Favorite rock and roll personality?

[Zuni]

Who is a rock and roll personality that you are thankful for?

I'll start off with the late Bo Diddley....

[Mad_Dem_X]

1. Freddie Mercury

He had personality to spare!

[BurtWorm]

2. I read that as Fred MacMurray for some reason.

:o

[Zuni]

4. lol

:spray:

[JVS]

3. G.G. Allin

[He loved Big Brother]

26. HAHA

You totally rock. My motto is (seriously), "We all have a little GG Allin inside of us." And I'm a woman who loves Dave Matthews Band!

[mitchum]

29. I once had a little GG Allin on me...

but a good scrubbing took care of that

[JVS]

30. Take that Captain Morgan.

mediocre musician, great persona

[nomorenomore08]

59. "Piss in a bottle, shit in a bag, I drink Jim Beam till I'm pissin' the bed!"

Seriously, how fuckin' rock'n'roll is that? :rofl:

[av8rdave]

5. Neil Young

[applegrove]

38. Neil Young yes.

[PeaceNikki]

6. MCA, King AdRock and Mike D

[Parche]

7. Phil Collins

:woohoo: :hi:

[HopeFor2006]

40. He gets my vote as well.

:hi:

[TZ]

8. Geddy Lee

or Mick Jagger.

[Oeditpus Rex]

9. On-stage? Freddie and Mick

Off-stage? Mick and Zappa.

[RagAss]

10. Why, George of course.

[Art_from_Ark]

52. Is that "Boy" or "Harrison"?

:shrug:

[Rambis]

11. Miss you more than words can tell

[Heidi]

17. !

:thumbsup:

[insanity]

12. Buddy Guy

I'm so glad I got to see one of my rock heroes live.

[BOSSHOG]

13. Fats Domino

A very positive influence to so many

[ArnoldLayne]

14. Roger Waters,Peter Gabriel and Syd Barrett

[Frank Cannon]

20. Gotta go with David Gilmour myself

Not only an amazing guitarist, but a tremendous philanthropist. He also seems from interviews to be a genuinely decent fellow.

[mitchum]

22. Gotta agree with you...

great guitarplayer
nice guy
and incredible looking. He was very pretty as a young man and now he is a very handsome "old man" I would love to see Gilmour in a movie as some kind of East End crime boss.

[Frank Cannon]

39. Waters is looking pretty good these days, too.

He was one freaky-looking dude back in the day. But now I'd have to say he's actually ruggedly handsome.

[flvegan]

15. Mike Patton.

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ZKDvJTxZDbA

[He loved Big Brother]

27. Ditto

He was the first to pop into my head.

[He loved Big Brother]

28. And don't laugh but...

Jack Black was the second!

Sorry people, the D just amplifies what rock is all about to me. Giving it everything you've got.

Roger Waters is the third person that I thought of.

[Forkboy]

61. Pick up the Patton project A Perfect Place

It comes with a short movie of the same name, and Patton does the soundtrack. It's a hilarious movie, and the music is odd, as all his stuff is.



Patton is also a pretty good actor, and was cool in Firecracker.

[XemaSab]

16. Courtney Love

:hide:

[mitchum]

24. Nothing wrong with that; she really was the last rock and roll star...

and all that entails (good and bad)

[old mark]

18. Buddy Holley. One of my earliest favorite rockers.

I'm old enough to remember his music on the radio, and much of it sounds fresh today. A great human being and unfortunately one who died way too soon.

mark

[peruban]

19. Axl Rose

Back when that used to mean something.

[mitchum]

21. Mr Lou Reed...a very smart smartass who is also the greatest lyricist...

in rock. Even better than that Zimmerman kid.
Reed was the FIRST art rocker, but he would call you a "motherfucker" if you pointed that out to him.
Came up with some classic riffs, also.

[mitchum]

23. I am surprised, but not displeased, to see that no one said Keith Richards...

I think that people have finally realized that he has become a ridiculous self-parody. A punchline. The Dean Martin of the rockandroll generation. A real shame.

[SoxFan]

25. Bono. Go ahead. flame away.

But I don't care. The guys you listen to when you are sixteen stick with you for the rest of your life.

