Books, Movies, Music & Entertainment - Biggest tool in the history of music

No, not that tool you filthy minded people.

IMO Axl Rose is the biggest tool to grace popular music since the introduction of Rock n Roll music back in the 50's.

BTW, I'm encompassing Rap here as well.:eek: Michael Jackson as well.:eek: :eek:

Can anyone find a muso (alleged or otherwise) who can top Axl 'I'm the biggest tool' Rose for sheer ego, stupidity, pompousness and cretinous behaviour? Be sure to expand on why you think your nomination is such a big tool.

David Lee Roth


Thread over. Move along people, nothing to see here. :)

No way Stacey. Disagree. DLR is unquestionably a tool, no doubt, with a very healthy ego. The difference is that DLR can laugh at himself. Axl can't. He's humourless about himself and a complete and total ****wit. So there.:p

I'm going to expand on my Axl Rose theme and throw up a couple of other tossers for the hall of shame once a few of you lot have had a crack at it.:D Hopefully someone can top Axl.

Fred Durst

IMO Axl Rose is the biggest tool to grace popular music since the introduction of Rock n Roll music back in the 50's.



Axl is not just a tool, he's a whole tool shed. He is a marginally talented screeching poser who thinks he has never had a bad idea. Whatever claim to non-tool status he ever had went out the window when he recorded a song by Charles Manson.

Jerry Lee Lewis was the original rock and roll tool. Axl has a quarter of Jerry Lee's talent and 10 times his boorishness.

Michael Jackson is not a tool. He's pathetic and weird and creepy, but he's not a tool.

I'm with you, classic. Axl Rose is rock and roll's all time champion number 1 tool.

Michael McDonald. He killed the Doobie Brothers!!

Michael McDonald. He killed the Doobie Brothers!!
And that's bad, because...?

Cobain.

Axl wins!

I'd like to nominate Meatloaf.... although Axl Rose will be hard to beat.

Jerry Lee Lewis was the original rock and roll tool. Axl has a quarter of Jerry Lee's talent and 10 times his boorishness.

True, but at least Axl hasn't murdered anyone. ;)

Courtney Love anyone?

Billy Idol

Pan.

I mean, c'mon, dude. What's up with the half-man / half-goat costume? That's like straight out of Spinal Tap, bro.


Second place would have to be Andrew Lloyd Weber. Just look at his body of work. Putrid. Absolutely putrid.

True, but at least Axl hasn't murdered anyone. ;)


That you know of...

Courtney Love anyone?

Now we're cooking with gas:D

Tommy Lee?

Gary Glitter should be on the ballot somewhere.

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Second place would have to be Andrew Lloyd Weber. Just look at his body of work. Putrid. Absolutely putrid.

Just because you don't like his music, doesn't make him a tool.

And about his body of work.. Bite me!:)

Just because you don't like his music, doesn't make him a tool.


I stand corrected. I do not know whether or not ALW is a tool or a great guy with whom to tip a pint. My opinion of his oeuvre is out place in this thread. :)

I stand corrected. I do not know whether or not ALW is a tool or a great guy with whom to tip a pint. My opinion of his oeuvre is out place in this thread. :)


He's a tool alright.

And that's bad, because...?


The Doobies had a regional/folk/rock thing going--distinctive, innovative. MM brought in the Takin It To The Streets pop element. :rolleyes:

Tommy Lee?

He's got mad boat steering skills, that one....

I think I speak for most when I say.... :eek: :eek:

Tommy Lee?

Vince Neil was an even bigger tool

Axl Rose

Vanilla Ice

50 Cent

Vanilla Ice

Fred Durst

Vanilla Ice

Britney Spears

Vanilla Ice

Kevin Federline

Vanilla Ice

Phil Spector

Vanilla Ice ("rock" incarnation)


Ice, Ice Baby!

Sid Vicious
Rat Scabies
Warrant
Poison
Eddie 'oh woe is me' Vedder
Tupac Shakur
Sinaed O'Connor
Gary Numan
'Simple' Simon Le Bon
Boy George
Steve Strange
Liam Gallagher
Phil 'I'm divorcing you by fax' Collins
That prat who's the lead singer in Coldplay
Prince
Jim 'dead drunk guy in a bathtub' Morrison

That's a whole friggin toolbox right there, though none of them are as big a tool as Axl IMO

Noel Gallagher as well.

Pete Doherty.

Tommy Lee?

Definately Tommy Lee...
By a mile.

Courtney Luv is waaaay coool by the way, though....

Sid Vicious
Rat Scabies
^^^ No way ! :mad:
Warrant
Poison
Eddie 'oh woe is me' Vedder
Tupac Shakur
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Sinaed O'Connor
Gary Numan
'Simple' Simon Le Bon
Boy George
^^^^ Why ?? Harmless..... :rolleyes:
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Steve Strange
Liam Gallagher
^^^^^ Major tooleage
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Phil 'I'm divorcing you by fax' Collins
^^^^ Doesnt count.....not music.
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That prat who's the lead singer in Coldplay
Prince
Jim 'dead drunk guy in a bathtub' Morrison

That's a whole friggin toolbox right there, though none of them are as big a tool as Axl IMO

Still, Axl is no Tommy Lee.

Courtney Luv is waaaay coool by the way, though....


I saw her in concert in 1995.


I then understood why Kurt Cobain killed himself.

