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Re: Biggest music egos?

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Bob wrote:

A big thumbs down to the band with no original members that calls itself Molly Hatchet

whos Molly Hatchet?

I'm sure you've heard "Flirtin with Disaster"

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=tt0Lrs_yhMI

wow...that certainly was not good enough for anyone in that band to develop any kind of an ego.

i believe that no matter how big and famous you get, an inflated ego isn't necessary. be grateful and humble.

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=6EGOdbJ4sRM

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At another festival that same summer I actually heard someone in the band ask security to grab anyone who took a picture and make them pay a fee. Its certainly within their right , but contrast that behavior against people like Joe.
To be for certain it may not be everyone in the band behaving this way or calling shots like this , it was back in about 2000 or 2001 I think, so the members might not even be the same.

In respect for the original band though I must say that Danny Joe Brown was one heck of a friendly, nice guy and what a truly great voice !!  A  stroke tragically ended his ability to tour and he died several years after.     R.I.P. DJB   



NPB_EST.1979 wrote:
vinceesquire wrote:
Bob wrote:

A big thumbs down to the band with no original members that calls itself Molly Hatchet

whos Molly Hatchet?

I'm sure you've heard "Flirtin with Disaster"

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=tt0Lrs_yhMI

I've actually jammed with one of the non-original members of MH, and I thought he was pretty cool. I guess it's all in the experiences we've had and first impressions.

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I saw Kayne accepting an award a few nights ago and his speech was that he wants to be this generations Elvis, he also mentioned Hendrix.  lol. Good one Kayne.

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Bono did help out with the One campain and thats great.  Lennon was an activist against a war (it was really labeled a conflict not war) that nobody wanted to be in.  If anybody saw the VH1 movie about Lennon and those times the mass majority of people disapproved the Vietnam conflict, John might have been a voice but I really don't think he was the spear head to make people want to be against the conflict.  It is funny how history repeats it's self.  My biggest complaint about Lennon is he really thought he was bigger then Christ.  Later he retracted that statment after beatles sales went down and he realized he screwed up.  To say your bigger then Jesus Christ is not very smart and extremly rude, wheather your a believer in Christ or not.

The Vatican have now forgiven Lennon for those comments. The paper dismissed Lennon's much-criticised remark that the Beatles were more famous than Jesus Christ as a youthful joke.

The paper described the remark as "showing off, bragging by a young English working-class musician who had grown up in the age of Elvis Presley and rock and roll and had enjoyed unexpected success".

http://news.bbc.co.uk/1/hi/world/europe/7744282.stm

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Ahh...egos...years ago when I had a nice crop of lettuce on my dome, I went to supercuts for a trim...they had some new guy in there, and I unfortunately got him...we start to jive and he tells me he's this killer guitar player whos played with all these big names....he's dropping all his guitar wizardy knowledge on playing the blues, I'm really getting into this for about 5 minutes....it didnt take long after that for me to realize he had probably pissed off more people than you could imagine...tells me this loooong and dramatic story about Buddy Guy stealing his girlfriend from him ( lying sack of poo poo)....if he hadnt been cutting my hair, I would have called him out on some discreptencies in his story...I went back a month later (hair used to grow so pretty back in the day) and the manager said he no longer worked there...I'm a regular customer who she saw often, so she must have felt comfortanble...said something to the effect... "good ridance, what a jerk!"....ya think lol

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Re: Biggest music egos?

Pittsburgh Jeff wrote:

I saw Kayne accepting an award a few nights ago and his speech was that he wants to be this generations Elvis, he also mentioned Hendrix.  lol. Good one Kayne.

yeah exactly.  an arrogant jerk who does nothing but rap about how great he is.

http://youtube.com/watch?v=fCdNsm7gvu8

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wow...that certainly was not good enough for anyone in that band to develop any kind of an ego.

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=gk0hpghIwsM

don't let what they have become sour your taste for the band and the old songs they have some great music.

http://youtube.com/watch?v=fCdNsm7gvu8

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Ok I just wanna say if you ever lived in the south and your at least 25 years old you should have heard Molly Hatchet.  You might be sorry you heard them but still.  Yoko was a great one.  Watch her performance on the rolling stones circus singing with this band called the Dirty Mac.  The band is as good as they come from the 60's John Lennon guitar and vocals, keith Richards bass guitar, I think keith moon on drums, and Eric Clapton on that Cherry red ES-335.  Very cool until yoko came out.  I wouldn't even call that singing.  But here is another name to add to the list.  John Mayer.  His last DVD just screamed ego to me.  He made a comment about how he was playing 3 shows to represent his musical identities and how he said after the blues band he felt like "man at least we got the hits"  I just don't understand him as a person but he's bringing the Fender Strat back I tell you.

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When the band was in its prime it was every bit as good as most of the other southern rock bands of that time. Easily a rival to bands like Blackfoot, Outlaws etc. Great songs played with high energy and Danny Joe Browns voice live was something special.  Ive got some live shows from the late 70s early to mid 80s that are sooo crazy smokin.


Bob



suhl wrote:
vinceesquire wrote:

wow...that certainly was not good enough for anyone in that band to develop any kind of an ego.

