zircona1 wrote: Thu Apr 10, 2025 1:22 pm Daft Punk started out as an indie rock duo called Darlin'. A reviewer who saw them play said their music was "a bunch of daft punk."

Exactly how Led Zeppelin were named

Well not exactly, I think it was Keith Moon who made the "lead zeppelin" comment

OrthodoxEaster wrote: Thu Apr 10, 2025 10:19 am Mugger—the dogfood-eating former Black Flag roadie, homeless teen runaway, and wild-ass vocalist in the delightfully tongue-in-cheek punk-meal band the Nig-Heist—is now some kinda millionaire investor, father, and Iron Man athlete living in a SoCal gated community.

And the name of...that band allegedly came from something Eugene Robinson would say when he would swipe a cigarette

I can't vouch for the authenticity of this apocryphal story

Dead from Mayhem is an extra in this video

May not be recognizable without his brain exposed

Maya Rudolph was in the Rentals, and I think it's common knowledge that she's Minnie Riperton's daughter

joe_lmr wrote: Thu Apr 10, 2025 2:00 pm Maya Rudolph was in the Rentals, and I think it's common knowledge that she's Minnie Riperton's daughter

She is also listed as an ex-member of Idaho on Wikipedia. She was on tour with them in 2000's and sung backing vocals.

joe_lmr wrote: Thu Apr 10, 2025 1:53 pm

OrthodoxEaster wrote: Thu Apr 10, 2025 10:19 am Mugger—the dogfood-eating former Black Flag roadie, homeless teen runaway, and wild-ass vocalist in the delightfully tongue-in-cheek punk-meal band the Nig-Heist—is now some kinda millionaire investor, father, and Iron Man athlete living in a SoCal gated community.

And the name of...that band allegedly came from something Eugene Robinson would say when he would swipe a cigarette

I can't vouch for the authenticity of this apocryphal story

I can confirm that the phrase comes from a black friend of Mugger's named Eugene. And the thing about the cigarettes. I've seen Mugger quoted saying this and have heard him tell the story in person.

I didn't realize it might be that Eugene, though. Kinda squares w/Mr. Robinson's sense of humor and general outrageousness, sure. But the connection is news to me, if true.

No Trend had a great, loose-cannon drummer named Greg Miller, who came and went from the band several times from 1983 to 1986. At one point, a DC-area musician named Tom Payne replaced him. Payne played his one and only gig w/No Trend in 1984 and was faring poorly. Suddenly, Miller emerged onstage from the audience, said something like "that's not how the songs go," physically removed Payne from the drum stool, and replaced him in the middle of a fucking set, thus returning to the band.

No Trend's tour vehicle was a converted ambulance.

The title and lyrics of the song "Last on Right, Second Row"—from NT's final album, More, recorded in 1988 or so, scrapped by Touch & Go for being too weird, and released more than a decade later—come from pickup graffiti written in the bathroom of Sidney Lust, a drive-in porno (!?) theater in Prince George's County, Maryland. The band members would hang out there and collect notes posted by the swinging patrons: "Horny and willing to try something new," "35 years old, white, and ready to go," "last truck on the right, second row." You can't really make it out in the song, but the last bit is basically singer Jeff Mentges mumbling, reading those notes.

Owen wrote: Thu Apr 10, 2025 1:28 pm I hope this thread goes 100+ pages.

I'll do my best!

Here's another favorite:

When Bob Dylan "went electric" and took The Band out on tour as his backing band in 1966 ("Judas!" etc), Levon didn't want to go to Europe with some folksinger so instead they got the guy who was playing drums for Johnny Rivers at the time. He later had a career as a film/tv actor, it's this guy >>

joe_lmr wrote: Thu Apr 10, 2025 1:56 pm Dead from Mayhem is an extra in this video

May not be recognizable without his brain exposed

More videoed shennanigans

Cosey Fanni Tutti throwing shapes in the "You Make Me Feel (Mighty Real) video



Prog doyen Sherman Helmsley throwing shapes on The Jeffersons to Nektar



Long-haired Pat Smear vibing behind Wendy in "Raspberry Beret"

Slightly obscure but makes me laugh…

In mid 80s Melbourne there was a studs and leather punk band called Depression. They recorded a live album (which is fucking terrible btw) and there was an interview in some street mag about it. In a pure Spinal Tap moment they wanted the cover of the album to be a very deep black. Turned out there was no printer in Australia who could print pure black - so all the covers were printed overseas in China just for this effect - punk rock not

Behold the terrible cover in all its blackness here -

https://www.discogs.com/release/2370761 ... tal-Thrash