6 Musicians With Pasts They Hope You'll Forget

jst5150 · Jan 29, 2008

http://www.cracked.com/article_15826_six-musicians-with-pasts-they-hope-youll-forget.html

This is mostly a visual. The dead Alice in Chains front man sporting the Bret Michaels dye job and the cowboy hat is intrguing though.

III · Jan 29, 2008

Oh man, that Pantera album cover just made my morning!

jst5150 · Jan 29, 2008

Yeah, the fat guy on the right hand side pretty much made my Hall of Fame for Fat Guy Musicians. He's right up there with the drummer from Y&T, All of Bachman Turner Overdrive and John Popper, the Early Years. Michael Anthony would be here, but he never really got past "husky."

ChunkyC · Jan 29, 2008

In one way I'm kinda glad I never became a famous rocker, because there are old band shots I'm in that are every bit as embarrassing as those.

No, ain't sharing.

jst5150 · Jan 29, 2008

Charlie, it would be good for your soul.

Show us the Albertan mullet.

ChunkyC · Jan 31, 2008

Okay, you asked for it. (don't blame me for any hernias anyone gets from laughing)

circa 1980

PS -- should we change the thread title to: Musicians With Pants They Hope You'll Forget

sassandgroove · Jan 31, 2008

I didn't know about Evanessence. That's interesting.

rugcat · Jan 31, 2008

jst5150 said:
Yeah, the fat guy on the right hand side pretty much made my Hall of Fame for Fat Guy Musicians. He's right up there with the drummer from Y&T, All of Bachman Turner Overdrive and John Popper, the Early Years.

I got my guitar (es-335) years ago from a store where the owner bought it from a young woman who claimed it was originally owned by her father, who was one of BTO. I'm not sure if that's good karma or bad, but it's a great guitar.

Chunky, love those pants.

III · Feb 1, 2008

I know Charlie and Ray were separated at birth, but I'm wondering if I was a lost triplet. Here's a rare photo of me circa 1988. It's blurry, but I swear that picture of Charlie could have been me.

ChunkyC said:
Okay, you asked for it. (don't blame me for any hernias anyone gets from laughing)

circa 1980

PS -- should we change the thread title to: Musicians With Pants They Hope You'll Forget

cray · Feb 1, 2008

circa 1980

criminy sakes alive!

Cranky · Feb 1, 2008

Wowza! *giggles*

Those pants are something else. :Hail:

Brave of you to post that pic!

III · Feb 1, 2008

Cranky said:
Wowza! *giggles*

Those pants are something else. Brave of you to post that pic!

Pffft. That's nothing. I want to see the pic of him wearing them TODAY!

Cranky · Feb 1, 2008

III said:
Pffft. That's nothing. I want to see the pic of him wearing them TODAY!

Sounds like a challenge to me.

ChunkyC · Feb 1, 2008

I want to see the pic of him wearing them TODAY!

Try inserting a watermelon into the pinky finger of a latex glove, it'd be a similar effect.

Bubastes · Feb 1, 2008

Those pants are, um, well, interesting! You are a brave man!

Is it just me, or do you look like you have to go pee in that photo?

III · Feb 1, 2008

ChunkyC said:
Try inserting a watermelon into the pinky finger of a latex glove, it'd be a similar effect.

Oh that's hot.

ChunkyC · Feb 1, 2008

MeowGirl said:
Is it just me, or do you look like you have to go pee in that photo?

And here I was thinking I was striking a cool guitar-god pose.

Actually, I think I might have been risking an embolism trying to hit the high notes in Bryan Adams' "Lonely Night."

ETA: reminiscing about what I might have been singing in that photo got me thinking about when it was taken. In the interest of accuracy, it was actually 1983.

Bubastes · Feb 1, 2008

ChunkyC said:
And here I was thinking I was striking a cool guitar-god pose.

Actually, I think I might have been risking an embolism trying to hit the high notes in Bryan Adams' "Lonely Night."

Nah. If you were trying to hit the high notes, you probably would've had that scrunchy I'm-gonna-eat-the-microphone face, right?

Thank goodness I can hide behind my drum set. Fewer chances for embarrassing photos that way.

ChunkyC · Feb 1, 2008

Hehe, unless you were the drummer I played with who, when we dressed up as an all girl band for halloween, wore a skirt and nylons.

No skivvies.

I turned around during the first tune and there were Big Willie and the Twins looking back at me, all flattened out by the nylons and lit up by the white lights shooting up from under his drum kit.

Bubastes · Feb 1, 2008

ChunkyC said:
Hehe, unless you were the drummer I played with who, when we dressed up as an all girl band for halloween, wore a skirt and nylons.

No skivvies.

I turned around during the first tune and there were Big Willie and the Twins looking back at me, all flattened out by the nylons and lit up by the white lights shooting up from under his drum kit.

ChunkyC · Feb 1, 2008

The best part was him wondering why all the girls dancing in front of the stage would burst into fits of giggling every time he caught their eye.

Of course, we didn't tell him.

DamaNegra · Feb 1, 2008

Those pants... dammit! And... and the visual image of the drummer... Can't stop laughing!!!!!!

LIVIN · Feb 4, 2008

Oh Dr. Dre... you made my day... gloriously!

Writer??? · Feb 16, 2008

"Stuffing watermelon...Big Willie and the twins..."

You band guys. Just gotta zaggerate everyting doncha?
But I gotta give it to ya. You got a HUGE pair for posting that pic 'o fancy pants. The hair, the pants, the sleevless shirt, it's kind of "Ziggy on the edge of grunge".

ChunkyC · Feb 17, 2008

Writer??? said:
"Stuffing watermelon...Big Willie and the twins..."

You band guys. Just gotta zaggerate everyting doncha?
But I gotta give it to ya. You got a HUGE pair for posting that pic 'o fancy pants. The hair, the pants, the sleevless shirt, it's kind of "Ziggy on the edge of grunge".

Hehe, we once got referred to as 'glam-punk', if memory serves.

And the watermelon part was the me of today with my 44" waist trying to squeeze into those pants, so I wasn't exactly braggin'. Imagine a beluga whale trying to do a swan dive into a pet store aquarium.

PS -- hey Jay, wanna start a 3-piece blues band? I have the perfect name....

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