By shelz.

Moving right along, we have the 2nd half of some of the most ill-fated musical decision making the industry has to offer.  Enjoy.

Eric Stefani

This story is a bit less tragic than the rest as Eric Stefani actually managed to get a Grammy nod for co-writing “Don’t Speak,” No Doubts best selling single to date.  However, Stefani rolled out on the band he helped create right after their first album dropped, choosing to go into animation instead.  Given, he did work for The Simpsons for a while but I can’t see capturing Bart’s ongoing fight with Side Show Bob as a step above the global dominance No Doubt once possessed.  At least he got to live the experience vicariously through his sister.

Tracii Guns

Name sound familiar? Well his last name should.  The band he formed and then ditched was actually named after him.  Once Mr. Guns decided he’d rather be a member of L.A. Guns than Guns N Roses though, the band kept his name because unlike him, it was too cool to part with.  Slash replaced Mr. Guns and the rest is California rock history.  Since then Guns has continued to record with L.A. Guns as well as Brides of Destruction, but you haven’t heard of them, have you?

Vini “Mad Dog” Lopez

Mr. Lopez co-founded the E Street Band back in ’69. By ’74, the band was just getting started on their road to fame.  However, Lopez believed the little money the band was making at the time was being skimmed by the bands Manager so he proceeded to kick the Mangers brother’s ass.  After the fight, the other co-founder of the band, Bruce Springsteen, told him he had to go. Born to Run, Springsteen’s break through album came out less than a year later. I wonder of he got that nickname after he got fired.  Makes sense if he did.

Aaron Burckhard

If you play drums and lived in Seattle in the late 80’s, you are probably an ex-member of Nirvana. The number of dudes who didn’t work out hovers above 50. However, the very first was Mr. Burckhard.  Story has it that he wasn’t very easy to get along with, but that was rarely a concern since he didn’t like to come to practice. So Cobain 86’ed him and 70-11 drummers later, the band finally found a winner in Dave Grohl. Then they took over the world, reluctantly of course.

Arabian Prince

So some say it was management problems and others say the crew didn’t need him once Cube showed up.  However, Arabian Prince said he left because he wanted to move in a different direction than NWA.  Regardless of reason, he left right after the first album dropped. Arabian Prince did come up on a little success, partnering with Russ Parr and dropping that novelty song “Roaches” to the tune of Timex Social Clubs “Rumors.”  He also produced JJ Fads, “Supersonic.”  However, those two brushes with fame along with his solo albums weren’t quite enough to keep Arabian Prince from falling into the black hole of obscurity.  Maybe he just didn’t have a big enough attitude. I wonder if he’s seen MC Ren down there.

Anyway, in the immortal words of Baby D, Summa lumma luuma sum lumma yumma. Yeeeeeaaah, that’s it.

PART 1

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