# Biggest Horse's Ass in Rock&Roll History? **URL:** \ **Category:** Cafe Society\ **Created:** [January 31, 2009, 5:42pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/biggest-horses-ass-in-rock-roll-history/483883 "2009-01-31T17:42:40Z")\ **Posts on this page:** 20\ **Page:** 3
**Author:** ![gaffa](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/g/e68b1a/32.png) [@gaffa](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/gaffa)\ **Post date:** [February 2, 2009, 3:55am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/biggest-horses-ass-in-rock-roll-history/483883/41 "2009-02-02T03:55:36Z")
> [@Convict](#): > > I’ve worked backstage security at two of his shows in the past. While his schtick may be over the top for some, he’s a pretty good guy. He’s never played the rock star card and based on some of the things I’ve seen I wouldn’t call him an asshole. Stubborn, yes. Asshole, no. Well, on the other hand… I worked doing audio for a Nugent show at Arrowhead stadium in Kansas City. The vast majority of the “guitar amps” behind him are fakes. That can be dismissed as stagecraft. But on the other hand, Ted was wearing earplugs. Hey asshole! If it’s too loud for you, it’s too loud for everyone else! Turn it down! ---
**Author:** ![Clothahump](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/c/51bf81/32.png) [@Clothahump](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Clothahump)\ **Post date:** [February 2, 2009, 3:59am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/biggest-horses-ass-in-rock-roll-history/483883/42 "2009-02-02T03:59:13Z")
Probably easier to ask who in rock and roll isn’t a horse’s ass. ---
**Author:** ![Moirai](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/m/96bed5/32.png) [@Moirai](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Moirai)\ **Post date:** [February 2, 2009, 4:20am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/biggest-horses-ass-in-rock-roll-history/483883/43 "2009-02-02T04:20:26Z")
> [@gaffa](#): > > But on the other hand, Ted was wearing earplugs. Hey asshole! If it’s too loud for you, it’s too loud for everyone else! Turn it down! Are you sure they were earplugs? Most musicians I know wear an ear piece on stage, but it’s to hear certain feeds, not to block out sound. But you say you were doing audio, so you probably know the difference… I mean an ear piece like [this](http://www.facebook.com/photo.php?pid=30074362&l=795fd&id=1009781923) or [this](http://www.facebook.com/photo.php?pid=30074375&l=66bad&id=1009781923). ---
**Author:** ![gaffa](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/g/e68b1a/32.png) [@gaffa](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/gaffa)\ **Post date:** [February 2, 2009, 5:08am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/biggest-horses-ass-in-rock-roll-history/483883/44 "2009-02-02T05:08:49Z")
> [@EJsGirl](#): > > Are you sure they were earplugs? Most musicians I know wear an ear piece on stage, but it’s to hear certain feeds, not to block out sound. > > But you say you were doing audio, so you probably know the difference… This was back in the early 80s before anyone used in-ear monitors. There were noise complaints from miles away. The sound level was an assault on the audience’s hearing. And Ted was wearing earplugs. ---
**Author:** ![Guinastasia](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/guinastasia/32/5751_2.png) [@Guinastasia](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Guinastasia)\ **Post date:** [February 2, 2009, 5:13am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/biggest-horses-ass-in-rock-roll-history/483883/45 "2009-02-02T05:13:37Z")
What, no mention of Madonna? ---
**Author:** ![Moirai](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/m/96bed5/32.png) [@Moirai](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Moirai)\ **Post date:** [February 2, 2009, 5:29am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/biggest-horses-ass-in-rock-roll-history/483883/46 "2009-02-02T05:29:18Z")
> [@gaffa](#): > > This was back in the early 80s before anyone used in-ear monitors. There were noise complaints from miles away. The sound level was an assault on the audience’s hearing. And Ted was wearing earplugs. Ah, I see. To be fair, Ted hears it most nights, whereas the public only hears it for one night, so his risk for hearing damage is greater. I think Pete Townsend advocates for earplugs, having lost a good deal of his hearing standing in front of a stack all those years… 🙂 ---
**Author:** ![MOIDALIZE](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/m/e274bd/32.png) [@MOIDALIZE](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/MOIDALIZE)\ **Post date:** [February 2, 2009, 5:39am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/biggest-horses-ass-in-rock-roll-history/483883/47 "2009-02-02T05:39:44Z")
Axl Rose ---
**Author:** ![Quasimodem](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/q/e274bd/32.png) [@Quasimodem](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Quasimodem)\ **Post date:** [February 2, 2009, 6:02am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/biggest-horses-ass-in-rock-roll-history/483883/48 "2009-02-02T06:02:29Z")
**JERRY LEE LEWIS** Quasi ---
**Author:** ![gaffa](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/g/e68b1a/32.png) [@gaffa](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/gaffa)\ **Post date:** [February 2, 2009, 6:09am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/biggest-horses-ass-in-rock-roll-history/483883/49 "2009-02-02T06:09:11Z")
> [@EJsGirl](#): > > Ah, I see. To be fair, Ted hears it most nights, whereas the public only hears it for one night, so his risk for hearing damage is greater. I agree that he was at greater risk of damage, but that does not negate the fact that he is a giant tool. I’m not a big fan of the “if you think it’s too loud, you’re too old” school of machismo. > [@](#): > > I think Pete Townsend advocates for earplugs, having lost a good deal of his hearing standing in front of a stack all those years… 🙂 I’ve seen the effects. My brother and I traveled to England to see the premiere of Townshend’s “Lifehouse”. To tune his acoustic, he had to stick his head right next to the speaker cabinet. “Turn it up!” is like getting a tattoo - a frequent source of regret in later life. ---
