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SomeBODY once told me some Sad News (RIP Steve Harwell)
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I'm your Huckleberry YOU'RE NO DAISYRegistered User, ClubPA regular
I'm your Huckleberry YOU'RE NO DAISYRegistered User, ClubPA regular
I was a big Smashmouth band when they first came out. They had a unique sound and made some fun music.
As they got more commercial later on and started doing more covers I tapered off but they were never bad.
His death comes from liver failure due to alcoholism that began when his 6 month old son died of Leukemia.
He did manage to raise $15,000 for a children’s hospital when he accepted a dare to eat 24 eggs.
As they got more commercial later on and started doing more covers I tapered off but they were never bad.
His death comes from liver failure due to alcoholism that began when his 6 month old son died of Leukemia.
He did manage to raise $15,000 for a children’s hospital when he accepted a dare to eat 24 eggs.
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Steve Harwell was a complicated fuckin' character, and all that comes up in the magic 8 ball of my brain right now is this video
Why does the one on the left look like Drew scanlon the blinking white guy
I can’t imagine losing a child at 6 months old.
That’s also the same way my Dad died though add in a LOT of hard drugs over the years too.
he collapsed on stage the same year as that tweet, I wonder if he had a stroke that fucked with his head
I'm not saying it's excusable, but he was pretty fucking drunk after his child died.
Walking on the sun is still a great song.
He was also diagnosed with wet brain so yeah, pretty much.
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Saw em in the 8th grade. Took some friends from home economics class (my dad's job had gotten him tickets and he didn't want to go).
You can look at it either way, but I’m choosing to believe that was never “him” doing the awful shit.
Yeah and Fush Yu Mang as an album has a lot of songs that go way harder than their later stuff, even if some of the lyrics haven't necessarily aged perfectly
It's a bummer that a sudden spike in fame was followed so sharply by sudden subsequent personal tragedy, Harwell clearly had a complex life in a way basically no one deserves
It's a constant in my running playlist and always makes me smile. Just a positive, fun song.
And they never seemed to be embarrassed about it success either, even though they had plenty of other enjoyable songs. Dude always seemed glad to sing it.
(I've seen enough footage of that concert to feel confident that is what he was doing)
Everytime something like this comes up, I learn new shit about alcohol. Wet brain? What the fuck
Makes me reconsider poisoning myself with the shit
You can tell it was a long time ago, because teens were going at it to Smashmouth and because a kid walked in to tell one of the participants that her mom had called and was currently waiting on the landline.
There are very, very few things that can plausibly explain away a Nazi salute or going COVID denier. Advanced alcoholism is one of those things.
I don’t think anyone is trying to forgive what he did but provide context. At that point of his life his brain had been destroyed to the point where I don’t want to hold him accountable for his actions now that he’s died.
I don’t begrudge anyone for making that choice but I know and have seen what alcohol/drugs can do firsthand so I’m probably more forgiving than most.