artists who plausibly appear to be good people

Ray Manzarek gets a lot of anecdotal love.

I mean if you bring up Dolly Parton why not bring up Emmylou Harris or Bonnie Raitt or Shelby Lynne etc

van morrison seems like a top bloke

I read that the Grateful Dead arranged for their roadies/crew members to be paid as much per show as the band members.

it is also my understanding that they offered health insurance to their roadies, which is so far beyond “good” i don’t even know what the word for it is.

godz must be nice surely

van morrison seems like a top bloke

Such a sunny happy-go-lucky fellow.

yeah lol, on a list of assholes, Van Morrison would be the first to come to my mind to add.

Fairly low-level everyday none of the wider public's business assholism tho, or the other kind?

The former.

I don't even know if he's an asshole so much as a stereotypical red-faced red-haired did-you-spill-my-pint Ulsterman.

whatever happened with bunita marcus? that's the first I saw of that; there seems to be little follow up on her mental state, etc after what sounds like a fairly public, sinead o'connor-esque meltdown.

Van is ridiculously unpleasant by all accounts. nothing major I guess but a weird inclusion

I want to believe that Brian Wilson is a good nom for this thread. I'm reading his memoir, I am Brian Wilson (with Ben Greenman), and he comes off as such a tender soul. I do know that he had some aggressive acting-out issues (supposedly he greeted Elvis Presley with a flurry of karate chops), but to me they seem less the mark of an a-hole than of a man unable to regulate the rage left in him by his abusive father. I realize these aren't mutually exclusive characteristics, but in him I definitely sense it to be a case of the latter.

Shirley Collins is definitely a good person.

anyone mentioning Ariel Pink should probably check the Ariel Pink thread :/

wonder what weyes blood sees in him. guess they're two california weirdos with an interest in retromodern folk, just that one's one of the great artists of our day and the other is a kind of creepy nutcase idk

I'm pretty convinced Hamilton Leithauser is a Very Nice Person.

Lol I was kidding re: Van Morrison

Kirk from Metallica seems like a good guy. Barney from Napalm Death seems like a nice dude, considering.

as far as loveable old dudes in rock go, van morrison is right up there with ginger baker

Van's not violent as far as I'm aware.

yeah i've not really heard much about Van being violent/racist/homophobe/women hating etc.... just being a majorly grumpy fuck in a neil young fashion.
but someone please feel free to enlighten/sadden me?

Less Neil Young, more this...

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

Lars Ulrich from Metallica and Phil Anselmo from Pantera.

Wait, wrong thread.

lol I'd forgotten about the time when Harry Enfield was actually funny.

I want to believe that Brian Wilson is a good nom for this thread. I'm reading his memoir, I am Brian Wilson (with Ben Greenman), and he comes off as such a tender soul. I do know that he had some aggressive acting-out issues (supposedly he greeted Elvis Presley with a flurry of karate chops), but to me they seem less the mark of an a-hole than of a man unable to regulate the rage left in him by his abusive father. I realize these aren't mutually exclusive characteristics, but in him I definitely sense it to be a case of the latter.

― never have i been a blue calm sea (collardio gelatinous), Thursday, November 16, 2017 3:01 PM (five hours ago)

i've read all the trashiest BBs biographies and offhand i can't really remember anything that cast brian in a bad light. carl seemed like a nice guy too.

Lars Ulrich from Metallica and Phil Anselmo from Pantera.

― ✖✖✖ (Moka), Thursday, November 16, 2017 12:21 PM (three hours ago) Bookmark Flag Post Permalink

Wait, wrong thread.

― ✖✖✖ (Moka), Thursday, November 16, 2017 12:21 PM (three hours ago) Bookmark Flag Post Permalink

lool

that's so fucking unfair to Lars to compare him with that fucking white nationalist junkie

Brian Wilson used to sneak in the blonde in his coke shack behind Marilyn's back and then wrote The Night Is So Young about her!

not to mention perving on Marilyn's sister

I mean, he does seem like a genuinely nice (if mentally unbalanced) guy but his sexual escapades in the 70s weren't exactly pretty

xxxpost:

Yeah, Anselmo is a legit fucking cunt.

Vashti Bunyan surely

Vashti Bunyan surely

― Week of Wonders (Ross), Thursday, November 16, 2017 8:54 PM (twenty-one minutes ago) Bookmark Flag Post Permalink

Yeah if anyone comes up contrary evidence I'm deleting myself.

I love her music but not some of her freak-folk US acolytes from the 00's, but she seems so sound.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=sVLavhf10UM

Paparazzi attack incidents aside (and tbh I feel paparazzi deserve being mistreated half of the time) I feel like Bjork is very sweet. She’s also bonkers so it can go both ways.

Has Kurt Cobain been mentioned? From what I’ve read he was a stellar dude.

surely giving us Courtney Love's career is some kind of crime

Grunge inherited a lot of cock rock imbeciles and Kurt was never happy about it. There’s also anecdotes like this:

https://dangerousminds.net/comments/watch_nirvana_sabotage_buenos_aires_stadium_show

Makes it look like he was a class act.

Björk I totally believe. Cobain is another story all-together iirc.

AURORA seems like a kind soul (though her fans are a little over-the-top with their praise. I'm pretty sure she isn't an angel or an astral being or "too pure for this world")

Cannot believe nobody has mentioned Gaz Coombes

Top, top bloke by all accounts

I'd do anything for Coombes, but I won't do that.

I love her music but not some of her freak-folk US acolytes from the 00's

is Devendra as much of a sleaze as I suspect he is?
his background as a pick-up artist doesn't really count in his favor, but Joanna Newsom seems to be cool with him so idk

From personal experience:

* Justin Broadrick of Godflesh
* Alex Paterson of The Orb
* Walter Becker

mary j blige

joan baez?

Mavis Staples

rascall flatts seem like genuinely good dudes... they do a lot of philanthropy... play music for hospitalized children.

who knows though