I like John Fogerty. CCR got hosed.
But the other 5 either helped define, or advanced the art form.
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HARSH! ;)
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?
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.
The hardest part of making such a list is narrowing it down to just ten.
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.
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
Jonny Whiteside is a douchebag. Is “Jonny” his real first name? Hey Jonny - work on fixing your first name before lecturing us about musicians. I absolutely hate critics like “Jonny” who make up snarky stories to make a buck and have never created anything
good list. i would thrown on there james taylor, phil collins, and sting.
Jerry Garcia
Bob Dylan———>wrong,wrong,wrong,wrong!
John Fogerty-—>wrong
Lou Reed
David Crosby-—>wrong
Bruce Springsteen
John Lennon——>not while with the Beatles
Phil Spector-—>wrong,wrong
Carlos Santana->wrong
Frank Zappa
Fogerty and CCR. Great songs/music. “Proud Mary”, “”Travelin’ Band”, “Fortunate Son”, “Put Me in Coach”.
Personality - egotripping ahole
Lou Reed: Had a voice that could take wallpaper off in seconds.
Crosby, Garcia, Dylan, Lennon, Zappa. Highly overrated. Hard to dance to anything they sang.
Phil Spector - His “Wall of Sound” was awesome, aka The Philly Sound, and Ronnie Spector was pretty good on most songs. Ronettes doing “Sleigh Ride” is awesome too.
Santana - Good musician (”Natural”, “Something’s Coming Up”.
Politics - a communist sympathizer ahole. Should be ashamed of himself.
Springsteen - 50/50. Early stuff was very good, esp. “Glory Days”, “Dancing in the Dark” (could have been a Star Trek episode title); “Freeway of Love” (I think he did that one with Aretha Franklin, always a queen of rock and soul).
Jerry Garcia and Grateful Dead. Didn’t they do “Truckin”? My wife likes them but a lot of their stuff does sound like they are on drugs and singing/playing inside a 40 foot trailer.
Bad article on the 20 worst Country Music Singers. Tobey Keith, Kenny Chesney, Taylor Swift - rock! Rascal Flats should be on this list because they are so nasally-off tune that they could strip paint off a wall in no time flat.
Re the 20 Hottest Women of Rock/Music/Country. They left out Lita Ford, the blond sister in Heart, the lead female singer of Lady Antebellum, Miranda Lambert, etc.
Re old time Rock and Roll young women as good lookers and singers - Linda Scott (I’ve Told Every Little Star, Never in a Million Years, etc).Anette Funicello - she was DISNEY. Shelley Fabrere; Sherry Jackson (Star Trek episode - who cared if she could sing or not); Mary Wells (if you hadn’t seen her in that tight, full-length white dress she performed in, then you have not seen one beautiful, talented woman. Miss her. I’ll also throw in the Mandell Sisters - now that would have been one helluva triple date, if you could survive it.
I guess my age is showing but some of the “Golden Oldies” women in music were just that - beautiful, talented, quietly feminine, and pretty wholesome.
Roger Waters.
FZ? No way! Substitute Kevin Cronin (REO Speedwagon) for Frank and I MIGHT go along with it...But then again, you’re still talking about three more; who along with Frank, are dead.
Hell, you may as well have listed Jimi Hendrix, Janis Joplin, Jim Morrison, Keith Moon, Lowell George and Steve Marriot.
In the words of Mel Brooks, “ After the birth of the Arts, came the inevitable after birth of the critic”.
Most of these are douche bags. Lennon and Dylan, while never as big as their reputations, did however, add quite a bit to Rock and Roll. Zappa was a genius.
I always heard that Mike Love from The Beach Boys is one of the biggest douches in music.
Eddie Money.