tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-660808341284783109.post957069415085725501..comments2024-03-02T07:40:22.786+03:00Comments on Only Solitaire blog: Badfinger: Head FirstUnknownnoreply@blogger.comBlogger3125tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-660808341284783109.post-51650060400307026772013-02-24T06:26:58.328+04:002013-02-24T06:26:58.328+04:00(Note -- I composed this shortly after your post, ...(Note -- I composed this shortly after your post, but was having weird cookie problems and couldn't post. I did save it, and really like this album, so here it is.)<br /><br />Dude.... "Passed Fast" and "Moonshine", the Yin and the Yang, are probably the two best songs here. "Passed Fast" is a dizzying, desperate howl: "nothing is impossible, you know what you must do / the flame of hope will see you through / are you through? / THROUGH! THROUGH!". Tom has a bit of a knack for pithy lyrics, and never more devastatingly than here. Try listening to this song right after the end of <i>With You Were Here</i> and see how the intensity carries over.<br /><br />"Moonshine"... the album's happiest and fully realized song, a nice multipart number by Mike, Tom and Bob (who also was in on "Passed Fast"). This would have been a good permutation of the band, and by all rights they all would have stayed on the planet, succeeded somehow, and done many a tour, making a lot of people happy playing this song out under the stars.<br /><br />Regarding the significance of the Badfinger tragedy, well, yeah, the answer's in the question. A personal tragedy in public, especially one that highlights an existing flaw or evil, cries out for meaning. It's pretty clear from listening to Badfinger's songs that they were sensitive guys (I concur with poster above), and probably especially at risk if subjected to getting royally, persistently screwed. I suspect Pete and Tom were moderately bipolar. It's the people who don't get crazy high, but rather go through cycles between kinda high and very low -- often involving remarkable creativity -- who tend to kill themselves. Personal tragedy happens, in public = a cautionary icon is born. Altamont on a personal level. I hate when that happens.Nicky87https://www.blogger.com/profile/13948073654322882791noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-660808341284783109.post-69896149175749381642012-09-29T01:25:07.365+04:002012-09-29T01:25:07.365+04:00To answer your last question, we would like to thi...To answer your last question, we would like to think it was more than that. Bad management is like the common cold in rock n roll....and really any artistic/entertainment endeavor, so it's not like these guys experienced anything unique. However, it was a ruthlessly brutal tsunami of bad faith, poor bookkeeping, heavy-handed distribution and general disregard of the wellfare of the band members themselves that was the outrageous misfortune of this sad tale. Not knowing Pete Ham from Adam, and even in reading the recollections of those that did, the reasons why it happened lurk much deeper than merely a sensitive artist being the victim of fraudulent and greedy scheisters. <br /><br />Among the proposed answers, my feeling is that it was "the hideous effect of a nerve wreck shattering an already unstable mental system." I won't conjecture as to what may have went wrong emotionally, but he had so much to lose by going through with it that you have to wonder if much thought at all preceded it, what with a young son and a baby girl. Desperation and deperession have a way of swirling the mind's ability to judge situations properly. <br /><br />JimmADerbyhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/13331334978761537408noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-660808341284783109.post-18722573413474964292012-09-28T23:58:08.417+04:002012-09-28T23:58:08.417+04:00This comment has been removed by the author.JimmADerbyhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/13331334978761537408noreply@blogger.com