Valerie Bertinelli on Eddie Van Halen's Drug Use, "That demon would come in," David Lee Roth - 2022 

@Ace Mechanical isn’t it funny how our brains retain seemingly innocuous things during our lives that turn out to be real turning points for us? Glad you’re on the right track. 👍

That birds chirping thing she said really hit home with me. I’ve been right there so many times.

That's a beautiful comment .....

Truth!!!

It's amazing how simple memories like that can stick for a lifetime --- just seeing a man getting a morning coffee and paper can turn your whole life around, brother

She seems like that in person

Sammy the red ballader is a big mouth bastard

@@latsnojokelee6434 that Letterman show is hilarious --- she is describing how much she hates the editor of Penthouse Magazine while her hubby is standing nearby totally ignoring her LOL --- Letterman just seemed amused by a cocaine couple in the 80s!

Agreed

OMG!!! I Can soooo relate to the birds chirping thing!!! She nailed it!! It also took me years to appreciate a sunrise again. I can't believe how spot on that was. Glad your clean now Valerie

Yeah Nick I remember when coke was something the rich did. Like studio 54. Before it turned into crack and the cities and jails got full of sad souls who got hooked on it. Hey, I'm tired. I worked all week and I'm depressed from working and being tired so I'll get a pick me up. It ain't speed. It's O.K. And I've got some money. Next thing you know you've spent $300 bucks and you're crawling on the carpet. Glad I wasn't rich enough to do the amount those guys did. Plus....I had to go to work! Oh, we can laugh now but, as Rick James said, "Cocaine....it's a hell of a drug.." Saw Eddie in 88 on the 1st day of the Monsters of Rock tour. He did his solo thing but I could see a druggie/drunk thing happening. Hey, he was still great but....it made him a little off. The Scorpions who preceded them were a well oiled R+R machine and if not for the drugs and drink...he would've been even better. Who knows? But musically the Scorps kicked Van Halen's ass that night. Despite Eddie's genius. R.I.P. Glad he had a clear head when he passed.

@@antrygis1 - I saw the same thing happen at a Blue Oyster Cult/Black Sabbath concert. Blue Oyster Cult opened and by the time they were done, nobody gave two shits about Black Sabbath.

Yeah Boy sounds like I had the same experience but never about cutting my hand off ...glad you didn't do that bro... cocaine... damn that cocaine ...It never did what it was supposed to do... out of anything that made me play The Worst ...I didn't do a lot of cocaine wasn't my cup of tea.. kind of like only when you have to fit in for a moment and do a few and then they leave you alone...that stuff expensive...cocaine made me feel depressed and stuck... plus more depressed when I came down... damn you cocaine you lied to me hope you don't lie to everybody else

@@dwightjones2537 Metallica really summed it up in Master of Puppets.

The fourth of July makes 26 years for me too.

congrats. its telling how many people can relate to the bird chipping bit. When you can identify you know we all shared the same horror train. Sobriety is a Godsend and I consider myself blessed. stay strong and keep on keeping on.

Thanks,you too

Good for you. I’m 2 years clean from alcohol and on the Vivatrol shot

Stay strong

True story brother... glad you found the truth... I did too, although I was lost for a while and almost didn't come back.

Amen

Right On Brother!!

Robert \ But she could have written her book and promoted it by being dishonest, shifting blame, and pretending to be a saint. All things to make herself look better. The point of the comment seems to be that she is not doing those things. Also she’s been famous for a very long time, since she was a kid, and she talks about other things, like the three hit TV shows she’s starred on, and her weight struggles. You might have a point if she were ONLY famous for being a rock stars ex and the mother of his child, but she’s famous more for her own career. She didn’t get her Emmys and her Golden Globes for being married to him.

