HUMMINGBIRD GRILL NEW ORLEANS...
august 19, 1987 was the last time I consumed alcohol i never was a hang out at the bar type of drinker i looked for live music or a pool table i have never been kicked out of a bar but I was refused entrance to the "Little Bear" in Colorado once because the security at the front door....well he never said why...but I visited again and was allowed to enter.... I quit drinking in Colorado...and did a lot of drinking there prior to "getting sober"....I used to wonder why some people become drunks and others don't....I read that the ADH4 gene (alcoholdehydrogenase 4 enzyme) allows people with this gene to metabolize alcohol quickly....which apparently makes them less likely to have alcoholic behavior....but usually a person with one addiction is likely have them all...so be aware that the alcoholic or addict in your life has an illness, a disease, a genetic flaw...but that makes it no easier to live with.
in november of 1987 the musician eric clapton quit drinking and after reading his biography I realized that nobody is more powerful than an addiction...I have a video of eric clapton with "derick and the dominos" on my johnny cash video and on the "concert for Bangladesh" video. clapton makes some comments about how wasted he was in the filming of this video...and george harrison says he played flawlessly...now clapton has an addiction recovery facility called the "Crossroads Centre" in Antigua. He has a benefit concert on a regular basis and on his 2004 concert he gives an extraordinary performance on DVD 2 in "Have you ever loved a woman(blues in C)" he is alive, animated and obviously one of the best guitarists alive or dead...and he has certainly earned the right to sing the blues...(check out his autobiography)
"The law can make you quit drinking but it can't make you quit being the kind that needs a a law to make you quit drinking." Don Marquis
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