artists who plausibly appear to be good people

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.

Big Krit was super cool with Nardwuar

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.

I leaned recently that his son founded Beavertown brewery (no idea how famous it is outside of London).

Jason Isbell seems to be a pretty well grounded dude these days - idk all of what he got up to in his drinking days or what he was like way back when but now that he’s sober he seems to be in a v good place

Dolly Parton
Cyndi Lauper
Weird Al

and I’ll cast anx antipodean vote for Neil Finn

Mark Hollis

Neil Finn is nice, but sort of aloof. But Nick Seymour is a sweetheart.

Neil Finn is in the subset category of "artists who have stayed married to the same person for a really long time." Finn, Johnny Marr ...

...John Lydon too

i have never heard anyone say a bad thing about ya kid k

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Paul Buchanan
Scott Walker

mad mike

i mean, i don't know, it's plausible, he seems like a generous soul

Bjork tripped me up by as we both made our way at the same time to the same unisex bathroom of a tiny thai restaurant. I'm sure it was an accident.

Tom Waits has also been married for decades now no?

That’s one that would break my heart if he was an asshole but I love him too much to care if he was.

Favorite Tom Waits story. (Per the Waits myth, did I hear this from someone? read it somewhere? read it here? is it made up?) Anyway, favorite Tom Waits. Someone was shopping at Amoeba and they came across Tom Waits, also shopping at Amoeba. Huh, thought this person, Tom Waits! That's pretty cool. So the person eventually leaves and heads to some other store, like a drug store or something. And there's Tom Waits again, running errands. The person thinks, huh, what are the odds? So the person leaves, goes to some coffee shop or something ... and sees Tom Waits again! The person thinks, wow, now that's just weird. So the person hangs back at the coffee shop an extra long time, until Tom Waits leaves and then even a few minutes after, and then the person leaves themselves. They walk around the corner ... where they bump into a very angry Tom Waits, who demands: "why have you been following me!!!!"

Never heard anything bad about Gruff Rhys.

Hitler had dogs dinnee

― fake pato is kind of racist, dude (darraghmac), Friday, November 17, 2017 7:34 AM (seven hours ago)

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Blondi

According to a report commissioned by Joseph Stalin and based on eyewitness accounts, Hitler's dog-handler Feldwebel Fritz Tornow took Blondi's pups and shot them in the garden of the bunker complex on 30 April, after Hitler and Eva Braun committed suicide. He also killed Eva Braun's two dogs, Frau Gerda Christian's dogs, and his own dachshund.

Right out of order was that ffs!

Not good people

Always supected those Nazis were bad people.

Street angels, Bunker dogkillers. I know their type.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=in7yLZJ7A6Y

Danzig!

not sure if this is serious or not but dude tried to incite an audience at the show I was at to beat a fan's ass simply cos he was taking video of the song.

he's also xenophobic af but as far as I know hasn't ever *acted* on it....

and then this lemon of a quote: "Nature has its own cleansing processes -- AIDS may be one of them. Ebola, all these different things, nature controls what happens on this planet. The world always has its way of clarifying things."

Lol @ the idea of Danzig as an answer to the thread question

Nominating Owen Pallett in this thread

This is cheating btw

George Corspegrinder

he was p dece teh few times I met him.

Danzig remains the only good answer on this thread, sorry

Momus agreed with me once on ILM, he’s probably a good guy.

I'm all for hanging terrible-person artists out to dry but I really dislike thinking about what artists are like personally otherwise and am massively uncomfortable with that whole "what's he really like?" aspect of artist / reader relations