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"You Are Just A Captain And I Am REM"

  
 
Shortfatdyke
12:31 / 20.03.02
http://news.bbc.co.uk/hi/english/uk/newsid_1883000/1883523.stm

the guitarist in my favourite band is an arse. official.
 
 
Matthew Fluxington
12:37 / 20.03.02
Texas, Georgia, whatever.

I think it's a bit unfair to characterize Peter by this embarassingly awful episode - by all accounts, he's been a gentleman for years now. It just sounds like he needs to go to rehab, badly. This might be "rock bottom".
 
 
The Return Of Rothkoid
12:48 / 20.03.02
It was more the fact that the cock-knocker couldn't tell the difference between the drinks trolley and a CD player that got me.

Arsewit.
 
 
tSuibhne
15:01 / 20.03.02
My favorite bit though is

quote: Mr Buck denies one charge of being drunk on an aircraft last April

So um, if he wasn't drunk, then how does he explain his actions?
 
 
Shortfatdyke
16:55 / 20.03.02
i've heard buck's a nice bloke, actually, and incredibly embarrassed by the whole incident. on one level the episode makes me laugh - how many thousand feet up was the plane when he tried to open the exit? - but having shared a 10 hour flight with a 'friend' who almost had a fight with another passenger, i'm rather hoping he gets rather a kick up the arse for this.

oh, and apparently a lot of people have been following this story - at the nelson mandela concert in trafalgar square just after it, buck got truckloads of yoghurt pots chucked at him.
 
 
Nelson Evergreen
18:18 / 20.03.02
I'd throw yoghurt pots at someone on a charge of 'damaging British Airways crockery'.
 
 
gridley
18:23 / 20.03.02
For some reason the phrase "I am REM" makes me think this was a case of mistaken identity and the culprit was actually BIZARRO PETER BUCK!

"Me am sorry!" bizarro told reporters. "Me fly in plane bad!"
 
 
Mystery Gypt
22:35 / 20.03.02
i think we can all sympathize. i've been so drunk i claimed to be michael stipe, too.
 
 
the rake at the gates
15:10 / 21.03.02
wasn't there something in the paper about him taking some new medication and then drinking on top of it, which he blames for the whole incident?
 
 
Shortfatdyke
18:23 / 21.03.02
that's the latest, yes. it looked like he was freaking out, big time, and apparently thought he was in 'some bizarre disneyland hotel' when in fact he was in a police cell.

now that's begging for some hilarious one-liners, if only i could think of some.....
 
 
The Return Of Rothkoid
19:02 / 21.03.02
quote:Originally said by Peter Buck:
'some bizarre disneyland hotel' Could there be any other kind of Disneyland hotel? Yeeks.
 
 
Ganesh
21:32 / 21.03.02
Don't mix alcohol and benzos, kids...
 
 
grant
12:41 / 27.03.02
Bono has come to his defense, apparently.

"I have never ever seen him drunk," said Bono in court. "I have absolutely never seen him taking drugs. I just wanted to stand up and be counted. I don't know what must have happened to him. It is certainly a bizarre event and unusual. He is a very quiet man. It is hard to get him to go on tour because he loves his kids so much. I had to twist his arm to get him to a boxing match once because he thought it was too aggressive a sport."

Among other things, Buck is accused of toppling over a breakfast trolley, consuming 15 glasses of wine, causing yogurt to be spewed all over other passengers and hostesses, and attempting to exit the plane midflight. Buck has testified that he took a potent sleeping pill on departure and doesn't remember anything afterwards.
 
 
Ganesh
12:59 / 27.03.02
Benzodiazepines mixed with alcohol can have an unpredictably disinbiting effect, often leading to uncharacteristic aggression. His explanation's certainly a plausible one.
 
 
bio k9
18:32 / 27.03.02
"You Are Just A Captain And I Am REM" will be the name of my first solo album.
 
 
Graham the Happy Scum
02:45 / 28.03.02
Wasn't Bill Berry REM though? (Judging from their post-New Adventures output)
 
 
Utopia
19:04 / 05.04.02
petey buck cleared of charges!

i'm sure it's on www.vh1news.com
 
 
Matthew Fluxington
19:18 / 05.04.02
hey! Up and Reveal are pretty good records. Up in particular is quite good - "Suspicion", "Sad Professor", "Parakeet", "Lotus", "The Apologist" - those are very strong, accomplished songs.
 
  
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