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Mick, Prince, Iggy, Kurt...

does a height deficit increase rock power? why? other examples of miniature rock gods?

― fritz, Friday, 3 August 2001 00:00 (twenty-four years ago)

Ronnie James Dio

― dave q, Friday, 3 August 2001 00:00 (twenty-four years ago)

Prince is the only one on the list I thought was short. At the very least he's the shortest. Is Mick Jagger really short??

― Sean, Friday, 3 August 2001 00:00 (twenty-four years ago)

How tall is Iggy? How tall is Kurt? I heard Henry Rollins is short, too. Me, I'm only 5'8", I think. I think your entire list except Prince is taller than me. And for that I say up yours.

― Nude Spock, Friday, 3 August 2001 00:00 (twenty-four years ago)

ok, mick's 5'11", but the others are short. spock: hey, some of my best friend's are short! I wouldn't want my sister to marry one, or anything, but...

― fritz, Friday, 3 August 2001 00:00 (twenty-four years ago)

But that's not officially SHORT, you bastard!!!! Harrumph. Yeah, it is, I guess. You fucking giants are ruining everything.

― Nude Spock, Friday, 3 August 2001 00:00 (twenty-four years ago)

oh, i forgot about ac/dc... those guys are all really short.

i think average height is around 5'10', so that makes mick on the short side of tall.

― fritz, Friday, 3 August 2001 00:00 (twenty-four years ago)

Maynard from Tool.

― DJ Martian, Friday, 3 August 2001 00:00 (twenty-four years ago)

I saw Michael Stipe in the flesh: he's a midget.

― Kerry Keane, Friday, 3 August 2001 00:00 (twenty-four years ago)

Oh, and isn't Roger Daltrey a shrinky-dinky as well?

― Kerry Keane, Friday, 3 August 2001 00:00 (twenty-four years ago)

Nick Kershaw

― nathalie, Friday, 3 August 2001 00:00 (twenty-four years ago)

Blue Oyster Cult. They be tiny folk also.

― Cash Lone, Friday, 3 August 2001 00:00 (twenty-four years ago)

canibus, who you wouldn't really expect to be that short. and phife, of course.

― ethan, Friday, 3 August 2001 00:00 (twenty-four years ago)

Not that this anything to do with the point of the thread, but didn't Toad the Wet Sprocket have a near-midget drummer? Or possibly an actual certifiable midget?

That's pretty cool, now that I think about it.

― Nitsuh, Friday, 3 August 2001 00:00 (twenty-four years ago)

Glen Danzig is a good example. Short but built like a bull. And Trent Reznor is only like 5'6".

― bnw, Friday, 3 August 2001 00:00 (twenty-four years ago)

Bono's a bit on the diminutive side, no?

― alex in nyc, Friday, 3 August 2001 00:00 (twenty-four years ago)

the scorpions? i think those dudes were pretty small. and randy rhoades as well.

― ernest, Friday, 3 August 2001 00:00 (twenty-four years ago)

Randy Rhoades was a lot smaller after his plane crashed into the ground.

― Billy Dods, Friday, 3 August 2001 00:00 (twenty-four years ago)

Dude, this thread is making me feel awfully short. 5'10" is average? Jesus: my nose appears to be the only part of my body that's not 3% shorter than the mean.

― Nitsuh, Friday, 3 August 2001 00:00 (twenty-four years ago)

small faces, duh. and toronto's heavy metal giants "the killer dwarfs" (sic) were supposedly all under 5 ft.

― fritz, Friday, 3 August 2001 00:00 (twenty-four years ago)

How tall is Iggy? How tall, how tall?

I'm 5' 1.5". so there.

― Lyra, Friday, 3 August 2001 00:00 (twenty-four years ago)

Bob Seger is 4'11". Kate Bush — since she just got CoD-threaded - is a pretty massive and unexpected 5'11". One of the wackier theories for why the Beatles were so spookily successful, is that — give or a quarter of an inch obviously — they were all EXACTLY THE SAME HEIGHT, 5'8"...

