[Comments] Latest Comments from Ultimate-Guitar.Com. en-us Copyright 1998-2013 Ultimate-Guitar.Com. All rights reserved. http://www.ultimate-guitar.com/news/general_music_news/muse_threatened_to_fire_bassist_over_boozing.html webmaster@ultimate-guitar.com Mon, 01 Oct 2012 10:25:56 -0400 Fri, 05 Oct 2012 18:38:38 -0400 60 Ultimate-Guitar.Com http://www.ultimate-guitar.com/img/logo_rss.gif http://www.ultimate-guitar.com/ 144 44 http://www.ultimate-guitar.com/news/general_music_news/muse_threatened_to_fire_bassist_over_boozing.html#u_1 POSTED: 10/01/2012 06:47am]]> Comments Mon, 01 Oct 2012 06:47:30 -0400 http://www.ultimate-guitar.com/news/general_music_news/muse_threatened_to_fire_bassist_over_boozing.html#u_2
I quit drinking a ways back, I won’t take the blame for everything that happened during that time, but I did burn a lot of bridges in the process of my alcoholism, have plenty of regrets there… but to me it's messed up how other alcoholics will be quick to jump on you the moment you make a mistake instead of looking in the mirror & realizing they're no better or different than you, I look at my "friends" that I used to drink with now & it's terrible, they'll triangle the problem directly to you or anyone else so that attention is solely on someone else & they can continue their addiction. If I don’t drink, the drama can’t be pushed at me & used as a smoke screen; no one can point a finger at me for something I am not doing.

It's like drugs, how it effects our brains is subjective from one person to the next, hence why some people are raging on the drink & others become docile & introverted. Don't let it get its claws in you, be responsible, drink to enjoy it, not to get shitfaced. Sadly, our world encourages drinking, but the minute you have problem they’re all over you like flies on shit, yet they’re the same people that encouraged the binge in the first place…

I’d rather smoke a joint, thank you.

POSTED: 10/01/2012 07:07am]]> Comments Mon, 01 Oct 2012 07:07:52 -0400 http://www.ultimate-guitar.com/news/general_music_news/muse_threatened_to_fire_bassist_over_boozing.html#u_3 POSTED: 10/01/2012 07:15am]]> Comments Mon, 01 Oct 2012 07:15:12 -0400 http://www.ultimate-guitar.com/news/general_music_news/muse_threatened_to_fire_bassist_over_boozing.html#u_4 POSTED: 10/01/2012 07:25am]]> Comments Mon, 01 Oct 2012 07:25:10 -0400 http://www.ultimate-guitar.com/news/general_music_news/muse_threatened_to_fire_bassist_over_boozing.html#u_5 POSTED: 10/01/2012 07:36am]]> Comments Mon, 01 Oct 2012 07:36:50 -0400 http://www.ultimate-guitar.com/news/general_music_news/muse_threatened_to_fire_bassist_over_boozing.html#u_6 POSTED: 10/01/2012 07:55am]]> Comments Mon, 01 Oct 2012 07:55:55 -0400 http://www.ultimate-guitar.com/news/general_music_news/muse_threatened_to_fire_bassist_over_boozing.html#u_7 POSTED: 10/01/2012 08:42am]]> Comments Mon, 01 Oct 2012 08:42:50 -0400 http://www.ultimate-guitar.com/news/general_music_news/muse_threatened_to_fire_bassist_over_boozing.html#u_8 POSTED: 10/01/2012 09:08am]]> Comments Mon, 01 Oct 2012 09:08:43 -0400 http://www.ultimate-guitar.com/news/general_music_news/muse_threatened_to_fire_bassist_over_boozing.html#u_9 POSTED: 10/01/2012 09:54am]]> Comments Mon, 01 Oct 2012 09:54:43 -0400 http://www.ultimate-guitar.com/news/general_music_news/muse_threatened_to_fire_bassist_over_boozing.html#u_10 POSTED: 10/01/2012 11:35am]]> Comments Mon, 01 Oct 2012 11:35:41 -0400 http://www.ultimate-guitar.com/news/general_music_news/muse_threatened_to_fire_bassist_over_boozing.html#u_11 POSTED: 10/01/2012 11:36am]]> Comments Mon, 01 Oct 2012 11:36:53 -0400 http://www.ultimate-guitar.com/news/general_music_news/muse_threatened_to_fire_bassist_over_boozing.html#u_12
