Musician's homes

In this thread we link to articles about / pictures of musicians' houses.

Brad Laner os Medicine etc fame lives in a gorgeous modernist house in LA: http://www.latimes.com/la-hm-musicianhouse-laner-pictures,0,4423459.photogallery

Wayne Coyne of The Flaming Lips lives in a suitably classic / gonzo house: http://www.fitzsimmons-arch.com/Flaming_Lips_1.html

Brian Wilson used to live in a big, boring house - http://www.zillow.com/blog/2011-08-01/beach-boys-brian-wilsons-former-saint-charles-il-home-for-sale/

http://www.multinet.no/~jonarne/Hjemmesia/Favorittartister/prince/paisley_park.jpg

lol

someone post Lemmy's apartment

http://i49.tinypic.com/33b0sa9.jpg

http://30.media.tumblr.com/8Q4Qb3y79n4bu0yeDaG1MD4bo1_500.jpg

Frank Sinatra:

http://blog.markafoni.com/wp-content/uploads/2011/05/Frank-Sinatra-Palm-Springs-Residence-2.jpg

Red Man:

http://www.snotr.com/video/4965/Redman_s_Crib

>Brian Wilson used to live in a big, boring house - http://www.zillow.com/blog/2011-08-01/beach-boys-brian-wilsons-former-saint-charles-il-home-for-sale/

the home includes 6,527 square feet of living space, including 5 bedrooms and 7 bathrooms. In addition to the recording studio space, the home features nine fireplaces, two master suites, library, solarium, media and rec center

I always wonder what semi popular indie musicians in particular do for money when so much of their years are taken up by touring across great distances to play at venues that cannot possibly cover expenses. Ties in here since it would be interesting to see the kind of homes they can afford too.

http://www.zillow.com/blog/files/2012/01/Johnny-Cash-kitchen-573x430.png

http://www.zillow.com/blog/files/2012/01/Johnny-Cash-bathroom-573x430.png

Johnny Cash's kitchen, his shower

Keith Moon's pad
http://theselvedgeyard.files.wordpress.com/2009/10/aabt001747.jpg?w=600&h=405

d'oh
http://theselvedgeyard.files.wordpress.com/2009/10/aabt001747.jpg?w=600&h=405

This thread is like a dream come true

Jane Wiedlin's bizarro space age loft
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=S39ngul9xjQ

reminds me of that Daily Show bit about the "horrors of socialism" where they compare 50 Cent's MTV Cribs thing to Robyn's sensible, medium-sized apartment

(let's save) John Coltrane's house:
http://cdn.newsday.com/polopoly_fs/1.2791349.1311887403!/httpImage/image.JPG_gen/derivatives/display_600/image.JPG

timbaland http://www.celebritydetective.com/Celebrity_Homes_Timbaland-Miami-home.html

http://heartbreaktrail.files.wordpress.com/2010/01/neil-73-1.jpg

that website's a treasure trove btw xp

Louis Armstrong's kitchen:
http://candleashes.files.wordpress.com/2010/08/5-kitchenexitview.jpg

King Diamond's house (via the now-defunct blog Metal Inquisition):

http://1.bp.blogspot.com/-5R3rCW6ETAI/TxwrYVGxwqI/AAAAAAAAHWM/1f9qCHp_4Qk/s1600/Screen%2Bshot%2B2012-01-22%2Bat%2B10.28.27%2BAM.png

Also check out this legendary post on the offstage lives and homes of Manowar...

The stove in the Louis Armstrong's kitchen long postdates his lifetime - looks like circa 2005.

Rest of kitchen is awesome though. I want those radio-dial cabinet pulls! And the 1972 microwave oven and the NuTone thingie built into the countertop

That kitchen is excellent. Represent!

Louis Armstrong's kitchen looks a bit like (but I'm sure it isn't) a Lustron prefab; they had metal built-ins.

http://blog.timesunion.com/realestate/files/2010/07/lustron-two.jpg

My neighbor has a lustron house, they are frustrating!

I'm fascinated by Lustrons, esp. originals that haven't been "improved," they're kinda rare. But I could never live in one.

Same kitchen, but lived in:

http://www.lustronconnection.org/graphics/interiors/various/dinner.jpg

> My neighbor has a lustron house, they are frustrating!

