Rockstar INXS

**PocketPlayer** · July 17th, 2005, 12:47 AM

Funk baby...I goeth backeth to Dr Dong...change that thing before he pole vaults into the ceiling!

--homo the brave
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**five eight** · July 17th, 2005, 09:33 AM

Chris, I can tune in to that wave length but isn't the cattle call equally demeaning? 30 seconds and "Next!" The only difference is this one is televised as entertainment AND the network is not only housing, but feeding and watering those jokers for the duration as well! It's a rock music show and I'm a rock musician and for the price of turning on my TV I can be entertained for a few minutes.

No sin, no stigma, no sickness.

Many bands have replaced a bandmember and ascended to higher levels of fame. AC/DC had great success with a replacement singer who wasn't half the vocalist their original was.

INXS is the topic however and Michael Hutchence was a brilliant singer who made understated whispered vocals his purview instead of bellowing them out like every other rocker on the seven continents. Forensics ruled his November 1997 death a suicide, not auto-erotic asphyxiation. Hutchence took Prozac for the last two years of his life and was depressed over an upcoming custody battle. An analysis report of the deceased's blood indicated the presence of alcohol, cocaine, Prozac and other prescription drugs.

Death before one's time, especially with all the grimy details in bold type in Rolling Stone, is always tragic.

It's tough to fault INXS (or Dave Navarro) for taking television up on the comeback idea. CBS approached them with checkbook in hand, not the other way around. INXS, Dave and CBS are bound to make huge dividends whether a comeback is successful or not.

Furthermore the respect attendant with being on a weekly TV series with its rewards of sex and money and reinvigorated fame would be extremely difficult for any rational unemployed musician to turn down.

In light of those facts I wouldn't want to be the one to cast the first stone.

I'm voting for Heather. [img]graemlins/thumbs_up.gif[/img] I have a softness (actually quite the opposite) for redheaded grrlz. [img]tongue.gif[/img]

[ July 17, 2005 11:44 AM: Message edited by: Five Eight ]

**got_a_matchgrip** · July 17th, 2005, 01:01 PM

Thanks for that, 5. I didn't know all those details about MH's passing. I was respondg to what others have long "debated" about the death.

In light of having read your post, I recant my earlier statements, as it's obv he was very troubled in the last moments, & unfortunatley in a very dark place. There's also often a question about a so-called "suicide," which I too raise an eyebrow about certain "evidence," but a forensics report is, just, that. Hard to deny. But it wouldn't surprise me one bit if it was found that someone else, PERHAPS that gal, had partial responsibility SOMEWHERE in the game. But at this point it's simply conjecture. Booze & narcs def don't help escape or assuage the "fires," even tho that's mistakenly why they are used in the first place. One thing's for sure, it ws at least either 1, or a combo of 2 or more, of 3: suicide, homocide, or the asphyx-eroti thing; [& perhaps a little mix of at least 2 of the 3].

I do rem ATT I felt how tragic it was. No dis intended. It's the ages-old success, fame, & fortune story...Guy "had everything"...it only appeared that way.

Sometimes it's hard to have sympathy for these success stories...you know, the whole "feel sorry for me while i make millions, everybody loves me, endorsements, international magazine covers, & I've had 10,000 super-model GFs...but now I'm 'broke,' on drugs, & down & out"...ESP those who have lightning strike twice w a successful comeback, or find "tax shelter" ;-)...but still...

That doesn't necessarily make many or all of these any less tragic. Esp for some of their surviving families & friends...

Fame is elusive at best. It never addresses the true deeper spiritual needs of a person. In fact, it often is a challenge TO that very notion. It looks very good from the outside...but from within, it can often be quite ugly. It's all how it's handled.

[ July 17, 2005 10:22 AM: Message edited by: got_a_match_grip? ]

**got_a_matchgrip** · July 17th, 2005, 01:33 PM

And now, from the serious back to the absurd...

Doc - just WTF IS up wit dat av?! I don't know whether to LMAO or feel like Pocket & toss the cookies...very freaky polarity thing [i'm sure that was the intent ;-p]...in my best Vinnie...Barbarino, that is [rem him? ;-)]..."I'm zo confused!"
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Give up the scoop!

**five eight** · July 17th, 2005, 01:56 PM

Good point about the poor poor pitiful me syndrome. That's almost always NOT the subject's fault, but the illusion a magazine or TV show will use to illustrate THEIR perception, often a skewed and romanticized one.

Obviously you can't trust a magazine any more than you can trust TV. I've known a couple of people who were on Jerry Springer and they acted nothing like themselves on the air! When asked why later the parties involved responded: "The producers of the show were in our face off-camera: 'Stir up some shit, stir up some shit . . .'" Participants are paid a stipend to do that and are put up in a four star hotel for two days.

And magazines or newspapers? Forget about it! They've always got to have an 'angle' for a story.

Something that can be delivered with a smartass punchline. [img]wink.gif[/img]

[ July 17, 2005 12:10 PM: Message edited by: Five Eight ]

**five eight** · July 17th, 2005, 02:01 PM

Dr. Funk has taken some serious stick for that avatar with a lot of grace and poise. You gotta admit, he has a sense of humor too.

**CLWarunki** · July 17th, 2005, 03:30 PM

Yes, this is a pathetic attempt at a successful reality show!

INXS were a great band in their prime which was long ago and I too think it's sick that they are looking to replace their signature frontman who (apperantly) commited suicide.

P.S. He was hung from a door, not a ceiling - plus his hands were somehow "broken". There is a lot of theories involving foul play, not just wanking off.

**ides68** · July 17th, 2005, 06:00 PM

Nate Morton is doing a very wonderful job on the show. He's having some fun!!! Checkout his site: www.n8drums.com [img]graemlins/thumbs_up.gif[/img]

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**dr-funkenstein** · July 17th, 2005, 06:16 PM

Originally posted by Five Eight:
Dr. Funk has taken some serious stick for that avatar with a lot of grace and poise. You gotta admit, he has a sense of humor too.

i have dished it out, so i can (better) take it.
as for your earlier posts, thanks for the details delivered succinctly and matter of factly. for me it makes the morbidity that much more obvious . . . still gunna watch the show, though.