Gregorovich wrote:carr wrote:ChrisC1997 wrote:Carr, ease up dude.
I'm really calm. I've just read this forum for a long time and it was almost comical to see how most members tried to deny what was going on with him while idolizing his lifestyle which is quite the cognitive ability!
And come on, having a profile picture of Deryck drinking and acting surprised when he is suffering what seems like cirrhosis is being hilariously unaware.
But that's completely untrue. You saw a couple of posts which indicated that those people weren't concerned with the health risks of the amount of drinking he did, and suddenly the entire forum is 'romanticising' and 'idolising' his lifestyle. There have been about 10 posts on this forum in the past year, so it wouldn't be too much to ask for you go to back and find a handful of examples of us acting like Deryck is some sort of rock 'n' roll god for the amount of drinking he does.
I also think it's important to note that, as many others have said, it's pretty common (if still a little disconcerting) to see musicians drinking that much while on tour/in the public spotlight. But none of us had any way of knowing that heavy drinking was a daily occurrence at home. Hell, I know plenty of very heavy drinkers who have never come close to any kind of severe organ damage because their drinking is not sustained like Deryck has only just revealed his was.
This has been going on for more than six years and Sum 41 were basically known as the stupid drunk party band before that. That was their whole shtick. All of you loved it when Stevo got drunk. Their entire webseries when they released Underclass Hero was playing on their hard drinking.
Deryck has done nothing in the past years but orchestrating the dark, drinking rock star image and people on here ate it up. Just look at all the Jack Daniels signatures, the 'awesome drunk Deryck is burning up his guitar' the general 'Deryck is just doing his thing' posts. There is nothing cool about his collection of empty Jack Daniels bottles but most people here thought so. Once in a while somebody was 'worried' but most of the time people just thought Deryck was funny and awesome. Not once did somebody say how completely sad and pathetic Deryck living up the cliched rock star life was. When that radio interview was released I said that I was so tired of it and people didn't understand the problem.
I remember a specific reply that celebrated Deryck for "going hard" with the person lamenting that he was boring and working a nine to five job and not boozing everyday. From the documentary about making the last album, to the clip about his 30th birthday party, to all the updates in which he was drunk, to all the recent incidents to the rumors, the interviews in which he was fucked up and the recent pictures nobody ever talked about how pathetic he was.
Deryck was drunk and took to the part time hobby of spinning guns and giving himself a black eye for god's sake.
Which is why some of you complain about people being 'mean' when you look at online comments about Deryck as has happened when the pictures at the Petty concert were released. He looked like death warmed over and everyone saw it except people here.
In the last interview he was completely gone. I dared to say something about how the interviewer talked about how there was always a 'bottle of Jack' open whenever he visited Deryck at his house. And was shut down. I understand that people were excited about him talking about working on new music but mostly people focused on that and not on what was actually going on.
You all saw how Deryck pushed his bandmembers away in the recent years and started to hang out with a bunch of kids ten years his junior trying to make it big and hanging on to his fame. No word about that.
It was obvious why the tours got canceled, why Stevo left. I posted something here from a crew member working at a venue they had played, taking pictures of the tape made red arrows they put on the stage so that out of his mind drunk Deryck would be able to find backstage after the show. I posted reports of people who were at the tour and talked about how Deryck had lost it, but had too much money and too many enablers in his life to stop. Billy Talent talking about Deryck. People working behind the scenes who talked about how Deryck left the tour in the middle of the night, people working on Warped Tour who talked how the band used his bad back as an excuse when the band dropped out of the tour due to his alcoholism.
I posted countless pictures of Deryck trying to hide his bloated face when taking pictures with fans.
I tried to bring up the topic in my very last post, bringing up how the band members all spend time with each other but not with Deryck.
I was continually shut down by people talking about how Deryck was just fine, how Stevo just wanted to be with his family, how Deryck was photographed from a bad angle, how he was a little bloated due to medication, how his back was the problem.
There are interviews from a few years ago where Deryck was shaking and there was a general attitude here of how all of that was just funny and cool and he was just living the life most people couldn't.
