...I can define Vinnie like this :
" We don’t see the things the way they are. We see things the way WE are."
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My revised
response to that:That is very appropriate. I notice that even though a few of us show our frustration, we are all still here at the VVFF ROOTING for Vinnie to come back. Our belief in human nature helps us stick around and hope that he is just like us: compassionate. We still honor him. We see things through our frustrated eyes yet are more than willing to accept him if he would just come back. Some of us would wipe the slate so clean as to not even want an explanation from him: just come back and play.
We are frustrated yet loving people .
It seems as if Vinnie wants to use the excuse that we are all traitors and horrible people that have disrupted his comeback with our curiosities. I wonder if Vinnie ever wondered how Jimmy Page, Jeff Beck, Chet Atkins, among others, lived their lives? I'm sure he has read a book or two , watched movies, copped licks, and had a more than general interest in those people. Maybe after becoming so fluent on the instrument, Vinnie forgot what it is to be a fan.
Vinnie is a frustrated person that has the attitude of "Do it to them before they can do it to me."
Being a fan of the man and nothing more, makes me want to pursue the answers to what has given Vinnie this outlook when there are so many people that care about him. Are we really the things that are troubling this man?
Rumors, looks ,preferences,etc, don't matter to the fans that have stayed the course.
We want that overpowering attitude of the music that Vinnie delivered with ease. The music that empowered a lot of us to put the cock in our walk and attack the day. The jealousy that we felt at wishing to have his capabilities.The inspiration to pick up the guitar. The fun in air-guitaring in the mirror. We want THOSE feelings back. Vinnie , You took that with you when you abandoned us. That's not fair.
Sure we could search for a new guitar hero but it wouldn't be the same because no one is at your level.
You hit us at our core.
It is time to become a fan again and enjoy sharing your music.
FUCK ME FOR GIVING A SHIT.
