ohsherrie wrote:But now that it's Frig's and Fro's characters and motives that are being picked apart and stomped on we should just get over what they did to Jeff two weeks ago?
Personally, I think it's very easy for people that are either cursed with the ability to seperate the musician from the character...or those that are unwiling to look at the truth.
If you're someone that can actually look at a musician (*especially* someone that writes these songs) and say "the way they conduct themselves IRL should have no bearing...it's still good music and they're still great players" You're lucky. Wait, I don't really mean that. To be able to seperate this isn't good fortune...it's really bad fortune for you as the listener.... because then you're not getting everything you can out of the music....and I sincerely mean that. To be able to feel the emotion of a guitar solo like Whos Cryin Now or to really get the desperation in Perrys voice on any given song, you have to believe that they as people EMOTE the emotion in their music....and for you to believe that they are emoting, you need to believe there's an intrinsic good in the person behind that emotion...because without any of those elements, it's just brush strokes on a kanvas, nothing more nothing less. So I feel sorry for the people that seem to be able to seperate their actions from their music. Because you're not getting ALL the music. You're just pulling a smattering of qualities out of it that you like...but you're not GETTING it. The day you start hearing music emoted to you...you will find it next to impossible to seperate the man from the music. A good musician channels the emotion to you through the music. If you know the musician on the other end is not genuine, how on earth can you have an emotional connection with the song?!?! It's impossible!
As for those that are unwilling to look at the truth, you are either subject to the above musician/music disconnect....or you're simply lost from reality that you refuse to see that the people that wrote all these songs that stamped your life, were liars, frauds and frankly, full of shit. If you're unwilling to see the truth...and at the same time, do not have this flaw of being able to seperate art from the artist....then you'll never see the light. Fucka and Fro are *hoping* that there's enough of you out there to support them and their allimony checks....even in light of the mass exodus of fans that do see music as it should...and have since walked away from the band.
To a great deal of us...it's not a case of "Moving On"....Anger will eventually fade...and some of us might be able to actually stomach a journey song here or there in the future. But the fact of the matter is that the band's legacy is shattered...completely. The band's magic, has not faded. It's all out been cast aside.....
To anyone that feels the band can retain any of that, after the actions of the past 6 years....you and the band deserve eachother....and I'm expecting someone to take offense to that. Go ahead....the fact of the matter is that if you are willing to let the wool get pulled over your eyes by Fro and Friga.....you deserve to have your wallets sucked dry by them.
It's not a case of "Moving On" unless you mean "moving away".
This band is dead to me...and so many other fans. We're just still very angry that it had to die this way instead of respectfully and gracefully....