Is Andrew Dead?

[Brad]

Does anyone have any proof otherwise? Just what the f**k is going these days!

[CtrlAltDelete]

Does anyone have any proof otherwise? Just what the **** is going these days!

No, Andrew isn't dead, only his interest in making music.

[Thea]

he's undead isn't he?
doesn't explain his recent fashion choices though....

[Almiche V]

Steady Methedrome. I hate to see people crack under the pressure.

[Loki]

I'd always assumed he'd crawled so far up his own arse he couldn't find his way back.

[aaron_quinton]

c'mon, were he really dead the new album would be released, as he probally has something in his will that says that is the only condition on which new material may come out, but let's please not joke about things we may regret....

[James Blast]

it's an over 40s thing, trust me on this one

[CtrlAltDelete]

it's an over 40s thing, trust me on this one

I have to agree with this. Although I'm not close to 40 (Ok, closer than I want to admit), your priorities shift when you get older. I can't imagine that too many people want to prance about on stage in tight leather pants as they ease themselves into retirement age. Or maybe some do. But it's obvious Andrew doesn't want to do that anymore. And I respect someone who does exactly what they want to do instead of what others wish they would do. I'm sure that if he put out an album now it would be sub-par since his heart wouldn't be in it. Then again, if he were offered a tidy sum of money...

[claws]

shall we assume he's alive as long as his homepage is up?

[CtrlAltDelete]

shall we assume he's alive as long as his homepage is up?

Or maybe it's still up because he's dead and no one else knows the password to change/delete/update it.

However, my bet is still placed firmly on a priority shift.

[Loki]

Then again, if he were offered a tidy sum of money...

Hasn't someone already mentioned on here that Andrew is (relatively) minted? An ex-pat LA based record-biz insider who said he actually had his head screwed on from the money making perspective quite early on? (Someone else must have put their hand in their sky rocket for the drugs ... ) Why else did he start claiming songwriting/production credits at an early stage? And the resultant royalties.

Which is why he'd be happy to do an album for a £250k advance, whereas Mr Whammy wants to hold out for the whole nine yards. Andrew doesn't have to work again. Ever. Enough to cover the fags and catfood bill and he's happy.

Sad. But true.

[Andy TG]

c'mon, were he really dead the new album would be released, as he probally has something in his will that says that is the only condition on which new material may come out, but let's please not joke about things we may regret....

IF that is the case, perhaps he should fake his own death - like "Reginald Perrin" so WE would finally get a bloody album!

[CtrlAltDelete]

Then again, if he were offered a tidy sum of money...

Hasn't someone already mentioned on here that Andrew is (relatively) minted? An ex-pat LA based record-biz insider who said he actually had his head screwed on from the money making perspective quite early on? (Someone else must have put their hand in their sky rocket for the drugs ... ) Why else did he start claiming songwriting/production credits at an early stage? And the resultant royalties.

Which is why he'd be happy to do an album for a £250k advance, whereas Mr Whammy wants to hold out for the whole nine yards. Andrew doesn't have to work again. Ever. Enough to cover the fags and catfood bill and he's happy.

Sad. But true.

He's said on numerous occasions that he takes on projects/tours he wouldn't otherwise go near just to keep his Benz running.

And I believe I also heard him quote the necessary amount at somewhere around 2 million. Someone correct me if I'm wrong here, but I think I have the article around somewhere...

[Erudite]

I have it on good authority from my mate Dave, who got it from a friend of a friend of a friend of Andrew's cleaning lady, that he's currently playing bass in a dodgy pub covers band gigging in the West Yorkshire area.
You've probably seen him - weedy looking bloke with receding grey hair and a fag hanging out of the corner of his mouth, dressed in tracky bottoms and Dunlop "green flash" trainers.

[Mrs. Snowey]

I have it on good authority from my mate Dave, who got it from a friend of a friend of a friend of Andrew's cleaning lady, that he's currently playing bass in a dodgy pub covers band gigging in the West Yorkshire area.
You've probably seen him - weedy looking bloke with receding grey hair and a fag hanging out of the corner of his mouth, dressed in tracky bottoms and Dunlop "green flash" trainers.

[James Blast]

Dunlop "green flash" trainers.

don't tell QB

[Quiff Boy]

green flash ROOL!

