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What's so great about Lemmy?

#23
danesdad said:
My dad: You cant get drunk every day and expect to have any kind of life.

Lemmy: Hold my beer.
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Lemmy signed CD's at my company's booth at a trade show once - black sharpie on Black CD's, it was absolutely a Spinal Tap moment. While a lot of folks glamorize his lifestyle, seeing it up close had the opposite effect on me. Keeping a bunch of your fans waiting a couple hours because you're not yet able to function (it was mid afternoon), and seeing how beat up and old he looked (he wasn't THAT old at the time), I want no part of that.
 
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micguy said:
Lemmy signed CD's at my company's booth at a trade show once - black sharpie on Black CD's, it was absolutely a Spinal Tap moment. While a lot of folks glamorize his lifestyle, seeing it up close had the opposite effect on me. Keeping a bunch of your fans waiting a couple hours because you're not yet able to function (it was mid afternoon), and seeing how beat up and old he looked (he wasn't THAT old at the time), I want no part of that.
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Like you've never had a hangover?
 
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Michedelic said:
Like you've never had a hangover?
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There's a difference between someone who had a couple too many drinks the night before (as an exception to their normal behavior), and someone for who it's a lifestyle. In his case, that was pretty easy to discern.

I've had one or two hangovers in the last decade, none in the last 5 years. Alcohol was something I did while young; I grew out of it.
 
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micguy said:
There's a difference between someone who had a couple too many drinks the night before (as an exception to their normal behavior), and someone for who it's a lifestyle. In his case, that was pretty easy to discern.

I've had one or two hangovers in the last decade, none in the last 5 years. Alcohol was something I did while young; I grew out of it.
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How sanctimonious of you.
It's been said, "never meet your heroes", and I've had encounters, casually and professionally, with people I've admired, and then people I didn't particularly care about one way or another, and reactions have been a mixed bag, with them being sober and lubed up. I've been disappointed by people whose posters were on my wall as a kid, and pleasantly surprised by those who I knew very little about. I've even bought Lemmy a pre-gig drink(as if he needed it), just a token of appreciation, and he was cordial but guarded; I get it. Jon Anderson of Yes was a totally indifferent snot at an in-store meet'n'greet, when he should have been on his best behavior, and this was after I conveyed best wishes from my girlfriend, who had worked on a project with him. Every particular social situation has its own dynamics.
 
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Michedelic said:
How sanctimonious of you.
It's been said, "never meet your heroes", and I've had encounters, casually and professionally, with people I've admired, and then people I didn't particularly care about one way or another, and reactions have been a mixed bag, with them being sober and lubed up. I've been disappointed by people whose posters were on my wall as a kid, and pleasantly surprised by those who I knew very little about. I've even bought Lemmy a pre-gig drink(as if he needed it), just a token of appreciation, and he was cordial but guarded; I get it. Jon Anderson of Yes was a totally indifferent snot at an in-store meet'n'greet, when he should have been on his best behavior, and this was after I conveyed best wishes from my girlfriend, who had worked on a project with him. Every particular social situation has its own dynamics.
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Totally agree.



You don't know what's going on day to day with a person, so it's best to give them the doubt.


I met Jon before a show, he didn't know me or anyone with me, but treated us like long lost relatives.
 
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micguy said:
There's a difference between someone who had a couple too many drinks the night before (as an exception to their normal behavior), and someone for who it's a lifestyle. In his case, that was pretty easy to discern.

I've had one or two hangovers in the last decade, none in the last 5 years. Alcohol was something I did while young; I grew out of it.
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Careful up there, would hate to see you break a leg if you fell off that high horse.
 
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RandalPinkFloyd said:
Careful up there, would hate to see you break a leg if you fell off that high horse.
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micguy said:
It's not that at all - most of the folks I know would be able to say the same thing. I'm not special, its just what happnes to most of us as we grow a bit older.
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But you're looking down on him for his lifestyle though. It's fine that you don't want that lifestyle, no issue there. Nothing wrong with not wanting or being unable to drink or smoke or whatever you want to do. But to look down on someone who can and chooses to and say something like "I grew out of it." That's absurd. What is it with people making up arbitrary rules like that? Putting boundaries on your life due to age? Again, If you can't, that's one thing, but to decide that you're too old, there's the issue. We get one life, that's it. In a world full of rules and regulations, imaginary lines etc, why create more rules? Who says you have to stop doing something when you hit a certain age?
 
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micguy said:
That's my point precisely - most folks want to do something with their lives. Lemmy could have done even more if he weren't weighed down with his baggage.
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I don't see how Lemmy could have done more with his life than he did.
He lived exactly as he wanted to
Made no compromises, kissed no ones ass along the way.
As far as I'm concerned, he
won
 
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RandalPinkFloyd said:
But you're looking down on him for his lifestyle though. It's fine that you don't want that lifestyle, no issue there. Nothing wrong with not wanting or being unable to drink or smoke or whatever you want to do. But to look down on someone who can and chooses to and say something like "I grew out of it." That's absurd. What is it with people making up arbitrary rules like that? Putting boundaries on your life due to age? Again, If you can't, that's one thing, but to decide that you're too old, there's the issue. We get one life, that's it. In a world full of rules and regulations, imaginary lines etc, why create more rules? Who says you have to stop doing something when you hit a certain age?
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Have whatever lifestyle you want. Butbif your choice is going to be getting hammered every night, don't book yourself for a meet n greet mid day.

Wanna get blitzed? I suppose I can't judge. But if I paid money to meet you, you need to livenup to your obligations and he there, at least half awake.

He wasn't a jerk for getting drunk. He was a jerk for getting drunk when he knew he had obligations the next day.

See the difference? If you don't I can't help you.
 
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