Since we're not just talking about rockers...
Barry Manilow is a Craftsman catalog.

Barry Manilow is a Craftsman catalog.

While I can't stand his music, everything I have seen in interviews, etc., about Manilow is that he is quite self-effacing and he realizes just how good he's got it.

If you're going away from rock in that direction, the biggest tool, probably bigger than Axl, even, is BARBRA STREISAND.

What a *#*$

Scott Stap. He pretended he was about to shoot himself in the head just so he could brag about his MP5's. Also, the guy is talentless and defines the term loser.

Wow...No Gene Simmons or
Ted Nugent yet ? :eek:

Ted Nugent is up there, but at least he says what he means, even if what he means is way out there. Plus he's got some good music.

Elvis

He let Colonel Parker drag him around like a bull with a ring in his nose. The man had a great talent that was wasted on less than mediocre material.

Rat Scabies
^^^ No way !


He's a filthy pig


Boy George
^^^^ Why ?? Harmless.....

and humourless, therefore a tool.


Phil 'I'm divorcing you by fax' Collins
^^^^ Doesnt count.....not music.

:roflmao:

The lead singer from Nickelback.
Looks like the Paddle Pop Lion (probably only the Aussies will understand that reference - sorry)

While I can't stand his music, everything I have seen in interviews, etc., about Manilow is that he is quite self-effacing and he realizes just how good he's got it.

If you're going away from rock in that direction, the biggest tool, probably bigger than Axl, even, is BARBRA STREISAND.

What a *#*$
My girlfriend is obsessed with Manilow, and he's about the easiest-going guy out there. Definitely un-tool like. But going away from rock, you can't leave out toolbag Sinatra.

And I'll add another vote for Fred Durst.

David Lee Roth


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+1

DLR is biggest tool ever!!

Pompous Pink Floyd, the entire lot of 'em...(excepting, of course Syd Barrett).
Herr Docktor Professor Roger Waters, of every-recording-session-is-an-existential-
crisis fame, wins special recognition in the pseudo-intellectual category.

Scott Stap. He pretended he was about to shoot himself in the head just so he could brag about his MP5's. Also, the guy is talentless and defines the term loser.


Don't you mean MP3's?

Pompous Pink Floyd, the entire lot of 'em...(excepting, of course Syd Barrett).
Herr Docktor Professor Roger Waters, of every-recording-session-is-an-existential-
crisis fame, wins special recognition in the pseudo-intellectual category.

Awesome - this one wasn't an obvious one. PF are definitely tools. Still like the music though.

pink floyd is awesome, I don't care what they said/did--I expect my rock star geniuses to be nuts

my vote goes to the Gallaghers, punks!!

I saw her in concert in 1995.


I then understood why Kurt Cobain killed himself.


To be a rock tool you have to think of yourself as something you are
not....
Courtney might have a crtain tooleage factor as a human, but as a rock
star she is perfect !!! Look at all greatest rock stars of the kozmic
universe....Sid, Johnny Thunders, Keef Richards, Dead Boys etc and they
stick strictly to being rock stars...drugging, puking, making fools of themselves
when they speak, etc...just doing their job. Rock tools really beleive
they are doing something waaaay far above world peace or finding a cure for
AIDs. Speaking profoundly and finding it painful to condecend to us lowly
mortals for even 30 seconds is what makes a rock tool. Yngie Malmsteen for
instance....
BTW, I think Nirvana is the alpha point for the sad state of affairs we suffer
culturally n music today...The Nirvanas, almost all of the Seatle sound(???)
is why we suffer Nicklebacks, puddle of mudds, System of a downs etc today..
WAKE UP PEOPLE !!!! Throw on some Velvet Underground. Jesus and Mary
Chain, listen. learn !!

BTW, I think Nirvana is the alpha point for the sad state of affairs we suffer
culturally n music today...The Nirvanas, almost all of the Seatle sound(???)
is why we suffer Nicklebacks, puddle of mudds, System of a downs etc today..
WAKE UP PEOPLE !!!! Throw on some Velvet Underground. Jesus and Mary
Chain, listen. learn !!

And you're going to blame the Husker Dus, Pixies, and Sonic Youths of the world for inspiring Nirvana to happen? Or Black Sabbath for allowing Soundgarden to happen? Or classic rock in general for Pearl Jam?

C'mon. The 'Seattle Sound' was fairly diverse in its influences. It just happens that they chose to use their influences wisely, while the mid-90's grunge knock-offs (7 Mary 3, Silverchair, Collective Soul, Bush [blech!!!]) chose to be as unoriginal in using their respective predecessors?

BTW, I agree that kids would do well to explore the soundscapes of the Velvets. That stuff is tough to access, but ultimately more rewarding in the long run. That said, as cool as he was most of the time, Lou Reed was at times a massive tool. I blame Andy Wharol for that. ;)

Lou Reed is a massive tool at all times!

The lead singer from Nickelback.
Looks like the Paddle Pop Lion (probably only the Aussies will understand that reference - sorry)
This is +1million. Where i'm from, you either love them or want 5 minutes alone & a shovel. I personally consider them the cancer of Alberta:mad: :mad: go back to Hanna & farm, you idiots

Don't you mean MP3's?

Yes, you are correct, my mistake, he was bragging about how he was going to kill himself with mp3 players. :rolleyes: