I have a strong feeling that if we were to re-live the 90’s right now we’d quickly realise it wasn’t so “innocent” after all. People just had thicker skin back then and recreational outrage wasn’t really a thing due to how slow news and trends speaded at the age of early internet.
Not just any guy, but Marilyn Manson, who used to play Paul on The Wonder Years. I’m not sure what was more shocking, learning about this, or learning of Mark Paul Gosselaar’s fatal motorcycle crash. Taken from us far too soon.
Apparently Marilyn Manson playing Paul was just one of the first internet rumours and isn’t true, which in itself is a pretty facinating piece of history.
How old are you? That’s not even close to true.
What about Ozzy eating a bat on stage?
Was that Ozzy? Whoever it was, it was a request for a bowl of only brown M&Ms backstage and their reasoning was that, if that request wasn’t fulfilled, whoever was responsible didn’t do their job and they’d assume that other, necessary stuff also wasn’t done properly. Kind of a canary, in a way.
Van Halen’s road crew confirmed that. They also confirmed that, without exception, if the M&Ms were wrong, there were other major problems. And when I say major, it’s on the level of “people would have died” if they had continued with the show.
So it was Van Halen and you’re right, it was an easy way to be sure that venues actually read their contract which contained instructions to safely assemble their stage rig. But there was a parody of that story in Wayne’s World 2 https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=k_7kg5ZzDZo
Not ozzy. Van Halen.
That way they knew all the prep work was properly done by the crew: unsorted M&Ms = short on time, and it’s possible something more important was missed.
I’m sad that none of the other responses seem to have gotten the Wayne’s World 2 reference.
I remember seeing an Ozzy interview about what happened.
In short, he didn’t eat it, but he did bite its head off. Why? Because he thought it’d look cool after someone had thown what Ozzy assumed was a toy bat. “Because who the fuck brings a live bat to a concert and throws it on stage?”
Also, he wasn’t hospitalized. He just went and got a tetanus shot or something like that to be safe.
It was a long time before that when (allegedly) a rib was removed from a man to create the first woman so he wouldn’t have to suck it himself.
