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The 10 Biggest Classic Rock Douchebags
LA Weekly ^ | July 15, 2014 | Jonny Whiteside

Posted on 08/28/2014 3:33:39 PM PDT by EveningStar

While rock 'n' roll is necessarily classified as a form of pop music, it is actually an idiom whose radical, destructive primitivism established a new type of socio-cultural disorder. It's about rejection of the status quo and celebration of the dis-imprisonment it instills.

Always exploited for profit, rock's unmanageable aspects have been steadily diluted by a sinister, commercially driven course of revisionist myth-making. There is no acceptable role in the marketplace for radicals like Charlie Feathers, Poly Styrene, Lux Interior or Roky Erickson, but there's always room for the homogeneous, money-hungry, play-it-safe phonies on this list.

These douchebags all have one thing in common -- they screwed up rock 'n' roll, big time.

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TOPICS: Music/Entertainment
KEYWORDS: bobdylan; brucespringsteen; carlossantana; classicrock; davidcrosby; douchebags; frankzappa; jerrygarcia; johnfogerty; johnlennon; loureed; philspector
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To: dfwgator

Hey speaking of ‘Deadheads’ there’s a local radio show on Friday nights in DFW that plays their music.

http://www.lonestardeadradio.com/

A conservative here who enjoys their music. LIEberals got us pegged all wrong. (’


41 posted on 08/28/2014 4:09:41 PM PDT by tflabo (Truth or tyranny)
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To: catnipman

“...click bait...”

U speak the truth. ;)


42 posted on 08/28/2014 4:10:25 PM PDT by krunkygirl (force multiplier in effect...)
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To: Lurker
Zappa was a genius. The author is a bigger DB than anyone one the list.

I was thinking the same thing. Some drippy vagina of a tabulator got his feelings hurt when the peerless FZ revealed the many incompetents in the industry for what they were. Waaaaaa!

43 posted on 08/28/2014 4:12:43 PM PDT by Sirius Lee (All that is required for evil to advance is for government to do "something")
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To: skeeter

Agreed. Did he not once take out an insurance policy against making his groupies pregnant?


44 posted on 08/28/2014 4:12:44 PM PDT by Fungi
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To: yefragetuwrabrumuy
Chris “Let’s Dance” Montez, a former Golden Gloves boxer, who proceeded to whup Lennon’s woman beating ass up one side and down the other.

Sorry but that never happened.........

Chris Montez Interview

45 posted on 08/28/2014 4:12:57 PM PDT by Hot Tabasco (Is there such a thing as a vegan zombie?)
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To: Fungi

Dunno, but I do know he once knocked himself out performing kung foo moves on his mic stand.


46 posted on 08/28/2014 4:17:11 PM PDT by skeeter
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To: skeeter

Saw a picture of him here on FR, the guy has not aged well.


47 posted on 08/28/2014 4:18:27 PM PDT by Fungi
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To: EveningStar

As are most CEO’s and other successful people.

You want to get ahead, you have to step on a few people along the way.

Serious question - can anyone name someone who “made it” in what ever field who wasn’t a bit of an a**hole?


48 posted on 08/28/2014 4:23:02 PM PDT by KosmicKitty (Liberals claim to want to hear other views, but then are shocked to discover there are other views)
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To: yefragetuwrabrumuy; tflabo

Neil Young and Gregg Allman are two of my favorite musicians. But they both can be classified unfavorably for various reasons. Likewise, 8 of the 10 listed are among my favorite musicians.


49 posted on 08/28/2014 4:24:24 PM PDT by OwenKellogg (Fundamental transformation leads to ... FORE!)
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To: Sirius Lee

F yeah.


50 posted on 08/28/2014 4:25:32 PM PDT by Eddie01 (Liberals lie about everything all the time.)
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To: tflabo

One thing about Neil young he writes lyrics that rhyme.


51 posted on 08/28/2014 4:26:12 PM PDT by jocon307
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To: EveningStar

Jerry Garcia is an overrated guitar player, but probably not a douche.

Carlos Santana is probably a douche, but not an overrated guitar player.

Fogerty is a great pop songwriter and probably a douche.

Dylan never did anything for me, and he may be a douche, but he stymies the lefty music press so I can’t help but like him.

Springsteen is overrated and a douche.

Don’t know much about David Crosby. Irrelevant in my book.

Zappa. Had friends who were into him. Clever guy. Mostly irrelevant.

Lou Reed. Apparently an icon or something. Has a great cameo on the third Gorillaz album. Don’t know if he’s a douche.

John Lennon. A douche but indispensable.

Love Phil Specter’s wall of sound but the guy is a douche.


52 posted on 08/28/2014 4:27:47 PM PDT by Yardstick
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To: EveningStar
1. Frank Zappa

Fail. Who is 'Jonny Whiteside'? Once that mystery is solved, someone needs to inform him that being a douchebag does not qualify one to identify other douchebags.
53 posted on 08/28/2014 4:28:13 PM PDT by AnotherUnixGeek
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To: Bullish

His first couple of albums are brilliant. Everything after is dreck.


54 posted on 08/28/2014 4:29:00 PM PDT by jocon307
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To: EveningStar

The hardest part of making such a list is narrowing it down to just ten.


55 posted on 08/28/2014 4:32:29 PM PDT by yawningotter
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To: tet68
Yep...they are. Interesting article though. IMO Loose Bedspring should be at the top.
The author gives Zappa a bit too much credit and then does exactly what he complains about Zappa doing (I'm a big fan and he never called it R&R).
I never knew Phil Collins paid for Crosby’s 1994 liver transplant. Why would he?
Garcia could play it all and did. Listen to his banjo playing on Old and in the Way! Yes, the drugs did him in and all of that, but he was a pioneer and a true musician that worked non-stop and could play it all. Maybe the rest of the GD were douchebags but Jerry (and Billy) were cool!
56 posted on 08/28/2014 4:34:07 PM PDT by gr8eman (Bill Carson...meet Arch Stanton!)
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To: jocon307; lefty-lie-spy

As a lifelong, working musician and singer I think I’m qualified to say that Springsteen is no musician or singer.

Just my opinion, it’s not worth anyone getting upset over.


57 posted on 08/28/2014 4:34:49 PM PDT by Bullish (You ever notice that liberalism really just amounts to anti-morality?)
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To: EveningStar
I dunno what Jonny means by "douchbag"

If he means over rated than the only ones I can with on this list are Springsteen, Lou Reed, David Crosby and Frank Zappa. I won't even consider Phil Spector as he was not a musician or part of the classic rock scene.

I never got the Frank Zappa-is-a-musical-genius thing. My room mate in college was huge Zappa fan so I heard damn near everything he did through 1982. Ugh... to say the least. He even drug me to one of his concerts. It was the only concert I ever walked out of.

58 posted on 08/28/2014 4:35:17 PM PDT by Sir_Humphrey (Is it too late to save the country?)
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To: Sir_Humphrey
clarification ...the only ones I can agree with that are over rated are Springsteen, Lou Reed, David Crosby and Frank Zappa. I thought the others (save Phil Spector) were outstanding.
59 posted on 08/28/2014 4:39:21 PM PDT by Sir_Humphrey (Is it too late to save the country?)
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To: EveningStar

When you can “play that guitar like ringing a bell”, people will forgive a lot.

(early Chuck Berry, Johnny B. Goode. audience is zombified, no reaction to dam’ fine Berry)

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=rVT65M4mRnM


60 posted on 08/28/2014 4:39:22 PM PDT by dynachrome (Vertrou in God en die Mauser)
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