Biggest Asshole in Rock & Roll?

[Beware the Beast Man]

Poll question: Biggest Asshole in Rock & Roll?

What's my criteria? Anecdotal evidence.

[TlalocW]

1. How can you forget

Ted Nugent?

TlalocW

[trotsky]

2. WTF? You left off Nugent? n/t

[TlalocW]

4. I win!

Yay, me!

TlalocW

[trotsky]

7. LOL

Great minds!

[Beware the Beast Man]

5. Thank you both. I knew I forgot an important one!

[Beaverhausen]

3. I voted for Noel but what about W. Axel Rose?

I know he isn't around much anymore but he sure is the biggest asshole there ever was!

[Spider Jerusalem]

6. You forgot Jerry Lee Lewis...

The Ty Cobb of rock and roll...

[SmileyBoy]

8. Scott Stapp

I've heard stories about him being a real jerk-ass.

[Rob H.]

19. David Cross has a great story about Scott Stapp's assholery

He's mentioned Creed in his act ("14-year-old surburban white girl lyrics," "third worst band in the history of rock and roll," "they must get their lyrics by eavesdropping outside a junior high school girl's locker room," etc.) and finally met Stapp at a celebrity poker tournament.

Cross thought about how brutal he'd been to this guy and his band, but decided to go over and introduce himself and get it over with. He walks over to Stapp, who's sitting at one of the tables, and says, "Hi, Scott, we've never met, but I'm David Cross."

Stapp just looks up at him and says, "Yeah. Thanks for the words."

At this point, Cross is thinking, "Well, he knows. He knows." and just says something like, "Yeah, well...." and wanders off.

It's a hidden track at the end of It's Not Funny, iirc. You'd have to hear it for yourself to get the full impact, but now I can't not think of David Cross making fun of Creed whenever I hear their name mentioned.

[Commie Pinko Dirtbag]

9. Other: Lars Ulrich (Metallica)

http://www.disinfo.com/archive/pages/dossier/id374/pg1

[LostInAnomie]

12. Lars definitely.

Boo Hoo, Napster cost me so much money I had to wait to by my 5th golden house.

Fuck Metalligreed.

[name not needed]

14. Even Hetfield hates Lars

:)

[coloradodem2005]

29. Hetfield hates Lars?

I know that there may be a degree of friction, but I didn't know that Hetfield hates Lars. How do you know?

[name not needed]

59. I was just kidding around

[swimmernsecretsea]

10. Nugent. Phah! I think he's a "Doctor Moreau" experiment

to create an animal out of Human DNA.

[unblock]

11. courtney love has to get an honorable mention or something....

[swimmernsecretsea]

16. They gave her the Miss Congeniality award instead

Fashion sense, poise, bragging about shooting up, endangering her children--she's the whole package.

[Jamastiene]

23. Ouch!

I like her warts and all.

[coloradodem2005]

13. I put Ted Nugent.

Though, I would add Lars Ulrich, Kid Rock, Fred Durst.

[name not needed]

15. Ted Nugent

followed closely by Lars Ulrich and Axl Rose.

[maveric]

17. Tough choices but Nugent takes the cake.

Ike Turner #2.

[ghostsofgiants]

18. Choosing between Nugent and Simmons was hard

But in the end, The Nuge won out.

[drumwolf]

20. Nugent seems like the most obvious choice

but he gets very stiff competition from Gene Simmons, who is the perfect example of someone who is emotionally stuck at 8 years old and is guided by nothing but the basest, lowest-common-denominator human impulses.

He's certainly far from the BIGGEST asshole and he's not a ROCK'N'ROLL personality, but Michael Jackson would be someone to mention too.

[W2Hague]

21. Nugent

If you look up Douche Bag in the dictionary, you'll see a portrait of Ted Nugent.

[whatelseisnew]

22. Kid Rock

is a piece of rot

[Jamastiene]

24. I was going to say

shit. He just got arrested recently for attacking a DJ in Tennessee and was acting like such a tool. I can't stand him.

[DontBlameMe]

53. I had a run in with his band once...

http://www.democraticunderground.com/discuss/duboard.php?az=view_all&address=105x2651441#2651487

[jdots]

25. too many good choices

there sure are alot of scumbags in the music biz.

[MrSlayer]

26. Other: Another vote for Lars Ulrich.

What a piece of sellout shit. Yngwie J. Malmsteen is close but at least he is talented.

[FredScuttle]

27. uh......Phil Spector?

Nugent, et. al. are primo assholes, but how many of them killed a woman stone fucking cold, then told the police she shot herself?

[drumwolf]

49. This poll is about the biggest ASSHOLES in rock,

not the biggest NUTJOBS, which is what Phil Spector is by all accounts.

