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The detours was the original name of which band

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Well while there is much speculation, it has recently been discussed at the offical Weezer message board, that Rivers Cuomo weezer's front man had a dream of a man with a flaming pie, the man with the pie was from outer space. Weezer frontman had bad athsma when he was a kid Rivers himself has openly admitted that this is not what Weezer are named after. It's popular misconception that Weezer are named after River's supposed asthma. Mickey Melchiondo and Aaron Freeman (the real names of Dean and Gene Ween respectively) decided that "any self-respecting members of a band should share the same surname" (in homage to the Ramones.) So, they picked out the name Ween and chose new first names to fit along with it. The name is a mix of the 2 words: Weiner and Penis. On top of the Ramones-same-last-name thing, I read that Ween was a mix of the words "wuss" and "peen" (short for penis) The rest of the group always thought it was funny, so that's what they named the band. Since he is left with only a nub, he calls it a Ween. I have read that the lead singer was in an accident when he was younger, and his weiner got cut off. The band is named after the song by The Undertones. It was a reaction to some 2004 anti-gay legislation that Bush proposed. The band's tag line is appropriately "Let Go." One night at practice, Eric Coiner (the bass player) quoted a line from that scene and it stuck. Wedge was one of the few pilots to survive the death star battle. The name came from a Star Wars character - Wedge Antilles. The missing vowels were "taken" by the bassist in 1983 and never returned. Was, not was.Īs a spigot made of wicker would not function by design, the band views itself similarly in relation to music. The Was brothers' family name is pronounced "wAHs" not like the word "was." Everyone kept mispronouncing their names. They took the name out of Bowie's song because they admired his music so much. Warsaw was the first name Ian Curtis' band, Joy Division. So as an homage to him, he named the the band Warrant. It is rumored that the guitar player (Eric) in the band was a huge fan of RATT and more so of their Lead guitar player Warren DeMartini. However, it is worth noting that the band is in fact from Kent in southeast England. Supposedly, named after Wang Chung Way, a tiny street in LA's Chinatown, where there was a Chinese restaurant which put on punk shows upstairs. I don't believe it is Chinese for "perfect pitch" as some have claimed. The sound a guitar makes when you strike a string. Named after the Indonesian slang term for a lug wrench (onomatopoetic phrase that describes the sound of a dropped lug wrench). I saw an interview with the band where they said the name referred to the sound of an electric guitar being strummed up, then back down. however, jakob's said that's incorrect and that it's all in the dinner theory. the photographer made a comment saying how they looked like a bunch of wallflowers. another popular theory around is that while the guys were at a photoshoot, they were pretty shy, standing off to the side. he said it was hard enough for 5 people to decide what to order, let alone choose a name that they'd have for the rest of the band's career. it was basically the only name that nobody hated. Jakob posted on the band' site saying that they came up with "the wallflowers" after sitting around the dinner table. Don't just stand there like Wallflowers." He said something along the lines of "Do Something. The name owes it's origin to a comment made by a photographer, while having a picture of the band taken.

THE DETOURS WAS THE ORIGINAL NAME OF WHICH BAND SERIES

The name comes from a traditional song on Bob Dylan's Bootleg Series compilation. It was the only thing written on a white board in the room where they first rehearsed. Originally this was the working title of an instrumental song but soon became the band name. But when asked directly the only answer is "We Ain't Sure, Pal". We Are Sexual Perverts is inscribed around the self titled LP album. We Are Sexual Perverts is inscribed around the label on their self titled debut LP. W.A.S.P simply are short for We Are Satans People. Read in an interview, the members were bored and said the name sounded cool

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Today we remember the passing of Jani Lane who Died: August 11, 2011 in Woodland Hills, California

Jani Lane (born John Kennedy Oswald; February 1, 1964 – August 11, 2011) was an American recording artist and the lead vocalist, frontman, lyricist and main songwriter for the glam metal band Warrant. From Hollywood, California, the band experienced success from 1989 to 1996 with five albums reaching international sales of over 10 million. Lane left Warrant in 2004 and again in 2008 after a brief reunion. Lane also released a solo album, Back Down to One, in 2003, and the album Love the Sin, Hate the Sinner with a new group, Saints of the Underground, in 2008. Lane contributed lead vocals and songwriting to various projects throughout his career.

Lane was born John Kennedy Oswald (later changed to John Patrick Oswald), on February 1, 1964 in Akron, Ohio to Robert and Eileen Oswald. He was raised in Brimfield with four older siblings: sisters Marcine Williams, Michelle Robinson and Victoria Ley, plus older brother Eric, already an accomplished guitarist. With sisters Micki and Vicky and brother Eric harmonizing and playing guitar, Lane taught himself to play drums, guitar and piano by ear by age five. He grew up listening to Cleveland rock station WMMS (100.7 FM "The Buzzard") and was introduced to a variety of music by his older siblings.

With connections from siblings Eric and Vicky in and around the music scene (and with his parents' help), Lane made a name for himself at a very young age. He played drums under the pseudonym "Mitch Dynamite" in clubs by age 11 and with a local band "Pokerface." By that time, his siblings had left for college or marriage, although Vicky was still active in the entertainment industry in northeast Ohio and southwest Florida. Due to Vicky's numerous connections, Lane was able to network with industry execs in pursuit of his dream. Lane graduated from Field High School, in Mogadore, Ohio, a nearby city to Brimfield in 1982.

Lane is credited as the vocalist/drummer on Warrant's Latest and Greatest CD. Throughout his career, Lane would sometimes play drums/acoustic guitar and piano with his band and played the drums in various formats and gigs with other musicians.

After high school, Lane joined the band Cyren, featuring vocalist Skip Hammonds, guitarist John Weakland, bassist Don Hoover (and later Rusty Fohner) with Lane on drums and vocals. Many of Cyren's shows opened for a popular local band called Risque'. When their bassist, Al Collins, noticed Lane's vocal talents, he convinced Lane to form a new band they eventually called Dorian Gray. The new band also included Steven Chamberlin on drums and Dave Chamberlin on lead guitar. Dorian Gray was designed to have Lane as the lead vocalist and to perform original material, but Lane wasn't ready to be the lead singer and quickly returned to the drum kit. Billy Denmead was hired as lead vocalist and rhythm guitarist. After only a few shows, Collins left the band, vowing to put a band together when Lane was ready to be a lead vocalist.

