I think I know what you mean, he hired and fired bandmates with a callous indifference and binning all their work on the first album and re-recording everything himself wasn’t exactly kind.
I not sure if that’s all that unusual (well perhaps the playing all the parts yourself bit) for the band scene and at least he never sold the Nirvana angle to push Foo Fighters.
That’s exactly what I meant!! 🙂
I do largely agree with it probably not being that unusual. I suspect that to lead a really huge band, or even have aspirations that your band could get that big, it helps to be pretty mercenary when things need done / changed.