The most bananas stories and insane 100% true tales about the lives and behind-the-music antics of your favorite rock stars and legendary bands.

Freakin' Rock Stars

True Stories

Axl Rose stories are the stuff of rock and roll legend. The lead singer of Guns N' Roses has led such a colorful life even his roadies got in on the action, as evidenced by Axl Rose roadie stories circling&nbsp;the globe. Whether he's starting random fights, walking off stage in the middle of concerts, felling winged creatures with shotguns, or showing up hours late for commitments, all the&nbsp;crazy Axl Rose stories you've heard are true, and completely insane.&nbsp;Guns N' Roses shot to stardom during the spandex-and-glitter nightmare carnival of hair metal, in 1987,&nbsp;and offered a dirty, rough, violent antidote to the empty calories of glam sleeze's nonsense confections. Like many bands of the era, <a href="http://www.ranker.com/list/wild-guns-n-roses-stories/brandon-michaels" target="_blank">they were&nbsp;known for hard partying</a>, their days and nights saturated with alcohol, drugs, women, and excess.Frontman Axl Rose, who was born William Bruce Rose on February 6, 1962 in&nbsp;Lafayette, Indiana,&nbsp;announced himself as a volatile presence&nbsp;as soon as GnR's worldwide dominance began; a new&nbsp;bizarre Axl Rose scandal seemed to emerge every week. The volatility of the band as a whole, and its individual members, added to the excitement of their music and shows.&nbsp;The self-destructive energy&nbsp;Axl channeled into his music led him&nbsp;to the top, and&nbsp;kept him from staying there.The&nbsp;Axl Rose weird stories on this list demonstrate his unpredictable mood swings; several tales of Axl Rose fights pit him against other celebrities. Even true fans may be surprised at these crazy stories about one very wild rock star.

29 Absolutely Ridiculous Stories of Axl Rose's Hard Partying Days With Guns N' Roses

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29 Insane Axl Rose Stories That Are Almost Too Crazy To Believe

Erin McCann

Music History

Stevie Nicks became a household name alongside Fleetwood Mac bandmates Lindsey Buckingham, Christine and John McVie, and&nbsp;Mick Fleetwood&nbsp;shortly after the 1977 release of Rumours. Though the notoriously fluid <a href="https://www.ranker.com/list/fleetwood-mac-lineup-drama-history/sean-kelly" target="_blank">Fleetwood Mac</a>&nbsp;had released&nbsp;several albums prior to&nbsp;Rumours, the soft rock record&nbsp;is responsible for placing the band in the mainstream consciousness. However, it is also responsible for multiple affairs between <a href="https://www.ranker.com/list/true-stories-behind-fleetwood-mac-rumours-album/melissa-sartore" target="_blank">Fleetwood Mac members</a>, tumultuous separations, and heartbreak.&nbsp;

Stories from <a href="https://www.ranker.com/list/stevie-nicks-loves-and-hookups/celebrityhookups" target="_blank">Stevie Nicks&#39;s love life</a> are threaded throughout Rumours -&nbsp;&quot;Dreams&quot; is about her longtime partner Lindsey Buckingham - but her love affairs of the late &#39;70s were just the beginning of a series of romantic escapades. Aside from her&nbsp;laudable career, Nicks has endured incredible grief and heartache, as well as fairytale-level passion.

Nearly everyone&nbsp;who has dated Stevie Nicks speaks fondly of her,&nbsp;including the Eagles&#39; Don Henley and Joe Walsh - the latter of whom Nicks maintains was the love of her life. Even <a href="http://books.google.com/books?id=4L9F_dtB7OYC&amp;printsec=frontcover#v=onepage&amp;q=nicks&amp;f=false" target="_blank">Mick Fleetwood</a>, who thinks of Nicks as a sort of platonic soulmate, considers her and Buckingham to be&nbsp;eternally connected.&nbsp;

