Originally Posted by
Makrellen 
I'm also a musician, and playing in a band has also always included alcohol.
How can you be rock n roll and dry and controlled? o.O
After losing my career to booze I'm back being a gigging musician again.
It's entirely possible to be a sober musician - there's examples from every branch of music - Eric Clapton, Alice Cooper, Joe Walsh, Elton John, James Hetfield from Metallica....
For me I had to choose whether I wanted to be a rock star or a musician.
I chose musician.
I'm there for the music, and none of the other BS interests me.
Before I got back into playing tho I took a long time off - I really needed to know I was totally committed to sobriety.
I call it building up my sober muscles. I started small, just jamming, then little cafe gigs....after a few years, I worked my way back up to bar gigs and being around and playing with people who drank and did other various things.
Of course your mileage may vary in the time it takes you to be totally sure of your recovery.
I really am there for the music now.
I've pulled away from one band I'm in cause at the moment it's all about the party with those guys right now.
I'm not tempted in the least but it's very boring and unfulfilling for me to be around that now.
Ironically enough most of these guys threw me out of a band a decade or so ago for being 'too party'...
You can change
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