How Much Can Change In a Year Post 2 Notes
If you missed last week’s post, this is a space where I will be diving into some leftover tidbits from the week’s story, answering some frequent questions, and listing the sources I used for the video. For this week’s story there was really only one big chunk that I didn’t include in the video that I spent a decent amount of time researching ,and that was trying to fact check Zakk Wylde’s story that he played guitar on porn star Ginger Lynn’s 1986 single “Fantasy World.”
I don’t always fact check everything in my stories if I am getting it from an interview with the artist directly. I am not a journalist, I am a storyteller. I do want to be accurate but I am not necessarily trying to find proof for every claim a musician makes. Did Ozzy really randomly pull out Zakk Wylde’s demo tape and then not bother listening to anybody else? I don’t know for sure. It’s possible Ozzy is exaggerating, but hey, that’s what he said so that’s how I’m gonna tell the story.
But sometimes I am just curious myself and so I will go down a rabbit hole trying to check something. That’s happened with the Ginger Lynn story. As I mentioned in the video Zakk Wylde is sometimes an unreliable narrator. He has a pretty dry sense of humor and he jokes around a lot so you have some people actually believing his story that he was Ozzy’s steroid dealer and that’s how he got in the band. It definitely tracks with his personality that he might be joking about playing on a porn star’s album when he was a teenager. And this story is from his autobiography which is a pretty strange book, it’s not a straightforward biography by any means.
This story about recording for Ginger Lynn was so detailed that it didn’t seem like a joke. But it also seemed like a story that somebody who wanted to mess with people might make up. So I did try to see if I could verify the claim.
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