For her part, Nicks told&nbsp;<a href="http://www.rollingstone.com/music/music-news/stevie-nicks-a-rock-goddess-looks-back-179984/" target="_blank">Rolling Stone</a>&nbsp;that she would be happy never marrying, as she&#39;s already &quot;had a lot of great relationships&quot; and her &quot;life today is great&quot; because of her friends and music.&nbsp;

Fascinating Stories From Stevie Nicks’s Love Life

Bailey Brown

The 30th anniversary celebration of the Woodstock music festival <a href="https://www.yahoo.com/entertainment/when-the-red-hot-chili-peppers-played-fire-at-woodstock-99-the-timing-of-it-wasnt-so-great-194105669.html" target="_blank">took place</a> in Rome, NY, from July 22-25, 1999. But what was originally conceived as a modern homage to the landmark hippie-fueled musical lovefest of the 1960s ended up mutating into a disaster marked by aggression and mayhem.&nbsp;By the end, Woodstock &#39;99 was being referred to as &quot;The Woodstock &#39;99 Riots.&quot;

What caused Woodstock &#39;99 to become such <a href="https://www.ranker.com/list/worst-years-in-music-history/christopher-shultz?page=3" target="_blank">a low point</a> in music history? The <a href="https://www.rollingstone.com/music/music-news/19-worst-things-about-woodstock-99-176052/" target="_blank">major culprits</a> were oppressive summer heat, jacked-up prices, violent party crashers, and a lack of logistical oversight. When <a href="https://www.syracuse.com/entertainment/2009/07/a_look_back_at_woodstock_99.html" target="_blank">more than 220,000 people</a> arrived to Oneida County that weekend, no one - especially the festival&#39;s organizers - were prepared for what was about to happen.

There&#39;s also the music. While there was a diverse lineup - <a href="http://www.mtv.com/news/1426630/james-brown-set-to-funk-up-woodstock-99/" target="_blank">ranging</a> from classic artists like James Brown and Willie Nelson to electronic acts like Fatboy Slim - much of the media pointed fingers at emerging nu-metal acts like Korn, Limp Bizkit, and Kid Rock for riling up an already aggressive horde of concertgoers. By the final night, thousands of attendees were <a href="https://www.sfgate.com/style/article/Woodstock-99-The-day-the-music-died-3073934.php" target="_blank">rioting</a>, feeding massive&nbsp;fires, and tearing stages apart.

By the end of the weekend, there was extensive havoc, mounds of trash and refuse, thousands of injuries and assaults, and even <a href="http://www.mtv.com/news/516294/woodstock-99-death-toll-rises-to-three/" target="_blank">two lives lost</a>&nbsp;from heat exhaustion. This list digs deep into how Woodstock &#39;99 veered so off course.

Behind The Scenes Of How Woodstock '99 Went Off The Rails

Woodstock '99: Behind The Scenes Of How It Went Off The Rails

Megan Summers

Entertainment

The sordid and sad story of <a class="edS-cl" href="https://www.ranker.com/list/nancy-spungen-facts/jessika-gilbert?ref=internalCrossLinking_keyword">Sid Vicious and Nancy</a> Spungen's doomed love has permeated rock n' roll since Spungen's murder in 1978. From their self-abuse to their drug addiction to their co-dependency, no young couple encapsulates the live fast, die young ethos of punk more than the tragic duo.&nbsp;The starcrossed couple were deeply troubled long before they met. Spungen lived life as a prostitute and drug dealer and Vicious, who replaced Glen Matlock on bass in the Sex Pistols, was the unwanted product of a drug addict mother. The kindred spirits found a soul mate in each other, which wasn't necessarily a good thing. They were both dead within a couple of years of meeting and neither ever reached the age of 22.&nbsp; &nbsp;

The Saddest Parts Of Sid &amp; Nancy's Doomed Romance

Horrifying Aspects Of The Doomed Love Between Sid & Nancy, The Dumbest, Most Abusive Relationship In Music

