Overweight Musicians Appreciation Thread

Duke Leonal Felmet · 15-12-2011 10:05PM #1

Following Malice's awesome suggestion.

I will start with not only my favourite tubby musician, but my favourite musician ever.

Brian Wilson - The twentieth century's greatest and quirkiest musical genius

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=3tPs5f3kkFY

Make your suggestions.

boneitis · 15-12-2011 10:16PM

Duke Leonal Felmet wrote: »

Following Malice's awesome suggestion.

I will start with not only my favourite tubby musician, but my favourite musician ever.

Brian Wilson - The twentieth century's greatest and quirkiest musical genius

Make your suggestions.

Here's what he looked like when they were signed

Duke Leonal Felmet · 15-12-2011 10:19PM

boneitis wrote: »

Here's what he looked like when they were signed

I think off.the.walls was on.the.ball.

boneitis · 15-12-2011 10:23PM

Duke Leonal Felmet wrote: »

I think off.the.walls was on.the.ball.

I already figured that out.

There's lot's of overweight musicians, some I really love, but as a percentage of the whole they represent about 1/10th of one percent.

That being said, it's all a personal choice.. if you wanna be an overweight musician, I won't judge you, but there's a LOT of people that will.

For the record, I much preferred fat Elvis.

Duke Leonal Felmet · 15-12-2011 10:25PM

boneitis wrote: »

I already figured that out.

There's lot's of overweight musicians, some I really love, but as a percentage of the whole they represent about 1/10th of one percent.

That being said, it's all a personal choice.. if you wanna be an overweight musician, I won't judge you, but there's a LOT of people that will.

For the record, I much preferred fat Elvis.

This thread isn't about you, nor is it about fat musicians getting signed.

My thread, my standards, etc.

boneitis · 15-12-2011 10:34PM

Duke Leonal Felmet wrote: »

This thread isn't about you, nor is it about fat musicians getting signed.

My thread, my standards, etc.

That's why I listed Elvis.

Duke Leonal Felmet · 15-12-2011 10:42PM

boneitis wrote: »

Duke Leonal Felmet wrote: »

This thread isn't about you, nor is it about fat musicians getting signed.

My thread, my standards, etc.

That's why I listed Elvis.

And yet you felt the need to post a picture of a skinny Brian Wilson. Why?

15-12-2011 10:46PM

So if this isn't about fat musicians getting signed, why is it in bands and musicians and not the general music forum?

What does it have to being in a band or a musician?

Duke Leonal Felmet · 15-12-2011 10:50PM

Sigh

*clicks unfollow*

boneitis · 15-12-2011 10:52PM

Duke Leonal Felmet wrote: »

And yet you felt the need to post a picture of a skinny Brian Wilson. Why?

Because I'd disagree he's an overweight musician, and as you are aware of the content of the other thread I decided to reference that, in the context of this thread.

Like I've always said, I personally don't have anything against overweight musicians. But Brian Wilson isn't really a great example. He got chunky when he was old, but back when he was a genius he wasn't really all that big... that was the point of my photo... of course, who's to say if all the beach boys looked like BW did 67-69, they'd have been fired... on top of all of that... it was the 60s... people were a lot let image concious then...

Another great example is Janis...

Go into the 80s and it's a lot harder to find popular overweight artists... worse still in the 90s... etc., etc.

Adele is a great step forward IMO, but... I have heard out of the mouth of someone from her label that Adele was pushed as a "alternative" to the skinny girls as a cynical move... she's "real" etc.

Other great examples would be Frank Black...

raindog.promo · 16-12-2011 12:33AM

You've just hijacked this guy's thread after giving out about your own thread being hi-jacked.

Malice · 16-12-2011 08:21AM

I wish people would act on my suggestions more often

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Moved to Music.

rcaz · 16-12-2011 09:46AM

?uestlove!

off.the.walls · 16-12-2011 11:09AM

Jesus lads after all this i'm going on a diet of steroids and weights boneitis has me feeling fat now

hahahahahahahaha

unclebill98 · 16-12-2011 11:15AM

BB King.

Rigsby · 16-12-2011 11:51AM

Bob Hite "The Bear" (Canned Heat)

Peter Greene

Van Morrison

Buddy Whittington (see below)

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=e9kW6Up9P1g

boneitis · 16-12-2011 02:29PM

off.the.walls wrote: »

Jesus lads after all this i'm going on a diet of steroids and weights boneitis has me feeling fat now hahahahahahahaha

Do not do steroids.

If you wanna do it the famous musician way, try cocaine, cigarettes and bulimia.

Dont do that either.

SilverScreen · 16-12-2011 09:47PM

Big mention for Tom "Pig Champion" Roberts (front) and Jerry A. (right) of punk legends Poison Idea. Took enough drugs to kill a herd of elephants too.

Also the Conner brothers in Screaming Trees, they made Mark Lanegan look like a twiglet.

fryup · 16-12-2011 11:02PM

Mama Cass

choked to death on a chicken sandwich

boneitis · 16-12-2011 11:16PM

fryup wrote: »

Mama Cass

choked to death on a chicken sandwich

funny, but untrue

Herb Powell · 16-12-2011 11:29PM

Here's 3 great ones right here

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=kH5btjemc1c

fryup · 16-12-2011 11:56PM

fryup wrote: »

Mama Cass

choked to death on a chicken sandwich

boneitis wrote: »

funny, but untrue

yes thats right..........it was a ham sandwich

boneitis · 17-12-2011 12:15AM

fryup wrote: »

yes thats right..........it was a ham sandwich

Ha!

For the unaware, it was a heart attack. No sandwich involvement.

Sl!mCharles · 17-12-2011 12:30AM

Biggie lads, Biggie - also John Martyn

Custardpi · 17-12-2011 10:48AM

Does this count?

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=N_fcn9ntnvY

boneitis · 17-12-2011 11:11AM

Some that I don't like, but which were... super-sized

John Popper

Shawn Lane

Jimmy Iovine · 17-12-2011 11:33AM

They don't get much heavier or better than Big Pun. He was 780 pounds at his heaviest, just before he died from a heart attack.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=DwEqTbaFVXU

rcaz · 17-12-2011 11:58AM

Jimmy Iovine wrote: »

They don't get much heavier or better than Big Pun. He was 780 pounds at his heaviest, just before he died from a heart attack.

****en yes. Some mates played this song at a session a while ago, I was completely blown away, the sickest two bars I've ever heard;

"Dead in the middle of Little Italy little did we know that we riddled to middle men who didn't do diddly"

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=AiwvPmRTv6M

Nolanger · 17-12-2011 12:00PM

Darryl Pandy - one of the funniest Top of the Pops performances.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=5-L1aoHiRN0

Motley Crue · 17-12-2011 12:28PM

I don't really see the point of this thread, but if I need to find the biggest people I can think of in the music Industry today (two people I've recently met and spoken too at length about weight and what not, considering I struggle with my own) then they would have to be Chris Burnley, Byron Stroud and Dino Cazares

Rigsby · 17-12-2011 01:51PM

Motley Crue wrote: »

I don't really see the point of this thread

Now that you mention it.....yeah, what is the point of this thread ?

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