# Scariest-looking musicians
**URL:** https://boards.straightdope.com/t/scariest-looking-musicians/836497
**Category:** Cafe Society
**Created:** [July 4, 2019, 5:53am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/scariest-looking-musicians/836497 "2019-07-04T05:53:32Z")
**Posts on this page:** 20
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### Author:  [@Guest-starring\_Id](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Guest-starring_Id)
#### Post date: [July 4, 2019, 5:53am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/scariest-looking-musicians/836497/1 "2019-07-04T05:53:32Z")
Suzi I’ve got no problem with, but whoa those [other dirtball lads\*](https://www.google.com/search?q=quatro+-+album&source=lnms&tbm=isch&sa=X&ved=0ahUKEwiZiPiGv5rjAhXNFjQIHSfRCnkQ_AUIECgB&biw=790&bih=706#imgrc=A6qDjSzjZ7TKcM:) - you just know they’d start chirping at you if you walked into their bar.
Any musicians skeeve you out?
(Celine Dion’s been looking a little, um, svelte, lately.)
\*To be fair, most people back in the 70’s looked like that.
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### Author:  [@Jeff\_Lichtman](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Jeff_Lichtman)
#### Post date: [July 4, 2019, 6:21am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/scariest-looking-musicians/836497/2 "2019-07-04T06:21:02Z")
[Howlin’ Wolf](https://images-na.ssl-images-amazon.com/images/I/61PsDNejdAL._SY355_.jpg) could look scary [when he wanted to](http://i.imgur.com/lisYYlk.gif). His [freakishly large hands](https://render.fineartamerica.com/images/rendered/medium/canvas-print/mirror/break/images/artworkimages/medium/2/howlin-wolf-performing-in-detroit-michael-ochs-archives-canvas-print.jpg) added to the effect (there’s a harmonica and microphone engulfed in those mitts).
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### Author:  [@Novelty\_Bobble](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Novelty_Bobble)
#### Post date: [July 4, 2019, 6:56am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/scariest-looking-musicians/836497/3 "2019-07-04T06:56:30Z")
[Ian Anderson](https://bestclassicbands.com/wp-content/uploads/2019/05/Ian-Anderson-1972-768x434.jpg) was a little unnerving in the early 70’s
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### Author:  [@Beckdawrek](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Beckdawrek)
#### Post date: [July 4, 2019, 6:59am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/scariest-looking-musicians/836497/4 "2019-07-04T06:59:43Z")
John Prine scares the crap outta me. He just looks pervy.
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### Author:  [@thelurkinghorror](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/thelurkinghorror)
#### Post date: [July 4, 2019, 7:22am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/scariest-looking-musicians/836497/5 "2019-07-04T07:22:09Z")
[Richard D. James](https://d2wclktjr2mmlu.cloudfront.net/media/catalog/product/cache/image/680x505/e9c3970ab036de70892d86c6d221abfe/v/1/v17-wrp3105-exp.jpg)
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### Author:  [@journeyman\_southpaw](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/journeyman_southpaw)
#### Post date: [July 4, 2019, 7:42am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/scariest-looking-musicians/836497/6 "2019-07-04T07:42:53Z")
[Lemmy](https://scontent-ort2-2.cdninstagram.com/vp/a69393aa747ef824710d92ebb4b68fcc/5D35D6F1/t51.2885-15/e35/49279945_2187111994678915_1782419700541600288_n.jpg?_nc_ht=scontent-ort2-2.cdninstagram.com) of Motörhead.
Also [Henry Rollins](https://images-cdn.9gag.com/photo/aV3Vmm2_700b.jpg) - not so much skeevy as scary in the sense of looking like someone you wouldn’t want to mess with.
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### Author:  [@ftg](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/ftg)
#### Post date: [July 4, 2019, 12:28pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/scariest-looking-musicians/836497/7 "2019-07-04T12:28:58Z")
[Screamin’ Jay Hawkins](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Screamin'_Jay_Hawkins).
If he put a spell on you, it stayed put.
If I walked into a bar and saw dudes looking like ZZ Top there I’d back out very slowly.
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### Author:  [@Horatio\_Hellpop](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Horatio_Hellpop)
#### Post date: [July 4, 2019, 12:41pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/scariest-looking-musicians/836497/8 "2019-07-04T12:41:24Z")
Iggy Pop. He used to be all veins, now he’s all crepe-flesh, and anyway I really wish he’d wear a shirt more often.
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### Author:  [@Poysyn](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Poysyn)
#### Post date: [July 4, 2019, 1:28pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/scariest-looking-musicians/836497/9 "2019-07-04T13:28:52Z")
When my daughter was in kindergarten, she had a classmate named Vortex. When I met Vortex’s mom, I found out she had named her daughter after [ICS Vortex from Dimmu Borgir.](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/ICS_Vortex#/media/File:ICS_Vortex2005.jpg)
An unusual choice for a baby name.
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### Author:  [@Jackmannii](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Jackmannii)
#### Post date: [July 4, 2019, 1:29pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/scariest-looking-musicians/836497/10 "2019-07-04T13:29:28Z")
> [@ftg](#):
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> [Screamin’ Jay Hawkins](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Screamin'_Jay_Hawkins).
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> If he put a spell on you, it stayed put.