POSTED: 10/01/2012 11:38am]]> Comments Mon, 01 Oct 2012 11:38:54 -0400 http://www.ultimate-guitar.com/news/general_music_news/muse_threatened_to_fire_bassist_over_boozing.html#u_13 POSTED: 10/01/2012 11:46am]]> Comments Mon, 01 Oct 2012 11:46:37 -0400 http://www.ultimate-guitar.com/news/general_music_news/muse_threatened_to_fire_bassist_over_boozing.html#u_14 POSTED: 10/01/2012 11:57am]]> Comments Mon, 01 Oct 2012 11:57:26 -0400 http://www.ultimate-guitar.com/news/general_music_news/muse_threatened_to_fire_bassist_over_boozing.html#u_15 POSTED: 10/01/2012 11:59am]]> Comments Mon, 01 Oct 2012 11:59:59 -0400 http://www.ultimate-guitar.com/news/general_music_news/muse_threatened_to_fire_bassist_over_boozing.html#u_16 POSTED: 10/01/2012 12:03pm]]> Comments Mon, 01 Oct 2012 12:03:18 -0400 http://www.ultimate-guitar.com/news/general_music_news/muse_threatened_to_fire_bassist_over_boozing.html#u_17
Captain Obvious, is that you?
POSTED: 10/01/2012 12:04pm]]> Comments Mon, 01 Oct 2012 12:04:07 -0400 http://www.ultimate-guitar.com/news/general_music_news/muse_threatened_to_fire_bassist_over_boozing.html#u_18 POSTED: 10/01/2012 12:04pm]]> Comments Mon, 01 Oct 2012 12:04:38 -0400 http://www.ultimate-guitar.com/news/general_music_news/muse_threatened_to_fire_bassist_over_boozing.html#u_19 POSTED: 10/01/2012 12:08pm]]> Comments Mon, 01 Oct 2012 12:08:07 -0400 http://www.ultimate-guitar.com/news/general_music_news/muse_threatened_to_fire_bassist_over_boozing.html#u_20
It's a good to be weird.
POSTED: 10/01/2012 12:08pm]]> Comments Mon, 01 Oct 2012 12:08:50 -0400 http://www.ultimate-guitar.com/news/general_music_news/muse_threatened_to_fire_bassist_over_boozing.html#u_21
And also Hysteria is generally early on in the set so he wouldn't be smashed at that point.
POSTED: 10/01/2012 12:10pm]]> Comments Mon, 01 Oct 2012 12:10:37 -0400 http://www.ultimate-guitar.com/news/general_music_news/muse_threatened_to_fire_bassist_over_boozing.html#u_22
...BOOZE AINT FOOD.
POSTED: 10/01/2012 12:21pm]]> Comments Mon, 01 Oct 2012 12:21:04 -0400 http://www.ultimate-guitar.com/news/general_music_news/muse_threatened_to_fire_bassist_over_boozing.html#u_23
...BOOZE AINT FOOD!
POSTED: 10/01/2012 12:22pm]]> Comments Mon, 01 Oct 2012 12:22:18 -0400 http://www.ultimate-guitar.com/news/general_music_news/muse_threatened_to_fire_bassist_over_boozing.html#u_24 POSTED: 10/01/2012 12:25pm]]> Comments Mon, 01 Oct 2012 12:25:28 -0400 http://www.ultimate-guitar.com/news/general_music_news/muse_threatened_to_fire_bassist_over_boozing.html#u_25 POSTED: 10/01/2012 12:36pm]]> Comments Mon, 01 Oct 2012 12:36:07 -0400 http://www.ultimate-guitar.com/news/general_music_news/muse_threatened_to_fire_bassist_over_boozing.html#u_26 POSTED: 10/01/2012 12:40pm]]> Comments Mon, 01 Oct 2012 12:40:40 -0400 http://www.ultimate-guitar.com/news/general_music_news/muse_threatened_to_fire_bassist_over_boozing.html#u_27 Well that's pretty easy, just go listen to a few tracks on Resistance and the 2nd Law.
