Who's the biggest asshole in rock music

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a) kicked someone out of his show for requesting 'summer of 69'
(laughing) that roXor!!! i mean the person who requested it roXor, not mr humorless ryan adams obviously
Try finding the humour in it after it's been done every single night.

― nathalie, Sunday, 17 March 2002 01:00 (twenty-two years ago) link

Then that's when it's time to adapt a stage moniker like Brett Beautiful. It worked for Sean Coombs, who shed his Puff Daddy identity like a cocoon and emerged into the world as the sparkling crystalline butterfly that is P. Diddy. I...I am moved what he did. Overwhelmed with emotion. *sobs*

― Ned Raggett, Sunday, 17 March 2002 01:00 (twenty-two years ago) link

Nathalie if he wasn't such an arsehole he'd learn the bloody song and perform it - that would soon shut 'em up!

― Andrew L, Sunday, 17 March 2002 01:00 (twenty-two years ago) link

Who's Matthew Good, Sean? I mean, I went to AMG but I didn't get any sense of what the music sounds like. Among the influences listed were Bob Dylan and the Rolling Thunder Revue, Blackie Lawless and Oasis. Hmmmm.

― Arthur, Sunday, 17 March 2002 01:00 (twenty-two years ago) link

Generic alternative rock hero for disaffected Canadian youth. The band has a reasonably interesting website at www.matthewgoodband.com. To see him in full swing, check out this link here.

― Sean Carruthers, Sunday, 17 March 2002 01:00 (twenty-two years ago) link

John Fogerty. This guy's head is huge, he wouldn't even play with his band when they were being inducted into the R&R Hall of Fame. I mean, sure he wrote all the songs, but there's plenty of bands where one person writes all the songs, and in most of them he doesn't go around saying things like: "I was Credence Clearwater". Fuck John Fogerty, I can't even listen to the music anymore (not that I was that keen on it to begin with).

― Dan i., Sunday, 17 March 2002 01:00 (twenty-two years ago) link

I wanted to make a joke that used the phrase "butt sex" here, but I couldn't word it properly.

― Dan Perry, Sunday, 17 March 2002 01:00 (twenty-two years ago) link

Gene Simmons. Nobody even comes close.

― Pump Wellington, Sunday, 17 March 2002 01:00 (twenty-two years ago) link

A friend told me this afternoon that she heard a recent interview with Gene Simmons on NPR. Apparently, Mr. Simmons was extremely rude and arrogant during the NPR interview, which is especially interesting since he was promoting his Kiss and Make-Up book. Not a good way to promote yerself, Mr. Demon!

It's especially interesting, since another acquaintance met Paul Stanley a few years ago and he swore that Stanley was both very nice and down-to-earth.

― Tadeusz Suchodolski, Sunday, 17 March 2002 01:00 (twenty-two years ago) link

Fogerty or Roger Waters

― Phong Wiedermeier, Monday, 18 March 2002 01:00 (twenty-two years ago) link

In Gene's defense, Terry Gross's questions have a tendency of being cringe inducing.

― Nicole, Monday, 18 March 2002 01:00 (twenty-two years ago) link

I note that basically the only people who think of Albini as an asshole are non-musicians. Bands I know who've recorded with him have uniformly great things to say about him (including types you wouldn't guess would be buddy-buddy with him: Low, Danielson Famile, etc.); it's just that he doesn't suffer spongers at all.

― Douglas, Monday, 18 March 2002 01:00 (twenty-two years ago) link

I think it's because Albini's upfront about things, doesn't beat around the bush (or is that Bush heheheh), that confuses people. There's a difference between frankness and being mean.

― nathalie, Monday, 18 March 2002 01:00 (twenty-two years ago) link

Sundar Subramian: Yes Thurston Moore really did that... in front of my very eyes.

― Daniel, Tuesday, 19 March 2002 01:00 (twenty-two years ago) link

Can't believe nice guy Jon bon jovi hasn't got a mention. I heard he signed skid row on one of those fifties style managment deals where he got 90% of the money. It included a confidentiality clause where if they ever spoke about he could sue for the rest. Also remember the feels like a saturday night song which came out at the height of grunge "somenights I feel like I might just blow myself away..". Next thing I know I see him on the cover of Hello magazine showing off his house in Malibu. If only you would, Jon, If only you would.

― Bluegerm, Tuesday, 19 March 2002 01:00 (twenty-two years ago) link

Daniel, could you leave a few more details about Mr. Moore, er, put it in context ?? This guy is art musics big public saviour to some people, so I think everybody wants/needs to know about this sort of behavior. I mean did he do this supposedly hidden from view in Eastern Europe ? Why ?

― George Gosset, Wednesday, 20 March 2002 01:00 (twenty-two years ago) link

Hands down Gene Simmons. Did anyone hear his Fresh Air interview? What a complete fucking tool. And not in a good way.

― Samantha, Wednesday, 20 March 2002 01:00 (twenty-two years ago) link

Here's some fr esher Gene meat, if you will.

― Ned Raggett, Wednesday, 20 March 2002 01:00 (twenty-two years ago) link

four years pass...

PLAY SUMMER OF SIXTY NINE, YA FUCKER

― Forksclovetofu (Forksclovetofu), Saturday, 29 April 2006 18:08 (seventeen years ago) link

you never him

― Aaron A, Saturday, 29 April 2006 18:11 (seventeen years ago) link

really, it's all about the fans

― Forksclovetofu (Forksclovetofu), Saturday, 29 April 2006 18:24 (seventeen years ago) link

GG Allin seems like he wasnt an asshole, seeing interviews and watching that movie, he just looked fucked up but didn't do anything that people either didn't expect / deserve.

― andrew b (klik99), Saturday, 29 April 2006 19:22 (seventeen years ago) link

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