Monday
Dec142015
Just Closing The Loop...
Monday, December 14, 2015 at 12:01AM
Since I wrote about Vince Neil and his water wasting earlier this week... it would only be professional to post an update. According to Blabbermouth, Vince says he hasn't even lived in the Danville, California home in five years. He has a property manger to look after the place. Vince's primary residence is in Las Vegas. Whatever. Someone is using a ton of water and squatting in Vince's mansion, I guess!
Reader Comments (14)
Pretty simple really: Neil owns this property. Someone renting this property is using too much water. Property manager should step in, on the owner's behalf, and ask the renter to stop using so much water and/or (based on the lease) have the renter and/or Neil pay for any fines incurred now or in the future. Like I said, simple.
So I can sorta' see where JAT is getting his or her animus from, even if don't think this post (of another post on another site, as a follow up to the same) is particularly mean-spirited. Wasting water during a drought is not a good thing. People can haggle over the extent to which this really is Neil's problem or not. And he is the owner, even if he isn't out there wasting water himself. So, again, people are within their rights (not really rights even) to whine about it, or tie it to the larger issue of water scarcity, or even circle it back to an issue of what rich people do or do not care about.
And I do get people getting tired of seeing Neil get slammed. No, seriously, I do. But public people are subject to that; it is the nature of being a public person. And Neil--slim or chubby, off key or on, reckless or on the wagon--has engendered a lot of good _and_ bad will in the press, from the fans and the critics, over the course of his life.
Which is why I often find it fun to poke the bear. Not Neil, mind you. He could care less what I have to say. He seems to have fairly thick-skin (some would call it something else) when it comes to his detractors. No, the bears are the fans who get so irate at any and every well-placed and misdirected lob thrown at the voice of The Crue. Are all spot on? No. Are some razor sharp and to the point? Sure. It is almost as if they feel the need to defend a person who doesn't want or need or care to be defended. Which is fine. Fans are fans (and I am one).
By the way, JAT, not all of the above is directed at you. Like I said, I can see how some of this gets tiring. But that is the gig you sign up for, if not on dotted line, when you place yourself--your personal habits, your boasts, businesses, and bands--out there "for the whole world to read." Thing is, not everyone is going to read the same thing the same way.
And you know what, JAT? I don't think two things are exclusive of each other. First, I bet it would be very interesting to go to a buffet with Neil (unique example, by the way). Second, less water consumption--regardless of ownership or residency--is also a good thing. So, in a sense, it would be possible to have your cake and eat it too (and that isn't a pun directed at Neil) as a fan and as a critic.
As I said, I really think your point has merit. And your point is one I should always keep in mind when I start poking around, making jokes.
And he acted like a pig, too... Telling one woman who was a breast cancer survivor to "Just hurry up and take the f*ckin' picture!" when he was asked if he wouldn't mind pausing for 10 seconds on the top deck to pose with 4 other survivors she was travelling with.
In fact, he was worse than a pig... He was a boar... Treating the maître d' at the sushi restaurant like dirt and ordering his valet, Dana Strum around.
Even worse, he completely half as*ed his performance on stage, holding his like out to the audience to sing every other word, disappearing for half an hour and having Jeff Blando sing covers, notably "Whole Lotta Love", better than he ever could, then coming back and busting the sound guy's b*lls for the fact that his voice was sh*t, like it could be fixed in the mix.
I even saw him hold out his hand as if to have his subject kiss his ring, when Lajon Witherspoon attempted to introduce himself in said sushi bar, though I must admit, I did find that quite hilarious.
Though I love his music, there's no denying Neil thinks the world revolves around him with even Mother Nature expected to be at his beck and call, which explains the excessive water consumption.
Amazing he didn't learn anything after he killed Razzle from Hanoi Rocks when he totaled his De Tomaso Pantera, also maming the occupants of another vehicle for life or the death of his child.
He just continues to throw his weight around like the big f*t pig that he is. It's only fitting he wound up having plastic surgery that unintentionally made him look like one, as well.
If there really is a Hell, Neil's on the firey red tipped bullet train straight to it with Sixx as the Engineer and Lee as the conductor. Especially since he hates those guys, too!
And WOW, Metalboy! Just WOW.
Can't argue with a POV based on first hand accounting. And not going to suggest you said anything I disagree with either.
But, and this is a wee small _but_, never forget the advice you gave me awhile back. Nor, I would add, the comments--abbreviated here for all--that led you to gently rap my knuckles:
1. You can't reason with fans whose biases so color their thinking that no other view is possible;
2. Attempts at humor that are based in said facts aren't funny to a person who takes the whole give-and-take of a site like this _too_ seriously; thus,
3. You are best off communicating with those who can take a nudge, and a poke, in good humor, and can take criticism in the same manner; the rest should be left to the echo-chamber that they created, by and large, for themselves only.
[All that said, your last missive has the slam and dunk of some of your best posts from the past (even ones that I would chide you about). It dashes from personal recollection to passionate laceration like a scalpel cutting thin-skinned naysayers to shreds.]