoaster (think RHCP song) there is a scream on the recording. For many years believed to be the screams of a murdered crack whore, the truth is not as interesting.
* Most of Eric Carmen's hits lifted melodies from Rachmoninov... He is now more widely known for having his name lifted by a cartoon character who has to have made the definitive version of Styx's 'Come Sail away' a song that largely borrows from Mozart.
* Speaking of cartoons Beavis and Butthead broke White Zombie to the public while killing glam rockers Winger. Winger guitarist Reb Beach has commented they went off on a tour playing to stadiums of 50,000 plus then the show came out and almost overnight people stopped coming- suddenly they were lucky if they could get 500 people in a Kings arms sized bar.

*on 16 August 1977 the king was sitting on the throne when something really bad happened- Some say he was reading the latest edition of Hustler, others say it was the bible, some even infer he was eating a sandwich, whatever the case he keeled over and died.
* On 16 August 2000 Ishtar played their first gig, Battle of the bands @ the kings Arms. According to the today in history I was looking at, at the time not a lot else happened that day (except for Elvis)

RE: Sailor's interesting facts
Posted: Tue Aug 15, 2006 5:22 pm

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insightful

RE: Sailor's interesting facts
Posted: Tue Aug 15, 2006 5:33 pm

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Interesting facts there Simon, nice!

While we're at it then...

Everybody I speak to seems to think Phill Collins' "in the air tonight" is about an actual event.

It is not. The lyrics were on the spot "train of thought" off the top of his head, totally spontaneous... there is no story behind it.

Amazing song nonetheless.

RE: Sailor's interesting facts
Posted: Thu Aug 17, 2006 8:21 pm

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this thread should be in rumour mill.

RE: Sailor's interesting facts
Posted: Thu Aug 17, 2006 8:52 pm

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bu..bu...bu...but it was a fact thread gone wrong lol

RE: Sailor's interesting facts
Posted: Thu Aug 17, 2006 8:58 pm

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funny you should mention that song by phil collins, i just saw it on rockstar, and ive just finished lidtening to it, ironic

RE: Sailor's interesting facts
Posted: Thu Aug 17, 2006 11:16 pm

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A very cool, atmospheric song from a guy often labelled as too chronically uncool to like... kinda unfairly in my opinion.
Yeah in the air tonight is one of those songs that has been taken literally.. both as a song where Collins witnessed a murder and that he saw a friend drown but couldn't do anything to stop it. From what I've heard it is more likely influenced by his feelings at the time going through a messy divorce.
Similarly:
The Eagles Hotel California has been suggested to have been about a satanic cult who bought an old church and converted it to a satanic church- though the Eagles themselves have said it is about the excess of LA in the 70s.
Many people have taken James Taylor's 'Fire and Rain' as a song about a girlfriend being flown out to a show and dying in a crash. Instead it is a combination of seperate bits written over time on
1. a casual acqaintance committng suicide (which was kept from him at the time by friends cause he was in the process of recording an album and they didn't want to throw him off)
2. Drug addiction and time spent in rehab.
3. the falling apart of taylor's band, "Flying Machine"
Some people also have taken Tom Petty's 'American Girl' to be about suicide also, some people suggesting it was a girl who leapt from a balcony of an apartment owned by Petty. Aparently also not true.
One I think quite hardcase, America's Ventura Highway... there are apparently thousands of people who claim to have driven through there, though there is no Ventura highway, just the power of the brain to rewrite its own history.

RE: Sailor's interesting facts
Posted: Fri Aug 18, 2006 10:02 am

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wack!^^^

















are we ever sure of anything?

RE: Sailor's interesting facts
Posted: Sat Aug 19, 2006 6:12 pm

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yesss. aw wait
I'll get back to you...

RE: Sailor's interesting facts
Posted: Sat Aug 19, 2006 11:01 pm

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speaking of that in the air tonight song....phil collins has become a popular man in our house when ever we're all playing world of warcraft...we put that on

RE: Sailor's interesting facts
Posted: Sun Aug 20, 2006 4:18 pm

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good job!

is playing that game a family affair?

RE: Sailor's interesting facts
Posted: Sun Aug 20, 2006 5:20 pm

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me n 2 cousins play when we've got free time, 3 computers in the one room, it's grand hehe

RE: Sailor's interesting facts
Posted: Sun Aug 20, 2006 10:43 pm

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fuck that would be pretty cool!

haha i bought rollercoaster tycoon today for $10, i got bored of it after a few hours.

RE: Sailor's interesting facts
Posted: Mon Aug 21, 2006 8:52 am

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Is that a game? Fiend bought that dvd board game atmosfear, it's pretty funny the gatekeeper dude is like "You're a loser and you're ugly!!" he's so fucken mean. And when he banishes you to the black hole he's like "and while you're there you can meditate on life as a LOSER".

He was like woah and we were like woah and he was like woooooooaaaaah

RE: Sailor's interesting facts
Posted: Mon Aug 21, 2006 4:26 pm

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ok back to the straight up facts!!!


did you know the king of hearts is the only king without a moustache?