Michelle Nati

1990s

After the metal and synth-pop dominance of the 1980s, the world&nbsp;was overdue for a new generation of artists that would change the trajectory of music forever. Leather jackets, hair spray, and tight pants were becoming passe in exchange for flannel, baggy jeans, and Converse. A strong argument can be made that 1991 was one of the most important years in music - with bands such as <a href="https://www.ranker.com/list/weird-true-nirvana-stories/erin-mccann" target="_blank">Nirvana</a>, <a href="https://www.ranker.com/list/best-red-hot-chili-peppers-songs/voteable" target="_blank">Red Hot Chili Peppers</a>, <a href="https://www.ranker.com/list/pearl-jam-jeremy-music-video-controversy/idoia-gorosabel-gkikas" target="_blank">Pearl Jam</a>, <a href="https://www.ranker.com/list/best-soundgarden-albums-list/ranker-music" target="_blank">Soundgarden</a>, the <a href="https://www.ranker.com/list/the-best-smashing-pumpkins-songs/voteable" target="_blank">Smashing Pumpkins</a>, and My Bloody Valentine (just to name a few) putting out game-changing records.

The most notable scene that formed in the early &#39;90s was the <a href="https://www.ranker.com/list/facts-about-90s-grunge-stars/julian-hoffman" target="_blank">Seattle grunge scene</a>, which saw many bands break through with their gloomy, apathetic music. Grunge had become synonymous with &quot;1990s music,&quot; but it wasn&#39;t just Seattle that was changing music forever. Even bands like <a href="https://www.ranker.com/list/ranking-of-best-metallica-songs/music-lover" target="_blank">Metallica</a> and <a href="https://www.ranker.com/list/best-u2-songs-of-all-time/voteable" target="_blank">U2</a> were changing direction, adapting to a new decade that offered less neon, more black. Everything was starting to form under the blanket of &quot;alternative rock,&quot; which would stay popularized until the 2010s.&nbsp;

Here are some&nbsp;albums of extreme significance that made music history back in 1991. Vote up the ones that still matter to you.

1991 Might Have Been The Most Game-Changing Year In Rock 'N' Roll

Musical Album

1991 Might Have Been The Most Game-Changing Year In Rock And Roll

Julian Hoffman

Lists that rank some of cinema's most delightful productions: musicals.

Music on the Big Screen

Several famous rock stars have led lives so intriguing and/or troubling that they've inspired enviable acting roles.&nbsp;From Kurt Cobain and Jim Morrison to Elvis, Elvis, and more Elvis, actors have brought the stories behind the music to life in iconic films. Several actors who have played rock stars have even been nominated for Academy Awards.Which actors have played <a href="https://www.ranker.com/list/musicians-turned-actors/ranker-music?ref=internalCrossLinking_keyword">rock stars in movies</a>? In 2018, Rami Malek <a href="https://www.ranker.com/list/bohemian-rhapsody-actors-vs-real-life/samantha-dillinger" target="_blank">helped</a> Bohemian Rhapsody dominate at the box office thanks to his portrayal of Queen vocalist&nbsp;Freddie Mercury. The following year, Rocketman actor Taron Egerton donned his giant sunglasses to portray Elton John in the 2019 film.Val Kilmer not only portrayed&nbsp;the Doors singer&nbsp;<a href="https://www.ranker.com/list/jim-morrison-personal-life-stories/katia-kleyman" target="_blank">Jim Morrison</a> in Oliver Stone's 1991 film The Doors, but he&nbsp;later played Elvis Presley (AKA &quot;The Mentor&quot;) in True Romance. But he is not the only one who played Elvis. That role has also been portrayed by Kurt Russell and Jack White. Other actors who played rock stars include Kristen Stewart as Joan Jett, Gary Oldman as Sid Vicious, and Andr&eacute;&nbsp;3000 as Jimi Hendrix.Which actor do you think made the best rock star? Give your favorite actors who played musicians&nbsp;a vote up to show you're ready for an encore.

