this is going to be bragalicious but most of my current favourite artists would fit happily here
i guess it's 'easy' for a relatively obscure artist to be a wonderful human being because they haven't been idk corrupted by the trappings of fame (read: forced to deal with everyone on earth wanting a piece of them) or w/e
should we limit this thread to huge artists though? not like ilx to celebrate the little people overly but this could be a good chance to
people I've met: literally everyone connected to the wider Cardiacs universe has been astonishingly lovely. Richard Dawson is an incredible man. Sadie Dupuis from Speedy Ortiz seems ultra nice. MC Dälek was an extremely solid dude. fgti hasn't been mentioned here yet and he is great. no bad things will ever emerge about any of these people because they're all giving, conscientious people with a natural curiosity about the world. there are probably way more examples but really it shouldn't be hard for all of you to think of examples
as for huge famous current music stars who are still wonderful people.....uh, JME seems cool?
― imago, Wednesday, 15 November 2017 08:53 (six years ago) link
That's the equivalent of listing all of your neighbours who are sound
They haven't the opportunity nor have they a media/wider public interested in ferreting out their secret sins
Like, a bit of cop on
― eeshTrip (darraghmac), Wednesday, 15 November 2017 09:23 (six years ago) link
A thread where we remind ourselves that all humans are fallible and we shouldn't start hero worshipping anyone - that sounds like potentially a good thread. Many of the problems we are going through are exasperated by talented people always getting the benefit of the doubt.
― mfktz (Camaraderie at Arms Length), Wednesday, 15 November 2017 09:23 (six years ago) link
Or thinking that it matters? idk
― eeshTrip (darraghmac), Wednesday, 15 November 2017 09:25 (six years ago) link
i could read calzino posts all day long
― estela, Wednesday, 15 November 2017 09:31 (six years ago) link
truth
― imago, Wednesday, 15 November 2017 09:33 (six years ago) link
http://images.donttalktomeaboutheroes.com/DT000000009%20-%20Snoop%20Dogg%20Daily%20Star%20Newspaper/DT000000009-MEN-BASL-WHTBLK.jpg
― treeship: a year in the life (wins), Wednesday, 15 November 2017 09:37 (six years ago) link
Craig Finn was great when I met him after a show on his first solo tour, in podcasts/interviews he seems all right.I generally assume Ian Svenonius is a good dude
― louise ck (milo z), Wednesday, 15 November 2017 09:38 (six years ago) link
i guess it's 'easy' for a relatively obscure artist to be a wonderful human being
oh, there are quite a few rapists, neo-fascists, abusive sociopaths, and racists shitlads among that lot
― sarahell, Wednesday, 15 November 2017 09:45 (six years ago) link
A thread where we remind ourselves that all humans are fallible and we shouldn't start hero worshipping anyone - that sounds like potentially a good thread.
Yeah. I mean I can completely understand why this thread was started but think that emil.y's points are OTM. I don't know, I'm probably not thinking straight about all this at the moment.
My friend, who will say anything to anyone, told them "It's not too late guys, you can still release Elvis Presley and America as a single."
On a positive note, this is hilarious.
― Gavin, Leeds, Wednesday, 15 November 2017 09:47 (six years ago) link
I know people make fun of Moby because of his artistic pomposity, but based on the interviews and stories I've read, he seems to be an utterly decent person. I still remember some MTV award show where Triumph the Insult Comic Dog spotted him in the audience and started roasting him, and Moby just politely answered all his questions and kept picking up his cigar and putting it back into its mouth as it kept dropping. After that Triumph tried to interview Eminem, put Eminem punched the puppeteer or something and they had to cut away from the scene.
― Tuomas, Wednesday, 15 November 2017 09:52 (six years ago) link
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=qc_39aTxsP0
Found that clip on Youtube.
― Tuomas, Wednesday, 15 November 2017 09:54 (six years ago) link
Is that Moby of "knob touch" fame?
