by canadagraphs1 » Sun Jun 03, 2012 11:15 am
dobie516 wrote:David Crosby, by far. He is a legendary jerk. I've had the (mis)pleasure of meeting him twice. The first time he stood on the sidewalk yelling and cursing at everyone for selling his signature and that was "stealing from him". .
Thats a near carbon copy of a story from here in Vancouver as well from him.
Here he came around a barracade to argue with a guy, and pushed him. Cops were called on him, but the autograph hound actually DIDNT PURSUE IT despite having 4 witness & video of it!!!!
For me personally. Going to have to call this a tie. Sum 41 (mainly deryck Whibley & Steve Jocz) & Craig Nicholls of The Vines.
Whibley came thru 1 tour, and refused to sign. he went as far as to spit on 1 guys photo, got in a swearing match, facewashed the same guy from the spit photo incident with a hamburger later on that day. Steve on the other hand, while a cop was sorting out what happened between Deryck & my friend (he was literally standing 50 ft away when it happened) felt so sure of his fighting abilities (with his 20+ friends/posse they had in tow around) that he told me I should get out of there or he & his friends would kick our asses after the cops left. I let him know I have taken beatings from people manlier than his entire group so I hope they were up to it. (I knew I would lose the fight if it happened....but still felt good to lip back to him if I was in fact going to take the beating). Luckily, the cops decided both Deryck & my friend were in the wrong, and told us to go 1 way, and them to go the other.
Best part of this story is a year or so later they came back thru doing an instore signing. I went up and they thought they would be clever and sign a bunch of fake names. I proofed them doing it, and put it on ebay with the exact proof, and got far more than a regular item would have went for. But to top that story is, the guy who got the facewash/spit covered photo, sent in another hound who was still kind of a kid with the spit photo & 2 other photos. He said to Deryck "hey, this guy outside gave me these photos because he said you wont sign for him... is it true you spit on this photo?" Deryck said yes & bragged about it and signed the 2 photos he had with it with beautiful full name autographs (as opposed to the nickname "Bizzy D" autographs he was giving everyone else except for me)... which ended up right in the possession of the guy who he assaulted. They even talked about the hamburger incident in an interview on Much Music, as they tried to sell the public on the idea they were "real punk".
Craig Nicholls, had a drug induced freak out where he was randomly choosing things to sign, then stopped, signed nothing else, when asked why not, he went on some random tirade, and proceeded to argue with us, specifically me, all the way down the alley. Over 300 ft away he was still yelling at me. Pretty certain he probably snorted/smoked all his $ away from the little bit of success they had, and works at an Australian Starbucks now. So jokes on him I guess.
[quote="dobie516"]David Crosby, by far. He is a legendary jerk. I've had the (mis)pleasure of meeting him twice. The first time he stood on the sidewalk yelling and cursing at everyone for selling his signature and that was "stealing from him". .[/quote]
Thats a near carbon copy of a story from here in Vancouver as well from him.
Here he came around a barracade to argue with a guy, and pushed him. Cops were called on him, but the autograph hound actually DIDNT PURSUE IT despite having 4 witness & video of it!!!!
For me personally. Going to have to call this a tie. Sum 41 (mainly deryck Whibley & Steve Jocz) & Craig Nicholls of The Vines.
Whibley came thru 1 tour, and refused to sign. he went as far as to spit on 1 guys photo, got in a swearing match, facewashed the same guy from the spit photo incident with a hamburger later on that day. Steve on the other hand, while a cop was sorting out what happened between Deryck & my friend (he was literally standing 50 ft away when it happened) felt so sure of his fighting abilities (with his 20+ friends/posse they had in tow around) that he told me I should get out of there or he & his friends would kick our asses after the cops left. I let him know I have taken beatings from people manlier than his entire group so I hope they were up to it. (I knew I would lose the fight if it happened....but still felt good to lip back to him if I was in fact going to take the beating). Luckily, the cops decided both Deryck & my friend were in the wrong, and told us to go 1 way, and them to go the other.
Best part of this story is a year or so later they came back thru doing an instore signing. I went up and they thought they would be clever and sign a bunch of fake names. I proofed them doing it, and put it on ebay with the exact proof, and got far more than a regular item would have went for. But to top that story is, the guy who got the facewash/spit covered photo, sent in another hound who was still kind of a kid with the spit photo & 2 other photos. He said to Deryck "hey, this guy outside gave me these photos because he said you wont sign for him... is it true you spit on this photo?" Deryck said yes & bragged about it and signed the 2 photos he had with it with beautiful full name autographs (as opposed to the nickname "Bizzy D" autographs he was giving everyone else except for me)... which ended up right in the possession of the guy who he assaulted. They even talked about the hamburger incident in an interview on Much Music, as they tried to sell the public on the idea they were "real punk".
Craig Nicholls, had a drug induced freak out where he was randomly choosing things to sign, then stopped, signed nothing else, when asked why not, he went on some random tirade, and proceeded to argue with us, specifically me, all the way down the alley. Over 300 ft away he was still yelling at me. Pretty certain he probably snorted/smoked all his $ away from the little bit of success they had, and works at an Australian Starbucks now. So jokes on him I guess.
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