I’m so going to hell for this one… But like laughing at retarded people, sometimes you just can’t help it. I’ve been hearing about original Guns N’ Roses drummer Steven Adler’s ‘performance’ on the new season of Celebrity Rehab (I don’t feel like Googling it, but I assume it’s another VH1 reality show with a self-explanatory premise). Ripped out of his fucking mind, with half his face numb from a stroke or something, he cries to Dr. Drew about how he just wants to be friends with Slash again.
I finally got around to hitting YouTube, and you know what… It’s not really that funny. It’s sad. The obvious question had crossed my mind: Is it worth some commentary on Antiquiet? And, well, by itself, no it isn’t. But there’s been so much talk about it- maybe not on music sites, but around the nation’s water coolers, and on the radio- yet, Steven Adler was not the biggest human spectacle this week. At least not in my opinion. Check out these two competing disasters that Johnny dug up, and tell us what you think.
First up is Bill Cosby on ESPN. I’m from Philadelphia, and I often forget I’m white. I wasn’t really into the Cosby show, but I grew up watching Picture Pages and Fat Albert, and listening to Bill Cosby’s records (at least before discovering Richard Pryor). So naturally, I’m a fan. But once again, I’ve got to call out one of my heroes: What the fuck is wrong with Bill Cosby? What’s that about… chitlin legs?
Next up… American politics have become nothing more or less than the most fucked up consumer craze ever. Everyone has gone completely fucking scary psycho over it. While celebrities are threatening to leave the country if McCain gets elected, I want to leave the planet every time I see a fucking Prius covered in Obama bumper stickers or a minivan covered in Yes On Prop 8 ones. ”Vote Or Die” wasn’t shit compared to the hype surrounding this year’s election. To me, it smells like the VMAs; an insipid, meaningless circle jerk, sold as the event of the century, while delivering nothing. I’ll head down to the polls next week to chime in on state propositions that will affect my life, but McCain and Obama both suck ass, and I’m fucking tired of completely uninformed ignorant sycophants telling me to vote and giving me fucking stickers. The only candidate capable of changing a goddamn thing is Paris Hilton, and I swear to you I would vote for her if I could.
Anyway, here’s a video of Scott Weiland promoting his new album. By telling people to vote. God, it makes me want to blow my brains out. I don’t know who thought this up, but if American Idol was as big as the election right now, that same person would have his or her hand up Scott’s ass, and he’d be telling you how important and patriotic it is to call in on Tuesday.
Good God, what’s with the editing? There’s a cut after every single word! It looks like one of those parody videos, where some dude makes George W. Bush rap Straight Outta Compton or some shit by cutting a million single words and syllables out of miles of campaign speech footage and rearranging them. This is worse than that Phil Anselmo interview, and if you ask me, it’s sadder than Adler and Cosby put together, because unlike Weiland, at least they know what the hell they’re talking about- even if noone else does.
Damn…. as much as I want to say something in jest, it’s past the point of humour and is kinda heartbreaking Mr Adler’s now being trotted out as some sad carnival freakshow. It’s only fun to live fast if you die young.
As for Scott W, somebody just slap him, please. Hard.
Well, Cosby’s just old.
is that steven adlers real voice or is he just trashed. i mean, did his voice get all mongo’d out like that because of the stroke or what?
did everyone see that video of the cork getting knocked out by that brother on nothing toxic? great footage.
Steven Adler, Scott Weiland and Phil Anselmo aint got nothin on Ozzy Osbourne.
[...] better off the junk. I’ve got no idea if he’s actually dropped the needle or not, and this recent Rock The Vote PSA seems to indicate the latter. But Galoshes has the presentation and even keel of a stone sober [...]
