Ain't that the fucking truth. Or a drug problem for that matter. Normal Society looks at addicts or alcoholics as "bad people" They don't relate to us-they have never been in our shoes
rbagel55 Bad people or not they tend to ruin lives of other people around them. Before you say anything I drank for over 20 years, daily. I know about addiction. I just don't put this spin of "we aren't bad people, we have an addiction" because I was a bad person. Most addicts are. Fact.
rbagel55 Um, no. Normal Society, DOESN'T look at addicts as "bad people". I was smart enough to not let my partying become a lifestyle, and I have compassion and empathy for those that have struggled with addiction. That's as stupid as saying all white people in Alabama are racists, or all Democrats are tree-hugging Liberals. Maybe that's YOUR experience, but that doesn't give you credence to go around making unintelligent, ridiculous statements like that.
Nah, they're *really* scared underneath it all, because we're a reflection of society. Part of society's dark underbelly and power and abuse-dynamics. "No man is an island", thus no drug problem started in isolation as a drug problem. Someone made that person want to take drugs instead of something more positive. Someone gave them pain that nothing else could take away... That's how society is, but we're not honest enough about the abuse-dynamics in society. Being honest about this scares the SHIT out of many people. So, on top of everything, they force addicts to lie, because they're not about to start giving a fuck about some addict's mental problems. Society, in a capitalist world, wants to dispose of the weak and force-conform everyone else. Which means dealing with ridiculous stress levels at work and then getting drunk or high to deal with it. Whose fault is that, in the end? Those who profit from the system the most, I would say. The collective humans, for not caring for each other in a basic manner.
That's partially true, but you're also wrong. 1) We spend most of our waking hours at work. Being used as a unit of human resources, basically. Face it. 2) Thus capitalism which is cruel and ruthless, influences our conscious waking hours WAY more than any other influence, arguably. 3) Thus we learn to think like the system wants us to - whether we like it or not. Subconsciously it goes into our psyches. 4) We then learn to be ruthless towards others, or at least to not care enough to help those symptoms of the people-grinder that is capitalism. The symptoms are called 'addicts'. I'm not scapegoating Capitalism out of delusion - people are used and abused and thrown away the same as anything else natural and pure is abused by this system. Face it.
Zakk probably will never remember me but I spent a lot of time in his company when he was in Pride and Glory an BLS and he was always a fucking amazing dude! Guitar tips, life tips and many beers. First time I met him was in London UK at Worlds End in Camden. Changed my life and ended up playing in a band that was on Universal and toured the world. Owe it all to this dude. Rock n roll
im a recovering acholic too. and its people like zakk that give me inspiration to say sober. dam... if he can get sober and stay sober, i know i can!!!!
22 years sober. You can do it and you don't miss it. Life is better without it. Trust me you won't miss it once you change your life and people boozing it up look ridiculous and they are just annoying you wont' even want to be around them. It really is worth it. Good luck to all those struggling. It takes a lot of courage and it ain't easy. You are more of a man for following through and getting sober. Once you get some sobriety, you won't look at drinking as manly, you will look at it as immature. That's usually how I see people whose life revolves around beer. I don't envy it. And I don't believe in god so you don't have to do it through all kinds of religious conversion and such, but you gotta have a solid plan and help.
Kudos to Zakk for kicking his addiction to alcohol. if only Jeff had done the same. He might've fully recovered from his spider bite and rejoined Slayer. Instead, he drank himself into an early grave. A very sad situation indeed. It'll be interesting to see how Slayer continues on without him.
Call them Hard Rock call them Metal (they INVENTED Metal but Black Sabbath were the first Metal Band) but Led Zeppelin were the most important (aside from the Beatles; who went from Rock N' Roll, to Pop to Psychedelic in 5 years) and HARDEST band ever to me. Check out 'Dazed an Confused' from 'The Song Remains the Same'; the heaviest most intense 23 minutes ever and the song that inspired Sabbath's slower Metal groove.
+Detox To Rehab Yes thank Goodness, i just wish Jeff had gotten sober before it was too late and i wish Zakk had to before he was a middle aged adolescent .
I been sober (mostly) now for bout 3 years. Every time I drank twards the end, I can just cense somthings not goin good inside, and yea, the 2-3 days of feeling like shit... fuck booze. Smoke weed and play guitar and sing the shit out of life.
