In the fall of 2006, The Eagles Of Death Metal led by Jesse Hughes and Josh Homme had an opening support slot with Guns N’ Roses.  During the first concert with Guns N’ Roses, in Cleveland, Ohio on November 24, 2006, the band was not well received by the crowd at all and when Axl Rose came out to perform, he asked the crowd if they enjoyed “The Pigeons of Shit Metal,” and announced that the show would be their last with Guns N’ Roses.

Shortly thereafter the band released this statement regarding the incident:

“At first, the audience refused to welcome us to the jungle, but by the time we took our final bow, it had become paradise city. Although Axl tried to November rain on our parade, no sweet child o’ mine can derail the EODM night train. We say live and let die. ”

They took further stabs at Guns N’ Roses, claiming that Rose had invited the band back for the rest of their scheduled dates as support act.  The band also received full payment for the entire tour despite playing only a single show with the band.  At the band’s November 18, 2008 show at Washington, D.C.’s 9:30 Club, Jesse Hughes unveiled to the audience a “Pigeons of Shit Metal” tattoo on his left forearm that he acquired earlier in the day.

Here’s a clip of The Eagles Of Death Metal performing on MTV with Dave Grohl on guitar…Bad Ass…

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Nirvana has some extreme words for the band Extreme in the home video, Live! Tonight! Sold Out! where Dave Grohl, Kurt Cobain, and Krist Novoselic talk about the band. Novoselic refers to their music “Shlock Rock” and Grohl just says they suck.

The clip is at the around the 7 minute mark….enjoy…

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In 2003, the Foo Fighters recorded a cover of the Prince song “Darling Nikki,” which they included as a B-side on the Australian version of their “Have It All” single.  Though their version was never officially released as a single, it surprisingly found success at American Modern Rock radio, peaking at #15.  Prince was less than pleased, telling Entertainment Weekly that he didn’t appreciate the Foos (or anyone else) covering his work, and that Dave Grohl and company should “write [their] own tunes.”  Taylor Hawkins said “We wanted to put it out here in the States, but Prince wouldn’t let us,” “I heard that he didn’t like our version. Or maybe he just didn’t like us doing it.”

On 4 February 2007 Prince got his revenge on the Foos by covered their song “Best of You” at Super Bowl XLI.  Hawkins said, “Dude, I have no idea why he did it, but I’d love to find out,” he laughed. “I mean, the thought went through my head that maybe he was doing it as a sort of ‘F— you’ to us, or maybe he really likes the song. Either way, it was pretty amazing to have a guy like Prince covering one of our songs — and actually doing it better than we did.”

Hawkins said he was clueless about Prince’s plans to work “Best of You” into his Super Bowl set.  “I was watching the game at our producer Nick Raskulinecz’s house, and since he’s doing the new Rush album, all the guys from the band were there,” he said. “I mean, I’m outside smoking a cigarette with Neil Peart and someone sticks their head outside and goes, ‘Uh, dude, Prince is doing your song.’ ” Hawkins said he hasn’t heard from anyone in Prince’s camp about the cover but said the entire band is thrilled — if a little puzzled — by the cover.

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In 1985, Layne Staley formed a band called Sleze a band which Staley said “dressed in drag and played speed metal.”  The new band performed around the Seattle area playing Slayer and Armored Saint covers.

Here’s a clip of Layne in a movie called Father Rock.

Staley of course, later met guitarist Jerry Cantrell while working at Music Bank rehearsal studios, where the two struggling musicians became roommates, and lived in a rehearsal space they shared and eventually formed Alice in Chains.  Thank God!

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In 1968 the Ampeg Company of Linden, New Jersey hired Dan Armstrong as a consultant to improve their Grammer line of guitars.  He designed a new line of guitars and basses that were constructed of clear plexiglass.  Calling it one of his favorite guitars ever manufactured, Dave Grohl owns four “Lucite Ampegs” that are all tuned differently for various Foo Fighter songs and are featured in three of the Foo Fighters’ most popular videos: “All My Life,” “The One” and “Times Like These.”

The Dan Armstrong line of guitars also became renowned for their excellent electronics, and interchangeable pickups.  The guitars also had long sustain caused by the solid plexiglass body that made the guitars also quite heavy (around 10 lbs).  A second reissue of the Dan Armstrong guitar was launched in 2006 containing many upgrades that are widely believed to actually improve upon the original design.

Here’s a photo of Ronnie Wood playing a “Lucite Ampeg” and a Foo Fighter poster with Dave holding the guitar.

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You know that white stuff you paint on paper to cover mistakes? It was originally called “mistake out” and was the invention of Bette Nesmith Graham, a divorcee who went to work in 1951 to support herself and her son, Michael Nesmith, who would later gain fame as a member of The Monkees.

Though she found work as a typist, she unfortunately wasn’t a very good one and developed a white tempura paint to hide her mistakes.  Using her kitchen and garage as laboratory and factory, she gradually developed a product that other secretaries and office workers began to buy. While continuing to work as a secretary, she educated herself in business methods, promotion, and research until she was satisfied that the product she had developed was really worthwhile. She then offered Mistake Out to IBM which turned it down.

Over the next twenty five years she and a select group of executives would build the Liquid Paper Corporation into a multimillion dollar international company which she finally sold to Gillette in 1980 for 48 million USD.  She died a few months after the sale at the age of 56 in May 1980.

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Radiohead’s Jonny Greenwood must be a fan of Honda because not only did he stick a Honda logo sticker on his Fender Telecasters Plus…he also has been seen wearing a Honda logo shirt as seen below.

Check out Thom Yorke’s sticker and a bunch of other ones in our STICKERS ON INSTRUMENTS section to check out some more…

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Foo Fighters’ Dave Grohl and Will Ferrell revisit the 1981 Don Henley and Stevie Nicks duet “Leather and Lace.”

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The Mike Flowers Pops became famous in the UK in 1995 when they released a cover version of Oasis’ hit song” Wonderwall.”  Flowers had been recruited by BBC Radio 1 DJ Kevin Greening to cover the ‘Hits of 95′ for Greening’s Saturday show; “Wonderwall” was his first week’s project.  Chris Evans heard the song and made it ’single of the week’ on his Radio 1 breakfast show, telling listeners that this was the original version of the song leading people to believe that Noel Gallagher had ripped the song off.

The single, issued by London Records under the name The Mike Flowers Pops, was released while the Oasis original was still in the UK Singles Chart, and itself reached the Top 10.  Flowers’ version peaked at number 2 in the Christmas 1995 chart.  Oasis had previously refused to let other novelty acts parody the song, but were said to have enjoyed Flowers’ tape so much that they allowed the group to cut it .

Watch Noel and Liam Gallagher talk about “Wonderwall” and how people thought the ripped it off.

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First photo of The Beatles, John Lennon, Paul McCartney, George Harrison & Ringo Starr together…

August 22 1962 - Wednesday - The Cavern Club

Last photo of The Beatles, John Lennon, Paul McCartney, George Harrison & Ringo Starr together…

August 22, 1969 - Friday [same date as first photo] - John and Yoko’s home in Tittenhurst Park two days after their last recording session together.

Last photo of  Paul McCartney, George Harrison & Ringo Starr together without John Lennon…

Taken by Pattie Boyd in 2000

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