Will Rami Malek's Portrayal Of Freddie Mercury Go Down In History?

The Best Actors Who Played Rock Stars On Film

Actor

Actors Who Played Real Rock Stars In Movies, Ranked

Celebrity Lists

Musician/Band Trivia

The roller-coaster&nbsp;history of the Mamas &amp; the Papas is a prime example of how too much free love - and lots of drugs - ended up destroying the flower power of the 1960s.&nbsp;

The Mamas &amp; the Papas were comprised of&nbsp;Mama Cass Elliot, Denny Doherty, John&nbsp;Phillips, and his wife&nbsp;Michelle. The four members&nbsp;began performing in 1965 and quickly gained fame with hits like &quot;California Dreamin&#39;.&quot; Their musical chemistry made them iconic, but troubled relationships between members ended their union after only three years.&nbsp;

For a band to rise so quickly to fame, create a handful of hit <a href="https://www.ranker.com/list/best-the-mamas-and-the-papas-albums-list/reference" target="_blank">songs that are still beloved</a> today, and then implode after only a few years, the behind-the-scenes stories must have been intense. These are some of the most jaw-dropping.

Jaw-Dropping Stories About The Mamas & The Papas

12 Unbelievable Stories About The Mamas & The Papas

Politics

In September 1985, the Parents&nbsp;Music Resource Center (PMRC) formed out of concern for the dangers of music on the American public. The PMRC&#39;s&nbsp;founders identified the most offensive musicians and lyrics in the hopes of instituting a rating system for music, much like the one that existed&nbsp;for movies. The music censorship interest group believed that the material presented in popular music was poisoning the minds of America&#39;s youth, and the music industry needed to clean up its act before children were corrupted by the evils of rock and roll.&nbsp;

Two of the most prominent members of the PMRC&nbsp;were Tipper Gore, the&nbsp;wife of then-Senator Al Gore, and Susan Baker, wife of Secretary of State James Baker. They&nbsp;were also part of a group of women known as the &quot;Washington Wives,&quot; and they had enough clout in DC&nbsp;to get a Senate&nbsp;hearing about regulating the music industry.&nbsp;

The PMRC is the reason&nbsp;parental advisory stickers are still found on some albums today. Before it got to that point, Congress listened to some of the so-called controversial musicians singled out by the PMRC. One of the controversial artists, <a href="https://www.ranker.com/list/untrue-rock-star-rumors/jacob-shelton" target="_blank">rock star</a> Dee Snider from Twisted Sister, faced off with the PMRC&nbsp;and broke down their arguments one-by-one&nbsp;in a public forum.&nbsp;Snider&#39;s speech to Congress didn&#39;t save rock and roll (or any other kind of music)&nbsp;from advisory labels, but he definitely made an impression and got in some good punches&nbsp;as he made it clear he wasn&#39;t going to take it anymore.&nbsp;

The Time '80s Rock Legend Dee Snider Sounded Off Against Censorship In A Speech To Congress

The Legendary Dee Snyder Speech That Destroyed An Uptight Washington

Melissa Sartore

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<a href="http://www.ranker.com/review/stevie-nicks/2098684" target="_blank">Stevie Nicks</a> is one of the greatest voices to ever grace the radio, but how did she achieve such fame and success?

Nicks&#39;s biography,&nbsp;<a href="https://www.amazon.com/Stevie-Nicks-Visions-Dreams-Rumors/dp/1468310666" target="_blank">Stevie Nicks: Visions, Dreams &amp;&nbsp;Rumours</a>, written by Zo&euml; Howe, offers&nbsp;rare insight into the tumultuous life of the witchiest rock star to ever live. While the book&nbsp;meticulously retells how Stevie Nicks and Fleetwood Mac recorded each of their albums&nbsp;and offers up tips from the gold dust woman herself, it doesn&#39;t shy away from the dark periods of Nicks&#39;s life, of which there are practically too many to count.

