The Edgewater is a hotel in Seattle, Washington that is located on a pier over Elliott Bay. It is currently the only hotel in Seattle that sits over-water. In the 1960s the Edgewater became a popular destination for famous rock stars. Some of the bands to visit the hotel include the Beatles in 1964, the Rolling Stones, Frank Zappa, and Led Zeppelin. The Edgewater is unique because in the past it allowed customers to fish from their rooms on the north elevation.

On July 27, 1969, Led Zeppelin performed at the Seattle Pop Festival and stayed at the Edgewater. The band was known to have wild parties and was often joined by groupies. According to Zeppelin’s road manager Richard Cole, during one incident, things between a fish and a sexy red head got a bit intimate. On the day in question, Cole was in his room fishing with drummer John Bonham when they were joined by some women. Cole and Bonham had caught a large collection of sharks, at least two dozen, stuck coat hangers through the gills and then left them in the closet. The hotel room was also scattered with various types of smaller fish.

As parties go, one thing led to another and people began to lose their clothing. One particular woman in the crowd with red hair found herself with Cole. She made a unique request, so he decided to reach for a fish and the shark episode was born. Cole was later quoted: “Let’s see how your red snapper likes this red snapper. It was the nose of the fish and the girl liked it. There was nothing malicious or harmful and Mark Stein of Vanilla Fudge filmed the whole thing. After the story was published by the media a large collection of rumors began to circulate, but many were exaggerated. The band received bad press so they stopped talking about the event.

In 1973, Led Zeppelin returned to the Edgewater and the band was officially banned from the hotel after it was discovered that they had caught some 30 mudsharks and left them under beds, in closets, elevators, hallways, bathtubs, and all over their rooms. They threw stuff out the windows into Elliott Bay, including beds, TVs, mattresses, lamps, drapes, and glassware. Since that time Robert Plant has been welcomed back to the Edgewater. The mudshark incident remains one of the most popular rock stories from the 1960s.

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Ozzy Osbourne is one of the most controversial figures in the history of music. He has sold over 100 million albums and helped popularize the genre of heavy metal. Ozzy has been addicted to drugs for most of his life and experimented with a wide variety of substances. During his career, Osbourne has been involved with two separate incidents in which he bit the head of an animal. In 1981, after signing his first solo record deal, Osbourne bit the head off a dove. In 1982, he bit the head off a bat that he thought was plastic while performing in Des Moines, Iowa. After decapitating the bat Ozzy had to be treated for rabies.

In 1982, Ozzy Osbourne got drunk and urinated on a cenotaph erected in honor of those who died at the Alamo in Texas. He was arrested for the act and banned from the city of San Antonio for a decade. In 1984, Ozzy joined Mötley Crüe on the road and the tour has been called one of the “craziest drug- and alcohol-fueled tours in the history of rock and roll.” During their time in hotel rooms, Ozzy and Nikki Sixx of Mötley Crüe underwent a competition to see who could be the most extreme. After Sixx set himself on fire, Osbourne responded by snorting a line of ants off the pavement. After he snorted them up, some of the ants came out his mouth. The event was highlighted in a book written by Sharon Osbourne. Many accounts say that the ants were fire ants, but this is not confirmed.

Neo-expressionism is a style of late modernist or early-postmodern painting and sculpture that emerged in the late 1970s. Neo-expressionists were sometimes called Transavantgarde, Junge Wilde or Neue Wilden ('The new wild ones'; 'New Fauves' would better meet the meaning of the term). It is characterized by intense subjectivity and rough handling of materials.

Neo-expressionism developed as a reaction against conceptual art and minimal art of the 1970s. Neo-expressionists returned to portraying recognizable objects, such as the human body (although sometimes in an abstract manner), in a rough and violently emotional way, often using vivid colors. It was overtly inspired by German Expressionist painters, such as Emil Nolde, Max Beckmann, George Grosz, Ernst Ludwig Kirchner, James Ensor and Edvard Munch. It is also related to American Lyrical Abstraction painting of the 1960s and 1970s, The Hairy Who movement in Chicago, the Bay Area Figurative School of the 1950s and 1960s, the continuation of Abstract Expressionism, New Image Painting and precedents in Pop Painting.

