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Strategies & Market Trends : Groundhog Day -- Ignore unavailable to you. Want to Upgrade?

To: MulhollandDrive who wrote (4968)	5/16/2002 10:57:15 AM
From: Petrol	Respond to of 6346

Some levity for the thread: May 16, 2002 -- Roster of obnoxious rockers METALLICA drummer Lars Ulrich might be the "Most Unpleasant Rock Celebrity You’ve Ever Met," beating out dozens of other candidates who are skewered under that heading on the Web site velvetrope.com. "Scuseme," who claims to be a music reporter, told how Ulrich kept him waiting "all day" for an interview on the set of the "I Disappear" video. Scuseme relates that when he was finally ushered into Ulrich’s trailer, "Lars was getting his makeup and wardrobe touched up . . . his ‘big’ scene was rapelling down the side of a building, and he’d scraped his knee a bit. When the wardrobe girl tried to fix the hole in his pants, he actually kicked at her and screamed, ‘That [bleeping] hurt, you [bleeping] bitch!’ The girl was just about to burst into tears as he turned to me and said, "You have exactly five minutes." Other examples of obnoxious rocker behavior: * Paul Simon and Edie Brickell once demanded two musicians give them their chairs at a Joni Mitchell show. * Neil Young interrupted a struggling musician’s recording session and refused to shake the artist’s hand. * Marilyn Manson serves groupies "ground-up sea monkeys" and pretends they’re drugs. * Veteran punker Henry Rollins dislikes having women journalists and photographers around because they "ruin his focus." * Gene Simmons, before Kiss hit it big, called a rock-magazine editor and asked, "Whose [bleep] do I gotta [bleep] to get my band on the cover?" * Fred Durst tried to pick up a woman at a Grammy event with the line: "Wanna party, baby?" When the woman shot back, "No Thanks," Durst called her a "bitch." * David Crosby may have given Julie Cypher his sperm, but one executive who had to work with the aging hippie describes him as "the smelliest and dirtiest rock star I have ever met. The guy had a nasty crust on every part of his exposed skin." Crosby’s attitude towards his groupies and the executive wasn’t much cleaner. Not to appear biased, the kind folks at the Web site also put up a "Nice" musician link, which listed Andrew WK, Willie Nelson, Pete Townshend, Billy Idol, Eddie Van Halen and Bruce Springsteen as "the most pleasant." The biggest surprise was that several contributors listed Yoko Ono as their favorite. One journo even went so far as to describe John Lennon’s screeching widow as "enthusiastic and forthcoming and open and genuine."