Quote
so nice


do you remember the time in Chico downstairs from Brickworks, like 10 years ago i think... he had a show upstairs and we were playing on your system downstairs... he came down after and deejayed on the sound a bit, which was cool... but when the bar closed he kept telling me to get him a white russian... and when i finally told him i didn't work for the bar OR HIM we had a nice little shouting match... hahaha total punkass

Quote
Diesel

Quote
so nice

Quote
Diesel
Eek A Mouse was heavily into cocaine. I had always heard the stories about him, then we got the same booking agent and did a winter tour with him. There wasn't 1 night I didn't see him doing coke. I have so many stories about Eek A Mouse and only 2 of them don't involve coke, but ill bet he was still on it at the time.

do you remember the time in Chico downstairs from Brickworks, like 10 years ago i think... he had a show upstairs and we were playing on your system downstairs... he came down after and deejayed on the sound a bit, which was cool... but when the bar closed he kept telling me to get him a white russian... and when i finally told him i didn't work for the bar OR HIM we had a nice little shouting match... hahaha total punkass

"Some body bring me a White Russian Bing Bing Bong", how could I forget that. Do you remember when someone finally got it for him he spilled it all over the pool table. I will never forget that. I also remember you telling him he would never play another show in Chico and he hasn't.

Quote
Diesel
. I also remember you telling him he would never play another show in Chico and he hasn't.

Quote
so nice

Quote
Diesel
Eek A Mouse was heavily into cocaine. I had always heard the stories about him, then we got the same booking agent and did a winter tour with him. There wasn't 1 night I didn't see him doing coke. I have so many stories about Eek A Mouse and only 2 of them don't involve coke, but ill bet he was still on it at the time.

do you remember the time in Chico downstairs from Brickworks, like 10 years ago i think... he had a show upstairs and we were playing on your system downstairs... he came down after and deejayed on the sound a bit, which was cool... but when the bar closed he kept telling me to get him a white russian... and when i finally told him i didn't work for the bar OR HIM we had a nice little shouting match... hahaha total punkass

Quote
Shockout Radio Family
I've been checking this thread today. For what it's worth, I'm putting in my two cents. I used to play keys on tour with Mouse for a good three year run or so. He would often say, "you can take the mouse of the ghetto but you can't take the ghetto out of the Mouse". I'm not going to try and be a character witness here, because we all know he's never exactly been the greatest role model. My two cents has to do with some of the people jumping on the band wagon here who may have been the first in line to hand a spliff to the Mouse, or take photos, or grab his sweatty mic, and fill in the chorus lines at shows. Until the law is done with him, and we can legally either call him a rapist or not, the fact is that Mouse has put a countless amount of good vibes out on this planet. At least 65% of us on this board have loved his tunes at some point or the other. How many of you would actually call him a rapist or cocaine head if you ran into him on the street? Yes, he's a big dude and it probably wouldn't be a good idea to do anything like that, but wouldn't you think twice even if he was as small as a mouse? Don't take me for a person who has the slightest tolarance for molesters or rapists. I think they are the sickest of all people on this planet. I've heard a lot of the same stories you have too. I just would like to see people hop off the band wagon a bit and just let the law take its course. And we all know Mouse isnt the first reggae artist from the foundation years who loved his cocaine.

Quote
Shockout Radio Family
I've been checking this thread today. For what it's worth, I'm putting in my two cents. I used to play keys on tour with Mouse for a good three year run or so. He would often say, "you can take the mouse of the ghetto but you can't take the ghetto out of the Mouse". I'm not going to try and be a character witness here, because we all know he's never exactly been the greatest role model. My two cents has to do with some of the people jumping on the band wagon here who may have been the first in line to hand a spliff to the Mouse, or take photos, or grab his sweatty mic, and fill in the chorus lines at shows. Until the law is done with him, and we can legally either call him a rapist or not, the fact is that Mouse has put a countless amount of good vibes out on this planet. At least 65% of us on this board have loved his tunes at some point or the other. How many of you would actually call him a rapist or cocaine head if you ran into him on the street? Yes, he's a big dude and it probably wouldn't be a good idea to do anything like that, but wouldn't you think twice even if he was as small as a mouse? Don't take me for a person who has the slightest tolarance for molesters or rapists. I think they are the sickest of all people on this planet. I've heard a lot of the same stories you have too. I just would like to see people hop off the band wagon a bit and just let the law take its course. And we all know Mouse isnt the first reggae artist from the foundation years who loved his cocaine.

