Not biggest selling, or most talented, or best looking.

I'm talking cool. Do what they want, don't give a **** cool. Nominate your favourite and tell us why. Flaming is encouraged. :D

I nominate the obvious one - Keith Richards.

For one from left field, I nominate Bootsy Collins. Anyone who dresses like a pimped out peacock at all times must be cool, plus he is the funkiest man on the planet.

From the estrogen side I nominate Debbie Harry. She always looked like the coolest kid on the block to me. The slight vagueness she affected was cool, plus just a glance could turn grown men in to blithering idiots.

If anyone says Sammy Hagar or Jimmy Buffett, expect a package in your mail filled with explosives and thumbtacks.

If you're really talking ALL TIME, then Mozart is up there for the party animal and genius he was.

And you have to give props to Robert Johnson. Sold his soul to Devil at the Crossroads and paid the price at the hands of another man's doing too young.

Keith Richards is a good one. Keith Moon was another from the British Invasion that would fit the bill...

Miles Davis. The definition of cool.

Marcia Ball. If you have ever seen that tall drink of water wail on the piano barefoot and with her legs crossed... I better stop now, my wife might come in and look over my shoulder.

Miles Davis. The definition of cool.

Aww yeah! How could I have missed Alton, Illinois', favorite son?

From Birth of the Cool to Kind of Blue to Miles Smiles to B*tches Brew to everything beyond.... did another artist define a genre only to turn his back and then totally redefine it again and again? Kind of like Picasso going through phase after phase and nailing it every time.

Gotta be Miles.

The Eagles - they started the grunge look, playing in flannels shirts and dirty jeans.

Joe Walsh was cool. The rest of the Eagles don't even enter the equation. Don Henley thought he was cool but was wrong. Glen Frey ROFLMAO.

Keef Richards
Joan Jett
Johnny Thunders
Morris Day

John Coltrain.
Link Wray.
George Clinton.
Joe Strummer.
Perry Ferrell.
Ben Harper.

I knew Clinton and Strummer would make an appearance! :)

I'm talking cool. Do what they want, don't give a **** cool.

Currently not giving a ****...
Jimmy Page and Robert Plant
Neil Young
Prince
James Hetfield

and, in the RIP category, after having not given a **** a bit too much...
Layne Staley
Janis Joplin
Jimi Hendrix
John Bonham

Yeah, but are they cool?

Robert Palmer

It just doesnt get any cooler than Johny Cash

can we say band? System of a down. I dunno why... they just are

can we say band? System of a down. I dunno why... they just are

+1

Couple more for the RIP list...

Bon Scott
Bradley Nowell

Ray Charles

Ray Charles
Yea.

Bowie.

Frank Zappa - No Commercial Potential!

Jimi Hendrix, Ray Davies, Tom Waits, John Prine, Robert Fripp, Nico, Bonnie Raitt, Count Basie, Frank Zappa. In some weird, whacked-out way Ozzie is pretty cool too.

I saw Black Sabbath at the Fillmore East on what I believe was their first US tour, circa 1971. The J. Geils Band and Sir Lord Baltimore were the other bands on the bill, I believe.

I saw Black Sabbath at the Fillmore East on what I believe was their first US tour, circa 1971.

Saw Ozzie and Randy Rhodes shortly before he died. Opening Motorhead kinda sucked....really.
Then Oz and R.R made music, wicked.

Billy Zoom of X

Nick Drake -

Eric Clapton

Eric Clapton - no way. Pretentious and boring, not cool. Dresses well though and can play a bit. :D

Plus he used to race a bike!

Louis Armstrong.

Just loved what he did and did what he loved. Managed somehow to both work his *** off playing, and still breeze his way through life with a heartfelt grin on his honestly kind face.

For much more (and a great read): http://www.powells.com/biblio/17-0767901568-0

Miles Davis. The definition of cool.

++1

also;

Fela Kuti
Coltrane
Jimi Hendrix, -(boned Miles' wife)
Stevie Wonder (72' - 76')
Ray Charles (while he was recording with Atlantic)
Angelo Moore (from fishbone)
H.R. (lead singer from D.C. band ''Bad Brains'')
Vernon Reid (lead guitarist, "Living Colour")
I like Gwen Stephani too..
I think Prince is over-rated, -I'm surprised he hasn't made anyone list though!

Billy Zoom of X

Damn !!