[James Blast]

green flash ROOL!

too late, too late

[Padstar]

I have it on good authority from my mate Dave, who got it from a friend of a friend of a friend of Andrew's cleaning lady, that he's currently playing bass in a dodgy pub covers band gigging in the West Yorkshire area.
You've probably seen him - weedy looking bloke with receding grey hair and a fag hanging out of the corner of his mouth, dressed in tracky bottoms and Dunlop "green flash" trainers.

I THOUGHT Fred looked familiar!!!!!!! Ill have to fire him for misleading us as to his identity at once !!!!

Hes not even that good a bass player and i wondered why he kept trying to plug our drummer Dave into the wall.... they almost came to blows!

Paddy.

[Erudite]

I have it on good authority from my mate Dave, who got it from a friend of a friend of a friend of Andrew's cleaning lady, that he's currently playing bass in a dodgy pub covers band gigging in the West Yorkshire area.
You've probably seen him - weedy looking bloke with receding grey hair and a fag hanging out of the corner of his mouth, dressed in tracky bottoms and Dunlop "green flash" trainers.

I THOUGHT Fred looked familiar!!!!!!! Ill have to fire him for misleading us as to his identity at once !!!!

Hes not even that good a bass player and i wondered why he kept trying to plug our drummer Dave into the wall.... they almost came to blows!

Paddy.

[dead stars]

I had a dream he had died. I cried a lot too.
According to psychanalysts, that's revealing. (When you dream about the death or funeral of the analyst, means you're cured.)

[Black Biscuit]

it's an over 40s thing, trust me on this one

---- Dunno if this reply addresses your question/speculation/conjecture exactly (or at all) but I seem to recall a media report a few months back in which someone claimed that the brain cells responsible for producing feelings of anxiety gradually die off over the course of time, or cease to reproduce (or reproduce in as large numbers as when we're younger), or some such thing.

The early 20s can be a stressful time, with career and marriage/relationship issues. It is also a time when people are less likely to accept the world as they find it - lots of issues to do with ideals and idealism, etc - plus heaps of pseudo-intellectual 'stuff' that they have to work through, too.

People are hungry (usually in more ways than one) and are eager to make their mark at a younger age. Keeping that hunger is a challenge if you are having problems with inspiration. I seem to remember David Bowie trying to get the lust for life back with his Tin Machine project at one time.

There's many ways of looking at it. I have a friend in L.A. who is one of the most highly-paid commercial photographers in the US. He is in his early 50s, living in Beverley Hills 90210 and already semi-retired. I said to him, "You're making millions! Most creative types are broke. Why are you walking away from it ?!?"

All he said in reply is, "Robert, I've been there, I've done that."

And that is all he said. It reinforced for me that everyone has to change and indeed goes through changes. Those who don't, run out of time. Death is a choice we make when we have nowhere else to go. We decide that time for ourselves. People who see you for the first time in a long while can either laugh at how much you've changed or laugh at how much you haven't changed. If you've accomplished what you want to in your chosen field, move on. One of the keys to success in any field of human endeavour is that you've got to want it - more than anything.

Oh, and people are happiest when they are learning. It's called 'feeding your mind', although I don't think this is what Grace Slick had in mind when she used that phrase. Okay, enough from me....

[Black Biscuit]

I have it on good authority from my mate Dave, who got it from a friend of a friend of a friend of Andrew's cleaning lady, that he's currently playing bass in a dodgy pub covers band gigging in the West Yorkshire area.
You've probably seen him - weedy looking bloke with receding grey hair and a fag hanging out of the corner of his mouth, dressed in tracky bottoms and Dunlop "green flash" trainers.

My mate's cousin knows a bloke who used to work with a guy whose next door neighbour has a friend who....

[EraserHead]

I have it on good authority from my mate Dave, who got it from a friend of a friend of a friend of Andrew's cleaning lady, that he's currently playing bass in a dodgy pub covers band gigging in the West Yorkshire area.
You've probably seen him - weedy looking bloke with receding grey hair and a fag hanging out of the corner of his mouth, dressed in tracky bottoms and Dunlop "green flash" trainers.

Is'nt that ,The New Model Army ?

[Chairman Bux]

I have it on good authority from my mate Dave, who got it from a friend of a friend of a friend of Andrew's cleaning lady, that he's currently playing bass in a dodgy pub covers band gigging in the West Yorkshire area.
You've probably seen him - weedy looking bloke with receding grey hair and a fag hanging out of the corner of his mouth, dressed in tracky bottoms and Dunlop "green flash" trainers.

Is'nt that ,The New Model Army ?

Pshaw!