Today's Blind Items - Life On The Road
This month marks the 10th anniversary of the site, so each weekday in the big blind, I will do what everyone seems to like the most (other than shipper fans) and write about things that happened to me or that I was there to witness that you would find interesting. Many, like today, will be music related. I have seen some crazy things happen when a band or singer is on the road. These are the top 4 things I have seen and not yet told you about from bands or singers you could realistically guess. So, despite the goodness that abounds in stories about groups like Pavement or The Sundays or Ned's Atomic Dustbin, they won't find their way in here.
#1 - There was this now deceased former A list singer who had two women alternating orally servicing him while he he carefully lit his spoonful of heroin, drew it into a needle and found a vein. He timed it so he reached orgasm at the same time the drug went into his arm.
#2 - This group used to be A+ list. The group still exists, but it has gone through so many changes, it just hasn't been the same since the original breakup. Anyway, when the band got back together, they went on tour to support their first new record in awhile. They had a sold out show and the band didn't start playing until three hours after their scheduled time. Reason? They were playing Monopoly. With real money. None of them trusted the other to leave the game alone while they performed so they sat there in their bus playing and drinking for three hours until the game concluded. They then went in to perform but were so wasted from drinking they lasted about 20 minutes before calling it quits.
#3 - This singer was for the briefest of times A list. His story makes it in here just because the people that loved his group love this guy. A lot. Two great albums. The group made other records but people talk about these two. Anyway, I was at a show watching them play and the singer's girlfriend, who of course was a model, kept motioning him to come to the stage where, apparently she was giving him tips and notes about his performance. This was happening every few minutes. Finally he walks over to the side of the stage, takes off his guitar and starts hitting her with it. She crumples to the ground and he gets in one more big swing before people tackle him to the ground. Oh, the band is still playing while all of this is going on. The girlfriend gets carried backstage. The singer grabs his guitar and goes back on stage and finishes the song after about the 10th time through for the band and acts like nothing happened. A month later I was asking the road manager about the girlfriend and if she was ok and what had happened. Turns out, two days after he beat her they got married.
#4 - I have seen some awful behavior by bands. Things that would make your stomach turn, but this British band is by far the worst when it comes to human decency. I will focus on the most well known member of the band. You all know who he is. If you have read gossip sites for any length of time, you know who he is. I was there with the band for just two days. Just two. This member we are discussing did the following over the course of the two days to groupies. a) Made a female teen take a handful of unknown pills and get naked before making her orally service three other guys before her chance with him. When she did get to him he slapped her and told her she was ugly and a w**re. Later, he found her passed out from the drugs he had given her. He spray painted the word w**re on her naked body. b) Made a male teen get naked and get peed on by multiple guys before our band member took a microphone and inserted it into the teen's anal cavity. c) The forced ingesting of unknown drugs was common. Pills, smoking, snorting. The more innocent they looked, the more he would make them do. He said he loved getting people addicted. d) He made women have sex with other women or guys and guys have sex with other guys. His combination imagination was extensive.
1. Kurt Cobain?
ReplyDeleteuh...number 1 sounds kind of awesome. sorry
ReplyDelete1) Prince
4-Jimmy Page?
ReplyDelete3-Johnny Rotten?
ReplyDelete2. Crosby, Stills, Nash +/- Young
ReplyDelete3. The Eagles/Glenn Frey
1)Rick James
ReplyDelete2-Deep Purple or Whitesnake?
ReplyDelete4. Robert Smith or Robbie Williams?
ReplyDelete2)Motley crue
ReplyDelete4) LED Zeppelin- been written about
ReplyDelete3)Rob Thomas/Matchbox 20 and his wife Marisol
ReplyDeleteI tried cramming Ted Nugent into one of these, but failed.
ReplyDelete#1 - Prince
ReplyDelete#2 - Aerosmith
#3 - Guns N Roses, Axl has anger issues and loves models.
#4 sounds like Page
1) Scott Weiland
ReplyDelete2) AC/DC?
