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!
Probably easier to ask who in rock and roll isn’t a horse’s ass.
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.
What, no mention of Madonna?
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… 
Axl Rose
JERRY LEE LEWIS
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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’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.
True dat.
Disagree with Gene Simmons. Anyone who advocated non drug use is a okay (and rare).
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.
Naw, he’s no horse’s ass - he’s just The Killer.
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.
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.
Didn’t Lennon also beat the tar out of a waitress?
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…
See post #22
Michael Jackson
Oh, and anyone who’s seen Gene Simmons’s sex tape would disagree, Tamara+. I NEEDED drugs after seeing that. shudder
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there is not enough brain bleach in the world to get me to watch that …