Oh, and "plausibly" doesn't feature here because I know him to be good, maybe the best person I've ever met: Dan Snaith
― flamboyant goon tie included, Friday, 17 November 2017 01:55 (six years ago) link
that is weird I listened to Andorra today for the first time in ages, it's great
― imago, Friday, 17 November 2017 01:56 (six years ago) link
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
― imago, Friday, 17 November 2017 01:58 (six years ago) link
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.
― brimstead, Friday, 17 November 2017 02:08 (six years ago) link
oh wow, clem played on the garden too?? this would be on the revenge tour.
― brimstead, Friday, 17 November 2017 02:09 (six years ago) link
"would have been"
― brimstead, Friday, 17 November 2017 02:10 (six years ago) link
Jack Johnson
― banjoboy, Friday, 17 November 2017 03:13 (six years ago) link
Janet Weiss seems fucking rad― devvvine, Wednesday, November 15, 2017 6:12 AM
― devvvine, Wednesday, November 15, 2017 6:12 AM
Ken Stringfellow (Posies, REM, etc.) disagrees: http://kenstringfellow.com/2015/02/common-decency/
― Birds in Hell, Friday, 17 November 2017 03:31 (six years ago) link
(Kind of over-dramatic, tho.)
― Birds in Hell, Friday, 17 November 2017 03:32 (six years ago) link
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).
― (The Other) J.D. (J.D.), Friday, 17 November 2017 03:47 (six years ago) link
Leo Sayer is a really, really nice dude.
― triggercut, Friday, 17 November 2017 04:03 (six years ago) link
Alice Cooper Gibby Haynes Billy Corgan Johnny Ramone
― ur-oik (rip van wanko), Friday, 17 November 2017 04:43 (six years ago) link
Moe Tucker on drums
― ur-oik (rip van wanko), Friday, 17 November 2017 04:45 (six years ago) link
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.
― AdamVania (Adam Bruneau), Friday, 17 November 2017 05:23 (six years ago) link
sorry Sleater-Kinney
― AdamVania (Adam Bruneau), Friday, 17 November 2017 05:24 (six years ago) link
yoko seems like a v nice person, espec considering all the shit she's been through
― (The Other) J.D. (J.D.), Friday, 17 November 2017 05:30 (six years ago) link
re upthread Bjork's very guarded about fans, but don't hold that against her. Imagine she's probably quite a good soul
― Week of Wonders (Ross), Friday, 17 November 2017 05:42 (six years ago) link
Cosign Bjork.
Mastodon mostly come across as lovable dorks in interviews.
― chap, Friday, 17 November 2017 08:04 (six years ago) link
I think Bjork started being more private after a fan sent him a tape of him commiting suicide.
― ✖✖✖ (Moka), Friday, 17 November 2017 08:24 (six years ago) link
Wait I was misremembering he was actually trying to kill her:
https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Ricardo_L%C3%B3pez_(stalker)
― ✖✖✖ (Moka), Friday, 17 November 2017 08:26 (six years ago) link
Hmmmm, not so sure about that.
― Terry Micawber (Tom D.), Friday, 17 November 2017 11:00 (six years ago) link
She might be nice now but I don't think that was always the case.
what did Haynes do?
― gospodin simmel, Friday, 17 November 2017 12:00 (six years ago) link
Ted Leo... surely that guy's gotta be on this list
― enochroot, Friday, 17 November 2017 13:00 (six years ago) link
that ken stringfellow blog about janet weiss is fucking grossfeels 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.
― wow. that was truly the minecraft of sex. (bizarro gazzara), Friday, 17 November 2017 13:06 (six years ago) link
― triggercut, Friday, 17 November 2017 04:03 (nine hours ago)
Lol you are kidding right? His Big Brother appearance was narcissistic catatstrophuck
― glumdalclitch, Friday, 17 November 2017 13:13 (six years ago) link
most of you are looking in the wrong places
― imago, Friday, 17 November 2017 13:14 (six years ago) link
that ken stringfellow blog about janet weiss is fucking gross
Agreed. He sounds like a horrible mess.
― how's life, Friday, 17 November 2017 13:27 (six years ago) link
Paul McCartney?
― prouders, Friday, 17 November 2017 15:10 (six years ago) link
LOL
― Terry Micawber (Tom D.), Friday, 17 November 2017 15:12 (six years ago) link
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― imago, Friday, 17 November 2017 15:15 (six years ago) link
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.
― calzino, Friday, 17 November 2017 15:18 (six years ago) link
I was going to suggest me but then I remembered I'm an asshole. ;_;
― emil.y, Friday, 17 November 2017 15:21 (six years ago) link
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
― President Keyes, Friday, 17 November 2017 15:21 (six years ago) link
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.
― Josh in Chicago, Friday, 17 November 2017 15:25 (six years ago) link
you wouldn't hear his dad Peter carrying on like that, I can tell you
― thirst trap your hare (DJ Mencap), Friday, 17 November 2017 15:27 (six years ago) link
Aimee Mann said that when she worked with Rush Alex and Geddy were super funny.
― President Keyes, Friday, 17 November 2017 15:28 (six years ago) link
bill ward is supposed to be an extremely lovely person
― brimstead, Friday, 17 November 2017 15:29 (six years ago) link
John Grant?
― chap, Friday, 17 November 2017 15:31 (six years ago) link
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!
― Josh in Chicago, Friday, 17 November 2017 15:34 (six years ago) link
Hitler had dogs dinnee
― fake pato is kind of racist, dude (darraghmac), Friday, 17 November 2017 15:34 (six years ago) link
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.
― Josh in Chicago, Friday, 17 November 2017 15:35 (six years ago) link
Moka, the news clip about Bjork being targeted by that fan is sad as suck :-/
― Week of Wonders (Ross), Friday, 17 November 2017 15:41 (six years ago) link
it’s almost like people can be both good sometimes and less good at others xp
― wow. that was truly the minecraft of sex. (bizarro gazzara), Friday, 17 November 2017 15:42 (six years ago) link
someone should try writing a song or two about that concept
― President Keyes, Friday, 17 November 2017 15:43 (six years ago) link
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.
― ✖✖✖ (Moka), Friday, 17 November 2017 16:29 (six years ago) link
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.
― ✖✖✖ (Moka), Friday, 17 November 2017 16:36 (six years ago) link
Big Krit was super cool with Nardwuar
― ur-oik (rip van wanko), Friday, 17 November 2017 16:54 (six years ago) link
i've heard close to first-hand reports on Robert Plant thru a friend whose friend was dating him, and she said he was very chill, low-key, and liked spending a lot of time listening to old folk and blues.
― omar little, Friday, 17 November 2017 17:07 (six years ago) link
I leaned recently that his son founded Beavertown brewery (no idea how famous it is outside of London).
― chap, Friday, 17 November 2017 17:13 (six years ago) link