From the "Fork Party" Website: "15 Rock Stars That Went Off the Deep End"

[Amerigo Vespucci]

Some familiar (and not so familiar) stories about musicians on the edge, plus photos:

15 Rock Stars That Went Off the Deep End

http://www.forkparty.com/rock-stars/

Courtney Love – Hole
Pete Doherty – The Libertines & Babyshambles
GG Allin
Dead – Mayhem
Euronymous – Mayhem
Kurt Cobain – Nirvana
Brian Jonestown Massacre
Sid Vicious – Sex Pistols
Steven Tyler – Aerosmith
Ike Turner
Sakevi Yokoyama – Gism
Jim Morrison – The Doors
Elvis Presley
Jim Gordon – Derek and the Dominos
Bonus: DMX – Rapper

[gratuitous]

1. All those people I've never heard of . . .

And no Keith Moon? Bo-oh-oh-oh-oh-gus!

[Amerigo Vespucci]

2. He never really went off the deep end, though...

...he was pretty much deep end 24/7...although the same can be said for a few others on that list, too, like Morrison.

For me, "going off the deep end" means there's some kind of "normal" touchstone in there.

:rofl:

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[Forkboy]

3. I didn't even know I had a party of my own.

[BurtWorm]

4. Skip Spence, poor guy.

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Abvqf5lsFdg


Roky Erickson has come back a bit from the edge.

http://www.narod.tv/?vid=2600


(I'm surprised Syd Barret isn't on that list.)

[Amerigo Vespucci]

5. "Oar" became Spence's "The Madcap Laughs"...

...a major influence on many modern musicians, especially Beck:

Beck’s Record Club Tackles Skip Spence’s “Oar” with Wilco, Feist

11/13/09, 10:18 am EST



http://www.rollingstone.com/rockdaily/index.php/2009/11/13/becks-record-club-tackles-skip-spences-oar-with-wilco-feist/

For the third album covered in its entirety by Beck’s Record Club, the Modern Guilt rocker recruited Wilco, Feist and Jamie Liddell to perform Skip Spence’s 1969 offbeat folk-rock album Oar. Beck’s Record Club, “an informal meeting of various musicians to record an album in a day,” laid down Oar back in June, when Wilco were in Los Angeles in support of Wilco (The Album). “They came by after a long day filming a TV appearance and still managed to put down 8 songs with us,” Beck writes on his Record Club site. “Leslie Feist happened to be in town editing her documentary and heard we were all getting together.” Jeff Tweedy’s 13-year-old son Spencer also joined the Record Club for “additional drums.”

First up is the Club’s faithful take on Oar opener “Little Hands,” with Beck on lead vocals as Tweedy and Feist strum along. As explained in their mission statement, the Record Club doesn’t rehearse or arrange before recording; they remain true to the opening tracks of the original version, but allow for more experimentation on Side B songs. Beck is no stranger to Spence’s work, however, having previously covered Oar’s “Halo of Gold for the compilation More Oar: A Tribute to Alexander “Skip” Spence. Since “Halo of Gold” was an Oar bonus track added to the CD reissue, it’s unclear if the Record Club will tackle that song again.

As Rolling Stone previously reported, Beck’s Record Club — which has featured guests like MGMT, Devendra Banhart, Radiohead producer Nigel Godrich and actor/brother-in-law Giovanni Ribisi — has also covered the Velvet Underground & Nico’s self-titled album and Leonard Cohen’s Songs of Leonard Cohen. Although the albums are recorded in one day, Beck’s Record Club only unleashes one song per week on the singer’s official site, so keep an eye out for Oar’s “Cripple Creek” next week.

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