Scott Weiland Quotes

Dead fish don't swim around in jealous tides.

Scott Weiland

FACT YOU want to know.....

His idol and biggest influence is Jim Morrison. 

Was the front man for the hard rock band Velvet Revolver. [2003-2008]

Avid Lakers Fan

Was the quarterback for his high school football team.

Wants to pursue an acting career

Good friends with grunge artist Jason Corkum.

In a Music Choice interview, he claimed he would be surfing more had he not been so busy in the music industry. 

Ranked #91 on VH1`s 100 Sexiest Artists. 

Axl Rose Quotes

Sometimes your friends are your lovers, or have been at one time.

FACT YOU want to know.....

Dr. Dre and Axl Rose might actually have been cut from the same artistic cloth.

Axl: I had a hard time laying off the booze, man. I needed the alcohol and the drugs to escape my reality, and when I figured that it was time to wake up, I went straight to rehab....it was the only way. 

Axl Rose: I don`t think everybody should be worshiping me `cause I was around before them. 

He had a fight with Kurt Cobain and Courtney Love in the MTV Music Awards (1992).

His biggest influences are Robert Plant (Led Zeppelin), Freddie Mercury (Queen), Elton John and Steven Tyler (Aerosmith).

Axl grew up listening to Elvis and Jimmy Swaggart records.

Axl started singing in church at age five, and later even taught Sunday school!

The initials of his name spells WAR. Acording to him, is purely accidental.

His first band was A.X.L.

Legally changed his name to W. Axl Rose in 1986. The `W` is legal, not an abbreviation, and was chosen because Rose did not wish to share the name William with his biological father.

Bruce Dickinson Quote

"Best two rock voices I've heard in a last few years both have been from grunge bands: it's Eddie Vedder and the other one is Chris Cornell from Soundgarden."

Bruce Dickinson

FACT YOU want to know

His full name is Paul Bruce Dickinson. He originally went by Bruce Bruce (named after a Monty Python sketch).

He originally planned to become a drummer, quipping: "I want to be Ian Pace's left foot." He once stole congas from his school to practice. As soon as he learned of his singing abilities (about 1976), he joined the band Styx, who were named after the river of Hell according to Greek mythology (This was not the same Styx that was popular in America).

Along with Dee Snider, he joined Jon Bon Jovi on stage when he headlined at Donnington Park. He was wearing Union Jack shorts and didn't know the lyrics to the song Jon was performing. Subsequently, he walked around the stage singing while reading of a lyrics sheet.

He was listening to the Beatles at age five.

Anthony Kiedis Quote

"I think art is inherently nonviolent and it actually occupies your mind with creation rather than destruction."

Anthony Kiedis  is best known as the lead vocalist of the Rock Funk band Red Hot Chili Peppers. his musical inflluences are Defunkt, Sly Stone, Stevie Wonder, Iggy Pop, Lou Reed, Bob Marley, Jimi Hendrix, and Led Zeppelin

Shares a birthday with Rick Allen, the one-armed drummer from Def Leppard.

Shares a birthday with Rick Allen, the one-armed drummer from Def Leppard.

The song "Transcending" on The Red Hot Chili Peppers album "One Hot Minute" is dedicated to River Phoenix.

Broke his back when he was 16 when misjudging a jump from a rooftop into a pool.

Practices yoga.

Anthony met the Dalai Lama during a trip in India at the end of 1996.

Is a vegetarian.

Ozzy Osbourne Quote

"I am a raging alcoholic and a raging addict and I didn't want to see my kids do the same thing"

Ozzy Osbourne 

John Michael "Ozzy" Osbourne  is a heavy metal lead singer of the pioneering  band Black Sabbath, Due to Sabbath's dark style, Osbourne became known as the "Prince of Darkness"and also known as the "Godfather of Heavy Metal".

FACT YOU want to know...

Ozzy Osbourne`s varied occupations before success came included slaughterman, bricklayer, laborer, factory worker, car-horn tuner and burglar.

When he started out in music, the demand for rock singers in his hometown of Birmingham was so strong that anyone with their own microphone and PA amplifier could get a paying gig. Osbourne's father paid for the equipment, to spare him having to work a menial job after his failures in school.

His nickname "Ozzy" was actually a name that schoomates taunted him with as a child/teen.

Is a Vegatarian.

His favorite band is The Beatles, who inspired him to become a musician when Beatlemania spread worldwide.

Angus Young Quote

"I just go where the guitar takes me."

Angus Young

Is a guitarist best known as a co-founder, lead guitarist, and songwriter of the Legendary hard rock band, AC/DC. Known for his schoolboy-uniform stage outfits, and his popularization of Chuck's duckwalk, before settling on his signature schoolboy look  he tried a number of stage costumes, such as Spider-Man, Zorro, a gorilla, and a parody of Superman, named Super-Angus

He started playing on banjos but re-strung them with six strings. His influences to include his brother Malcolm Young, Chuck Berry and Freddie King, while playing licks relating to Jimi Hendrix, John Lee Hooker and The Kinks.

FACT YOU want to know...

Angus was a typesetter as previous jobs

Voted Scotland`s greatest guitarist in the Total Guitar Magazine poll of the best 12 British guitarists. [July 2001] 

Does not drink any alcoholic beverages.

Dimebag Darrell Quote

"When I tried to play something and screwed up, I'd hear some other note that would come into play. Then I started trying different things to find the beauty in it."

Darrell Lance Abbott 

(August 20, 1966 – December 8, 2004)

He was best known as a founding member of the heavy metal bands Pantera and Damageplan. Abbott also contributed to the album Rebel Meets Rebel, a collaboration between Pantera and David Allan Coe. He started to play guitar when he was 12, and his first guitar was a Hondo Les Paul. He won a series of local guitar contest mostly held at Dallas.He was invited by Dave Mustaine to join thrash band Megadeth. Abbott was willing to join, but on the condition that Mustaine also hired his brother Vinnie on drums. As Mustaine had already hired drummer Nick Menza, He stayed with Pantera.

He once said in an Interview that if there were no Ace Frehley, there would have been no "Dimebag"

FACT YOU want to know......

At first Darrell wanted to play drums however discovering that he wasn't as good as his brother, he decided to play the guitar.

Nickelback's song "Side of a Bullet" features lyrics dedicated to Darrell and one of solos.

Dimebag was the lead guitarist in the bands Pantera, Damageplan, and Rebel Meets Rebel.

He competed against guitar players who had been 

playing the guitar longer but his skills surpased theirs.

Among Darrell's influences were KISS, Judas Priest, Iron Maiden, Randy Rhoads, Eddie Van Halen, Ace Frehley, and Pat Travers.

Darrell has a tattoo of Kiss guitarist, Ace Frehley on his chest.

Darrell was willing to join, the pre-Rust in Peace Megadeth by Dave Mustaine but insisted on Mustaine also hiring his brother Vinnie. Darrell turned down his offer because he couldn't hire Vinnie.

Darrell is known as the "5th member" of the band Anthrax, for his collaborations in many songs.

Dimebag is son of country songwriter Jerry Abbott.

About Cemetery Gates Darrell: We've always done a bunch of musically diverse things. We were just showing a broader side of the band, the more melodic stuff we do.

EDDIE VAN HALEN BURIED HIS ’79 BLACK & YELLOW GUITAR WITH DIMEBAG DARRELL