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Re: When music artists say/do terrible things.

junodog4 — Thu, 7 Mar 2013 11:00:31 GMT

Author: junodog4

Posted: 03/07/2013 16:00

sheep21 wrote:

Listen to this and tell me he's not registering on your radar

Link

I guess flaming guitar solos don't turn my crank...

Re: When music artists say/do terrible things.

Robert Anton Wilson — Thu, 7 Mar 2013 10:53:31 GMT

Author: Robert Anton Wilson

Posted: 03/07/2013 15:53

When a guy like Gary Glitter ends up in jail for pedophilia, afterwards it is impossible for me to listen to the song "Do You Want to Touch Me" unaffected. Thankfully Gary Glitter's music is not that crucial to my listening habits.

Same thing with Woody Allen and his movie "Whatever Works". I would like to watch it without making reference to what the man did in his life but it just does not work. Art -at least when it uses words- is not THAT disjointed from the artist.

Re: When music artists say/do terrible things.

ButterThumbz — Thu, 7 Mar 2013 07:26:14 GMT

Author: ButterThumbz

Posted: 03/07/2013 12:26

sheep21 wrote:

Listen to this and tell me he's not registering on your radar

Link

Thanks, now I know not to take him seriously either.

Re: When music artists say/do terrible things.

Anonymous — Thu, 7 Mar 2013 06:56:32 GMT

Author: Anonymous

Posted: 03/07/2013 11:56

junodog4 wrote:

Nugent barely registers on my artistic radar. That said, his political views are wacko. I'd be disgusted, but that would mean taking him seriously.

This.

Re: When music artists say/do terrible things.

sheep21 — Thu, 7 Mar 2013 02:32:09 GMT

Author: sheep21

Posted: 03/07/2013 07:32

junodog4 wrote:

Nugent barely registers on my artistic radar. That said, his political views are wacko. I'd be disgusted, but that would mean taking him seriously.

Listen to this and tell me he's not registering on your radar

Link

Re: When music artists say/do terrible things.

junodog4 — Wed, 6 Mar 2013 11:24:20 GMT

Author: junodog4

Posted: 03/06/2013 16:24

Jasonconfused wrote:

How has Ted Nugent not been mentioned? Great guitar player but his statements are absurd. I'm not saying I hate him... but I want to take him and put him in a concentration camp..

Nugent barely registers on my artistic radar. That said, his political views are wacko. I'd be disgusted, but that would mean taking him seriously.

Re: When music artists say/do terrible things.

JOSweetHeart — Tue, 5 Mar 2013 21:05:04 GMT

Author: JOSweetHeart

Posted: 03/06/2013 02:05

itsit wrote:

Depends how awful the thign they did is.

This is pretty much how I feel too.

God bless you always!!! 😄 😄 😄

Holly

Re: When music artists say/do terrible things.

davidhuret — Wed, 19 Dec 2012 09:35:00 GMT

Author: davidhuret

Posted: 12/19/2012 14:35

Not at the same time as he sang "Imagine", no. That came a bit later, after he had kicked his heroin addiction. He did sing "Give peace a chance " in 1969; though I fail to see the contradiction with the pain most divorces entail. Cynthia was understandably very sad and disappointed at the time. Nobody's business anyway.

Re: When music artists say/do terrible things.

TracyJacks — Tue, 18 Dec 2012 16:56:26 GMT

Author: TracyJacks

Posted: 12/18/2012 21:56

andy_hunter wrote:

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However, that said, some of the things John Lennon said and did have really put me off him. His solo stuff is the most sanctimonious, pretentious crap I've ever heard. Not to mention his hypocrisy - he's singing about love and peace when he used to beat his wife and left her with a kid he barely saw while he ran off with Yoko. He was such a twat and what makes it worse is no one mentions it. We all know Morrissey and Liam Gallagher are wankers but Lennon gets away scot free.

I read Cynthia Lennon's book and the part 1968-1970 made me really sad: between this period Lennon didn't want to see Julian at all, and how he and Yoko treated his first wife before and after the divorce, that was just disgusting. While in the same time, he sang about 'Imagine all the people living life in peace'...

Re: When music artists say/do terrible things.

davidhuret — Tue, 18 Dec 2012 04:22:27 GMT

Author: davidhuret

Posted: 12/18/2012 09:22

Now Ted Nugent... that's an altogether different kettle of fish. A moronic non-genius. He could shoot me for writing this. And he. is. alive... Brrr.

Re: When music artists say/do terrible things.

davidhuret — Tue, 18 Dec 2012 04:17:55 GMT

Author: davidhuret

Posted: 12/18/2012 09:17

[quote="andy_hunter"]The first name that came to mind was Morrissey and then the Gallagher brothers after that. But no, after each pompous, self-absorbed comment Morrissey makes or every crude, idiotic thing Liam says I still love The Smiths and Oasis just as much.

