Paul McCartney discusses trashing a hotel room at about 4:15 into this clip -
The Carpenters. But not really rock or roll.
He wasn’t exactly a choirboy during Queen’s heyday, but then again, he was a lot younger then.
Karen had that fatal eating disorder, and Richard was a prescription drug addict.
There was a long-standing rumor that Motley Crue performed a ritual sacrifice of a live baby at one of their shows. Oh, yeah, right, and they got away with it in front, what, 20,000 fans?
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Nigel Tufnel? Because, ya know… Keith Moon could be partying to the max, but Nigel could go all the way up to 11.
I came in to mention Lemmy. It’s not that he’s any more of a wild man than anyone else mentioned, but rather that it doesn’t seem to affect him at all.
Never heard that one, and I was a 80s hair metal queen.
Lemmy is dying.
I just thought of another “anti-rock star” - Tom Scholz of Boston. He has a master’s degree from MIT, and got that long before he ever founded Boston.
When I was a teenager, I saw an ad in a music magazine for a “Groupie News” magazine, and it had a picture of a man with his pants around his ankles and his bare fanny pointed at the camera, and Scholz’ head cut-and-pasted on it in a 1970s approximation of Photoshop that could have been done better by a 4th grader with a glue stick. 
It’s always possible that he was secretly a wild man in his time. I’ve heard for many years that back in the day, and maybe even to this day, two of the biggest poonhounds in rock are Rick Nielsen of Cheap Trick, and Huey Lewis.
That’s a bit of an exaggeration.
Can’t let this thread go by without mention of Syd Barrett.
Last night, while doing an unrelated search, I heard, for the first time, of a rapper called “Daylyt” whose onstage activities rival Allin’s.
I wonder how long he’ll live, KWIM?
My favourite Ozzy Osbourne anecdote is that after asking Nikki Sixx of Mötley Crüe for some cocaine, and being told there was none, he simply dropped down and snorted up a line of ants…
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Puh-leeze!
I had to deal with G.G. Allin a couple of times in a law enforcement capacity.
WOW! What a fucking asshole that guy was. :eek::mad:
It’s 33 years this year I’ve been on the job and he still ranks in the top 10 of the biggest jerks I’ve ever dealt with!
Stories please, even if you PM me.
Hell do a thread on the jerks even if you don’t identify them by name!
I’m currently reading Hellraisers by Robert Sellers. About the inebriated careers of Richard Burton, Oliver Reed, Richard Harris, and Peter O’Toole. Keith Moon and Oliver Reed were very close buddies and tore up many bars, restaurants, and hotel rooms together. Really kind of sad reading.
Same with me.
Moon the Loon?
So many people seem so certain he is the obvious choice.
But he made it to age 32. I would have to vote for someone who never made it out of their 20s and there are quite a few to choose from.
Janice, Hendrix, Jim Morrison are just three that come to mind.
Moon died from an overdose to Heminevrin (a prescription medication designed to combat alcohol addiction). I wouldn’t have thought it was possible to die from an overdose to that med, but I’m certainly no expert.
I guess there is no real way to come to a definitive answer. Everyone is entitled to their opinion and if it was a question of number of votes, I would certainly be on the losing end.
So, I will just salute all those people who have stated that Moon is the winner and go take my nightly medications. I’ll be careful not to take too much however.