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Re: (TV) richard comments-on-new-television-song



 
i'm not sure richard can help it.  he's mentally ill.  whatever the name for
it, he's fucked up.  i think he is dealing with forces beyond his control. 
grandiosity, mania...i think he's sick.  talented, but sick.  maybe, in time,
he'll get this under control.  maybe not.  and who knows if anyone, himself
included, really has the means to make a difference in that.
 
who knows whether he does all he can to stay well.  but if not, he's just one
of millions.  it's just that in his case, he has a public forum.  usually,
it's just families, hospitals, and cops dealing with this stuff.
 
 


--- On Wed, 9/28/11, Rex Broome <rexbroome@gmail.com> wrote:



But I do resent Richard's
persistent attempts to cloud our ability to develop those opinions by
relentlessly bashing the efforts of musicians with his bitter screeds.  To
the extent that he has a point, he's gotten it across.  Many times.  He left
Television.  Voluntarily.  If the band's new efforts without him suck,
they're gonna suck whether or not Richard tells us, yet again, that he
invented the band and CBGB and that Tom is bad person or whatever.

Honestly, what other
musician in the world behaves this way?  Did Bill Berry sit around on his
farm composing screed after screed about how bad every R.E.M. record after
his departure was?  I mean, he could have... there were some baaaaaad R.E.M.
records over the last few years.  But when you leave something on your own
terms, that oughta be it.
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