artists who plausibly appear to be good people

totally true, a real hero

Mac McCaughan

Animal Collective

always heard that Gary Numan was a quality bloke

kristin hersh

david yow was so sweet when i talked to him once after a jesus lizard show years ago. i couldn't believe it was the same guy i had seen on stage.

david yow sexually harassed sexydancer's wife tbh.

Is the bar lowered at this point to include anyone who simply refrained from shitty behavior? Not in reference to any specific posts already above.

also everyone in bardo pond is like the nicest person on earth. but i could say that about a lot of freakfolkterrascope people i know. they are ALL so nice.

Animal Collective

how does Maligate fit into this

well, with someone like david yow obviously i don't know him! he was really nice to me anyway. a fan.

yo la tengo are nice people.

jeff rosenstock

I talked to Ira Kaplan once after a Yo La Tengo show, and he was very nice.

ha xp

Gerard Way (and MCR in general AFAIK)

Animal Collective

how does Maligate fit into this

― the Hannah Montana of the Korean War (DJP), Tuesday, November 14, 2017 2:54 PM (one minute ago) Bookmark Flag Post Permalink

ha good point! ok, just the other 3

Van Dyke Parks

Christine Goerke is a bad-ass dramatic soprano AND one of the coolest people I've ever met.

xxp someone told me at a record show on Sunday that Deakin gave all that money back and eventually released the record? idk.

as far as thread title, I nominate Leonard Cohen

(cue avalanche of terrible Cohen stories I was unfamiliar with)

yea yea that's right he did, he put the record out 6 years late

Jens Lekman seems to be a really sweet guy. Lots of nice stories about him offering his fans advice when they reach out to him and then there's that video of him playing that wedding in Australia. He was really cool when I met him briefly earlier this year.

George Michael appeared to be a very wonderful and generous person. One guy over on the Popjustice forums said they got to know him over the years and he was totally down to earth and really funny.

I know someone that interviewed Marc Almond and said he was such a joy to talk to.

I've come across a fair few people who have met Johnny Marr. Nobody has a bad word to say about him. Basically the opposite of Morrissey.

Ira and Georgia are indeed incredibly nice.

tarfumes the escape goat is super nice. and so is ian's wife.

kendrick lamar, i assume?

Danzig!

...Ringo Starr?

mike watt

You know who belongs on any "holy shit, that musician was actually a decent guy" list? Lemmy. Yes, he collected Nazi memorabilia. But there are no quotes, either on the record or "you know what I heard?", from him speaking negatively about anyone because of their race or religion, and while he was apparently in Gene Simmons territory as far as sleeping with women on the road, there are also no stories of him assaulting or even being crude to anybody, and actually the opposite is true - he had a tremendous respect for female musicians (he collaborated with or wrote songs for Lita Ford, Doro Pesch, Wendy O. Williams, Girlschool, Skin from Skunk Anansie and Jill Janus from Huntress, and there are probably others). As insane as this may sound on at first, Lemmy was pretty much the model for how to be a total rock star without being a piece of shit or a predatory asshole.

aaron dilloway is a great guy. so is that one guy from matmos. and that guy from the mountain goats.

A lot of Leonard Cohen stories were shared on the poll thread that made him out to be a sweet, cool guy

Herbie Hancock seems genuinely lovely.

gotta add in Fred Cole here (also, I vehemently disagree with scott and unperson's assessment of Dead Moon on that other thread, they are the best band to ever come from Oregon including The Kingsmen and The Wipers)

so is that one guy from matmos

both of them are great!

Glenn Jones

(guitarist)

Dan Deacon

Edwyn Collins has a really great reputation. He appears to be as sweet as his music.

Weird Al Yankovic

I know next to nothing about Dawn Richard aside from what I remember from Making the Band, I do remember her as being super funny and entertaining on that show and have built a persona in my mind of a really nice, sweet person with a spine of iron.

I have a terrible feeling that this thread won't age well.

Don't want to search for the video at work, but I was specifically inspired to cite MCR after seeing the onstage video of them viciously berating the (opening act?) for asking female fans to flash them

As a teenager I talked to Kid Koala and asked if I could send him my new CD. Not only did he provide an email, but he wrote back his thoughts on it. Truly cares about his fans

As far as other bands that are real decent to fans - the dears, stereolab and broadcast

A friend of mine who was a big R.E.M. fan ran into Michael Stipe at a music festival and impulsively pressed some of her fiction on him. I didn't overhear their brief conversation but she was upset and teary about it and we left soon thereafter. A few hours later he phoned her at home to apologize.

my ex and I used to talk to bands after shows a lot; in that context, at least, I can report that Ted Leo, Will Sheff, the Blood Brothers, and McLusky were all lovely folks

that John Darnielle is a nice man

Michael Stipe threw my friends stuff on a table and stole their seat at a bar and pulled a 'don't you know who I am' when they tried to get their table back

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=EMB1EOnUwX8

kurt vile doesn't seem so vile

I have a terrible feeling that this thread won't age well.

― emil.y, Tuesday, November 14, 2017 3:16 PM (twelve minutes ago) Bookmark Flag Post Permalink

otm

Neil Finn is in the subset category of "artists who have stayed married to the same person for a really long time." Finn, Johnny Marr ...

...John Lydon too

i have never heard anyone say a bad thing about ya kid k

0 from 0

Paul Buchanan
Scott Walker

mad mike

i mean, i don't know, it's plausible, he seems like a generous soul

Bjork tripped me up by as we both made our way at the same time to the same unisex bathroom of a tiny thai restaurant. I'm sure it was an accident.

