Former Smash Mouth lead singer Steve Harwell is receiving hospice care treatment at home, a representative confirmed to CBS News Sunday.
The artist — whose band is known for hits including “All Star” and “Walkin’ on the Sun” — is being cared for by his fiancé, according to representative Robert Hayes.
Harwell was previously diagnosed with cardiomyopathy, a form of heart disease.
Dude is dying from liver failure from alcoholism. Wikipedia is updated with source.
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What did he do?
Jerk very much proved he was not the sharpest tool in the shed over the past decade or so
I’m fucking dying laughing
And the years stopped coming.
Smash Mouth story time:
At the ‘height’ of their career, Smash Mouth and Harwell were responsible for one of the funniest and most bizarre concert experiences of my lifetime.
Smash Mouth performed at Universal Studios during one of the Mardi Gras theme nights. The concert took place at an outdoor stage just after the nightly parade.
They were terrible. Smash Mouth refused to play either of their one hit wonders, instead they chose to struggle through a bunch of unknown songs. The crowd grew more and more agitated as the set list wore on. Eventually, enough was enough.
Freshly armed with Mardi Gras beads, the audience switched from booing to hurling the beads at Harwell. It wasn’t just one guy. Beads were flying at the band from all corners of the audience. In defiance, Smash Mouth continued to play whatever shitty song they were on about while actively dodging incoming bead fire.
Finally, Harwell took a string of beads center-mass. That was it. The crowd emerged victorious. The horrible Smash Mouth music stopped. Harwell ran off stage with the band following close behind. Beads continued to rain in from the crowd as Smash Mouth made their escape.
But it wasn’t over. Chants of “All-Star” echoed through the audience-turned-angry-mob. The people wanted their pound of flesh, in the form of a early 2000’s radio pop song. Someone backstage convinced Smash Mouth that running away from their fans was a bad look. The band returned several minutes later and angrily performed ‘All-Star’. The beads continued to rain in, and the band played on.
TLDR: I watched Smash Mouth get pummeled with Mardi Gras beads during a shitty, halfhearted performance.
It’s like a bead version of The Blues Brothers!
Smash Mouth performed at Universal Studios during one of the Mardi Gras theme nights. The concert took place at an outdoor stage just after the nightly parade.
Holy shit I was like 12 when I saw them at Universal during their Mardi Gras nights but when I saw them, they did the hits.
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I have mixed feelings about Smash Mouth. On the one hand, they’ve been my guilty music pleasure since high school.
On the other, Harwell never quite recovered from his son’s death and became a shitty human being, between the throwing out nazi salutes and him and Greg Camp being anti-vaxxers. It’s just a damn shame all around, but I’m still sorry to see him go out this way.
Don’t forget the time he tried to fight someone because they threw bread on stage, while the band plays a chill instrumental of the verse from All star
Yeah, he had issues for sure. But I always held out hope that he’d turn it around.
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he’s dying of liver failure, not the cardiomyopathy.
Funny lyrics!
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Me either I only found out earlier today. He is a great singer. All Star being one of my favourite songs.
RIP Norm Macdonald
Well that was quick… He’s already passed away. They gave him a week to live and he didn’t even last the night.
Goddammit, now he’ll NEVER eat the eggs.
the dude is on hospice, yet has a finacé? that’s peculiar
What’s so peculiar about that? People get engaged all the time at all points in their lives. It might blow your teenage mind, but this dude is dying young, sadly
Have we stopped using the gendered fiancée/fiancé?
Wasnt Smash Mouth also one of those vehemently anti-vaxxer bands that played at that motorcycle rally and was refusing covid mandates during lockdowns and shit?
Despite the memes using his music a lot, from what I understand the band has been pretty shitty for a long time.
I mean, musically they were always shitty.
I mean, they were looking kind of dumb with their finger and their thumb in the shape of an L on their forehead.
Who cares? The dude’s about to die. Jesus.
He’s been an alcoholic for awhile, I he was doing good and then his son died and he fell off the wagon a few years later, I don’t really think he’s been in the right state of mind since
In six months, I lost my dog, grandma, mom, and cat. I can tell you 5 years since and I’ve never given a Nazi salute. Although I went from a 4.0 student to 3.5 my last two quarters of college while I was going through that.
I’m a nurse and I don’t expect much from anyone with end stage liver failure. They start getting encephalopathic and acting nuts. Then I need to give them lactulose and they poop everywhere.
It’s not an excuse for him. Nobody gets a free pass for being shitty. Give credit to people who can rise above shitty situations.
But I hate your line of thinking. I’ve seen it used to bash suicide victims too. Everyone handles mental health differently.
Nnnnoooo, there’s sympathy for people who commit suicide. There is no sympathy for Nazis. I’ve known that dealt with extreme depression and didn’t make it but I can tell you they didn’t throw nazi salutes during their long fight.
Once again, that line of thinking “I faced this and I never…” is the EXACT same line of thinking people use against suicide victims.
People are responsible for their actions. I’m just advising against the anti-empathy line of thinking where people can’t even imagine that others’ experiences are different. Because usually I hear it when people put down suicide victims.
well, he has literally been an alcoholic for decades and at this point had heart issues and Wernicke encephalopathy, he was literally not all there anymore.
Also as others have said, your personal experience is just that, your personal experience. It doesn’t apply to everyone. His story is an unfortunate one, and it’s clear that before he succumbed to his disease that lead to more illness he was an awesome, fun loving, inclusive dude.
Man, judging by that video my man was already walking dead. I’d be surprised if he even knew where he was
Yes everything is about nazis. Love when people cry wolf.
Also we didn’t see the entertainment outlet link the first time.
I guess somebody doing a Nazi salute isn’t about Nazis? Plenty of things you could have raised this objection about but it seems pretty inapt here.
Also we didn’t see the entertainment outlet link the first time.
It’s a video … of an entertainer.
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Impressive that that is what you took from this story.
Aren’t they pronounced the same?
Disclaimer: I am American.
think it changes which syllable you stress? fiAHNce vs fianSAY.
Maybe he’s engaged to a man. The article doesn’t say.
That’s true, maybe he’s bi/pan, or the person is NB
I like nb Miatas, but prefer the na chassis myself
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i’m not gonna be surprised to find out that the front man for a band calling itself Smash Mouth is a fan of solving things with violence… a.k.a. a fascist…
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