Nicks claims&nbsp;that she didn&#39;t really drink until she joined Fleetwood Mac &ndash;&nbsp;her sober life quickly changed once she and her then-boyfriend, Lindsey Buckingham, joined the band. Fleetwood Mac eventually developed a true rock-and-roll reputation &ndash; they&nbsp;famously used enough cocaine to fund a cartel, and if they weren&#39;t fighting with each other, they were sleeping with each other. 

Even when Stevie Nicks was on her solo tours, she carried on like a party that never stopped. Whether&nbsp;you&rsquo;re a fan of Fleetwood Mac&nbsp;or Nicks&#39;s solo work, you&rsquo;ll want to read this run-down of the craziest stories from Stevie Nicks&#39;s life.

14 Behind-The-Scenes Stories From Stevie Nicks's Unique Life

14 Insane Things You Never Knew About Stevie Nicks

Jacob Shelton

Things all metalheads should know about their favorite bands, artists, and albums.

The Devil's Music

You're here for crazy Black Sabbath stories, but before getting to that, take a moment to hail the almighty power of the riff, as manifested in human form by doom priest Tony Iommi, and brought to life by Iommi, Bill Ward (drums), Geezer Butler (bass), and <a href="http://www.ranker.com/list/crazy-ozzy-osbourne-facts/jacob-shelton?var=3&amp;utm_expid=16418821-311.AAszGoDYQ7WZsue0Bhz6ww.2&amp;utm_referrer=https%3A%2F%2Fwww.google.com%2F" target="_blank">vocalist Ozzy Osborne</a>. Many of the stories on this list revolve around&nbsp;Ozzy Osbourne's insane&nbsp;behavior&nbsp;and the drug-fueled hijinx of epic '70s metal superstars; don't let that distract you too much from the potent majesty of the band's music, because the two are inextricably linked in the psychedelic nebula in which insanity meets genius.&nbsp;Sabbath emerged from the thicket of blues-based British bands in the late '60s, around the same time as Led Zeppelin&nbsp;and, like Zep, pioneered a form of riff-heavy, psychedelic, drug-fueled thunder that forever changed the face of heavy guitar music. <a href="http://www.ranker.com/list/crazy-led-zeppelin-stories/harrison-tenpas" target="_blank">Also like Led Zeppelin</a>, the members of Sabbath lived life to the hilt at a time when&nbsp;musicians were availed of a near-endless&nbsp;supply of illegal substances. For Sabbath, the&nbsp;drug of choice was cocaine. It inspired their music and madness, leading to bizarre, occasionally disturbing, consequences, as evidenced by these true stories about Black Sabbath.&nbsp;Behind the scenes Black Sabbath stories go as far back as the formation of the band, in 1968, when it was known first as Polka Tulk Blues Band,&nbsp;then Earth. Re-christened&nbsp;Black Sabbath after a film of the same name <a href="http://www.ranker.com/list/boris-karloff-movies-and-films-and-filmography/reference" target="_blank">staring Boris Karloff</a>, the band moved away from free-loving blues to invent <a href="http://www.ranker.com/crowdranked-list/best-heavy-metal-bands-that-i-know" target="_blank">heavy metal</a>. Sabbath&nbsp;was&nbsp;the anti-hippie band, with <a href="http://www.ranker.com/list/best-black-sabbath-songs/voteable" target="_blank">songs</a> drawing heavily on religious themes, including &quot;<a href="http://www.blacksabbath.com/history.html" target="_blank">demonic subject matter</a>&quot; such as the supernatural, the afterlife, and the co-dependent relationship&nbsp;of good and evil. Among the many icons gracing the band's artwork was an upside down cross&nbsp;which, along with the occult name and themes, <a href="http://www.ranker.com/list/black-sabbath-s-relationship-with-satan/jacob-shelton" target="_blank">earned the band an association with Satan</a>.&nbsp;According to Sabbath, the band was a reaction to the drastic social and political change that happened as the hippie movement fell apart in the face of the Vietnam War, a strong conservative backlash to liberal ideals, heavy drug use, and formerly groovy violent cults such as the Manson family. <a href="https://www.theguardian.com/music/2013/jun/06/black-sabbath-cocaine-private-plane" target="_blank">According to Butler</a>, who wrote most of the band's lyrics:<blockquote> &quot;War was the main theme [of our songs]. My brothers were all in the army and I thought I'd have to go and fight in Vietnam. Then there was the atomic bomb and the feeling that we were all going to get blown up.&quot;</blockquote>When Ozzy left in 1979, dynamics changed drastically, as did the culture surrounding Sabbath;&nbsp;the hedonistic chaos of the 1970s gave way to the business-oriented and coke-fueled madness of the 1980s. Don't forget: cocaine. Lots and lots and <a href="http://www.ranker.com/list/crazy-david-lee-roth-facts/brandon-michaels" target="_blank">lots of cocaine</a>.&nbsp;

