billy looks like a cock here, sure. but i feel for him a lot. it costs a lot of money to postpone an entire leg of an 18-month-long, multinational arena tour. billy is the bandleader but when you're on tour you are beholden to a lot of people who are much more powerful. it sounds like they had a lot of serious sit-downs with jim to make sure the train wouldn't derail, and jim overestimated his ability to keep the monkey off his back during a marathon tour of 2+ hour sets every night under the demands of billy's cruel perfectionism.
being lied to by a junkie is a shitty feeling and i fully understand the resentful tone in all those post melvoin interviews.
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