• Jimmy's Tweets •

[Trotskilicious]

he's even into better music than bill

[amoergosum]

Originally Posted by Trotskilicious

he's even into better music than bill

Here's the show Jimmy watched >>>



By the way...did you know that Tuck Andress is her uncle?

[Trotskilicious]

pitchfork is so horrible but still a goddamn resource for video like that, i have to admit

[amoergosum]

Congrats to @CatalanoMusic and thanks to everyone for the support in pushing our art to #1! This is a special day for Frank and I !

— Jimmy Chamberlin (@jccomplex) 29. Juli 2014

And thanks to the inimitable Percy Jones for fulfilling a life long musical dream for me! A true honor to play with you!#bucketlist

— Jimmy Chamberlin (@jccomplex) 29. Juli 2014

[D.]

Originally Posted by fuzzyroes

"Matthew Sams ‏@Somnistatic Jun 30

@jccomplex It was a blast!"

Wasn't this the guy who was ranting and raving about how much he hated Jimmy's performance with that Jazz band? LOL

Matt Samnostatic is a known fucking idiot.

[Cool As Ice Cream]

doesn't he post here? the guy who's always going to madame zuzu's and trying to lick the saucers that might have billy's fingerprints on them?

[Crying Mercury]

I think that JC uses everything he has gone through to put his life into perspective and make it better, which makes him seem very honest. As much as I love SP's music, Billy has some issues with handling any sort of critique about him. Jimmy has straightened his life and I hope BC can do the same.

[D.]

Originally Posted by Cool As Ice Cream

doesn't he post here? the guy who's always going to madame zuzu's and trying to lick the saucers that might have billy's fingerprints on them?

That's him. Booking open mic nights no on goes to. Wannabe insider.

Check out his work in this thread ICYMI: http://forums.netphoria.org/showthread.php?t=180960

[Cool As Ice Cream]

i had missed that, actually. wow.
did he leave after that?

[davin]

did that JP and the Cats album ever leak?

I remember trying to crowd source a group purchase of the album yeeeeeears ago, when a copy popped up. And even after telling the seller we wanted to return it to Jimmy, he sold it to someone else or something...

[Crying Mercury]

I wish we had a few copies of some JP and the Cats stuff floating around, I'm really curious to see what it sounds like. Here's JC playing with Eddie Karosa's Polka Party at about age 18:

[D.]

Originally Posted by Cool As Ice Cream

i had missed that, actually. wow.
did he leave after that?

Soon after, I believe.

[Trotskilicious]

Jimmy Chamberlin Fanatic, fan of TSP for six years

wow. six whole years.

[Crying Mercury]

Not a tweet, but I was checking out JC's Twitter and he has a nice new picture up.

https://pbs.twimg.com/profile_images.../-UPHcHhl.jpeg

Just to brighten up the day a bit.

[s0ss]

He's aging well considering all the drugs. Glad he dropped the frosted tips though.

[Crying Mercury]

s0ss, agreed. He looks really well and healthy.

[Ram27]

http://cdn.stereogum.com/files/2014/08/BillyCorgan.jpg

https://pbs.twimg.com/profile_images.../-UPHcHhl.jpeg

[Crying Mercury]

JC looks better to me, IMO, in terms of how well they are aging.

[s0ss]

Billy is ageing terribly considering all the cauliflower. Glad he dropped the frosted tips though.

[Saih]

Originally Posted by Crying Mercury

JC looks better to me, IMO, in terms of how well they are aging.

Jimmy by all rights should look fucking terrible - a heroin addict for what, more than 8 years? Smoke and drank heavily in probably the most physically demanding job in the band as drummer.

Billy avoids the sun like the plague, doesn't drink, doesn't smoke, is younger but still manages to be in terrible shape. My guess is he never exercises and also has a pretty shitty diet.

[Crying Mercury]

There was an interview a while back where BC said JC was an addict BEFORE entering the band, so probably 10+ years as a heroin addict, alcoholic, and heavy smoker.

[Order 66]

i think it's safe to say bollz is a lot more high strung.. stress can age you just as bad as cigarettes or alcohol or whatever

to play devil's advocate jimmy could've had fraxel treatment or something. kinda suspect he looked rougher about ten years ago. though the body can heal itself miraculously well over time

[Trotskilicious]

i'm telling you guys, jim was never a junkie and john melvoin was the smackhead

[Trotskilicious]

Originally Posted by Saih

Jimmy by all rights should look fucking terrible - a heroin addict for what, more than 8 years?

no he wasn't

is this shit bill said because there's LITERALLY NO WAY jim was ADDICTED to heroin and played drums the way he does for massively popular, heavily touring band

do you people know what heroin is? what heroin addiction is like?

[Crying Mercury]

Originally Posted by Order 66

i think it's safe to say bollz is a lot more high strung.. stress can age you just as bad as cigarettes or alcohol or whatever

to play devil's advocate jimmy could've had fraxel treatment or something. kinda suspect he looked rougher about ten years ago. though the body can heal itself miraculously well over time

This. And Jimmy has said himself he was a drug addict in the past, ended up sober for a year and then back on heroin around the MCIS tour. Look at him Machina era...he wasn't in great shape then. We do not know a bunch about Melvoin's history, it seems to be very mysterious. Jimmy did smoke a lot, do come back in the SD era and heroin binge there but the MCIS era seems to be a bit iffy regarding details. Heroin will fuck you up. Jimmy did say in a 2005 interview (audio) that drugs were a short part of his life, and that happened after the shows.

[Crying Mercury]

What Poots said. I am not certain he's wearing a polo, but it looks good.

[Ram27]

The only time JC looked noticeably bad (fashion aside) was during some of the early Zwan rock shows.


The fact that he was able to take all that heroin and still kick ass every night says a hell of a lot about him. He likely worked his ass off to get clean and healthy; that's how he got so incredible at drums.

He doesn't look like a washed up rockstar :ahem:, he looks like totally normal guy. I wouldn't give him a second glance if I didn't know who he was.

[panda show]

it all depends on the person and their mindset.

most people see heroin additcs as these total scary-looking washed up skinny limps that can't walk without taking a fix. which is true most of the time, but not always. besides, I don't think jimmy got to that point where he needed heroin that much.

jimmy used herion, but he wasn't stupid. he knew he has to go on like he normally does, because he is in a band and he is touring all the time. and he probably dealt with the side-effects of heroin really well. he never really let it 'get' to him, like it did to many other rock stars.

to be honest, I don't think he stopped using up until the late zwan era, although I could be wrong. who ever said that he was clean when he came back to the band in 1999 in the first place?

[Cool As Ice Cream]

yeah, sure, he had it completely under control. it's a mystery why he ever quit.

i believe you're right about the zwan era. i think he mentioned later that he had been clean for a certain number of years, and if you calculated it, he was still using (something) during zwan.

[panda show]

what I'm saying is, I doubt jimmy would have ever turned into a layne staley-like addict or whatever.