Drug-Fueled, Sordid Tales From Black Sabbath's Heyday That Prove Just How Unhinged They Really Were

Behind The Scenes Stories Of Black Sabbath's Debauched, Drug-Fueled Madness

Noelle Talmon

Bands&#39; backstage contracts, or riders, can be incredibly amusing for fans. Take the Foo Fighters, for instance; they&#39;re a band that has never taken themselves too seriously, and their rider shows it. It&#39;s full of ridiculous joke requests for outlandish items and services. Sometimes, though, the nutty&nbsp;stuff isn&#39;t just written in for fun. Some celebrity riders truly have shockingly ridiculous requests.

And yes, even the <a href="https://www.ranker.com/crowdranked-list/the-best-rock-bands-of-all-time" target="_blank">greatest bands</a> of all time have some pretty silly demands. From some not-so-surprising requests - like a stockpile of condoms&nbsp;- to stuff that&#39;s truly outrageous - like banning people backstage with a certain name - there have been some&nbsp;really incredible dressing room contract demands over the years.&nbsp;

The Most Outrageous Backstage Rider Requests Of All Time

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Musicians' and Bands' Most Ridiculous Tour Rider Demands

Sean Kelly

The Godfather of Punk, Iggy Pop, is renowned for his musical prowess, magnetic stage presence, outlandish antics, confrontational attitude, predilection for substances, and lust for excess. As a solo artist and as frontman of one of the most legendarily destructive proto-punk acts of all time, The Stooges, Iggy has been involved in crafting some of <a href="http://www.ranker.com/list/best-iggy-pop-albums-list/reference" target="_blank">the most influential albums of all time</a>. Though the term &quot;rock and roll excess&quot; probably conjures images of long-haired, riff-rocking stadium acts, the truth is that many of Iggy and The Stooges escapades most certainly qualify.

For Iggy Pop, born James Newell Osterberg, Jr. on April 21, 1947,&nbsp;substance use was&nbsp;an integral part of being a musician. The&nbsp;Motor City musician tried it all, often right before jumping on stage or giving a well-documented TV interview. Sometimes he couldn&#39;t speak or&nbsp;stand after. Other times, as the crazy Iggy Pop stories on this list attest, he defecated on stage, went after bikers, compared himself to Hitler and Jesus in the same interview, and had wild trysts with very young ladies.&nbsp;

Indeed, Iggy and the Stooges were so entwined in the world of anti-social counter culture, they became one of the most infamous bands in the world, terrifying audiences and scandalizing conservative moms and dads in Middle America. Iggy was known to whip his junk out on stage, vomit&nbsp;on the audience, and smash glass on his chest, while other members of the Stooges&nbsp;<a href="http://www.musiclipse.com/wp-content/uploads/2013/04/the_stooges_rare_photo_live_concert.jpg" target="_blank">whipped him</a>.&nbsp;

Iggy&nbsp;Pop has indulged intuition, lust, hedonism, impulse, and artistic whim to such degree his life became a form of art in and of itself.