Lane moved to Florida in 1983 with Dorian Gray. He eventually formed Plain Jane with Collins and Chamberlin, adopting the stage name "Jani Lane" (Chamberlin would also soon rechristen himself Steven Sweet). He took the name "Jani" from his German grandparents, who spelled his name "Jani" and pronounced it "Yay-nee."

Lane began vocal training with vocal coach/trainer Ron Feldmann, who introduced him to Creative Engineering, Inc. in Orlando. Lane worked there as a programmer of the animatronic character Dook LaRue, the drummer for The Rock-afire Explosion. His vocal debut was at The Station in Fern Park, Florida.

Lane, Collins, and Chamberlin recorded the first Plain Jane four-track demos at their rented house in Winter Park, Florida. Although reluctant to leave Florida, they rented a trailer in the spring of 1984 and moved to California with hopes of landing a record deal. They were broke by the time they landed at the Hollywood Bowl Motel and resorted to making sandwiches with mustard packets while taking turns calling their parents for cash.

Struggling to make ends meet as a musician, Lane resorted to working in a pornographic video warehouse. The band, along with a new road crew and a few girlfriends, pooled their wages and lived in a two-bedroom condominium rented by new Plain Jane guitarist Paul Noble. At one time there were 13 people living in the crowded space.

By 1985, Plain Jane had become a regular feature on the Los Angeles club circuit and opened many shows for a band called Warrant. Plain Jane's bassist and guitarist both left the band on the same day Warrant's singer and drummer quit. Erik Turner, who had founded Warrant in July 1984, was impressed by Plain Jane's songwriting and vocal performance and invited Lane and Sweet to jam with his band at Hollywood's db Sound in September 1986.

After generating notoriety on the club circuit, Warrant began to attract the attention of record labels. Following an abortive deal with A&M Records over a contribution to the soundtrack for the motion picture Bill & Ted's Excellent Adventure, the band signed with Columbia Records. The Columbia deal came via the partnering of Warrant and manager Tom Hulett, known for working with The Beach Boys, Elvis Presley, The Moody Blues and others. Hulett became Lane's mentor and friend until Hulett's death from cancer in 1993.

As lead vocalist with Warrant, Lane wrote all of the material for the band's 1989 debut double platinum album, Dirty Rotten Filthy Stinking Rich, including four Top 40 hit singles: "Down Boys", "Sometimes She Cries", "Big Talk" and the No. 2 Billboard Hot 100 hit "Heaven." The album peaked at no. 10 on The Billboard 200. Lane also wrote four Top 40 hit singles ("Cherry Pie," "I Saw Red," "Uncle Tom's Cabin" and "Blind Faith") for the second album, the 1990 double platinum Cherry Pie, which peaked at no. 7 on the Billboard 200. Lane also co-wrote and performed with Warrant the song "The Power" in the 1992 movie Gladiator. In 1992, Warrant released Dog Eat Dog, their gold third album, which peaked at no. 25 on the Billboard 200.

Lane left Warrant in March 1993 to pursue a solo career. He returned six months later, helping the band secure a new record with Tom Lipsky of CMC International. Warrant recorded Ultraphobic in 1995, Belly to Belly in 1996, Greatest & Latest in 1999 and a cover album, Under the Influence, in 2001.

Due to personal and business disagreements, Lane left Warrant again in 2004. In January 2008, the band's agent, The William Morris Agency, issued a new photograph of the band with Lane prominently featured, confirming his return to the band. It was the first time that all original members had been in the band since 1993. The band's first show with all original members was in May 2008 in Nashville, Tennessee. Warrant performed a series of shows during the summer of 2008, but by September, the band and Lane agreed to move forward separately due to "too much water under the bridge." Warrant and Lane both continued to perform Lane's compositions live and Lane continued to write for himself and other artists.

Lane became involved in acting in the early 1990s. He made a brief appearance in Caged Fear and appeared in High Strung in 1991.

In 1993, Lane started working on his first solo project. Titled "Jabberwocky," the album represented a significant musical departure from previous work. Between 1997 and 2000, demos of Lane's solo material began surfacing on the Internet, with some bids on eBay reaching an estimated $100 per copy. In 2002, Lane decided to postpone the "Jabberwocky" project and released a new project as his debut solo album. The "Jabberwocky" project remained unreleased.

Lane's official debut solo album, Back Down to One, was released on June 17, 2003 through Z Records and in the U.S. in 2006 on Immortal/Sidewinder Records. It carried a "power pop" sound more closely aligned with the sound of Warrant than "Jabberwocky." Shortly after the album's release, Lane was admitted to a rehabilitation center for alcohol and drug-related exhaustion.

In the fall of 2004, Lane contributed lead vocals for the first ever theme song to a novel, Billy McCarthy's "The Devil of Shakespeare," along with James Young from Styx, Ron Flynt of 20/20 and Chip Z'Nuff of Enuff Z'Nuff.

Lane contributed vocals on the track "Bastille Day" and "2112 Overture/Temples of Syrinx" for the Magna Carta 2005 Rush tribute album "Subdivisions."

Lane had success with the "VH1 Classic Metal Mania: Stripped" discs, where the acoustic version of "I Saw Red" was included on disc 1, a new acoustic swinging version of "Cherry Pie" featured on disc 2, and a new acoustic version of "Heaven" featured on disc 3.

In 2005, Lane became a fan favorite on the popular VH1 series Celebrity Fit Club 2. His problems with alcohol were highlighted and many viewers supported his efforts at recovery.