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=gk0hpghIwsM

don't let what they have become sour your taste for the band and the old songs they have some great music.

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This is a bit outlandish but hell I'll go for it.

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Most musicians in this local area have way more strut & ego than they do talent...and they're the first ones to call me an arrogant egomaniac.

So ME I guess...

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Re: Biggest music egos?

have you ever tried playing a song where the crowd was clapping out of time?  It ain't no fun!  However...I look at it sorta like singing the National Anthem in a stadium where your voice bounces back at your a second after you start singing...you have to tune it out and move on or you're dead.


Bill S wrote:

I remember Stephen Stills chastising the crowd at one show:
"If you're gonna clap along, at least you could f**king clap in time"!
And he was not joking around, he was really pi**ed off.
In retrospect, it was sorta funny because he had this hissy fit.
At the time, I just thought "What an &^%&*$!
Ego? I suppose that had a lot to do with it...

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The CCR debacle has more to do with the other guys in the band siding with the record label and against Fogerty (at least in his mind).  The band lost a bundle of money in the ole "we'll hide your money in an offshore bahamian bank!" scandal....most of which was Fogerty's of course since he wrote all the songs except for the Mardi Gras album.

It's sad that they've never been able to bury the hatchet over the years and the HOF deal was extremely tacky...but then most divorces have their tacky moments. As I recall Fogerty won the plagairism lawsuit rather easily...the jury being out less than an hour.


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This is sorta a touchy subject. The things we hear and read aren't always the truth. I've personally met quite a few people being a limo driver and the celebs you were a bit leery to meet would turn out to be the most down to earth nicest people. Then a lot of the comedians who you see as funny and down to earth were some of the most arrogant ego driven @#$%$@#@! But if there is one it would be John Fogerty for that crap he pulled at the Rock and Roll Hall of Fame induction for CCR. He got up on stage and played a couple hit songs with studio musicians while the other guys sat there in disbelief! Oh and being sued for plagerizing (?) yourself. He knew what he was doing!

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I heard John Fogerty never talked to his brother (Tom) after the bitter fallout...JF has to be on my alltime shame list...but, it's only what Ive read...how much can you believe?

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I suppose you have to be/to have a big ego if you want to be a big performer. The question is if this big ego is a playful one, if it´s able to make fun about itself, if it knows the difference between role und personality. When people identify wholly with their (big) egos it is awful.
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I saw an interview with Fogerty where he said that when his brother was on his deathbed from tuberulosis one of the last things he said to John was "Saul Zaentz is my friend".  John just can't stand Zaentz for good reason.

I'm not really sure this entire topic should fall into the "ego" category. This has little to do with Fogerty thinking he's  great or not....more to do with serious life issues of brotherly rivalry and money lost.

Maybe we should talk about how Henley and Frey have totally excluded Don Felder from all things Eagles-related!  LOL



Shredit wrote:

I heard John Fogerty never talked to his brother (Tom) after the bitter fallout...JF has to be on my alltime shame list...but, it's only what Ive read...how much can you believe?

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Guitgator wrote:

I saw an interview with Fogerty where he said that when his brother was on his deathbed from tuberulosis one of the last things he said to John was "Saul Zaentz is my friend".  John just can't stand Zaentz for good reason.

I'm not really sure this entire topic should fall into the "ego" category. This has little to do with Fogerty thinking he's  great or not....more to do with serious life issues of brotherly rivalry and money lost.

Maybe we should talk about how Henley and Frey have totally excluded Don Felder from all things Eagles-related!  LOL



Shredit wrote:

I heard John Fogerty never talked to his brother (Tom) after the bitter fallout...JF has to be on my alltime shame list...but, it's only what Ive read...how much can you believe?

Shred

Really, I never heard that story....I've heard JF stopped Stu Cook and company from using the name CCR on there reunion tour years back because JF said he WAS CCR!! and without him, they were no bodies....I believe he sued to make them change their name to "Creedence Clearwater Revisited"...well I saw them at a small club out side of Sactown and the were terrible!...so maybe John had some validity to his claim...the dude playing lead and singing vocals and was awful!!... Creedence Clearwater Revival...the pride of El Cerrito, CA. ( thats Jdawgs backyard)

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Eva´s Dad wrote:

I suppose you have to be/to have a big ego if you want to be a big performer. The question is if this big ego is a playful one, if it´s able to make fun about itself, if it knows the difference between role und personality. When people identify wholly with their (big) egos it is awful.
Günter

Well said!
When and if you think you can play and/or sing it takes guts and a healthy ego to stand and deliver.  It takes humility AND maturity to realize how fortunate it is that somebody likes it.

Yeah get lost in the music/art and the emotion it delivers...GOOD.  Make them feel something and they'll be back.  Get lost in the hype and the image pbbbbt and you have just another jerk kidding themselves.

My friend (first chair trumpet) in a lot of big bands and I were talking at the school he now runs and we had an interesting discussion about real musicians who are unsung heros.  They can read anything and can deliver at short notice anything from Motown to Vegas in a show band.  Anything from Four Tops to Tom Jones to Frank Sinatra.

The public does not know their names.  Interesting huh?

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