I’ve never met Dylan, but the people *I’ve talk to who have all describe the same person: A quiet guy who rarely even talks or gets upset, but wants everything done his way. Apparently Bob is who he is and nobody can change that.
Definitely a significant change, but did his personality change?
I haven’t noticed any personality change, though.
If someone would have converted to Christianity, I doubt anyone would say a thing about it.
Charlie Daniels. Ballad of the Uneasy Rider is a hippie song. Now he’s a trump republican. He even rewrote the song to be more right wing.
Ted Nugent. Wild man who bragged about getting out of the draft by literally shitting his pants. Now he’s a chicken hawk republican gun totin’ asshole.
All I know is he [Cat Stevens] hasn’t called me to write piano/vocal arrangements again. At least not since I wrote a dozen for him ca. 1976. Obviously his personality has changed. :rolleyes:
He stopped putting out music in 1978. He resumed releasing music and has 4 albums out starting in 2006 , last one came out in 2017. And he got into the R&R Hall of fame in 2014.
Duff McKagen. Went from strung-out junkie to author and financial consultant. Once sold his touring Bass, with hard case for $100. Or so I hear.
Wiki says he’s worth $40 million now.
Michael Hutchence (INXS), after a head injury. It wasn’t much talked about while he was still alive, but that injury marked a major shift in his personality, going from being someone who was pretty lively and easygoing to being constantly angry.
Dion DiMucci, yeah! With Dion & the Belmonts, he was straight, clean - TEENAGER IN LOVE, yada yada. (I like the version that goes, “Each night I ask the judge who sets bail / Why must I be-e a teenager in jail?” Then he started shooting heroin, hanging with streetcorner doo-wops, got funky, and did THE WANDERER, RUNAROUND SUE, etc.
Let’s not explore Pat Boone’s death-metal phase.
I’m assuming overcoming alcohol or drug addiction doesn’t count as a “personality change”, otherwise we’d have a list a mile long…
I would say going from writing Peace Train to calling for the death of Salman Rushdie was a bit of a change.
Peter Green went insane and joined a cult after the first Fleetwood Mac album.
After the fourth. Bad acid supposedly really did change his personality.
Jeremy Spencer did much the same after the fifth, maybe without the profound personality change.
He’s not in the public eye a whole lot these days. When members of the press baited him into explaining/defending the fatwa against Salman Rushdie, he got a bit testy. Possibly, anyone in that position might do the same, but this was one of his few moments in front of a TV camera, so my view could be skewed. Still, converting to Islam marks a pretty major life change (He did it in 1977 and it coincided with his career disappearing for a while), up there with getting a facial tattoo. You can’t really say “Aside from that one little thing, he’s the same guy I’ve always known.”
Most musicians get pretty familiar with booze and drugs before they get famous. I guess it’s only noticeable if they started out as famous child prodigies, or got famous via American Idol.
Cool. Itzo? Or Numbers?
Nigel Kennedy.
He and Danny Kirwan, and I don’t think it was a coincidence.
“Baited”? He should explain it! And then he should apologize. And then go away permanently. As far as such things go with people I’ll never meet, I have not forgiven Yusef for that.
?? I thought he was ALWAYS a twit. He changed? How?
BTW one of the crappiest recordings I ever regretted buying (it was cheap, thankfully) was some concerto where his fiddling sounded LITERALLY to have been phoned in - the orchestra was fine but he might have been on a 1924 AT&T headpiece.