POSTED: 10/01/2012 12:41pm]]> Comments Mon, 01 Oct 2012 12:41:39 -0400 http://www.ultimate-guitar.com/news/general_music_news/muse_threatened_to_fire_bassist_over_boozing.html#u_28 POSTED: 10/01/2012 01:09pm]]> Comments Mon, 01 Oct 2012 13:09:15 -0400 http://www.ultimate-guitar.com/news/general_music_news/muse_threatened_to_fire_bassist_over_boozing.html#u_29 POSTED: 10/01/2012 01:12pm]]> Comments Mon, 01 Oct 2012 13:12:24 -0400 http://www.ultimate-guitar.com/news/general_music_news/muse_threatened_to_fire_bassist_over_boozing.html#u_30 Regardless props to you for not bowing to peer pressure. I like to drink but people who just get rat-arsed every week and make complete morons of themselves and think they're cool do my head in.
POSTED: 10/01/2012 01:13pm]]> Comments Mon, 01 Oct 2012 13:13:35 -0400 http://www.ultimate-guitar.com/news/general_music_news/muse_threatened_to_fire_bassist_over_boozing.html#u_31 POSTED: 10/01/2012 01:15pm]]> Comments Mon, 01 Oct 2012 13:15:22 -0400 http://www.ultimate-guitar.com/news/general_music_news/muse_threatened_to_fire_bassist_over_boozing.html#u_32 POSTED: 10/01/2012 01:17pm]]> Comments Mon, 01 Oct 2012 13:17:43 -0400 http://www.ultimate-guitar.com/news/general_music_news/muse_threatened_to_fire_bassist_over_boozing.html#u_33 POSTED: 10/01/2012 01:19pm]]> Comments Mon, 01 Oct 2012 13:19:31 -0400 http://www.ultimate-guitar.com/news/general_music_news/muse_threatened_to_fire_bassist_over_boozing.html#u_34 POSTED: 10/01/2012 01:21pm]]> Comments Mon, 01 Oct 2012 13:21:31 -0400 http://www.ultimate-guitar.com/news/general_music_news/muse_threatened_to_fire_bassist_over_boozing.html#u_35 POSTED: 10/01/2012 01:57pm]]> Comments Mon, 01 Oct 2012 13:57:17 -0400 http://www.ultimate-guitar.com/news/general_music_news/muse_threatened_to_fire_bassist_over_boozing.html#u_36 POSTED: 10/01/2012 02:10pm]]> Comments Mon, 01 Oct 2012 14:10:11 -0400 http://www.ultimate-guitar.com/news/general_music_news/muse_threatened_to_fire_bassist_over_boozing.html#u_37 POSTED: 10/01/2012 02:10pm]]> Comments Mon, 01 Oct 2012 14:10:13 -0400 http://www.ultimate-guitar.com/news/general_music_news/muse_threatened_to_fire_bassist_over_boozing.html#u_38 POSTED: 10/01/2012 02:22pm]]> Comments Mon, 01 Oct 2012 14:22:20 -0400 http://www.ultimate-guitar.com/news/general_music_news/muse_threatened_to_fire_bassist_over_boozing.html#u_39
If someone isn't pulling their weight, they get let go. It sucks, sure, but the other guys shouldn't have to be dragging along deadweight just because one guy doesn't want to get his act together.

With all that said, ultimatums aren't the way to go in my opinion, but it's their band, not mine.
POSTED: 10/01/2012 02:39pm]]> Comments Mon, 01 Oct 2012 14:39:00 -0400 http://www.ultimate-guitar.com/news/general_music_news/muse_threatened_to_fire_bassist_over_boozing.html#u_40 POSTED: 10/01/2012 02:41pm]]> Comments Mon, 01 Oct 2012 14:41:38 -0400 http://www.ultimate-guitar.com/news/general_music_news/muse_threatened_to_fire_bassist_over_boozing.html#u_41
POSTED: 10/01/2012 02:49pm]]> Comments Mon, 01 Oct 2012 14:49:22 -0400 http://www.ultimate-guitar.com/news/general_music_news/muse_threatened_to_fire_bassist_over_boozing.html#u_42 POSTED: 10/01/2012 03:00pm]]> Comments Mon, 01 Oct 2012 15:00:19 -0400 http://www.ultimate-guitar.com/news/general_music_news/muse_threatened_to_fire_bassist_over_boozing.html#u_43 POSTED: 10/01/2012 03:11pm]]> Comments Mon, 01 Oct 2012 15:11:01 -0400 http://www.ultimate-guitar.com/news/general_music_news/muse_threatened_to_fire_bassist_over_boozing.html#u_44 POSTED: 10/01/2012 03:31pm]]> Comments Mon, 01 Oct 2012 15:31:11 -0400 http://www.ultimate-guitar.com/news/general_music_news/muse_threatened_to_fire_bassist_over_boozing.html#u_45 You can smoke 1000 blunts a day and you would die from suffocation, before anything else. It won't shut down your organs or give you anything like wet brain... You'll just feel incredibly lazy but that's about the extent of it.

