The Beach Boys' Brian Wilson thought that recording his song 'fire' actually caused a rash of fires that swept through LA when he recorded it. Wilson thought that he had to destroy the master tapes by burning them.



Robert Plant, who was a big fan of Buffalo Springfield, desperately wanted to meet Neil Young while in LA in 1969 (although he wasnt that interested in meeting Steven Stills who was so dellusion as a coke addict at the time that he would routinely tell people he had done a tour of duty in Vietnam). By chance Peter Tork told Plant that CSNY was rehearsing at the Greek Theater, so Robert and Monkees friend Nancy Retchin got high on mescaline and tore off looking for the rehearsal space. Plant and Retchin were so stoned however that they ended getting lost in Watts, driving throgh the ghetto as Robert yelled out the car window to passerbys "Hey! Where's the Greek Theater?" to folks who had obviously never heard of the Greek Theater.





During John Lennon's 1974 Lost Weekend from Yoko he found himself stumbling into LA's Troubadour club one night with partner-in-crime Hary Nilsson at his side. They were drunk and obnoxious and began making lewd comments at the act on stage (which was the Smothers Brothers). As the lewdness continued, Lennon somehow came across a tampon so he taped it to his forehead and the two continued on, becoming so disruptive that Rat Packer Peter Lawford asked them to quiet down Just then a Troubadour waitress came by and asked Lennon to either shut up or leave. Lennon looked at her and said, "Do you know who I am?"
"Yeah." the young waitress said, "Youre some asshole with a Kotex on his head."
Finally club owner asked the head bouncer to eject Lennon and Nillson from the club. The bouncer came up to Lennon and said, "Look you changed the world--but dont you feel like your acting like a stupid prick?" and then escorted them out.

In March, 1969, Jim Morrison was arrested for
exposing himself onstage at a concert in Miami.
The self-professed Lizard King was eventually
charged with an array of offenses, including
profanity, lewd behavior, indecent exposure and
public drunkeness.

During the cross-examination, Morrison was
asked whether he had indeed exposed himself.
"I dont remember, " he replied. "I was too drunk."
But some time later, Morrison's memory had
miraculously improved) was when asked why he had in
fact exposed himself onstage he replied, "I wanted to see what it looked like in a spot light."

Some of my favorites:

Sometime around 1974 or there abouts The Who were playing a gig in San Diego when Keith Moon passed out on stage. Apparently, someone thought it would be really funny if they spiked the beer he kept behind the drum riser with a horse tranqulizer. Not wanting to gip the fans, the band plucked some 19 year old kid out of the audience and he played the last three songs for them on drums.

The story that Howard Kaylan and Mark Volman of the Turtles snorted blow off of Abe Lincon's desk when at the White House on the invite of Tricia Nixon.

At a U2 show in Michigan in 1992, Bono ordered 10, 000 pizzas for the audience. An hour later, 100 show up. Each of the three delivary men get to watch the rest of the show for free and are each tiped 50 bucks.

In 1972, Lou Reed was playing a show in Buffalo when a fan ran onstage screaming "Leather!" and bites Reed right on the ass. After the show Reed said "America seems to breed animals."

And the famous Alice Cooper chicken incident.

This is more ironic than it is bizzare, but Roger Waters has explained (in numerous interviews) that the last straw with Syd Barrett was in early '68 when Syd suggested that the band be augmented with a saxophone player as well as female backing vocalists. Waters thought he was off his rocker and Syd was edged out of the group shortly thereafter. Of course Pink Floyd would later find worldwide success with Dark Side of the Moon which featured......a saxophone player and a female vocalist...