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• Cameo: [Lemmy] Front man for the band Motörhead is the "Newspaper Editor" in the parking lot. He's credited as Lemmy Von Motorhead.
  
  
• The members of the band "Sons of Thunder" (Monty Colvin, Alan Doss, Ben Huggins and Mitchell Dane Sonnier) are actually members of another group called "The Galactic Cowboys".
  
  
• Rob Zombie (Robert Cummings), Phil 'Philo' Buerstatte, Sean Yseult, and Jay Yuenger are members of the metal band, White Zombie.
  
  
• The Lone Rangers' hit single "Degenerated" is actually a song by 1980s punk-turned-metal group Reagan Youth.
  
  
• The character Rex, who plays the bass player in the Lone Rangers, is an apparent representation of the bass player Rex Brown from the band Pantera.
  
  
• During the intro sequence, a picture of Lemmy can be seen hanging on a wall in the Palatine Records building. Lemmy appears later in the movie.
  
  
• The building in which the main characters take hostages, is right across the street from the building used in Die Hard (1988). (Both buildings are seen in both movies.)
  
  
• When Chaz tells Yvonne "to get her stuff and go", he says, "You'll be home in time for The Simpsons." Joe Mantegna (Ian) has a recurring character on "The Simpsons" (1989).
  
  
• Alexandre Rockwell was originally slated to direct.
  
  
• Making a cameo appearance is "Stuttering" John Melendez, who at the time was from the Howard Stern Show. He is billed in the credits as the "masturbating" rocker. He was invited to participate in this production because, as a new artist for Atlantic Records, his first album had just been released and his song "Talk My Way Out Of It" can be heard as Chaz and the boys are driving in the van on their way to the radio station. After years as a Stern employee, primarily assigned to do unconventional man-in-the-street and celebrity interviews, John was lured away from New York and is now the announcer and voice of Jay Leno's "The Tonight Show with Jay Leno" (1992)
  
  
• Pip's "secret code" is 256001.
  
  

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