Or maybe they were fighting over a 13 year old.
“Who is the greatest guitar player in the world?” is fan bullshit.
I don’t like his politics at all and I also thought he was a racist based on a comment he made in an interview. But after reading your comment I read his IMDB quotes. He seems to have a sense of humor about himself, to be rather modest and not at all racist.
Maybe it had something to do with Alzheimer’s Disease. People can undergo a change in personality due to this.
I liked him in Kings Row. I would class him as a competent actor.
I just finished reading those IMDB quotes. There’s a lot of crazy bigoted old man talk in there.
It may be to you, but that’s entirely irrelevant if it’s meaningful to the fans and the guitarist.
Hopefully this won’t take it too much further into GD territory, but I think you’re wrong here. Pretty much everyone considers someone a horrible person because of their political viewpoints. You might think that about supporters of Stalin, or about Neo-Nazis, or Taliban supporters. You might think that about those who voted for Ralph Nader or David Duke. You might think that about Democrats or Republicans.
In general, in a pluralistic society, it’s socially unacceptable to consider someone a horrible person for adopting a mainstream political position. But all the positions I mention in my third sentence above (Stalinists, Nazis, Taliban) were mainstream positions in some society at some point.
So there’s nothing wrong per se with thinking that, say, members of the Segregationist Party were horrible people, or even thinking members of the Democratic or Republican Parties are horrible people. You need to make the case that they’re horrible people, of course, and others may agree or disagree–but it’s not an invalid position.
Okay, my contribution (which I think hasn’t been mentioned so far): Lead Belly, a blues musician possibly as famous for murder as for music.
Well I’ve seen Hendrix quoted as saying that neither he nor Clapton were better than the other but only had different styles. Billy Gibbons toured with Hendrix early in his career and talks about how Hendrix loved playing with other guitar players and seeing what they could do. I have seen no quotes from Clapton that showed anything but admiration for Hendrix. If anything he believed Hendrix was better. And Clapton has had a career of sharing the stage with other great guitar players. So yeah, I think it’s fan bullshit. Unless we are talking about Yngwie.
Getting kinda meta, here, I rather like hearing that Rosa Parks was not very friendly, or that Martin Luther King Jr. cheated on his wife, or that Gandhi was a racist. It helps remind me that you don’t have to be a plaster saint to do extrordinary things in the world, that great good can be done by ordinary, flawed, fallible human beings.
So, if I stop in your restaurant and claim that I am Joe Biden’s nephew and he hates me for the sole reason that I am an atheist, does Biden get added to your list?
Assuming that your double hearsay was true, and that the customer who you didn’t know wasn’t embellishing the story (e.g. he was gay and he stole money from his uncle and that was the real reason he disowned him) Jimmy Stewart was born in 1907. It would be a rare person born in that time period who wouldn’t be disappointed if a family member was homosexual.
Weak stuff.
In his one homicide, it’s very unclear who was the aggressor. It certainly wasn’t premeditated murder; it was a fight. When he was imprisoned again, because he stabbed a white man (who survived), he was probably *not *the aggressor.
But I guess I would agree he was probably a jerk, kind of hotheaded, selfish, and paranoid he was being financially rooked. But he lived a hard, hard life.
In the WTF interview on WTF Moon didn’t paint him as the best father either. Not abusive in any way, just completely uninterested in the kids, until Dweezil learned to play guitar. She had very little to say good about him.
I agree, that’s why I qualified it so much.
I believe that batons were not used during the time Beethoven was alive, although I will agree that he behaved poorly. I have also excused it as he was probably finding a way to deal with his deafness.
I will mention GF Handel, there seem to be numerous instances where he was unkind and genuinely mean to performers that didn’t meet his standard.
Robert Frost was a great poet and a real jerk.
From what I understand, this is rather common when it comes to professional chefs. They have a reputation for being antisocial loudmouths.
Peter Cushing, his doggone unrelenting goodness & gentlemanliness just made everyone else look like total rotters by comparison.
(I’m a big Cushing fan & am amazed that no one, anywhere, has found one thing negative to say about him.)
For a new suggestion, how about Dennis Rodman? Great basketball player (and he looks great in a wedding dress 
).
He’s also BFFs with a certain repressive dictator.
ETA: Axl Rose’s behavior has always struck me as being flat-out narcissistic.