How did I miss that one !!
The look, the stance, the sparkle jet......COOL !

I think Prince is over-rated, -I'm surprised he hasn't made anyone list though!

Refer to post #13...

The Eagles - they started the grunge look, playing in flannels shirts and dirty jeans.

Ha ha ha!! A little too produced to be long-lasting cool. Maybe Joe Walsh out of the bunch. For goodness sakes, Glen Frey blew his cool factor with "The Heat Is On" and his association with Miami Vice. And though Henley's 80's solo stuff will endure, his pretentiousness is questionable...

Neil Young was in flannels before the Eagles... see the cover of Everybody Knows This Is Nowhere.

And there were probably precursors to Neil in the flannel department...

http://www.indianranch.com/photos/wof/web_Statler_Brothers.jpg

Elvis - When he was dangerous
Keith Richards - Rock star Personified
James Brown - Cool
Miles Davis - Seriously cool
Johnny Cash - Bad ass
Neil Young - Does things his way. I loved the whole Sony lawsuit incident.
Joe Strummer - My musical hero,when I met him he turned out to be a pretty normal guy.
Jerry Jerry - An Alberta "legend" you'd have to see him to understand.

Hey Pizza...we agree on something LOL

'Rasher

I cannot believe I've read 2 pages and no one has
said Jim Morrison.

and beerman, when it comes to chillin Jimmy Buffet is pretty cool.
bring it.

Hey Pizza...we agree on something LOL
'Rasher
HA!! :beer:

I cannot believe I've read 2 pages and no one has
said Jim Morrison.

.

Come on lotek, the BF crowd are a discerning crowd, perfectly capable of recognising that Morrison was a complete tool :p

And folks, if you have to qualify it, they aint cool! :)

Couple more for the RIP list...

Bon Scott


One of the great Rock n'Roll outlaws. How cool was he? He was well known for walking into AC/DC gigs through the front door with all the punters :eek: :D . Can you imagine any other rock star doing something like that?

The man is an absolute legend in Australia. By all accounts he lived life to the absolute fullest. He also knew that AC/DC was his last shot at the big time, after two or three false starts in other bands. Terrible that he died just as AC/DC were on the cusp of breaking big in the States after having hit it big in Europe.

I cannot believe I've read 2 pages and no one has
said Jim Morrison.



That's because drugged out freaks aren't cool, no matter how good their music was.

That's because drugged out freaks aren't cool, no matter how good their music was.
:roflmao: Good one!

I think Ozzy was cool, but now he's kind of a parody of cool. Agree with most artists listed, tho.

Did anyone mention Marvin Gaye? He might've been a little too cool for his own good, there.

Nick Cave, maybe?

I saw Black Sabbath at the Fillmore East on what I believe was their first US tour, circa 1971. The J. Geils Band and Sir Lord Baltimore were the other bands on the bill, I believe.
The Black Sabbath Reunion tour has to be the coolest show I've ever seen. Always cool to see a band you never thought would be back together touring again(as long as they maintain their dignity a bit).

Dream Theater. Well, that ends that debate. :)

Not biggest selling, or most talented, or best looking.

I'm talking cool. Do what they want, don't give a **** cool. Nominate your favourite and tell us why. Flaming is encouraged. :D

I nominate the obvious one - Keith Richards.

For one from left field, I nominate Bootsy Collins. Anyone who dresses like a pimped out peacock at all times must be cool, plus he is the funkiest man on the planet.

From the estrogen side I nominate Debbie Harry. She always looked like the coolest kid on the block to me. The slight vagueness she affected was cool, plus just a glance could turn grown men in to blithering idiots.

The late, hugely underated Ben Orr. He sang the Cars' biggest hits, not Ric Ocasek!
http://archives.cnn.com/2000/SHOWBIZ/Music/10/04/obit.orr.ap/story.ben.orr.ap.jpg

The late, hugely underated Ben Orr. He sang the Cars' biggest hits, not Ric Ocasek!
http://archives.cnn.com/2000/SHOWBIZ/Music/10/04/obit.orr.ap/story.ben.orr.ap.jpg

You mean Benjamin Orr was singing many of the Cars songs instead of Ric Ocasik?

Wow, I am All Mixed Up. :D

Tony Rice has it in my book

Cliff Burton, and Angus Young.

Sam Cooke
George Clinton
Bootsy Collins