Coolest Rock Star Ever

[kingshrimp]

Originally Posted by nelsonone

errr..there were thousands of mods before Mr Weller I'm afraid....go back to the Who for starters...he's more of a modson than a modfather.....555

PW has just realeased a new record I see.....he's looking a bit worse for wear but still sounding good!

Weller is a legend, but i've got to agree. Steve Marriott has to be the Mod Father IMO.

[repeter]

Me and my TG went to se The Sex Pistols here in Sweden this year.
It was so good, so it not possible to explain!!!!!!!!!!!!

Glen Matlock,Jonny Rotten, Paul Cook, Steve Jones

repeter

[Simbo]

TG- 'Is this Johnny Rotten?"

Khun Denpah- 'Nay Lass, it's just bin in me wallet a long time' 55555555555555

[Oggy]

What about the Chillies ????

[khon kaen boy]

Bryan Ferry, Robert Palmer

[Dupree00]

Originally Posted by khon kaen boy

Bryan Ferry, Robert Palmer

I think the fact that Mick Jagger took Jerry Hall away from Brian Ferry disqualifies him.

[nelsonone]

John Lee H00ker would probably be right at the top of this list for me.....he would have to be one of the most original and imitated musicians of all time!

whislt not strictly a rock star....more categorised as an R+B legend....he had/has more star power than just about any rock star anyone could name!

[Dupree00]

Yes. John Lee was an American treasure. He was based in San Francisco in his later years. And owned a club called the Boom Boom Room that is still in business. Met him back stage at the Filmore in 1990. Ron Wood and Bo Diddly were playing that night. All three of them in one room. I was star struck to say the least.

[Monty27]

Ian brown he,s a legend!

[Nam Pla]

Frank Zappa was living "cool" in his own way when others were still trying to figure out what "cool" is. I also think Tom Waits is pretty cool in his own way.

[retepg]

Originally Posted by Nam Pla

Frank Zappa was living "cool" in his own way when others were still trying to figure out what "cool" is. I also think Tom Waits is pretty cool in his own way.

Good to see the names of Zappa and Waits come up.
They defiantly did things their way... No following of trends there. Both great artists and "cool" in my book....

[scholtz]

Originally Posted by broke again

How bout throwing midgets out of your hotel room window?

I've stayed at the Hyatt on Sunset Blvd. in Hollywood a few times over the years and legend has it that Led Zepplin took the penthouse level apart with their parties including riding Harleys up and down the hallways and throwing a midget off of the penthouse balcony. I believe the Harleys in the hallway but not the midget tossing story.

Led Zepplin=Rock Stars

This place wasn't nicknamed the Riot Hyatt for nothing. The favoured haunt of many of the big rockers in the late 60's ans early 70's.

A quick google search comes up with stuff like:

In the late 1960s and 1970s the hotel became the preferred accommodation in Los Angeles for travelling rock bands, due largely to its close proximity to popular clubs such as the Whisky a Go Go. It was during this time that it was given the nickname Riot House on account of the wild antics carried out by band members there, most notably those of English rock groups such as Led Zeppelin, The Who and the Rolling Stones. This hotel is currently closed for the transformation to become Andaz.

Led Zeppelin rented as many as six floors of the hotel in the mid-to-late 1970s for the band members and entourage. Drummer John Bonham was reported to have driven a motorcycle along the hallways. In the film Rock Star, the character Izzy Cole does this.

Room 1015 bears the distinction of being where Rolling Stones guitarist Keith Richards dropped a TV out the window. The Who's Keith Moon was also reported to have dropped a TV out of one of the hotel's windows. In the film Rock Star also, the character "A.C.", played by Jason Bonham, son of Led Zeppelin drummer John Bonham, throws a T.V. off the window in rage, after he is told that his wife ran off with Peter Gabriel.

Lemmy wrote the song "Motorhead" on one of the hotel balconies in the middle of the night, using Roy Wood's Ovation acoustic guitar.

Scenes in the film Almost Famous which depict the hotel were filmed at the actual hotel. Parts of the hotel were refurbished with exactly the same decor as existed there in the 1970s.

The scene from Almost Famous in which Russell Hammond cries out, "I am a Golden God!" is a reference to Led Zeppelin singer Robert Plant who allegedly said the same thing while looking over Sunset Strip from one of the hotel's balconies in 1975.

The end-of-tour party scene in the film This is Spinal Tap was filmed on the roof of the hotel.

Little Richard lived in room 319 at the hotel through much of the 1980s and 1990s

Jim Morrison lived there until he was reportedly evicted by management for hanging out a window by his fingertips, dangling over the pavement.

[scholtz]

I don't know about coolest, but for sheer rockstar antics, it's hard to go past the boys from Motley Crue: Sex, Drugs, Women, Drugs, Drugs and generally over the top self destructive behaviour.

Plus you got to give Tommy Lee bonus points for snagging both Heather Locklear and Pammy...... God only knows how though.

[dawsey]

Originally Posted by scholtz

Plus you got to give Tommy Lee bonus points for snagging both Heather Locklear and Pammy...... God only knows how though.

After seeing the Tommy Lee/Pam Anderson honeymoon video, I have an inkling 5555555

[dennisinkamala]

WOT???? Not one vote for Gary Glitter?? Oh well......

[maibenraikrub]

Apologies if he has already been mentioned, but Michael Hutchance ex INXS has to be one of the coolest Rock stars. Even the way he died was cool. Any man that has been with Kylie in her prime is cool in my books.