At least it will never be damaged by termites....

It's the Lustron thread!

Nick Mason's garage (If I ever meet him, I'd rather talk about cars than Pink Floyd)

http://farm8.staticflickr.com/7217/7157982030_2f1890852a.jpg
http://farm8.staticflickr.com/7095/7158013062_e4c11bb4d8.jpg

Holy schnizzballs, that looks like fun

Neil Young shows off his model train set (bad video quality alert!)

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=1UENULIH0Ks

It doesn't show the whole place, but here's a bit of Jimmy Page's place from It Might Get Loud

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=TBfqSbP3bDY

GIS on "keith richard's house" is almost a primer on how to live

http://www.accreditedonlinecolleges.com/wp-content/uploads/2011/08/libraries/04-KeithRichards.jpg

I remember when Neil was on Leno in 1992 after one or two predictable questions from Jay, Neil said, "You know, I'd much rather play with this train you've got back here." For some reason, an electric train was part of the Tonight Show set. Neil jumped up and began moving things around (plants and such) to get to the train, to the surprise of Leno.

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BTW, http://realestalker.blogspot.com is a good source for these...

I love Keef's library

The properties of Billy Joel: http://realestalker.blogspot.com/2012/05/real-estate-baller-billy-joels-lists.html

http://1.bp.blogspot.com/-dYtuWau1wns/T6iiNvozAII/AAAAAAAAI04/bEfIu36yiMA/s1600/BJoel_MB_PICS4.jpg

man that shot of sinatra's house is just gorgeous

That picture of NY is unbelievably cute.

Billy Joel in having no taste shocker.

i absolutely have to have keef's chair. and...from what i can make out form the photo is an old gibson l2? i'll take that, too.

neko case in the kitchen
https://encrypted-tbn3.google.com/images?q=tbn:ANd9GcSAHdJT-JwO45mxv-mvpfRAPIUAO3eNyf8ieCg3hrRNYP8Xw-o4p

oops
http://media1.onsugar.com/files/2012/02/07/2/192/1922794/1bb9730e157420d5_link_time.xxxlarge_1.jpg

i am way too much of a tornado in the kitchen to keep a piano in it.

yeah something tells me the piano isn't going to get out of my way when i bark at it with a bunch of stuff in my hands

It's actually a vintage microwave

It's not a house, but definitely qualifies as a home...

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=UBTC1VL4xuE

Billy Joel's house looks like a wing of Cesar's Palace in Vegas. yeeeuch.

http://25.media.tumblr.com/tumblr_l282j96tgU1qzn0deo1_500.jpg

confirmation: Miles Davis lives in an album cover

Neil Tennant's 'gaff' (I think): http://www.smithsgore.co.uk/property-for-sale-wolsingham-1593887

Nice Mao painting in the kitchen.

http://www.seancarnage.com/wp-content/themes/tribune/scripts/timthumb.php?src=http://www.seancarnage.com/wp-content/uploads/2010/09/DioHome.jpg&w=640&zc=1

in the mystical forests of encino

RIP

oh yeah re:Neko Case her house is actually quite awesome and tasteful

http://www.countryliving.com/homes/house-tours/neko-case-vermont-farmhouse

lol:

Doorknob Display: Backstage passes, from Case's concerts and her friends' shows, hang on a doorknob.

pretty common for people who make their living on tour to hang laminates in bunches from a bedpost or a doorknob

"I will always remember you, Sioux Falls Convocation Center."

Danzig: HERE I AM MOTHERFUCKERS, JUST CLEANING UP MY MOTHER FUCKING BRICKS, BITCH!

Michael Stipe's loft - http://online.wsj.com/article/SB10001424052702303901504577460941225466200.html?mod=rss_newyork_real_estate#

This is a great thread. Tried to find Rick Wakeman's appearance on 'Through the Keyhole' but failed. Ah well. It was just a house full of synths and wizards, anyway.

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So Mr. Stipe has put his penthouse loft home and studio on Canal Street in SoHo on the market for $10.95 million as he searches for a suitable downtown work space to share with his partner, Thomas Dozol, a photographer and silk-screen artist.

Michael Stipe's place is for sale.

wakeman 'through the keyhole' sounds like the easiest possible.

