Mike Starr of Alice in Chains Dies

[massphatness]

How did a discussion about the passing of an influential musician degenerate into what brand of kicks or musical genres were/are/will be popular?

The guy died ... just my opinion, but if someone didn't care for his music, please consider being respectful and pass on by or refrain from posting something that could be seen as denigrating the man.

RIP Mike Starr

[icehog3]

Originally Posted by massphatness

How did a discussion about the passing of an influential musician degenerate into what brand of kicks or musical genres were/are/will be popular?

The guy died ... just my opinion, but if someone didn't care for his music, please consider being respectful and pass on by or refrain from posting something that could be seen as denigrating the man.

RIP Mike Starr

This is the real question. Someone starts a tribute thread for someone who just died, and you come in here to start shitting on his genre of music? Can't you see how this would be offensive to the people who might choose to post in this thread? Like if I went into a Troops Support thread and said something insulting or denegrating about the military?

Maybe it's not your opinion, but rather your choice of venue that is offensive to some of the people here....and I don't need to use the "shocked face", because we have all seen this story before.

[Stephen]

Originally Posted by icehog3

This is the real question. Someone starts a tribute thread for someone who just died, and you come in here to start shitting on his genre of music? Can't you see how this would be offensive to the people who might choose to post in this thread? Like if I went into a Troops Support thread and said something insulting or denegrating about the military?

Maybe it's not your opinion, but rather your choice of venue that is offensive to some of the people here....and I don't need to use the "shocked face", because we have all seen this story before.

Well said sir, well said.

[poker]

Originally Posted by icehog3

This is the real question. Someone starts a tribute thread for someone who just died, and you come in here to start shitting on his genre of music? Can't you see how this would be offensive to the people who might choose to post in this thread? Like if I went into a Troops Support thread and said something insulting or denegrating about the military?

Maybe it's not your opinion, but rather your choice of venue that is offensive to some of the people here....and I don't need to use the "shocked face", because we have all seen this story before.

And that my friends pretty much sums it up.

Originally Posted by icehog3

rather your choice of venue that is offensive to some of the people here....

A sympathy thread for someone who tried to capitalize on their drug addiction by a reality show?

Sympathy for someone who's only "claim to fame" was LEAVING A BAND EIGHTEEN YEARS AGO?

Gimme a break. I have more sympathy for the bugs on my windshield than any drug addict that pisses their life away or suck starts a shotgun.

Some of you act like you knew the guy personally. Please.

Another dead drug addict. Darwin's Theory of Natural Selection.

The former Alice in Chains bassist, who was found dead in his Salt Lake City home Tuesday, made a desperate plea for drugs shortly before he died.

"If you could score me an eighth, quarter ounce, half ounce or bud or whatever," Starr said to an unidentified friend in a voice mail message obtained by TMZ.com.

"I need it so bad," the musician pleaded before hanging up.

Yeah. We're supposed to feel SORRY for this guy?

[markem]

Originally Posted by tobii3

A sympathy thread for someone who tried to capitalize on their drug addiction by a reality show?

Sympathy for someone who's only "claim to fame" was LEAVING A BAND EIGHTEEN YEARS AGO?

Gimme a break. I have more sympathy for the bugs on my windshield than any drug addict that pisses their life away or suck starts a shotgun.

Some of you act like you knew the guy personally. Please.

Another dead drug addict. Darwin's Theory of Natural Selection.

and yet, here you are doing everything in your power to somehow seem more relevant than Mike Starr but every time you come up short. How sad for you.