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[quote=Anonymous]This happened to me first hand.

I became friends with my favorite musician, after he had been my favorite for several years. He himself wasn’t super famous, but had toured with several *very* famous bands.

He was charming in the beginning, but I soon figured out he was a very disturbed individual with a deep resentment of women and potential for violence. He also had some truly bizarre behavior, such as FaceTiming me and then proceeding to use the bathroom while talking with me.

His behavior got more erratic, and culminated in him physically assaulting an ex and soiling her home with his feces. He was arrested, and died shortly after - I suspect suicide, but it could have been an OD.

I’ve never been able to listen to his music since. What I once thought were profound, deep, thoughtful lyrics I now see for what they are - rants from a man with a LOT of anger and mental illness. He had an album released posthumously, I knew exactly what incidents were being referenced in the lyrics, and he completely distorted what had happened.

But, he was an absolutely brilliant musician. And I suspect that his mental illness is part of what made him such a brilliant musician - I do think many of the most gifted artists are also the most damaged. I suspect he was bipolar, and while that was his downfall, his periods of mania produced some amazing work. [/quote]

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