Maybe he needs to revisit some of the later steps - he's got a reminder every night of the tour.
Yep. Whatever happened to "kindness - it's not that hard", "self-restraint of tongue and pen" and "willingness to understand?"
Have you never heard the hidden bonus track on the Vietnamese import CD of BC&SL?
It's an epilogue to the 12 steps called "XIII - Ah, Screw It" where the person just decides to ignore everything they just went through and go back to abusing people.
I thought he has handled the post DT situation poorly for almost 7 years now but that hasn't stopped me from enjoying some of the stuff he's done since. But things like this is just making it hard for me to want to support his endeavors going forward even thought I had little to no interest in the Shattered Fortress stuff to begin with.
I used to think like this but I just can't excuse his attitude any longer. I'm really starting to hate the guy and I'm not thrilled about that.
Every once in a while a thread pops up where someone asks if our enjoyment of artists is diminished if their character/morals/etc are questionable (ie. they're dicks). Some people say it does, others say it doesn't, but I'm in the "it does" category. I just cannot support a-holes and the worst part is, even if I want to support other members (ie. Billy Sheehan and Richie Kotzen) the terrible attitude of one person affects them also... at least in my book.
Love all the judgment (NOT). LaBrie went out of his way to bash Mike when the breakup happened (calling him a control freak; claiming what he did in the band wasn't that special or hard; that the band would each take up the slack and do all that Mike did; saying that the real front man could be a front man now; etc.). They also were at each others throats for years before. Why this is all of a sudden a huge deal is beyond me.
I'll cherry-pick this first paragraph.
So, when MP left cuz DT called him out on his BS, James may have said something *possibly* negative? So you're saying he's *not* a control freak? And in all these years since MP left he's taken every opportunity to trash DT and DT "fans" and SPECIFICALLY JL and be truly negative and abusive whereas DT has kept quiet and tried to move on but MP, who left, is somehow a victim in all this? So one or two things that *may* be interpreted as negative towards MP is somehow NOT ok but you give MP, who left, with all the trash he has said over the years a free pass?
This is what should be beyond you, man, seriously. It's like those Youtube videos where the bully is being filmed by their buddies who keep taunting their prey who then proceeds to smash the face of the bully and then all of a sudden the friends of the bully are screaming bloody murder and call the cops and all that junk. MP is the bully who keeps talking trash and people just blindly defend him and say the prey is at-fault when they clearly aren't.
O_o
What we don't see is James continually opening up old wounds like Mike does. Mike needs to let it go and he can't.
It's on Mike.
But he doesn't hold grudges and he's just being honest and doesn't want any more drama so leave Mikey alone!