Berserk Button/Music: Difference between revisions

* Don't throw stuff at [[Queens of the Stone Age]]'s Josh Homme, or [http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=mNvchjGoyEo mosh into women] at a show. At best [http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Kmi3NLpx_YM you'll be called a 'cocksmoker'] and told to "smoke a bag of dicks." At worst you'll be [http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=IfZm32tpWY8 pulled] out of the crowd and bottled.

** Also, beating your girlfriend is a great way to get Homme to throw you out of the band and tell you to never come back, something Nick Oliveri found out the hard way.

** Actually, Axl has [[Hair-Trigger Temper|too many Berserk Buttons to count]]. He'll leave the stage because of ONE faulty spotlight.

** To press Steven Adler's Berserk Button, call Axl Rose [[Bon Jovi]] and try to hit him.

* [[Emilie Autumn]] does ''not'' like [http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=-6LVn3U4bSI=related people who] [http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=og6YiLXHs2M&feature=related steal things] off the stage, ''especially'' her bears. Her fans also tend to get very, very pissed off when things get stolen.

* From Michael Jackson's ''Moonwalker'', it is NEVER a good idea to harm children in front of Michael Jackson during the Smooth Criminal mini-movie/music video. For clarification, Frank Lideo/Mr. Big planned on hooking all the kids in the world on drugs, and when he captures Michael's child friend, Katy, he threatens to get her high. Michael gets pissed. THEN, after he and his guards beat him up a bit, Mr. Big tells a guard to kill Katy. Michael, thanks to a magical shooting star, gets incredibly pissed off, turns into a robot, and takes out all the guards and Mr. Big.

* Do '''''NOT''''' mention John Lennon's assassin by name! Seriously, just don't! Yoko Ono actually got someone fired from a Lennon biopic simply because his real name was the same as John's assassin!

* If you're chatting amiably with a [[My Chemical Romance]] fan, do ''not'' mention that you think they're [[Emo]] unless you're wearing flame-retardant clothing.

** This applies to the band themselves as well, particularly singer Gerard Way, who has voiced his hatred for [[Emo]] many times and really doesn't like people labelling them as an emo band. (For the record, they're pop punk or alternative rock.)

* [[Danzig|Glenn Danzig]] should have known better than to fuck around with [[North Side Kings]] backstage. One good thing did come out of the incident, though: [[Memetic Mutation]] of him getting decked during a confrontation with one member.

* When asked about (in)famous smooth jazz saxophonist Kenneth "Kenny G" Gorelick, guitarist Pat Metheny gave a well-reasoned argument as to why he didn't like his music but generally had no ill-feelings towards the guy (a position bordering on saintly, considering most of the jazz world considers him the Antichrist...). HOWEVER, when Gorelick dubbed himself over jazz great Louis Armstrong, Metheny delivered a superbly out of character verbal assault, labeling his performance "lame-ass, jive, pseudo bluesy, out-of-tune, noodling, wimped out, fucked up playing".

* Try calling [[Mark Wahlberg]] 'Marky Mark' and see how that goes for you.

* Don't even ''allude'' to Hailie Jade Scott in a song, lest you incur the [[Papa Wolf|wrath]] of [[Eminem|her father]].

** Insulting Hailie, in addition to pissing off [[Eminem]], will also bring down the wrath of D12, Dr. Dre, 50 Cent, G-Unit, Obie Trice and DMX. Ja Rule and Everlast can tell you that.

* On a similar note, mention any other former member of [[The Smiths]] aside from Johnny Marr to Morrissey and you're just asking for trouble.

* Mark E. Smith of The Fall is a fairly amiable guy. Except if you mention Pavement to him. Do that at your own peril.

* Andy Biersack has [[Cluster F-Bomb|cussed out haters]] from onstage multiple times and [http://youtu.be/XS-pw3FSV_c told anyone who wanted to throw something at him] that they should come onstage where he can kick their asses.

* Do you play guitar? Don't even think of playing "Stairway to Heaven" or "Smoke on the Water" if you want your instrument intact afterwards, unless your name is [[Led Zeppelin|Jimmy Page]] or [[Deep Purple|Ritchie Blackmore]], respectively.

* Due to assorted examples of [[Award Snub]] over the years, it's not a good idea to mention The Rock and Roll Hall Of Fame unless it's to complain that your favorite band isn't in it.

* Cover versions in general can cause fans of an original artist's blood to boil, especially any case of [[Covered Up]].

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