Original audio 1986 RED ROCKS. "TALK TO ME", ""Stand Back," "Outside the rain/Dreams"

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Originally Posted by MakerofBirds

In Joe's defense, he was married and clearly didn't want to answer that question on Howard Stern and was very uncomfortable having to do so. I think he was being as diplomatic as he could and saying that's how he felt about her currently. Imagine being married and deeply committed to someone and someone else you were with many years ago is telling the world that you're the love of their life. What do you say to that when you're put on the spot by Howard Stern? Other comments he's made have shown his deep respect and admiration for her. It's not always easy to talk about an ex and Joe's not necessarily one who wears his heart on his sleeve.

saying he loved someone in the past would in no way reflect on his current love for his wife.....

He has said in the past that while they were together on the road for WH they both were monogamous and clearly he felt that it was a relationship cocooned in that tour. Once the tour ended he went back to his life off the road. But Stevie was gaga about him and wanted to continue it as a deep romance. He clearly wasn't above hooking up with her off and on after that but in between hook ups he wasn't thinking about her and pining for her-- like she was for him. And she herself has said in more recent years that she became "needy" about it all..... clingy. And that made it worse and to me anyway it sounds like he did that thing of thinking "this chick just doesn't get it. Maybe if I treat her even sh&ttier she'll finally just let it go". Coz he really did treat her crappy IMO. And she kept taking it and thinking she could make it better. Maybe drugs made him be even more of a jerk about it, but it seems like a clear case of "he's just not that into you anymore" and she was all in a romantic haze about it. And maybe drugs made her unable to see it for what it was.

She said in a recent quote that she's been with plenty of nice guys who were happy for her success and not bothered by it and not bothered by the fact that she had to go away on tour and all that but she was always more interested in the big, drama relationships. So Joe fit that bill.