With the reissue and U.S. release of "Back Down to One" in 2006, Lane attempted to restart his version of Warrant. Although "Back Down to One" was credited as a solo release, Lane assembled a new touring band called "Jani Lane's Warrant." The band's first shows in Michigan were stopped by legal action from former bandmates objecting to his use of the Warrant logo on his posters. Lane subsequently continued touring without the Warrant name and logo.

Lane lent his vocals to numerous tribute CDs during the 2000s. In 2007, he released a solo cover album titled "Photograph," featuring a collection of his tribute contributions.

Keri Kelli and Lane wrote a song for Alice Cooper titled "The One That Got Away." It was recorded by Cooper on his 2008 record Along Came a Spider. Lane also finished work on a side project, Saints of the Underground, which included Kelli and Bobby Blotzer and Robbie Crane, (both from Ratt). Their album, Love the Sin, Hate the Sinner, was released on April 22, 2008 by Warrior Records, and was mixed by producer/engineer Andy Johns, who'd worked with The Rolling Stones and Led Zeppelin. The album featured additional bass work by Chuck Wright (Quiet Riot, House of Lords). The band was originally called "Angel City Outlaws" when they posted their first two promo singles, "Bruised" and "Exit."

In summer 2010, Lane toured with Great White, filling in for singer Jack Russell, who was recuperating from surgery after suffering internal complications.

On August 11, 2011, the Los Angeles Police Department and local news stations announced that Lane was found dead of acute alcohol poisoning at a Comfort Inn hotel in Woodland Hills, California at the age of 47. Lane was pronounced dead by fire department personnel who responded to a call shortly before 5:30 p.m.

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"More Than One Way to Get to Hell" -- 1986

"Tansy, come on, now we don't have all damn day to get this finished." Diane calls from the other side of the door while I'm grasping Tansy's shaking hand while she adds finishing sprays of hairspray to her curls.

"Tansy," I start.

"C-Can you hand me my purse?" She asks me softly and I nod, handing the little black purse to her.

She pulls an unlabeled bottle out, opening the lid and pouring two pills into her palm.

"Tansy--"

"--I overdid it on coke earlier, Viv, if I don't calm my shit I'm gonna embarrass myself on national television."

"Tansy!" Her mom barks.

She takes the pills and swallows them down with her juice, standing up and walking to her dressing room door.

"Thank fuck, come on." Her mom tugs at her arm to take her to the sound tech and he hooks her up to her mic.

"Mama, I'm nervous." She takes harbored breaths.

"No need to be nervous, Tansy. You're just interacting with a man in front of a camera. Let's not pretend you don't do the same thing every night." She mumbles to her and I glare at her mother, horrified.

"I feel like I'm gonna puke." Tansy says next.

"No, no, look at me." Diane looks her in the eyes. "You are not going to screw this up. You are going to go out there and get more exposure to get more people talking about you, to get more offers, to get more money. We do what has to be done to get what we want, and what we have to do isn't always what we want to do, but--"

"--But it has to be done." Tansy finishes for her, defeated.

"Exactly." She says to Tansy, fixing her smudged lipstick. "You already embarrass me on a daily basis, Tansalyn, and you will not embarrass me today. Not over this." She demands.

"Our first guest is a well-known model to men, and some women, here in America. In a span of just four years she has appeared in 56 issues of Playboy and counting, declared the magazine's most consistent model, was very recently announced as 'Playmate of the Year: Miss 1985,' and was the muse for the 1983 Def Leppard hit, 'Photograph.' With no sign of slowing down anytime soon--not that any of us want her to--please, give a very warm welcome to the very beautiful, Tansy Lyn."

Tansy takes a heavy breath inward, and I give her a smile.

"You got this, go." I assure her and she nods, holding back tears, seemingly programming her mind into autopilot, a scarily convincing, beaming smile on her face as she steps out, waving at the audience.

I watch her on the monitor, and my heart breaks.

She deserves an Oscar.

Diane watches, too, evaluating her in her mind.

"How are you?" David asks Tansy, kissing her cheek before the two sit down.

"I'm good." Tansy replies, crossing one leg over the other. "Hi, everyone." She waves again to the crowd and they whistle and cheer.

"Now, when they told me you'd be on, um, I did some fact checking, as one does for an interview," he starts.

"Okay." She replies.

"And I want to get the record straight on your name, because I've heard Tansy Lyn, and I've heard Tansalyn, which the second option is just a mouthful so…"

"Well, my nickname is Tansy and originally my name was supposed to be Tansy and my middle name was supposed to be Lyn."

"Don't you dare." Her mother sneers quietly to the monitor.

"But my dad had been drinking a little bit when my mom's water broke and so when it came to naming me, they had decided on Tansy Lyn Reilen, but my mom was in recovery, resting, and my dad couldn't write very well because he was drunk and so he asked a nurse for help and she asked him what my name was going to be so she could write it in herself, and he said 'Tansy Lyn,' little did he realizing he was slurring. So my legal name is Tansalyn."

"Oh, my God." Diane squeezes her eyes shut.

"And you reworked it to Tansy Lyn."

"Yes."

He tries not to laugh, but the audience doesn't hold back, not that she minds at all.

"Wow, well, Tansalyn, I know you're busy and so the fact you were able to be here really means a lot, so thank you, again, for being here. Although I'm not so sure it was too far out of the way for you."

"No, no, not at all." She assures him.

"Because you live here, don't you?" He asks. "Or are you back in L.A.?"

"I mainly live here, and then I go back home often to visit and stuff if I don't have work." She explains.

"And you work a lot." He states.

"Not that much but--"

She quits talking when he raises his brows, making the audience laugh.

"You don't work that much? Are you kidding me?" He leans down and grabs a magazine, holding it up on the desk for the camera and crowd to see. "This is you in your first issue of Playboy." He tells her, flipping through it to find her picture.

"Oh, Lord." She groans before he shows the audience. "Can you do that?!" She asks next, as her naked body is on display, but the monitor shows her bare chest blurred out.

"Now, this was October of '83, and how old were you when this was taken?"

"Just turned 18." She explains, her face turning slightly red under her makeup.