3) Axl Rose
4) sounds like Liam Gallagher/Oasis
4) Oasis/Liam Gallagher
ReplyDelete1) it pains me to write this, but Bowie
1) Rick James
ReplyDelete2) Van Halen
3) Axl Rose
4)Pete Doherty
Scratch my 1) guess. I'm going with Tricia and Rick James. Nothing was there when i posted
ReplyDelete#2: Guns & Roses--notorious for late starts.
ReplyDeleteEnty is basically saying he witnessed violent acts against women and did nothing.Not even check to see if she was ok. Yes , you would lose your job.You no longer be on your high horse when a famous person does the same. I realize almost every drug using celebrity has done things like this, but you of course are an enabler. what was the job you had, drug dealer or just gopher?
ReplyDelete#1. Kurt Cobain
ReplyDelete#2 Duran Duran or The Who, just to be different.
4 - Scott weiland . Axl Rose never married
ReplyDelete3 not 4 for Weiland
ReplyDeleteThe Scott Weidland guess sounds good for no1, the Bowie guess is ridiculous for that time period, this is the early nineties, besides, he was mostly a coke fiend. Why do answers keep showing up and disappearing?
ReplyDelete#3 is probably Axl Rose.
ReplyDeleteGlenn Frey was not just briefly A list, he was still A list when he died. I hadn't heard abusive stories about him.
Axl DID get married, he was married for a short time to Erin Everley, daughter of one of the Everley Brothrs.
ReplyDeleteCould this site please keep flipping out and refreshing itself multiple times while I'm trying to type, cause that'd be great. Oh, I see you guys are already on it, thanks.
ReplyDelete1 ) Steven tyler ,2 van halen.4.jimmy page and his inserting the fish in random groupie vjay is pretty well known
ReplyDeleteFor this month and for these daily blinds, can we refrain from 1) shitting all over other commenters guesses; and 2) shitting all over Enty for what he did/didn't do at the time? Both ruin threads. Thanks!
ReplyDeleteLed zeppelin guitarist.J Page.Also was pretty heavy into satanism in the seventies.#4
ReplyDeleteHappy Anniversary
ReplyDeleteMade someone do something..forced someone to do something..What was the caliber of the guns held to their heads?..a key element being left out of the tales
ReplyDeleteZilla is right,and it was well known he beat her. She was a super skinny woman, she was in the Sweet Child o Mine video.The song is about her.
ReplyDeleteI am going to throw Layne Staley into the ring for #1.
ReplyDeleteI wish him an evil death. Whoever he is.
ReplyDeletePainful too.
Some of these guesses are the worst. Prince was/is A+. Axel doesn't play guitar.
ReplyDelete1) Scott Weiland or Layne Staley
2) Creed
3) Kid Rock or Jack White
4) Robert Smith - The Cure
+10.
ReplyDeleteFor a guy that shames others, Enty, you deserve some shame.
No member changes and the band is done (until the next reunited tour)
ReplyDeleteEntard, you're an asshole. Witnessing rape and assault but say nothing so you can hang with the cool kids. You nasty fucker.
ReplyDeleteI thought it was John Bonham and the road manager that inserted the fish into the groupie?
ReplyDeleteAxl was married to Stephanie Seymour
ReplyDeletemy bad, I guess they were never married
ReplyDeletepretty surprised to see any mention of pavement in an entry.guess i'll take it...
ReplyDelete#1 might be MIchael Hutchence of INXS fame
ReplyDeleteWhy would the writer say anything to the police or whomever if the actual victims did not? S/he could be a witness, but unless the celebrities are sued, there is no case as they are not underage and the acts would be considered as consensual.
ReplyDelete@8= etc I was referring to the repeated beating, clearly not consentual,and Enty's own use of the word forced. Many times he showed outrage when, in a blind that was clearly Justin Bieber, wants people to be outraged, even if there is no sign of it being forced.
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#4 had to be from Led Zeppelin- they were always known for being the worst.
ReplyDeleteTruly stupid guesses can and should be called out.
ReplyDeleteYou know something about Robert Smith that supports this? All I know him for is shit music and bad hair
ReplyDeleteOk Dick,call them out.
ReplyDeleteLots of people around in each of these scenarios, it seems, and all of them "smart enough" to keep their mouths shut. I'm not saying I like it or agree with it, but that's how it goes down in certain crowds.
ReplyDeleteAxl was married to Erin Everly.