To be fair, Jay wasn’t disturbing-_looking_, it was his behavior on stage that stood out (he supposedly lost half his audience some nights when he came screaming up out of a coffin).\*
Then again there’s [Steven Tyler](https://www.celebitchy.com/wp-content/uploads/2018/08/wenn35143122.jpg) of Aerosmith, voted the musician parents would least appreciate having their teenaged daughters go on a date with.
\*Screamin’ Jay Hawkins is the only rocker I know of who was classically trained as an opera singer.
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### Author:  [@jz78817](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/jz78817)
#### Post date: [July 4, 2019, 1:38pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/scariest-looking-musicians/836497/11 "2019-07-04T13:38:56Z")
I think [William Murderface’s](https://dethklok.fandom.com/wiki/William_Murderface) name speaks for itself.
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### Author:  [@Sparky812](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Sparky812)
#### Post date: [July 4, 2019, 2:17pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/scariest-looking-musicians/836497/12 "2019-07-04T14:17:31Z")
Are we talking intentional… or not?
Axl Rose is a pretty scary looking guy.
Josh Todd from Buck Cherry is downright ugly.
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### Author:  [@jayjay](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/jayjay)
#### Post date: [July 4, 2019, 2:45pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/scariest-looking-musicians/836497/13 "2019-07-04T14:45:14Z")
> [@Sparky812](#):
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> Axl Rose is a pretty scary looking guy.
Meh. Axl Rose is well along the “reincarnation of Benny Hill” track, which isn’t really scary.
If we’re talking generally skeevy rather than actually scary, there’s always Post Malone, whom I just react to visually on a visceral level.
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### Author:  [@DCnDC](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/DCnDC)
#### Post date: [July 4, 2019, 2:47pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/scariest-looking-musicians/836497/14 "2019-07-04T14:47:40Z")
> [@Horatio\_Hellpop](#):
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> Iggy Pop. He used to be all veins, now he’s all crepe-flesh, and anyway I really wish he’d wear a shirt more often.
I honestly don’t think the man even owns a shirt.
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### Author:  [@burpo\_the\_wonder\_mutt](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/burpo_the_wonder_mutt)
#### Post date: [July 4, 2019, 4:39pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/scariest-looking-musicians/836497/15 "2019-07-04T16:39:32Z")
> [@Jackmannii](#):
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> \ \*Screamin’ Jay Hawkins is the only rocker I know of who was classically trained as an opera singer.
Pat Benatar was opera-trained but opted for rawking out.
BIP: [Roy Wood](https://images.app.goo.gl/UktaYT6sNqDUFjMm6) (ELO, Wizzard) had his scary days.
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### Author:  [@ftg](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/ftg)
#### Post date: [July 4, 2019, 4:49pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/scariest-looking-musicians/836497/16 "2019-07-04T16:49:19Z")
> [@burpo\_the\_wonder\_mutt](#):
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> Pat Benatar was opera-trained but opted for rawking out.
Beat me to it.
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### Author:  [@Son\_of\_a\_Rich](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Son_of_a_Rich)
#### Post date: [July 4, 2019, 5:05pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/scariest-looking-musicians/836497/17 "2019-07-04T17:05:24Z")
Danzig.
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### Author:  [@Kobal2](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Kobal2)
#### Post date: [July 4, 2019, 5:06pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/scariest-looking-musicians/836497/18 "2019-07-04T17:06:23Z")
As has been mentionned, Lemmy of _Motörhead_. I’m sure there was a really nice guy behind that face, but I really wouldn’t have wanted to meet him in a dark alley nonetheless. Especially if he was drunk. Plus his Nazi paraphernalia obsession kind of weirded me out.
Also seconding Henry Rollins as a dude who looks like after a couple whiskey shots he’d jokingly reminisce about that time he stomped somebody to death and buried him in the woods for looking at him funny. “Ha-ha. Just kidding. He’s really buried in La Brea Tar Pits. C’mon, I’m just fucking with you ! But don’t push me.” He was scarily effective in _Sons of Anarchy_. All the funnier that he’s a staunch pacifist - but he just _really_ looks like a violent asshole, don’t he ?
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### Author:  [@jayjay](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/jayjay)
#### Post date: [July 4, 2019, 5:09pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/scariest-looking-musicians/836497/19 "2019-07-04T17:09:40Z")
> [@Kobal2](#):
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> Also seconding Henry Rollins as a dude who looks like after a couple whiskey shots he’d jokingly reminisce about that time he stomped somebody to death and buried him in the woods for looking at him funny. “Ha-ha. Just kidding. He’s really buried in La Brea Tar Pits. C’mon, I’m just fucking with you ! But don’t push me.” He was scarily effective in _Sons of Anarchy_. All the funnier that he’s a staunch pacifist - but he just _really_ looks like a violent asshole, don’t he ?
It’s at least partly The Neck. The capitals are mandatory.
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### Author:  [@Treppenwitz](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Treppenwitz)
#### Post date: [July 4, 2019, 6:31pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/scariest-looking-musicians/836497/20 "2019-07-04T18:31:35Z")
Is there a lifetime award?
Wilko Johnson. He was scary [then](https://www.kidderminstershuttle.co.uk/news/14535508.wilko-johnson-feels-good/) and he’s scary [now](https://www.theguardian.com/music/2013/feb/02/wilko-johnson-interview).
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