the shit that people gossiped about that was in no way true but still manages to be what you remember about that person/band/whatever.

Been a while since we had any fun on a Friday. Hopefully we haven't forgotten how...

along the lines of the Richard Gere joke that still won't go away.

insinuated in the rumor about Rick Springfield?

By the NKOTB era I was so anti-pop that anything surrounding them probably went under my radar.

As far as the Gere rumor, your connections here from way back may recall that Philadelphia had its own version of that with Jerry Penacoli, then a local TV personality. Incidentally, a good friend of mine is a doc who swears that the Penacoli incident was actually true as treatment was sought at his hospital.

a rather funny read on the subject: http://www.jimgoad.net/index.shtml?rectalforeignbodies

>insinuated in the rumor about Rick Springfield?
>
>By the NKOTB era I was so anti-pop that anything surrounding
>them probably went under my radar.

Unfortunately at the time I could not escape them/talk of them. They were like Bieber is now to parents of young girls...

that one rumor did make me laugh.

>As far as the Gere rumor, your connections here from way back
>may recall that Philadelphia had its own version of that with
>Jerry Penacoli, then a local TV personality. Incidentally, a
>good friend of mine is a doc who swears that the Penacoli
>incident was actually true as treatment was sought at his
>hospital.
>
>a rather funny read on the subject:
>http://www.jimgoad.net/index.shtml?rectalforeignbodies

LMAO. That's crazy.

annoyed by their soft image.

and have his stomach pumped...

for swallowing a guy's semen.

This was around the time that Rick Springfield actually mattered, so the oldest I could have been was 10 (in other words, barely old enough to have an inkling of what semen is, and not yet old enough to know that swallowing it does not precipitate medical attention.)

If memory serves, in classic early '80s style I was first told this rumor while Jessie's Girl was playing at the roller skating rink. I seem to recall hearing it elsewhere later but memory can't confirm it.

An online search however DOES turn up a reference to the rumor, much to my surprise: http://www.hawkeyelounge.com/archive/index.php/t-75863.html

that shocked me

he does not sound it - and even his name is american as hell.

>even his name is american as hell.

because... yeah. it is.
I can't explain it it, but it is.

"Jessie" with whatever last name you could imagine seem quintessentially American, so that certainly adds to the feeling.

Incidentally, I looked up the wiki on the song this a.m., and the woman who inspired the song was in actuality *Gary's* girl... another name I think of as very American... But not particularly poetic.


I also read the Wiki on Springfield (checking to see if there was any reference to hospital visits that would have provided fodder for the rumor), and it turns out he was making records as far back as 1969. Wonder what the heck THEY sounded like (but not enough to track 'em down.)

made reference to Rod Stewart as well.

Weird that you would hear that; I would have assumed that the Rod rumor would have circulated earlier, but iif memory serves you're a few years younger than I.

I assume there's also a geographical bent to the rumor distribution as well on a lot of this stuff.

Had 8 pints of jizz pumped out of him lol !



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I believe the first was Rod Stewart. Then Rick Springfield.

The most recent variation I've heard is one involving Lil' Kim.

~Austin

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http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Love_Rollercoaster

Urban legend

While the song is known within the music community for its distinctive and influential sound, within the popular imagination it remains best identified with a persistent urban legend. During an instrumental portion of the song, a high-pitched scream is heard (between 1:24 and 1:28 on the single version, or between 2:32 and 2:36 on the album version); this was Billy Beck, but according to the most common legend, it was the voice of an individual being murdered live while the tape was rolling. The "victim's" identity varies greatly depending on the version. The supposed sources of the scream have included an individual who was killed at some prior time, her scream inexplicably recorded and looped into the track. Another version tells of a rabbit being killed outside the studio whose scream was accidentally picked up by the band's recording equipment - highly implausible, since professional recording studios are soundproof. The most widespread version of the myth, however, tells that Ester Cordet, who appeared nude on the Honey album cover, had been badly burned by the super-heated honey used for the photo shoot, which occurred simultaneous with the recording session, and her agonized screams were inadvertently captured on tape. A further variation had Cordet suffering permanent disfigurement due to the burns; she interrupted the band's recording session, threatening to sue, at which point the band's manager stabbed her to death in the control room. The latter scenario, however, is impossible as Ester Cordet is still alive.
Casey Kasem reported the urban myth of the woman being killed in the studio recording booth on his radio show, American Top 40, when the song was on the charts in 1976.
Jimmy "Diamond" Williams explained that the scream was nothing eerie or disturbing:
“ There is a part in the song where there's a breakdown. It's guitars and it's right before the second verse and Billy Beck does one of those inhaling-type screeches like Minnie Riperton did to reach her high note or Mariah Carey does to go octaves above. The DJ made this crack and it swept the country. People were asking us, 'Did you kill this girl in the studio?' The band took a vow of silence because you sell more records that way.
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I don't like the beat anymore because its just a loop. ALC didn't FLIP IT ENOUGH!

Flip it enough? Flip these. Flip off. Go flip some f*cking burgers.(c)Kno

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numerous rappers made reference to it, most clever being Nas, most bombastic/angry being 50 Cent.

smh @ Preems' last hope for relevance

>smh @ Preems' last hope for relevance

Christina Aguilera's album?

Xtina is an anomaly

There was also one about him committing suicide and dying in a car crash. I sweat that cat has had about a half dozen different dead rumors.
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the rumor has been going since 1985. i heard Reebie raised the kid as her own.

Ciara
Lady Gaga
Cher

>Cher

Cher? I haven't heard that one before.

