Van Morrison is p!ssed
Bob Jersey
Kevin M.
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bermuda999
He is a genius writer and performer and extremely influential in his narrow music genre. He's also by most accounts an asshole.
Attendees at a VM concert are lucky recipients of some of the best live music, but it usually comes with Van using the stage microphone to berate one or more members of his backup band and crew (for real or imagined offenses) and sometimes leaving the stage mid-song never to return, or simply losing his muse and ending his typically expensive concert after only a dozen or so songs.
He's quirky, and that used to be mysterious and adorable, (even thanking Scientology founder L. Ron Hubbard in his liner notes back when). But as with many quirky artists, if they last long enough, some begin to wonder if it is not in part a manifestation of psychological issues. And then the question inevitably becomes "Can the genius and the ass be separated?"
-Spike
Milligan after meeting Van called him a "pig" and that he
was physically "dirty and scruffy"
-Anne Denvir: "He was always a little shit and he still is."
-Smiths singer Morrissey famously wished Morrison would "end his days in an M3 pile-up")
-And then there's Morrison himself, who has said "I'm not a nice person. I don't expect anyone to say I'm a nice guy. If somebody says I'm grumpy, I'm a c***, or whatever, that's okay because I don't profess to be an angel. I think I'm a loner."
So it may be along these same lines that VM is thinking of Covid-19 as a personal inconvenience and simply an obstacle to being able to share his genius (and making money).
But now it may be an issue of not just pissing off his loyal concertgoers, but also sickening them or killing them
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Tom Wolper
And of course Eric helped spur the creation of Rock Against Racism by.......being a racist.(RoR was formed partially in response to Clapton getting drunk onstage and announcing"I think Enoch (Powell) is right, I think we should send them all back.Stop Britain from becoming a black colony. Get the foreigners out.He later explained his comment by saying "There's no way I could be a racist. It would make no sense."