In a post death interview Kerry stated that Jeff was an incredibly solid drinker- "I'm not the type of guy who wakes up and has a beer, but Jeff was." Jeff was a terrible alcoholic and not one to ask for help, which is what made his story more tragic. King and Dimebag drank well and hard but even they knew when to put the drinks away- Jeff would come home and drink after drinking at the show and the after show....
EXACTLY! Right on, there's more to life than the superficial, the VISUAL and the narcissistic... shame a large number of people fail to realise this...
If Zakk only stays sober because the doctor tells him to, not because he's hit a bottom and recognizes the imminent destruction of the self, he probably won't stay sober. How could he not feel more healthy? I sobered up when I was 26--now I'm 41 and feel way better.
Idk but Zakk seems very sincere about Jeff's passing, he didn't said what everyone did at the moment "oh he was the greatest guitarrist of all time im gonna miss him bla bla"
Talk about being in total denial about being an alcoholic... Couldn't admit it was out of control for a second, nope, it ONLY came down to physical health reasons... Zakk is just so mentally tough... that's why he has to overcompensate about being a badass at ALL times.
+Kiefer Hyder I suspect he takes the somewhat juvenile humorous route talking about drinking, because he's uncomfortable talking about having to stop and the honest self-examination that people have to do. It's tough. Having been through it myself, I know it can take awhile to be comfortable talking about it.
No reason to NOT raise a glass to one of the BEST metal rhythm guitar players of ALL time. Zakk, if it weren't for Jeff (and Kerry, and MANY others) you wouldn't be sitting there doing this interview. Just toss it over your shoulder instead of drinking it...if ya have to...
I love people who say, piously, "you don't need alcohol to have a good time!" Oh yeah? Well, you don't need running shoes to run either but they fuckin help. Let people live, ffs...
I tell u what ive lived in that dark place calld addiction most my life it takes true strength to put the vice down an reprogram to each his own but for the wdsta i choose to carry onn drug an alcohol free hats off to the blind man suffering
please put a good interviewer on here man. someone who passionately loves the music and lives the music in that seat. that dude has a dream job but he never seems really enthusiastic
I'm taking a break myself. You can tell when your body is starting to fuck up. It takes longer and longer to get over it as the years go by. Then again my dad was a hardcore drunk up till 2 years ago since he was 20 and still smokes and he has lung cancer in remission and he's 70. I'm the only one in the family that doesn't smoke but i'm the only one with weight issues which is not good either. A few weeks ago I was popping open a 20 pack at 130pm and by 530pm it was gone and then top it off with a couple shots of VO. Yeah.........time to take a break. Thank god it's winter as I usually don't drink much in the winter. Sounds ass backwards but i'm generally just a happy time summer drinker.
Good luck to you also. Too bad about your wife. Luckily mine doesn't drink too much but unfort if she does it's always Crown and that stuff works like truth serum on her god forbid if we leave the house. My habit isn't only inherited it was instilled at an early age. My 'ENTIRE' family--both parents and every single relative---lived to drink. We'd go on long road trips they'd always stick me in back of the van since probably age 3-4 and I was the bartender. Was there ever any pop or water in the cooler? No. We'd end up on the lake in a boat for hours in the heat and after a few hours with nothing to drink by 5 or so I could pretty easily slam a beer if it was cold. Pretty fkd up lol. I probably have a different goal than you I don't really want to quit all together I just want to cut back and so far i've been able to hold it to 1x per week but I drink too much on that day i'm hoping I can tone it down to a 12 pack. I know that sounds bad lol but for me it would be a huge accomplishment. I do workout with weights some and am a fairly strong person but that doesn't save your liver, kidneys etc. Or help with memory issues.
***** Yeah my uncle just passed away last week from Alcoholism. He was only 55 years old man. He just waited to long to get help and when he went in to the hospital they said his liver was shot and then went his kidneys and then they took him off the breathing machine and we watched him die. The same thing happened to my aunt 8 years prior. They were brother and sister, but she was only 46 years young. Alcoholism definitely runs in my family big time. Both mom and dad's side. I bet if Dimebag was still here he would probably have health issues cause he was a big time alcoholic. Then again when you have money you can get the best help out there. So who knows.
I watched an epidsode of Beavis and Butthead when they were in AA hillarious. Sitting around talking about 'cold ones' to a bunch of guys trying to quit didn't work out so well. I'm just lucky i'm not as bad off as my 2 neighbor friends who are drunk nearly every night. I did that years ago but quit. Last night I drank around 15 beers but that was the first i've had in almost 2 wks and it will be another week at least before I do it again. I know.......15 sounds terrible trust me that's a pretty easy objective for me. I do things now on purpose so I can't drink as much like eat a lot before I know i'll be drinking. I admit it........I like my beer but enough is enough.
