allsmutaside said:

14. Noel Gallagher on Jack White
“He looks like Zorro on doughnuts.”

Funny, bold and accurate as hell. No offensel Jacky Jack.

Noel's one to talk looking like Mr. Bean's son. Fuck outta here.

Vince Neil on Tommy Lee: "If hip-hop is in, he's a hip-hopper. If punk rock is in, he's a punk rocker. If Tommy had tits, he'd be a Spice Girl"

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Timmy84 said:

allsmutaside said:

14. Noel Gallagher on Jack White
“He looks like Zorro on doughnuts.”

Funny, bold and accurate as hell. No offensel Jacky Jack.

Noel's one to talk looking like Mr. Bean's son. Fuck outta here.

In addition, I don't like the fact that Noel dissed Phil Collins. So f*** Noel and his Beatles & Wham! beat biting ass!

TonyVanDam said:

Timmy84 said:

Noel's one to talk looking like Mr. Bean's son. Fuck outta here.

In addition, I don't like the fact that Noel dissed Phil Collins. So f*** Noel and his Beatles & Wham! beat biting ass!

Wham??

BobGeorge72 said:

Vince Neil on Tommy Lee: "If hip-hop is in, he's a hip-hopper. If punk rock is in, he's a punk rocker. If Tommy had tits, he'd be a Spice Girl"

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Damn!

My opinion on Anton what?

I seriously have no idea who the fuck he is or the kind of music he makes, I just know that he's, probably, a despicable human being, a piece of shit with "brains" (really?). That's how much I love Eric and that's how much I "care" for Anton what?

the other "insults" are funny and/or bright...except for Kurt's, who once again shows that he was a fuckin' little prick/nerd (and, SADLY, a great songwriter aswell...)

NDRU said:

"who the fuck is Mick Jagger?" --Miles Davis

awwww, jazzmans shouldn't leave their own private jazz planet...where they suck each other's dicks while sayin' how good/relevant they are...

COMPUTERBLUE1984 said:

In March 1979, Elvis Costello got into an argument with a Member of Stephen Stills entourage who said he (Costello)owed alot to American R&B musicians such as Ray Charles and James Brown. Costello stated Charles was "a blind, ignorant n•••••" and that Brown "another dumb n•••••". The argument ended with Elvis getting a black eye

EC: Yes. The first thing that a lot of people heard about me was that incident. I think it outweighs my entire career - which is a pretty depressing prospect. I'm absolutely convinced.

Fred Schruers wrote a piece about it - a sort of "tenor of the tour" ["What'd I Say?" RS291, May 17th, 1979]. About the fact that we went around with CAMP LEJEUNE on the front of our bus - Camp Lejeune, where they train the Marines. He said it was like an excersise in paranoia. To an extent, it was. The antijournalist thing we were doing, the antiphotographer thing, had reached an almost excessive level by that point. Schruers said that the press were looking for something to crucify me with, and I fed myself to the lions. There were words to that effect. I remember them distinctly. And I couldn't help but agree, to a certain extent, looking - aside from the incident itself - dispassionately at the effect of what happened.

What actually happened was this: We were in a bar - Bruce Thomas and I were in the bar after the show in Columbus, Ohio. And we were _very_ drunk. Well, we weren't drunk to begin with - we were reasonably drunk. And we started into what you'd probably call joshing. Gentle gibes between the two camps of the Stills band and us. It developed as it got drunker and drunker into a nastier and nastier argument. And I suppose that in the drunkenness, my contempt for them was probably exaggerated beyond my real contempt for them. I don't think I had a real opinion. But they seemed in a way to typify a lot of things that I thought were wrong with American music. And probably that's quite unfair. But at the exact moment - they did.

GM: Things such as what?

EC: Incinserity, dishonesty - musical dishonesty.

GM: How so?

EC: I just think they're... This is difficult, because this is getting right off the point. Because now I'm getting into mudslinging.

GM: But now we're trying to talk about what it was really about.

EC: What it was about was that I said the most outrageous thing I could possibly say to them - that I knew, in my drunken logic, would anger them more than anything else. That's why I don't want to get into why I felt so effronted by them, because that's not important. It's not important because - they don't mean _anything_ to me. They don't even mean anything now - I don't feel any malice in the way I feel that they probably exploited the incident to get some free publicity.

