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?" -Smiths singer Morrissey famously wished Morrison would "end his days in an M3 pile-up") -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." -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 On Wednesday, August 26, 2020 at 12:24:23 PM UTC-4, Bob Jersey wrote: > > The music icon (he turns 75 Monday) calls social distancing > "pseudo-science" and wants other UK artists to join him in calling for an > immediate return to full-capacity concerts... > > > https://variety.com/2020/music/news/van-morrison-slams-social-distancing-demands-full-capacity-concerts-1234748810/ > (link) > > B > > -- You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups "TVorNotTV" group. To unsubscribe from this group and stop receiving emails from it, send an email to tvornottv+unsubscr...@googlegroups.com. To view this discussion on the web visit https://groups.google.com/d/msgid/tvornottv/83f1b65f-1eb9-4c9c-8a8a-b4e7cc25d697o%40googlegroups.com.