Amen to you brother for having the strength to fight through. And you must be one tough SOB to be still alive through all that. Props to you. and Best of luck.
***** No your right AA has a very low success rate, but everyone judge or cop or whoever suggests you go there for help. You'll quit if YOU truly want to ya know? I'm glad I'm not the only one who knows about the lousy success rate of AA LOL.
Man I wish my uncle and aunt would of been strong enough to quit drinking. They both had liver disease. My aunt died at 46 and my uncle just passed away at 55 last week. Sad shit. If he only wouldn't of been a stubborn ass and quit years ago he would be alive still. And he was the biker dude with tattoos and long beard just like Zakk.
He's Irish Catholic and has said he's a "Soldier of Christ"...he's very spiritual and devoted to his faith. That's why BLS's cover art has some type of cross on it or something spiritual in it. All the funny talk doesn't make him a bad person, and therefore no shame should be put on him....if you knew this, you wouldn't be talking shit bro
I am on blood thinners too. Should not drink too. I avoid the booze, it sucks when all my friends do. I still have the odd one, but I don't drink like Zakk used to.
I'm not addicted to booze. It's the withdrawals that I'm hooked on. Man, what a rollercoaster ride! Your hypothalamic-pituitary-adrenocortical system goes fucking haywire. It's like being shot out of a cannon into a brick wall then having your remains scraped off the wall and poured right back into the cannon... repeat... WHAT A FUCKIN' BLAST!!!
Trying to beat 2 decades of heavy drinking is pure hell especially the first week..same with getting off heavy painkiller and soma usage for over 15 years. I've had a better time dealing with a nasty flu. And even when you finaly get past the looooong hell of detox you still suffer the rest of your life mentaly and physically
Zakk is the man but the blood thinner thing is a cop out. My Dad took them for years and he never stopped drinking. He averaged around 18 beers a day. He did bruise extremely easy and did bleed quite profusely when he got cut but he was never in danger of dying from it.
Man, sometimes I forget how funny Zakk is! Hilarious. What I wonder is will Zakk ever be able to drink again? Will the blood clots ever work out of his system? Anyone out there know any of this?
Who needs alcohol when you can do whatever the fuck you want? I quit 20 years ago. Don’t miss that shit at all. I’m not some “born again” sobriety asshole. I don’t have a problem with people that drink. And if I want to drink alcohol I will. I just don’t miss it and have no desire to go back. When you drink hard for years, you just realize enough is enough. When you have to get drunk just to feel normal, it becomes a chore and just becomes un-fun 👊🏻
Man People like hanneman Reminds me of myself so much Except for the part of drinking I can't drink everyday like that I don't wanna be a dick But if he drank everyday........ I won't say no more Rest in peace bro
Y'know, I kinda wish I could quit drinking. I mean I only drink beer, I never got into that hard shit, but when I drink, *I drink*. A 30 pack is nothing for me, and when Im done I'm still searching for more. And I'm not young either, I'm going on 35, and I think that it's never good to abuse ethanol like that, yet it's an addiction, stronger than coke. Yeah I did freebase back in the day, but I quit it cause I was broke and dealing with lower than the low. Never would ever touch that crap now, even if they paid me. But alcohol is a true demon...I take that back...the brain is the demon, the alcohol just fills a void...everyone has a reason to drink. If you can kick it, just keep running and don't look back. Alcoholism is a helluva way to go.
Have you not met most of the metal fans out there? He is what the majority looks like, acts like, etc. Not every fan is like that obviously but a lot of the younger generations are like that. Doesn't mean he is a Wuss. :/ He's just got to come into his own and age/time will help I'm sure.
People who have never had a drinking problem will never understand it...
Thumbs up Zakk!
Ain't that the fucking truth. Or a drug problem for that matter. Normal Society
looks at addicts or alcoholics as "bad people" They don't relate to us-they have never been in our shoes
rbagel55 Bad people or not they tend to ruin lives of other people around them. Before you say anything I drank for over 20 years, daily. I know about addiction. I just don't put this spin of "we aren't bad people, we have an addiction" because I was a bad person. Most addicts are. Fact.
rbagel55 Um, no. Normal Society, DOESN'T look at addicts as "bad people". I was smart enough to not let my partying become a lifestyle, and I have compassion and empathy for those that have struggled with addiction. That's as stupid as saying all white people in Alabama are racists, or all Democrats are tree-hugging Liberals. Maybe that's YOUR experience, but that doesn't give you credence to go around making unintelligent, ridiculous statements like that.