I like her honesty but Valerie shouldn't be writing books about her life --- she was a star on a hit TV show like 45 years ago and she was married to a rock star for 20 years and that's really about it --- she's milking it way too much

Tom Mitchell Her third hit TV show ended like just 5 or 6 years ago. From what I read she has another sitcom launching this year. She has published cookbooks, and she also has had a successful run hosting shows on the Food Network and has a new one coming up. So she has plenty more going on than a sitcom 45 years ago. And who are you to be declaring who should or should not be writing books? Her books sell, justifying her book publishing deals.

@@zebrastreet9993 Exactly, she has reinvented herself a number of times and that takes serious intelligence, introspection and hard work. To say shes a has been is such a bullshit comment.

@@Rjensen2, absolutely..

I know the feeling. But my dad wasn't making noise outside my bedroom window to annoy me. He had asthma and when his lungs got an infection, he'd be put on prednisone. He'd be up at 3 or 4 in the morning with his table saw and tools building something. We didn't have AC so our windows were always open in the summer. I complained to mom at the time but what I wouldn't give now to here that saw going to have him back.

Well said.

That’s crazy that this man had anxiety & depression, this man was loved by millions. He was a talented genius musician, sold millions of albums, had money to burn & all the women.

I don't think many people realize that Ed's father Jan started him on alcohol --- happened after a German Shepherd bit Ed on the leg when he was 10 --- his Dad told him to drink some whiskey and have a smoke and it would dull the pain --- that got him on the road to alcoholism and drug addiction!

@@Hengry-hn7rb Having all the love in the world doesn't matter. Anxiety and depression are caused by brain chemicals being off-kilter. They're not something that fame and respect or self-love is going to fix. You need help with that stuff.

@@tommitchell7294 Like most addicts I think Ed tried to pass things like that off as just being stuff people of his father's generation did. In that interview, he also stated that it's just what his father's generation did. He didn't seem to understand that the reason addiction is generational has a lot to do with genetics.

You poor thang

Literally everyone I know does either coke or crack, they range from full blown habits to manageable habits (for now) to dabblers. Despite having done coke myself several times in the past I always found it very overrated and overpriced. So never got addicted and seem to feel no urge to join in even if people around me are caning it... I may even do the odd line if offered just to be sociable ...and then it's like "yeah it's okay" and I'll leave at that... Some of my friends genuinely think it's crazy that I'm not even remotely craving for more, because in their case they are the exact opposite and just want to shovel as much as possible...there's never enough for 'em...meanwhile I'm like "nah... I'm good" I'd never pay for it because I think it's a waste of money personally and it barely has any affect on me anyway so what's the point ? . I thought that maybe I have a non addictive personality ...but I still smoke cigarettes and tobacco which I am addicted to. Someone suggested that because I have Ritalin prescribed for adult ADHD my body may be so adjusted to stimulants ... that maybe they barely affect me... The Ritalin I have is very slow release...but it is pretty much constantly in my system ...so it is possible I have never known anyone personally to die from cocaine...but know of a few who OD'd on Heroin . (something I've never touched myself and never will) There have been plenty who've died from alcohol though. (something I used to do plenty of but now down to the odd beer or glass of red with a meal once in blue moon...who'd have thought?) I've heard of the "heroin to come down from the crack crash." thing . Last year one of my closest friends did this while staying in a hostel ...I was like Wtf? so let her stay at mine for a few weeks to get her away from that environment. Happy to say she is now relatively clean . The weird thing is that as a teenager ...I'd always be the one who was getting fucked up and doing stupid shit Never thought I'd end up being the adult in the room 40 years later...

Never did crack but we had a columbian connection thru the. Late 70s & early 80s then I walked away from it all.

@@zappa1723 I don't believe you.

I went thru hell and back until In 2018, moved to Mountains and do not do drugs anymore.

I lived it too R.I.P. Eddie

I remember waiting anxiously on MTV, World Premier! 'Have you seen Juniors grades'? So relatable, I never came home for half the week either

​@@iowa7693I think you mean Hot for Teacher and not the cradle will rock.

