it's official MMJ opening for PJ!

[peanut butter puddin surprise]

And here's some personal advice re debating.

Pointing out typos, calling people sonny or troll, and making weak, weak jokes all only serve to undermine both your position and others' opinion of you.

Do you think, for a New York minute, that I give a rat's ass about your or anyone elses opinion of me?  Hardly.

You are what you are:  a troll.  

[Jon T.]

EC -don't forget "shallow and pedantic".  As Peter Griffin would say.

[DiamondDays]

It's all guns out for me isnt it. I had no intention of sharing my source until everyone called me a liar - again, just for the record

[DiamondDays]

I might offer you some personal advice, DiamondDays.
1.  Keep your inside information to yourself.
2.  If you do share, don't name your sources - you were obviously told something with an implied bit of trust.
3.  If you come all out with your guns cocked, everybody will react strongly to that.  It's completely obvious that you came here with weird intentions and personal grudges all intact.  Comin' on here and telling everybody that you wish that PR and management would talk about the REAL reason why the tours have been cancelled, etc. is so self-aggrandizing and gregarious, it doesn't make sense.  Most peoples' first posts are somethin' like:  "um, hi.  um, this is my first post, and mmj rocks and i'm really glad to be here and cool."

[DiamondDays]

EC, you might want to check what gregarious means. Just a suggestion.

[CC]

It's all guns out for me isnt it. I had no intention of sharing my source until everyone called me a liar - again, just for the record

yeah, but you were like Jack Palance in Shane:
'pick up the gun, come oooooon... pick it uuuuup' ;)

a lot of people made some very good points, keep those in mind...

[DiamondDays]

Mr Baxter, I think you may be the only sane one in here.  :)

[EC]

It's all guns out for me isnt it. I had no intention of sharing my source until everyone called me a liar - again, just for the record

If you didn't want to say, you wouldn't have.

And your goddamn right about gregarious.  Damn it.  I thought it meant something else.  That also means my Mom has been wrong all these years.

[DiamondDays]

Whatever. I'm sure you know the workings of my mind better than me.

Think what you like.

[CC]

Mr Baxter, I think you may be the only sane one in here.  :)

don't get me wrong, you were wrong. the insane people were right. there's no hidden agenda behind the cancellations and that's not my opinion but a fact.

[DiamondDays]

Fine.

Case closed :)

[MMJ_fanatic]

ok personally i cant dispute the fact that you talked to the guitarist and heard him say that.  heres my take though.  mmj are not a huge band, along the lines of u2.  they make most of their money by touring, and even that is not a lot.  they wouldnt go the trouble of booking a full fledged tour in europe knowing jim cant handle the transportation to get over there.  people dont seem to realise they lost a good deal of money from this.  ill go by knowledge of a musician i know personally, dan bern.  most people have no idea who the fuck he is.  he plays in front of 100 to 300 people max when he's "headliing", and it still costs his booking agent $2000 to book him somewhere.  based on that, how much do you think mmj requires?  you can be damn sure they dont see that money back.  mulitply that by the number of shows they cancel, and most record company contracts, no matter how great, make the band responsible for that.  if they never planned on going to europe, i dont think theyd make the effort to book a tour.  just my opinion though.

I would heartily agree that what is being put forth by Diamond Days rings of "conspiracy theorizing"  it just doesn't make sense to construct a tour plan and then cancel because of a problem with planes.  In addition Jim and the guys are out there all the time I'm surprised somone hasn't gotten seriously ill like this sooner.  I am just glad Jim's situation was caught in time and he is mending.