Gaga was probably the only one to address it, that shit was funny.

Later morphed into Lauryn Hill saying she'd rather her kids starve than white people buy her music.

I believe these are all bastard mutations of the "Calvin Klein said he didn't want Black people to buy his clothes" rumor back in the mid-'80s.

not named Donna Karan. i heard the rumor about all of them. i believed the Hilfiger rumor until i worked at the Oprah show myself. LOL

"can't do nothing for me but shine my shoes" or something to that effect

Can you even die from ODing on PCP? I mean, you die while on PCP and doing stupid shit, but can the drug alone actually kill you?

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First time I heard about it was for "Hip-Hop is Dead," but I've read that the rumor first started circulating even before that.

There was even a bogus quote from someone (Busta?) talking about how ill the beat was.

"The drums! They're so sick!" Or something to that effect.

The Gay Rapper rumor has been around forever, but this one really took on a life of it's own.

When they were beefing, did PMD ever allude to E-Dub being fruity, even subtly?

At the time of the (first) EPMD break-up, there was the sense that PMD was the one in the wrong, and generally kept mum about it the entire time. Even the "subliminal" disses he threw at Sermon on "Shade Business" didn't mention him being gay.

This was back when I was on the Wu boards heavy. *shrugs* Sounded plausible at the time.

somebody did fuck his wife though. hmmmm?

i read it in an interview not too long ago or wiki, hmmmm.

http://www.snopes.com/music/music.asp

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I've heard this enough times that I sort of believe it now, and Starang kind of confirmed it on a track.

BIG was mad that they had an actor portray him as a clown in one of their videos. That stemmed from BIG supposedly stealing the, "You can be as good as the best of them or as bad as the worst," from the OGCs.

And posing in Madonna's "Sex" book. It's why his arm is in a sling in the "Don't Curse" video.

That one's not THAT ridiculous though.

I think Tony Yayo started this rumor.

That one was bubbling for as long as he's been around, and started being brought to the public when he and Ja were beefing.

SB/TLB was going to be titled ATLiens 2 and the first single was gonna feature Nas.

Same post came back before Idlewild dropped.

...and sometimes "we Are Sexual Perverts". Fun shit...

hahah




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Granted, I was never really a fan of ''1984'' either but at least it's fun. The Van Hagar shit on the other hand-yuck! BTW, they later named an album ''For Unlawful Carnal Knowledge''-I gue4ss that fits here too, VERY lame, Britney's ''if u seek amy'' is clever by comparison...

but thinking about it I believe Service Of was actually the real story.

I've heard a bunch of different stories regarding Teddy and the accident he had on lincoln drive that left him forever in a wheelchair

1. A hooker was giving Teddy head while he was driving, teddy hits a tree

2. The hooker was really a man.

3. The hooker/man was really Dr J's wife; teddy's pays tranny to take the rap.







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in an attempt to hear supposedly subversive messages?

I know there are a few rumored examples of it, but I never messed around with it myself.

'Darling Nikki'...the backwards message at the end

'Baby I'm A Star'...to hear Wendy & Lisa's talking

i.e.: Beatles, end of side A on Purple Rain, etc.

And backwards-masked guitar solos are always fun to play backwards.

~Austin

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Slayer4's ''Hell Awaits'' starts with some monster voice saying ''Join Us'' backwards but that's the thing:after the metal bands found out that people were actually doing this type of dumb shit, they *purposedly* put ''subversive'' backwards shit on their albums and that sort of killed the whole thing IMO.

>Slayer4's ''Hell Awaits'' starts with some monster voice
>saying ''Join Us'' backwards but that's the thing:after the
>metal bands found out that people were actually doing this
>type of dumb shit, they *purposedly* put ''subversive''
>backwards shit on their albums and that sort of killed the
>whole thing IMO.

the Adam Sandler movie. "Chicago kicks ass!!"

(granted, it was the wrong Chicago record they held up as a prop, but that still made me laugh hard)

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never looked that up. Let's see: nope, not true.

because I found myself staring at both their noses in pictures/TV to make the connection after hearing that

revolve around questions of sexuality.

Not to get too deep in a fun friday post.

According to legend, some poor guy showed up at an Exodus-show in 84-85 wearing a Mötley Crue shirt (maybe it was Ratt, I think I've heard both), Exodus vocalist Paul Baloff spotted him and told the audience to kill the guy in the name of ''true'' metal. Anyway, numerous Exodus fans hunted the guy out of the club and stabbed him to death and brought the bloody shirt back to the vocalist who would continue to wear the blood-stained shirt as some sort of trophy. I don't believe this shit but it has been mentioned several times during the years.

Actually, Exodus-guitarist Gary Holt have said that they did wear blood-stained and beat-up shirts from various ''glam-fags'' that they beat up back in the day but murder sounds a bit too much...

What the blood claaat ???

...whose job was to blow cocaine up her asshole with a straw,

a rumor around when The Tipping Point dropped? Or am I dreaming?

. . .are siblings on several occasions.

A Jean Grae relation that's real: she is the daughter of jazz pianist Abdullah Ibrahim (a/k/a Dollar Brand).

~Austin

I mean, the ones where folks are supposedly killed can easily be proven false. The rest of them sound so damn ridiculous that it's hard to take them serious.




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Bad news traveled faster than fuck back in the day, lol. It's light-speed now, but for niggas to not have computers & cell phones, these are some crazy horrible rumors.

Lol, don't ever wonder why people die at age 27.

'Well I heard from Bill and he's friends with so and so's road manager. . .'

And then it webs out from there.

~Austin