Come on, people. You can do better.
Re: Boyd Tinsley-DMB
The dude always seemed strange, but whoa…
First he takes a “leave” from band to focus on family and health. Then this comes out the other day
-Accused of sexual misconduct allegations
https://consequenceofsound.net/2018/05/boyd-tinsley-misconduct-allegations/
And Now he has been officially given the Axe right before tour kicks off
https://consequenceofsound.net/2018/05/boyd-tinsely-dave-matthews-band-split/
It will be interesting how this goes being as he helped give DMB that distinctive sound, yet probably the most replaceable member.IMO. What he did in Tripping Billies was his mark and I felt like he just kind of repeated himself in a way after that. Too be fair DMB’s music has shifted a bit since BTCS with less emphasis on the Violin. Along with Tim joining full time it kind of pushed him to the background.
Also to see how this effects DMB in the future. I know Dave has made changes throughout the yrs in the band and kept chugging along but I feel like they have just been floating by for yrs and have lost their step.
And now this.
They also have a new album dropping soon.
Also if anyone knew or remembered their was a big law suit thing with one his managers a few yrs back who basically accused Boyd of threatening him, giving him gifts, etc in efforts to keep his sexual encounters with other men that he lured with money, gifts, throughout the yrs quiet.
His manager was found guilty of “over charging” Boyd, but charges were reduced based on the facts of the threats he was under.
**so this has all gone by rather fast since the accusations came out. “Fired” almost immediate, name already gone from the official site, tour starts and they have brought on a keyboard player. No word on if Boyd will be replaced.
I think DMB would be fine without a violin on material from Busted stuff and up, but they would have to drop everything from their greatest yrs, otherwise they become the Best Dave Matthews Cover Band
As being a big fan esp from 1993-2002 0r so. I find this so Interesting, shocking and sad
I have a feeling that Boyd leaving the band was a sign that maybe they knew this was coming down the line…it happened right after they announced this latest tour so the timing was just weird.
It will be interesting how this goes being as he helped give DMB that distinctive sound, yet probably the most replaceable member.IMO.
I’d kind of agree. The violin was obviously key to a lot of tunes but it’s not like Tinsley was doing anything that someone else couldn’t pull off. Though, I certainly hope he’s replaced since I’d hate to lose that aspect of their sound. Either way, I’ll find out since I’m seeing them in a couple weeks.
Put in what you have left after getting all your 2018 Phish tickets. We can buy the Oh Kee Pa vacation house.
Purple driveway. People are too much.
Man, I want a purple driveway.
Bargain prices on legal marijuana.
::rubs eye::
::reads article again::
^“Regulations being phased in six months after the state broadly legalized marijuana require that pot sold after Saturday meet strict quality standards”
Why do I get the feeling it’s a bunch of potheads smoking shit and giving a thumb’s up or thumb’s down?
^ Weed’s not about regulations, maaaaaan…
Way to survive, super baby.
http://www.chicagotribune.com/news/nationworld/ct-baby-montana-woods-suspect-20180710-story.html
Apparently when DLR left Van Halen it was to make the most 80s movie ever conceived.
^ PANAMA!!! Diamond Dave. The frontiest of front men. Van Halen Rocks.
[youtube]http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=YRFKU6QvBJY[/youtube]
then I would not be able to
equate my life with sand
https://www.wired.com/story/book-excerpt-science-of-ultra-pure-silicon/
^ Without a subscription you can read three free articles a month from Wired. They have another good article about the worldwide consumption of sand for construction. So many things. Who can know it all?
I’m going to pick up the the $2995 cashmere stealie blanket to use at shows instead of an old tarp.
https://www.hollywoodreporter.com/news/james-perse-truckin-grateful-dead-summer-collection-1135232
https://uproxx.com/life/best-donut-shops-in-america/
Federal Donuts makes the list, and so does my hometown’s donut shop. Way to go Harvard…even though they initially credit Chicago.
EDIT: Anyone know Fark? That’s where I saw this article.
[youtube]http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=9ZlOhSt_qW0[/youtube]
It’s all connected, maaaan.
https://www.quantamagazine.org/forests-emerge-as-a-major-overlooked-climate-factor-20181009/
^Forest/trees have been messing with the environment for millions of years. Same with the ocean. Nothing new there.
^ Not so much messing with the environment as being a part of the environment and having an effect on it…which is probably what you were saying anyway.
How large a part of the environment?
https://www.vox.com/science-and-health/2018/5/29/17386112/all-life-on-earth-chart-weight-plants-animals-pnas
And something totally unrelated:
https://qz.com/work/1420173/is-your-coworker-an-assclown-or-an-asshat-linguists-explain-the-difference/?utm_source=fark&utm_medium=website&utm_content=link&ICID=ref_fark
^ Not so much messing with the environment as being a part of the environment and having an effect on it…which is probably what you were saying anyway.
Basically, yes. On a grander scale, what happens now isn’t much different from the Earth’s history. There’s been like five or six “mass extinction” periods where environmental changes resulted in massive creature death, sometimes close to 80% of everything alive dying. I read one was caused by too many fish resulting in too much oxygen getting into the atmosphere which changed the chemical makeup of the air and basically everything that breathed the nitrogen-rich air died out. Others have occurred from mass volcano explosions having weird effects on things as well. And yet, after each extinction, new life sprung up that adapted to the new environment and life went on. It’s happened every time.
