Yes.
Don't mean they are right.
Your awareness of your own fan-dom in this case either undermines your argument, or means your awareness is slowly switching-on.
He's just a poor addicted rich boy, that can't turn up at gigs and cannot remember his lyrics.
Remember the Wildhearts? Thye had similar problems, but guess what! They turned up for their gigs, played them well, delighted their fans...and could do it in any state.
Even that Williams character has a few "moments", so folk say. And he manages to perform.
Take a look at Shane McGowan, if you like. He's almost completely incoherent between songs, but when he sings he has the power of the Irish bards.
(A power Joe Strummer also had, a lamented and missed artist. I toured with a band supporting the Pogues on the tour Strummer stood in for Shane for, so got to meet Strummer then).
Doherty as an artist can't continue while his junkieness continues. He just isn't up to standard.
If you write for the music papers, then please stop saying how good he is, when he isn't at the moment, and stop focusing on/glorifying his addiction. It does him no favours. He needs help getting off the drugs if he is ever to be able to live up to the hype.
If you continue to do this hero-worship thing he'll never clean up, and you and writers like you will be complicit in his eventual death. You are killing what you love because it sells papers.
How does that feel?
And the fact Alan McGee is behind him basically explains why the music press have performed like such fawning puppies over Doherty.
Despite selling Creation, McGee remains a very powerful industry force in UK music.
Please don't be fooled though. Old school hype does not a great talent make.
Doherty will never be up to scratch now until he cleans his act up.
get with it!
