The other day we had a thread on criminals in the music world, and I decided to make a basic chart as an entry-point to criminal musicians. It's by no means all-encompassing, but here it is. As a rule I've only added people who were actually convicted of a crime, or who were definitely responsible (such as Gesualdo or Meek).
Guide: >1. Child abuse (inc. child porn convictions) >2-4. Murder and manslaughter >5-6. Assaults (inc. sexual assaults) >7. Weapons offences >8. Thievery (incl. tax evasion) >9. Drug offences resulting in prison sentences
If anyone needs any info on why I've included any of these don't hesitate to ask
This is great stuff, OP. We need more like you on this board.
Sebastian Rogers
The Bobby Beausoleil album is great Good job op
Xavier Richardson
Is Rolf Harris good
Tyler Kelly
what's the story on Freak Out and STFTB
Christian Stewart
>Freak Out Mothers' bassist Roy Estrada has twice been convicted of child sexual assault charges. First in 1994 he was sentenced to six years in prison for committing lewd acts with a child. The second in 2012 was in relation to incidents in 2008 where he was convicted of continued sexual abuse of a child. He is serving 25 years in prison and is not eligible for parole. >STFTB Michael Gira spent four and a half months in an adult prison in Israel for selling drugs. He was 15 at the time of sentencing and 16 when he was released.
Cameron Morgan
Housemartins and Meat Puppets?
Wyatt Price
>Housemartins Drummer Hugh Whitaker spent 6 years in jail for attacking a business associate who had cheated him out of money with an axe in addition to setting fire to his house on 3 separate occasions >Meat Puppets Bassist Cris Kirkwood spent 21 months in prison after assaulting a security guard with his own baton following an argument with a woman over a parking space
Carson Thompson
>He was 15 at the time of sentencing and 16 when he was released. >Israeli prison jesus, that's gotta fuck a person up...
Carter Young
He's said himself that although he was largely left alone as he was an American citizen there were arab lads in there who were routinely attacked and raped and that he saw or heard them near on every night. I've always assumed a lot of Michael's work was influenced by those 4 months.
Robert Gutierrez
>Love and McCartney?
John Cruz
>Love Arthur Lee was sentenced to 12 years in prison for negligent discharge of a firearm. This was because of California's three-strike laws meaning he had to serve prison time for his third offence after two previous charges for assault and drugs.
On a side note, Bobby Beausoleil who is mentioned in the murder section was an early member of Love when they were still The Grass Roots >Paul McCartney In 1980 during a Wings tour in Japan, police found 200g of cannabis in McCartney's luggage. He spent 10 days in jail and was deported..
Logan Cook
it's kinda hilarious how strictly japan criminalizes weed, yet possession of child pornography wasn't made illegal until 2014
Julian Russell
Wait, the writer of Buyer's Market was actually into sexual child abuse and shit?
Damn
Jeremiah Morgan
>200g of cannabis
a man can dream...
Elijah Wright
Only sort of. He probably wasn't into it, but he was found guilty of possession of child porn after putting it on the front cover of his publication Pure.
Jason Gonzalez
In a slightly cheesy way, yes
Luke Martinez
Add Freddie Gibbs
Christopher Nelson
He dindu nuffin mane! He's not been convicted of anything yet, so he's not on the list.
Daniel Martinez
2014? That's fucked up
Adam Reed
I didn't know some of the backgrounds of these artists. Looked into Michael Gira and read some interesting interviews. I'll have to check this out later and find out more about some of these artists. Fun chart, should add the guide onto it somewhere, though.
Brody Phillips
George Michael?
Ethan Nguyen
What about him?
Ryan Richardson
I've just put the row guide on it. I'm not going to be able to fit all the info on it though unfortunately
Don't know if this is serious enough, just a bit of light cottaging.
Brandon Price
Yeah, just the row guide is what I meant. Looks great. Have some of these backlogged, I'm gonna give them a listen. Again, cool chart.
Kevin Myers
Charles Cohen >In September 2015, Cohen was arrested and charged with crimes including criminal attempt of involuntary deviant sexual intercourse with a child under the age of 16.[23]
