Belly up, fired, and retired

Yada wrote:

hutch wrote:
We have no idea why he left PJ. Just saying it wasn’t a huge obligation. They just don’t do that much anymore. An album every five years with short tours. He’s not Mike Watt or something doing 70 shows in 70 night roughing it. He had plenty of time to concentrate on other projects.

Worth $50 million? Not likely. And sure he could just be retiring…retiring from not all that much though…

who konws the accuracy of these things, but this actually says his net worth is even more!

Even if his net worth is 10 million or 5… that's enough to get you through the rest of your life… an d probably another generation of Camerons as well.

Are you expecting the Cameron clan to live some kind of Space-like existence going forward? I might wish that upon Kirk Cameron's offspring, but not for the offspring of the drummer of the two greatest bands in rock and roll history. Three, if he joins Foo Fighters.

There sure are a lot of drummers out there out of a job…Ringo’s boy, the Foos dude….now PJ

there is always founding RCHP and 1994 era Pearl Jam drummer Jack Irons
man, he's played with everyone

Stephen Perkins might make sense….

No shortage of options

vinly-Hatch wrote:
there is always founding RCHP and 1994 era Pearl Jam drummer Jack Irons
man, he's played with everyone

He's bipolar. Gives him twice as much time to split between multiple bands. Imagine what he could do if he was schizophrenic.

They should just work it out with David Abruzesse….thats what everyone wants to see….. but little hope of that happening

hutch wrote:
They should just work it out with David Abruzesse….thats what everyone wants to see….. but little hope of that happening

Do they still have differing taste in music? I wonder how the stick figure tattoo is working out?

Although his musical tastes were far different from the other members, Abbruzzese chose to join Pearl Jam, playing his first show on August 23, 1991. Initially, Abbruzzese was reluctant to join the band full-time. Then after his second show with Pearl Jam, Abbruzzese went straight down to his local tattoo parlor and had bassist Jeff Ament's stick figure drawing from the sleeve of the "Alive" single tattooed onto his left shoulder

Who was the dude that just got booted from Food Fighters? Maybe they'll just swap drummers.

Yada wrote:
Who was the dude that just got booted from Food Fighters? Maybe they'll just swap drummers.

Would be helpful if hr got the stick figure tattoo.

Space wrote:

Even if his net worth is 10 million or 5… that's enough to get you through the rest of your life… an d probably another generation of Camerons as well.

Are you expecting the Cameron clan to live some kind of Space-like existence going forward? I might wish that upon Kirk Cameron's offspring, but not for the offspring of the drummer of the two greatest bands in rock and roll history. Three, if he joins Foo Fighters.

a $5M annuity - AKA a safe, boring investment - can generate around $350K/year at the low end, per the googles.  get a decent (AKA non-hatch) financial advisor and you can expect more.  even after taxes, that will pay for a more-than-space-like existence.  add in a few gigs and guest appearances on others' albums, and the fact that he's been making PJ money for decades so he must have savings and paid off mortgage(s), and one can rest assured that the camerons will be doing just fine.  no yachts or private planes but certainly living in comfort.

I don't think I deserve the shade here… My S&P purchase on on 4/8/25 is up 24.55%!

Also annuities suck and any financial advisor worth their salt would steer you clear of them as you end up paying the servicing company tons of your capitol over time.

It's so easy to make automatic scheduled disbursements that Annuities are for the rich and stupid IMO


He could probably get a Yacht (a 50 ft boat) if he wanted, biggest expense would be it's annual cost to run and park it which could be in the $100k range depending where you are, that would put a big strain on his capital if no income was coming in

But we do know not to seek financial advice from Sweets

all that matters is he posted a picture of his cat on his soundcloud

https://on.soundcloud.com/8VdB8z89XMOLeIr3Nt

that cat is giving me the death stare!

vinly-Hatch wrote:
Also annuities suck and any financial advisor worth their salt would steer you clear of them as you end up paying the servicing company tons of your capitol over time.

It's so easy to make automatic scheduled disbursements that Annuities are for the rich and stupid IMO

reminder - i discounted my advice before i even gave it:

sweetcell wrote:
a $5M annuity - AKA a safe, boring investment -

i used an annuity as a shorthand.  i didn't want to get into describing a fully diversified portfolio that included alternative investments blah blah blah… at no point did i recommend annuities.

vinly-Hatch wrote:
But we do know not to seek financial advice from Sweets

anyone who takes my advice for anything is an idiot

Linda Yaccarino stepping down as CEO of X

So was she grok’ed or for unknown reasons the ad revenue wasn’t coming in

vinly-Hatch wrote:
Linda Yaccarino stepping down as CEO of X

elon has lost a bunch of senior folks recently - head of xAI, VP of software at Tesla, a few others… like rats on a sinking ship.


edit for clarity:  those who left in the past day include Uday Ruddarraju, xAI’s Head of Infrastructure; and David Lau, Tesla’s VP of Software Engineering.

I miss the old twitter a lot - but I am talking about 10-15 years ago- kind of regret deleting my account but Que sera sera…the site was going to crap anyway

while X has major issues, I wouldn't be dusting of the bugle yet
it still is a powerful player and getting a lot of use (and not only by nazis, although still a thing)
They definitely lost serious ground/money, but claim to have regained 96% of the advertisers it lost recently

xAI / Grok  is getting A LOT of praise in the AI world and is considered a top tier product and may lap X in terms of revenue and reach

I do think it's a vanity thing for Musk, so he'll be dumping a lot of money at it
easy to do when you are the richest guy in the world