Who's the biggest asshole currently in music?

[Archae]

Looks like Charlie Daniels right now.
He claims if Obama is re-elected, there will be "riots."

[av8rdave]

1. It's a close race with Ted Nugent

I wonder if Charlie ever wonders why there weren't riots when Obama was elected the first time?

[RebelOne]

9. Nugent, hands down. n/t

[Ken Burch]

23. Won't be long now 'til Charlie starts saying

that Obama gave The Devil those fiddle lessons.

[jmowreader]

65. If he did, Obama's a damn good fiddler

Come on now: does anyone really think Johnny played better than the devil?

[Ken Burch]

67. My God...that's it...Obama is ROBERT JOHNSON!!!!

explains why you never see those two in the same photograph.

[Honeycombe8]

45. Nugent. Ditto. nt

[AsahinaKimi]

53. add my vote

Nugent.

[Smickey]

69. And mine

[Jamaal510]

2. Hank Williams is definitely among the biggest arseholes,

if not the biggest. Ted "pants-shitter" Nugent is up there, too.

[hifiguy]

11. Nugent and Hank Jr for political assholishness.

Mike Love on general principles. The man's entire career has been based on Brian Wilson's genius.

[Ken Burch]

24. Mike is also a right-wing douchenozzle politically

He was campaigning for #41 in '88, and his crony Bruce Johnstone(the lame-ass keyboard player they brought in when Brian got too crazy to tour) actually calls Obama a socialist(he's quoted doing that in the Rolling Stone article about the Surviving Beach Boy Reunion Tour.)

Other than being blonde and looking semi-studly on stage back in the day, what the hell did Love EVER bring to that group? He can't sing for shit and he also basically ordered the band to stop trying to grow creatively in 1966 or so(it was Love that decided to turn down the Boys invite to Monterey Pop, thereby instantly turning them into a cheesy nostalgia act).

I think having to deal with Mike Love is half the reason Brian lost it in the late Sixties.

[Ken Burch]

62. I wonder if "Bocephus" is ever sober enough to realize what he's saying politically?

It's possible that he was in a blackout every time he told us his opinions.

[arcane1]

3. "riots" = sore-loser white people who hate democracy

Good luck, Charlie!

[Ken Burch]

31. Actually, white Southerners forced the end of Reconstruction and the birth of "Jim Crow"

by staging a continual series of riots(some of which would be considered terrorist by today's standards) between 1865 and 1876.

(I say that as a person with Tennessee ancestry on my father's side, before anyone accuses me of South-bashing).

[NightWatcher]

4. why didnt they riot the first time instead of hanging tea bags on their hats?

or move away like they threatened

[arcane1]

6. It's hard to riot from a lawn chair or a scooter

[Ken Burch]

61. You've now given me the image of "The Spirit of '76 Headwound Band"

on mobility scooters...playing their fifes and drum all the way into Denny's for the Early Bird Meal.

[KamaAina]

5. Randy Travis has to be in the conversation

He was also a prominent Bachmann supporter. Who would have guessed?

[Bucky]

12. His hair adds about 1½ inches to his height. His glower seems to add another inch on top of that.

He may be a Bachmann supporter, but he's not a fraction of the asshole Nugent is.

[KamaAina]

13. It's not just the Bachmann thing

it's the nekkid DUI.

[Bucky]

14. He's a musician. They're required to get nekkid and threaten the cops at least once per career.

Don't blame Randy, blame the union rules. They have to do that before going to Betty Ford and launching a comeback.

[Ken Burch]

68. It's all the Mormon Tabernacle Choir's management can do

to keep THEIR naked and drunk incidents out of the media.

[Initech]

40. The fact that he's a Christian - certainly doesn't help things.

[KamaAina]

63. Not a Christian per se

but someone who switched form country to Christian* music in mid-career.

In the words of the immortal Hank Hill, "You're not making rock 'n' roll better. You're just making Christianity worse."

[Initech]

64. Hank Hill...

I think the correct quote was "You're not making Christianity better, you're making rock n' roll worse."

[KamaAina]

72. PWD

Bad Kama.

[sendero]

42. You know.....

.... I'm pretty sure Travis has a serious alcohol problem. I'm pretty sure he "recently" split with his partner of 30+ years and I'm pretty sure he is having a really hard time with it.

I'm pretty sure I don't agree with his politics, but then I don't hate people for being a bit thick about some things. Putting him in the same bucket as Nugent or Daniels is really not fair IMHO.

I

[byeya]

7. Mike Love should get the Career Achievement award

[Ken Burch]

25. Mike Love had a career?

n/t.

[byeya]

47. Good one!

[edhopper]

8. Hey Charlie

you know when the Devil went done to Georgia? Well he kicked that redneck's fiddle playing ass. Wasn't even close. Only an ignorant hillbilly would think he actually one with that tired old fake bluegrass shit.

[Bertha Venation]

51. "tired old fake bluegrass shit"

[Chan790]

10. Maybe less political but...

any conversation not including Billy Corgan and John Mayer is incomplete. Love their music but man are they both assholes on a cosmic scale. John Mayer gets special mention for taking advantage of a 17 year old Taylor Swift then bragging about it in the entertainment industry rags.

[Ken Burch]

26. Was Taylor at the age of consent when Mayer played her?

If not...he's could be a REAL popular guy on the cellblock



And yes, Corgan is way overbearing(he truly DESERVED to go bald early)but partially in his defense, James and D'arcy were big-time junkies and anybody else would have kicked them out of the band too.

[Tobin S.]

46. They were junkies because they had to deal with Corgan.

Heh, I really don't know. I just felt like being a contrarian.

[Ken Burch]

57. It's possible you could be right...

n/t.

