You're looking at it from the point of 'now' and not at the point of 'then' before all the shitty middle part took place.
It would be quite easy to look at Meat and Jims relationship today and convince ourselves that it must have always been like that, but that wouldn't be fair to either of them.
I still firmly believe Jim wrote Rock'N'Roll Dreams Come Through with Meat in mind. So, listen to the lyrics and remember the time at which it was written.
> Point taken, but the way it looks, I don't think they ever
> really got along. For that matter, they never respected
> each other either, suing each other when it suited them
> (Jim sues Meat in 1981 for 15m, Jim sues Meat in '95 to
> stop it "All Coming Back" to him, Meat sues Jim and Jim
> countersues in '06, etc.). If they can't get it together
> on a business footing, who's to say they ever had it on a
> personal footing as well?
>
> > > Was it ever a "legendary friendship" though? Wasn't it
> > > always more of a "partnership," legendary or otherwise?
> >
> > At the beginning I think it was. Jim needed a muse and
> > Meat had nothing the lose. They then worked closely
> > together as equals on something that was unique and
> > phenomenal for its time. You can't work that closely with
> > someone at the beginning of your career and not strike
> > some sort of special bond.
> >
> >
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