Favorite Publicity Stunts
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Favorite Publicity Stunts
What are some of your favorite publicity stunts bands have done through the years? Of course there are the staged pictures of bands with centerfolds on the bed. The former manager of GNR said he put things out in the press about Axl running over dogs with his car. Axl got pissed about it and blamed the magazine.
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I always appreciated the Poison album cover controversies. I have had both the Open Up and Flesh and Blood original covers!!!!
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The Stones rolling down 5th Ave in NYC, playing on a flatbed truck.
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VH “parachuting” into Anaheim Stadium.
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Jizzy hanging himself from the HOLLYWOOD sign of course...
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is this a trick question? KISS with the blood in the comic book ink, obviously.
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That one.GreatWhiteSnake wrote: ↑Thu Feb 22, 2024 11:37 am Jizzy hanging himself from the HOLLYWOOD sign of course...
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Van Halen parachuting is hard to top. Maybe it inspired 'Queen Elizabeth' parachuting into the Olympic stadium in 2012?
Plasmatics' free gig in New York that ended with Wendy O Williams driving a car off a ramp into the Hudson
Does Matthew Trippe count?
Plasmatics' free gig in New York that ended with Wendy O Williams driving a car off a ramp into the Hudson
Does Matthew Trippe count?
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Santa Claus(s) have been parachuting at events for nearly a century.
It's an old TV and radio station publicity stunt, like flagpole sitting.
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Wolfgang wearing that fat suit for a decade.
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Rick Allen losing his arm
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Judas Priest announcing that they are going to tour as a four piece band after Firepower.
Then backtracking after a few days of fan reaction.
Very clever, Jayne, very clever.
Bad publicity is also publicity.
Honorable mention to Angel for naming an album Bad Publicity, then immediately withdrawing it. It became the Sinful album, their last and best.
Then backtracking after a few days of fan reaction.
Very clever, Jayne, very clever.
Bad publicity is also publicity.
Honorable mention to Angel for naming an album Bad Publicity, then immediately withdrawing it. It became the Sinful album, their last and best.
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Jackyl: The Story Behind The Band's War With K-Mart 'I Stand Alone' Video
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Ozzy owes his solo career to biting the heads off flying mammals.
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Motley Crue "retirement contract"
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I thought you'd be saying something about Vinnie's shred-fest launch parties for all those "coming very soon, honest" albums he's recorded.
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The probably made up stunt when Alice Cooper rolled a billboard of himself pictured naked down a London hill into traffic.
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Lorne Michaels offering $3,000 to The Beatles to reunite on SNL back in the 70’s.
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Then George wanted to know if that was per man or if it was the total.eddie lee roth wrote: ↑Fri Feb 23, 2024 11:29 am Lorne Michaels offering $3,000 to The Beatles to reunite on SNL back in the 70’s.
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Madonna's Sex Book.
She's the queen of publicity stunts.
She's the queen of publicity stunts.
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Motley Crue-“caution this record may contain backwards messages”. Note inside the Shout At The Devil.
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that was my local kmart...it was pretty fun to be honest...i used to see jackyl at macgruder's quite a bit...d.m.cinman1802000 wrote: ↑Fri Feb 23, 2024 1:09 am Jackyl: The Story Behind The Band's War With K-Mart 'I Stand Alone' Video
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=eEtp4WnoGbY
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Lennon and McCartney almost went down to collect that.eddie lee roth wrote: ↑Fri Feb 23, 2024 11:29 am Lorne Michaels offering $3,000 to The Beatles to reunite on SNL back in the 70’s.
https://faroutmagazine.co.uk/the-beatle ... mccartney/
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Metallica playing all 50 states in 1989, which resulted in them playing a bar in Newark, DE because it was the only place that would have them. I was there.
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This is my favourite, as every now and then, here on Sludge, or on social media, you get people referring to it as if it was real/legal/binding, and using it as the basis of their argument.
Truly the gift that keeps giving in being able to point out human stupidity and gullibility.
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Rock Of Love and the other shows like it.