@@jamesragsdale8202 no, that was the cradle will rock. The kid is into losing sleep, winds up tired of who he meets and he's unemployed unemployed. And the cradle will rock ROCK ON!

you have absolutely zero clue about anything you're posting about, you've never met any of these people yet you speak like you think you're an expert

I think you’re on the right path. These guys knew each other since about high school age, and I’ve met guys before that don’t like it when one of them gets a girlfriend. It disrupts the harmony is they see it.

FDLR

I'd say you're pretty much spot on and even Dave would admit it --- David Lee worked his ass off to make Van Halen a successful band and anyone who knows the details of how he had to audition multiple times to get into that band knows that he wasn't taking anything for granted --- so when Valerie comes along and marries Ed, then Dave instantly foresaw the "Yoko Destruction of Van Halen" unfolding before his eyes and that's why he turned the cold shoulder on her --- she was wrecking all of Dave's dreams!

The introduction of Valerie wouldve changed the whole dynamic of the group.

Spot on I reckon. Think it was the same with Tyler and Perry.

That in noooooo shit . There are still songs I can't listen to because they remind me of that horrible feeling of the sun coming up and knowing in advance that my whole day was going to be ruined by coming down and trying to sleep. I'll never touch that shit again.

@@antonchigurh3794 Yeah I can't listen to Led Zep IV, I had that in the tape deck of the car as pretty much the only tape I had all the time during the 3 years I did heavy amounts of cocaine. My supply got cut off - my dad died. I had to change my ways and I was just this morning listening to a really loud bird chirping just before dawn after I got up, and thinking this would have been annoying in my cocaine days. It has been over 30 years since that time.

OH BS! I'm 64 and have been partying since 17! If you have a brain you can handle it! Even had a fulltime job the whole time! So don't preach nonsense to me.

@@DonnyHooterHoot I partied harder. I got end stage liver disease at 47.

@@DonnyHooterHoot I wasn't preaching anything to you. How are you doing tho? Happy, joyous and free, is it?

fdafdsa fdsafdsa - The part about being totally gacked, and the birds chirping is very real. I lived that as well. I'd hear the birds chirping and knew i had lost track of time and it was so late that i had to be at work soon. Just hated that. She nailed that feeling.

@KingLouisV Were you even alive then? I had seen VH a time or two before. I grew up with Valerie (in a sense) aging along with her (relatively the same age) as her celebrity life played out emanating from her hit ensemble show, “One Day At A Time”. She was a true celebrity and at least equal in star-power with Ed. Together they were the LA power-, “it”-couple of their time.

Can’t remember which one of the tours I was seeing in Indianapolis (saw a few and my hearing is bad because of it) but Valerie was sitting side stage left up in the seats with a couple of guys. Of course she got cheers since her tv show was centered around Indianapolis. She was the only wife I ever saw sit side stage to see the show and I thought that was so cool.

Wow, thought they'd be Headlining by 1981, how interesting!

@@nowitsabadtime Opening for The Rolling Stones in 1981 was a HUGE THING! I was also present when VH toured in 1983, at the Hollywood Sportatorium in Miami, FL.

​@@nowitsabadtime they headlined in 1980 and every year since then. Still grabbed the slot on the Stone's tour (of course)

I can absolutely relate....i spent MANY mornings high on coke all night driving home with all the working tools on their way to work....meanwhile i was just ending my drug fueled binge.....by the way....at one point it was fun....quickly that fun went away and it became hell....an addiction that nearly killed me....that was 16 years ago...ive fallen off the wagon a couple times but the paranoia never goes away.....you can be clean forever and then do it and you jump right back into that paranoia again....i dont miss it

Same

Just relax and do a line. GAWD

Totally agree, completely hits home for me as well. The birds chirping line brings back memories, but at the time that was what i did and it seemed normal. I am glad i got off that train also, not a good way to live.

