[kj] Opening Track/the Mish/Speed

[folk devil]

Not so sure Hussey could deal with it at 25. 
 


Date: Wed, 8 Dec 2010 17:16:47 +0100
From: 65snoopy at gmail.com
To: gathering at misera.net
Subject: Re: [kj] Opening Track/the Mish/Speed

It is sad cos he's a lovely bloke but my mate said many people have
tried to help him, all to no avail. Things got very dark in that circle when
people started injecting, a whole step up from snorting the odd line now and
then. Or even snorting the odd line every night.
As for the appeal, well I used to shovel it in like there was no tomorrow but
that's OK when you're 25! Agreed, I don't know how people do it when 
they're 60 - or why some can function and some end up like Mick.

n


On 8 December 2010 13:41, Alexander Smith <vassifer at earthlink.net> wrote:





Cripes, he sounds like the Mish's own Syd Barrett.  How sad! If memory serves, he was somewhat hard to understand even back in the early 90s.


Never understood the appeal of speed -- how have guys like Wattie and Lemmy managed to keep imbibing it and stayed (relatively) healthy?


Alex in NYC




On Dec 8, 2010, at 4:08 AM, Neil Perry wrote:

Funnily enough I was staying with an old mate in London last week, him and
his girlfriend are from Leeds and part of the old Mish circle. I asked specifically
about Mick and was told that due to him never giving up the old speed-fuelled
lifestyle, he is now pretty fucked and has ballooned to an enormous size. He
lives like a recluse and is rarely seen out, and people even have trouble
understanding him as he tends to gabble. All very sad. Most of the mob
up there knew when it was time to give it up - there were several heart attacks and
other related health scares, a lot of them were injecting their drugs - but Mick has
carried on. I last saw him about 7 or 8 years ago and he was pretty bad then, so
god knows what he's like now. A great shame.

n


On 8 December 2010 04:47, Alexander Smith <vassifer at earthlink.net> wrote:





Why won't Mick do it? I mean, really -- fuck else is he doing?


Alex in NYC





On Dec 7, 2010, at 10:29 PM, Michael Garcia wrote:




I was at those final 4 shows. The CDs don't do it justice. I have video I shot there. The vibe was unlike any concert  I've been to before. We all knew those were final shows and the crowd responded with such intensity that I was blown away. Heading back there in October for the 25th reunion shows. Wayne simon and Craig minus Mick though 

Michael


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On Dec 7, 2010, at 1:32 PM, Alex Smith <vassifer at earthlink.net> wrote:






"time has really not been kind to it."
Sadly, no it hasn't. Lost of the Mish stuff has aged more like milk than like wine, especially with regards to Wayne's lyric-writing and the production. That all said, they did have their moments. Perhaps if they only released singles (instead of filler-choked albums), they'd have been looked upon now with more kindness.
I actually sprang for that five-CD live retrospective of their goodbye stint at the Shepherd's Bush Empire wherein they played a different album each night.
I've listened to it once.
Alex in NYC





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From: Peter Moltesen 
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On 7 Dec 2010, at 19:56, Alex Smith <vassifer at earthlink.net> wrote:



For my money, the Mish were at their best when they were drunk off their ass and playing covers, but I'll never part with my copies of GOD'S OWN and THE FIRST CHAPTER.
 

Me neither – or all those damn / limited / numbered / autographed / 7”/10”/12” / box set singles they released….well….up to Tower ofStrength, anyway

I listened to God’s own Medicine recently for the first time in ages and time has really not been kind to it.
I always preferred Fields of the Nephilim (and still do)
Peter


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