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.
And I would like to add to that list: Cyndi Lauper, Yoko Ono, all rap artists, and all latin artists (Enrique Iglesias excepted).
I am wondering if people with AIDS should be quarantined. Crosby shouldn't have been shooting up, but he might still be alive today if the person who gave it to him was separated from the rest of society.
I mean, there in NO CURE for it, and the victims of it die in pretty horrible ways. I would hate to see the virus mutate so it can be passed on easier, like through the air.
You're more socailly liberal(I don't mean that as a flame) than me. I love R&R Animal ...I remember it very very well...summer 1974. I still have it on CD. Steve Hunter of Alice Cooper played guitar on it. But the lyrics are not something I would encourage on my kids. My folks didn't have a clue I was living in a haze myself then. I do.
Short answer is that the house has always been full of music and books, and I don't think the little woman and I have "forced" anything on Squirt -- except by example of hard work, respect for property rights, and not making life bad for his fellow humans unless they deserve it.
I'm modestly proud of the kid. Gets great marks, studies hard without being told and is fiercely competitive. He's also the one kid in his class to have nominated Ronald Reagan as America's greatest president (we live in New York, where liberals are a plague upon the ground), so I guess the habit of right-thinking from us.
But as to the esteem in which he holds AC/DC, it's not a passion -- like his current taste for Eminem and lyrics about ghetto life -- but he likes 'em all right. So I don't know if his tastes are nature or nurture, but I reckon it's a bit of both.
"It's a long to the shop when you want a sausage roll."
I can understand the verboten appeal -- after all, that was why I grew my hair, dressed in opportunity shop suits and went out of my way to annoy my elders when I was Squirt's age.
The hard part to understand is why he can't "rebel" in a way I approve of. Whenever I gripe to my own dad, he just starts laughing his head off, muttering something about "the sins of the father being visited uppon the son." And then he laughs even harder and tells me I deserve some grief for all the agita I gave him.
I like all kinds of music myself. I just recently burned a CD with about five rap tracks, twelve rock tracks, and two old motown tracks...
Yeah, somebody really ought to pass a law. Oh wait...
RATT was great music for people who didn't take music too seriously. Which it really shouldn't, IMO.
None of your or my buisness how anyone else lives or dies. I don't cheer or mourn anyone who dies from drugs. I simply mind my own beeswax.
Only if you CHOOSE to injest them.
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