Sorry to revive an old thread but after reading An American Demon I can now confirm a tie for toughest musician.
It's a toss up between TSOL's Jack Grisham who stole from beat up and violated more people than anyone can remember and Circle One's John Macias who more or less did the same and took five bullets from the LAPD before he went down. Grisham may have an edge, being a borderline psychopath and possibly having killed someone and kicked a biker's eye out with a spur.
__________________ Land of the free, home of the brave...
Do you think we will ever be saved?
In this land of dreams find myself sober...
Wonder when will it'll all be over...
Living in a void when the void grows colder...
Wonder when it'll all be over?
Will you be laughing when it's over?
Iggy Pop has done crazy things to show he is "tough" but just for this quote alone he deserves consideration because with him you know it's not just talk, "I'd sometimes wake up with bumps on my head, blood on my shirt and something green coming out of my penis."
Someone who is now deceased but deserves honorable (or dishonorable) mention is G.G. Allin. G.G. Allin (birth name was Jesus Christ Allin) was just out of his flippin' mind. At shows he would encourage violence acts; including attacking his own fans, had a fetish for self-mutilation and just so we knew he could take or do anything he was into coprophagia. Most of his toughness probably came from being just insane but he still showed a side of thoughness like few others in the music business.
__________________ "I ain't no fraggin' hero. I'm th' main man. I booze.
I womanize. I swear. An' I beat th' living crap outta
anybody I fraggin' feel like."- Lobo
It depends on what is meant by "toughest" and just how literal the word "musician" is meant.
Several professional fighters play instruments, write music, or sing. If we're just judging ability to kick someone's ass, I imagine they'd steamroll everyone else in the thread.
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