Strange Stories About Famous Bands

When you really love a rock band, you want to dig deep and learn everything there is to know about them: good times, the bad times...the really, really weird times. Well, here are some truly strange stories about some truly iconic bands. Hit it!

Van Halen are in a class all their own. Trained pianist and self-taught guitarist Eddie Van Halen reinvented the electric guitar, making the instrument mimic animal sounds and wailing away so fast you'd swear he was playing a stringed machine gun.

Meanwhile, on-again, off-again vocalist David Lee Roth was the ultimate showman…goofy, gaudy, and gleefully ridiculous. And what's more ridiculous than a rock band that demands concert promoters provide bowls of M&Ms backstage, but...

"ABSOLUTELY NO BROWN ONES."

That was a serious request, too. As David Lee Roth tells it, the concert rider explained exactly what would happen if band members found brown M&Ms backstage.

It sounds like a case of celebrity egos gone wild...but as Roth explained, the outlandish request was actually a precautionary measure. Van Halen concerts involved sophisticated lighting and stage directions, and if they weren't followed to the letter, it could lead to unsafe working conditions. Finding brown M&Ms was a telltale sign that promoters hadn't bothered reading the technical specifications in the concert rider. Pretty clever, eh?

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