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
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
― 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
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 PartonCyndi Lauper Weird Al and I’ll cast anx antipodean vote for Neil Finn
― Squeaky Fromage (VegemiteGrrl), Friday, 17 November 2017 18:07 (six years ago) link
Mark Hollis
― ur-oik (rip van wanko), Friday, 17 November 2017 18:08 (six years ago) link
Neil Finn is nice, but sort of aloof. But Nick Seymour is a sweetheart.
― Josh in Chicago, Friday, 17 November 2017 18:11 (six years ago) link
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 ...
― Josh in Chicago, Friday, 17 November 2017 18:21 (six years ago) link
...John Lydon too
― President Keyes, Friday, 17 November 2017 18:29 (six years ago) link
i have never heard anyone say a bad thing about ya kid k
― damian green is people (NickB), Friday, 17 November 2017 19:16 (six years ago) link
0 from 0
― fake pato is kind of racist, dude (darraghmac), Friday, 17 November 2017 19:57 (six years ago) link
Paul BuchananScott Walker
― Le Bateau Ivre, Friday, 17 November 2017 19:58 (six years ago) link
mad mike
― brimstead, Friday, 17 November 2017 19:59 (six years ago) link
i mean, i don't know, it's plausible, he seems like a generous soul
― brimstead, Friday, 17 November 2017 20:00 (six years ago) link
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.
― piscesx, Friday, 17 November 2017 20:10 (six years ago) link
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.
― ✖✖✖ (Moka), Friday, 17 November 2017 20:44 (six years ago) link
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!!!!"
― Josh in Chicago, Friday, 17 November 2017 21:40 (six years ago) link
Never heard anything bad about Gruff Rhys.
― afriendlypioneer, Friday, 17 November 2017 22:30 (six years ago) link
Hitler had dogs dinnee― fake pato is kind of racist, dude (darraghmac), Friday, November 17, 2017 7:34 AM (seven hours ago)
― fake pato is kind of racist, dude (darraghmac), Friday, November 17, 2017 7:34 AM (seven hours ago)
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Blondi
― sarahell, Friday, 17 November 2017 22:53 (six years ago) link
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!
― calzino, Friday, 17 November 2017 23:07 (six years ago) link
Not good people
― fake pato is kind of racist, dude (darraghmac), Friday, 17 November 2017 23:08 (six years ago) link
Always supected those Nazis were bad people.
― Terry Micawber (Tom D.), Friday, 17 November 2017 23:12 (six years ago) link
Street angels, Bunker dogkillers. I know their type.
― calzino, Friday, 17 November 2017 23:16 (six years ago) link
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=in7yLZJ7A6Y
― Josh in Chicago, Friday, 17 November 2017 23:28 (six years ago) link
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.
― fuck you, your hat is horrible (Neanderthal), Friday, 17 November 2017 23:30 (six years ago) link
he's also xenophobic af but as far as I know hasn't ever *acted* on it....
― fuck you, your hat is horrible (Neanderthal), Friday, 17 November 2017 23:33 (six years ago) link
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."
― fuck you, your hat is horrible (Neanderthal), Friday, 17 November 2017 23:36 (six years ago) link
Lol @ the idea of Danzig as an answer to the thread question
― treeship 2, Friday, 17 November 2017 23:38 (six years ago) link
Nominating Owen Pallett in this thread
This is cheating btw
― treeship 2, Friday, 17 November 2017 23:39 (six years ago) link
George Corspegrinder
― kurt schwitterz, Friday, 17 November 2017 23:41 (six years ago) link
he was p dece teh few times I met him.
― fuck you, your hat is horrible (Neanderthal), Friday, 17 November 2017 23:42 (six years ago) link
Danzig remains the only good answer on this thread, sorry
― omar little, Saturday, 18 November 2017 00:07 (six years ago) link
Momus agreed with me once on ILM, he’s probably a good guy.
― never have i been a blue calm sea (collardio gelatinous), Saturday, 18 November 2017 00:31 (six years ago) link
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
― she carries a torch. two torches, actually (Joan Crawford Loves Chachi), Saturday, 18 November 2017 01:51 (six years ago) link
I had a nice chat with Momus before a show and he was super nice and generous with his time. Likewise John Vanderslice, Jason Molina and Sean Tillmann. Dean Wareham was politely tolerant, even when I stupidly said "Hope you have a good show" as a farewell. Note: I no longer stalk musicians before shows.
― epistantophus, Saturday, 18 November 2017 02:13 (six years ago) link