Note: I sat down with John Lamb for a lengthy interview in the summer of 2014, with the intention of writing a nice 'John Lamb redemption story' after a stretch of great starts. The timing for that story never panned out, but the interview was too good to waste.
An awful lot of people are suckers for a good 'Before & After' story: Makeover shows, The Biggest Loser, 24 hours of HGTV programming every day. Before:After :: Bad:Good. What happens when a guy's "Before" is the good part, and the "After" makes people forget him for a while?