start a rumor about a tv actor's musical taste

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i asked the mods to replace that jpg with a new version that has ppl's names crossed out.

It's a well known fact that Kim Fields was the president of the Throbbing Gristle fanclub the whole time she was on The Facts of Life.

edward woodward of the equalizer did the drum programming for the timex social club's "rumors."

Sherman Hemsley (George Jefferson) was an obsessive fan of Yes (that one's actually true)

Whoa! He just died!!

yeah, the sherman hemsley one inspired this thread.

Martin Milner played "A Question of Temperature" and "1,2,3 Red Light" for every single one his dates, including dates with Susan Dey, Karen Valentine, Helaine Lembeck, and Valerie Harper, as a "test" to see if they could have a second date. No one passed.

bryan cranston spent seven years in berlin during the 90s, and released several white label 12-inches.

Dan Rowan and Dick Martin discovered Ruth Buzzi when they saw her playing percussion for the Jackie Gleason Orchestra.

Bonnie Franklin studied at Mills with Pandit Pran Nath.

Stepfanie Kramer broke Ubuweb's server downloading 1TB of Aktionist recordings.

Broderick Crawford introduced John Fogerty to the concept of "chooglin'."

After The Mod Squad was cancelled, Peggy Lipton joined the Symbionese Liberation Army.

Dee from "What's Happening!!" invented Kickstarter.

Wait, that wasn't about music. Um, Bobby Sherman joined the SLA on the advice of Peggy Lipton.

dame edna everage sold refreshments at john cage's black mountain happenings.

Jon Hamm once followed the Dave Matthews Band across America for an year-long tour.

shari lewis had the best-selling grilled cheese sandwiches in the nassau coliseum parking lot during the phish tailgate in october '96.

Alan Thicke dropped a Silver Apples reference into the "Diff'rent Strokes" theme

Bryan Cranston was bitterly disappointed with Carcass' 1993 offering Heartwork; "the song titles are too short and it's just not Grindcore any more" grumbled the Breaking Bad actor.

Jorja Fox gave up on collecting Moon Ska singles.

In his original pitch to Fox, Ben Stiller wanted the Kitchens Of Distinction to record original music for each episode

Patrick Gauthier from Heldon was best man at Pam Dawber's wedding.

John Belushi was a classically-trained countertenor

Kat Dennings posted once on ILX in 2004, after googling "Biggie vs Tupac"

alex chilton worked as a grip on shelley duvall's fairie tale theatre. he was fired for stealing off-brand sparkling wine from teri garr's dressing room.

That actually sounds plausible

half the cast of The Big Bang Theory included 808s & Heartbreak on their individual "Top 5 Albums Ever" lists, written during a technical set delay

John Slattery has held several hours-long les rallizes denudes bootleg listening parties.

Randy Jackson wore a David J shirt on Idol last season and was extremely disappointed to not find a single mention of it on Twitter

Rory McGrath and Jimmy Mulville played in an MEV tribute band while studying at Cambridge

Joel McHale totally noticed the David J shirt, and spent 10 minutes debating whether to tweet about it

Buddy Ebsen was was a glamrock fanatic who was often spotted trolling for teenage girls on the sunset strip w/Kim Fowley

Mary Tyler Moore is on a $750/month retainer from Pussy Riot as an image consultant.

Bill Cosby likes jazz

Xuxa murdered and assumed the identity of Madonna in 1997.

After Harry Nilsson's 1980 album Flash Harry was not released in the US, Carroll O'Connor said he would never buy new music again, a promise he kept until 1988, when he purchased Graceland.

alex chilton worked as a grip on shelley duvall's fairie tale theatre. he was fired for stealing off-brand sparkling wine from teri garr's dressing room.

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brb writing the off-broadway play about this

Katherine Helmond personally bankrolled "Return of the Giant Slits".

Jason Alexander convinced the cast of Seinfeld to join him for a Lou Reed concert during the filming of the first season. Only Michael Richards was previously familiar with his work outside of "Walk On The Wild Side," which had to be sung to Jerry.

The last two tv actors I looked up had actual musical connections:

Harmon dated singer Karen Carpenter in the 1970s.[13]

Perrette was married for three years to actor and musician Coyote Shivers. She has been granted restraining orders against him since leaving him.[4]

Danny Masterson spent downtime on the set of That 70s Show transcribing Eddie Van Halen guitar solos so they could be played on melodica, an instrument he mastered as a child.

Wendy Craig loaned 70 Gwen Party £1500 to record their first album

Frank Thornton and Nicholas Smith got in a fistfight over Bowie's production of Raw Power. Thornton felt the juice had been mixed out, while Smith felt he'd done a way better job than "That Cale prat" who ruined the Stooges debut.

After the cancellation of Richie Brockelman, Private Eye, Dennis Dugan spent a month in a motel in San Ysidro trying to make a career decision: stay in television, or move back to Michigan and join the Crucifucks.

