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?
And the years stopped coming.
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.
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!
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he’s dying of liver failure, not the cardiomyopathy.
Funny lyrics!
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
