Musicians who have (or may have?) Asperger's Syndrome.

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I suspect that Carrie Brownstein from Sleater-Kinney (as well as the show Portlandia) might be an aspie. She has said that she has difficulty with social interaction and is very shy. She has said that she has a lot of difficulty expressing herself emotionally. Se has said that she is very routine oriented and that she has a lot of anxiety when there is a lack of routine and predictability in her life. She has described herself as having a very analytical and mechanical way of thinking. She has said that she feels very much like an outsider. and she seems to have an almost encyclopedic knowledge about music, so it might be her special interest .

IDK if it's already been mentioned, but as far as I'm concerned, David Byrne (Talking Heads) is the patron saint of Asperger's Syndrome.

Case in point:

The late Amy Winehouse was often described saying and doing whatever she wanted without regard to social conventions and not understanding her celebrity She also was easily taken advantage of. So maybe.

Johnny Dean - Lead singer, Britpop group Mensware
I was diagnosed with autism as an adult – it's not just children who are affected

I know in heavy music, especially today, it's probably ripe with Aspies. Heavy music has gotten super technical and less emotional. Its not very popular at all anymore. It would be very easy to lose yourself in your instrument, even live. Its also an easy place for "weird" people to blend in, find a crowd and mimic the hell out of it. The heavy touring would not be very conducive though.

On that note, I have always thought the vocalist from The Red Chord may be aspie. This is only from lyrics, but his style is unusually disjointed yet poignant for the style. See: Embarrasment Legacy, One Robot to Another

This may be obscure to most, but Malefic from the US one man black metal band Xasthur is one I can think of after watching interviews of him in a documentary.
Kurt cobain is also one I've considered possibly being on the spectrum.

Tom Waits. He keeps a diary with him and collects random strings of information in it and has for years.
He said when he was little, he thought he was ret*d or possessed because the sound of paper sliding would make him wince, and the sound of his mother tucking him in would make him curl up as if in pain. He'd deal with it by making up a word and repeating it musically over and over. The sounds would haunt him at night.
I've seen interviews with him at the first half of his career, and he mumbles and doesn't make eye contact, and has an odd manner of speaking where he either speaks too loud or too soft. He also would rock back and forth insessantly to the point where the interviewer would make fun of him by copying him.
He obsessively collects instruments, and has stated he's obsessed with every day sounds.

Kim Gordon from Sonic Youth definitely sounds like she might be an aspie. here is a profile The New Yorker did on her http://www.newyorker.com/magazine/2013/06/03/next-stage

Adolf von Henselt, Charles-Valentin Alkan, Wilhelm Friedemann Bach, Ignaz Holzbauer, and Robert Schumann all seem to have been neurodiverse at the very least.

I don't know if this person was stated but there is one I know for sure

Dan Bull

He has said himself

Possible traits mentioned
Touring causing anxiety had quit at the time
Did not like "Life Begins at The Hop" a socializing song
Attraction to Water desire to walk into it.(Autistic kids wander into water)
Stomach Problems
Issues Psychologists could not figure out, needed quiet to deal with it.

Of course they wrote a song called "Senses Working Overtime"

I didn't check thoroughly to see if someone had already mentioned him, but Bill Bruford of Yes and King Crimson may be a mild aspie (kind of like me). He just seems so awkward and goofy when he drums - he strikes me as a bombastic sort of aspie with a big personality, but still kind of awkward:



And during this 1984 interview, he seemed to dart around a lot with his gaze, make jokes that only he laughed at sometimes (although I laughed a bit too), and what really struck me was his resentment of the "surfer rock" scene in the U.S. in the late 60s, something that almost any non-autistic person would have been into at the time because it was "cool" and "popular":



I also think Bob Fripp might be, but more of the reserved and introverted type like me.

Keyboard player/Drummer Damon Edge, Founder of the band Chrome. Was quite reclusive and hated playing live, even though the band had a very large european fan base in the late 70's and early 80's. Monotonous voice, also during his later French incarnation of Chrome, instructed the hired musicians to play as passionlessly, and as robotically as possible. Found dead of suicide in 1995.

Justin Broadrick
Aaron Turner
Billy Anderson (more sound producer than musician)

Probably James Plotkin but anough interviews and no videos to detect exactly.