Quote
Diesel

Quote
rossta8888

Quote
Diesel

Quote
rossta8888
So Eek A Mouse was in to cocaine. I wondered about that. Sad. You got it right East bay herbalist, rapist and molesters are foul human beings. Everyone makes mistakes but that is a hard one to look past.

Eek A Mouse was heavily into cocaine. I had always heard the stories about him, then we got the same booking agent and did a winter tour with him. There wasn't 1 night I didn't see him doing coke. I have so many stories about Eek A Mouse and only 2 of them don't involve coke, but ill bet he was still on it at the time.

Diesel what band do you play for?

I've been with The Mystic Roots band since 2001. For a few years we backed Pato Banton and while on tour with Pato we did a winter tour with Eek

Quote
mosquito killer
ites rossta8888. i love your positivity!

the mistake comes in thinking that because you know the lyrics/music, you know the artist. to assume that reggae artists adhere to the things they sing about, or for some that they even care to, is folly.

what would you do if you discovered a member of midnite enjoyed drinking hard alcohol or snorting cocaine? what if, at times of frustration, they beat their woman? in no way at all am i saying this is the case, but i am saying it could be. and i am only saying midnite because i know how much you love them. would you love their music less? would you still be able to get edification from their works?

love the music; put down idol worship.

m.

Quote
Diesel

Quote
rossta8888

Quote
Diesel

Quote
rossta8888
So Eek A Mouse was in to cocaine. I wondered about that. Sad. You got it right East bay herbalist, rapist and molesters are foul human beings. Everyone makes mistakes but that is a hard one to look past.

Eek A Mouse was heavily into cocaine. I had always heard the stories about him, then we got the same booking agent and did a winter tour with him. There wasn't 1 night I didn't see him doing coke. I have so many stories about Eek A Mouse and only 2 of them don't involve coke, but ill bet he was still on it at the time.

Diesel what band do you play for?

I've been with The Mystic Roots band since 2001. For a few years we backed Pato Banton and while on tour with Pato we did a winter tour with Eek

Quote
rossta8888

Quote
Diesel

Quote
rossta8888
So Eek A Mouse was in to cocaine. I wondered about that. Sad. You got it right East bay herbalist, rapist and molesters are foul human beings. Everyone makes mistakes but that is a hard one to look past.

Eek A Mouse was heavily into cocaine. I had always heard the stories about him, then we got the same booking agent and did a winter tour with him. There wasn't 1 night I didn't see him doing coke. I have so many stories about Eek A Mouse and only 2 of them don't involve coke, but ill bet he was still on it at the time.

Diesel what band do you play for?

Quote
mosquito killer
i'm sure MLK Jr didn't preach that adultary was fine, ever. so indeed, your hero, like all of us, was hypocritical at some point in his life. shades of gray are shades of gray.

i have the utmost of respect for you jeff; you don't come off as preachy to me because i know the weight you attribute to your actions.

that said, i will always get upliftment still from eek-a-mouse's "creation" just as you will from MLK Jr's "i have a dream".

m.

Quote
J_72
My problem is, the more I learned about artists over the years, the less I liked the music. I have a hard time listening to spiritual/conscious messages knowing the artist is a hypocritical asshole. Although he cheated on his wife, I respect MLK Jr. because he didn't preach clean living and all that, he preached civil rights. That's the difference to me. If I found out the Dalai Lama was doing cocaine and beating women, I would sign him off from my own spiritual path. You can't tell people to live clean and talk about righteousness, then call others Babylon and stuff, and not be on the up and up.

Quote
papajoshua

Quote
mosquito killer
ites rossta8888. i love your positivity!

love the music; put down idol worship.

m.

Agreed...Great messages are delivered by imperfect humans!