― mfktz (Camaraderie at Arms Length), Wednesday, 15 November 2017 09:55 (six years ago) link
What's that?
― Tuomas, Wednesday, 15 November 2017 09:58 (six years ago) link
For the next four years, the world's most famous vegan lived out his wildest rock'n'roll fantasies. He toured relentlessly, he drank heavily, popped pills, frequented strip bars. He gave engagingly revelatory interviews, and once admitted to playing a game called "touch knob" at densely crowded celebrity parties that involved removing his penis from his trousers and seeing how many unwitting stars he could touch with it. Unsurprisingly, he became a staple of New York gossip columns.
― mfktz (Camaraderie at Arms Length), Wednesday, 15 November 2017 10:03 (six years ago) link
Ok, I didn't know that. :(
― Tuomas, Wednesday, 15 November 2017 10:08 (six years ago) link
moby dick touch
― StanM, Wednesday, 15 November 2017 10:08 (six years ago) link
judge didn't know whether to send him to rehab or ahab
― plp will eat itself (NickB), Wednesday, 15 November 2017 10:11 (six years ago) link
If we held a party on the border of Finland and Belgium (NB no I won't check if one exists tyvm) would stanm and tuom still be a year later to it
― eeshTrip (darraghmac), Wednesday, 15 November 2017 10:22 (six years ago) link
Whichever of the Beach Boys wrote 'Never Learn Not to Love' must be a saint among men, such a beautiful song.
― Home of the Ill-Considered Gravy Spigot (Old Lunch), Wednesday, 15 November 2017 11:22 (six years ago) link
Yeah, I heard he took time out of his busy schedule to help a budding songwriter from a commune in the countryside, such a nice gesture.
― mfktz (Camaraderie at Arms Length), Wednesday, 15 November 2017 11:26 (six years ago) link
lmao
― Le Bateau Ivre, Wednesday, 15 November 2017 11:27 (six years ago) link
these two threads are like "famous people who kinda acted nice once" vs "psycho criminal rapist murderers"
tbf the title is "plausibly appear" not "definitely are"
― Simon H., Wednesday, 15 November 2017 11:53 (six years ago) link
Didn't MOby eventually say that the whole "Knob touch" thing was a .... (presses button)... Lie?
― Mark G, Wednesday, 15 November 2017 12:27 (six years ago) link
grimes seems pretty cool
― treeship 2, Wednesday, 15 November 2017 12:29 (six years ago) link
i don't think i'd like art angels any less if it turned out she was some kind of axe murderer though
― treeship 2, Wednesday, 15 November 2017 12:30 (six years ago) link
a little less
Britt Daniel. Very friendly and smiles all the time.
Uh, no.
― Ⓓⓡ. (Johnny Fever), Wednesday, 15 November 2017 13:19 (six years ago) link
all of Citizen Fish, Zygote, Bettie Serveert, Monster Magnet, Motorpsycho. Dave Doughman from Swearing At Motorists, Lou Barlow, Henry Rollins, Damo Suzuki.
― thono, Wednesday, 15 November 2017 13:23 (six years ago) link
henry rollins was a jerk about suicide recently (although he did apologise sincerely)
― imago, Wednesday, 15 November 2017 13:24 (six years ago) link
Lou Barlow lol
― Le Bateau Ivre, Wednesday, 15 November 2017 13:29 (six years ago) link
Witnessed one AP (whose music I loved up until PomPom) concert, and that was a trainwreck even without the misogynist bullshit as of late. One of the worst concerts I ever saw. On par with a disastrous Sebadoh concert, where Lou Barlow walked off after 10 mins and fuck you'd the whole audience. Don't ever buy a ticket for your favourite lo-fi artist concert, kids.
