Is Brian Bitter??

Not really. I think it seems that way because he uses the soapbox as an outlet to vent sometimes.

Like that March 14 one about smoking. He sure seems angry. I think he is entirely wrong, personally, but whether or not you agree with him, it seems he took the whole thing way to hard.

But I think that's just how it comes off. It's hard to get a handle on how people really are just from reading a few paragraphs, particuarly when they were written in a moment of anger or whatever.

He sometimes comes off as a big baby to me. It's hard to interpret the written word, I know, but he just seems to bitch about everything! "Ban smoking everywhere! Don't eat meat, signing autographs sucks, Roger talks bad about me when I'm not around", and who could forget him going off on Michael Allred. He says some interesting things and his pics are great but geez, what a whiner.

I agree. Note his "I can't sing" post some months ago

I actually find it quite difficult to read sometimes- boring and from time to time a bit... childish... Like those wars with tabloids or Classic Rock or other stuff...

You'd be angry if you had that much hair too.

I think he comes across as being very bitter in his Soapbox. Maybe he should vent some of that anger into some new music....

"I think he comes across as being very bitter in his Soapbox. Maybe he should vent some of that anger into some new music.... "

yes, I totally agree!

Yep, he does come across as a whinging wee shite in alot of cases.

"You'd be angry if you had that much hair too."
LOL

Well, I still think he's a very nice guy, with very interesting views and a very good way to tell them.

I guess what's happening to you is that you are getting to know him better. That way, he's no longer a distant God, but a human being. And thank God he's human, I couldn't live with the idea that the Red Special would be an harp or something :)

Cheers,

Ogre-

From the Soapbox, march 14th. Does that look bitter? :D

"About 5am last night I was finishing my E-mails and a bit of guitar playing, even... and I looked out, and lo and behold it was snowing. So beautiful, so magical - I felt like a child as I put on some warm clothes and went out walking in the garden. I could feel the snow falling on my face, see the conifer trees decorated in the exquisite tracery of newly fallen icing sugar, feel the excitement in the air, almost hear that rustling sound as the flakes gently settled on my coat, and the surrounding white landscape. I scooped up some snow, slid around a bit .... and had that big feeling of being so very lucky to be alive.... It got quite serious, the settling snow - under my feet there was a white scrunchy carpet of 2 or three inches of that amazing stuff I used to make snowmen out of. I took a couple of photo's, running around like a kid .... then went to bed, feeling very blessed...... the only shadow being the fact that I couldn't share it with my loved ones.....

In the morning all the snow was gone. IT was raining, and somehow rain, try as I might, just didn't seem so magical .... When I was a kid we used to see a lot of snow - great drifts of it, making it hard to open the door, and ponds frozen over so you could walk over them, sometimes for weeks .... have things changed so much ? It certainly seems so - global warming ? Random Fluctuations? Other effects ....? I'm inclined to think it is we who are messing things up ..... Well, at least there's still a LITTLE magic in the air....

Love Bri "

Sometimes I like soapbox, sometimes it pisses me off. The smoking bit is bollox. How did he go on in the studio with Fred, Rog and John puffing away?? As far as a ban on smoking goes...Im a smoker and I couldnt give a shite what happens, but I dont need labelling for it!

Yes, big baby is spot on. Especially his admiration for his "heroes", like his comment on the message which Clapton left on his answerphone. Maybe he wants to come across as "one of us", but especially when the next day he tries to come across as the rock hero it's a bit childish. On the one hand I like it when people are natural and say what they think, even in danger of being ridiculed, on the other hand he writes a lot of bullshit on there and I think a person in his position should have learned to keep a lot of those thoughts in private. And I do have the feeling that not everything he says is honest, there's way too much promotion which is just disgusting.

I agree with Hank H. The style does rather come across like an online journal or blog, where the writer pours everything they have onto the page. He seems to be treating his fans as a completely open minded, caring audience, which a lot of the time just isn't the case.

Anyway it's nice that a "superstar" shows his thoughts to the world without caring of opposite views.I appreciate him.

It's normal that everyone can disagree about one or more subjects...we are different from him! (my hair is very short, for example... ;)