Chris Martin and Gwyneth Paltrow. http://habituallychic.blogspot.co.uk/2012/06/house-of-gwyneth.html

I like their media room

omg i LOVE their media room but wish it had more carpet and a real conversation pit
i can't believe people actually live like that?!

yes to the kitchen! NO to the study. that wallpaper would give me a headache

most of the house is a bit too whitewashed for me, I'd be scared of getting things dirty bcs I am a walking dirtsmudge

agree with the whitewashed comment, but I like the super patterned wallpaper (blame acid...)

lol

Media room is nice, yeah. Sort of like the study too but I wouldn't want walls that busy *as a study*. Kitchen is just a kitchen - the only thing that I'm like "yes" to is the sheer amount of room they have, y'know. If someone gave me that house I wouldn't be anything other than made up about it, but the decor is yawwwwwwwwn for the most part.

it's cool that there are a couple of 'relaxed' though

always boggle at houses wehre there's SO many rooms. like you half expect them to have a 'day kitchen' and a 'guest kitchen'

*'relaxed (rooms) though

"I'd be scared of getting things dirty bcs I am a walking dirtsmudge"

people with insane amounts of money do not think about things like this.

plus they have more money to spend on hourly changes of clothing to hide their innate grubbiness I suppose

http://www.nicespace.me/wp-content/uploads/2011/05/moby-slide-jcun-jumbo.jpg

Moby bedroom.

http://la.curbed.com/uploads/2012.05_moby.jpg

Moby backyard.

http://cdn.newsday.com/polopoly_fs/1.1347612.1249404010!/image/1873809324.jpg_gen/derivatives/feature_416/1873809324.jpg

Lou Reed + Laurie Anderson + Hamptons.

http://www.newsday.com/classifieds/real-estate/real-li-1.812034/lou-reed-laurie-anderson-buy-in-east-hampton-1.1347601

http://3.bp.blogspot.com/-CamQsonzpKo/T-cR28mPYcI/AAAAAAAAuTg/dFgg7lA_x90/s1600/3.+house+of+windsor+floorplan.jpg

http://creativejamie.files.wordpress.com/2012/06/springfield-cat-burgler.jpg?w=300&h=225

what a great room

wtf an office bedroom AND a guest bedroom?

Liam Gallagher has bought an apartment by Central Park. It's bland.

http://observer.com/2012/08/former-oasis-frontman-liam-gallager-finds-refuge-in-2-5-m-condo/#slide1

What is an 'office bedroom'?

wine cooler for 40 bottles

http://distilleryimage0.s3.amazonaws.com/77f45de0755c11e19e4a12313813ffc0_7.jpg

Oh, necessarily...

House where Syd Barrett and the rest of the Pink Floyd original lineup lived up for sale for the first time since before 1963

oops, works much better with the correct link:

PINK FLOYD

http://www.nytimes.com/2013/03/31/nyregion/vernon-reid-savors-the-mellower-music-of-home.html?ref=music&_r=0

sounds like a man who has figured out how to live

Damn right.

Glad he doesn't have that landlord anymore.

Open Letter to a Homeowners' Association

Christgau tours the Louis Armstrong House Museum.

http://www.guardian.co.uk/music/shortcuts/2013/jun/27/liberace-mansion-market-going-cheap

It has two bedrooms and 10 bathrooms.

http://www.reactiongifs.com/wp-content/uploads/2013/06/Marty-McFly-What.gif

http://www.dailymail.co.uk/tvshowbiz/article-2056509/Live-like-rock-star-Jon-Bon-Jovis-New-York-pad-sale-cool-45million.html

Totally read that one caption as:

Butthole Jon Bon Jovi's plush New York apartment could be yours if you have a spare $45million

Tom Petty's post-arson house in Encino

http://cdn.cstatic.net/images/gridfs/520a97e3f92ea15a1700fd1d/13-693537_1_0.jpg

http://cdn.cstatic.net/images/gridfs/520a97e7f92ea15a1700fd31/13-693537_3_0.jpg

this thread is giving me FOMO

Imagine Tom Petty walking under those skylights toward you, panes of sunshine moving across his face like neon passing over a chrome bumper moving down Sunset.

Blatant attempt to get into the striking visual imagery thread.

