Jan 09, 2007 12:36 pm Hot and cold running hemoglobin, I'm sure.
Dracula's Castle for sale!
Posted on Jan 09, 2007 12:31 pm
dbmasters
Administrator Since: Apr 03, 2002
Vlad the Impaler's supposed castle in Romania is for sale
www.telegraph.co.uk/prope.../06/pdrac06.xml
What rock star will buy this? Bets, anyone?
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Jan 09, 2007 12:36 pm Hot and cold running hemoglobin, I'm sure.
Jan 09, 2007 01:49 pm Seems like a place built for Ozzie. Or maybe if not a rockstar but how about Vincent Price? Is he still alive BTW?
Jan 09, 2007 01:51 pm I was thinking Jimmy Page since he bought Alistair Crowley's place if memory serves.
Vincent died in 1993 en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Vincent_Price he was awesome.
Jan 09, 2007 02:17 pm Ya I kind of figured that Vincent checked out. I use to love some of the old radio plays when I was a kid. The Pit and the Pendulum was awesome. Also, who can forget his voice-overs on Welcome to My Nightmare and Thriller.
Hmm, someone like David Copperfield would be a cool owner for this place as well. Alice Cooper maybe. David Bowie possibly.
Jan 09, 2007 02:18 pm Wow, look at all of these pikes stored in the basement! I wonder what they were used for?
Jan 09, 2007 03:38 pm They could've used them on Saddam,live on tv:)
Jan 09, 2007 07:02 pm yeah I was leaning towards jimmy page too.
Jan 09, 2007 10:11 pm Try Bam Margera. He has a thing for the castle and has been there several times. He drove his Ferrari through a blizzard to get his mother a bottle of red wine from there.
And besides, he's nuts enough to do it just for fun.
Jan 09, 2007 11:01 pm Hmmmm I wonder if they will accept 15 dollars in quarters. A studio in a castle would be AWESOME
Jan 10, 2007 05:59 pm Didn't Led Zepplin record Physical Graffiti in a castle?
Jan 10, 2007 06:29 pm The legend goes that Physical Graffiti was recorded at that place the Stones used... I forget the name of it, but the story behind that place is something about Zep not getting out of there by the time they should've, and the Stones being put on hold until that album was completed, which at the time they were sapposed to switch had not yet been started .(they had been there for two months already) Anyway, the story/myth goes that they put the Stones on hold for two weeks while they got there shite together, and when the Stones called to see if they were finished, they explained once again that they hadn't even started . The Stones gave 'em another two weeks, and it's within that two weeks that they recorded both albums . Myth, legend, BS ? I dun'no... neat story, though .
Jan 11, 2007 02:24 pm Hue, I have heard and read that one as well. I do believe there is at least some truth to it. The Stones did and still do have a complete mobile recording facility that would rival many big studio's. They can send it anywhere in the world. I suppose today it isn't that big but back then it would have been huge. It was the rig that saved Deep Purple in Switzerland when the studio they were scheduled to record Machine Head in Burnt down. Which inspired the song Smoke on the Water and included the line about the Stones mobile unit.
Jan 11, 2007 09:22 pm HAHAHA ! I always wondered about that Stones reference on that DP song . I had always thought is was a poke at 'em, and that the lyrics said... "the Rolling-drunk-Stones thing" .
Jan 11, 2007 10:55 pm Ya, it does indeed sound like he is saying Rolling Drunk Stones thing. But it is "truck" that he is referring to. But ya, no poke at all, they really did use the truck and turned out one killer album in the process. They did actually end up recording it in some fancy hotel there.
Jan 11, 2007 11:00 pm radiohead recorded that one acoustic ok computer song (the romeo and juliet track) in a castle of some kind. the reverb on that track is amazing.
Jan 12, 2007 07:15 am Didn't that DP song also include Frank Zappa and the Muthas because in part the studio that burnt down, burnt during or right after FZ and the boys recorded some album...
Smoke on the Water actually has a lot of interesting info in it if you actually listen. Which is funny of me to say considering I rarely pay attention to lyrics at all.
Jan 12, 2007 11:16 am We all went down to Montreaux
On the Lake Geneva shoreline
To make records in a mobile
We didn't have much time
Frank Zappa and the Mothers
Were at the best place around
Some stupid with a flare gun
Burned the place to the ground
Smoke on the water, and fire in the sky!
...or something like that. Hehehe yeah I never knew what to make of that song when I was little. I didn't figure out what the heck they were talking about until I was in high school.
Jan 12, 2007 11:17 am Isn't it "the Muthas" not "the Mothers"
Jan 12, 2007 11:31 am The Mothers of Invention was his backing band, pretty sure they went with the traditional spelling.
Funny, I was just thinking how good of a band name that was this morning.
Jan 12, 2007 11:31 am thats right, yeah, you are probably right.
Jan 12, 2007 11:54 am You mean they aren't saying "Slow talking Walter, fire engine guy"?
Jan 12, 2007 08:35 pm Nope they were not saying that. But indeed the song tells the whole story rather quickly. It is said that they just quickly scribled out lyrics and just jammed out the tune. Funny how that one song became the song that put them on the face of the map. Although I listened to them before Machine head it was that album that got them on the radio. And most people still to this day don't realize that song is relating what really happened while trying to record the album.
The real story is that Zappa and the Mothers were actually playing the theatre at the Montreux casino and a loony swiss fan shot the flaregun into the ceiling. Zappa and the band lost all their equipment as well. But the tittle is from the fact the band watched the hotel burning down from across Lake Geneva and the smoke was just floating as if it were on the water, thus the tittle.
Smoke on the Water is actually the only song not recorded in the Grand Hotel, it was recorded mostly in the Pavilion theatre before the neighbors had the session closed from the noise. And they then moved to the Grand Hotel to finish as it was mostly empty by then.
Jan 12, 2007 09:41 pm I can't believe you were counting. But indeed, I double tittled didn't I.
Yes, my grammar is atrocious. But my speeling is gotting better since using the speel chucker built into firefox.
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