So, what’s happening now isn’t unique. Folks believe we’re in an extinction period now but these happen over thousands of years which is impossible for our short-term lives to grasp or fathom…we’re always just worried about the next 20 years. But, it does have a sense of inevitability. We can complain about animal extinctions and climate change and all that but it’s all the way of the Earth and there’s nothing we’ll be able to do about it. Humanity is just yet another silly era on this planet and we’ll come and go like any other era.
Happened upon this article this morning. I only barely remember seeing the headlines about his death when it happened. Posting here because I found this article to be so well-written and impactful.
Skaggs another casualty of America’s opioid epidemic
Tim Brown
That 27-year-old Tyler Skaggs died in a room so far from home, in a room down the hall from his best friends, alone, may for a moment fit a national health crisis with a ball cap, and give it a fastball and a baseball card.
That is only today’s character. Yesterday, it slung a guitar over its shoulders and leaned into a microphone. The day before that, it drove a route or swung a hammer or balanced a spreadsheet or got the kids off to school. Tomorrow, it’ll sell insurance or run for office or fix cars or audition for a part in a commercial. Or fill a newspaper rack with stories about how fentanyl and other opioids and painkillers are drowning so many people.
But, today, it stands 6-foot-4 and goes about 225. It is strong and athletic, young and wealthy and famous. Today it grins and honors its mother, who raised the boy with a sense of humor and toughness, and it shines in the reflection of a new wedding band, and it sings along with a silly song on a radio, and it drags with it a sport, a franchise, a group of men who wore the uniform with him and the people who wish them to be heroes.
Today, it is Tyler Skaggs, a nice and talented kid from Santa Monica, California, who died two months ago, according to the Tarrant County (Texas) Medical Examiner’s Office, because he’d ingested fentanyl, oxycodone and alcohol, then choked on his own vomit. Today, it had everything going for it, it seemed, and now there are questions about the pain, about what hurt and for how long, about the treatment for the pain, about the people in charge, about how it all became so complicated and ugly and sad.
The plague that is opioids, that is the synthetic and powerful (and often illegally obtained) fentanyl, that kills tens of thousands of Americans by overdose annually, was a sports problem, a baseball problem, a Los Angeles Angels problem, because it is a societal problem. Today, it has a name. A story. A cause of death. It has a young man it knows and cares for in a hotel room, a toxicology report with fentanyl and oxycodone in it, a blood alcohol content 50-percent higher than what is regarded as legally impaired, and a perception that that young man could not defend himself against what was in his own body.
Skaggs’ family responded in a statement that read:
“We are heartbroken to learn that the passing of our beloved Tyler was the result of a combination of dangerous drugs and alcohol. That is completely out of character for someone who worked so hard to become a Major League baseball player and had a very promising future in the game he loved so much.
“We are grateful for the work of the detectives in the Southlake Police Department and their ongoing investigation into the circumstances surrounding Tyler’s death. We were shocked to learn that it may involve an employee of the Los Angeles Angels. We will not rest until we learn the truth about how Tyler came into possession of these narcotics, including who supplied them. To that end, we have hired attorney Rusty Hardin to assist us.”
The Angels released a statement:
“Tyler was and always will be a beloved member of the Angels Family and we are deeply saddened to learn what caused this tragic death. Angels Baseball has provided our full cooperation and assistance to the Southlake Police as they conduct their investigation.”
And Major League Baseball said it would investigate, particularly as to the allegation that an Angels employee could have played a role in the outcome.
These are important questions. Twenty-seven-year-old men are not supposed to die. Debbie Skaggs’ son should not have died. Carli Skaggs’ husband should be home by now. Mike Trout’s teammate, his friend, should have woken up the next morning.
Instead, there is this, an epidemic that came for them, that took their Tyler. Perhaps this restarts a conversation about how the game takes care of its own, how it might drive them too long and too hard. Perhaps this is about one young man and his bad luck, or his unfortunate choices, or his pain, and how any of it could result in an accidental overdose. Perhaps this convinces another young man, a young woman, anyone, that the road is too dangerous.
Today, however, today Tyler Skaggs is dead of that accidental overdose, dead by the tendrils of a national health emergency, gone because those many thousands now include him. It does matter how he died. It does matter why. It is not enough to know and mourn that he is gone, to know and live with the ache of that, any more than it is enough to assume today’s Tyler Skaggs won’t be tomorrow’s somebody else.
^ Good article. Death. What a bummer. That hotel is 10 minutes from my house. It was all over the news here. Surfer Andy Irons also died in a DFW hotel in 2010. I remember hearing about that too. I had been living here less than a year. There is a movie about Andy Irons on Amazon Prime. It’s really good, aside from the addiction and death.
[youtube]http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=GJWIPRvtAHk[/youtube]
And in other, unrelated news:
https://www.newsweek.com/louisiana-grosse-tete-iberville-parish-tiger-truck-stop-camel-florida-woman-bites-testicles-1460682