Why didn' they go crazy from fame and fortune?
>>128283972> dude in the middle not crazy? ... uh, bro> dude on the left literally almost downed an airplane having a crazy fit.>i'll give you dude on right. but he was just happy that being in a popular rock band saved him from nerd inceldom.
>>128283972because they are great songwriters. It was a big deal when they left IRS records and signed a huge deal -- the biggest ever at the tyime for an "indie" band. But they just kept on cranking out big hits and good records.
>>128284044Relatively tame compared to most shit musicians get into it. And how is Stipe crazy? He seems like a pretty chill guy.
>>128284680Instead of having sex with women like God intended, he takes dick in the same hole that he expels feces from.
>>128284264It was in 1998 that I first became aware of the IRS, and I must admit that I felt somewhat betrayed to discover that the label had been funded by the CIA. The sense of intellectual rebellion that characterized the "college rock" movement was a notable aspect of the genre, setting it apart from the conventional punk scene. Bands such as Hüsker Dü, R.E.M. and Fugazi exemplified the genre's ability to provide a sense of validation for the political anxieties (Reaganism and exacerbated neolib policies most specifically) experienced by many young people, offering a genuine source of concern. That is why songs like "Exhuming McCarthy" (political persecution and state corruption) and "The Flowers of Guatemala" (Mayan genocide instigated by the US government) held some significance for us in that era. But don’t mind me, I’m just a old and bored librarian. LOL
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>>128284680> relatively tamegoing nuts on a plane is arguably one of the biggest transgressions any rock star ever did. i mean throwing tv's off the hotel balcony is unruly, but nobody's going to die.the only reason it never became a big story is because nobody in mainstream culture really knew who alt rock stars were in the 80's. they might have knew who bono was, but not the guitarist for r.e.m.
>>128283972>Why didn't they go crazy from fame and fortune?You say that with a pic without their drummer who had enough of the craziness and left
R-E-M guitarist Peter Buck was charged on Saturday night with criminal damage, being drunk on an aircraft, two counts of common assault on air crew and one public order offence following an incident on a British Airways flight.The 44-year-old rock star was arrested at Heathrow Airport in London on Saturday morning as he got off flight BA 048 from Seattle.He will appear at Uxbridge Magistrates Court in London on Monday.Scotland Yard says police were waiting for him at Heathrow airport after the crew on the British Airways Flight radioed them.Paul Parry, a British Airways spokesman, says no one was injured.The cabin crew members involved were a man and a woman.R-E-M are due to play at the South Africa Freedom Day Concert in London's Trafalgar Square on Sunday April 29 in front of Nelson Mandela and a 20-thousand-strong crowd.
This is the perfect time of the year for some R.E.M.
NO DON-https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=hkk-N4Fuln8
>>128285440What the FUCK was his problem?
>>128285315He left because he had a brain aneurysm on stage.
>>128284680Despite the homosexual population being more predisposed to mental illness, homosexual rock singers seem to be more stable than hetero ones. A mysterious phenomenon that warrants further study.
>>128285391>At the ensuing trial in London, Buck's defense claimed that the moderate amount of wine he had drunk had reacted adversely with the brand of sleeping pill he was taking and rendered him unable to control his actions. The prosecution argued that he was simply intoxicated from supposedly consuming 15 glasses of wine. After the trial, which included testimony from Bono, the lead singer of the Irish rock band U2, Buck was cleared on the grounds of non-insane automatism.>>128285041>the only reason it never became a big story is because nobody in mainstream culture really knew who alt rock stars were in the 80'sit happened in 2001, not in the '80s.April 2001. Imagine if he did that shit right after 9/11.
>>128283972Already was crazy. "think about direction wonder why you haven't before"Yeah uh. What was that one about again?
>>128285041>throwing tv's off the hotel balcony is unruly, but nobody's going to dieYoure shit at trolling
