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Inherited or genetic or fluke of nature since birth, I'd agree. I believe that is called Type 1.
Getting fat, eating carbs and processed garbage and sodas for life has a very stiff price. Treating those folks who abuse the heck out of their bodies and pancreas and wreck their insulin control system is very lucrative. It is almost as if the official "food guidelines" and sugar in everything at the supermarket was made to cause this and feed an industry....besides sugar being very addictive.
If cure = giving someone a magic pill that allows them to abuse their bodies for life then I agree, their is no cure.
If cure = teach people how to eat LCHF, take care of themselves, AND they actually follow such a lifestyle change then Type 2 can be stopped and/or reversed.
It's not my profession so I have nothing to lose except friends and loved-ones who refuse to change what they put in their mouths.
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Didn’t the bassist for Bon Jovi get canned for *messing up* the songs??? I mean....lol...bad career move to not spend the 5 minutes a year required to expertly play that repertoire
Yeah from the interviews and documentary footage i have seen, they hazed him pretty badly, like throwing pie in his face on stage, and it was also during hetfield's alcoholism issues and ulrich was always just ulrich. Plus newsted wanted ti have side projects and metallica wasn't happy about that. All in all i think everyone won on the newsted- trujillo switch.
I don’t think retaining Lemmy would have made them a household name by the end of the decade; they were destined to be a cult act forever, their iconic stuff had already been recorded by 1975(although “Strangeness Quark and Charm” had its moments). It worked out for Lemmy, though.
Billy Squier's Rock Me Tonight video.
The question remains, what constitutes a ‘bad career move’? Look at Genesis, for example. At the time, people thought Peter Gabriel was nuts for bailing, but in the end he was crazy like a fox. I think he had a 6th sense that what the band was doing was going to be passé before too long, and he had other artistic avenues to persue. It took him a while, but he got a whole new direction going, and eventually hit paydirt. Steve Hackett, on the other hand, blew it by moving on a little prematurely. But I’m sure he wouldn’t have been too happy with the “Then There Were Three”/"Abacab" type material. The old prog era fans weren’t too keen on it either, but Collins, Banks, and Rutherford had their payday.
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How about when Hanoi Rocks’ drummer went for a ride with Vince Neil? In general, there are plenty of situations where someone quitting a band made for that band going on to bigger things. Had that person not moved on, would that band have gotten anywhere? Sometimes someone has to be sacrificed, to a certain extent. As talented as Terry Reid is, Led Zeppelin would not have been the same or taken off the way they did with him. He’s not bitter, he’s placed his songs with enough people to earn an income, he’s still alive. He and Page could have butted heads, and LZ could have been a two album footnote.
Yeh but he (Bolin) cranked on Billy Cobham’s Spectrum album, and I am seeing BC soon because of that. I know, so what...
insists he's never regretted it. i've talked to him. i believe him.
I honestly think Terry Reid just felt that he wasn't a good fit at the time for either band (or in the case of Zep a fledgling band). That said, I wonder how his wallet feels about it these days.
Not surprising. Rickenbacker has a history of reluctance to change, not adapting to times, innovation, quality standards, etc.
word. read about how he got dosed with drugs, etc,
yeah, really a drag about Cozy. Jeff Beck was lucky to be alive after his wreck.
Speaking of Terry Reid, here is Alan White (later known for his playing with Yes) doing some serious prep work before he starts playing drums with Terry Reid at an ancient Glastonbury Festival circa 1971.
Gene Clark, of the original Byrds lineup, left the band over his fear of flying when they were still a fairly commercially viable act; even though he continued to produce some amazing songs throughout the 70’s, little of it was heard by a large audience as he continually shot himself in the foot with his contrary nature, alcoholism, insecurity, and general missed opportunities. ‘Fear of Success’ can be a bitch.
you are so right. he's gone but immortalized on an unforgettable landmark piece of music - Spectrum.
