Who Is Your Music "Hero"?

Ashbery · 07-29-2011, 07:36 PM

Louis Armstrong
Brian Eno
Slug
Salif Keita

Howard the Duck · 07-29-2011, 08:50 PM

Curtis Mayfield

Captain Americana · 07-29-2011, 09:55 PM

Les Claypool, he is a genius. Someone like him should be running this country.

starrynight · 07-30-2011, 04:26 AM

I'm not sure it's good to have a hero, nobody is perfect.

**Janszoon** · 07-30-2011, 08:48 AM

Quote:

Originally Posted by starrynight

I'm not sure it's good to have a hero, nobody is perfect.

Lemmy is perfect.

bob. · 07-30-2011, 09:30 AM

yeah....he's right Lemmy is perfection.

Insane Guest · 07-30-2011, 01:54 PM

Pink Floyd
Brian Eno
Ozzy Osbourne
Layne Stayley

Necromancer · 08-01-2011, 05:45 AM

Paul Rodgers
Randy Rhoads
Buddy Holly
Ozzy Osbourne
Ronnie James Dio
Robert Johnson

lucifer_sam · 08-01-2011, 10:25 PM

This is a tough question to answer. I've thought about this a lot...

Nobody could touch Anton Newcombe's songwriting in the mid-90s, but he's a fairly loathable person. For that matter, Elliott Smith was a genius and a virtuoso in every sense of the word, but his drug habits and mental health issues plagued him even at his best times. The only musical person I really admire for his convictions is Frank Zappa, and his music doesn't really appeal to me anymore. I certainly have many idols, but there's only one particular person whom I could call my "hero"...

Mike Watt. His incredible stature in music notwithstanding (being one of the greatest electric bassists ever with songwriting in seminal punk band Minutemen & subsequent work in fIREHOSE and the Stooges), Mike is an amazingly literate and surprisingly down-to-earth guy. Probably one of the hardest-working musicians, between recording punk operas with analogues to James Joyce's Ulysses and still jamming econo at the age of fifty-four. Not to mention he's dedicated everything he's done since 1985 to the memory of D. Boon. Never (to my knowledge) a habitual drug user, narcissist, asshole or anything less than a genuinely good dude trying to make a living off his bass.

And I don't even play bass guitar.

Howard the Duck · 08-01-2011, 10:26 PM

King Sunny Ade

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lucifer_sam Unrepentant Ass-Mod Join Date: Jun 2008 Location: Pennsylvania Posts: 3,921	This is a tough question to answer. I've thought about this a lot... Nobody could touch Anton Newcombe's songwriting in the mid-90s, but he's a fairly loathable person. For that matter, Elliott Smith was a genius and a virtuoso in every sense of the word, but his drug habits and mental health issues plagued him even at his best times. The only musical person I really admire for his convictions is Frank Zappa, and his music doesn't really appeal to me anymore. I certainly have many idols, but there's only one particular person whom I could call my "hero"... Mike Watt. His incredible stature in music notwithstanding (being one of the greatest electric bassists ever with songwriting in seminal punk band Minutemen & subsequent work in fIREHOSE and the Stooges), Mike is an amazingly literate and surprisingly down-to-earth guy. Probably one of the hardest-working musicians, between recording punk operas with analogues to James Joyce's Ulysses and still jamming econo at the age of fifty-four. Not to mention he's dedicated everything he's done since 1985 to the memory of D. Boon. Never (to my knowledge) a habitual drug user, narcissist, asshole or anything less than a genuinely good dude trying to make a living off his bass. And I don't even play bass guitar. __________________ first.am

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