Does a musicians personal stuff affect you?

You really should do some background searching before making these glib comments then. With the Internet there is no excuse for knowing nothing and still managing to say something.

Few make a habit of it though.

 

Agreed and then some.

 

With that said, the history of the arts has a lot of things that are not exactly ... G-Rated, and many of them became well known in their time. Jean Genet would be an example, and he influenced film, theater and literature to no end, but then, so did Picasso in two ways with Guernica, that a lot of people didn't like for many years, and many people thought was sick! And it was a literal photograph of the life in Spain outside his window, during the Spanish Civil War ... right between the two World Wars ... and then, some folks got terribly offended with Salvador Dali, and his visual documentation of dream images in his first two films with Luis Bunuel!

 

Rock music, is not different than anything else. The ONLY difference is that "arts" these days in the music area is a group, and not a single person ... and sometimes I think that we would not accept it because of that!

 

This is the thing that is weird for me, though ... I did not enjoy in the old days, listening to anyone doing "sweet little sixteen", and thought it was nasty ... and it fit the description above of the fiddlers ... but we never got mad at Chuck Berry, and he had a very large collection of pornography ... the same kind that Pete Townsend got busted for ... DOUBLE STANDARD!

 

I prefer not to discuss, the music that Dean mentions, or what would normally be considered "bad" stuff. Generally, too much of that discussion is good today, and bad tomorrow in a different government, and you are seeing that in Africa and many countries in the Middle East ... the past everyone, is always a criminal! And it blurrs the whole thing terribly, and to the point where we get so confused, and unable to make a proper determination.

 

DON'T FORGET, that the MEDIA, today, helps this stuff come alive. Many years ago, you never learned about most of it until too late, or until it was over ... and that makes a difference on our judgement ... today we can make a call on these things, way faster than we ever could 50 years ago. Art, Literature and Music were one way that you also learned a lot of this!  But it's hard to explain to you guys what it meant to have a gun pulled to your head to shut up the famous dad from writing "freedom" poetry ... many years before Candle in the Wind! But you don't give a sh*t ... and that part is just as bad as all that Dean has mentioned, and you have to relate and understand that first! The "freedom" is the one thing that helps prevent all those things Dean has mentioned ... NEVER forget that! Without it, most of that gets hidden! But there are abuses, in either way you look at it!

 

So, in a sense, the question is the same as me asking you if you believed anyone at PA because of this or that ... and in the end ... all you are doing is distorting the whole picture even more, and sometimes even trying to discredit something that is valuable instead of otherwise!

 

It's not like we all do not have closets or some skellies in there ... without the Bernard Herrman music!