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submitted 11 months ago* (last edited 11 months ago) by luthis@lemmy.nz to c/asklemmy@lemmy.ml

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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[-] Boldizzle@lemmy.world 21 points 11 months ago

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 11 months ago

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

[-] BigBananaDealer@lemm.ee 2 points 11 months ago

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

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