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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
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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. (’
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posted on
08/28/2014 4:09:41 PM PDT
by
tflabo
(Truth or tyranny)
To: catnipman
“...click bait...”
U speak the truth. ;)
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posted on
08/28/2014 4:10:25 PM PDT
by
krunkygirl
(force multiplier in effect...)
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!
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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")
To: skeeter
Agreed. Did he not once take out an insurance policy against making his groupies pregnant?
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posted on
08/28/2014 4:12:44 PM PDT
by
Fungi
To: yefragetuwrabrumuy
Chris Lets Dance Montez, a former Golden Gloves boxer, who proceeded to whup Lennons woman beating ass up one side and down the other.
Sorry but that never happened.........
Chris Montez Interview
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posted on
08/28/2014 4:12:57 PM PDT
by
Hot Tabasco
(Is there such a thing as a vegan zombie?)
To: Fungi
Dunno, but I do know he once knocked himself out performing kung foo moves on his mic stand.
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posted on
08/28/2014 4:17:11 PM PDT
by
skeeter
To: skeeter
Saw a picture of him here on FR, the guy has not aged well.
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posted on
08/28/2014 4:18:27 PM PDT
by
Fungi
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?
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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)
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.
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posted on
08/28/2014 4:24:24 PM PDT
by
OwenKellogg
(Fundamental transformation leads to ... FORE!)
To: Sirius Lee
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posted on
08/28/2014 4:25:32 PM PDT
by
Eddie01
(Liberals lie about everything all the time.)
To: tflabo
One thing about Neil young he writes lyrics that rhyme.
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posted on
08/28/2014 4:26:12 PM PDT
by
jocon307
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.
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.
To: Bullish
His first couple of albums are brilliant. Everything after is dreck.
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posted on
08/28/2014 4:29:00 PM PDT
by
jocon307
To: EveningStar
The hardest part of making such a list is narrowing it down to just ten.
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 Crosbys 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!
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posted on
08/28/2014 4:34:07 PM PDT
by
gr8eman
(Bill Carson...meet Arch Stanton!)
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.
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posted on
08/28/2014 4:34:49 PM PDT
by
Bullish
(You ever notice that liberalism really just amounts to anti-morality?)
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.
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posted on
08/28/2014 4:35:17 PM PDT
by
Sir_Humphrey
(Is it too late to save the country?)
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.
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posted on
08/28/2014 4:39:21 PM PDT
by
Sir_Humphrey
(Is it too late to save the country?)
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
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posted on
08/28/2014 4:39:22 PM PDT
by
dynachrome
(Vertrou in God en die Mauser)
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