Nah, they're *really* scared underneath it all, because we're a reflection of society. Part of society's dark underbelly and power and abuse-dynamics. "No man is an island", thus no drug problem started in isolation as a drug problem. Someone made that person want to take drugs instead of something more positive. Someone gave them pain that nothing else could take away... That's how society is, but we're not honest enough about the abuse-dynamics in society. Being honest about this scares the SHIT out of many people. So, on top of everything, they force addicts to lie, because they're not about to start giving a fuck about some addict's mental problems. Society, in a capitalist world, wants to dispose of the weak and force-conform everyone else. Which means dealing with ridiculous stress levels at work and then getting drunk or high to deal with it. Whose fault is that, in the end? Those who profit from the system the most, I would say. The collective humans, for not caring for each other in a basic manner.
That's partially true, but you're also wrong. 1) We spend most of our waking hours at work. Being used as a unit of human resources, basically. Face it. 2) Thus capitalism which is cruel and ruthless, influences our conscious waking hours WAY more than any other influence, arguably. 3) Thus we learn to think like the system wants us to - whether we like it or not. Subconsciously it goes into our psyches. 4) We then learn to be ruthless towards others, or at least to not care enough to help those symptoms of the people-grinder that is capitalism. The symptoms are called 'addicts'. I'm not scapegoating Capitalism out of delusion - people are used and abused and thrown away the same as anything else natural and pure is abused by this system. Face it.
Zakk probably will never remember me but I spent a lot of time in his company when he was in Pride and Glory an BLS and he was always a fucking amazing dude! Guitar tips, life tips and many beers. First time I met him was in London UK at Worlds End in Camden. Changed my life and ended up playing in a band that was on Universal and toured the world. Owe it all to this dude. Rock n roll
im a recovering acholic too. and its people like zakk that give me inspiration to say sober. dam... if he can get sober and stay sober, i know i can!!!!
22 years sober. You can do it and you don't miss it. Life is better without it. Trust me you won't miss it once you change your life and people boozing it up look ridiculous and they are just annoying you wont' even want to be around them. It really is worth it. Good luck to all those struggling. It takes a lot of courage and it ain't easy. You are more of a man for following through and getting sober. Once you get some sobriety, you won't look at drinking as manly, you will look at it as immature. That's usually how I see people whose life revolves around beer. I don't envy it. And I don't believe in god so you don't have to do it through all kinds of religious conversion and such, but you gotta have a solid plan and help.
Its a pity most doctors dont talk to their patients like this!!
GOD BLESS JEFF AND ZAKK.rock forever!!!
Zakk is a really nice guy I met him several times at ozzfest shows throughout the years very down to earth dude
zakk is such a funny dude but so down to earth and humble
Everytime a mainstream guitarist dies, they always say that person is 'one of the best guitarists of all time'.
Slayers mainstream? Wow, I'm getting old.
This kid just sucks at doing interviews. You can't be shitting yourself while being in awe of your subject.
Well Dimebag Darrell was the greatest metal guitarist ever so..
That reminds me, I've got to get my Kim Kardashian checked.
RIP JEFF
Kudos to Zakk for kicking his addiction to alcohol. if only Jeff had done the same. He might've fully recovered from his spider bite and rejoined Slayer. Instead, he drank himself into an early grave. A very sad situation indeed. It'll be interesting to see how Slayer continues on without him.
zakk is the most hardcore led zeppelin' fan ever!
Call them Hard Rock call them Metal (they INVENTED Metal but Black Sabbath were the first Metal Band) but Led Zeppelin were the most important (aside from the Beatles; who went from Rock N' Roll, to Pop to Psychedelic in 5 years) and HARDEST band ever to me. Check out 'Dazed an Confused' from 'The Song Remains the Same'; the heaviest most intense 23 minutes ever and the song that inspired Sabbath's slower Metal groove.
Zakk gives the best interviews!
Great life lesson! Who else didn’t know how sick they were until they got sober? Thank goodness for sobriety!
+Detox To Rehab Yes thank Goodness, i just wish Jeff had gotten sober before it was too late and i wish Zakk had to before he was a middle aged adolescent .
