I've posted this here before. But every time The Crow comes up, I think about the stripper named Shelly Webster:

I had read the comic as a young teen and was obsessed with the movie. I had a Crow poster on my wall, and a few Crow t-shirts. I bought the movie on VHS when it came out and would watch it often.

Many years later it was my bachelor party and we wound up at Visions - as bachelor parties often do.

Visions has a thing where you can pay to have someone pulled on stage by the strippers, and they pull your clothes off and basically beat the shite out of you.

My friends did that to me. I was so drunk that I didn't care.

After being beaten by a bunch of strippers, they pulled me back stage so I can put my clothes back on. The girls all signed a Visions shirt. But signed it with their stripper names like "Sparkle" and "Gem Stone' or whatever it is strippers call themselves.

One of the girls, who had a goth theme going on, signed the shirt "True Love Always, Shelly Webster"

She said "You probably don't even know who Shelly Webster is."

As drunk as I was, I looked her dead in the eye and said "Mother is the name for God on the lips and hearts of all children."

She basically melted on the spot. I'm pretty sure I could have taken her home that night.

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Posted by boxcarbarney

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Posted on 5/14/24 at 10:19 am to boxcarbarney

14 THINGS YOU DIDN'T KNOW ABOUT 'THE CROW' SOUNDTRACK

1. The Cure's "Burn" was recorded by just the band's frontman Robert Smith and drummer Boris Williams

2. Machines of Loving Grace read the screenplay of The Crow before writing "Golgotha Tenement Blues" and created the song to fit the film

3. Stone Temple Pilots originally planned to contribute a different song than "Big Empty" to the soundtrack, but switched gears after Brandon Lee's death

4. Nine Inch Nails' Joy Division cover ("Dead Souls") is a Crow soundtrack standout, but according to Peter Hook, the former members of Joy Division were originally asked to cover the band

5. Rage Against the Machine's "Darkness" dates back to Zack de la Rocha's pre-RATM band Inside Out

6. Violent Femmes had written "Color Me Once" before they were asked to contribute in The Crow soundtrack, but based on what they heard about the movie, they thought it would fit

7. The song "Ghost Rider" is based on the Marvel comic-book character, but Henry Rollins was not a fan of the "motorcycle hero ... blazin' away"

8. Helmet's "Milktoast" is an alternate version of the band's "Milquetoast" recorded with Nevermind producer Butch Vig, who played a big part in the outcome of both versions

9. Pantera not only paid tribute to hardcore crew Poison Idea with their cover of "The Badge," but they also took influence from the group on Far Beyond Driven

10. For Love Not Lisa were initially reluctant to be part of The Crow soundtrack because they thought it was going to be "crappy kung-fu movie"

11. My Life With the Thrill Kill Kult shot their brief but memorable cameo in The Crow, playing their song "After the Flesh" "10 thousand times" in a freezing cold abandoned cement factory over two days

12. Despite being released on the Jesus and Mary Chains' The Sound of Speed compilation months before its appearance on The Crow soundtrack, "Snakedriver" was written for the movie

13. Medicine's "Time Baby III" features the Cocteau Twins' Elizabeth Fraser and is titled "III" because there are, in fact, three versions of the song

14. Jane Siberry's "It Can't Rain All the Time" was co-written by Graeme Revell, who scored the movie and was also the mainstay member of Eighties industrial outfit SPK

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