Health and Safety Risks Taken by Musicians

[Satchmo Distel]

Excessive volume

Drink and drugs

Russian Roulette and messing about with guns

Small aircraft flight

Inadequate precautions with electricity

[Jah Womble]

Health and Safety Risks Taken by Musicians

Unhindered sexual promiscuity

Driving too fast and/or into swimming pools

Being careless with on-stage pyrotechnics

Getting into fights with sibling in band

Climbing unwieldy amp stacks at festivals

[Sits]

Health and Safety Risks Taken by Musicians

Smashing guitars. Think of those flying splinters.

[Jah Womble]

Health and Safety Risks Taken by Musicians

Buying your unhinged father a pistol for Christmas*.

(*Very specific, that one.)

Jah Womble wrote: Unhindered sexual promiscuity

I should add that this clearly includes 'getting punched into the middle of next week (or worse) by irate parent of groupie in question'.

[Satchmo Distel]

Health and Safety Risks Taken by Musicians

Robert Johnson was shot by an irate husband of one of his conquests IIRC

Drinking and driving - Was Gloria Jones ever held to be culpable for the crash that killed Bolan?

[caja-dglh]

Health and Safety Risks Taken by Musicians

Jumping off amp stacks.

[Snake Plissken]

Health and Safety Risks Taken by Musicians



The keyboard player is in the middle of that.

[Amor de Cosmos]

Health and Safety Risks Taken by Musicians

Forgetting you're several feet off the ground.

Take a bow Steven Tyler. On second thoughts better not

[Auntie Beryl]

Health and Safety Risks Taken by Musicians

Backstreet hair plugs for the ol' male pattern baldness.
Skiing into a tree...actually, Jah has this covered off quite well I think.

[evilC]

Health and Safety Risks Taken by Musicians

T. Raumschmiere - who doesn't seem to realise that water and electricity don't mix (judging by his performance at the Mute 'Short Circuit' festival at the Roundhouse).

(This is early on in the set, before he started pouring water all over himself ...and everything else in a 10ft radius. I'm just out of shot to the left.)

[Jon]

Health and Safety Risks Taken by Musicians

"Buying your unhinged father a pistol for Christmas*.

(*Very specific, that one.)"

Is this a Marvin Gaye reference? If so, I never knew that he'd bought his father the gun. Makes an already tragic story even more tragic.

[evilC]

Health and Safety Risks Taken by Musicians

caja-dglh wrote: Jumping off amp stacks.

I tried - and failed - to find a video of John Otway doing this ...and landing on his back, wrapped in microphone cable. That's gotta hurt! Funny as hell, though!

[Jah Womble]

Health and Safety Risks Taken by Musicians

Satchmo Distel wrote: Robert Johnson was shot by an irate husband of one of his conquests IIRC

Drinking and driving - Was Gloria Jones ever held to be culpable for the crash that killed Bolan?

Jones avoided trial because the Mini was deemed to have been 'inefficiently serviced' just a few weeks previously. (Somehow, the garage responsible was never charged with negligence, either.)

Viz Robert Johnson, he drank from a poisoned bottle of whisky that had been doctored by said husband - dying some three days later from its effects.

Jon wrote: "Buying your unhinged father a pistol for Christmas*.

(*Very specific, that one.)"
Is this a Marvin Gaye reference? If so, I never knew that he'd bought his father the gun. Makes an already tragic story even more tragic.

It is indeed Marvin and Marvin Sr - the latter shooting the star the day before his 45th birthday.

(Pretty sure I covered stack amps upthread, but what the hey...)

[MsD]

Health and Safety Risks Taken by Musicians

Swinging from chandeliers and jumping through windows, of course.

Iggy Pop smashed his front teeth stagediving onto nobody.

[Jah Womble]

Health and Safety Risks Taken by Musicians

Being Keith Moon.

[Satchmo Distel]

Health and Safety Risks Taken by Musicians

Having friends who would spike your drink with LSD, which happened to two Beatles and their wives in 1965. It shows the difference in times because I assume today that the spiker would be hauled off to jail.

Being friends with Keith Moon.

Shagging Charles Manson's cult members then promising to record his songs.

[elguapo4]

Health and Safety Risks Taken by Musicians

On the spiked LSD story, I remember hearing that Phil Lynott gave Geldof a line of heroin saying it was coke (10 years before pulp fiction ) and then tried to hit on Paula Yates while the hapless Boomtown Rat was puking in the jacks, and Phil always looked like such a nice guy!

[3 Colours Red]

Health and Safety Risks Taken by Musicians

Going to one of Freddie Mercury's parties.

[Snake Plissken]

Health and Safety Risks Taken by Musicians

Terrorvisions #1 "Tequila" was inspired by a session on said drink which ended up with Tony Wright jumping over a wall, not noticing that there was a six foot drop on the other side and breaking both ankles.

[Jon]

Health and Safety Risks Taken by Musicians

Staying in Harry Nilsson's flat. It did for the aforementioned Keith moon and also mama Cass.

[Toby Gymshorts]

Health and Safety Risks Taken by Musicians

Jumping in their Uncle's illegal sports car, encountering a gleaming alloy air-car two lanes wide (then another), racing towards a one-lane bridge and then falling asleep by a fire.

Irresponsible.

[San Bernardhinault]

Health and Safety Risks Taken by Musicians

Being 27 years old

[Nefertiti2]

Health and Safety Risks Taken by Musicians

,

[Satchmo Distel]

Health and Safety Risks Taken by Musicians

Choosing a musical career despite being acutely shy and suffering from stage fright.

Having a pushy mother who puts her daughter through hell in pursuit of fame.

[Crusoe]

Health and Safety Risks Taken by Musicians

Only wondering at the second cut.

Especially since the first one didn't hurt at all.

Could be leprosy.