Zakk looks a lot healthier now that he's not drinking...
I been sober (mostly) now for bout 3 years. Every time I drank twards the end, I can just cense somthings not goin good inside, and yea, the 2-3 days of feeling like shit... fuck booze. Smoke weed and play guitar and sing the shit out of life.
Now yer talkin Amigo.....yep......Life....not Death.......
Can’t believe there’s still those out there who demonize weed and put booze on a pedestal… talk about bass ackwards
zakk wylde is the man!!! period.
Zakk is a Cool Irish Dude and a Killer Guitar Player!!!
One of the funniest guitarists/vocalists ever :'D
Zakk is hilarious man.
I'm 49 seconds into the video and I automatically love Zakk Wylde.
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In a post death interview Kerry stated that Jeff was an incredibly solid drinker- "I'm not the type of guy who wakes up and has a beer, but Jeff was." Jeff was a terrible alcoholic and not one to ask for help, which is what made his story more tragic. King and Dimebag drank well and hard but even they knew when to put the drinks away- Jeff would come home and drink after drinking at the show and the after show....
THE BEST GUITARPLAYER AND SONGWRITER EVER!!! Nobody can touch this mans talent, he basically invented REAL guitar solos!
Love how zakk tells it like it is
wow, he wasn't arrogant or stiff during this interview
2:33 - 2:48 lmao his awesome
I just realised Zakk doesnt have any tattoos...or at least none visible. Thats quite weird for a rockstar.
Wow I can't believe I never noticed that before.
Tattoos are for cookie cutters, Zakk is one of a kind.
even though he doesn't have any tattoos, he's still 1000 times brutal and metal and awesome than those posers full of piercing and tattoos.
EXACTLY! Right on, there's more to life than the superficial, the VISUAL and the narcissistic... shame a large number of people fail to realise this...
Or people who hate themselves as they are, and need to 'improve' their skin. Whether they admit it or not...
If Zakk only stays sober because the doctor tells him to, not because he's hit a bottom and recognizes the imminent destruction of the self, he probably won't stay sober. How could he not feel more healthy? I sobered up when I was 26--now I'm 41 and feel way better.
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rbagel55
Didn't he say he wasn't drinking because he's on blood thinners?...not because he's an addict?
It's sad to see Zakk not drinking anymore.
I'm sober too and it's no fun, that's for sure. At least he's honest too
Idk but Zakk seems very sincere about Jeff's passing, he didn't said what everyone did at the moment "oh he was the greatest guitarrist of all time im gonna miss him bla bla"
gaping LOL... Zakk is hilarious
Clean and sober for the best 25 years of my life.
zakk is one of the funniest dudes alive.
listen
Talk about being in total denial about being an alcoholic... Couldn't admit it was out of control for a second, nope, it ONLY came down to physical health reasons... Zakk is just so mentally tough... that's why he has to overcompensate about being a badass at ALL times.
Interviewer was as cool as a cucumber. I'm naturally more nervous than that. I'd say that he's in the right line of work. Zakk does look better.
Zakk never fails to make me laugh
He's such a goof. God forbid the booze mixes with his Kim Kardashian and Viagra. LOL Can't help but love this dude.
Jeff Hanneman is Dimebag Darrell and Randy Rhoads now.
Life stops when it does, not before.
Am i the only one who wants this guys job?
It'd be cool if Zakk could just give a straight forward answer.
+Kiefer Hyder I suspect he takes the somewhat juvenile humorous route talking about drinking, because he's uncomfortable talking about having to stop and the honest self-examination that people have to do. It's tough. Having been through it myself, I know it can take awhile to be comfortable talking about it.
his humor is fucking annoying as shit
Zakk Wylde is great.
No reason to NOT raise a glass to one of the BEST metal rhythm guitar players of ALL time. Zakk, if it weren't for Jeff (and Kerry, and MANY others) you wouldn't be sitting there doing this interview. Just toss it over your shoulder instead of drinking it...if ya have to...
I love people who say, piously, "you don't need alcohol to have a good time!" Oh yeah? Well, you don't need running shoes to run either but they fuckin help. Let people live, ffs...
OMG I have a fractured rib and can't watch anymore of this funny shit!!! LOL
I know exactly what Im talking about and there is absolutely no fiction to it. Just because you won't see it doesn't make it false. God bless you
Zakk's always been a fun talker- he's from Jersey fer goodness sake. Lasting as long as he has in the business requires humor.