― mark s, Friday, 3 August 2001 00:00 (twenty-four years ago)

Isn't King Diamond really tiny? There's also this black metal band let by a dwarf, maybe it's Ulver, I'm not sure.

― Kris, Friday, 3 August 2001 00:00 (twenty-four years ago)

Since Kate isnt posting at the moment that leaves me to say: Peter Holmstrom and Jay Ferguson. Both blond floppy tiny guitarist who do all the work behind their bigger counterparts the modern day Evan Dando, Courtney Taylor and Chris Murphy.

― zacko, Friday, 3 August 2001 00:00 (twenty-four years ago)

5'10" may be average for men of north european descent but is certainly not the average for men worldwide. i don't consider 5'8" short. (incidentally, i'm 5'10" so i'm not writing out of any personal beef. when i visited kerala, people thought i was really tall.)

― sundar subramanian, Friday, 3 August 2001 00:00 (twenty-four years ago)

"One of the wackier theories for why the Beatles were so spookily successful, is that — give or a quarter of an inch obviously — they were all EXACTLY THE SAME HEIGHT, 5'8"..."

I heard the same only it was about the Small Faces.

― DavidM, Friday, 3 August 2001 00:00 (twenty-four years ago)

Thom Yorke is 5'5". If you look closely at most promo shots he's wearing platform shoes so he doesn't look like a midget. And Ed O'Brien, who is a full foot taller than him, is always positioned in the far back of band photos.

― Melissa W, Friday, 3 August 2001 00:00 (twenty-four years ago)

udo from accept

― keith, Friday, 3 August 2001 00:00 (twenty-four years ago)

kylie minougue?

― Geoff, Saturday, 4 August 2001 00:00 (twenty-four years ago)

DavidM: The Beatles were/are all 5'11", except for Ringo, who is 5'2". And, in response to an earlier question, Cobain was 5'7".

There are a lot of short, pudgy bassists (and also a lot of tall, lanky bassists, too--lots of extremes), so much so that it's become a musician stereotype. The first person who springs to mind, for some reason, is Matt from Counting Crows, who's pretty cute, to boot. Definitely pudgy, though, and probably about 5'5".

― matthew m., Saturday, 4 August 2001 00:00 (twenty-four years ago)

Actually, when I was a kid my Dad was very close friends with the Killer Dwarfs (the singer[?] married my aunt before I was born, they divorced later) and they're all about my dad's height, 5'10".

― Alexis Dicks, Sunday, 5 August 2001 00:00 (twenty-four years ago)

I join Lyra in shouting: "How tall is Iggy?". 'Cause he look rilly rather lanky.

― Mitch Lastnamewithheld, Sunday, 5 August 2001 00:00 (twenty-four years ago)

Mark Webber in Pulp is tiny. He's so small that he's barely even there.

― jamesmichaelward, Sunday, 5 August 2001 00:00 (twenty-four years ago)

'They got no reason to live...'

― dave q (6'1"), Monday, 6 August 2001 00:00 (twenty-four years ago)

I've seen David Bowie up-close, and he's a real short-arse... In his recent (crappy) bk William Goldman points out that most male movie stars are pretty tiny too - Napoleon complex at work here?

― Andrew L, Monday, 6 August 2001 00:00 (twenty-four years ago)

Wait, now. How tall's Bowie?

Trent Reznor: 5'6"-5'7"

― Lyra, Thursday, 9 August 2001 00:00 (twenty-four years ago)

Bowie is 5'11". I hope that doesn't qualify one to be a 'short-arse,' otherwise I'm a 'midget-arse' at 5'9".

― matthew m., Friday, 10 August 2001 00:00 (twenty-four years ago)

I suppose Stephin Merritt is rather far from being a rock god, but he does have a big mouth and he is tiny.

― Nick, Friday, 10 August 2001 00:00 (twenty-four years ago)

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