Wow. Apparently, so would Abraham, Martin, and John… and Runaround Sue.
Could we call Linday Lohan a rock musician to give a listing here?
Ian McCulloch was very unpleasant when he visited our studio many years ago. A bit more obscure but Speedo from RFTC was as big a jerk as I’d heard he was.
Always amazed though how nice most indie “alternative” bands tended to be. Kim and Zach from Jawbox were as nice as could be as was Mac from Superchunk.
Fiona Apple was pretty nice to fans after a show. She stood around and signed things and chatted a bit.
Please expand upon this!
To me, who’s seen him on tv only once or twice in my life, He seemed alright, but…let’s have the dirt!
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Not ** NEARLY **enough Nugent in this thread.
Stranglehold kicks ass, but damn, he’s got to be one of the rock musicians I’d least like to sit next to on a trans-Atlantic flight. There is one upside to that scenario: at least I would have the benefit of knowing he probably doesn’t have a weapon on him. Probably.
It was after a concert – he came out to sign autographs and it was very clear that he didn’t want to be there, he was too good to appear in Cleveland, those who complimented him on his singing or “I’ve always enjoyed your music” got looked at as if they were dirt. He just said “yeah, yeah” and scribbled his name. Gary Lewis and the Playboys also were on the bill, and while Gary Lewis is nobody’s idea of a good singer, he gave it his all and really seemed to be enjoying himself, and signed autographs with a big smile and talked to everybody and didn’t leave until everybody who wanted to see him had a chance.
I never met Nugent but I knew someone who met him at an archery event about 30 years ago.He liked him and he didn’t care for his music. But Nugent strikes me as someone with a "strong"personality..either youlike him strongly or dislike him the same.
I’ve worked a few tours with Aerosmith, The Allman Brothers, Clapton and the Grateful Dead. I’ve only had 2 artists get nasty with me and both times they came back and apologized. It was Gregg Allman and Steve Tyler. I concider both of them really good guys.
Lennon was always the example Tony Wilson used when talking about Morrissey’s personality and unpleasantness.
Also, here’s a thread I started a few weeks ago about the various unpleasant musicians from Manchester(ie Morrissey, Mark E Smith, Shaun Ryder, the Gallagher brothers).
Anton Newcombe has a wide reputation as being an insufferable asswipe, and a guy I knew from Toronto whose band once played in a festival with him confirmed that. Just a nasty, egotistical asshole by all accounts.
Chris Murphy of Sloan was a bit of a jerk to me. I’ve heard that’s par for the course not just with him but the rest of the band too. More “unpleasant” than actively offensive like Newcombe.
Joe Pernice has a reputation as being a curmudgeonly grump. But tygre and I met him after a concert and he was the nicest guy on the planet! He invited us backstage, had pictures taken with us, and chatted to us for a good bit of time. The guy honestly couldn’t have been nicer to us.
I met both of these guys and they were very nice and friendly to me (years ago), but I may have caught them on a good day.
One of my friends does backstage work at one of our big concert pavilions here in DC, and met Rob Zombie during one of the Ozzfest tours. Said he was one of the most down-to-earth, friendly guys he’d ever come across during one of those big shows.
Thank you, Sigmagirl.
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I read and finished it and I came out with the impression that he is a seriously well adjusted man at this point in his life. A great book and I would recommend to anyone.
Yes, I’m half way through it and he does look back on his life with equanimity.
Reviving an old thread I found while Googling something unrelated: So, should it be no surprise that nobody noticed he was missing until he’d been dead almost a week?
I didn’t see this thread during its initial run, so I’ll add something…though perhaps it’s more than a little unfair castigating someone for behavior from 40+ years ago.
My roommate in college had friends back home who were in a band, and they got signed for an album. Somehow Todd Rundgren was chosen to produce it. His friends reported to my roommate that Rundgren was an insufferable asshole with an ego a mile wide.
Interestingly, this would have been at a time when Todd’s commercial success had been limited to the Nazz albums (sold respectably, but not blockbusters) and one hit single (“We Gotta Get You a Woman,” #20) released as Runt rather than under his actual name.
In other words, before the breakthrough commercial success of Something/Anything and his remake of Nazz’s “Hello It’s Me.”
So the ego would appear to have been built in. I will grant that Todd has the talent as a songwriter, guitarist and overall musician to back it up…but even today I understand that when he performs “I Saw the Light,” he makes his contempt for the song clear. Seems to me you could just be grateful that people like it and hold your tongue along with your nose.
I’ve told this story before on these forums, but it fits with this thread.
When I was in high school, I was considering a career as a radio DJ. A family friend is a local disc jockey, and invited me into the studio purely to watch as she interviewed Donnie Osmond. According to her, she had cleared it with Osmond’s people and everything was hunky-dory.
When he walked into the studio, he said his “hello,” then turned and saw me. He threw a fit that I was there, and demanded that I leave. Or he would. So I left.