Jeff was probably the 999,543th most talented musician in the world
zakk wylde is the man.
GO ZAKK \M/ Do what chu do bro!!!
Rip Jeff
I don't think that guy was expecting those kinds of answers to his questions.
Oh i'm fuckin rollin on the floor !
Same, I haven't had a drink in 23 years, I miss bein' drunk but I drink like a fuckin' kamikaze so I had to pick a lane and stay in it or die...
father king wow he's only like a few years older
Notice the light green tint around his eyes. LIVER
Zakks so fakin hilarious
He cannot answer a question seriously to save his life.
aye Zakk became funny from sobriety tho
who the hell dislike this?!?!
I tell u what ive lived in that dark place calld addiction most my life it takes true strength to put the vice down an reprogram to each his own but for the wdsta i choose to carry onn drug an alcohol free hats off to the blind man suffering
Lmfao my ass is fine......It's gaping, but you know......HAHA, you'r an American hero my wylde brother....
please put a good interviewer on here man. someone who passionately loves the music and lives the music in that seat. that dude has a dream job but he never seems really enthusiastic
im pretty sure hes loudwires senior writer and producer
Zakk really isn't afraid to tell it how it is! X'D!
I almost died of laughter :D
I'm taking a break myself. You can tell when your body is starting to fuck up. It takes longer and longer to get over it as the years go by. Then again my dad was a hardcore drunk up till 2 years ago since he was 20 and still smokes and he has lung cancer in remission and he's 70. I'm the only one in the family that doesn't smoke but i'm the only one with weight issues which is not good either. A few weeks ago I was popping open a 20 pack at 130pm and by 530pm it was gone and then top it off with a couple shots of VO. Yeah.........time to take a break. Thank god it's winter as I usually don't drink much in the winter. Sounds ass backwards but i'm generally just a happy time summer drinker.
Good luck to you also. Too bad about your wife. Luckily mine doesn't drink too much but unfort if she does it's always Crown and that stuff works like truth serum on her god forbid if we leave the house. My habit isn't only inherited it was instilled at an early age. My 'ENTIRE' family--both parents and every single relative---lived to drink. We'd go on long road trips they'd always stick me in back of the van since probably age 3-4 and I was the bartender. Was there ever any pop or water in the cooler? No. We'd end up on the lake in a boat for hours in the heat and after a few hours with nothing to drink by 5 or so I could pretty easily slam a beer if it was cold. Pretty fkd up lol. I probably have a different goal than you I don't really want to quit all together I just want to cut back and so far i've been able to hold it to 1x per week but I drink too much on that day i'm hoping I can tone it down to a 12 pack. I know that sounds bad lol but for me it would be a huge accomplishment. I do workout with weights some and am a fairly strong person but that doesn't save your liver, kidneys etc. Or help with memory issues.
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Yeah my uncle just passed away last week from Alcoholism. He was only 55 years old man. He just waited to long to get help and when he went in to the hospital they said his liver was shot and then went his kidneys and then they took him off the breathing machine and we watched him die. The same thing happened to my aunt 8 years prior. They were brother and sister, but she was only 46 years young. Alcoholism definitely runs in my family big time. Both mom and dad's side. I bet if Dimebag was still here he would probably have health issues cause he was a big time alcoholic. Then again when you have money you can get the best help out there. So who knows.
I watched an epidsode of Beavis and Butthead when they were in AA hillarious. Sitting around talking about 'cold ones' to a bunch of guys trying to quit didn't work out so well. I'm just lucky i'm not as bad off as my 2 neighbor friends who are drunk nearly every night. I did that years ago but quit. Last night I drank around 15 beers but that was the first i've had in almost 2 wks and it will be another week at least before I do it again. I know.......15 sounds terrible trust me that's a pretty easy objective for me. I do things now on purpose so I can't drink as much like eat a lot before I know i'll be drinking. I admit it........I like my beer but enough is enough.
Amen to you brother for having the strength to fight through. And you must be one tough SOB to be still alive through all that. Props to you. and Best of luck.
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No your right AA has a very low success rate, but everyone judge or cop or whoever suggests you go there for help. You'll quit if YOU truly want to ya know? I'm glad I'm not the only one who knows about the lousy success rate of AA LOL.
The guy doing the interview is a fuckin' dope!
