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So... then it's ok for him to be a complete asshole because he's been an addict and famous?Steinmetzify":xfc5l0hb said:I dunno man.....for me, he wasn't the be all end all like he is for some of you; I'm a lot younger than people that saw him in 1985....but I respect the hell out of him.
Dude has gone thru more alcohol and drugs than most other 10 people ever will.....that's gotta fuck with your memory and your brains. I know for a fact as a recovering addict myself that there are things I don't remember or remember differently than the sober (or at least more sober) people that were there.
Not to mention the fact that if you play guitar in one of the biggest rock bands the world has ever seen, and you're the biggest innovator/guitar influence in the world for a certain generation since Jimi fuckin Hendrix, you're going to be used to a certain type of attention or deference from people and eventually, you're going to act and think accordingly about yourself, because everyone tells you to, constantly, for decades.
I think it'd take a man of an indescribable amount of integrity to be who EVH is, have gone through everything he has, and still be the guy you all want him to be. He's a human being, just like us. No one is perfect all the time, or even 20% of the time. I think it's a little bit ridiculous to expect him to be so, just because of who he is to you, or who you think he should be.
I'm in....I still read all his articles, I play his gear (which is fantastic, BTW, as I'm sure many of you know) and his sig guitars are fuckin awesome for me for everything from blues to the most brutal metal I play.
I'm not his biggest fan and I know that, but I'm still going to be fucking devastated when the day comes that I wake up, fire a smoke, hit RT and see that he died. It'll be the end of someone that was an influence on me before I even played guitar and has been there the entire time I've learned and grown as a musician.
Just thoughts after reading the article and then the thread.
Steve