Posted on 06/07/2002 9:27:06 PM PDT by My Favorite Headache
I am posting this thread if anyone cares to add to it. I am a fan of so many different styles of music and the last 24 hours has claimed the lives of 2 men who took part in 2 totally different rock bands during 2 totally different periods of popularity.
The death's of Layne Staley from Alice In Chains was a waste. A total waste of incredible talent, gone forever due to an addiction to heroin. Dee Dee Ramone from the famous punk band The Ramones died of the very same thing a little more than a day ago. Robbin Crosby one of 2 guitarists in the 80s hard rock act RATT died from a long battle with AIDS, attributed from use of a dirty heroin needle.
Robbin was really a great guy. I saw RATT live with him and he was a great performer. He was also responsible for some of the best licks i.e. Round and Round, Wanted Man,Lay It Down, You're In Love,Back For More, Dance, Dance, Dance,Way Cool Jr., What's It Gonna Be? and much more. Hit after hit from Ratt.
He also dated everyone from Heather Locklear (who didn't?), Tawney Kitaen, and various models and actresses. He had such great talent but it all went to hell by way of the needle. A personality to light up a room. Yes a ton of people in here probably have never heard of him and will just call him another heroin junkie rock star who got what he deserved. But Robbin never denied that.
When he was on Geraldo's show about 7 yrs ago...his hands were swollen, he could not even play the guitar anymore and he had been diagnosed with HIV at the time.But he accepted it and also accepted CHRIST. He knew he played russian roulette and lost.
I am not going to gush over this anymore. I just came home from a 12 hour shift at work to have the news sent to me about his passing. I just wanted to recognize his life in some way because his music was something that was just downright...good.
Robbin is up with Christ now and his long and painful battle with AIDS is over.
R.I.P to the both of them.
Oh yeah. I'm sure.
Just one thing, how was the public unwitting? Did they pay for their records before hearing them and then were denied a refund? Did they buy their concert tickets before knowing it was a hard rock band? Were they tricked into a room and then kept there by force to listen to the music?
Ratt had some good songs, but I bought none of the albums nor went to a concert. I just thought in our society if you are doing something legal and someone else will pay you for it that is called capitalism. Isn't that good? I mean, isn't making money the legal way, even if you in particular don't like it, good?
Since the public laid out the cash they were hardly unwitting and it is sad that someone else died because of drug use.
My personal least favorite bs noise is any gangsta rap.
In the 80s, RATT, Quiet Riot, Def Leppard, and Motley Crue were some of the "bands" one could not avoid even with great effort.
A waste? Hardly. They lived freeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeee! Libertarians everywhere are rejoicing on behalf of these heroic corpses--these men who were brave enough to face death nose-to-nose and spit it in the eye.
Well, if one don't get you the other one will.
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