This guy is fucking so funny lol
Man I wish my uncle and aunt would of been strong enough to quit drinking. They both had liver disease. My aunt died at 46 and my uncle just passed away at 55 last week. Sad shit. If he only wouldn't of been a stubborn ass and quit years ago he would be alive still. And he was the biker dude with tattoos and long beard just like Zakk.
how much and how long did they drink ?
He's Irish Catholic and has said he's a "Soldier of Christ"...he's very spiritual and devoted to his faith. That's why BLS's cover art has some type of cross on it or something spiritual in it. All the funny talk doesn't make him a bad person, and therefore no shame should be put on him....if you knew this, you wouldn't be talking shit bro
LOL! I suppose you are right. The one's I've met call themselves "scene" Kids. They are usually more into deathcore/metalcore etc.
Ask questions Zakk I know Dime was like brother you never had
r.i.p Jeff
I am on blood thinners too. Should not drink too. I avoid the booze, it sucks when all my friends do. I still have the odd one, but I don't drink like Zakk used to.
I'm not addicted to booze. It's the withdrawals that I'm hooked on. Man, what a rollercoaster ride! Your hypothalamic-pituitary-adrenocortical system goes fucking haywire. It's like being shot out of a cannon into a brick wall then having your remains scraped off the wall and poured right back into the cannon... repeat...
WHAT A FUCKIN' BLAST!!!
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You nailed it, bro!
Trying to beat 2 decades of heavy drinking is pure hell especially the first week..same with getting off heavy painkiller and soma usage for over 15 years. I've had a better time dealing with a nasty flu. And even when you finaly get past the looooong hell of detox you still suffer the rest of your life mentaly and physically
wow awesome
who would of guessed Jeff Hanneman's demise all started with a spider bite?!
stillborn
Nice to see a fucking Jack Daniels commercial opening this video up. Great algorythm, youtube!
so he goes
Zakk is the man but the blood thinner thing is a cop out. My Dad took them for years and he never stopped drinking. He averaged around 18 beers a day. He did bruise extremely easy and did bleed quite profusely when he got cut but he was never in danger of dying from it.
did your father have health issues from drinking ?
lmao Zakk is awesome and funny as fuck
Man, sometimes I forget how funny Zakk is! Hilarious.
What I wonder is will Zakk ever be able to drink again? Will the blood clots ever work out of his system? Anyone out there know any of this?
Even though he doesn't like to not drink, honestly alcohol starts a lot of problems for music stars.
Why is there a riff that sounds like Soundgarden???
Who needs alcohol when you can do whatever the fuck you want? I quit 20 years ago. Don’t miss that shit at all. I’m not some “born again” sobriety asshole. I don’t have a problem with people that drink. And if I want to drink alcohol I will. I just don’t miss it and have no desire to go back. When you drink hard for years, you just realize enough is enough. When you have to get drunk just to feel normal, it becomes a chore and just becomes un-fun 👊🏻
Why isn't Zakks' beard grey ?
Man
People like hanneman
Reminds me of myself so much
Except for the part of drinking
I can't drink everyday like that
I don't wanna be a dick
But if he drank everyday........
I won't say no more
Rest in peace bro
He's one of the most put on, compensating and cringe people ever.
Zakk Wylde outta do standup comedy i'm cryin here.
I love u zakk no been gay but u r awesum
Black Label Sobriety!!!
Y'know, I kinda wish I could quit drinking. I mean I only drink beer, I never got into that hard shit, but when I drink, *I drink*. A 30 pack is nothing for me, and when Im done I'm still searching for more. And I'm not young either, I'm going on 35, and I think that it's never good to abuse ethanol like that, yet it's an addiction, stronger than coke. Yeah I did freebase back in the day, but I quit it cause I was broke and dealing with lower than the low. Never would ever touch that crap now, even if they paid me. But alcohol is a true demon...I take that back...the brain is the demon, the alcohol just fills a void...everyone has a reason to drink. If you can kick it, just keep running and don't look back. Alcoholism is a helluva way to go.
No More Bears.
Once I successfully equated alcohol to poison, it was easy, I quit drinking. I don't drink *bleach* either (unless I'm treating C0VID of course).
That Kardshian shit is rough. Listen up kids.
He looks like Paul Phoenix.
Have you not met most of the metal fans out there? He is what the majority looks like, acts like, etc. Not every fan is like that obviously but a lot of the younger generations are like that. Doesn't mean he is a Wuss. :/ He's just got to come into his own and age/time will help I'm sure.