Rob Zombie (born Robert Cummings on January 12, 1966) is a hard rock/ heavy metal musician, director, and writer. His dreadlocks, gruff vocal style and fascination with B-Movies have helped him become a distinctive element in American heavy metal. He is best known as founder, lead singer and songwriter for White Zombie. In recent years he has also established himself as a solo singer and as a director. His directorial career began with the horror, House of 1000 Corpses, and its sequel, The Devil's Rejects, released 2005. He is also coming out with another movie called El Superbeasto due out June 1, 2006 based on his comic book series The Haunted World of El Superbeasto.

Did you know Robert Cummings is the older brother of Powerman 5000 front-man & vocalist Michael Cummings?

...oh, you did know that... well

Did you know Rob moved to New York to pursue a career in publishing. Mr. Cummings, supported himself through multiple jobs, including working as a cycle courier. Most famously he was a production assistant on Pee-wee's Playhouse, but he also worked as a designer on pornographic magazines. Maybe Rob had some influence on Mr. Herman's personal lifestyle (if you know what i mean...)

Jeff Beck (born June 24, 1944) is a British rock musician who played in a number of influential bands in the 1960s.

Beck was born Geoffrey Arnold Beck in Wallington, London. Like many rock musicians in the early 1960s, he began his career working as a session guitarist. In 1965, Beck joined the Yardbirds essentially replacing the great Eric Clapton, when Clapton left the group for John Mayall's Bluesbreakers. It was during Jeff's tenure with the Yardbirds that they recorded most of their hits. In 1966, Jeff shared the dual-lead guitar role with Jimmy Page, now legendary guitarist for the band Led Zeppelin. Beck's tenure in the Yardbirds was a short one; he left after 18 months, partly for health reasons.

The following year, Beck formed a new band, Jeff Beck Group, which featured him on lead guitar, Rod Stewart on vocals, Ron Wood on bass, Mick Waller on drums, and Nicky Hopkins on piano. The group produced two albums, Truth in 1968 and Cosa Nostra Beck-Ola the following year. Owing to friction within the band, Stewart and Wood left the group in 1969 to form The Faces. Wood later joined The Rolling Stones.

Although you don't hear much about Jeff Beck he is one of the original guitarist to have invented heavy blues-rock riffs. You can find a lot of his influences on Led Zeppelin's albums.

Kurt Donald Cobain (February 20, 1967 - ca. April 5, 1994) was the lead singer and guitarist of the American rock band, Nirvana.

How did he die? On April 8, 1994, Cobain's body was discovered in the spare room above the garage (referred to as "the greenhouse") at his Lake Washington home by Veca Electric employee Gary Smith. Smith arrived at the house that morning to install security lighting and saw the body lying inside. Apart from a minor amount of blood coming out of Cobain's ear, Smith reported seeing no visible signs of trauma, and initially believed that Cobain was asleep. Smith found what he thought might be a suicide note with a pen stuck through it beneath an overturned flowerpot. A shotgun, purchased for Cobain by Dylan Carlson, was found at Cobain's side. An autopsy report later concluded Cobain's death as a result of a "self-inflicted shotgun wound to the head." The report estimates Cobain to have died on April 5, 1994.

In the alleged suicide note, ostensibly written to Cobain's imaginary childhood friend "Boddah", Cobain quoted a lyric from Neil Young's song "My My, Hey Hey (Out of the Blue)": "It's better to burn out than to fade away." Cobain's use of the lyric had a profound impact on Young, who recorded portions of his 1994 album Sleeps With Angels in Cobain's memory.

James Marshall "Jimi" Hendrix (November 27, 1942 – 18 September 1970) was an American musician, songwriter and virtuoso guitarist, widely hailed by fans and music critics as the best electric guitarist of all time.

How did he die? On the morning of 18 September, 1970, Hendrix was found dead in the basement apartment of the Samarkand Hotel, London. He had spent the night with a German girlfriend, Monika Dannemann, and died in bed after taking a reported nine Vesperax sleeping pills and choking on his own vomit. For years afterwards Danneman publicly claimed Hendrix was alive when placed in the back of the ambulance (however her comments about that morning were often contradictory and confused, varying from interview to interview). Police and ambulance reports from the time, reveal that not only was Jimi Hendrix dead, when they arrived on the scene, but he had been for some time, the apartment's front door was wide open, and the apartment itself empty. His body was returned home and he was interred in the Greenwood Memorial Park, Renton, Washington, USA, although Jimi requested to be buried in England. Following a Libel case brought in 1996 by Hendrix's long-term English girlfriend Kathy Etchingham, Monika Danneman took her own life.

All of them died at age 27...

On December 8, 1980, in New York City, deranged fan Mark David Chapman assassinated former Beatle, John Lennon.

