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latebloomer
It's really disgusting how many artists have gotten ripped off, poor guy didn't even have enough money to eat.
It's a very sad story, he was so talented.
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vincentwhirlwind
A sit down with John Gotti and Paul Castellano?
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latebloomer
It's really disgusting how many artists have gotten ripped off, poor guy didn't even have enough money to eat.
It's a very sad story, he was so talented.
I think you can take that bit of info with a pinch of salt.........even on welfare in the Uk...(until recently, since the Conservatives = US Republicans (2010) came into power and foodbanks are all over the place), anyway, in the 1980s - 90s even welfare always afforded someone enough to eat if not anything much more......
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latebloomer
It's really disgusting how many artists have gotten ripped off, poor guy didn't even have enough money to eat.
It's a very sad story, he was so talented.
I think you can take that bit of info with a pinch of salt.........even on welfare in the Uk...(until recently, since the Conservatives = US Republicans (2010) came into power and foodbanks are all over the place), anyway, in the 1980s - 90s even welfare always afforded someone enough to eat if not anything much more......
Not to mention the guy had enough money to stay high. Not condoning the rip offs which undoubtedly happened. In that regard he was pretty much like everyone else! The survivors learned from it (see the Stones). If the guy had cleaned up his act he could have bounced back.
Mariott was an immense talent. Ogden's Nut Gone Flake is fairly lost classic. I remember seeing it on 8 track and cassette in bargain bins in what were pretty obviously bootleg formats. The sound was always godawful. I am guessing the money never reached him.
What a voice.
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Sammy Hagar
Hagar recalls how he learned everything there was to know about being a frontman from watching the likes of the J. Geils Band's Peter Wolf and Humble Pie's Steve Marriott. But the latter rock hero was a lovable "fuckup" who pulled some crazy drug-induced stunts.
"I remember one time in Chatanooga, Tennessee," writes Hagar. "We were sitting in the hotel room of tour accountant Jerry Berg, picking up our $10 per diems on Monday morning, first in line for the weekly payout. Jerry was filling out the paper, sign here, when Steve came busting into his room, @#$%& up in the middle of the day. He'd been up all night doing blow and drinking. 'How much @#$%& money we got, mate?,' he said. Jerry started to close his briefcase and Steve punched him in the mouth, grabbed the briefcase, and dashed out the door."
According to Hagar, Marriott made off with "forty thousand dollars and change", and was later found in jail, arrested with a bunch of drugs. But they just got him out of jail and the tour continued, seventies-style.
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latebloomer
It's really disgusting how many artists have gotten ripped off, poor guy didn't even have enough money to eat.
It's a very sad story, he was so talented.
I think you can take that bit of info with a pinch of salt.........even on welfare in the Uk...(until recently, since the Conservatives = US Republicans (2010) came into power and foodbanks are all over the place), anyway, in the 1980s - 90s even welfare always afforded someone enough to eat if not anything much more......
Not to mention the guy had enough money to stay high. Not condoning the rip offs which undoubtedly happened. In that regard he was pretty much like everyone else! The survivors learned from it (see the Stones). If the guy had cleaned up his act he could have bounced back.
Mariott was an immense talent. Ogden's Nut Gone Flake is fairly lost classic. I remember seeing it on 8 track and cassette in bargain bins in what were pretty obviously bootleg formats. The sound was always godawful. I am guessing the money never reached him.
What a voice.
I think the lifestyle and the music were just more important to him that prudent financial planning. Jenny Marriott sums it up pretty well from this 1999 interview by John Hellier:
"With regards to the money, well the guys in the band wrongly assumed that it was being safely invested for them in things like New York taxicabs and other things. After 19 tours they presumed that at sometime they would be able to sit back and enjoy the fruit of their labours. Having said that they were very extravagant on the road, they would have suites in hotel rooms, large limos and jets. They’d spend, spend, spend and nobody advised them otherwise. As with the Small Faces they were spending more than they were earning. The assets that they had assumed they had accumulated had disappeared into thin air. The story of Steve’s Life! I suppose it was their own fault really for not taking responsibility for their own finances. They certainly didn’t act in an adult way. To be fair to the management I think they did try and stop some of the excesses on the road but the band didn’t want to know. It was their justification for being on the road in the end, just to live this crazy life style."
She goes on to say that drugs are what broke up their marriage and no doubt this was a major factor in Steve's myriad of financial problems.
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vincentwhirlwind
A sit down with John Gotti and Paul Castellano?
Yeah well..........kinda makes you wonder what is real and what's not with that article.
That said I was/am a big Humble Pie fan. Always thought Marriott and excellent guitarist, song writer, and singer.