For many years, one of the star cameo performers on NBC's Late Night With Conan O'Brien was the Masturbating Bear, an uncouth beast with enlarged genitalia who'd appear on the show, usually to perform an innocuous task, then proceed to toy furiously with himself. And on Jul 11, 2000, he attacked Jimmy Page and the Black Crowes.
The story is retold in the latest episode of the Conan O'Brien Needs A Friend podcast, in which Black Crowes frontman Chris Robinson talks about the rise of the band, his relationship with brother Rich Robinson, their new album Happiness Bastards, and the Masturbating Bear.
