Hero's?

Posted by: Mat Cork on 12 June 2009

I'm not sure I agree with the idea of hero's (everybody being equal and all that), but some folk in music do seem inspirational folk (even if they have their weaknesses).

On another thread, I mentioned seeing Joe Strummer busking in Leeds with Paul S and a few others (Topper and Mick had left). I remember being in awe of Joe, and reading about him, I still find him an inspirational bloke.

I like Tim Hardin's music, but I don't find him heroic...it's an odd thing.

What's your take on musicians as hero's?
Posted on: 13 June 2009 by Voltaire
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Originally posted by Mat Cork:
What's your take on musicians as hero's?


IF, through their music, they console or inpsire or comfort or give hope or strength or set an example by the way they do things right or wrong, then I can't think of a more suitable word than hero. For many people that is some of what they get from their musical 'hero's'.

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Posted on: 15 June 2009 by mudwolf
Heros are Hard to Find
Posted on: 15 June 2009 by BigH47
"No more heroes, any more".
Posted on: 15 June 2009 by Guido Fawkes
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Posted on: 15 June 2009 by 555
Posted on: 16 June 2009 by Kevin-W
My mum's dad - he was in the Atlantic convoys during the war.

My dad's dad - he was in North Africa and Italy in the war, later he worked for the Gas Board and was a prominent member of the trade union NALGO and was known as "Bill The Red"; a lovely, gentle man who knew how to fight for the things he believed in.

Both dead now sadly (1973 and 1988 respectively).

Otherwise, the great Jean Renoir, the greatest of all film-makers, and creator of some of the most humane, penetrating narratives of the 20th century.

Heroine? Has to be Lee Miller, the model, artist and photographer, the only frontline woman photographer of the Second World War.
Posted on: 16 June 2009 by Guido Fawkes
My hero is Guy Fawkes - we celebrate what he tried to do for us every 5th of November.

My musical heroine is ..... well everybody knows.
Posted on: 23 June 2009 by mudwolf


well war heros are the best, I can't imagine being in one. But this is my dad just after the war about 47 before he met mom. He graduated West Point in 43, they took his last year off the books and put him in officers training and sent him to England, about 2 weeks later he was on the beach in D-day. Went thru the Bulge and middle of Germany and the occupation.

Now he's 87 and barely getting by, but I'm down weekly to help them Last Saturday the local public TV had a Big Band show of movie clips, they cut the rug on a couple songs. It was a wonderful moment. And mom said she was in a USO dance when Sinatra was brand new and no one knew who he was. Just another singer. Great stories from them. Mom has always said that dad could make any woman look good on the dance floor. He used to dance to the big bands traveling thru connecticut as a teen.
Posted on: 23 June 2009 by Mat Cork
Great stuff Mudwolf