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"Iggy Pop is one of the most flamboyant performers in the history of music. He has an incredible stage presence and has given credit to Jim Morrison for introducing him to a free attitude and wild stage antics. Iggy Pop is credited with being the first performer to do a stage-dive. Some of his more descriptive exploits include rolling around in broken glass, exposing himself to the crowd, and vomiting on stage. He has been known to spark riots and has the ability to whip the crowd into frenzy."

"On February 9, 1974 The Stooges performed at Detroit’s Michigan Palace. It was the band’s last show together before they broke up for three decades. Before the 1974 concert, Pop gave a radio interview in which he challenged a Detroit motorbike gang (the Scorpions) to a fight. He called them all a bunch of cats. In response, the gang attended the show and pelted the band with broken glass, beer jugs, urine, eggs, ice, jelly beans, and shovels. Despite the hostility, Iggy continued to taunt the crowd and said: “You pricks can throw everything in the world… your girlfriend will still love me.”

The Stooges fed off the crowd’s anger and continued to perform. During the show Iggy finally told the bikers: “All right you assholes, want to hear Louie, Louie, we’ll give it to you.” The Stooges continued to play a forty-five-minute version of Louie Louie, which included improvised lyrics by Pop. During the song he continued to yell and verbally assault the gang.

The concert finally ended after Iggy Pop focused his attention on one particular heckler and said: “Listen, asshole, you heckle me one more time and I’m gonna come down there and kick your ass.” The biker told Pop to come over, so Iggy jumped off the stage and confronted him. The biker continued to beat the crap out of Iggy, which ended the event. Luckily, the concert was captured on a reel-to-reel tape machine and recorded live. In 1976, The Stooges released the recording in an album titled Metallic K.O. It is the only rock album where you can hear beer bottles breaking against guitar strings. The album remains a favorite among Iggy Pop fans."

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Although quite a bit of unissued music that the Velvet Underground cut between 1965 and 1970 has found its way into official release, a lot of other live and studio recordings are floating around that have yet to find their way into official circulation. While many of these (particularly the concert tapes) are just of too low fidelity to ever be considered for official release, quite a few of them are interesting, and certainly of great historical value in gaining insight into the band not available from the official discography. Here's a list of the best, all of them described in greater detail in White Light/White Heat: The Velvet Underground Day-By-Day.

So, since we can’t go back in time (at least not yet) the bigger question here is can we surf on other planets outside our solar system? (It is doubtful any other planets or satellites within our own solar system have significant liquid water other then Mars; although Titan likely has hydrocarbon seas but at -290 F). Given that we have just recently started discovering planets and have found over 2000 planets, a better question is what would these waves look like? Banfield’s paper addresses this question by laying out the theoretical framework for factors which determine wave size on Mars but possibly elsewhere. They describe seven major parameters that differ between Earth and Mars and thus are likely to influence wave characteristics on other planets:

• Atmospheric wind speed

• Viscosity of the atmosphere and ocean (stickiness, imagine honey vs. water)

• Atmosphere and ocean density

• Gravity of the planet

• Surface tension of the ocean

If we limit our question to earth-like planets, which at the last estimate there were one billion in our galaxy alone, with a similar atmosphere and ocean the main factors to consider are gravity, wind speed and of course, fetch (the distance over which the wind blows to generate waves). 