Bloody and Vomit-Filled Behind-The-Scenes Stories Of Iggy Pop, The Godfather Of Punk

Dark And Inimitably Unhinged Stories About Iggy Pop, The Godfather Of Punk

Mariel Loveland

David Lee Roth is a legend. He&#39;s one of the <a href="http://www.ranker.com/crowdranked-list/top-10-lead-singers-in-rock-of-all-time" target="_blank">greatest lead singers of all time</a>, for one of the <a href="http://www.ranker.com/list/best-van-halen-albums-list/reference" target="_blank">greatest rock bands of all time</a>:&nbsp;Van Halen. Diamond Dave led VH from its&nbsp;initial success in 1978 through the coked-out, Spandex&nbsp;days of the 1980s, fronting the band 11 years and running&nbsp;with the devil every single day. A consummate rock star, Dave&#39;s&nbsp;over-the-top persona&nbsp;and insane stage antics often overshadowed the genius of the band&#39;s music, which more or less conjured the entire genre of hair metal from thin air. David Lee Roth and Van Halen had quite a&nbsp;run together, as these crazy David Lee Roth stories&nbsp;attest.&nbsp;

Though you may know Diamond Dave most as <a href="http://dethklok.wikia.com/wiki/Dr._Rockzo" target="_blank">the inspiration for Dr. Rockzo</a>, or as a man who would certainly win the gold in skiing the powdery slopes of Blow Town, he&#39;s also&nbsp;the&nbsp;New York Times&nbsp;best-selling author&nbsp;of&nbsp;<a href="https://www.amazon.com/Crazy-Heat-David-Lee-Roth/dp/0091874807/ref=sr_1_1?ie=UTF8&amp;qid=1500058240&amp;sr=8-1&amp;tag=rankercom-20" target="_blank">Crazy From the Heat</a> (his autobiography). And, in case you forgot, he&nbsp;had&nbsp;a&nbsp;<a href="http://www.ranker.com/list/best-david-lee-roth-albums-list/reference" target="_blank">successful&nbsp;solo career</a>&nbsp;for a few years after leaving Van Halen, during which he indulged&nbsp;his&nbsp;Diamond Dave tendencies to&nbsp;the extreme, living as a bonafide fornication machine always ready to party. Even in his 60s, he&#39;s&nbsp;the <a href="http://www.imdb.com/name/nm0744822/bio" target="_blank">life of the party</a>: &quot;I used to jog but the ice cubes kept coming out of my glass.&quot;

The list of&nbsp;crazy stories and wild facts about&nbsp;David&nbsp;Lee Roth is almost never-ending. He joined&nbsp;Van Halen, then known as Mammoth, at 20, in 1974;&nbsp;developed a deep rivalry with Sammy Hagar, who replaced him in the band in 1985; and found&nbsp;a late-life new career in new media, as a podcast host. David Lee Roth has been entertaining audiences for decades, and this list is here so you can&nbsp;revel in the lewdness of the&nbsp;craziest moments from Diamond Dave&#39;s life.

Insane Behind-The Scenes-Stories About David Lee Roth's Career

Crazy Facts About Diamond David Lee Roth

Brandon Michaels

Long before the phenomenon that was Amy Winehouse, whose mesmerizing&nbsp;voice captivated millions, there was Janis Joplin, to whom Winehouse was often compared. While Joplin only released&nbsp;<a href="http://www.ranker.com/list/best-janis-joplin-albums-list/reference" target="_blank">three albums</a> during her lifetime (and a few posthumously) and only one Top 40 hit, she still became one of the biggest American music stars of the 1960s, and her music continues to influence musicians today.&nbsp;

