Who is the Richard Feynman of music?

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Match the pop music equivalent of a man who won a Nobel Prize for physics, solved the mystery of liquid helium, painted a Roman slave girl for a massage parlor, embraced hookers, was a big part of the Manhattan Project, played bongos and frigideira in a samba band, and was judged mentally deficient by the United States Army.

― Harry Klam, Thursday, 2 December 2004 20:50 (twenty-one years ago)

that's tommy lee to a t! (except for the physics, liquid helium and manhattan project things)

― fact checking cuz (fcc), Thursday, 2 December 2004 20:55 (twenty-one years ago)

Either Wyclef Jean or Ween.

― Joseph McCombs (Joseph McCombs), Thursday, 2 December 2004 20:58 (twenty-one years ago)

Glenn Gould.

― Ken L (Ken L), Thursday, 2 December 2004 21:02 (twenty-one years ago)

It's too obvious, but Eno.

― mike h. (mike h.), Thursday, 2 December 2004 21:31 (twenty-one years ago)

Feynman explaining the Challenger disaster to journalists while slumming it working for NASA? Eno producing U2.

― mike h. (mike h.), Thursday, 2 December 2004 21:32 (twenty-one years ago)

Lou Reed -- in his own mind?

― mottdeterre (mottdeterre), Thursday, 2 December 2004 21:33 (twenty-one years ago)

That's your best one since the Abba Xmas album.

― Ken L (Ken L), Thursday, 2 December 2004 21:53 (twenty-one years ago)

murray gell-mann = john cale

― J.D. (Justyn Dillingham), Thursday, 2 December 2004 22:24 (twenty-one years ago)

He didn't embrace hookers, he embraced strippers. He used to hang around strip clubs and work on his physics theories five nights a week. His wife didn't seem to mind.

My best answer is Brian May, who was ABD (all but defense) in his astronomy doctorate before finding greater fame with Queen.

― MindInRewind (Barry Bruner), Thursday, 2 December 2004 22:26 (twenty-one years ago)

>>That's your best one since the Abba Xmas album.

Thanks! Now that I've had two on the charts, can I start a Greatest Hits thread?

― mottdeterre (mottdeterre), Thursday, 2 December 2004 22:35 (twenty-one years ago)

He didn't embrace hookers, he embraced strippers.

And the difference in Pasadena would be?

― George Smith, Thursday, 2 December 2004 22:35 (twenty-one years ago)

Hip hop theorem #47: strippaz iz hookaz

― mottdeterre (mottdeterre), Thursday, 2 December 2004 22:37 (twenty-one years ago)

WHO IS THE MARK E. SMITH OF PHYSICS?

― n/a (Nick A.), Thursday, 2 December 2004 22:50 (twenty-one years ago)

That one's way too close to call, because there are way too many ugly, cranky physicists.

― MindInRewind (Barry Bruner), Friday, 3 December 2004 00:32 (twenty-one years ago)

Haha.

I wish I had thought of Brian May. I'll just have to leave you with:
Tom Scholz.

― Ken L (Ken L), Friday, 3 December 2004 02:04 (twenty-one years ago)

George Clinton.

― MC Transmaniacon (natepatrin), Friday, 3 December 2004 02:05 (twenty-one years ago)

I like that answer.

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I got it! Invented all kinds of gizmos, smart as a whip, competive and ornery, places maximum emphasis on being a character, so

Les Paul

― Ken L (Ken L), Friday, 3 December 2004 02:06 (twenty-one years ago)

Frank Zappa. Although all these are pretty good, particularly Les Paul, although he may not have had a taste for dirty women.

― Harry Klam, Friday, 3 December 2004 02:11 (twenty-one years ago)

I actually thought about saying "SALTY character."

― Ken L (Ken L), Friday, 3 December 2004 02:14 (twenty-one years ago)

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