The lead singer of The Offspring started attending school to achieve a doctorate in molecular biology while still in the band. He graduated in May 2017.
100 Mind-Blowing Band Facts
Rednex, the band that remixed and popularized Cotton Eye Joe, is not Southern but Swedish. They all have Southern-sounding stage names.
The first band to ever perform live on all seven continents was Metallica.
Jada Smith formed a metal band called Wicked Wisdom in 2002, which is still active today.
The name Milky Way derives from the Greek “galaxías kýklos” or “milky circle” due to its appearance as a dim milky band in the sky.
According to Pollstar’s 40th-anniversary edition in 2022, the top three touring acts by number of tickets sold in those 40 years of charting the live entertainment industry are U2, the Dave Matthews Band and The Rolling Stones, in that order.
The Spice Girls were originally a band called Touch. “When we first started [with the name Touch], we were pretty bland,” Mel C told The Guardian in 2018. “We felt like we had to fit into a mould.”
Moon Trees are a thing. No, it’s not another edgy underground indie band, but one of the endless fun facts about plants: Moon trees were sprouted from tree seeds that were flown to the moon, and then planted on the Earth. 500 seeds were taken from 5 different seed types to orbit around the moon. They were later planted around the U.S. and a few other countries.
Rubber bands will last much longer when they are refrigerated. When a rubber band is placed in the fridge, it causes the polymers to relax. This keeps the band from breaking down as fast as it normally does.
There was a fifth member of the Beatles. Stuart Sutcliffe was a painter and bassist who was an original member before the band came to fame. He soon later died due to a brain haemorrhage.
Refrigerated rubber bands last longer. When a rubber band is placed inside the fridge, the polymers in the band will become more relaxed. However, when the rubber bands are exposed to warmer conditions, the polymers in the band will tighten and cause it to break more easily.
A gamer completed Dark Souls using a Rock Band guitar. Another game notorious for its gameplay, only a few souls (nudge, nudge) brave this action RPG. However, Benjamin “Bearzly” Gwin took bravery to the next level: He beat the game with nothing but a Rock Band guitar. It doesn’t end there – he’s also done runs with the Rock Band drum kit, Rock Band piano, Donkey Kong bongo drum, microphone (voice control only), Wiimote, dance mat, steering wheel, and an Xbox 360 pad. He programmed these alternative controls himself, too. Wow.
Squirrel monkeys have the largest groups of any other New World monkey, with as many as 100 monkeys in a given band.
The first photo ever uploaded to the Internet was of a comedy band. A four-piece all-female parody pop group lays claim to being in the first photo to ever be uploaded to the Internet. The group, called “Les Horribles Cernettes,” were colleagues with Tim Berners-Lee, the inventor of the World Wide Web. He asked them for some scanned photos of their band so he could publish them online, and history was made!
The UK is home to the rock band The Beatles, considered to be the most influential band of all time.