So...where did the idea for a Nirvana/Judas Priest /kazoo medley come from? In fact, Kevin O’ Herman had worked with Rob Halford in London in the late 70s as a steel worker. After work, the two would get pissed at local pubs and make fun of the the up and coming punk bands that were trying to change the world. Legend has it that Kevin once told Joe Strummer of the Clash to get a real job. Within a week Strummer had penned Career Opportunities and would often spit on Kevin and Rob when he saw them around town.
When Halford realized how much he enjoyed pissing off local punks, he suggested to Kevin that the two start a heavy metal band. Kevin politely declined. Kevin had promised himself he’d never be in a band with a bald guy. Anyhow, soon after Kevin’s rejection, Judas Priest was writing songs and Kevin was on a plane headed for America, specifically, Salem, Oregon. It seems Kevin had recently become fascinated with a certain nurse in the movie "One Flew Over the Cuckoo’s Nest" and decided to move to Salem and seek her out.
While Kevin was searching for the woman of his dreams, P.D. Herman was going to high school in Aberdeen, Washington. There, he had become known as the "School Stench." It seems P.D. didn’t have access to a shower (he lived on various Aberdeen couches-but for some reason nobody would let him use their shower). One morning he woke up and on the couch next to him was Kurt Cobain. Much to P.D.’s surprise, Kurt thought something smelled good. The two hit it off and almost started a band together. It seems they couldn’t agree on who would get to be the neurotic, drug-addicted singer/songwriter, so the two eventually parted ways peacefully. Legend has it that, before the split, the two took a Greyhound bus to the I-5 freeway, and then hitchhiked in opposite directions. Needless to say, Kurt ended up slumming it in downtown Seattle, and P.D. ended up being dropped off at the State Mental Hospital in Salem, Oregon.
Sure enough, right about when P.D. was arriving at the hospital, Kevin was finding out first hand that the nurse did not exist. As Kevin became irate with a hospital security guard, P.D. ran over to see what all the racket was about. When the guard smelled P.D., he assumed that he had escaped the hospital and immediately called for back-up. After a short scuffle, security put the two in white coats and institutionalized them for what seemed like an eternity.
While the two were there, they worked together to write Mumbling About Mars, Revenge of the Blue Blob...
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