Smashed walls and Molotov cocktails: When a Japanese noise band destroyed a venue with an excavator
“Nobody got hurt…”
From The Vault Archives: 05/2026
The 1973 album Linda Ronstadt never wanted to hear again: “I was in a very bad frame of mind”
The wrong time to revisit.
The 1991 album that almost made Neil Young go deaf: “I didn’t want to hear any loud sounds”
Getting away from the distortion.
The 1976 Eagles lyric that ruined their relationship: “I could hardly listen”
“The song made me ill…”
The radical bands that scared “the shit out of” Pete Townshend: “They’ll play it on the radio in LA”
“You can’t hear the words…”
The five words in 1979 that really made Lindsey Buckingham check out of Fleetwood Mac
The beginning of the end.
Jimi Hendrix, a sex worker’s apartment and a conversation Carmine Appice never forgot: “I want to make it”
Seminal words and even more seminal locations.
The 1989 guitar solo that blew Jeff Lynne away: “Jeff was hard to please”
Stopped him in his tracks.
The 1980 Blondie song “too explicit” for Debbie Harry to perform: “We couldn’t do live shows”
“I wish I had invented sex.”