[LeftyMom]

28. Ike Turner

if half of what Tina Turner says about him is true he's a cheating, wife-beating rapist asshole. All those other guys are world-class jerks, but he's nastier than a dried up old santorum stain.

[shesemsmom]

30. Nugent

wish he had *ush up his behind

[ChavezSpeakstheTruth]

31. John Lennon

[asthmaticeog]

42. ChavezSpeakstheTroll

:evilgrin:

[ChavezSpeakstheTruth]

50. ChavezBaitstheFlames

[no name no slogan]

32. What, no Kid Rock?

Yeah, he may be trailer trash, but that dude has to be one of the top ten. Fake patriot, flag-shirt-wearing, Pam-Anderson-humpin, music-stealing, unoriginal sack o' crap.

[peekaloo]

41. second the KRock!

I read this a.m. he spent a night in a Nashville jail for punching a DJ at an "adult" club. HA, couldn't post $3,000.

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[Joe Power]

34. Why is Lou Reed on the list?

[DrGonzoLives]

35. Nugent may be a hard right-winger

but Gene Simmons is just 100% prick. He's a dick to his fans, he will do ANYTHING to make a buck, he's somehow conservative...to hell with him.

Nugent at least has some modicum of talent. Simmons just had a fucking gimmick.

[fudge stripe cookays]

38. Simmons is a hard right

Israel supporter. So I've heard. And with that, I withdraw from any flaming that may find me here away from the I/P forum.

FSC

[asthmaticeog]

43. Simmons is a native-born Israeli, IIRC.

[fudge stripe cookays]

46. Yep, I think you're right.

I've read that too. Forgot momentarily.

FSC

[DrGonzoLives]

47. OMG U ANTI_SMEITE!!!11!!

:evilgrin:

[Adenoid_Hynkel]

56. yep, he's a likud/sharon apologist who has no interest in peace

and wants death to the palestinians

[drumwolf]

61. He's more than just a Likudnik, he's an all-around Freeper.

He may not be as outspoken about identifying with Bush and the GOP as Nugent is, but Simmons is just as freeperish in general as Nugent is.

[Beware the Beast Man]

44. At the very least, the 'Nuge has musical talent, and his concert albums

are really live, not studio-fabricated concert albums.
I've lost all respect I had for Kiss as performers over the past decade.

[Adenoid_Hynkel]

55. nugent at least is personable, simmons is just a scumbag

and won't quit milking his fans with phony farewell tours. kiss, the most mediocre, overrated band on music history

[ScreamingMeemie]

36. I was so glad when they kicked Ted and his stupid "The Bear" program

off the airwaves here. :hi:

[CBGLuthier]

37. Charlie Daniels

Some may argue he isn;t R&R but he was pretty close to it at one time and he is a major league asshole.

Nugent is probably right behind but he never offended me the way Daniels has.

[fudge stripe cookays]

39. Yep, Daniels is an asshole.

I checked out his Webpage the day I found out he was a freeper. Holy shit! The amount of idiocy there boggles the brain. Between him and his moronic fans, I didn't know which was worse.

FSC

[GOPBasher]

40. Definitely Ted Nugent.. the right wing dick. n/t

[asthmaticeog]

45. Certainly not the greatest, but worth an honorable mention

is Mark E. Smith. By far and away the most astonishing bastard I ever had to deal with in my years in the concert industry, and that's saying a lot. While he can't compete with heavy-hitters like Simmons, Nugent and Stapp, he's surely the biggest asshole in underground rock & roll.

[Jeff in Cincinnati]

48. This poll is so biased...

Ted Nugent is the biggest asshole on so many levels...

Biggest Asshole from Michigan

Biggest Asshole Hunter

Biggest Asshole Washed-Up "B List" Celebrity

[callous taoboy]

51. Stephen Stills-

My brother met him back in the early 80's. He was opening for Stills at a small club in Austin. Walked up to Stills before the show and very pleasantly said, "Hey Stephen, how's it going?" Stills replied, "What the fuck do YOU want?"

[Zuni]

52. On this list, Ike Turner

If There is any truth in Tina Turner's accusations about him than he is certainly the biggest scumbag on the list, politics be damned.
I don't give a fuck who votes for who---from what i understand Ike turner was a violent sociopath who tortured his wife for years.

[Adenoid_Hynkel]

54. Lou Reed, a genius and progressive, makes your list, but Kid Rock doesn't?

WTF?

[WeRQ4U]

57. Billy Corgan of the Pumpkins

His ego ruined an extremely good thing. Jimmy Chamberlain was the real genious. Too bad he was hooked on smack.

[fudge stripe cookays]

58. I loved Gish

when I first heard it years ago. Now, just the sound of his whiny voice gives me hives.

[leftofthedial]

60. nugent is the biggest asshole on the list

but he hasn't qualified as being "in rock & roll" for 25 years.