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.
― Le Bateau Ivre, Monday, October 16, 2017 10:46 PM (four weeks ago) Bookmark Flag Post Permalink
― 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
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'.
― pomenitul, Wednesday, 15 November 2017 14:52 (six years ago) link
― henry s, Wednesday, 15 November 2017 14:30 (twenty minutes ago) Bookmark Flag Post Permalink
I lol'd
― ultros ultros-ghali, Wednesday, 15 November 2017 14:54 (six years ago) link
artists I met who seemed super nice:
Mark EitzelMike WattErykah 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
― President Keyes, Wednesday, 15 November 2017 14:58 (six years ago) link
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"
― Luna Schlosser, Wednesday, 15 November 2017 15:04 (six years ago) link
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.
― No purposes. Sounds. (Sund4r), Wednesday, 15 November 2017 15:04 (six years ago) link
― 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.
― Ⓓⓡ. (Johnny Fever), Wednesday, 15 November 2017 15:06 (six years ago) link
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
― jesus and figs and science and the foo fighters (unregistered), Wednesday, 15 November 2017 15:15 (six years ago) link
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.
― the Hannah Montana of the Korean War (DJP), Wednesday, 15 November 2017 15:30 (six years ago) link
https://img.washingtonpost.com/wp-apps/imrs.php?src=https://img.washingtonpost.com/express/wp-content/uploads/2015/01/COPY167733680.jpg&w=480
― ... (Eazy), Wednesday, 15 November 2017 15:37 (six years ago) link
anecdotal experiences where artists were sociable that one time
― Evan, Wednesday, 15 November 2017 15:57 (six years ago) link
Can’t believe Ted Leo hasn’t been mentioned yet.
― El Tomboto, Wednesday, 15 November 2017 16:08 (six years ago) link
Thread still surely not as bad as that "positive allegations" twitter thing, not that I've looked at the latter beyond what's popped up in my timeline but man what a lamebrained response to all of this "I allege that bill murray is epic!!!"
― treeship: a year in the life (wins), Wednesday, 15 November 2017 16:09 (six years ago) link
bacon your favorite artist :(
― weird woman in a bar (La Lechera), Wednesday, 15 November 2017 16:10 (six years ago) link
Dr Alex Paterson and Mixmaster Morris seem nice.
― El Tomboto, Wednesday, 15 November 2017 16:11 (six years ago) link
Bacon is one of my favourite artists that's the tragedy
― treeship: a year in the life (wins), Wednesday, 15 November 2017 16:11 (six years ago) link
Tombot, Ted Leo HAS been mentioned! By simon h.
Never met Ted Leo as far as I know but I was reasonably friendly with the drummer from Chisel (we worked together).
Anyway this thread: "What about (person X)?" "Sure, if you are okay with ignoring (sin Y)."
Personally I'm tempted to fall back on the "never admire anyone ever" plan. Enjoying and admiring and celebrating artworks, cool. People, broadly speaking appear to be no damn good (as Gene Hackman's Lex Luthor once said), myself included.
― piezoelectric landlord (Ye Mad Puffin), Wednesday, 15 November 2017 16:19 (six years ago) link
Liszt seems to have been the most utterly decent of the 19th century composers, though he did sleep around quite a bit and earned some bad blood that way (Marie d’Agoult never forgave him). But he was friends with arch-POS Wagner, and liszt’s longest lasting romantic partner, princess Caroline, was a horrible bigoted ideologue (he let her publish a book on Chopin under his name which he didn’t even read, and she ran with it, turning it into an anti-Semitic screed). Basically Liszt was too tolerant of asshole friends if they were intellectually/artistically brilliant, but he himself was fucking solid as hell in a century of giant assholes.
― harbinger of failure (Jon not Jon), Wednesday, 15 November 2017 16:36 (six years ago) link
Ligeti has always struck me as a decent chap in a post war modern music scene full of, quote, giant assholes.
― Terry Micawber (Tom D.), Wednesday, 15 November 2017 16:42 (six years ago) link
George Enescu appears to have been a pretty swell guy. Béla Bartók too, as far as I can tell.
― pomenitul, Wednesday, 15 November 2017 16:49 (six years ago) link
As far as the postwar composers go, granted, Boulez was a provocateur, but he mellowed over the years, whereas Stockhausen just sank further and further into guruism.
― pomenitul, Wednesday, 15 November 2017 16:55 (six years ago) link