MC Hammer's real name is I.L. Screw'er. His manager advised him to use a stage name instead.
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Let's spread some musical misinformation
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But then he changed that name from 'Pyramid Stage (Glastonbury)' to MC Hammer.
The guy who lived in the apartment under the one the band "The Who" used to practice in was named was Horton P. Jones. Mr. Jones hated the noise and every time the band started to play Jones would hit the ceiling with a broomstick and call the police. The police radio dispatcher would call out for a car to go and check it out using the official police code...Horton Hears a Who...
When his music career stalled he took up a building apprenticeship and eventually started up his own building company called 'MC Hammer and Nails'
These days most heavy metal drummers have wireless noise cancelling in ear monitors tuned to classic FM and wing it by watching the bass players foot tapping.
Except Lars Ulrich who is listening to books on tape. He listens only to books for which he has already seen the movie. He has been listening to The Da Vinci Code most recently.
I hear he has now become a blacksmith and goes at it MC Hammer and tongs. If someone comes in he points at the red hot items and says "You can't touch this".
And Sting would say "Wor, why-aye man, why didva call me, like?". This was before he had elocution lessons for Dune, of course.
I hear he has gotten into books on paper as well. He really likes the one about the dog named Spot. Spot has a ball. A big ball. A big red ball.
Neil Peart was trying to coach him and felt he could probably reach the standard to read the classic Greek philosophers in translation by 2113.
(Peart read them in the original Greek, of course)
Peart translated them into Aramaic.
I was told he transcribed it into HihatTomtomKickDrumCymbal-language.
From Aramaic. Thus he need to translate.
Cool!
Good to know...I just bought my first drum set in June!
The unfairly maligned Lars is actually just superstitious. He always called on his old Gentofte mate Phïl to record his audiobooks for him at a pace matching the music he was meant to be keeping time to. This worked well with the classic short stories of Villy Sørensen but Phïl stumbled over Dan Brown's American English. Even though Phïl sadly passed away and the quality of the readings are dubious, superstitious Lars always has his road tech lay out his old friend's tapes in a certain order (irrespective of the set list) and his battered old Sennheiser's on the floor tom before each gig.
Amongst the crew and band members (and a select few with an ear for timekeeping) this is known as Lars Ulrich's Late Phïl Routine.
BASS actually stands for 'Beats All Six Strings'
