After watching some of the stuff about The Who last night I started thinking about some of the totally mental things Keith Moon had done. The music industry has had some pretty ludicrous characters in it over the years. Who's your favourite nutter then? This is one of my favourite Keith Moon clips when the band went onto the Jimmy Smothers show in the 60's in the states. [video=youtube;MVa4q-YVjD8]http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=MVa4q-YVjD8[/video]
Jimmy Ostenberg: Self harming and wired to the moon. Here's Iggy complete with fresh scars from slashing his torso with broken bottles or whatever. [video=youtube;__jSy_Sl-KY]http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=__jSy_Sl-KY[/video]
Nicki Sixx - Cause flushing ounces of heroin is just crazy, even for a junkie. [video=youtube;mvJWLDvgQVM]http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=mvJWLDvgQVM[/video]
Sharon, er Sharon, turn it off, I've stapled the hamster to the TV remote, Sharon, I'm the Prince of Darkness, Sharon, **** off, what time is it?
[video=youtube;dv1bM0pp_o4]https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=dv1bM0pp_o4[/video] And then there's Keef.
[video=youtube;6adPrN8TX9U]https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=6adPrN8TX9U[/video] Beach Boy and flawed genius Brian Wilson. Meeting some youngsters backstage in 1970, Wilson introduced himself with "I'm Brian." "We know," one replied. "We're your children."
[video=youtube;vEHwy3quc14]https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=vEHwy3quc14&list=PLBCD1D948589A8692[/video] Serious nutter Roky Erickson founded the 13th Floor Elevators. Ended up in an asylum for three and a half years as a way of avoiding arrest for possession of six joints Signed an affidavit in 1982 declaring that a Martian had taken over his body.
[video=youtube;ByH-G2aYq-Q]http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ByH-G2aYq-Q[/video] Julian Cope is a favourite nutter of mine. The above song concerns a new story about a football casual who fell off a ferry and drowned while tripping on acid. Julian wondered what it must have felt like. Sealink is here. You could probably write a book about him. He has done this himself though. Best bits for me were when he first appears live on top of the pops tripping out his skull and crawling about the floor while the Teardrops mimed. Impaling himself on his mike stand while trying to pretend he's Iggy Pop. Getting thrown off Island Records for dissing U2. Appearing at the Poll tax riots dressed as a giant alien called Squibsy and appearing as a giant tortoise ( again on acid) on his album sleeve for Fried. He's calmed now and worships Odin (not the one from the almighty Johnsons). Squibsy makes a quick appearance at 4 mins 28 on the thing below. [video=youtube;Mala4_ElCcE]http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Mala4_ElCcE[/video]
[video=youtube;BhszZ53SEC8]http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=BhszZ53SEC8[/video] Mr Mojo Risin' Dionysiac exhibitionist. Native American Indian's ghosts possessed Jim's mind as a child after he saw a car crash. He took every substance known to man and drank his brother Van under the table. He married a witch that interviewed him for Rolling Stone earlier that day and they sealed the marriage by drinking each others blood. Just an average day for James Douglas Morrison. RIP Jim
[video=youtube;jpEPdylIbQU]http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=jpEPdylIbQU[/video] Guitar legend Carlos Santana is also a bit of a nutter. In 1994 he claimed to be guided by an angel named Metatron, who looked a bit like Santa Claus. He credits Metatron with letting him know that 1999's Supernatural was going to be a massive hit. He has also said that the late jazz trumpeter Miles Davis talks to him.
A more contemporary nutter is Britney Spears. Former Disney kids show favourite has had a serious of spectacular meltdowns. She got married for a day, lost her kids, flashed her pussy for the world, shaved off her hair, lived in a trailer park, snogged the pool boy, drove with her kid on her lap,kissed Madonna, hit and run. She was ripped apart by the media and then made a comeback and they all love her again...till the next time. please log in to view this image please log in to view this image
One of my faves but nuts, [video=youtube;iT9yf-Qa_1M]http://www.youtube.com/watch?feature=player_detailpage&v=iT9yf-Qa_1M[/video]
After reading his "Life" book four years after buying it I had to return to this. Amongst other things Keef had two dogs called Ratbag and Syphilis His best stories are actually told by other people in it. My favorite was this record executive trying to tell him how to mix a song in 1989 and he he pulls out a knife and throws it right between the guys legs narrowly missing the bawsack. Obviously some of it's exaggerated. He tells about the fathers ashes one as being him planting a tree for his dad and scattering the ashes over it. A gust of wind blew a minute amount over his face and he breathed in a tiny amount.
[video=youtube;Awi3zM1U6gE]https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Awi3zM1U6gE[/video] Keef's hero was Chuck Berry who was a much shadier kind of nutter. Chuck's a former car thief, armed robber and got done for transporting a fourteen year old girl across state lines for "immoral purposes". In 1990 he was sued by several woman for filming them in the bathroom of a restaurant he owned in New Orleans. Possibly more of a deviant than a nutter.
[video=youtube;It7107ELQvY]https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=It7107ELQvY[/video] By the time Johnny Cash died he was an revered elder statesman of country. In his younger days he had some really mental moments. My favourite is when his truck overturns and went on fire. He abandons the truck and goes fishing nearby. The truck starts a forest fire that destroys one sauare mile of forest and kills 49 Californian Condors which was half the entire species. He was fined $82,000 by the federal government and retorted, "I don't give a damn about your yellow buzzards."