I heard people who have clinical depression get irritated by "happy" things like birds chirping --- so Valerie probably had a touch of that during the 80's

He was running with the devil..he even told us In His song, right from the get go of his "Popularity...sad reality for sure ! Shalom +

You miss him? You were friends ? You knew him? No, you did not. STFU. 🖕 Eddie!

If he could handle success he would still be here.

What's your opinion on crow's "cawing"? As if hanging out on the telephone/cable/power lines in my front yard so they can to drop a load on the sidewalk below isn't bad enough, I have to endure listening to them "caw" throughout the day, too??? I'm cool with the birds chirping (I leave dead earwigs and crickets on my porch for them to eat when I can), but I swear I am >this< close to buying a bb gun to plink at those f'n crows!

😂

@Tom P. Baxter Believe it or not I like crows too. In Colorado they are called "snow chickens" and they are fun to watch they do interesting things! Among the smartest of birds they are problem solvers!

I love that sound

Your right, but when your getting high, hearing them birds in the morning is the most depressing thing BECAUSE of the reminder of a better life...

It's not that at all, it's because when the birds start chirping a normal person's day is just beginning while the person with a head full of snow is still living yesterday , It's an awful feeling.

And time to go to work sick as fk!😊

@@rolanddeschain965 yeah well i knew a guy who went out every morning and shot birds in his backyard then he wrapped them in foil and buried them. True story. He was on meth though. Its all junk

wild, sounds like the author knee what he was talking about!

yeah, it signalled that the party was over- the night went by so fast :( It always bummed me out so bad... Driving home, feeling like a zombie, bummed out n just wanting to sleep to escape how shitty u feel (my experience) Glad those days are long gone... Now, I get bummed out when the sun's coming up because I gotta go to work lol

Good luck brother, you’re already half way there just having the idea to stop, don’t give up now. Every time you fall back down just get back up and try again but just know when you do fall down again it’s a deeper and harder fall each and every time. Trust me man, once you are completely past all of that in your life you’re going to love your life again, especially the way you feel each and every day, feels better than being high, it’s awesome. If you’re really serious about quitting start by changing your cell phone number and keep it between the people that really care for you as a person. It just comes down to people, places, and things to stay away from, you got this dude! Bravo for having the stones to post what you’re going through, means you really want to change and we’re all behind you sending positive vibes your way my brother!

@@tense99 you're not really bright, are you?

I see what you did there 🤣

We are all binding demons. I did and i have faith in you. Love you man.

Whoosh

You can tell Valerie and Eddie did a lot of coke because the phrase "just do a little bump" rolls so easily off her tongue --- only true addicts talk like that

Hey Ed what about you and Val looking alike? Ed. That's why you Never see us together lol

Only if you let it. You are always in control. People have choices. 😢

Uh up until 2000 when they divorced then he got remarried to his current wife don't forget

@@jjohnson8977 She divorced him in 2007...

Whatever....Ed was more like Bobby Brown. Dragging his wife down a hole with him. Both were lucky to escape, unlike Whitney and her daughter.

Great people had 2 go thru hard times like all of us

Hated.that shit too Even more when my friends got mad at me For " wasting " that shit cause I would rather do lines than smoke rock. I don't miss those times or "friends" at all fuck ' em....

"turned people into self-important morons" --- sounds like Trumpism has the same effect as coke!

@@tommitchell7294 - I'll agree with that.

Very true!

That is the entertainment debacle.

Eddie and the Motley guys all said Ozzy could out-drink and out-coke all of them --- just imagine what partying with Ozzy was like back then

She was the one who banned Dave from the 5150 studio in their backyard. That's why most of Dave's lyrics were recorded in a different studio for the 1984 album. Some of us old enough to remember the things she used to say about Dave but after Eddie died it's all in the past now. She needs to let go.

@@Me-qp8vz what did she used to say about Dave?

How the fuck do you know?

