Reading up on Rob Flynn of Machine Head's description of how he and bassist Adam Duce are in therapy because they were otherwise ready to break up the band and it made me wonder: do we want our rock stars going through therapy? In part, therapy seems like the sort of soft-touch thing the machismo side of metal would never want to hear about, let alone contemplate, but I think there's also a touch of self-reliance that metal fans expect to come from the music. After all, we've all got stories about how the music got us through some tough times, and maybe there's an expectation that it should be able to help us through anything, no matter how difficult.
That's one side. The other side is comparing what happened with Machine Head - Flynn quits the band in Paris and prepares to board a flight back home the next day only to change his mind after Duce calls him up and says they need therapy to repair their relationship - with what happened to, say, Black Sabbath, where band members kept getting fired because they were trying to solve their problems with drugs. Frankly, I think I'd rather see stability.
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If there was stability in Black Sabbath we would have never gotten the Dio years, let alone Born Again, or some of those good post-Dio records.
If Dave Mustaine was capable of holding a lineup together we would still be stuck with Chris Poland and would have never gotten Marty Friedman or Rust in Peace.
Maybe James and Lars SHOULD have broken up. I wonder what Metallica would sound like with Paul Bostaph......
True, but we also wouldn't have gotten two Sabbath albums that time forgot. Mustaine is a special case: you can't have group therapy without a group, and we all know full well that Megadeth is Mustaine first and everyone else a distant second. Maybe Metallica with Skolnick instead of Hetfield? The timing would have been about right...
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