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Pink Floyd: David Gilmour vs. Roger Waters 
They were one of the most successful and influential rock bands of the ‘70s and early ‘80s, but toward the end of the latter decade, the rockers’ era was waning. Bassist Roger Waters announced his departure and embarked on his own solo career, informing the rest of the Gilmour-headed band that they were barred from using the name “Pink Floyd” or using his inflatable pig. The two parties, obviously, ended up in a legal battle, with Waters telling Rolling Stone at the time, “If one of us was going to be called Pink Floyd, it’s me. That’s my pig [on their stage]. That’s my plane crashing.” The court eventually sided with Gilmour and the rest of the band, and it wasn’t until 2005 that Waters performed again with Pink Floyd.

The Kinks: Ray Davies vs. Dave Davies 
If there’s one thing we’ve learned from compiling this list, it’s this: rock bands composed of brothers are a recipe for a well-publicized feud. Though only three brotherly bands made our top ten list, the proof is everywhere—just look at what happened with Kings of Leon a couple of years ago. Ray and Dave Davies are another perfect example. They’ve reportedly had a hard time getting along since early childhood, but in 1996, Ray reportedly ruined his younger brother’s 50th birthday party by jumping on top of the cake to declare his own genius. Dave has publicly declared his brother “an asshole” and has compared him to toxic poison. They haven’t performed together since the cake incident.

The Beach Boys: Mike Love vs. Brian Wilson 
Often called “America’s Band,” the California dudes have had a long history of legal issues surrounding songwriting credits, royalties and usage of the band’s name. These came to a public head in 2012, when Love unexpectedly fired Wilson and fellow original members Al Jardine and David Marks after a surprising reunion. The group had been touring for the band’s 50th anniversary, but Love decided that it was best not to get “overexposed.” “I’m disappointed and can’t understand why [Love] doesn’t want to tour with Al, David and me,” Wilson told CNN when asked about the firing. “We are out here having so much fun. After all, we are the real Beach Boys.” Love continues to tour under the Beach Boys name with a substitute band.

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Examining the suicide of Kurt Cobain, documentarian Nick Broomfield looks into the possibility of the conspiracy theory that Cobain's wife Courtney Love paid for his murder.

Perhaps the most infamous film to feature Cobain, this absolutely unauthorized profile was the first work to plant the controversial seed that Courtney Love was in same way responsible for Cobain's death. Directed by notable documentarian Nick Broomfield (Aileen: Life and Death of a Serial Killer), Kurt & Courtney investigates the tumultuous relationship between Nirvana's singer and the Hole frontwoman. Although the filmmaker himself believes Cobain committed suicide, he still offers up insane interviews with odd characters like El Duce, a local punk rocker who claims Love offered him $50,000 to kill her husband.

Thanks to the efforts of Love's legal team, the doc never received a widespread release – a Sundance Film Festival premiere in 1998 was similarly nixed over threat of a lawsuit – but the documentary still inspired a nation of conspiracy theorists to flood YouTube with their own "Kurt was murdered" videos.

So are we sold? We'll let you make up your mind on this conpsiracy theory

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EDDY CURRENT SUPPRESSION RING

The story goes that the members of Eddy Current Suppression Ring decided to form a band during a drunken jam at an office Christmas party. The "office" in that scenario was the Corduroy Records vinyl pressing plant in Australia. The story's captured on their first song, 2003's "So Many Things", a track with ragged, propulsive energy; a juvenile sense of humor; sloppy vocals; and a loud, meandering organ. It sounds like the sort of in-the-moment jam that could pop up at any work party-- people have clearly been drinking; the lyrics are frontman Brendan Suppression's bitter rambling about a woman: "I think about you here and there/ Only because you're a dickhead" and "I don't need your boobies/ I don't need your cute little bum." It's a rough artifact of their first foray in making music. It's also the opening track on the band's new Goner-imprinted singles compilation, which naturally teases out ECSR's chronological trajectory through B-sides and singles.

The band went on to become one of the most successful Australian band's of recent years winning the Australian Music Prize for their 2008 album Primary Colours and built a rabid following in Australia and overseas. But with success it seems the band never really left the Corduroy warehouse and their honesty and lack of pretension plus ability to produce amazing music helped make them one of the most endearing band's Australia has produced.

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