Whitney Cummings is personally responsible for upwards of 1000 signatures each on online petitions to release Buckingham/Nicks and Neil Young's Time Fades Away on compact disc. "(They)...are my causes," says the noted comedienne.

Lauren Graham took the plunge and got a Rocket From The Crypt Tattoo in 1997, allowing her free entry into (by her estimation) 55-63 RFTC concerts before the band's break-up in 2005.

peter scolari was secretly chuffed to stand next to john scofield in gym class.

wendie jo sperber once put on a cabaret evening of plasmatics songs under the name "wendie jo williams"

Edward Woodward once petitioned to play Mark E. Smith in a Fall biopic.

susan saint james was once married to st. john green. for a time, he called himself "st. john green-saint james."

David Hasselhoff secretly harbored dreams of having followed Damo as the third singer for Can.

Tom Selleck is one of the word's foremost Yello completists.

how substantive was hulk hogan's claim that he was almost bassist for metallica? never trust a wrestler?

it was backstage in dead or alive's dressing room that cloris leachman gave pete "third degree" burns his nickname.

drake bell has been romantically linked with kitty pryde

rolf harris has been romantically linked with pussy riot

dustin diamond's dream is to reissue mentors albums

the chimp from bj and the bear released a 12" dance single produced by giorgio moroder and keith forsey, a peace offering to those in the gay community who misunderstood the "bear" aspect of the show's title.

tom hanks, peter scolari and richard simmons share the largest collection of rare paradise garage bootleg cassettes outside of NYC

Lee Horsley was such a fan of Crazy Horse that he earned the nickname "Crazy Horsley" on the set of "Matt Houston" during the series waning days. Horsley even attempted to fanagle acting roles for the group on the show (playing corrupt cops), but the series was cancelled before an agreement could be reached with the band's management.

Ed Asner owns many rare Denny Vertigo albums.

i saw asner at the fmu record fair; he was trying to get onstage with one of those feelies-related bands. brenda sauter shooed him away.

Ted Danson got his start in a Meatls cover band.

erik estrada was in the room (accidentally, he meant to go next door to an AA meeting) when john mclaughlin introduced carlos santana to sri chinmoy.

larry wilcox was in the room as well (on purpose, he heard there were doughnuts).

that's like a yacht rock noize edition

billy dee williams pre-hollywood name is BILLY DEE ISLEY

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*rubs eyes*

Judd Hirsch is one of the Residents

Ted Danson has an alcohol rehabilitation center in Malibu dedicated exclusively for 70s singer-songwriters.

And, no, the center is not called "Where Nobody Will Tell Them Your Name" but simply "Danson's"

Fred Dryer built the world's most expensive theremin during breaks on the set of Hunter. When the show was canceled, NBC sold the theremin to finance the production of The Torkelsons.

joanna cassidy used to get copies of the tellus cassette zine hand-delivered to the codename: foxfire set.

The music for the Saturday morning show California Dreams was composed by "Guy Moon," better known as Alan Alda.

sharon gless begged to be on fishing with john, but lurie was all "no, i'd rather get tom waits seasick and make him resent me"

charles nelson reilly sometimes recorded under the name "vini"

John Ratzenberger is the biological father of Yeah Yeah Yeahs frontwoman, Karen O.

Before his death in 2005, ABC World News Tonight anchor Peter Jennings personally financed the production of more than 1,300 rap albums and singles beginning with Schoolly D's "P.S.K. What Does It Mean?" in 1985. The last production he financed and personally oversaw creatively was "Stay Fly" by Three 6 Mafia featuring Young Buck and Eightball & MJG.

andy rooney's longtime ringtone was "simply having a wonderful christmastime."

and with that, i go to bed.

Patricia Heaton rented out the Staples Center in Los Angeles one day in April of 2009 so she could listen to Einstürzende Neubauten in cavernous solitude.

Tony Danza for the last eleven years has uncontrollably sniped every vinyl copy on eBay of the "Zurich" double LP by Borbetomagus; his collection stands proudly at 17 VG+/NM and 2 NM/NM copies.

Upon hearing Marilyn Manson's "The Beautiful People" for the first time in 2002, Paul Reiser unsuccessfully attempted to sue the group for creative property theft, claiming to have dreamt "solely to that melody" for his entire adult life.

John Forsythe recorded a spoken word album with DJ Premier in 1993.

Rumor has it Stephen Fry sings Gnarls Barkley's "Crazy" in the shower, when he thinks he can't be overheard.

Disney blanched when Selena Gomez stated she wanted her next album to be a collaboration with Le Tigre.

Steve Carell listens to nothing but 78s of duck calls, MP3s of dogs barking Christmas carols, and songs about toilet training (in any format he can get).

matt frewer played the distraught four-year-old on dottie west's "mommy, can i still call him daddy?" he was 19.