You consider 23 old?samueeL wrote:carr:
I think the thing is that people on this forum are too old to care about anyone's personal life. We dig Sum 41's music and that's about it, we don't really dig into their personal lives. You have some good points but also some bullshit. It's been common topic since 2011 here that he seems to drink a lot when it comes to touring and recording. It's been like that since they started out. I'd say 90% of people here are too old to think drinking is somehow cool. It's drinking and that's that. In most cases there hasn't been idolizing, it's been most of criticizing and people saying based on what we see as fans that he seems to drink too much. I don't know why you use some individual posts as your proof when the bigger picture is completely another thing.
We don't really know Deryck personally and we haven't been sitting there at his home with him drinking, so we don't know what goes behind those doors. I though the probably has some parties and drinks then, no idea that it was daily thing. And to be honest it's not really even my business what he does, I'm interested in his job mostly, he can have his personal life for himself and closed ones.
Steve leaving makes a lot of sense family wise. Having young kid and touring for months? Don't you think that makes sense? Of course now we can speculate that might have something to do with Deryck. Also the fact that other band members been together during break and have pics in twitter but Deryck isn't appearing obviously says that there's some kind of problem between them and it might have been the drinking indeed.
I wish Deryck the best. Don't take that one drink. Drink vitamin water and mountain dew instead! It must be hard not to drink after spending the last 15 years touring and drunk but there's good motivation to do that.
It's been common here, yes, that is why people pretending that it wasn't is so mindnumbing. From 2009 on it was obvious that he was a full blown alcoholic. Some people complained about it but is general direction was always received so enthusiastically. From 2009 on he got lost in his own hype and he became so annoyingly predictable.
His private life has been well covered on here, he is no accountant. He doesn't leave work and change personality, his image and stage persona were intertwined.
Maybe I just see more than others, but he has been constantly drunk at every public appearance in the past few years. He didn't even do promo anymore. He was the lead singer and let Stevo do promo duty.
Of course Stevo's family played a factor in his decision to leave but so did D's situation and there have been people who witnessed situations out there and talked about it. But the general opinion on here was not to mention it, that tours were left because of a bad back, Stevo left for his family and apparently paparazzi pictures were photoshopped.
That is some pretty hefty denial, by the way, to assume that a picture taken when he was in a really bad state leaving up to near-fatal organ failure was photoshopped to make him look bad.
I wouldn't advise Vitamin Water and Mountain Dew to anyone but especially not with kidney failure. Deryck can also say goodbye to bananas.
I didn't expect him to live to 40 but Duff McKagan seems to be doing well.
