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Thread #36539   Message #506765
Posted By: Big Mick
14-Jul-01 - 10:54 PM
Thread Name: BS: Shane MacGowan: saint or sinner?
Subject: RE: BS: Shane MacGowan: saint or sinner?
Don't worry about Clinton, folks. He just likes attention and gets it by acting this way.

My opinion, for whatever the hell it is worth, is that this is a tragic figure with a great deal of talent in the area of lyric writing. I love many of his lyrics, but I won't invest any strong feelings on him. This is due to his performance at the Guinness Fleadh a few years ago. It was the first one held in the States on Randall's Island. I decided to to hop a plane and go. Ton of great music. I think it was Saturday night I saw Shane. I stood in that tent all day to see him and you know what I saw. A man so drunk that he couldn't stand let alone sing. He was saved from falling off the stage by his bandmates. I was told by someone that he pissed himself, and the last I saw of him he was sick behind the stage. Decided then and there that I wouldn't go across the street to see him again. Anyone who had so little regard for the people who went to a great deal of trouble to see him................well, I feel sorry for him.........obviously sick and in need of something.............but I just don't have time. But..............I will still sing his lyrics, because he tells a great yarn.

Mick