@@travzimmerman1340 Because Dave said it in an interview, you dumb fuck.

@@Me-qp8vz She's selling a book. For major bucks!

Everyone was smoking back then

That was totally normal back then.

If not his dad it would have been someone else, some people are just pulled to drugs like a magnet and yes most everyone was smoking back then.

@@mnbv990 with all these vape pens around now it’s still normal.

@@joshgrant824 My father smoked about two packs a day, but he certainly knew better than to introduce me to smoking. He would never have permitted me to smoke.

Mikey was the only thing that grounded them, they should do right by him and give him what is owed.

What happened? I don't know that much about these guys. I had heard that they paid him less, which I don't understand. Did they treat him badly?

* *Larry,* * - Dave didn't harm Anthony. What the hell you talkin' 'bout? Imma-gonna-slappa-you-with-the-wet-spaghetti!! *Mama Mia!!!*

I don't think Dave did Anything to Michael Anthony. In fact , Dave Immediately sent $10,000 when Michael Anthony's infant grandson died.

@@tomdecuca3627 There was an audio book on here for a while done by Noel Monk, who was their manager. He said they cut Mike out of a lot of money because they felt like he wasn't doing his part writing songs. He talked about a lot of behind the scenes stuff that wasn't public.

Randy and Ed were neck and neck in LA. Ed came out first, but Randy made his own mark with just 2 albums.

Randy was already well established when Eddie started making his mark.

I doubt Whitesnake was influenced by VH, they're a spinoff of Deep Purple.

It would be really cool to see what would've happened in the 80's if Randy lived and thrived alongside Eddie --- those two were the best gunslingers on the planet and you can tell there was a friendly rivalry about who could produce the coolest solo or monster riff --- and the fans got the rewards of that battle!

I was really talking about EVH rhythm guitar playing,those power chords,and the reverb alongside it,it was the pinnacle of the 80s movement,Everybody had that rhythm sound in the 80s,If you didn't play like that,You weren't on MTV,MTV was more than looks it was music too,and that's what sold records,Ozzy's first 2 albums really didn't really blow up until Bark at the Moon,Cause I never heard of him,but I heard of Black Sabbath just the name.🤔

I used to keep Benadryl around when I was binging on cocaine. When I'd run out of coke, I'd take Benadryl to knock myself out.

@@michaelgarcia2050 Wish I'd thought of that. I would try to drink myself to sleep, smoke dope, whatever, and it would just add to the toxicity of my hangover.

@George Lynch Dixon They mean they can't sleep and are awake all night and so they hear the real live birds outside at 5am the next morning after the binge...

It can be. But at least in sobriety we dont have the guilt and shame that comes with the sound of the birds😊

@George Lynch Dixon cocaine hangovers suck. Especially when u drink a lot on top of them. Mine would only last for about a day / 24 hours. But I was much younger then. I would imagine they do last longer as we age and continue to party. I dont want to find out though.

Wow- that is wild! My friends and I were at that show. My friend's brother was in front and DLR stepped on his hand!

Stay strong you can get out of this I believe in you

Jesus can give you joy and peace.

@@danilaroche1156You are on drugs. Or mentally ill.

I always heard Alex was a real prick but Ed was always nice --- true or no?

For them? They didn’t live together.

The house they were building was for their mother

Hahaha actually Al was really nice and Ed was more about just the house

Adam Warlock, I also agree with you Sir, and, I have always had a theory on 'why' David Lee Roth hated Valerie Bertinelli. I cannot prove this theory, as, only David Lee Roth would know whether this theory is/was true or not, but, I sincerely believe that in David's mind, and in David's soul, both he and Edward Van Halen enjoyed a bond for many years, a bond, or, as I would suggest, a Musical Marriage, and, even though women came and went, then next morning DLR and EVH still had their Musical Marriage in which they enjoyed song-writing, touring, recording and fame and money! Along comes Valerie Bertinelli, and she begins a new romance with Eddie, and, David Lee Roth feels threatened by her, because 'she' is the one thing that could potentially end Dave's relationship with Edward, and she alone is the one thing/person that could get in between both Dave and Ed, and so, he didn't know how to deal with her so he simply showed her hatred, rejection and ice-cold vibes. This is what I've come to become aware of, both back then, and especially now with hearing Valerie's own words in this here video. Hopefully one day, some day, Dave and Val can have a sit-down and discuss these things. Anyways, Cheers!