However, that said, some of the things John Lennon said and did have really put me off him. His solo stuff is the most sanctimonious, pretentious crap I've ever heard. Not to mention his hypocrisy - he's singing about love and peace when he used to beat his wife and left her with a kid he barely saw while he ran off with Yoko. He was such a twat and what makes it worse is no one mentions it. We all know Morrissey and Liam Gallagher are wankers but Lennon gets away scot free.[/quote]

Maybe because there's very little fact in an ocean of rumors. Wife-beating? Find me the evidence. Now abuse, that's different. And he certainly verbally abused a lot of people. But he could also be very, very sweet, as evidenced by letters, postcards, testimonials of those who actually met him,...
And, you know, singing about love and peace doesn't exclude misbehaving at times. We're all human.
To quote the man: "you want to save humanity but it's people that you just can't stand". He was aware of his contradictions. Honesty: that's the key-word with John Lennon.

Re: When music artists say/do terrible things.

Anonymous — Mon, 17 Dec 2012 18:50:05 GMT

Author: Anonymous

Posted: 12/17/2012 23:50

"When music artists do terrible things" is an appropriate description of my public music performances

Re: When music artists say/do terrible things.

sheep21 — Mon, 17 Dec 2012 18:42:41 GMT

Author: sheep21

Posted: 12/17/2012 23:42

Jasonconfused wrote:

How has Ted Nugent not been mentioned? Great guitar player but his statements are absurd. I'm not saying I hate him... but I want to take him and put him in a concentration camp..

Join the club. The guy is a huge right wing nutter!

Re: When music artists say/do terrible things.

tahranger — Mon, 17 Dec 2012 03:56:05 GMT

Author: tahranger

Posted: 12/17/2012 08:56

It can be hard to take who you think are intelligent musicians seriously once they announce they've "found God".

Especially when they don't divulge his/her location to the rest of us...

Re: When music artists say/do terrible things.

Jasonconfused — Sun, 16 Dec 2012 20:14:21 GMT

Author: Jasonconfused

Posted: 12/17/2012 01:14

How has Ted Nugent not been mentioned? Great guitar player but his statements are absurd. I'm not saying I hate him... but I want to take him and put him in a concentration camp..

Re: When music artists say/do terrible things.

Anonymous — Fri, 14 Sep 2012 18:18:19 GMT

Author: Anonymous

Posted: 09/14/2012 22:18

andy_hunter wrote:

The first name that came to mind was Morrissey and then the Gallagher brothers after that. But no, after each pompous, self-absorbed comment Morrissey makes or every crude, idiotic thing Liam says I still love The Smiths and Oasis just as much.

However, that said, some of the things John Lennon said and did have really put me off him. His solo stuff is the most sanctimonious, pretentious crap I've ever heard. Not to mention his hypocrisy - he's singing about love and peace when he used to beat his wife and left her with a kid he barely saw while he ran off with Yoko. He was such a twat and what makes it worse is no one mentions it. We all know Morrissey and Liam Gallagher are wankers but Lennon gets away scot free.

I think him being dead is part of it.

Re: When music artists say/do terrible things.

andy_hunter — Fri, 14 Sep 2012 18:15:07 GMT

Author: andy_hunter

Posted: 09/14/2012 22:15

The first name that came to mind was Morrissey and then the Gallagher brothers after that. But no, after each pompous, self-absorbed comment Morrissey makes or every crude, idiotic thing Liam says I still love The Smiths and Oasis just as much.

However, that said, some of the things John Lennon said and did have really put me off him. His solo stuff is the most sanctimonious, pretentious crap I've ever heard. Not to mention his hypocrisy - he's singing about love and peace when he used to beat his wife and left her with a kid he barely saw while he ran off with Yoko. He was such a twat and what makes it worse is no one mentions it. We all know Morrissey and Liam Gallagher are wankers but Lennon gets away scot free.

Re: When music artists say/do terrible things.

Anonymous — Fri, 14 Sep 2012 17:34:07 GMT

Author: Anonymous

Posted: 09/14/2012 21:34

Some of the people highlighted have hardly done terrible things. Some seem to be just dislikeable people or ones not fun to be around.

Still planning on what to do, if anything. They are not getting any more of my time 🤬

Re: When music artists say/do terrible things.

Norman Bates — Fri, 14 Sep 2012 14:24:43 GMT

Author: Norman Bates

Posted: 09/14/2012 18:24

lethalnezzle wrote:

Also, as I've alluded to many times, Morrissey is a grade-A twat. But I still like the Smiths.

First name that came to my mind. And although I still do, and always will I suppose, love The Smiths, it does make some later Morrissey tracks ("Bengali In Platforms" 😕 ) hard to listen to.

Re: When music artists say/do terrible things.

alelsupreme — Fri, 14 Sep 2012 13:51:50 GMT

Author: alelsupreme

Posted: 09/14/2012 17:51

junodog4 wrote:

I remember the fuss it created years ago - apparently she said on MTV "I would rather have my family starve than have white people buy my albums." There's no evidence of this, and both MTV and Hill have denied it. I think it's just a big rumour to discredit her (although she's had plenty of erratic behaviour).

She did give shit to the Vatican about molestation... [url] http://www.mtv.com/news/articles/1481109/lauryn-hill-attacks-church-at-vatican-show.jhtml[/url] =D>

Eh, probably not true.

The Chruch deserve to have shit said to them.