#288: Lick It Up
As a kid back in the 1500s I remember reading how bands were formed. I remember reading how John Paul Jones phoned Jimmy Page and asked him if he was forming a band, and if so, did he need a bass player? Page said, sure, and mentioned how he was checking out a drummer and singer that weekend and would get back to him. A rehearsal was set up and Led Zeppelin was formed. Everyone got rich, famous and laid. Queen simply formed itself; Kiss placed an ad in the Village Voice and got Ace Frehley as a result. The Beatles were drawn together and bonded over a steady diet of violence, music, alcohol and drugs in Hamburg (where John Lennon would regularly berate his German audience, calling them “Fucking Nazis,” and Heiling Hitler from the stage during shows). Bands were shored up on a foundation of mutual respect, if not outright friendship, the latter wasn’t always a requirement – as David Lee Roth once wrote about his fractious relationship with Ed
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