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Old 02-06-2015, 01:53 PM
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Dee74
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Hi and welcome jimmymac

I was a bar band musician for years - eventually tho my inability to say no to a drink meant I was playing more and more often more and more drunk.

I lost so many gigs, noone would hire me on the end. I was unemployable.

I went back to music a few years into my recovery.

Nowadays I'm a pretty busy muso again - not so much bars anymore but I am around people drinking and smoking whatever, and it doesn't tempt me or put me off, or even register most of the time.

It took a lot of work to get there - but I'm there for the music now.

There's a lot of musos live clean and sober - Clapton, Joe Walsh, Alice Cooper...and many on my local bar scene too, so it's possible.

Many of those guys use AA - have you considered something like that?

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