Remember that famous line from the "The Dirt" ---- "muzzle that" LOL

@@radiationsnowman I agree. Even music suffered when Valerie entered the picture. He wrote far less heavy material.

Yup! If addition was an illness, you could get it from standing next to another addict. Addicts make a clear decision every time they put whatever in their bodies. The people who become addicts always have some mental issue they refuse to deal with so they keep themselves in a constant stand of repression through their drug of choice.

I'm sick and tired of stupid people making lame commentary when you're clueless. Stupidity is your illness, so go get treatment now, "not 20 years later". See, I'm letting you know you have a problem, so go ahead and solve it instead of making other people deal with it. You're one more clueless jackoff pretending to be smart while saying the dumbest shit in the room.

The 80's were just wacky, crazy, fun, and tragic all rolled into one --- I remember so much of that decade and it was truly an "all or nothing" type of culture back then

I myself loved coke. I'd either snort it or freebase it and smoke it. After an all night party of unlimited marijuana, coke everywhere, and more alcohol than I ever saw before. My heart was racing and I stayed awake for about two days. I hated how I felt. I prayed to God that if He let me live, I'd never touch marijuana and cocaine ever again. I prayed that in 1987. To this day I never touched it ever again.

Dam when you talked about the shadow people and bush narcs i instantly knew what you're talking about. I got to the point where i couldn't be around anyone and i had friends who would literally hide in the closet for hours, another friend who would look out the window and lined his whole houe in aluminum foil. Those 2 friends died from drugs and many others. I ended up hooked on heroin and after a 20 year battle have been clean 8 years this June. We were crazy with drugs and im lucky im alive. No more of that junk ever again, stay safe 🙏

Why can't you just say the name of the other drug?

@@chethammer guessing meth?

Amen..been there too..the aboriginals ran around my house for yrs...soooo glad it's over

"People criticize everybody for everything. I wish I could stop all the bla bla bla soap opera garbage..." then stop issuing the dipshit-level criticism and end your soap opera garbage. You're your own worst offender.

Sounds like you had "situational awareness" and it saved from a lot of misery --- I had a similar experience when I went to a big party college where there were raging keggers all over the place every weekend --- it was too easy to become a drunk asshole from Thursday night to Sunday morning but luckily I paid attention and saw kids dropping out and ruining their lives because they couldnt control the booze --- I limited myself to only two or three parties every semester and kept my grades up --- best decision I ever made

Sounds excellent what you wrote ...same experience here but in the mountains and not at the beach ...glad to see we're both still alive and made it through the journey... Rock on brother Rock on

I think David Lee Roth said it best, "Ed Van Halen without a guitar in his hand is a lousy human being." Just because he looked "cute" doesn't mean that he was innocent or kind.

@@jonaldblip_ Yeah, I’m gonna have to agree with Diamond Dave on that assessment. Ed did seem to come to some sort of epiphany about being a better human being once he was able to get the substances out of his life. Looking back Ed did do some f**ked up things… especially to Michael Anthony who anyone who knew him would tell ya he was a sweetheart of a guy.

If Dweezil Zappa say's Eddie was one of the kindest people he's ever known. Then I would say those two people were spot on about who he REALLY was. I may not have been a hardcore Van Halen fan but that kid had unbelievable talent. He's in that tight group of players who are second to none!