"18, and since then," he starts piling on more and more magazines and men throughout the crowd yell and clap and whistle, Tansy tightly closing her eyes and chuckling nervously, "you've gotten Miss July of '85." He puts that issue aside, before grabbing a final one from the top of the tower of Playboys. "And this is the more recent one, your shoot for 'Miss 1985'." He says next, grabbing several magazines at once and putting them back behind his desk before sitting down and holding it up to show her on the cover. "Absolutely beautiful." He comments.

"They edit and airbrush and everything but thank you anyways." She exhales, rubbing her lips together.

"Well, we don't have editing and airbrush and everything in person and I'm telling you, you are a very pretty woman." He assures her and she smiles.

"Thank you." She replies.

"So, you started only four and half-ish years ago, and you've been in every issue since then?" He asks and she nods.

"Yes. Some form or fashion I've been in every one."

"But you don't work a lot." He reminds her what she said earlier, sarcastically.

"I meant no model works a regular 9 to 5." She clarifies.

"Got it, got it." He puts the magazine down. "It couldn't be like a 9 to 5 because when else would you all find the time to go out and party with rockstars?"

"Not all of us party with rockstars." I assure him.

"So this isn't you?" He holds up a picture with Tansy, Robin Crosby, Nikki, and Jon Bon Jovi.

"I didn't say I didn't party with them, I said not all models do." She explains while he and the audience chuckles.

"Now, I know, I think, this fella is Jovi." David points to Jon and she nods. "The rest my mind blanks on."

"Jon, who's obviously sings for Bon Jovi, and then Robbin Crosby, he plays guitar for Ratt, and then Nikki Sixx, who plays bass for--"

"--The Church of Satan's worship team." David cuts her short and she laughs, along with the audience.

"No, no. No." She states. "Mötley Crüe."

"Ah, tomato, tomoto." He shrugs and she shakes her head a little.

"What was happening here?" He asks, referring to the photo and the camera zooms in on it.

"I think, honestly, Nikki paid rent on time for once and just invited a bunch of people over to celebrate it." She explains.

"So, there doesn't need to be a reason to drink and party and 'what not' when you're a rockstar."

"Not really, no."

"When do these guys have time to write songs, then?"

"I've seen them buckle down and get to work when they need to."

"Really?"

"Yeah."

"And you buckle down, too, obviously."

"Well, I--"

"--I want to know what your boyfriend thinks of all of this." He says next and she raises her brows.

"Oh, he loves it." She tells him.

"I bet he does."

"No, really, he does, he's very proud." She continues.

"He isn't jealous or anything like that?"

"To an extent but he understands that this is my job and I've always wanted to do it since I was a little girl and so he supports me completely." She nervously scratches at the back of her neck with her freshly done nails.

"You've always wanted to model nude since you were little?" Letterman asks for clarification and she looks slightly stumped by the question, opening her mouth to speak, but nothing coming out.

"Speak, Tansy, damnit." Her mom whispers to herself.

Tansy starts laughing off her shock.

"Modeling in general." She tells him.

"Oh, oh, good." He grins. "So, your mother is here with you, Diane."

"Yes."

"She's so lovely." He says and she smiles.

"Thank you, she is. I love her to death."

"She seems very...um…focused." He adds.

"Very much. She keeps me in check, she always has."

"Oh, I bet. Were you ever in sports or anything like that?"

"I cheered in high school, and did competitive cheer-nastics, and competed in beauty pageants--not that that's a sport but just to give you an idea of where she learned to keep her thumb on me to keep me in line."

"That's where I was getting at because she very much seems like the type to keep your eyes on the prize."

"Oh, yes."

"What does she think of your career as of now?"

"She's my manager so I don't think she has any qualms with what I do because if she did she wouldn't be as involved." She shifts her legs.

That was an understatement.

I realized over years of witnessing her mother contribute to the toxic shitshow starring Tansy as the lead, that I didn't quite know Tansy's mom as well as I had thought.

I'd later find out things such as this…

"Competition is in two weeks and you call that a front tuck? Tansy, I've seen drag queens do better than that."

...And this…

"You being first runner up in a pageant full of sand lizards and beached whales is the reason your father drowned in his own vomit."

"I was five when he died, mom."

"And eleven years later you're still proving you aren't worth the money I spend to make you a winner."

…Also…

"He knocked that slut Tami up, didn't he?"

"I don't want to talk about it, Mama."

"Just say 'yes' or 'no' so I can know whether I won my bet on it or not."

...And...

"I slept with your ex-boyfriend, Tansy, big deal."

"He was the love of my life, Mama, what the hell were you thinking?!"

"Oh, Jesus, he was with you for two years, Tansy, get over yourself. It's not like it would have lasted to begin with."

"Seriously?!"

"You would've eventually found out I was giving him blowjobs when he'd come over to see you, anyway, because if I didn't do it, it wouldn't have gotten done right. Now wipe those damn crocodile tears."

…Last but not least…

"I wouldn't stay with a man who let his friends abuse me, you know. I don't know why you're too weak to just leave him."

"Because he said it's not gonna happen again, mom. Just drop i--ow! What the hell?!"

"I told you last time I slapped the piss out of you it wouldn't happen again. Just because he says it doesn't mean a thing…ugh, and quit wearing so much goddamn makeup. I'm tired of my palm being covered in gunk every time. And quit crying. You can pose with your pussy out but God forbid you handle a little corporal punishment."

Tansy's rehab therapist had her work cut out for her...for sure.

"And your dad?" David questions next.

"He passed when I was five, so…"

"...I'm sorry to hear that."

"No, don't be. I'm sure he's proud of me. I know that might be hard to believe for some dads, like, your daughter being in Playboy, but he'd always told me I could always do whatever it was I wanted to do with my dreams and even if he's not proud of what I'm doing, he's definitely proud of me going after and achieving what it was that I wanted."