Tom Waits has also been married for decades now no?

That’s one that would break my heart if he was an asshole but I love him too much to care if he was.

Favorite Tom Waits story. (Per the Waits myth, did I hear this from someone? read it somewhere? read it here? is it made up?) Anyway, favorite Tom Waits. Someone was shopping at Amoeba and they came across Tom Waits, also shopping at Amoeba. Huh, thought this person, Tom Waits! That's pretty cool. So the person eventually leaves and heads to some other store, like a drug store or something. And there's Tom Waits again, running errands. The person thinks, huh, what are the odds? So the person leaves, goes to some coffee shop or something ... and sees Tom Waits again! The person thinks, wow, now that's just weird. So the person hangs back at the coffee shop an extra long time, until Tom Waits leaves and then even a few minutes after, and then the person leaves themselves. They walk around the corner ... where they bump into a very angry Tom Waits, who demands: "why have you been following me!!!!"

Never heard anything bad about Gruff Rhys.

Hitler had dogs dinnee

― fake pato is kind of racist, dude (darraghmac), Friday, November 17, 2017 7:34 AM (seven hours ago)

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Blondi

According to a report commissioned by Joseph Stalin and based on eyewitness accounts, Hitler's dog-handler Feldwebel Fritz Tornow took Blondi's pups and shot them in the garden of the bunker complex on 30 April, after Hitler and Eva Braun committed suicide. He also killed Eva Braun's two dogs, Frau Gerda Christian's dogs, and his own dachshund.

Right out of order was that ffs!

Not good people

Always supected those Nazis were bad people.

Street angels, Bunker dogkillers. I know their type.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=in7yLZJ7A6Y

Danzig!

not sure if this is serious or not but dude tried to incite an audience at the show I was at to beat a fan's ass simply cos he was taking video of the song.

he's also xenophobic af but as far as I know hasn't ever *acted* on it....

and then this lemon of a quote: "Nature has its own cleansing processes -- AIDS may be one of them. Ebola, all these different things, nature controls what happens on this planet. The world always has its way of clarifying things."

Lol @ the idea of Danzig as an answer to the thread question

Nominating Owen Pallett in this thread

This is cheating btw

George Corspegrinder

he was p dece teh few times I met him.

Danzig remains the only good answer on this thread, sorry

Momus agreed with me once on ILM, he’s probably a good guy.

I'm all for hanging terrible-person artists out to dry but I really dislike thinking about what artists are like personally otherwise and am massively uncomfortable with that whole "what's he really like?" aspect of artist / reader relations

I had a nice chat with Momus before a show and he was super nice and generous with his time. Likewise John Vanderslice, Jason Molina and Sean Tillmann. Dean Wareham was politely tolerant, even when I stupidly said "Hope you have a good show" as a farewell. Note: I no longer stalk musicians before shows.

barbara manning

she's great. i love this interview with her https://sseennsseess.com/2015/08/01/barbara-manning/
and hope she's still as happy

years of attending the Bridge School Benefit shows always gave me a sweet but probably inaccurate measurement of 'good people'.
All of the developmentally challenged kids from the actual Bridge School sit on stage with their parents, and the bands play in front of them.
It can be weird for performers who are new to the show and while no-one's ever uncomfortable some offer merely polite acknowledgement while others take it as being received by the loveliest greeting party.
I always gauged the good ppl as the ones who took the latter reaction. Some interacted with the kids during their performances. They'll all acknowledge the kids when they walk out, and afterwards, but only certain types of performers ever truly interact with the kids, and only a few talk to them.

Pearl Jam played a ton of Bridge concerts, they were there almost every other year for well over 15 years. Over time, Eddie Vedder sparked a long-standing 'stage friendship' with a young Bridge School student named Maricor. HEr favorite song was Last Kiss, and every time they performed, he would sing it especially for her and talk to her between songs and even spend time after the set to talk to her and her parents. It was the coolest thing.

Florence from Florence + The Machine is the most memorable example. She spent at least 70% of her set with her back to the audience singing directly to the Bridge School kids, twirling and dancing for them, and when she wasn't facing them completely she'd stand off to the side so she could watch them and see the crowd. She made it her job to delight them over us. And she was beaming the whole time, like she was SO delighted to give such a unique performance. It was really cool to watch and still makes me a bit teary thinking about it.

So Florence gets my vote. And Eddie.

awesome

Lol I hung out with Barbara Manning before a Yo La Tengo (I think) show when I was like 18 and she WOULD NOT STOP hugging me. It was lovely. Gets my vote, for sure. Also around the same time Thurston Moore was amazingly fine with chatting with me and my equally dumbass teenage friends, even to the extent of letting me take a couple of shots with my SLR camera of him. I do think it says something about a musician if they're that willing to go out of their way to be kind to a fan.

Also he seemed (or faked) being impressed we were into Sparks

eddie veder has reputation of being a really cool guy to his fans

How is he to noncommittals

I mean shit it's easy to be nice to your fans I'm nice to my fans

I think he ate a Ticketmaster employee once

Ian Anderson

oh yeah, John Vanderslice authentically is one of the nicest people in the world.

eddie veder has reputation of being a really cool guy to his fans

and an asshole to his guitar tech

https://jorgefarah.files.wordpress.com/2013/11/ed-is-an-asshole.gif

Ian Anderson

Jethro Tull? Bit of a dick, is he not?

he invented the horse-drawn seed drill, you ungrateful little shit!

:)

Wow at that veder clip total dickmove

Vedder learned from his hero:
https://youtu.be/iHs_ojDJX04