May contain a heavy dose of Jim Kerr
“I am mightier than most. I am ‘the big I am’.” This self-congratulatory twaddle increasingly gets on my wick. You know, someone with a good measure of humility would just acknowledge that it was the 30th anniversary of the album’s release without all of this “we grew a backbone and did what most people can…
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I’m on the downward spiral again – doubting myself and feeling that I am incapable of being good at ANYTHING other than just drawing oxygen. It feels like everything I touch is the opposite of a Midas Touch. And now it really does feel like it IS all too late. I look at what it…
Today’s post from Jim – much like yesterday’s…I can feel it ramping up. I get that he loves Italy…but I always feel like…something kind of ugly overtakes him whenever SM play there. Something … “unattractive” happens. All the bravado and the smugness creeps in. Today when I read the post I thought “Geez, you’re sounding…
There’s that humility again… You know, he still had it a couple of weeks ago…but it ebbs and flows. And like the tides, Cancerians are influenced by the moon… Sometimes it gets the better of him…he starts to believe his own hype… And it usually coincides with Simple Minds being in Italy. That is what…
Back at a time when a beautiful young man could show some humility and knew what humble pie tasted like. He’s obviously forgotten the flavour…or it now sours his tastebuds…. A shame. Jim Kerr talking with Billy Sloan on Radio Clyde in March, 1984.
Two bits about the interviews today that I want to bring up. In the Scots magazine interview is this passage: “Despite such global acclaim, incredible wealth, and high-profile marriages to Patsy Kensit and Chrissie Hynde, Kerr has always maintained an air of humility. ‘It’s not in my nature to be any other way’, he says….
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