Musical Urban Legends?????? (Aka the most ridiculous claims you see made about various musicians)?

I was just on Youtube chillin to some music when I decided to read the comments.......


http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=_Oa2yCnpn…





"FumanchuBros - Greatest voice on the planet.  8 Octaves ...world record holder ..." *Rolls Eyes*





Don't ya love how often people just pull stuff out of their butts and instead of actually bolstering their argument... they just loose all credibility (heck I can think of a couple people on here that do that anytime they open their mouths)





Of course, I have seen similarly ludicrous claims made about Freddie Mercury too (what like owning a ridiculous 3.5-4 octave range ain't good enough?)





MQ: So what other killer claims have you seen made.. fastest drummer, best octave range, etc that just made you wanna LOL and punk slap the person?





MQ2- Which musician in general would you say has the most outrageous claims made about them? (Kurt Cobain being the bestest Singer/Guitarist EVAH!, Jim Morrison sucking cuz he ain't Freddie Mercury, Freddie Mercury's vocals cure cancer, etc)





BQ- Now Playing?|||MQ: Travis Barker being an amazing God-tier drummer... there's plenty of Travis Barker drum solo youtube videos with at least 2 millions views and thousands of thumbs up...





One that really annoys me is the whole "hurr, u wish u could pley like him/her/it." First off, you don't have to be a chef to know when something tastes like crap. Second, the people that say that have never heard me play. I could be Yngwie Jr. for all they know. And third, even if they were more technically proficient than me, that doesn't change the fact that they blow chunks of gorilla testicle juice (I've been lured into plenty of fauxcore videos by people in this section, so I've gotten literally dozens of replies that make use of these accusations)





*****Edit, we have a new contender!: "Dear god.. Why have you tooking all our good musicians away!? You took our best guitarist, dimebag. You took our best bassist, cliff. And now our best drummer, jimmy. To give you a heads up, and save you some time, our favorite singer is justin beiber :)"








MQ2: Hendrix... I remember I got in an argument with some old dude who claimed that no one could ever be better than Hendrix... the old man kept claiming that "even if you play a Hendrix song perfectly note-for-note, you still won't get the sound that Hendrix got". No disrespect to Hendrix, but if people consider you the best guitarist ever because of your unique tone, then your fans are retards. That's like thinking Sonic Youth is the best band ever because they don't tune their instruments.








BQ: The Final Fantasy IV battle theme, Nobuo Uematsu is an amazing composer.


http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=NKuS5I24M…|||MQ: "Rob Halford has a range of like 6 octanes or something" (massive face-palm)





MQ2:


-For any deceased musician: "God wanted (insert name of famous, deceased musician) to play in his band in Heaven" or something along those lines


-Rob Halford can kill people with his screams


-Rusty Cooley disproved Einstein's theory of relativity by sweep-picking faster than the speed of light





BQ- In the Halls of Awaiting by Insomnium|||The Led Zeppelin "mudshark" story. CRAZY. It happened supposedly, but the details are always sketchy and distorted. Either way, a ginger chick got something shoved up her... you know.





http://www.snopes.com/music/artists/muds…|||8 octaves? Pffft...that pales in comparison to my 13 octave range.





MQ: I guess whenever anyone claims that Herman Li can play that fast with no technical assistance I have to laugh.





BQ: I'm watching The Event.|||MQ : i cant state a quote, but i find Slash is waaaaaaay too overrated. ye, he's great and all, better than me, for sure, but i have heard A LOT more impressive solos.





MQ2 : i'd have to agree with you on that one, Kurt Cobain.





MQ3 : Eaten - Bloodbath|||http://vigilantcitizen.com/?p=1676








oh the lulz|||Screech %26amp; Mike D are brothers just because they have the same name.





That Wonder Years kid is Marilyn Manson.(I think he's really a lawyer). Manson has a glass eye. Manson had his bottom ribs removed.|||John Lennon and Paul McCartney wanted Chuck Norris as the Drummer for The Beatles..|||All these kids are saying Tupac is actually dead... What a joke.|||I've heard people say Adam Lambert has a range of 9 octaves; there's also an offshoot of Chuck Norris facts that joke about Adam Lambert's voice instead (Google "Adam Lambert facts"), including:


- Some good singers can shatter glass with their high notes. Adam Lambert's high notes reassemble broken glass and put together jigsaw puzzles.


- Adam Lambert had a sing-off with Elvis Prestley. Elvis died.


- Adam Lambert can divide by zero


- Adam Lambert has sung through eternity twice


I could go on listing these, but the most ridiculous claim I've ever heard was that Adam Lambert is not a human, but an alien/angel/etc. sent here by God to make people happier and more tolerant.|||I simply had to find an example, as fascinating of a question that this is ;P





Ozzy Osbourne is a "vulgar, violent, and demonic" Satanist, apparently...


http://www.jesus-is-savior.com/False%20R…





That website in general provides me with much amusement :D


http://www.jesus-is-savior.com/Evils%20i…


Also according to that website, Jimmy page is a devout follower of Satan and Columbine was the fault of a combined effort by Ozzy and Marilyn Manson. Lmao!





One need go no farther than the google homepage and type in '________ is' to get some ridiculous/amusing results...


"lady gaga is a man


lady gaga is a hermaphrodite


lady gaga is a man proof


lady gaga is a dude


lady gaga is hot


lady gaga is bi


lady gaga is not a man


lady gaga is a freak


lady gaga is wierd


lady gaga is an idiot..."





Haha!|||Oh I have heard some Gems of ridiculous assertations in my time.





Such as Rush sold their souls to the devil and had Neal Peart replaced by John Rutsey so they could play "devilsh" music like "The Trees".....





Rod Stewart had to go to the ER and have all the **** pumped out of his stomach





And one of the wildest I ever heard, some raggy magazine even said that The Stone Roses was the greatest British album of all time, crazy stuff huh?





MA: Tommy Lee is easily and obviously the greatest Drummer of all time cause he Drums in a spinning cage Ya know, so rad....





MA2: Agreed about the Mercury overdos





BA: Electric Wizard|||Lolololol, I know people say this all the time, but seriously, someone once tried to tell me that Kirk Hammett was the best guitarist ever. They wouldn't even try to see things from a sensible point of view.





MQ: M. Shadows is the most talented singer to ever have lived. Hahahahahahaha. Oh, and it's Phil Anselmo's fault Dimebag Darrell died, which just so happens to be complete BS.





http://www.guitarworld.com/article/dimeb…





OH, and I also hear a lot of stupid rumors about Marilyn Manson. I don't like the guy, but you'd have to be stupid to believe some of the crap people say. Like that he had his ribcage removed to suck his own c*ck.





Here's a quote from him on the subject:





“If I really got my ribs removed, I would have been busy sucking my own dick on the wonder years instead of chasing winnie cooper. Besides, I wouldn't have sucked other people's ***** on stage, either. I would have been sucking my own. Plus, who really has time to be killing puppies when you can be sucking your own dick? I think I'm gonna call the surgeon in the morning.”





BQ: Cemetery Gates - Pantera.|||That the Beatles actually wrote all their songs and played their own instruments.