Why the hell is everyone so hard on Weiland!? He’s undeniabley one of the most talented singers/lyricists of the last 20 years. His new solo album is so good it should be illegal!!! Anyone that can pull off the blasphemous act of covering Bowie’s, “Fame”; The Smith’s, “Reel Around the Fountain”, and Paloalto’s “Some Things must Go this Way”, and have the audacity to do it on a the dreaded kiss of death, “DOUBLE CD”!? Well Weiland NAILS it all. The sound he’s come up with is the most original, and creative approach I’ve heard by any musician’s anywhere NEAR the eye of the main-stream in a LONG LONG time. Maybe since Lou Reed pissed on the System. I don’t know of too many other artist’s that are using xylophone’s, accordian’s, mellotron, banjo, and progammed drum beats all in the course of one album, let alone one song like Scott does. I’ve never heard anyone combine Country, Folk, New Wave Alternative, R&B, Elements of Gospel, even a combination STP/VR rager called “Hyper-Fuzz-Funny-Car”.
And for the record, Weiland has been off the needle for 7 years as of December 5th. No, I’m not his mother, wife, child, or anyone else that would know for sure, but I do know enough that I can tell he’s off the needle. Look at pictures of him now, compared to pictures of him during the 1998 Solo Show’s. He’s hitting the bottle a bit. Big deal. Most of us do. I know it’s rathre contadictory in nature, but if drinking keeps him off smack as he’s claimed (and apparently backed up, there’s been no wavering in his “clean date” in various interviews over the years), then drink up. Just don’t drive! Weiland isn’t anymore of a piece of shit than most of the people on here if you want to judge people by their vice of choice. So what, he got drunk at the AMA’S. Who could tolerate that garbage sober anyway!? He admitted to TMZ or whatever that yeah, he still drinks alcohol. You can even see it in the weight he’s put back on. While still very slender, he’s not a human skeleton anymore, some of the roundness has returned to his face. So by looking at the guy you can tell he’s off smack and on booze. I’ll say this much, I’ve seen him in concert a whole bunch of times, in all his incarnations (STP/VR/Solo ‘98), and until this past summer @ the STP reunion tour, I’d never really seen a genuine smile from Scott onstage. Both show’s I attended this summer he was in a fantastic mood. ESPECIALLY at the Virgin Mobile Fest in baltimore. he kicked ass, and he was “Happy”. How many people kick smack??? Not many… especially as addicted as Scott was. So I think the man deserves the kudo’s for “getting with the program” (the American Program, American Way…not the N.A./A.A. Program), and sticking to the booze. So he’s managed to stay off heroin, even though his wife bailed on him, his brother OD’d and his mom battled Breast Cancer all in the last couple years. Add the VR fiasco to that, and the fact that he was in a band with Slash using Oxycontin, Sorum using Coke, Meth, and Heroin, and Duff using Xanax. Actually I should’ve said ABUSING. Yet Scott towed the line. But who got thrown under the bus as the junkie when he QUIT the band and they fired him two weeks later lmao!? SCOTT was the junkie. And let me end this by saying, Layne Staley is another king among men in the music world, in my eyes. I can’t tell you how many time’s I’ve read or heard people say, “Damn, why did Layne have to die while this loser Weiland is still running around loaded”?? Well one GLARING difference between Layne & Scott is this – Layne more or less retired. He would’ve NEVER been what he was. Not taking that much time off, losing his teeth, the whole 9 yards. No matter Scott’s situation, he has consistently been a working musician turning out hit’s and touring around the world. So yeah, Scott could’ve died, Layne could’ve lived his hermit lifestyle, never leaving his condo, and everyone would’ve been a winner, eh!? So can it with the “It should’ve been Scott not Layne” crap… At least Scott’s still a fairly productive member of society (as far as ex-junkie celeb’s go). If it’s not apparent to you all as well, that MAYBE, QUITE possibly, Weiland is ADHD!? Maybe that’s why he stammers and has a hard time grabbing the words he wants and constructing them in an eloquent statement. The guy sure has it when he writes the lyrics, so he’s not that burnt, and he’s not on smack. A little Alcohol, a little ADHD, and you’ll “Ummmm” & “Uhhhhhh” your way through a conversation… BEEN THERE… (Can ya tell!? lol) Peace & Rock the holdiays everyone.
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