Coming off the (marijuana) addiction, there are some mild mental withdrawals but they only last a week, typically. Marijuana is a million times safer than alcohol. It's laughable that alcohol is legal while marijuana isn't.

But if you really research why, it all comes down to greed, as does everything.
POSTED: 10/01/2012 03:37pm]]> Comments Mon, 01 Oct 2012 15:37:08 -0400 http://www.ultimate-guitar.com/news/general_music_news/muse_threatened_to_fire_bassist_over_boozing.html#u_46 POSTED: 10/01/2012 03:49pm]]> Comments Mon, 01 Oct 2012 15:49:26 -0400 http://www.ultimate-guitar.com/news/general_music_news/muse_threatened_to_fire_bassist_over_boozing.html#u_47 POSTED: 10/01/2012 03:55pm]]> Comments Mon, 01 Oct 2012 15:55:53 -0400 http://www.ultimate-guitar.com/news/general_music_news/muse_threatened_to_fire_bassist_over_boozing.html#u_48 POSTED: 10/01/2012 03:58pm]]> Comments Mon, 01 Oct 2012 15:58:39 -0400 http://www.ultimate-guitar.com/news/general_music_news/muse_threatened_to_fire_bassist_over_boozing.html#u_49 Implying that cannabis isn't as harmful as alcohol

Thanks for the laugh.
POSTED: 10/01/2012 04:11pm]]> Comments Mon, 01 Oct 2012 16:11:10 -0400 http://www.ultimate-guitar.com/news/general_music_news/muse_threatened_to_fire_bassist_over_boozing.html#u_50 POSTED: 10/01/2012 04:12pm]]> Comments Mon, 01 Oct 2012 16:12:59 -0400 http://www.ultimate-guitar.com/news/general_music_news/muse_threatened_to_fire_bassist_over_boozing.html#u_51 POSTED: 10/01/2012 04:13pm]]> Comments Mon, 01 Oct 2012 16:13:37 -0400 http://www.ultimate-guitar.com/news/general_music_news/muse_threatened_to_fire_bassist_over_boozing.html#u_52
If you haven't checked out the track 'Save Me' from The 2nd Law, make sure you do it, it's a truly beautiful one that Chris wrote about his alcohol addiction and sings on. One of the best on the album for sure.
POSTED: 10/01/2012 04:35pm]]> Comments Mon, 01 Oct 2012 16:35:24 -0400 http://www.ultimate-guitar.com/news/general_music_news/muse_threatened_to_fire_bassist_over_boozing.html#u_53 POSTED: 10/01/2012 04:56pm]]> Comments Mon, 01 Oct 2012 16:56:35 -0400 http://www.ultimate-guitar.com/news/general_music_news/muse_threatened_to_fire_bassist_over_boozing.html#u_54 POSTED: 10/01/2012 05:03pm]]> Comments Mon, 01 Oct 2012 17:03:53 -0400 http://www.ultimate-guitar.com/news/general_music_news/muse_threatened_to_fire_bassist_over_boozing.html#u_55 POSTED: 10/01/2012 05:09pm]]> Comments Mon, 01 Oct 2012 17:09:45 -0400 http://www.ultimate-guitar.com/news/general_music_news/muse_threatened_to_fire_bassist_over_boozing.html#u_56 Anyways, the point was they didn't fire him. Once they found out about the problem they supported him to get help and got him back on track with the band. So Bellamy and Howard sort of made sure it wouldn't come to kicking him out, which is a pretty bro-tier thing to do.