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FROM snorting ants with Ozzy Osbourne to that very graphic opening sex scene, Motley Crue's rock biopic The Dirt has left viewers shocked since its release last week. But real life with Motley Crue was "even more debauched" than the Netflix movie, according to their former limo driver Al Bowman. AL BOWMAN 14 Tommy Lee partying in Al's limo in around 1985 In an exclusive interview with Sun Online, Al Bowman, now 60, revealed how he would be tasked with finding the 80s rockers "virgin groupies", driving them back and forth to drug dealers - and even dropping them at strange Satanic ceremonies. He recalls doing countless "condom clean ups" in the back of his limo - and how drummer Tommy Lee would almost tip his car over with rampant sex sessions. "I enjoyed the movie but there was much more debauchery in real life," Al, who now lives in Henderson, Nevada, said. "I mean some of the sexual stuff they used to get up to was kind of disgusting but I guess there's only so much you can fit into 90 minutes. "I drove them for about five years, I became like a fifth member of the band. "I would take them to buy drugs, to pick up girls, to rescue them when they had partied too hard - they'd call me at all hours. "They called me 'Al the rock-n-roll limo man.'" Al, who has driven a host of other stars including Prince, Whitney Houston and Madonna, says all the band members would have sex with girls in the back of his limo - but he particularly remembers drummer Tommy Lee's in-car romps. He says the star was so well endowed that when he had sex with women in the back of his limo, the car "would almost tip over" when they stopped at red lights - while the girls would be "squealing with pleasure". ATLAS ICONS 14 Al (centre) with Motley Crue in a photo taken by legendary rock photographer Neil Zlozower MIKE STOTTS FOR SUN ONLINE 14 Al next to his platinum Motley Crue's Dr Feelgood record at his home in Henderson, Nevada AL BOWMAN 14 Vince Neil with first wife, Beth, in Al's limo in late 1984. AL BOWMAN 14 Mick Mars partying and drinking champagne with then-wife Wendy in the limo Play Video Ozzy Osbourne licks a puddle of his own urine in front of the band in Netflix's The Dirt "Tommy Lee has the biggest weiner I've ever seen on a man and he used to make the girls squeal in the limo," he said. "Because he was so big he just seemed to rock the limo more than anyone else - it was like it was going to tip over. "You couldn't tell when we were moving but when we stopped at a red light the limo would actually be moving back and forth and I would be thinking, 'Please turn green - everyone is looking'. "They'd all get high on coke and booze and screw - Tommy loved to f**k girls in the limo. "Sometimes he'd get himself into trouble - I remember one time when he was in a relationship with a girl called Candace but he'd been with this other girl who had a boyfriend - and all of a sudden the boyfriend came back and started chasing him with a knife. He had to jump in the limo to escape. "One time I took some photos of him and some girls in the limo and gave them to him - but his girlfriend found them and hit him over the head with a pan. "He called me up and said, 'Why did you give me those pictures - she's ready to kill me you a**hole!' "Another time he called me from a phone booth in North Hollywood and asked me for some cocaine to perk him up - then the line went dead - so I rushed to where he said he was and found him blacked out in the phone booth with his sports car still running. ATLAS ICONS 14 Al pictured with the band in another picture taken by Neil Zlozower in 1984 AL BOWMAN 14 Vince Neil, Al, and Rudy Sarszo from Quiet Riot at a Las Vegas party. ATLAS ICONS 14 Al known as "the rock n roll limo man" with Crue guitarist Mick Mars "I had to drag him into the limo and take him home - I saved his a** a couple of times." And Al claims while the band had no shortage of groupies - they were particularly fond of virgins - and would ask him to go find them so they could "pop their cherries". "They were always on the hunt for virgins," he said. "That was my job when I drove on the Shout at the Devil tour when they were playing with Black Sabbath - they would always say, 'Al go see if there's any groupies out there who are are virgins and bring them to us. We want them'. They just wanted to pop their cherries. "I remember one night in Bakersfield during that tour I got two virgins for Nikki and Vince and then they got me my own hotel room as a thank you. "That was a fun night." While Al remembers having a lot of fun with the band - he also remembers they used to have a dark side. He recalls taking various members to creepy ceremonies and rituals around Los Angeles. Al says bassist Nikki Sixx was particularly interested in the "dark arts" and he once gave him and famous occultist Anton LaVey, who founded the Church of Satan, a lift to a strange ceremony at a house behind the famous Whisky A Go Go nightclub in Hollywood. "I remember them having an interest in Satanic rituals and I used to take them to these weird parties at an old mansion in Hollywood where there'd be people doing all kinds of creepy stuff," "Nikki was very much into the black arts, Alistair Crowley, incantations, witchcraft, all of that stuff. "I drove him once with Anton LaVey and they were doing these weird chants. "I had an intercom system so if they put up the divider in the limo I would just turned on the intercom and listen to everything that was going on. "So I heard everything they were talking about. Then I dropped them at this strange house covered in ivy behind the Whisky A Go Go. NETFLIX 14 Motley Crue's story is the subject of Netflix film biopic The Dirt AL BOWMAN 14 Al pictured the first night he ever drove the band - outside their sold-out concert at Whisky A Go Go in 1982 AL BOWMAN 14 Al in front of his limosine with rocker Don Dokken in 1985. "There was some weird ceremony there and it was full of up and coming actresses and they were all into this stuff. "They were in circles and there were candles and blood and horse hair - all kinds of weird stuff. "At the time I just thought 'Ah it's Hollywood - it's all a big horror show anyway'. "I said, 'You guys making a horror movie about witchcraft or something?' But it seemed like serious business for them. "Nikki would call on spiritual forces. I remember asking him, 'What's the deal with all this stuff? Are you trying to call on angels from heaven to guide the band?' "He said, 'No I'm trying to conjure up demons from hell to guide the band.' So I was like, 'Ah so you're calling them up not down?' It was kind of funny." The band's hard partying and excess finally caught up with them in 1984 when singer Vince Neil lost control of his sports car after a night of boozing - killing his passenger - Brit Hanoi Rocks star Nicholas 'Razzle' Dingley - and injuring two others. Al, says he and Motley Crue guitarist Mick Mars saw Vince and Razzle just before the crash at the liquor store in Redondo Beach, California, where they had driven after hours of partying. "Mick had just got his divorce through and was celebrating with four women in the limo," Al said. "We stopped at the liquor store - we all lived in the same area of Redondo Beach and Hermosa Beach in those days. "We saw Vince and Razzle and they were both drunk - so we told them to get in the limo. "But Vince insisted in getting in his own car. He drove a Pantera at the time, which was not the most practical car for getting around town - it was loud and huge. "He was always a bit of a show off." Vince was sentenced to 21 days in jail for manslaughter - and he did 15 days of the sentence in July 1986. But Al said as soon as he was released - the rock star couldn't wait to get partying again. "The day he got out of jail - or at least very soon after - I was his driver to a concert at Santa Monica Civic - the bands Dokken and Ratt were playing as I recall," Al said. "Everybody went and everybody was welcoming Vince back like nothing had happened. MOST READ IN TV & SHOWBIZ TRAGIC AMY This Morning fans' tears as Ruth visits colleague brain damaged from nut allergy EXCLUSIVE 50 SHADES OF JEN Jennifer Aniston, 50, looks incredible in latex dress on VERY sexy shoot FEARS FOR KATIE 'Drunk' Katie Price struggles to get words out in ‘hyper’ video with Harvey NIC IT IN THE BUD Nicolas Cage 'files for annulment 4 days after getting married to Erika' ON HER COLL-IDAYS Gemma Collins shows off weight loss in bizarre solar-powered swimsuit "He just wanted to party. As soon as he got out of jail he started drinking again, trying to score coke, getting b**w jobs in the limo. "It was the first thing he wanted to do. Nothing had changed - it was the same old Vince." A representative for Motley Crue declined to comment on any of Al's claims but said: "All I can say is that it seems rather remarkable that four band members had one limo driver who was at all those places, when the band had multiple limos and drivers in that era." Al hit back saying it was "well known" he was a regular driver for the band - and that his photos prove it. GETTY IMAGES - GETTY 14 Vince Neil, Nikki Sixx, Mick Mars and Tommy Lee of Motley Crue at the premiere of Netflix's The Dirt earlier this month ELEKTRA RECORDS 14 The boys liked pretty different back in their 80s heyday - from left to right Nikki Sixx, Vince Neil, Tommy Lee and Mick Mars

