Incorrect music "facts" you used to believe

Discussion in 'Music Corner' started by BeenAround, Sep 12, 2016.

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  1. BeenAround

    BeenAround Forum Resident Thread Starter

    In 1983 my friends and I thought the spoken intro to "Rock of Ages" by Def Leppard was "1 2 3 4" in German. Def Leppard musta been from Germany, or something.

    What music-related misconception did you used to have? (or still have :laugh:)
     
  2. micksmuse

    micksmuse Forum Resident

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    live concert recordings were actually all live.
     
  3. impalaboy

    impalaboy Forum Resident

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    I used to think "The Ballad of Billy the Kid" by Billy Joel was about the outlaw known as "Billy the Kid".
     
  4. munjeet

    munjeet Forum Resident

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    The Ramones were brothers. And liked each other.
     
  5. Dr. Funk

    Dr. Funk Vintage Dust

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    That rock and roll music was a tool of Satan to infiltrate the hearts and minds of gullible teenagers.
     
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  6. JohnnyQuest

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  7. Chemguy

    Chemguy Forum Resident

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    That Paul was dead.

    That didn't happen until after Tug of War...;)

    (I deserve everything that's coming to me...)
     
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  8. Holy Diver

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    That Billy Idol is Lou Reed's son. I used to hear that all the time back in the '80s.
     
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  9. BeenAround

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    Here's another: Gene Simmons once passed a bucket around the audience to have everyone spit in it, then he drank it.

    Sorry, but hey – we all believed it in the mid 1980s. Why doubt it? :/
     
  10. Because everyone knows it was really Frank Zappa who did that.
     
  11. Ignatius

    Ignatius Forum Resident

    That Jimi Hendrix played on Soft Machine's "Feelin Reelin Squeelin". Thank you "Illustrated Encyclopedia of Rock." :disgust:
    (Seriously, I have fond memories of that book! Published right on the cusp of punk)
     
  12. ralph7109

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    Wasn't the first part about the old west outlaw known as Billy the Kid (even though it is historically innacurate) to set up the second part?
     
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  13. coniferouspine

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    I used to sincerely believe that because there was a Revolution 1, and a Revolution 9, I just assumed that there had to be seven other unreleased "Revolutions" out there somewhere that were recorded, but not released. As if the Beatles actually sat down and recorded the song nine different times, in nine different ways, numbering them consecutively, and then for some reason only released those three of them, but the others were recorded, because, why number them otherwise?
     
  14. Thom

    Thom Forum Resident

    I used to believe (and was quite certain of the fact) that it was John Cleese's voice in the spoken word section of "Uncle Albert/Admiral Halsey", but I've been told/read repeatedly it's Paul. :o I still sort of believe it (it sounds a lot like him to me), but I absolutely defer to the McCartney aficionados who tell me otherwise.
     
  15. idleracer

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    :kilroy: I was once certain that this was Gary Puckett and the Union Gap, and couldn't figure out why it wasn't on their "Greatest Hits" album.

     
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  16. jwoverho

    jwoverho Licensed Drug Dealer

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    Rod Stewart (or some other musician) and a stomach pump in the ER.
     
  17. ralph7109

    ralph7109 Forum Resident

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    I know it was someone from Monty Python's Flyimg Circus.

    You are not alone.
     
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  18. tim_neely

    tim_neely Forum Hall Of Fame

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    From the "don't believe everything you read" department:

    I used to believe that Donovan was accompanied on "Hurdy Gurdy Man" by all the future members of Led Zeppelin (other than Robert Plant).

    I used to believe that Ozzy Osbourne was a member of Magic Lanterns (of "Shame, Shame" fame) before he was in Black Sabbath.

    I used to believe that Phil Spector produced the Righteous Brothers' version of "Unchained Melody."
     
  19. Daddy Dom

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    Mama Cass + ham sandwich = untimely death.

    It's a crock.
     
  20. Jason Rayburn

    Jason Rayburn Member

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    When I was a kid and even up to my teen years I used to swear that it was Barry Manilow singing the Cheers theme song lol.
     
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  21. dustybooks

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    When I became a serious Beach Boys fan in the late '90s it was still conventional wisdom that they hardly played on any of their hits. Been fascinated to learn in recent years how wrong that was.
     
  22. Deany

    Deany Forum Resident

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    When I was a kid I thought Franks...and ...atra were two people.
    ps
    don't tell anyone!
     
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  23. ibekeen

    ibekeen Forum Resident

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    I used to believe that Michael Jackson had a childhood.
     
  24. SammyJoe

    SammyJoe Up The Irons!

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    I think the Zappa comment on that thing was priceless:
    "The closest I ever came to eating **** anywhere was at a Holiday Inn buffet in Fayetteville, N.C."
     
  25. Soundslave

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    I thought that metal music listeners and fans are only bikers that are somewhat offensive to other people and always headbanging to their music.
     
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