What irritates me so much, not that you were addressing me, but I have an answer anyway
, is that you weren't around to *share* your opinions of him as a person while there was no controversy around. Anytime something negative happens with the band, like Scott's weigh gain (rollseyes), the supposed break-up or something else, all the people who have a *bad impression* of him as a person come out of the freaken woodwork. What, you don't have the cajones to express your opinions when things are going well? Unless you know the man personally, it's pretty hard to be a judge of his character or what he does on a day-to-day basis. You can judge him on his performance and what you perceive through interviews, but that's about it.
At the risk of pissing people off with redundancy, I will say this again for the umpteenth time: Worship the music, not the musician.