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Cameron Michelle Diaz born August 30, 1972 is an American performing artist, humorist, maker, creator and previous design show. She rose to fame with parts in The Mask (1994), My Best Friend’s Wedding (1997) and There’s Something About Mary (1998), and is likewise known for voicing the character of Princess Fiona in the Shrek arrangement (2001– 2010). Other prominent movies incorporate Charlie’s Angels (2000) and its spin-off Charlie’s Angels: Full Throttle (2003), The Sweetest Thing (2002), In Her Shoes (2005), The Holiday (2006), What Happens in Vegas (2008), My Sister’s Keeper (2009), Knight and Day (2010), The Green Hornet (2011), Bad Teacher (2011), What to Expect When You’re Expecting (2012), The Counselor (2013), The Other Woman, Sex Tape, and Annie (each of the 2014). Diaz got four Golden Globe Award selections for her exhibitions in Being John Malkovich (1999), Vanilla Sky (2001), Gangs of New York (2002) and There’s Something About Mary (1998), for the last of which she additionally won the New York Film Critics Best Lead Actress Award. In 2013, Diaz was named the most generously compensated performing artist more than 40 in Hollywood. Starting at 2015, the U.S. local film industry earns of Diaz’s movies add up to over US$3 billion, with overall nets outperforming $7 billion, making her the third most elevated netting U.S. local film industry performer (after Scarlett Johansson and Emma Watson). Diaz was conceived in San Diego, California. Her mom, Billie (née Early; conceived August 11, 1950), was an import/send out specialist, and her dad, Emilio (Queso) Diaz (July 3, 1949 – April 15, 2008), worked for the California oil organization Unocal as a foreman. Diaz has a senior sister, Chimene (conceived June 5, 1970). Her dad’s family is Cuban, and Diaz’s predecessors had initially moved from Spain to Cuba. Later they settled in Ybor City, Tampa, before moving to California, where Emilio was conceived. Her mom has English, German, and Cherokee parentage. Diaz experienced childhood in Long Beach and went to Los Cerritos Elementary School, and after that Long Beach Polytechnic High School; with rapper Snoop Dogg. Diaz has had long haul associations with video maker Carlos de la Torre, performing artist Matt Dillon, on-screen character/artist Jared Leto, artist/on-screen character Justin Timberlake, New York Yankees baseball star Alex Rodriguez and British model Paul Sculfor. She wedded performer Benji Madden at her home in Beverly Hills, California, on January 5, 2015 out of a Jewish function, at their home. It occurred following a 17-day engagement, having been presented seven months sooner by her dear companion and now sister-in-law, Nicole Richie. The marriage came as an inversion for Diaz, who had beforehand alluded to the custom as a “diminishing establishment” that does not “suit our reality any more”. Diaz got considerable slander harms from suing American Media Incorporated, after the National Enquirer posted an article and pictures with the feature “Cameron Caught Cheating” on their site in May 2005. The photographs asserted to demonstrate Diaz undermining her sweetheart of the time, Justin Timberlake, with the wedded MTV maker of her show Trippin’, Shane Nickerson. After Diaz grumbled, the article and pictures were expelled from the web and the printed version did not contain any of the substance. The magazine apologized to Diaz, Timberlake, Nickerson and his significant other for the trouble caused and said the story was false and the photo demonstrated close to a farewell embrace between companions. See Cameron Diaz Height Weight, Boyfriend List and More Below.

Cameron Diaz Personal Info.

