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Discovered recently that Electric Wizard were kinda dicks back in the day. "At the time, we were pretty bad people. I got arrested for arson of a car, outside a police station. Tim [Bagshaw] went to nick a crucifix off a church roof so we could use it onstage..."

R. L. Burnside killed a man "possibly at a craps game."

Varg of ~~Mayhem~~ Burzum burned a couple churches and killed a bandmate.

I could list other examples, but would like to hear from other people and other music genres.

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[–] aceshigh@lemmy.world 37 points 1 year ago (1 children)

Was a big fan of eric Clapton but I learned later in that he’s racist so now his music leaves a bad taste in my mouth. I regret seeing him instead of Chris Cornell. I was sure clapton would go before Cornell :(((

[–] Boldizzle@lemmy.world 21 points 1 year ago (2 children)

Knowing he's a racist makes it interesting that he made a living off of playing music invented by black people. Also makes it even sweeter that Hendrix destroyed him on stage while jamming with Cream.

[–] aceshigh@lemmy.world 8 points 1 year ago

It just says that he values money above everything else. Racism is #2.

[–] BigBananaDealer@lemm.ee 2 points 1 year ago

BB King seemed to disagree that clapton was racist but kinda hard to say that when clapton went on that rant