My initial reaction - I can tell you now - to seeing Bonnie Bramlett get free publicity out of my name was that, "Well, she rode to fame on the back of one E.C., she's not gonna do it on the back of another." But that was before the consequences of what had happened had sunk in - that was a flip way of dismissing it.

GM: Did you have any idea of how dangerous, or how exploitable, or how plainly offensive, what you said would be in the public context?

EC: No, because it was never intended - if I hadn't been drunk I would never had said those things. If it had been a considered argument, I probably would have either not pursues the argument to such extreme length, or I would have thought of something a little bit more coherent, as another form of attack, rather than just an outrage. Outrage is fairly easy. Not in terms of dealing with the consequences, but in terms of employing it as a tactic in an argument.

GM: With the press conference in New York a few days later, the situation reminded me of nothing so much as the "we're more popular than Jesus" blowup with the Beatles.

EC: It had approximately the same effect on my career. The minute the story was published nationally, records were taken off playlists. About 120 death threats - or threats of violence of some kind. I had armed bodyguards for the last part of that tour.

GM: And not since?

EC: For one tour since. Not armed, but...

GM: But not now?

EC: We take more care with security than we did before.

COMPUTERBLUE1984 said:

In March 1979, Elvis Costello got into an argument with a Member of Stephen Stills entourage who said he (Costello)owed alot to American R&B musicians such as Ray Charles and James Brown. Costello stated Charles was "a blind, ignorant n•••••" and that Brown "another dumb n•••••". The argument ended with Elvis getting a black eye

He apologised and did his best to atone. Apparently, he was very drunk and trying to wind up Crosby, Stills, and Nash with whatever provocative shit he could think of. Clapton on the other hand...

elmer said:

Rick James on Prince
“A little short ego-ed fucker who I had a feeling didn’t like people of his own race and wanted to be white and taller.”

Damn. Just got done with Ricks book. Dude couldn't stand Prince. I wonder why Prince never responded? He could have said some ugly things about Rick when he was in jail for raping and burning that white girl with a crack pipe

This is cool:

16. Alan McGee on Coldplay
“Coldplay are the dictionary definition of corporate rock. The singer is about as weird as Phil Collins. They are career rock personified. EMI should’ve signed Otis The Aadvark instead. At least he only sucks his thumb rather than corporate cock.”

elmer said:

TonyVanDam said:

In addition, I don't like the fact that Noel dissed Phil Collins. So f*** Noel and his Beatles & Wham! beat biting ass!

Wham??

Noel essentially "borrowed" the vocal melody from "Freedom" and used it on "Fade Away."

JoeTyler said:

My opinion on Anton what?

I seriously have no idea who the fuck he is or the kind of music he makes, I just know that he's, probably, a despicable human being, a piece of shit with "brains" (really?). That's how much I love Eric and that's how much I "care" for Anton what?

the other "insults" are funny and/or bright...except for Kurt's, who once again shows that he was a fuckin' little prick/nerd (and, SADLY, a great songwriter aswell...)

You're back! It has been a while since you posted, I thought you abandoned us.

Anton Newcombe, frontman of the Brian Jonestown Massacre. If you haven't seen it I recommend the documentary Dig! which chronicles the careers of the Brian Jonestown Massacre and the Dandy Warhols.

Watch a few minutes and see if it grabs you:

My favorite is from Lou Reed:

"I had a really good time playing the Rainbow in London. I'd look down into the orchestra pit and think 'Frank Zappa fell off this stage into that pit.' And I really hate Frank Zappa so thinking about that made me so happy."

Possibly the hrshest exchange I recall though was Dave Lee Roth saying about Eddie Van Halen "he's a wonderful guitarist, he's just a shitty human being." Ed's response: "If I'm a shitty human being, then he's just shit."

elmer said:

coltrane3 said:

I'd like a separate list of Steve Alibin's harshest musician insults. I don't always agree, and he can be a bit of a prick, but he's always entertaining and the insults are usually zingers.

