ITT: Musicians who lived hard lives

ITT: Musicians who lived hard lives

why does brian look like he had a stroke sometime between 1969 and 1976

he got so depressed he gained like 100lbs and disappeared from the public. there's hardly any photos of him from that time

What's the name of the guy who got shot in the eye by some kid with a bb gun?

Jackson C Frank. Hearing about his life makes me sad, poor guy had it rough.

Trips and death is here, today, then he's gone.

LSD rots your brain

Actually

Huge coke addiction in the 70s and was generally a hermit with terrible overall health

He ended up with tardive dyskinesia at some point which causes uncontrollable body movements, especially in the face, which may have made him end up looking like that. Also he ended up brain damaged.

The fact that Bri will be outlived by Mike proves there is no god.

:(

all the Beach Boys in that 76 photo look like they have been up all night smoking crack. Except Carl

pic deserves to be bigger

RIP Carl

He really was too good for that group

Did Brian Wilson even live a hard life

Daniel Johnston

Ian Curtis. His story always makes me sad.

>Gets abused by his father
>Loses 96 percent of his hearing on his right ear after a beating from his dad
>Gets caught up in drugs
>Gets schizophrenia
>Gains 300 pounds
>Tries to get help
>His therapist mentally and physically abuses him while taking 30 thousand dollars of Brian's money a month
>His brother dies from drowning
>Continues getting abused by the same therapist for decades while he's controlling Brian's life
>His other brother dies from cancer
>Out lives both his little brothers and the only family he has left is his dick head of a cousin that sued him

Yeah, he had a pretty shit life.

>1969
Was this the first emo-cut ever?

that looks like a beatles mop top desu, looks like john's hair circa 65-66

1984 brian is pretty hot

Jaco Pastorius had it pretty bad.

Haha, but not really. In Brian's case it turned out poorly because he's schizophrenic and took a lot of it for a long time.

i dont like when people complain about his father
his dad got him the deal with capitol and the work ethic that drove him to the top

Yeah man. It freaks me out that at one point he was playing on the street for change, after having sold out overseas tours

People who make of point of hating dadrock don't know what they missing out on with the weirder Beach Boys stuff.

He should really grow a beard again for the true punished look

Probably the most likely musician to die terribly following Cobain between 1995 to 2001 and suicide watch until 2003

>Parental rejection
>Physical and emotional abuse from his peers for not being hard like them
>Binge drinking
>Crack cocaine dependency
>Richard Patrick rejecting him
>Maise's death
>unexpected, overnight success
>Binge drinking worsens
>David Bowie's intervention
>Checks into rehab
>gets out
>Grandmother dies
>inconsolable grief
>total slump creatively as new album is being worked
>rent out a house on the ocean
>Going to die there
>Decide to write one song
>One song brings him back from the brink
>slowly put together a new album
>while in isolation all his old friends are talking shit about him
>Relapse, start drinking and using Cocaine
>release album
>everyone hates it or is indifferent
>addictions worsen
>go on massive tour
>addictions worsen even more
>band starts falling at the end of it
>Go back into isolation
>Snort heroin under the assumption it was coke. Die for several minutes
>Start talking to Aaliyah about a HTDA type project
>She dies
>makes a good friend in New Orleans
>he gets executed in the street
>Finds out his fiances are in shambles. His manager has been speculating his worth and funneling money.
>Remembers Bowie's words: It doesn't have to end at the bottom.
>Checks back into Rehab
>Decides to turn it all fucking around.

Of course, even Brian is grateful for what he did for the group, but that doesn't mean that he's wasn't an asshole. Brain literally shat on a plate and gave it to him, that should give you an image how fucked their relationship was.

>gets blown up at school by a freak accident
>all of his friends get killed in less than a minute
>have burns covering 80 percent of your body for the rest of your life
>start developing manic depression and schizophrenia over such a traumatic event
>gets married to a fashion model but their son dies from cystic fibrosis
>eventually split away from his wife, lost all his money, and becones homeless in under a year
>gets shot in the eye by a BB gun by one of the neighboor hood kids and loses his entire vision in one eye
>eventually a young fan stumbles across an old homeless Jackson C Frank
>Frank was in such poor condition at the time that he was almost unrecognizable to the fan
>the fan introduces Jackson to a local college music professor
>they try to save his music career but at that point Jackson was in such poor health that he was just barely able to play guitar and sing
>Jackson dies of pnemonia and cardiac arrest at age 56
Jackson has lived a hard life.

>Brian literally shat on a plate and gave it to him
my god sauce

Oh right, so because he got him that deal and taught him to work hard, it's totally cool that he beat the shit out of his children and constantly berated them.

everyone beat their kids back then

Wesley Willis

what a bunch of hippies