Besides, his work on poverty, hunger, AIDS, and international debt relief show that the guy has a grasp of policy and an ability to pursue a cause that is far beyond what you see from the run of the mill show biz poseur.

[Medusa]

31. Keith Richards

a God among mere mortals--how else is he still alive after all these years?

[hellbound-liberal]

32. George Thorogood. I've seen him three times and he never fails to entertain

He loves his music and loves to play. Saw him on the "50 States in 50 Dates" tour when he played in all 50 states in 50 consecutive days. When we insisted that he play one more encore at about 11:00, he said "What time is it?" Someone said "11:00". He said "Well, we don't have to get up for five more hours. Let's play!" I also loved his answer when someone asked him why he didn't write his own songs, he said "Chuck Berry already wrote them all."

[benny05]

33. Sir Paul McCartney

and countless others.

My favorite newbie is David Cook.

[Blarch]

34. Zach De La Rocha from Rage Against The Machine.

[harmonicon]

35. Syd Barrett

[ghostsofgiants]

36. How has no one said Iggy Pop yet?

He's not my favourite, but he's a glaring oversight in this thread.

My personal favourite would probably be Joe Strummer.

[mitchum]

37. It may be that Iggy has just been working the schtick too long...

he really does come off like an aging, shirtless, meth head who just babbles about pussy and fucking people up.
30 years ago, he was the most powerful and charismatic performer out there,but since then he has decided to just work the same old and same-getting down with the kids.
He seems for both financial and personal reasons to feel it is necessary to maintain his "wildman rock and roll cred"
If anyone does NOT need to prove their rockandroll bona fides, it is Iggy Pop.

[ghostsofgiants]

43. Yeah, I'm inclined to agree.

But back in the day, like you said, he was the man.

[mitchum]

44. I'm from the school that believes Iggy always need strong calloborators...

The Ashton Brothers
James Williamson
Bowie
The Sales Brothers

left to his own device, the results are generally not pretty

[ghostsofgiants]

45. As evidenced by this...

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=nGz2IzV1Eic

[elshiva]

41. CAPTAIN BEEFHEART

:loveya:

"I'm not really here, I just hang around for my friends." -Captain Beefheart

[Lubernaut]

46. "A little paranoia is a good propellar." -DVV

My favorite quote of his (at the moment).

[Lubernaut]

47. Buzz Osborne

[Forkboy]

62. Not to mention that he has the best hair in the industry!

Melvins kick major ass! :)

[elshiva]

48. "What this world needs is

a two dollar room and a two dollar broom." -Captain Beefheart/DVV

:loveya:

[Lubernaut]

49. The past sure is tents.

[elshiva]

50. "Space age couple

why don't you flex that magic muscle?"

[sohndrsmith]

42. I have five (not sure they qualify, though)

John Lennon
Stevie Ray Vaughan
Jack Johnson
B.B. King
Ian Anderson

(actually, I have more, but I didn't want to push it)

[doc03]

51. John Melloncamp n/t

[camera obscura]

53. Joe Strummer, RIP

[Art_from_Ark]

54. The Fab Four

Peter, Mickey, Mike and Davy!

Here we come, walking down the street...

[ACTION BASTARD]

55. Zakk Wylde (Ozzy Osbourne's guitar player)

Don't know him personality wise, but he can shred 6 strings like it's nobodies business. Aqua Teen Hunger Force did a whole episode with him. So that right there says it all.

[Twillig]

56. Check out Zakk on Satriani's podcast.

Satch was in NY to do a photoshoot with Zakk and Les Paul.

At about 2:55 Zakk is on Joe's video camera. He's funny and prolly a lil' buzzed as he gives Joe's rhythm guitarist/tour manager hell about his hair.


I do think that is a beer in his hand.

Fine player.

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=KlM0HxGrP28

[Epiales]

57. Nivek Ogre

[bif]

58. Kinky Friedman

[tigereye]

60. Joe Strummer and Patti Smith

[terrya]

63. Rick Astley.

Ha, ha.

[Forkboy]

64. There's always room for Jello.

[kwassa]

65. Johnny Rotten

[MrSlayer]

66. Kerry King