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lorenzoduke · 05 Nov 2012, 19:11

I never bothered reading the voice thread, simply because I generally disagree with those kind of comments here and to me it's repetitive and pointless. Meat's always had off-days here and there and struggled at times, I remember seeing him once around 1996/7 when he clearly was running a fever and getting over a cold/flu. Everyone could see he was struggling but he went for it, gave it all, and absolutely everyone that I could see left amazed and satisfied by his commitment. I was at the Amsterdam show on the Bat 3 tour (and the one on the Casa De Carne tour) which Meat has said were his two worst gigs and I loved them both, I really didn't see or hear a problem.

At times it does get tiresome hearing people complain about one 3 minute clip here or there so I can only imagine how aggravating and upsetting it is for Meat. Likewise I don't click on threads dissing the recent albums, which I love, because they're always full of the same sort of posts from people who seem to think Meat shouldn't sing anything unless Steinman wrote it.

Having said all that, I thought the Romney thread here (the one that was locked) was for the most part respectful and one of the most interesting we've had in a while. Meat, no one was trying to dictate your beliefs to you and I don't recall anyone calling you names, telling you to go f yourself etc.

You chose to make a public stand and people had questions and speculations based on it, which you of course were free to answer or ignore as you see fit.. It's only natural that when you do something for the first time in your career, people are going to be blindsided by it. If you endorse someone people are going to wonder what points you're endorsing and what you oppose. It's human nature and has nothing whatsoever to do with being a fan or not being a fan. If we didn't care about you we wouldn't care enough to be asking 'Why does he think this?' and 'What does he mean by that'. I heard a lot of mean spirited crap and childish insults were said about you over the Romney thing on Facebook, but that's there and this is here.

I know you're an intelligent man with strong beliefs and convictions. Maybe I'm one of those dumb people that you see, but I don't understand why telling people to go to hell and go ~~~~ themselves has to go along with expressing that.

05 Nov 2012, 19:11	#193
lorenzoduke Mega Loafer Join Date: 24.07.2006 Posts: 1,269	I never bothered reading the voice thread, simply because I generally disagree with those kind of comments here and to me it's repetitive and pointless. Meat's always had off-days here and there and struggled at times, I remember seeing him once around 1996/7 when he clearly was running a fever and getting over a cold/flu. Everyone could see he was struggling but he went for it, gave it all, and absolutely everyone that I could see left amazed and satisfied by his commitment. I was at the Amsterdam show on the Bat 3 tour (and the one on the Casa De Carne tour) which Meat has said were his two worst gigs and I loved them both, I really didn't see or hear a problem. At times it does get tiresome hearing people complain about one 3 minute clip here or there so I can only imagine how aggravating and upsetting it is for Meat. Likewise I don't click on threads dissing the recent albums, which I love, because they're always full of the same sort of posts from people who seem to think Meat shouldn't sing anything unless Steinman wrote it. Having said all that, I thought the Romney thread here (the one that was locked) was for the most part respectful and one of the most interesting we've had in a while. Meat, no one was trying to dictate your beliefs to you and I don't recall anyone calling you names, telling you to go f yourself etc. You chose to make a public stand and people had questions and speculations based on it, which you of course were free to answer or ignore as you see fit.. It's only natural that when you do something for the first time in your career, people are going to be blindsided by it. If you endorse someone people are going to wonder what points you're endorsing and what you oppose. It's human nature and has nothing whatsoever to do with being a fan or not being a fan. If we didn't care about you we wouldn't care enough to be asking 'Why does he think this?' and 'What does he mean by that'. I heard a lot of mean spirited crap and childish insults were said about you over the Romney thing on Facebook, but that's there and this is here. I know you're an intelligent man with strong beliefs and convictions. Maybe I'm one of those dumb people that you see, but I don't understand why telling people to go to hell and go ~~~~ themselves has to go along with expressing that.