Albini, in response to a newspaper article that praised Liz Phair and The Smashing Pumpkins

....you are making the case that Liz Phair and the Smashing Pumpkins are somehow unique in rock music because they are brazenly trying to sell records......These are not "alternative" artists any more than their historical precursors. They are by, of and for the mainstream. Liz Phair is Rickie Lee Jones (more talked about than heard, a persona completely unrooted in substance, and a fucking chore to listen to), Smashing Pumpkins are REO Speedwagon (stylistically appropriate for the current college party scene, but ultimately insignificant).

This coming from the guy who produced Bush. He seems to embody the ridiculous snobbery, hypocrisy, and iconoclasm of the whole indie/pitchfork dig-the-populist-shit-only-in-an-ironical-way hipster world.

I can really get into some of the stuff he's been involved with though, like The Jesus Lizard and Big Black, btu his production style irks me. It's dry, the guitars are really upfront and harsh, and the vocals are buried.

I think he's funny and smart and a total dick. This makes him entertaining and aggravating in about equal doses. And for sure, his production style did not suit everyone.

Producing Bush probably was a little hypocritical, I can't imagine he was a fan. But supposedly that was the gig that got him his own studio, so, I guess he figured if everyone else was selling out he may as well get something out of it.

I don't disagree with his assessment of Liz Phair one bit though.

bobzilla77 said:

My favorite is from Lou Reed:

"I had a really good time playing the Rainbow in London. I'd look down into the orchestra pit and think 'Frank Zappa fell off this stage into that pit.' And I really hate Frank Zappa so thinking about that made me so happy."

Possibly the hrshest exchange I recall though was Dave Lee Roth saying about Eddie Van Halen "he's a wonderful guitarist, he's just a shitty human being." Ed's response: "If I'm a shitty human being, then he's just shit."

Funny, Lou seemed fairly complimentary of Frank when he inducted him into the rock and roll hall of fame:

The bit with Lou starts at about 3:40.

21. Paul Weller on Freddie Mercury
“He said he wanted to bring ballet to the working classes. What a cunt.”

Typical Weller straight to the point, hilarious.

rialb said:

JoeTyler said:

My opinion on Anton what?

I seriously have no idea who the fuck he is or the kind of music he makes, I just know that he's, probably, a despicable human being, a piece of shit with "brains" (really?). That's how much I love Eric and that's how much I "care" for Anton what?

the other "insults" are funny and/or bright...except for Kurt's, who once again shows that he was a fuckin' little prick/nerd (and, SADLY, a great songwriter aswell...)

You're back! It has been a while since you posted, I thought you abandoned us.

Anton Newcombe, frontman of the Brian Jonestown Massacre. If you haven't seen it I recommend the documentary Dig! which chronicles the careers of the Brian Jonestown Massacre and the Dandy Warhols.

Watch a few minutes and see if it grabs you:

fuck them, fuck him, just plain decadent/uneven assholes. they could die for all the f*ck I care

yeah, I'm back...I was busy, back to work and chicks/beach...

JoeTyler said:

rialb said:

You're back! It has been a while since you posted, I thought you abandoned us.

Anton Newcombe, frontman of the Brian Jonestown Massacre. If you haven't seen it I recommend the documentary Dig! which chronicles the careers of the Brian Jonestown Massacre and the Dandy Warhols.

Watch a few minutes and see if it grabs you:

fuck them, fuck him, just plain decadent/uneven assholes. they could die for all the f*ck I care

yeah, I'm back...I was busy, back to work and chicks/beach...

Yikes, you seem a bit angrier these days. Maybe this will help to soothe you a bit:

Deborah Harry singing en francais

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rialb said:

JoeTyler said:

fuck them, fuck him, just plain decadent/uneven assholes. they could die for all the f*ck I care

yeah, I'm back...I was busy, back to work and chicks/beach...

Yikes, you seem a bit angrier these days. Maybe this will help to soothe you a bit:

Deborah Harry singing en francais

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there you go, little fella, doesn't that feel better? Now, let's get that belly full of beer.

rialb said:

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there you go, little fella, doesn't that feel better? Now, let's get that belly full of beer.

ha! I've been sober since July, I've only drunk some wine and that's because I like my fish with some good white wine