**Author:** ![Moirai](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/m/96bed5/32.png) [@Moirai](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Moirai)\ **Post date:** [February 2, 2009, 6:29am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/biggest-horses-ass-in-rock-roll-history/483883/50 "2009-02-02T06:29:12Z")
> [@gaffa](#): > > “Turn it up!” is like getting a tattoo - a frequent source of regret in later life. True dat. ---
**Author:** ![BigBertha](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/b/d78d45/32.png) [@BigBertha](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/BigBertha)\ **Post date:** [February 2, 2009, 8:50am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/biggest-horses-ass-in-rock-roll-history/483883/51 "2009-02-02T08:50:21Z")
Disagree with Gene Simmons. Anyone who advocated non drug use is a okay (and rare). ---
**Author:** ![RickJay](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/r/bb73d2/32.png) [@RickJay](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/RickJay)\ **Post date:** [February 2, 2009, 1:34pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/biggest-horses-ass-in-rock-roll-history/483883/52 "2009-02-02T13:34:16Z")
I’m surprised Liam and Noel Gallagher haven’t hit the list yet; not only were they horse’s asses, they were a family team of horse’s asses. ---
**Author:** ![WordMan](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/w/e8c25b/32.png) [@WordMan](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/WordMan)\ **Post date:** [February 2, 2009, 1:36pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/biggest-horses-ass-in-rock-roll-history/483883/53 "2009-02-02T13:36:35Z")
> [@Quasimodem](#): > > **JERRY LEE LEWIS** > > Quasi Naw, he’s no horse’s ass - he’s just The Killer. 😉 ---
**Author:** ![Bridget\_Burke](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/b/7cd45c/32.png) [@Bridget\_Burke](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Bridget_Burke)\ **Post date:** [February 2, 2009, 1:56pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/biggest-horses-ass-in-rock-roll-history/483883/54 "2009-02-02T13:56:13Z")
> [@Tamara+](#): > > Disagree with Gene Simmons. Anyone who advocated non drug use is a okay (and rare). I saw Gene Simmons on the Bill Maher show, with a Generic Young Conservative rounding out the panel. They were all waxing sentimental about Our Boys Overseas. Maher & the GYC never served, of course; I think they “missed” the draft. Simmons regretted that he was in college during Vietnam. He’d have just loved to join up–but had his education to consider. Yeah, right. I’m a member of that generation. That’s not how things worked. ---
**Author:** ![Scumpup](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/s/ce73a5/32.png) [@Scumpup](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Scumpup)\ **Post date:** [February 2, 2009, 2:35pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/biggest-horses-ass-in-rock-roll-history/483883/55 "2009-02-02T14:35:34Z")
> [@WordMan](#): > > You go after Lennon and don’t even _mention_ Jim Morrison?? It’s true Jim Morrison did have some serious horse’s assism going on. It seems to me that a key component of being a real world-class R&R horse’s ass is having a fan base that thinks of their idol as being more than a musical entertainer. That entertainer must then start buying into the idea that he is Something More And Better. Morrison’s fans have an annoying tendency to blather on about what a great poet he was. When he wasn’t so stoned he was incapable of coherent thought, Morrison apparently agreed. I still have to go with Lennon over Morrison for Biggest Horse’s Ass, though, because of Lennon’s hypocrisy. Morrison, to the best of my knowledge, didn’t presume to lecture the rest of the world while abandoning his own kin. ---
**Author:** ![Furious\_Marmot](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/f/dfb087/32.png) [@Furious\_Marmot](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Furious_Marmot)\ **Post date:** [February 2, 2009, 3:13pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/biggest-horses-ass-in-rock-roll-history/483883/56 "2009-02-02T15:13:22Z")
Didn’t Lennon also beat the tar out of a waitress? ---
**Author:** ![seosamh](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/s/ce7236/32.png) [@seosamh](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/seosamh)\ **Post date:** [February 2, 2009, 5:50pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/biggest-horses-ass-in-rock-roll-history/483883/57 "2009-02-02T17:50:34Z")
Billy Idol I saw Generation X a few times back in '77 and considered their lead singer (the aforesaid Mr Idol) by far the most arrogant git I’d ever clapped eyes on, even for a plastic punk. And then he went to the USA… ---
**Author:** ![postcards](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/p/8e8cbc/32.png) [@postcards](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/postcards)\ **Post date:** [February 2, 2009, 11:21pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/biggest-horses-ass-in-rock-roll-history/483883/58 "2009-02-02T23:21:56Z")
> [@RickJay](#): > > I’m surprised Liam and Noel Gallagher haven’t hit the list yet; not only were they horse’s asses, they were a family team of horse’s asses. See post #22 ---
**Author:** ![Guinastasia](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/guinastasia/32/5751_2.png) [@Guinastasia](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Guinastasia)\ **Post date:** [February 2, 2009, 11:47pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/biggest-horses-ass-in-rock-roll-history/483883/59 "2009-02-02T23:47:16Z")
Michael Jackson Oh, and anyone who’s seen Gene Simmons’s sex tape would disagree, **Tamara+**. I NEEDED drugs after seeing that. _shudder_ ---
**Author:** ![aruvqan](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/aruvqan/32/2891_2.png) [@aruvqan](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/aruvqan)\ **Post date:** [February 3, 2009, 12:03am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/biggest-horses-ass-in-rock-roll-history/483883/60 "2009-02-03T00:03:14Z")
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