[kurtzapril4]

50. Billy's not so bad in person.

D'arcy was always nice to me, and James and Jimmy are fucking jerks. Jimmy Chamberlain....I remember being at a bar and if anyone would attempt to talk to him, he'd show them the palm of his hand, on which he'd written "Fuck You."

[Ken Burch]

56. Interesting info.

I probably shouldn't have used the "j" word...and hopefully D'arcy can still get well.

[RZM]

48. I'm as big a Corgan fan as anybody

I think he's one of the best musicians of his generation, especially when it comes to songwriting. He's an amazingly prolific songwriter and has penned some real classics. Plus he's always been underrated as a guitarist. He's got serious playing skills.

But yeah, even I admit that he's a total prick. But so many of the great ones are . . .

John Mayer fails in both departments for me. I can't stand his music and I don't get the impression he's a very nice person.

[Ken Burch]

58. Look at Van Morrison

one of the greatest songwriters in history...and frequently a total bastard at the same time.

Perhaps the problem is that people assume that a genius will also be a saint.

[sadbear]

15. This list wouldn't be complete without Kid Rock...

but maybe he's more of a douche than an asshole. (I differentiate.)

[jmowreader]

66. Kid Rock is a douche

Among currently living musicians, Nugent is at the top of the asshole food chain.

[sadbear]

71. I take issue with your characterization

Nugent is hardly a musician.

[jmowreader]

74. Nugent is a good guitarist

It's his singing that gets him in trouble. But the worthless fuck CAN play the guitar.

[pipi_k]

16. The biggest...

can't say for sure who THE biggest is, but one of the biggest is probably Ted Nugent.

Which really freaks me out because I do like a lot of his music.

I don't know if people can really appreciate how much it can suck to have mixed feelings like that.

[Major Nikon]

17. Axel Fucking Rose

[Ken Burch]

27. I'd put Axel in the "most conflicted" category, too...

We're talking about a homophobe whose key musical influences were Freddy Mercury and Elton John.

[Major Nikon]

32. Homophobe and a racist

I'd just as soon listen to nails on a chalkboard.

[Ken Burch]

33. I STILL can't believe that Slash(who's black, for God's sake)didn't ditch G'nR

the INSTANT Axel showed him the lyrics for "One In a Million".

[Tom Ripley]

34. It's probably the only honest song Rose ever wrote (the rest were just rehashed Aero$mith)

It's a repellent song, but it does express the worldview of a midwestern redneck

[Ken Burch]

38. That is very, very true.

n/t.

[sendero]

43. For the life of me..

... I could never understand how anyone could listen to that whiny fingers-on-chalkboard voice of his. I have no idea if he can write a song because his singing is so bloody horrific!

[PassingFair]

18. Nugent takes the prize, but Kid Rock is also a HUGE ass. nt

[ohnoyoudidnt]

20. Yes, Nugent, and there's just so many to choose from. nt

[Ken Burch]

60. I think Kid was pretty much playing himself in JOE DIRT

n/t.

[HopeHoops]

19. There's a choice?

[Shankapotomus]

21. Nugent

Then Hank Williams, Jr.

[Curtland1015]

22. Gotta be Nugent, but I think Chris Brown deserves a shout out.

Piece of garbage.

[Ken Burch]

29. Chris Brown definitely has cosmic payback coming

n/t.

[Initech]

39. Chris Brown is a major douchebag.

[RZM]

49. +1. Chris Brown may not be the biggest douche, but man, it's pretty close n/t

[Ken Burch]

28. Started a related thread for movie star assholes/douches here:

http://www.democraticunderground.com/1018172091

[Ken Burch]

30. We're just talking about musicians here

in the Eighties, one of the biggest behind-the-scenes music biz douches was a guy named Miles Copeland. To start with, he was the son of a CIA agent. He then became a label head in Britain(and was an outspoken Thatcherite as well)in which role he openly defended the right of record labels to take most of the proceeds from album sales while leaving the people who actually wrote and performed the music with almost nothing.

Further back, you'd also want to include every white-owned label that ever cheated a black r&b group out of its rightful share of royalties.

[Tom Ripley]

35. His two brothers Stewart and Ian weren't any prizes either

[Archae]

37. What did they do?

Ian I had never heard of, but Stewart created music for 3 videogames I have, the first three in the "Spyro The Dragon" series.

[lovemydog]

41. Stewart was in the famous band

called The Police

[Ken Burch]

59. Dare we ask what you think of their bass player with the striped shirt?

n/t.

[sendero]

44. For one man's story about this..

... listen to "Talkin' Wall of Voodoo Blues Pt 1" by Stan Ridgway (ex Wall of Voodoo, a sadly under appreciated band). IRS records screwed them over big time.

"The contract was like a book
Two hundred pages long
We signed there on that dotted line
Just a dollar for each song
Just a dollar."

[kurtzapril4]

52. They totally got screwed!

And they were very nice guys, to boot. I lived out in Hollywood in my youth, and they had a practice space above a store on Hollywood Boulevard. I used to buy them beer, it was either because they were broke, or not old enough, I can't remember which.

Mark Morland died in France waiting for a liver transplant, I think. Finally drank himself to death, which is a shame. He was sweet and gorgeous.

[madinmaryland]

36. He's still alive???

[HopeHoops]

55. Probably Randy Travis. Didn't he just get busted for passing out drunk and naked?

May have dreamed that, but I'm pretty sure I read it somewhere.

[Initech]

70. Holy crap - 70 posts and no one has mentioned Lars Ulrich yet?

He killed Napster and unleashed the insanity known as the Recording Industry Association Of America.

[Sugarcoated]

73. Hey

don't forget the explosive diarrhea that is Toby Keith!