Musicians who have (or may have?) Asperger's Syndrome.

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richie
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22 Feb 2007, 6:52 pm

What about Rick Wakeman?

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01 Mar 2007, 8:03 am

tdbrown82 wrote:

I'm guessing Morrissey is too obvious for people to mention

I can´t believe I´ve never thought about that! :oops:

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02 Mar 2007, 11:15 pm

What about Joey Ramone? The man wrote juvenile lyrics with repeat phrases. Listen to Maria Bartiromo. A total AS tune.

http://www.joeyramone.com/joey_discography.html

I would also be remiss if I didn't mention Bob Pollard from Guided By Voices. Has anyone mentioned Thom Yorke? I sometimes think PJ Harvey is an aspie (recluse, doesn't interview well, Trent Reznor type), but not sure.

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03 Mar 2007, 3:36 pm

ramsamsam wrote:

I think people are focusing too much on the work produced by the artist and less on how they behave.
For instance I and my doctor (who has seen The Talking Heads live) thought that David Bynre had AS.
This is because he can be sociallly akward or perculiar.
David Bynre I don't think has it severely though.
Morrissey would seem to have more social understanding than david bynre but also obbssesive traits, so I reckon he's probably somebody who like me has relatively mild AS.

Have you ever seen David Byrne in an interview? I saw him a fews years back on Jools Holland and he was having difficulty just making sense when he spoke.

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03 Mar 2007, 3:40 pm

Jonny wrote:

Have you ever seen David Byrne in an interview? I saw him a fews years back on Jools Holland and he was having difficulty just making sense when he spoke.

I reckon David Byrne is pretty likely and Morrissey also: his interviews on film are deeply uncomfortable to watch, in my experience, he just looks so ill at ease

which is of course proof of nothing but it's kinda fun to speculate

and we need fun

and don't forget Leonard Cohen, as somebody else mentioned

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04 Mar 2007, 12:53 pm

I dont know about Morrissey. Ok i havent seen too many interviews of him, but he just came across as arrogant and trying to be different to be cool.

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04 Mar 2007, 5:28 pm

this is a long thread and i can't read through it all because i'm impatient but i'd dare to say that syd barrett had AS.

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04 Mar 2007, 5:37 pm

HydroPurity wrote:

Also, I think it's very possible that asperger's is what caused Syd Barrett to recluse.

it's also well-noted that he didn't have the best of motor skills and wasn't regarded as an amazing guitarist but more with creating aural landscapes. and his reclusiveness fits in well with a bad reaction to the change of getting famous combined with the drugs he was taking. could have easily been asperger's mistaken for bipolar or schizophrenia just because asperger's wasn't such a common known condition at the time.

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07 Mar 2007, 8:59 pm

Michael "Olga" Algar from Comedic Punk Band toy dolls hes suspiciously funny. if he dosn't have AS i'll eat my guitar.

Joey Ramone - aviods eye contact with hair and glasses, good sense of humor especialy around Stiv bators. Diagnosed with obsesive compulsive disorder.

both exentric
both humorus
both cool but in a concius and self concius way

[quote="MeshGearFox"]What about Joey Ramone? The man wrote juvenile lyrics with repeat phrases. Listen to Maria Bartiromo. A total AS tune.
I agree

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07 Mar 2007, 9:08 pm

Check out olga in this vid and u'll see what i mean[youtube]http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=z5KRdHqvy3s[/youtube]

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07 Mar 2007, 10:21 pm

kidwiththereplaceablehead wrote:

MeshGearFox wrote:

What about Joey Ramone? The man wrote juvenile lyrics with repeat phrases. Listen to Maria Bartiromo. A total AS tune.
I agree

talking about both stiv and joey or joey and olga?

i don't see it as much with olga....i've only seen the dead boys play a couple times and couldn't really tell...joey definately seems to have it, though.

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08 Mar 2007, 10:24 pm

[quote]talking about both stiv and joey or joey and olga?

no not stiv but the vids ive seen of joey when hes around stiv he opens up

olgas not related to them exept musicaly

but don't you think that dance choeryography olga in nelly had could only be invented by an aspie the other two guys were almost to embarressed to do it but he was over exuberent about it

a AS performer is like a blind dare devil. luckly "fortune favours the bold" and it pays off

oh do you remember those wierd disco moves Joey used to do?

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09 Mar 2007, 3:26 am

kidwiththereplaceablehead wrote:

but don't you think that dance choeryography olga in nelly had could only be invented by an aspie the other two guys were almost to embarressed to do it but he was over exuberent about it

could also be drugs.

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09 Mar 2007, 6:00 am

lol maybe but i've seen him plenty of times (on youtube oh and i did a sort of Q and a Chat/ fan mail thing on his site nothing personal just about his guitar) he seems realy realy nice and Pathetique Punk bands don't realy hang out with regular punks that much so they doen't have that darker side of the scene(no shoting/spiting at fans killing cats blinding people etc). who knows though right you can't go around suspecting everyone thats just wishful thinking.

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09 Mar 2007, 7:07 am

punk pathetique? never heard of that movement. then again, looking it no...no wonder. i never got into oi.

and you don't have to be on the darker side to do drugs....shrooms is quite a happy drug. same with pot and lsd. not like everyone who was punk and did drugs did heroin.

that's like saying everyone in punk is gay....it was just pat smear, darby crash, jello biafra,....and i forget who else...there were quite a few.

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09 Mar 2007, 7:27 am

skafather84 wrote:

nar i did'nt totally mean that don't read in to it too much. besides im a bit of a posser i mean i got my own band but...rrr anyway how about dead milkmen some of thier songs are like a page from hitch hikers guide to the galaxy they just go on about nothing in particular what do think one of them got AS maybe?

oh yeah punk pathetiques kinda like uk oi bands who just write kinda funny songs.

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