POSTED: 10/01/2012 05:12pm]]> Comments Mon, 01 Oct 2012 17:12:01 -0400 http://www.ultimate-guitar.com/news/general_music_news/muse_threatened_to_fire_bassist_over_boozing.html#u_57 POSTED: 10/01/2012 05:14pm]]> Comments Mon, 01 Oct 2012 17:14:48 -0400 http://www.ultimate-guitar.com/news/general_music_news/muse_threatened_to_fire_bassist_over_boozing.html#u_58 POSTED: 10/01/2012 05:23pm]]> Comments Mon, 01 Oct 2012 17:23:13 -0400 http://www.ultimate-guitar.com/news/general_music_news/muse_threatened_to_fire_bassist_over_boozing.html#u_59 POSTED: 10/01/2012 06:16pm]]> Comments Mon, 01 Oct 2012 18:16:04 -0400 http://www.ultimate-guitar.com/news/general_music_news/muse_threatened_to_fire_bassist_over_boozing.html#u_60 POSTED: 10/01/2012 09:30pm]]> Comments Mon, 01 Oct 2012 21:30:39 -0400 http://www.ultimate-guitar.com/news/general_music_news/muse_threatened_to_fire_bassist_over_boozing.html#u_61 POSTED: 10/01/2012 09:37pm]]> Comments Mon, 01 Oct 2012 21:37:36 -0400 http://www.ultimate-guitar.com/news/general_music_news/muse_threatened_to_fire_bassist_over_boozing.html#u_62 POSTED: 10/01/2012 09:38pm]]> Comments Mon, 01 Oct 2012 21:38:16 -0400 http://www.ultimate-guitar.com/news/general_music_news/muse_threatened_to_fire_bassist_over_boozing.html#u_63
I agree though, his bass work carries all of the songs in OoS, he has a beastly tone which does the work of a rhythm guitar and a bass guitar creating an awesome backbone that Matt can wank around on top of with his guitar haha. "Citizen Erased" is the best example of that in my opinion.
POSTED: 10/01/2012 09:40pm]]> Comments Mon, 01 Oct 2012 21:40:05 -0400 http://www.ultimate-guitar.com/news/general_music_news/muse_threatened_to_fire_bassist_over_boozing.html#u_64
POSTED: 10/01/2012 09:46pm]]> Comments Mon, 01 Oct 2012 21:46:21 -0400 http://www.ultimate-guitar.com/news/general_music_news/muse_threatened_to_fire_bassist_over_boozing.html#u_65 POSTED: 10/01/2012 09:53pm]]> Comments Mon, 01 Oct 2012 21:53:02 -0400 http://www.ultimate-guitar.com/news/general_music_news/muse_threatened_to_fire_bassist_over_boozing.html#u_66 POSTED: 10/02/2012 12:09am]]> Comments Tue, 02 Oct 2012 00:09:48 -0400 http://www.ultimate-guitar.com/news/general_music_news/muse_threatened_to_fire_bassist_over_boozing.html#u_67 POSTED: 10/02/2012 01:15am]]> Comments Tue, 02 Oct 2012 01:15:53 -0400 http://www.ultimate-guitar.com/news/general_music_news/muse_threatened_to_fire_bassist_over_boozing.html#u_68 POSTED: 10/02/2012 01:38am]]> Comments Tue, 02 Oct 2012 01:38:25 -0400 http://www.ultimate-guitar.com/news/general_music_news/muse_threatened_to_fire_bassist_over_boozing.html#u_69 POSTED: 10/02/2012 01:58am]]> Comments Tue, 02 Oct 2012 01:58:15 -0400 http://www.ultimate-guitar.com/news/general_music_news/muse_threatened_to_fire_bassist_over_boozing.html#u_70
I want to be in control of my own body, not the other way around.