I prefer to think of him swinging like a monkey from that third floor porch
nice house!

http://m.cdn.blog.hu/re/recorder/image/caveberlin%201.jpg

Odd fridge placement.

http://cdn.cstatic.net/images/gridfs/520a97e9f92ea1351f004bf3/13-693537_22_0.jpg

why is that fridge on a stage?

Might make some sense if that's your main living room, the kitchen is miles away, and that fridge only contains types of booze. Coming from a voice of booze wisdom, here.

Kazu and Amedeo from Blonde Redhead's apartment - http://joannagoddard.blogspot.co.uk/2009/05/home-inspiration-blonde-redhead.html

The completely empty shelves are freaking me out slightly more, tbh. I mean, why keep the idiosyncratic fridge placement and hideous decor if nobody lives there, and if someone is living there now where are their things?

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surprised to see nick cave apparently reading new right journal the new criterion

http://upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/en/thumb/5/53/TNC-cover.jpg/220px-TNC-cover.jpg

i wondered the same thing!!
is that horrible decor part of the package?
i thought it was a booze fridge too btw.

New Criterion used to publish a lot of poetry in the 80s

and some of it wound up in a filthy bedroom corner with a fully shod man

Blatant attempt to get into the striking visual imagery thread.

― they all are afflicted with a sickness of existence (Scik Mouthy), Wednesday, August 14, 2013 7:14 AM Bookmark Flag Post Permalink

Haha, it might have just worked had it not been about TOM PETTY.

MIKE CAMPBELL: Hey, thanks for coming over. You want a beer? Lori picked up some Sam Smith this afternoon. I'll just go into the kitchen...

TOM PETTY: HAHAHA, YOU MEAN YOU STILL KEEP YOUR REFRIGERATOR IN THE KITCHEN?

Varg Vikernes:
http://www.lamontagne.fr/photoSRC/bqUyVelNbWe1aAxBwXruFG8LIKncgI5EqzxysNngmzhLQqc95EY68d5L1WxH7gOSe4AgvLt9FhffSVHCrA9xuoG6bA--_/n-o-nazi-salon-la-tour_1202911.jpeg

the proper way to integrate a fridge into your living room:

http://sclick.net/cool%20gadgets/new-cool-funny-gadget/01/top-coolest-best-latest-new-fun-technology-electronic-gadgets-ge-monogram-30.jpg

http://farm6.staticflickr.com/5518/9719492221_b9553c6af4_o.jpg
seems like a real decent dude
http://brightestyoungthings.com/articles/ian-mackaye-interview.htm

likes digitizing things, doubtful about stories about bar openings

Sixties stars at home

http://www.voicesofeastanglia.com/wp-content/uploads/2013/10/Dusty-Springfield.jpg

Hard to really get a sense of the homes because the pictures are so tight on the musicians. From what I can see, I don't think I'd like to live in any of them. Beck, Watts, and Marriott all look like "my first apartment" kinda deals. Hendrix's furniture all looks uncomfortable. Tina has a a decent-sized kitchen though.

Jeff Beck's looks like a room in a student halls of residence.

lol yeah

...and my parents had some shelves like the ones in the Mick Jagger photo - they were the cheapest shittiest MDF imaginable, short of green chipboard.

John Fogerty goes large in Thousand Oaks

http://3.bp.blogspot.com/-EnvmLU3lL54/UpTwfAPz60I/AAAAAAAAThM/hHh82i6jpjI/s1600/JFogarty_TO_PICS5.jpg
http://4.bp.blogspot.com/-3GOQkfv2sQA/UpTwfZSJ4HI/AAAAAAAAThQ/TNaQocsuf3s/s1600/JFogarty_TO_PICS6.jpg

http://upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/5/58/Hiroshima_Dome_1945.gif/384px-Hiroshima_Dome_1945.gif

Steven Stapleton shows us around his wacky farmhouse:

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Aw1OFOJcZ4g

Copey's house for sale.

http://www.rightmove.co.uk/property-for-sale/property-40766701.html

New Criterion had a lot of coverage of modernist era arts back when I used to glance at it.

The original Criterion was started by T.S. Eliot after all, who some of us still read, though maybe not for his politics.