ReplyDeleteI'm not sure about Axl for 3. He doesn't play the guitar from what I remember. I saw them this summer and he never plays it.
ReplyDeleteEnty/PseudoEnty states in the first paragraph these are things he witnessed - just how old do you think Enty is, that he witnessed what Zeppelin, Bowie or the Eagles did in the 1970"s? These are obviously singers and bands from the 90's and early 2000's. Keep guessing.
ReplyDeleteYeah, my guess was bad.
ReplyDeleteEnty never witnessed anything Led Zeppelin did b/c he was a child when they toured. Besides that group's antics have already been well documented, none matches anything in #4. And while certainly wild, Jimmy Page or even Bonham were not that depraved; their roadies were another story.
ReplyDelete#1 is Scott Weiland. Cobain was a junkie who shot up but notoriously avoided hitting on groupies and certainly wouldn't have two on him in front of someone else.
No. 1 - first person that came to mind was Layne (2nd person that came to mind was Rick James)
ReplyDeleteNo. 2 - has to be G n' R ...I've heard of them starting late because Axl was watching a basketball game so a game of real money Monopoly wouldn't suprise me
No. 3 - No clue (Don't think it was Axl he wasn't playing guitar in the band when he was w/ and married Erin) seems to me he started playing guitar right around the UYI albums (when Izzy left the band)
No 4. - I agree w/ the Zeppelin guess ...after hearing about the Seattle fish story anything or anyone is fair game (2nd guess was Oasis and the Gallagher Bros.)
3. Peter Cetera
ReplyDeleteChicago I thru 16
Ric Ocasek/The Cars
ReplyDelete^^^
ReplyDelete#3 Ric Ocasek
@guesser.
ReplyDeleteback in the 70's, it was "look the other way" mentality. sad but true. I had heard about how vicious some of these musicians were but #4 is truly evil. How does Jimmy Page sleep at night?
The Cars weren't touring much by the time Ric & Paulina got together -- it's also somewhat early for the Enty timeline. I was side stage again lot of gigs & never saw him pull anything like that. And she wasn't touring all the time.
ReplyDelete1)Scott weiland. 2)van Halen the newer version 3)Pete Doherty 4)galleger brother from oadis
ReplyDeleteBtw, I love Ned's Atomic Dustbin.
ReplyDelete#GodFodder
The Sundays & Pavement still get played on a college station here, too.
1. Layne Staley
ReplyDelete2. Soundgarden
Why haven't you reported these CRIMES you witnessed to the police?
ReplyDeleteThe chance of saying they partied with/got fucked by Led Zeppelin.
ReplyDelete+10000
ReplyDeleteJust going by some stories out there. One particular one is from Billy Corgan.
ReplyDelete+1 On Soundgarden, although I'm still thinking it's Creed because Enty has a past with blinds for them.
ReplyDeleteUnless these blinds are totally off like the one Enty had on Dio, no way is # 2 Aerosmith.
ReplyDeleteIt could be Van Halen on the Sammy reunion in 2004 or Crue's reunion on the Generation Swine tour or the 1st night Vegas Hard Rock show where Vince stormed off the stage.
I'm still sticking with Creed or Soundgarden
#1 sounds like Scott Weiland. Obviously notorious heroine addict. Could also be Bradley nowell (sublime). But because of the timing, rick james and prince seem out of place.
ReplyDelete#2 Really sounds like van Halen. The only original members left are the brothers. Eddie always had trust issues....
#3 probably Axl Rose. He had emotional issues and the way everyone responded (band mates) sounds like it was par for the course. It also sounds like it was a practice session. And many musicians will play instruments in jam sessions, but not on stage. No one said he was playing well. Plus, erin everly (who he married) was the daughter of one of the everly brothers. So she grew up around music and probably thought she could give advice.
#4 Sounds like Noel Gallagher. British, we all know the name....he was a total tool.
#3 is not Glenn Frey. He married a dancer, not a model.
ReplyDeleteSounds like Weiland who married a model and was arrested for domestic abuse a year later. But I have no idea what the "only 2 good albums" means.
Something in the back of my mind says #4 might be Manic Street Preachers. I vaguely remember a similar story.
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