Full Name: Cameron Michelle Diaz

Nick Name: Cami, Cammy D, Skeletor, Auntie Poo Poo

Family Members: Emilio Diaz (Father) Billie (Mother) Chimene (Older Sister) Michael Diaz (Older Brother)

Education: Cameron went to Los Cerritos Elementary School. Cameron Diaz moved on from Long Beach Polytechnic High School, Long Beach, California, USA in 1990.

Date of Birth: 30th August, 1972

Birthplace: San Diego, California, USA

Zodiac Sign: Virgo

Religion: Agnostic

Ethnicity: White

Nationality: American

Profession: Actress, Model, Voice Actor, Author, Television producer

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Height: 5′ 8½” (174 cm)

Weight: 125lbs (57 kg)

Eye Color: Blue

Hair Color: Blonde

Dress Size: 4

Shoe Size: 9

Boyfriend/Dating History: Alex Rodriguez (2010-2011) – It is realized that Cameron Diaz dated Alex Rodriguez from April, 2010 to September, 2011 and the connection has finished. Elon Musk (2013) – Cameron began dating South African representative and PayPal’s prime supporter, Elon Musk in March 2013. She dated Elon for couple of months and the match split later around the same time. Benji Madden (2014-Present) – The Madden Brothers’ guitarist and lead vocalist, Benji Madden met Cameron out of the blue by means of mold creator, and performing artist Nicole Richie in May 2014 and began dating her. He is around 7 years her lesser. Cameron and Benji got occupied with December 2014. She wedded Benji on January 5, 2014 at her home in Beverly Hills, California.

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Known For: The Mask; There’s Something About Mary; Charlie’s Angels

Active Year: 1988 (present)

Friend: Drew Barrymore (best friend) (actress), Jennifer Aniston (actress), Cheryl Skank, Reese Witherspoon (actress), Gwyneth Paltrow (actress)

Favorite Bands: Ratt

Favorite Songs: Touch My Body (Mariah Carey)

Favorite Places: USA, Whole Foods

Favorite Foods: Green Curry Chicken

Favorite Colors: Green, Blue, Khaki, Purple, Red, White

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Year Title 1994 The Mask 1995 The Last Supper 1996 She’s the One 1996 Feeling Minnesota 1996 Head Above Water 1997 Keys to Tulsa 1997 My Best Friend’s Wedding 1997 A Life Less Ordinary 1998 Fear and Loathing in Las Vegas 1998 There’s Something About Mary 1998 Very Bad Things 1999 Being John Malkovich 1999 Any Given Sunday 2000 Things You Can Tell Just by Looking at Her 2000 Charlie’s Angels 2001 The Invisible Circus 2001 Shrek 2001 Vanilla Sky 2002 The Sweetest Thing 2002 Gangs of New York 2002 Minority Report 2003 Charlie’s Angels: Full Throttle 2004 Shrek 2 2005 In Her Shoes 2006 The Holiday 2007 Shrek the Third 2007 Shrek the Halls 2008 What Happens in Vegas 2009 My Sister’s Keeper 2009 The Box 2010 Shrek Forever After 2010 Scared Shrekless 2010 Knight and Day 2011 The Green Hornet 2011 Bad Teacher 2012 What to Expect When You’re Expecting 2012 Gambit 2012 A Liar’s Autobiography 2013 The Counselor 2013 The Unbelievers 2013 In a World… 2014 The Other Woman 2014 Sex Tape 2014 Annie

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Over 10 years, Martha Stewart has quietly become the perfect blogger

This summer season marks 10 years due to the fact that Martha Stewart started her lifestyle weblog, The Martha blog: The Reputable Martha Stewart weblog. It’s about Martha’s lifestyles, her circle of relatives, her buddies, her peafowl, and her preference to organize the 500 bottles of wine in her cellar. It’s also approximately Martha’s abilities: at cooking

, decorating, gardening, web hosting, organizing, tweeting, crafting, farming, and being concerned for peafowl. Oh, and the act of blogging itself — arguably the dominant information of a female who’s supernaturally talented at the whole thing.

The fashion and layout of the blog have rarely changed at everywhere in the route of a decade. A few image hyperlinks are damaged, and in some unspecified time in the future, Martha delivered a header subtly renaming the weblog Martha up near & private. Widgets linking to Martha’s Twitter account (began in 2009) and Pinterest (2012) are also more modern, however, in any other case, the website online is largely the same. It’s a rudimentary website, with little in the manner of adornment or interactive factors. Simply black textual content, a white history, a comments phase, and searchable archives.

The community of commenters who thank Martha for her advice and compliment her on her flavor and apologize for the death of her cat named Bartok seems to be a good deal of the identical group for the duration of the years. The structure of every published is precisely the same because The Martha weblog is, duh, a blog. A close to-day by day weblog to which Martha (or one in all assistants who assist her in “the blog studio”) will upload a series of photos after which describe what is going on inside the photographs as fast and coherently as possible. For years, she has added these posts with “Enjoy!” or “Experience the images:” or “Revel in those snapshots…” Image: The Martha blog You’ll think, in 10 years, that a person may come along to do what Martha does and do it better. Many — loads — have attempted, and all have failed. Even those who’ve come the closest can’t in shape the authenticity of a Martha Stewart piece of advice, given their websites’ immaculate, commissioned layouts and roster of individuals. Lauren Conrad, the former Hills famous person whose party web hosting books, crafting tutorials, and an online market for homemade items make her the closest we should a Martha Stewart successor, is listed as the editor-in-chief of her own blog and writes best a slender percentage of the posts herself. It’s now not awful, it’s Simply not the same. She’s conceded that she isn’t, now not surely, a way of life blogger.

THE way of life weblog Industrial Complex IS Stimulated By means of MARTHA, however, CAN’T Contact HER

These days the lifestyle weblog Commercial Complicated is generally related to the bizarre, ongoing feud between Gwyneth Paltrow and Kate Hudson, or the sort of character who was in brief well-known sufficient to achieve call reputation and figured they could as nicely do the cheapest element you could do to live highlight-adjacent. That consists of former Bachelor contestants, modern-day furnishings on Bravo fact shows, the relaxation of the Kardashians, and basically everybody in Conrad’s social circle. The content varies, but the aesthetic and the overall message doesn’t. All of them placed forth a pastel, smooth-lit version of the world. The image-best life revolves around an unimpeachable, commonly white, frame.