POSTED: 10/02/2012 02:29am]]> Comments Tue, 02 Oct 2012 02:29:23 -0400 http://www.ultimate-guitar.com/news/general_music_news/muse_threatened_to_fire_bassist_over_boozing.html#u_71 POSTED: 10/02/2012 03:04am]]> Comments Tue, 02 Oct 2012 03:04:03 -0400 http://www.ultimate-guitar.com/news/general_music_news/muse_threatened_to_fire_bassist_over_boozing.html#u_72 POSTED: 10/02/2012 03:20am]]> Comments Tue, 02 Oct 2012 03:20:57 -0400 http://www.ultimate-guitar.com/news/general_music_news/muse_threatened_to_fire_bassist_over_boozing.html#u_73 POSTED: 10/02/2012 07:25am]]> Comments Tue, 02 Oct 2012 07:25:48 -0400 http://www.ultimate-guitar.com/news/general_music_news/muse_threatened_to_fire_bassist_over_boozing.html#u_74 POSTED: 10/02/2012 07:33am]]> Comments Tue, 02 Oct 2012 07:33:41 -0400 http://www.ultimate-guitar.com/news/general_music_news/muse_threatened_to_fire_bassist_over_boozing.html#u_75 POSTED: 10/02/2012 11:33am]]> Comments Tue, 02 Oct 2012 11:33:07 -0400 http://www.ultimate-guitar.com/news/general_music_news/muse_threatened_to_fire_bassist_over_boozing.html#u_76 POSTED: 10/02/2012 11:36am]]> Comments Tue, 02 Oct 2012 11:36:56 -0400 http://www.ultimate-guitar.com/news/general_music_news/muse_threatened_to_fire_bassist_over_boozing.html#u_77 POSTED: 10/02/2012 01:14pm]]> Comments Tue, 02 Oct 2012 13:14:20 -0400 http://www.ultimate-guitar.com/news/general_music_news/muse_threatened_to_fire_bassist_over_boozing.html#u_78 POSTED: 10/02/2012 02:16pm]]> Comments Tue, 02 Oct 2012 14:16:23 -0400 http://www.ultimate-guitar.com/news/general_music_news/muse_threatened_to_fire_bassist_over_boozing.html#u_79 POSTED: 10/02/2012 02:18pm]]> Comments Tue, 02 Oct 2012 14:18:08 -0400 http://www.ultimate-guitar.com/news/general_music_news/muse_threatened_to_fire_bassist_over_boozing.html#u_80 POSTED: 10/02/2012 03:29pm]]> Comments Tue, 02 Oct 2012 15:29:50 -0400 http://www.ultimate-guitar.com/news/general_music_news/muse_threatened_to_fire_bassist_over_boozing.html#u_81
I meant what I said.
POSTED: 10/02/2012 04:22pm]]> Comments Tue, 02 Oct 2012 16:22:20 -0400 http://www.ultimate-guitar.com/news/general_music_news/muse_threatened_to_fire_bassist_over_boozing.html#u_82
Whoops!

I still meant what I said.
POSTED: 10/02/2012 04:23pm]]> Comments Tue, 02 Oct 2012 16:23:37 -0400 http://www.ultimate-guitar.com/news/general_music_news/muse_threatened_to_fire_bassist_over_boozing.html#u_83 POSTED: 10/03/2012 05:49am]]> Comments Wed, 03 Oct 2012 05:49:55 -0400 http://www.ultimate-guitar.com/news/general_music_news/muse_threatened_to_fire_bassist_over_boozing.html#u_84 POSTED: 10/04/2012 12:08am]]> Comments Thu, 04 Oct 2012 00:08:59 -0400 http://www.ultimate-guitar.com/news/general_music_news/muse_threatened_to_fire_bassist_over_boozing.html#u_85 POSTED: 10/04/2012 11:17am]]> Comments Thu, 04 Oct 2012 11:17:07 -0400 http://www.ultimate-guitar.com/news/general_music_news/muse_threatened_to_fire_bassist_over_boozing.html#u_86 POSTED: 10/04/2012 09:49pm]]> Comments Thu, 04 Oct 2012 21:49:37 -0400 http://www.ultimate-guitar.com/news/general_music_news/muse_threatened_to_fire_bassist_over_boozing.html#u_87 POSTED: 10/05/2012 10:11am]]> Comments Fri, 05 Oct 2012 10:11:19 -0400 http://www.ultimate-guitar.com/news/general_music_news/muse_threatened_to_fire_bassist_over_boozing.html#u_88 POSTED: 10/05/2012 06:36pm]]> Comments Fri, 05 Oct 2012 18:36:34 -0400 http://www.ultimate-guitar.com/news/general_music_news/muse_threatened_to_fire_bassist_over_boozing.html#u_89 POSTED: 10/05/2012 06:38pm]]> Comments Fri, 05 Oct 2012 18:38:38 -0400