Lennon and Ono returned to their apartment from recording Ono's single "Walking on thin ice" for their next album. At 10.50pm, their limo pulled up to the entrance of the Dakota. Ono got out of the car first, followed by Lennon. Beyond the main entrance was a door which would be opened and a small set of stairs leading into the apartment complex. As Ono went in, Lennon got out of the car and glanced at Chapman, proceeding on through the entrance to the Dakota.

As Lennon walked past him, Chapman called out "Mr. Lennon." As Lennon turned, Chapman crouched into what witnesses called a "combat" stance and fired five hollowpoint bullets. One bullet missed, but four bullets entered John's back and shoulder. One of the four bullets fatally pierced his aorta. Still, Lennon managed to stagger up six steps into the concierge booth where he collapsed, gasping "I'm shot, I'm shot."

Chapman stood there, holding his .38 Charter Arms revolver, which was pulled out of his hands and kicked away by Jose Perdomo who then asked "What have you done, what have you done?", to which Chapman replied "I just shot John Lennon." Chapman then calmly took his coat off, placed it at his feet, took out a book and started reading.

Police arrived within minutes, to find Chapman still waiting quietly outside, reading a copy of J.D.Salinger's  novel, The Catcher in the Rye.

What you may not have known is:

Earlier in the day, Chapman had shaken hands with Lennon and had asked him to autograph his newly-purchased copy of Lennon's new album Double Fantasy, a request which Lennon obliged.

Chapman had been a fan of the Beatles, and Lennon in particular, for years. Following his nervous breakdown as a college student, however, Chapman became obsessed with Lennon to such a degree that he married a Japanese woman because she reminded him of Lennon's wife Yoko Ono (as of 2005, they were still married).

Chapman was charged with second degree murder and was found competent to stand trial. It was expected that he would plead insanity; instead, he lodged a guilty plea. He was sentenced to 20 years to life in prison. He has been denied parole three times, in 2000, 2002, and October 2004. Prior to his parole hearings several reports were made of threats to his life, should he be released.

Controversy

Certain of the lyrics are inflammatory to various groups of people, including homosexuals, Jews, and Blacks. Heard out-of-context, one assumes that the song is a racist work. In fact, it is intended as a satire - not only does it mimic the loyal following of fans to musicians, it also mimics the prejudices against various groups; it would be considered ridiculous, for instance, to persecute those suffering from a bout of spots.

Social Effects

While the song was intended as a satirical piece, during the filming of the corresponding sequence in The Wall, a number of the youths acting the parts of Pink's loyal cult members became considerably excited with the lyrics. Inadvertently, the film, and the song, spawned the group known as the Hammerskins, an extreme white racist group.

Clapton grew up a self-confessed "nasty kid." He studied stained-glass design at Kingston Art School, started teaching himself to play guitar at 15, and joined his first band at age 17. He stayed with his first band, the early British R&B outfit The Roosters from January to August 1963 and frequently jammed in London clubs with future members of The Rolling Stones.

White's father and mother worked at the local Catholic church (as the maintenance man and cardinal secretary respectively), and White himself was an altar boy. According to the September 8, 2005 issue of Rolling Stone, this landed him a role at the age of ten in the movie The Rosary Murders, which was filmed at the church. Although White grew up in Mexicantown, the lower-middle-class Hispanic district of southwest Detroit, his musical preferences were not those of his classmates, who listened to electronica and hip hop. White, as a teenager, was already listening to the blues and 1960's rock that would influence him in the White Stripes.

At fifteen, White began a three year upholstery apprenticeship with a family friend, Brian Muldoon. After working in various shops, he started a one-man business of his own, called Third Man Upholstery. The slogan of his business was "Your Furniture's Not Dead" and the color scheme was yellow, white and black — including a yellow van, a yellow and black uniform and a yellow clipboard. While "Third Man Upholstery" never lacked business, White claims that it was not profitable, due to his complacency about money and his business practices that were perceived as unprofessional, including making bills out in crayon and writing poetry inside the furniture.[1]

White met Meg White in the mid-1990s, and they were married in 1996. He took her last name, and soon formed their band. They later divorced (2000), though well before becoming nationally famous.

Trent Reznor (born Michael Trent Reznor May 17th, 1965), is an American Musician.

Reznor is the founder and main creative force behind the band Nine Inch Nails. He is also the only official member of the band: different producers, engineers and musicians are assembled to assist him in writing and performing new material. Reznor writes all of the lyrics himself and is in sole control of the direction of the group.

Trent went to college, studying Computer Engineering but soon dropped out. He got a job at a Recording Studio as a janitor where he was allowed to use the studio during off hours. This is wear he recorded the Album "Pretty Hate Machine"

This leads me to believe that "One person can make a difference." and that some day when I record my own creative tracks, someone might just listen to them...