Joplin and her band, Big Brother and the Holding Company, first made a name for themselves at the 1967 Monterey Music Festival where she emerged a bright and talented star. Unfortunately, the lifestyle of a hard-partying &#39;60s rock star soon&nbsp;took its toll. Her love of whiskey brand <a href="https://vinepair.com/articles/how-janis-joplin-earned-a-fur-coat-by-drinking-southern-comfort/" target="_blank">Southern Comfort</a> became as well known as her voice, just like other hard-partying bands like <a href="http://www.ranker.com/list/crazy-led-zeppelin-stories/harrison-tenpas" target="_blank">Led Zeppelin</a> or eccentric personalities like <a href="http://www.ranker.com/list/crazy-ozzy-osbourne-facts/jacob-shelton" target="_blank">Ozzy Osbourne</a>. While the story of Janis Joplin&#39;s passing in 1970 serves as a somber end to her tale,&nbsp;underneath her music-star persona, she was a sensitive soul who had been damaged by bullies and&nbsp;hurt by lovers, and who wanted to be loved simply because she couldn&#39;t do it herself.

The Tortured, Painful Life of Janis Joplin, The Baddest Woman In Rock History

Tool seemingly exploded out of nowhere in the early &#39;90s with their debut album, Undertow. Unlike other bands, the members of Tool were relatively unknown and seemingly mysterious.

But Tool&#39;s&nbsp;four original members (vocalist Maynard James Keenan, guitarist Adam Jones, drummer Danny Carey, and bassist Paul D&#39;Amour) were relatively&nbsp;known to other musicians in LA&#39;s growing alternative music scene. Carey and D&#39;Amour played with LA band Green Jell&ouml;, and Keenan was longtime friends with&nbsp;Rage Against the Machine guitarist Tom Morello.

With their EP Opiate and debut album Undertow, Tool&nbsp;suddenly gained popularity alongside bands such as Nine Inch Nails, Rage Against the Machine, and Soundgarden. Despite their best-selling albums, they&#39;ve managed to remain highly enigmatic with few&nbsp;media appearances and long gaps between albums. In fact, since Tool&#39;s formation in the &#39;90s, they&#39;ve only released <a href="https://www.ranker.com/list/best-tool-albums-list/reference" target="_blank">a handful of albums</a>: four studio albums, one live album, and one EP.

With <a href="https://consequenceofsound.net/2018/06/maynard-james-keenan-promises-tool-will-release-new-music-next-year/" target="_blank">rumors swirling</a> about a new album - their first since&nbsp;10,000 Days in 2006 - now is a good time to learn some of the weirdest facts about Tool.

Here's Everything You Never Knew About Alt-Metal Band Tool

Inigo Gonzalez

Rammstein is&nbsp;an <a class="edS-cl" href="https://www.ranker.com/list/berlin-bands-and-musical-artists-from-here/reference?ref=internalCrossLinking_keyword">industrial metal band from Berlin</a>, Germany, that&nbsp;has maintained&nbsp;a huge American following since its inception in 1994. There are six members:&nbsp;Richard Z. Kruspe, Oliver &quot;Ollie&quot; Riedel, Christoph &quot;Doom&quot; Schneider, Till Lindemann, Paul H. Landers, and Christian &quot;Flake&quot; Lorenz.

Rammstein has always been controversial, from its song topics to the elaborate live shows they&#39;ve staged all over the world.&nbsp;

In addition to the controversy surrounding the music, the band members themselves have been the subject of numerous antics over the years. For instance, guitarist Richard Kruspe&nbsp;had a child with lead&nbsp;singer Till Lindemann&#39;s ex-wife. And one night on stage, Lindemann used a dong-shaped canon to blast foam into the crowd during a performance at Madison Square Garden.

Everyone has an opinion about the&nbsp;band, but not everyone knows Rammstein&#39;s full story.&nbsp;Check out these Rammstein facts that sound wild - even for this band.&nbsp;

Crazy Stories Of Rammstein, That Band Every Dude In High School Loved

14 Crazy Stories You've Never Heard About Rammstein

Anna Lindwasser

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