artists who plausibly appear to be good people

Suzanne Cianni
Alice Coltrane
Masami Akita
Iasos
DJ Harvey
Hans-Joachim Roedelius
Joanna Newsom

of course, who knows?

iasos seems to be into some suspect shit: http://iasos.com/services/index.html#GoddessCouncil

Frank Ocean
Yoko Ono
Gustavo Dudamel
Deerhoof

Oh, and "plausibly" doesn't feature here because I know him to be good, maybe the best person I've ever met: Dan Snaith

that is weird I listened to Andorra today for the first time in ages, it's great

as he is such a good guy maybe he would lend a sympathetic ear if you asked him to recapture whatever it was that made that album so good

my parents went backstage during a eurthymics concert when clem burke was drumming for them. they said he was extremely nice and friendly, talked with them a bunch.

oh wow, clem played on the garden too?? this would be on the revenge tour.

"would have been"

Jack Johnson

Janet Weiss seems fucking rad

― devvvine, Wednesday, November 15, 2017 6:12 AM

Ken Stringfellow (Posies, REM, etc.) disagrees: http://kenstringfellow.com/2015/02/common-decency/

(Kind of over-dramatic, tho.)

that really sucks for that guy, for sure, but i feel like i'd need to hear both sides of that story. i mean there could be any number of reasons why she decided not to go through with that project (from his telling i can't tell whether she cancelled at the last minute or literally stood him up without offering an explanation).

Leo Sayer is a really, really nice dude.

Alice Cooper Gibby Haynes Billy Corgan Johnny Ramone

Moe Tucker on drums

yeah that story up above isn't too bad, she did record an album with him anyways and plans fell through for further recording in 2003. Quasi released "Hot Shit!" that year and Slater-Kinney was touring with Pearl Jam. imo she kinda did have better things to do.

sorry Sleater-Kinney

yoko seems like a v nice person, espec considering all the shit she's been through

re upthread Bjork's very guarded about fans, but don't hold that against her. Imagine she's probably quite a good soul

Cosign Bjork.

Mastodon mostly come across as lovable dorks in interviews.

I think Bjork started being more private after a fan sent him a tape of him commiting suicide.

Wait I was misremembering he was actually trying to kill her:

https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Ricardo_L%C3%B3pez_(stalker)

yoko seems like a v nice person, espec considering all the shit she's been through

Hmmmm, not so sure about that.

She might be nice now but I don't think that was always the case.

what did Haynes do?

Ted Leo... surely that guy's gotta be on this list

that ken stringfellow blog about janet weiss is fucking gross

feels like this is the key sentence

Yeah, I probably harbored hopes about a relationship that were beyond the reasonable expectations of our encounter, but…I kept that to myself, as best as I could do.

Leo Sayer is a really, really nice dude.

― triggercut, Friday, 17 November 2017 04:03 (nine hours ago)

Lol you are kidding right? His Big Brother appearance was narcissistic catatstrophuck

most of you are looking in the wrong places

that ken stringfellow blog about janet weiss is fucking gross

Agreed. He sounds like a horrible mess.

Paul McCartney?

LOL

most of you are looking in the wrong places

― imago, Friday, 17 November 2017 13:14 (two hours ago) Bookmark Flag Post Permalink

I heard that McCartney is such a penny-pinching stingy bastard that looks under his bed every morning to see if he has lost any sleep.

I was going to suggest me but then I remembered I'm an asshole. ;_;

Vince Gill seems like an ok guy: lots of charity work, married to Amy Grant for 17 years now.

Counterpoint: the Westboro Baptist Church pickets his concerts because he cheated on and got divorced from his first wife

Ted Leo is super nice. People I know who have bumped into Bjork said she was nice. I've actually heard really nice things about Sting! From multiple people! But ... I dunno about that. I think some really famous people are so desperate for normal relationships that they go out of their way to be chill/generous.

Alex Lifeson for sure. He's such a nice guy that when he was arrested that one time for hitting a cop or whatever, the universal reaction was "well, the cop probably had it coming." There's a great scene in the second recent Rush doc, an interview with their longtime roadie/driver iirc, and the guy says that Alex would always hang with him in the front of the bus all the time when others were sleeping or whatever, just having fun and keeping him company.

that ken stringfellow blog about janet weiss is fucking gross

you wouldn't hear his dad Peter carrying on like that, I can tell you

Aimee Mann said that when she worked with Rush Alex and Geddy were super funny.

bill ward is supposed to be an extremely lovely person

John Grant?

Aimee Mann said that when she worked with Rush Alex and Geddy were super funny.

Possibly said this in an interview I conducted way back when. I think all the Rush dudes are funny, but Neil keeps to himself more. Those books aren't going to read themselves!

Hitler had dogs dinnee

I've heard great things about Robert Plant, but I have also heard horrible things about Robert Plant. I think it depends on the context.

Moka, the news clip about Bjork being targeted by that fan is sad as suck :-/

it’s almost like people can be both good sometimes and less good at others xp

someone should try writing a song or two about that concept

Nominating Owen Pallett in this thread. Great musician and seems one of the kindest people to come out of the Canadian indie scene in the past decades. I’m biased because I love Canadians, I’m sure there’s many good examples of cool people coming out of that scene.

Maybe Feist too? I’ve heard only good things about her.

Ah let’s not forget the Nardwuar parameter in this thread too. He’s a good way of telling if an artist is an asshole or not.

Top of my mind these were all pretty cool with him:

Grimes, Drake (see Canadians are cool!) and Pharrell.