artists who plausibly appear to be good people

I want to believe that Brian Wilson is a good nom for this thread. I'm reading his memoir, I am Brian Wilson (with Ben Greenman), and he comes off as such a tender soul. I do know that he had some aggressive acting-out issues (supposedly he greeted Elvis Presley with a flurry of karate chops), but to me they seem less the mark of an a-hole than of a man unable to regulate the rage left in him by his abusive father. I realize these aren't mutually exclusive characteristics, but in him I definitely sense it to be a case of the latter.

― never have i been a blue calm sea (collardio gelatinous), Thursday, November 16, 2017 3:01 PM (five hours ago)

i've read all the trashiest BBs biographies and offhand i can't really remember anything that cast brian in a bad light. carl seemed like a nice guy too.

Lars Ulrich from Metallica and Phil Anselmo from Pantera.

― ✖✖✖ (Moka), Thursday, November 16, 2017 12:21 PM (three hours ago) Bookmark Flag Post Permalink

Wait, wrong thread.

― ✖✖✖ (Moka), Thursday, November 16, 2017 12:21 PM (three hours ago) Bookmark Flag Post Permalink

lool

that's so fucking unfair to Lars to compare him with that fucking white nationalist junkie

Brian Wilson used to sneak in the blonde in his coke shack behind Marilyn's back and then wrote The Night Is So Young about her!

not to mention perving on Marilyn's sister

I mean, he does seem like a genuinely nice (if mentally unbalanced) guy but his sexual escapades in the 70s weren't exactly pretty

xxxpost:

Yeah, Anselmo is a legit fucking cunt.

Vashti Bunyan surely

Vashti Bunyan surely

― Week of Wonders (Ross), Thursday, November 16, 2017 8:54 PM (twenty-one minutes ago) Bookmark Flag Post Permalink

Yeah if anyone comes up contrary evidence I'm deleting myself.

I love her music but not some of her freak-folk US acolytes from the 00's, but she seems so sound.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=sVLavhf10UM

Paparazzi attack incidents aside (and tbh I feel paparazzi deserve being mistreated half of the time) I feel like Bjork is very sweet. She’s also bonkers so it can go both ways.

Has Kurt Cobain been mentioned? From what I’ve read he was a stellar dude.

surely giving us Courtney Love's career is some kind of crime

Grunge inherited a lot of cock rock imbeciles and Kurt was never happy about it. There’s also anecdotes like this:

https://dangerousminds.net/comments/watch_nirvana_sabotage_buenos_aires_stadium_show

Makes it look like he was a class act.

Björk I totally believe. Cobain is another story all-together iirc.

AURORA seems like a kind soul (though her fans are a little over-the-top with their praise. I'm pretty sure she isn't an angel or an astral being or "too pure for this world")

Cannot believe nobody has mentioned Gaz Coombes

Top, top bloke by all accounts

I'd do anything for Coombes, but I won't do that.

I love her music but not some of her freak-folk US acolytes from the 00's

is Devendra as much of a sleaze as I suspect he is?
his background as a pick-up artist doesn't really count in his favor, but Joanna Newsom seems to be cool with him so idk

From personal experience:

* Justin Broadrick of Godflesh
* Alex Paterson of The Orb
* Walter Becker

mary j blige

joan baez?

Mavis Staples

rascall flatts seem like genuinely good dudes... they do a lot of philanthropy... play music for hospitalized children.

who knows though

these guys, obviously

✞ CHRISAGIS BROTHERS ✞ TRIBUTE THREAD ✞

Suzanne Cianni
Alice Coltrane
Masami Akita
Iasos
DJ Harvey
Hans-Joachim Roedelius
Joanna Newsom

of course, who knows?

iasos seems to be into some suspect shit: http://iasos.com/services/index.html#GoddessCouncil

Frank Ocean
Yoko Ono
Gustavo Dudamel
Deerhoof

Oh, and "plausibly" doesn't feature here because I know him to be good, maybe the best person I've ever met: Dan Snaith

that is weird I listened to Andorra today for the first time in ages, it's great

as he is such a good guy maybe he would lend a sympathetic ear if you asked him to recapture whatever it was that made that album so good

my parents went backstage during a eurthymics concert when clem burke was drumming for them. they said he was extremely nice and friendly, talked with them a bunch.

oh wow, clem played on the garden too?? this would be on the revenge tour.

"would have been"

Jack Johnson

Janet Weiss seems fucking rad

― devvvine, Wednesday, November 15, 2017 6:12 AM

Ken Stringfellow (Posies, REM, etc.) disagrees: http://kenstringfellow.com/2015/02/common-decency/

(Kind of over-dramatic, tho.)

that really sucks for that guy, for sure, but i feel like i'd need to hear both sides of that story. i mean there could be any number of reasons why she decided not to go through with that project (from his telling i can't tell whether she cancelled at the last minute or literally stood him up without offering an explanation).

Leo Sayer is a really, really nice dude.

Alice Cooper Gibby Haynes Billy Corgan Johnny Ramone

Moe Tucker on drums

yeah that story up above isn't too bad, she did record an album with him anyways and plans fell through for further recording in 2003. Quasi released "Hot Shit!" that year and Slater-Kinney was touring with Pearl Jam. imo she kinda did have better things to do.

sorry Sleater-Kinney

yoko seems like a v nice person, espec considering all the shit she's been through

re upthread Bjork's very guarded about fans, but don't hold that against her. Imagine she's probably quite a good soul

Cosign Bjork.

Mastodon mostly come across as lovable dorks in interviews.

I think Bjork started being more private after a fan sent him a tape of him commiting suicide.

Wait I was misremembering he was actually trying to kill her:

https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Ricardo_L%C3%B3pez_(stalker)

yoko seems like a v nice person, espec considering all the shit she's been through

Hmmmm, not so sure about that.

She might be nice now but I don't think that was always the case.