Post #93899 by Scrimshaw on Tue, Jun 1, 2004 1:51 PM

On 2004-06-01 13:30, Johnny Dollar wrote:
wasn't trying to enforce any orthodoxy, and since this was in "beyond tiki"

(I know - I was responding to the Jab...)

I think you're generally right about artist's personal lives being beside the point. Who'd want to know Picasso?

But I think with Frank, his image was half the appeal. They called him the Chairman not because of his music, but his life. The definate swank factor came from his mellow warblings, but also from his personality. You look at him and see swanky, You listen you feel swanky. And since he did not write his own songs, he's a performer more than an artist. You enjoy (or don't) the image he projects along with the notes he projects. When "thug" and "bully" overlays the sentimental croon, it all seems so phoney.

But I think for me the worst thing of all is that he represents Anti-Tikidom in his tastes, in his style, and in his lifestyle.

But, you know... What do I know? :)