artists who plausibly appear to be good people

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

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.

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.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=qc_39aTxsP0

Found that clip on Youtube.

Is that Moby of "knob touch" fame?

What's that?

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.

Ok, I didn't know that. :(

moby dick touch

judge didn't know whether to send him to rehab or ahab

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

Whichever of the Beach Boys wrote 'Never Learn Not to Love' must be a saint among men, such a beautiful song.

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.

lmao

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"

Didn't MOby eventually say that the whole "Knob touch" thing was a .... (presses button)... Lie?

grimes seems pretty cool

i don't think i'd like art angels any less if it turned out she was some kind of axe murderer though

a little less

Britt Daniel. Very friendly and smiles all the time.

Uh, no.

all of Citizen Fish, Zygote, Bettie Serveert, Monster Magnet, Motorpsycho.
Dave Doughman from Swearing At Motorists, Lou Barlow, Henry Rollins, Damo Suzuki.

henry rollins was a jerk about suicide recently (although he did apologise sincerely)

Lou Barlow lol

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.

― Le Bateau Ivre, Monday, October 16, 2017 10:46 PM (four weeks ago) Bookmark Flag Post Permalink

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

It's the only logical conclusion on a dumb thread like this tbf

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

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

phil elverum seems good imo

I will never not be in awe of ariana grande for the stuff she did after the Manchester bomb

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.

xp Fully behind that.

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?

Shonen Knife is the only thing I believe in

Jon Anderson of Yes claims to have seen all good people. Perhaps he can help us sort through this?

xpost, oh cool was that in Mpls or Boston?

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.

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

Britt Daniel. Very friendly and smiles all the time.

Uh, no.

― Ⓓⓡ. (Johnny Fever), Wednesday, November 15, 2017

saw him in cargo shorts in a Chipotle queue in 2008, shook me to core.

propose to retitle thread "Indie Bros Who Haven't Been Outed as Scumbags Yet"

"and Some That Probably Already Have Been"

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.

In the offing: 'ILXers who plausibly appear to be good people', followed by 'I have a terrible feeling that this thread won't age well'.

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 (twenty minutes ago) Bookmark Flag Post Permalink

I lol'd

artists I met who seemed super nice:

Mark Eitzel
Mike Watt
Erykah Badu

I don't know a whole lot about him, but I've never seen an artist as vigilant as Ian McKaye about making his show safe for the female fans in the audience

Can vouch for X, he’s always struck me as a sound "meat-and-potatoes, straight-up-and-down, Beef-Wellington, Don’t-trust-the-Argies, dick-in-the vagina, cheddar-cheese and chicken-tikka-masala-man"

As far as people who were not just actual rock stars but actual rock stars in the debauched 70s and early 80s go, Rush are pretty damn clean. Even Lifeson's New Year's fighting incident seems to mostly come down to wanting to stand up for his son.

Also, John Cage.

Britt Daniel. Very friendly and smiles all the time.

Uh, no.

― Ⓓⓡ. (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, November 15, 2017 9:46 AM

Seriously, though, it's not my story to tell and I'm not going to divulge it here out of respect for the person who confided in me, but he is the opposite of good people.

Isn't Dave Grohl supposed to be The Nicest Guy In Music (TM) ?

― StanM, Tuesday, November 14, 2017 3:54 PM (yesterday)

I've heard that...he is not.

― change display name (Jordan), Tuesday, November 14, 2017 3:57 PM (yesterday)

holy shit

xpost, oh cool was that in Mpls or Boston?

In Boston. He was in the production of Mahagonny I did (I thought he was also in La Vie Parisienne but apparently I made that up, oops.) Super nice dude and FANTASTIC singer. His wife (Har Mar's sister) is also super nice and a great soprano.