80's Hair-Metal Guitarist Dies of AIDS, Freepers Laugh in Delight

[Modem Butterfly]

Robbin Crosby was the guitarist from Ratt. They had a couple of hits in the mid-80s, when I was in junior high. I wasn't a fan, but dying of AIDS is a hard way to go.

http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/697774/posts

WELL,"PLAY WITH FIRE"!

3 posted on 06/10/2002 2:07:28 PM PDT by INSENSITIVE GUY

How Funny.
When I think about all the children with incurable diseases in all the childrens hospitals in the World and contrast that to some dirt ball rock star who has everything he could possibly need and a healthy body with which to enjoy it all, then kills himself with excess.

I have to laugh at the dope. In this case, I'm pity free.

ROTFLMAO Eddie01 "Ratt Sucks"

The rectum is a sewer pipe, not a fresh-water canal...

11 posted on 06/10/2002 2:20:26 PM PDT by donozark

Guitarist for Rock Band Ratt Dead From AIDS
Yeah, I heard the whole band was getting behind him.

12 posted on 06/10/2002 2:21:04 PM PDT by Clemenza

Perhaps they should have called their band "Gerbil".

37 posted on 07/26/2005 8:48:33 AM PDT by surely_you_jest

[getmeouttahere]

1. Some of this human excrement probably....

listened to Ratt back in the day...

[shawn703]

2. Quick, someone forward these to Michelle Malkin

Since she likes to cruise message boards to try and prove they are filled with a bunch of lunatics.

[Straight Shooter]

3. Everything that goes around, comes around.

They can yuck it up all they want. Their God is listening to their judgmental comments.

[SteppingRazor]

6. Were you just quoting Ratt there and not even realizing it?

"Round and round! What goes around comes around..."

Oh, hair metal. Where have you gone?

Then again, wherever you've gone, thank God you left. :evilgrin:

[Aristus]

Okay, since when did freepers care about children in other countries

dying of incurable diseases?

If you're a brown-skinned non-Christian, they don't give a shit about you.

Anyway, children in Iraq are dying right now of an incurable disease called WAR. Do they give a shit? Don't think so.

[jane_pippin]

4. They're the same people who are still pissed

that the guy from Judas Priest is gay.

[phantom power]

5. These people will never stop believing that AIDS is a punishment.

What's sad is, that this disease could just as easily have gotten started in the heterosexual population. It was just damned chance that it happened to break out in the homosexual population first.

[Az_lefty]

7. Freepers are such raving hypocrits...

all their "values" based this and that is utterly phony. Their nothing but mean spirited angy people who wouldn't lift a hand to help anyone.
As for Robbin, I don't remember him but definitely feel for him. AIDS is a horrible disease. RIP...

[Modem Butterfly]

8. If this guy was a rock star in the 80's I feel sorry for the groupies

If this guy got HIV in the 80's at the height of their popularity there may be many more victims out there, before he could have even known himself.

[Old_Fart]

9. He contacted aids when he was using drugs

How could that make him gay? Even if he was gay what the hell does it matter to them about what kind of life he choose to live.

Freepers are sick!

[donco6]

10. Who cares what they think?

It's already been demonstrated hundreds of times that they have nothing useful to contribute to anything.

[dbonds]

11. Culture of LIfe

Compare this to the Schivo reaction.

[Deja Q]

16. Interesting...

Didn't Ms. Schiavo suffer from bulimia? An eating disorder that causes the victim to induce vomiting after eating as a desperate means to assist in weight loss? (I've seen pics of her before the tragedy and she looked perfectly fine. Gorgeous, in fact.)

If the freepers will piss on a behavioral disease like AIDS, shouldn't they be the same way for bulimics?

[RobertSeattle]

12. What brought this up? 2002?

[Modem Butterfly]

13. I'm not sure why they resurrected it, but the last comment's 2005

[Dora]

21. A poster in that thread said

he was searching for posts on AIDS and that brought up the thread in question.

Ah, resurrection.

[Deja Q]

14. This one is funny: "Yeah, I heard the whole band was getting behind him."

That suggests the others have AIDS too...

Oh, and I never knew any form of death was anything less than a hard way to go. The ultimate price for life, by necessity, is not going to be pleasant.

And for trying to make the freepers' blatherings sound irrelevant, then I hope I'm doing a good job. There will ALWAYS be such people who will take delight in the death of someone, depending on the qualifications.

Unless, of course, they try to meddle in an attempt to save a life (e.g. Andy's situation) in which case we have to band together and sock it right back at them and more.

Freepers are animals. Nothing more. Best to let them wallow in their cage, playing "king of the hill" against each other.

[Javaman]

15. What I find interesting about their comments...

Several years ago, just around the time of the Seattle invasion, hair bands and heavy metal were big or were trying to make it to the mainstream.

I found that all the repuke frat rats were into that glam rock hair band metal sound, and anyone that had a clue, knew that that sound was basically dead and the Seattle sound was the up and comer.

My point is: of all of these close to middle age, rw, x-ains that are trashing this poor guy, how many were listening whole heartedly to his music back then? Probably lots. Like the drugs and alcohol they probably consumed in mass quantities, they also fed their ears with the high pitched whine of the false sulto singers from many of these hair bands.

Personally, I really didn't care for that type of music, but it's a horrible way to die. Regardless of his music, the guy is still a human being.

[flvegan]

17. He contracted it from using heroin, he said.

Why do they jump to homophobe mode so quickly?

[alcibiades_mystery]

18. Because 90% of them are repressed homosexuals?

Alright. Kinsey 3s. They think anal all day long, longing, longing. Any chance to talk about it is a good chance. They love it.

[greenbriar]

19. Round and Round

was their best song!

[greenbriar]

20. HOW WOULD THEY KNOW OF THIS CRAP...I didn't even know

12 posted on 06/10/2002 2:21:04 PM PDT by Clemenza

Perhaps they should have called their band "Gerbil".

37 posted on 07/26/2005 8:48:33 AM PDT by surely_you_jest







I had to ask hubby why they mentioned Gerbil...

and I am over 40