Wherein the current way of life weblog is about making the life you need appearance easy, Martha has never included her readers from the reality: if you need to have a magazine-worth lawn birthday celebration, you’ll spend at the least one hour staring down and wrestling with the intimidating steel equipment of a party tent, and you may want help. Before you serve a difficult lunch, you will have to measure your table to ensure all the plates fit. Picture: The Martha weblog Anything Martha does is followed By way of a kind of 53-picture Picture collection, complete with captions approximately the intricacies, difficulties, and hard work time. She has dozens of personal personnel who work in her home, on her farm, and for the numerous arms of her enterprise, and it’s a given that they’re doing some of the real muscle work — except Martha doesn’t keep in mind it a given, because every time a person else is helping her, she takes their Picture and explains what they contributed to a project. Whilst Martha starts of evolved a system she anticipates will take a long term, she bravely labels the post “Element 1.” you could examine all 10 years of Martha’s documents, and also you’ll by no means find a “Component 1” that doesn’t have a corresponding “Part 2,” or now and again even a “Component 3.” Martha doesn’t overlook. Martha doesn’t expect it’ll go disregarded if she doesn’t follow via. She gets around to it.

Martha Stewart is aware of a way to embrace the mundanity of being alive and of blogging. (She doesn’t have a personal public Snapchat. I wish she did; we would all study so much.) For Martha, any moment is Just as well worth documenting as every other. And it’s authentic: who is she to decide which of the hundreds of equipped things she does each day may be useful and compelling to a person else? It’s probable that All of them are, equally. Picture: The Martha weblog The satisfactory posts on the Martha blog are anodyne and workaday in a way that suggests lifestyles without fear. They have headlines like “Starting Onions from Seed,” “Francesca gets Acupuncture,” or “A Business Dinner at My Farm.” For Martha, clickbait is a headline studying “What are Desiree, German Butterball, Kerr’s Pink, and La Ratte?” (The solution? “Potatoes!!!!”) Whilst the way of life blogs that have sprung up in her wake are extra sensitive illusions — designed to appear honest and breezy, all of the While involved with metrics and on-line keep referrals — Martha seems to the weblog for no other reason than due to the fact she likes it. It’d be difficult to exploit a capitalist attitude out of a submit referred to as “Soaking and Planting the Peas.”

For Martha, it’s slightly bragging to put up a Photograph of Richard Gere, fork en path to his mouth at her 2015 vacation birthday party, with the caption “Richard Gere become crazy approximately the filled potatoes.” The Photo isn’t even deemed interesting enough to appear near the front of the album. It comes after 45 pics of the meals, flatware, and Martha’s non-famous own family contributors due to the fact Richard Gere isn’t the point. Martha’s lifestyles are the point.

MARTHA DOESN’T need TO blog, SHE Desires to If we’re being sincere, whose best way of life (or at the least considered one of their occasional daydreams) isn’t seclusion on a sprawling, stylish property with all the buddies, own family, pets, flora, Riesling, and linens one ought to ever need?

Martha isn’t caught within the beyond. She loves Fb Live (see this “FBL” art she comprised of blueberries), and he or she has one of the wittiest and strangest Twitter accounts you’re likely to discover. but she realizes and respects the long-forgotten mystery approximately running a blog — that blogs are as tons about the act as they may be approximately the content, and that consistency and durability are the handiest features in running a blog worth respecting. Every person can write about the first peacock they purchase. most effective a world-elegance blogger will write about each peacock they purchase and each aspect that happens to everyone. All and sundry can share a private story in hopes of assisting someone with a menial mission. most effective a certainly super blogger will try this every day for over three,000 days and show no signs of preventing. Martha, probably, has accomplished her studies and knows that blogging continuously is good for you. Anyways, she made the promise of being there, and he or she has observed up. Picture: The Martha blog An increasing number of, celebrity bloggers have introduced paywalls to their fine content material — why not? There is now the sort of glut of style and home-making and today’s baking blogs from C-list celebrities and Instagram influencers that a-listers might as properly put a premium on their higher manufacturing-fee content. Each because they can, and to remind everybody that it’s more valuable. To get exceptional of Kristin Cavallari or Kim Kardashian, you have to pay a modest ordinary charge. To get great of Martha, you continue to pay not anything. (Until, of the path, her loose weblog leads you to her monthly magazine.)

She rarely does subsidize content material. Currently, tucked most of the private missives, there was a short submit endorsing PetSmart dog beds. It’s not as in case you had been going to move someplace aside from PetSmart (or maybe Target?) if you wanted a canine mattress anyway. It’s like if someone requested me to do sponsored content material for Morton Salt. anybody could examine my laudatory weblog submit and be like “nicely, I don’t need to select Morton’s Simply because Kaitlyn is telling me to, however, It would be a peculiar amount of labor to think about something one-of-a-kind to buy.”

TO GET THE fine OF MARTHA, you still PAY not anything in case you’re going to indulge in materialism, Martha’s is the materialism to indulge in. Her favorite matters are typically manufactured from paper, that’s recyclable. Her different preferred things occur certainly, from the earth. For example, blueberries or infant chickens. Some of her belongings are actually steeply-priced — most obviously, her house. Some of her product strains are pricey, too — most obviously in my lifestyles enjoy, her scrapbooking deliver the line, which includes 1.5-ounce bottles of glitter that retail for $10.99 apiece. but on the Martha blog, she’s no longer selling you any of that, and she or he doesn’t so much as the trace that you have to have a sweater as pleasant as hers Earlier than you can Experience a crisp fall day. You must have an apple, in her opinion.

perhaps you and I want different things from a way of life blog, and that’s high-quality. you can experience Something, and I’m able to sense this: Martha Stewart is the unique lifestyle blogger, and no person will ever top her.

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