INXS - J.D. Fortune Break-Up

[kim]

It's been awhile now since the demise of J.D. Fortune as singer
for the group INXS and I was wondering if anyone had heard
what the real reasons were behind the "parting of ways".

I've caught a few interviews on a couple of Canadian news
channels but it appears that good ole J.D. just ain't willing
to spill the beans. Haven't had the chance to hear what the
bands take on the situation was?

The guy comes across like a lost soul, looking for the first
hand up that is out there, willing to assist in picking himself
up off of the floor???

I was wondering if he lapsed back into a cocaine addiction that
he supposedly kicked a few years ago?

Any info on this situation?

Thanks
Kim

[rtbuck]

I haven't heard anything but maybe he'll be finding work as an Elvis Impersonator once again. I didn't think he was going to last & after hearing 'Switch'(the album he was on)I knew the band were going nowhere.The single "Pretty Vegas" was a pretty cool song which did pretty well but the rest of the album sucked & there was no chance following that single with anything else off that album

[kim]

May 9, 2009 11:11:15 GMT -5 @rtbuck said:

I haven't heard anything but maybe he'll be finding work as an Elvis Impersonator once again. I didn't think he was going to last & after hearing 'Switch'(the album he was on)I knew the band were going nowhere.The single "Pretty Vegas" was a pretty cool song which did pretty well but the rest of the album sucked & there was no chance following that single with anything else off that album

Funny you should mention that one Bucky.
It's the only track that I really like as well.
My wife really liked a number of tunes from the release
which is strange for her?...but yeah, I was wondering
what was next...obviously not a helluva lot.

One report said that they went thorugh a couple of
frontliners, one mentioned being Terence Trent D'Arby.

One other site mentions the fact that J.D. did in fact
fall back into the cocaine habit and is why they
pretty much 86'd him at the airport when they did.

Funny though, I read a couple of offerings from Aussies
on a blog that I checked out in that they kinda warmed
up to J.D. and wondered why he wasn't offered some support
considering what they went through with Hutch?

Must have been an ordeal previously and figured it best
to cut bait rather than fish?

Thanks
Kim

[Equinox]

I don't think it's a coincidence that Pretty vegas was a song he wrote and performed on the selection show. I really think they took him because of that song.