What you might expect from Moby...

http://graphics8.nytimes.com/images/2011/04/28/garden/28moby-span/28moby-span-articleLarge.jpg

http://1.bp.blogspot.com/-ohuQCbkRw5U/Tr5Wgf8WIaI/AAAAAAAABao/GOd-tU2x0K8/s400/20110428-MOBY-slide-7AXH-jumbo.jpg

think about moby's house all the time

who's copey?

Julian Cope

i've always liked moby more than his music. tho i love 'everything is wrong'

also i LOVE ian mackaye's house. i'd be happy man if i had my own wood-shingle craftsman bungalow

Isn't that now just the Virginia-based Dischord office? He lives in DC itself now, right?

ok yea you're right

i like copeys place a lot.

not too far from where i live either.

hmmm ...

Billy Bragg's house in Dorset: http://ianbone.files.wordpress.com/2013/08/bragg-house.jpg

Interior shots here: http://www.wellerworld.co.uk/billyshouse.htm

livin' the sweet socialist life

the cliffs round there are basically made of cheese, so good luck to him with that

how the fuck does billy bragg have that much money

couldn't work out whether or not that was just one residence in that picture. looks like about 3 houses?

dang. guess that's that Sexuality money?

strong and warm and wild and rich as hell

i have mixed feelings about looking at musicians' homes
on one hand, i want to see every tiny detail but also i cannot imagine such prying eyes around my home (not that anyone wants to see it but still) so i feel bad about looking

guilt not necessary when the house is up for sale !

i.e. julian copes.

love some of the detail re his ..

the chairs with the names on the back.
the guitars fixed to the walls.

Billy Bragg's house = Downton Shabby

http://flashinonthe70s.files.wordpress.com/2013/08/kitsch-room-with-concorde-ewa.jpg?w=640&h=643

Rocky Horror Show set designer Brian Thomson and his partner in their super-kitsch 70s flat, along with artist Annie Kelly and the Green Lady. Photograph by Tim Street-Porter, courtesy of Elizabeth Whiting Associates

I know they aren't musicians but I couldn't find a more appropiate thread

Is there a thread like the 'what do you wish you looked like' thread, but for what you wished your home looked like?

David Sylvian's old home/studio in New Hampshire is up for sale, yo:

https://www.facebook.com/pages/MA-Center-NH-465000/306095906159428

Damn. Prices are pretty good in rural NH.

Right?
That's like an hour away from me. If I could do my job remotely, I'd hop on that in a second.

Richard Ashcroft's new home plans for Taynton retreat

No photos of the inside, but apparently it "was built in 1660 and features a period bull-ring, a secret garden and an ornamental pond."

A bull-ring?

I question the rock stars who don't have a bull ring in their mansion.

The house where Bruce Springsteen wrote Born to Run goes on sale

Gaz Coombes at home earlier today

http://www.paradigmagency.com/Asset/g/a/gaz_stevekeros5.jpg

David Bowie's Caribbean home, later owned by Felix Dennis, up for sale:

http://search.knightfrank.com/rsi141028

http://www.architecturaldigest.com/gallery/david-bowie-iman-house-mustique-island-grenadines-slideshow

http://media.architecturaldigest.com/photos/55e787cd302ba71f3017a166/master/pass/dam-images-celebrity-homes-1992-david-bowie-david-bowie-03-portrait.jpg

Nice place

http://la.curbed.com/archives/2014/07/41_photos_inside_andy_samberg_and_joanna_newsoms_mindblowing_moorcrest_estate.php

The National guitarist Aaron Dessner's house is for sale

http://marketplace.brownstoner.com/listing/ss-14454558192976/ditmas-park-brooklyn-ny-11218/

http://www.scotsman.com/news/bokeskine-house-former-home-of-jimmy-page-destroyed-by-fire-1-3983588#ixzz3vATIMn9u

:(

http://www.snapgalleries.com/userfiles/image/dougcorranceheader.png?width=400

http://www.dailygrail.com/sites/dailygrail.com/files/imagecache/BlogImage-Large/storyimages/boleskin-house-fire.jpg

http://ichef.bbci.co.uk/news/624/cpsprodpb/CFEA/production/_87362235_fire.jpg

https://i.ytimg.com/vi/FJTXPsNnlsY/hqdefault.jpg

Frank Zappa's house for sale

May not ship to United Kingdom
:(