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Originally Posted by dissention
Darling, do you blame him for wanting out? He's said time and time again that at that point in time, his fellow bandmates were not the same people he had known in the beginning. Drugs, booze, greed; the whole shebang. After not having really been around it since the early eighties when they recorded Mirage, I can only imagine how disconcerting the whole situation must have been. I'm sure he wasn't the same person either, but looking at them collectively back in '86-'87 makes me cringe. A few of them looked like shells of their former selves.
Should he have agreed to tour if he didn't want to? No. But I doubt he signed any contract or else Mick would have gleefully sued his pants off. It was ****ty to leave them high and dry, but considering the situation, I don't begrudge him for it and I think he made a smart move.  |
I flip flop on whether I blame him - but I consistently think it was a rotten thing to do. I also have issues with the whole santimonious vibe that you and others portray that everyone was nuts but LB or that he was nuts to a lesser degree - almost like he was the only ounce of sanity and the rest were just jerks. I mean CM certainly was not like that and La Nicks tried to get her act together and put aside her personal drama of being immediately out of rehab and launched straight into the record and subsequent tour. I think that is unfair and paints LB in too sympathetic a light than the facts suggest. But, if people want to think that he was a martyr to the band and that probably means mostly Stevie's sheer unbridled craziness - they can
