Professor of Rock

You won’t believe this epsidoes. A Rock concert that was so loud and unruly it caused an earthquake from the Foo Fighters? An unfinished 80s instrumental song that sold half a billion copies from an imaginary band who scammed half the world, and a an icon that had a hit song for 7 straight decades Coming up, it’s a countdown that centers on Guinness World Records but for music. And for this episode we’re bringing you six larger than life stories. Including rock band who destroyed the most guitars on a single tour…It’s over 140 by the band Muse. and a band who played 8 concerts in 8 different cities throughout 3 different states in just 24 hours but we start out with the rock band that I mentioned previously who caused an actually earthquake with their insane rock show. can you guess the band? Let’s do it. ----------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------- Executive Producer Brandon Fugal Honorary Producers Robert Taylor, Missy D, Stan Summay, MG, David Fritz ----------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------- Subscribe to the Professor of Rock Podcast Apple: https://apple.co/445fVov Spotify: https://spoti.fi/42JpfvU Amazon: https://amzn.to/44b5D6m iHeartRadio: https://bit.ly/444h8MO ----------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------- Patreon: http://bit.ly/ProfessorofRockVIPFan Merch Store: https://professor-of-rock-lsn-shop.fourthwall.com/ Instagram: https://bit.ly/Instagram_Professor_of_Rock #classicrock #80smusic #vinylstory #onehitwonder Hey music Junkies It’s time to get into the greatest world records in music history. Make sure to subscribe, like, and share, and if you think you’re subscribed, make sure you are, or unsubscribe and re-subscribe so I come into your feed. Alright, starting things off at #6, it’s the band that rocked so hard they started an actual earthquake, as captured with real seismic equipment. It’s the Foo Fighters and their fans together. Here’s the story and here’s what happened. So, formed in Seattle, Washington, in 1994 by Dave Grohl following the death of Kurt Cobain and the end of Nirvana, Foo Fighters began as a solo project in which Grohl recorded all instruments himself. After the Foos self-titled 1995 debut album went platinum and churned out three Top 10 Alternative chart singles, Dave Grohl recruited a full band to bring the material to live audiences. Their second album, 1997's The Colour and the Shape, produced enduring rock staples like “Everlong," and "My Hero," and established the band's signature sound. In the following decade, Foo Fighters evolved into one of the world's top-tier stadium rock acts. Releases such as 1999's There Is Nothing Left to Lose, 2002's One by One, and 2007's Echoes, Silence, Patience & Grace earned the band multiple Grammy Awards for Best Rock Album. And driven by Dave Grohl's energetic stage presence, the band earned a reputation for performing intense, “can’t miss” live shows… By the early 2010s, the Foos Fighters had become modern American rock headliners, carrying the banner for rock in the new millennium. Okay, now let’s zoom in on December 13, 2011… the Foo Fighters performed a stadium concert at Western Springs Stadium in Auckland, New Zealand, before a crowd of 50,000 fans. As the band performed heavy, driving anthems, the simultaneous jumping of 50,000 attendees generated ground vibrations that registered on GeoNet seismic equipment… which was two kilometers away from the venue. Which is the equivalent of 1.24 miles. Seismologists recorded low-frequency harmonic activity mimicking volcanic tremors and calculated that the crowd’s rhythmic movements exerted a force equivalent to that of 5,000 tonnes. At the highest recorded frequency the ground was shaking 3 times per second in a clear rhythmic motion. Said Dave Grohl about it, "We played at some speedway outside of town and the audience was jumping around so much that it triggered the seismograph. We have that seismograph readout of the show on the wall in the studio. I'm probably more proud of that, then anything we've ever done.” At #5 I’ve got Oklahoma City’s finest with a world record for the most live concerts performed in a 24-hour window. And these guys are truly strange … in the best way possible. So it’s no surprise that they went after this one. It’s the Flaming Lips… and does anyone have any guesses as to how many concerts they performed in just one day? Just to clarify, in order for these concerts to count for the record, they had to be performed in different cities and had to be officially verified by a Guinness World Records representative along the way… I’ll tell you the answer in a minute. But here’s the thing…