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.
Originally posted by Darth Jello
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.
No problem.
It's nice to check in good ole' KMC and see one of my old threads given some fresh life to it. 😉
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.
Two honorary mentions:
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(Autotune ridden filth, IMHO, but at least it qualifies)
YouTube video They're honorary mentions, as their songs and vids are so fu**ing girly, that I couldn't include them with the others...
Roy Jones Jr. ~ Can't Be Touched