Their personalities… You can like their music (or not).
To clarify, I consider a singer a musician.
I…don’t…know any musicians from the 60’s?? And I’m not in a position to judge someone from 50+ years ago. Was Jim Morrison a pretentious serial cheater? Maybe…Don’t know him though. Eric Clapton a racist drunk d-bag? It was 50+ years ago!!!
uhhhh…I guess Led Zeppelin for throwing the only sober guy at Live Aid under the bus, Phil Collins.
Flo and Eddie. Times 5.
I couldn’t stand Sha, never liked Na, but felt that Na was an OK guy.
#1. Jim Morrison. Just for being such a self-important douche.
My middle schooler once said “Y’know, all my favorite bands have dead guys in 'em.”
*“Like…?” *
“Zeppelin, Who, Beatles, Doors.”
“SOMEbody raised you right…”
While beaming with pride, I just had to point out that dying young was the best thing that could’ve happened to Jim Morrison. Had he lived even a couple more years, he’d’ve been an overweight diva screaming bad poetry on his “No, really, I AM The Lizard King, Dammit!” tour… a circuit of second-rate Vegas hotels and county fairs. Where he’d get hauled off by local cops every night for throwing F-Bombs at the audience and punches at Fair Security Officers.
OK, I’ll play…
For starters, I think there is a… movement? Lack of wanting to press the issue? regarding 60/70s music stars and #MeToo. If you want to try to convince me that every sex act committed by the Beatles, Stones, Led Zep, etc was with fully consensual adults of clear minds and legal ages, you can try, but I’m likely not going to buy it.
John Lennon. Seemed like more than a bit of an asshole. Openly mocked people with physical and mental difficulties. Was cruel. Just… not a pleasant person.
Jim Morrison. Don’t think he’d flame out as bad as predicted by digs, but he strikes me as a douche as well.
I never liked Joe Cocker.
Napoleon XIV was kind of mean that way too.
“Ha-Haaa!” indeed.
Prefacing this with the fact that, obviously, I do not personally know them, so this is only based on reading articles about them, and interviews with them.
That said, my choice is Simon and Garfunkel. I love their music, and I love Paul’s solo work from the decades that followed (I know little about Art’s solo stuff). But…everything I’ve read, over the past few decades, indicates that Paul is, very frequently, a complete asshole, and that Art isn’t a whole lot better.
I thought you were going to the bit where the son says “Jim Morrison can’t sing and Ray Manzarek is overrated” to which his Dad replies, “I told you to stop slamming the Doors!”
mmm
I can’t stand Paul “Thief” Simon. He has a few nice songs, but who knows what continent it came from. He stole from Los Lobos and when confronted about it, he said “Sue me” - knowing he has better lawyers, and that it would cost a lot up front for anyone to proceed with litigation.
SMILE Paul, no one will ever think you’re cool!
How about Phil Spector? Would you consider him a musician?
John Philips - Mamas & Papas heavy drug user, womanizer, including his own adult daughter.
Phil Spector - abused his wives & threatened people with guns. Convicted of murder.
Jim Morrison - have you seen the movie? He was a pretty terrifying guy.
7 controversial moments in his career
I gave Bob Dylan a plate of corn muffins to paint my chicken coop in 1961, and he never did it.
Those muffins were lousy!
I’ve always thought Mick Jagger is creepy.
As a teenager, I had a huge crush on Paul Simon, and thanks to my obession I uncovered a few remote links to him (my friend’s sister’s friend dated Art Garfunkel, that sort of thing). Although I never personally sensed it, my third- and fourth- hand reports are that yeah, Paul is an asshole.
Yes, even though he’s mostly know as a producer.
Turn me on, dead man.
John Lennon -left Cynthia Lennon to raise Julian alone.
mick Jagger Brian jones was their leader then took over dumped jones.,
John Lennon was an asshole. Then he met Yoko Ono and turned into a completely different kind of asshole.
And if George Harrison is to be believed, McCartney was just as big an asshole.
Stephen Stills wrote Suite Judy Blue Eyes about his lover, Judy Collins, and recorded it while she was sitting in the studio. A year later Stills wrote Love the One You’re With. Somewhere in there there’s was some sort of love triangle with Stills, Graham Nash and Rita Coolidge, and CSN(&Y) broke up.