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― Le Bateau Ivre, Wednesday, 15 November 2017 13:30 (six years ago) link
I saw Barlow and he was engaging and fun.honestly this gets to be some bullshit of X famous person didn't feel like talking or might have been in a bad mood or after getting interviewed one zillion times said something wrong like think about yourself and how your life would stand up to this microscope
― Universal LULU Nation (upper mississippi sh@kedown), Wednesday, 15 November 2017 13:43 (six years ago) link
It's the only logical conclusion on a dumb thread like this tbf
― Le Bateau Ivre, Wednesday, 15 November 2017 13:45 (six years ago) link
the only kinda famous person I feel comfortable putting on this is Har Mar Superstar because over not heard a bad word about him and if there was a bad word I would have heard it, always seems like a great dude
― Universal LULU Nation (upper mississippi sh@kedown), Wednesday, 15 November 2017 13:45 (six years ago) link
Ian Mackaye has run a record label for over 30 years and I've never heard of any artists having beef with him or saying they got ripped off which is a hell of an accomplishment
― Universal LULU Nation (upper mississippi sh@kedown), Wednesday, 15 November 2017 13:48 (six years ago) link
phil elverum seems good imo
― ogmor, Wednesday, 15 November 2017 13:57 (six years ago) link
I will never not be in awe of ariana grande for the stuff she did after the Manchester bomb
― plp will eat itself (NickB), Wednesday, 15 November 2017 14:07 (six years ago) link
Most people who seek fame do so because they are selfless and giving and generally want to spread their message of beneficence and brotherhood as far as possible. How they manage to find time to do the regular spiritual upkeep to make sure that they're engaging with the world in a morally healthy way is beyond me, but it's clear that they must.
― Home of the Ill-Considered Gravy Spigot (Old Lunch), Wednesday, 15 November 2017 14:08 (six years ago) link
xp Fully behind that.
― Le Bateau Ivre, Wednesday, 15 November 2017 14:16 (six years ago) link
m@tt, did I ever tell you that I did a couple of operas where Har Mar's brother-in-law was playing a lead role?
― the Hannah Montana of the Korean War (DJP), Wednesday, 15 November 2017 14:27 (six years ago) link
Shonen Knife is the only thing I believe in
― maffew12, Wednesday, 15 November 2017 14:28 (six years ago) link
Jon Anderson of Yes claims to have seen all good people. Perhaps he can help us sort through this?
― henry s, Wednesday, 15 November 2017 14:30 (six years ago) link
xpost, oh cool was that in Mpls or Boston?
― Universal LULU Nation (upper mississippi sh@kedown), Wednesday, 15 November 2017 14:40 (six years ago) link
Stormzy and Skepta both seem to be nice blokes. Always thought Jarvis cocker seemed sound.
isn't Dave Grohl supposed to be The Nicest Guy In Music (TM) ?
If you ignore all the weird AIDS conspiracy theory shit.
― chap, Wednesday, 15 November 2017 14:42 (six years ago) link
yeah when I mentioned JME upthread I probably did his brother a disservice not including him too
jarvis cocker though........i'm less sure about that, much less sure
― imago, Wednesday, 15 November 2017 14:42 (six years ago) link
― Ⓓⓡ. (Johnny Fever), Wednesday, November 15, 2017
saw him in cargo shorts in a Chipotle queue in 2008, shook me to core.
― morning wood truancy (Alfred, Lord Sotosyn), Wednesday, 15 November 2017 14:46 (six years ago) link
propose to retitle thread "Indie Bros Who Haven't Been Outed as Scumbags Yet"
― the intentional phallusy (Noodle Vague), Wednesday, 15 November 2017 14:47 (six years ago) link
"and Some That Probably Already Have Been"
― the intentional phallusy (Noodle Vague), Wednesday, 15 November 2017 14:48 (six years ago) link
I did a fair number of interviews with artists back in the day and two who stick out in my mind as being exceptionally nice were Jason Molina (RIP) and Steve Earle.
― evol j, Wednesday, 15 November 2017 14:49 (six years ago) link