Who Is/Was the Craziest Person In All of Music?
 

Well? For me it's gotta be Varg Vikerness. I know I'm a metalhead, so perhaps I have a vested interest in metal having the number one crazy for... bragging rights, but the dude has seriously taken a sledge hammer to his marbles.

Most everyone on this site probably knows about him killing his bandmate, getting sent to prison, and becoming a neo-Nazi, but that's just scratching the surface of Varg's insanity. Not only does he believe in the Aryan race, but he believes they were genetically engineered by aliens (aka the Norse gods) from the Sirius system and put on Atlantis, which was then destroyed and the Aryans then had to go live amongst the untermensch.

But wait, it gets nuttier. His solution to this? Thousand year reich? Booooring. He wants to take technology out of the hands of all but the elite of society and have people live like they did in the middle ages. Wagons, cloaks (his words), etc. Advanced technology will only be available to these elite, who need it for research centers, factories, power plants, and mines. Why do they need these things if everyone else is going to be living as old school peasants? Why, to leave the Earth and colonize space to escape dwindling resources and the dying sun of course.

He likens this to a fantasy realm in the vein of Tolkien (seriously, he mentions Tolkien by name) where we (the peasants) will live in Middle-Earth and the elites will live like elves who will eventually move to the moon. And what will happen to the inferior races? Why, they'll be turned into dwarves (for mining), trolls, and whatnot (in order to give humanity trials to overcome). There will also be dragons. Seriously. ****ing dragons. If it weren't for the whole Aryan race thing this would actually be pretty bitchin'.

So yeah, beat that Sun Ra.

gg obviously

Yamatsuka Eye gets some cred in this field because of his work with Hanatarash where they would have crazy antics like bulldozing a stage, chopping a cat (post mortem) in half with a machete, throwing glass at the audience, almost cutting his own leg off, and much more. He's quite the sonic psycho as well.

Legitimately crazy? Well that one goes to Wild Man Fischer.

Haha. That is pretty crazy.

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^this guy is a complete nutbag

right

went from that to masturbating into a frying pan and feeding a couple their son :)

I dunno about "craziest", but famously


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Best live band I have ever seen

It's a tie between Jim Gordon and Syd Barrett.

Ted Nugent.

Wait... what? Explanation definitely needed here.

Fecking hate that idiot

I still have yet to hear anyone beat neo-Nazi trying to Tolkienize the world. GG Allin might have been more out of control, but he wasn't intent on turning black people into orcs.

Ted Nugent needs a TV show with Gary Busey.

Man I love Ted Nugent. Then again, I'm anti-gun laws, and he's an excellent spokesperson.

Plus that charming patriotic Republican thing gets me every time.

Here it comes.

Depends on how you define crazy- if you mean mentally separated from reality- Wesley Willis or Daniel Johnston. If you mean behaviorally unstable, gg allin or genesis p-orridge

might want to save this one for home

.................................................. ............ What the **** was that?!

Satan.

maybe back in the 70s and 80s...he aint sh*t these days

Are you talking about all these silly Scandinavians with their make up and their d&d quides?

this guy actually rubbed his cock all over Jimmy Carters luggage

again not evil......crazy

Tolkienize. The world. Elites (elves) of society. On the moon. Aryan race. From Atlantis. That's not just evil.

This guy is certainly a contender for the title...

https://www.pedestrian.tv/news/enter...2549a1b67b.htm

https://www.pedestrian.tv/news/arts-...6f2ced6bb3.htm

Kirk Cobain has to be one of the craziest. One of the more mentally disturbed musicians anyway.

I've always admired Keith Moons career, I like the way he presented himself as being a Punk.

I love the interviews he did in The Kids Are Alright

I love how Keith was banned from several different franchises of hotels because he kept throwing firecrackers into the toilets, tossing stuff out windows, and just being a huge pain in the ass. Mad, Mad Moonie.

No, I was talking about Satan :p:

oh....i wouldn't worry about him....he does not exist :)

^ Wow! This is like an item from Ripley`s Believe It Or Not. :yikes:

^ Daniel Johnston, made famous by Cenotaph`s avatar, struggles with demons, but manages to produce some quite touching music:-

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He's one of the whackiest, not too "crazy", I guess

He looks like Salvador Dali's heroin addict son.

Shannon is not crazy at all....very intelligent, very very very outspoken, very fun....a bit of a drinker

Four pages in and Batlord's pick still seems the craziest to me.

Crazy awesome, I'd say.

http://s.mlkshk.com/r/JOR0

he does...in my opinion have the best tattoo ever.

Is it just me or does he look a bit like Steve Buscemi?

I like his hat but who is he?

Tell that **** to John Waters