@@iamkarma20 Eddie may have been the nicest person in the world when he was clean & sober. Unfortunately there's was years & years when he struggled with addiction to cocaine, meth and alcohol.

Yeah, I dont judge big people because I know people can be addicted to food just like I was addicted to a couple things.. There's no difference. I wish everyone understood this

Intermittent fasting is excellent for many people. Great reset for the body.

I met Rick at Studio 54. He was a mess.

I didn't follow his marriages, but did he divorce Valerie because she gained weight? Or did she divorce him because he was screwing other women? His son is an amazing musician. I don't know if he's a songwriter though.

You're really coming up with some dumb stuff here in a place where there are lots of people who actually KNOW this subject, so don't bother trying to 'tell' everybody what they were supposed to have done or thought at random times in their lives. You're trying to justify your ignorance with more ignorance. Doesn't work. I'd like to think 'Nobody could be that stupid' as to make up shit on a subject they're totally clueless about, but here you are doing it, so go solve YOUR problems instead of jabbering about others you don't understand.

Exactly. Back in the day having a "Yoko" was the first sign of the death of a band!

Females ruin everything

Good for you, brother --- I never tried coke but I was hooked on booze for awhile --- listened to Dave bragging about "taking whiskey to the party tonight and lookin' for somebody to squeeze" and I took it to heart in my 20's LOL

Yup

Pure cocaine is totally different from the garage that the Americans are used to.

@@creamydistortion You mean Garbage

@@edwardlagrossa1246 Man, stay away from that garage cocaine. Mess you up!!

That's why I always say Dave was the true heart and soul of Van Halen --- after Eddie found his Yoko, then all the songs became about love and how a man is always confused by love and why he's unhappy being in love LOL

Boredom!

Except it's not "living the DREAM" at all. It only looks like that from the outside. You have no privacy, you're never home, everyone wants a piece of you, people bug you constantly and if you tell them to leave you alone you're the Oz-whole. The drugs and the drama and the chaos are constant, you have no control of your life, you attract toxic people, and everyone around you is an enabler and does absolutely nothing to help the situation. There were times where I felt my life was literally in danger, just from the situations I'd find myself in...people flipping out in a coke-induced paranoid rage, ready to do anything, and there's a gun in the next room, for instance. Scary stuff. I walked away from a "rock star career," or at least that's what I was told I was doing when I walked away. Been teaching music to kids and only performing occasionally since. Walking away from "rock stardom" was one of the smartest things I ever did. The only way I ever even came close to "living the DREAM" is the fact that I've met a few of these famous people I admired as a kid and actually got to have a decent conversation with a handful of them.

Well touring is an hour or two of playing followed by getting on the road, sitting in a hotel room, interviews, and sound check. Not saying there’s worse jobs by a mile but I also get it’s not all sunshine and rainbows. Also, when I started reading a lot of rock and roll autobiographies, I realized that a.) they suffered a lot of abuse and trauma and drugs helped them cope with it. b.) they have an addictive personality which is why some people can try a Vice and walk away and others get sucked completely in. Also, I remember Eddie once recounted how his father advised him to have a drink when he was having stage fright. It doesn’t take an expert to realize that using substances to deal with anxiety, especially at a young age, is a quick ticket to addiction.

Factory workers could not afford those drugs even if they were available .

Because creative people are different. They often have a keener portal to God. The devil knows this and attacks then hard.

God I hated those birds

Yep! Was talking to a fellow recovering addict the other day. We talked about the birds chirping. It meant another night wasted as well as that day

Yes it is.

@@ruthlessreid9172 not really lol

@@karlsalocks to quote Alice Cooper when he said his kids asked him about drugs and alcohol when they were young. I told the truth they can make you feel good. They can be fun until they are neither pleasurable or fun. Well he said something akin to that. Some people like (insert vice here) some don't . Some people can control their vices others the vices control them.

It's awesome when you're in control

You musta been real boring...😼🤪

Precisely. I pray Valerie comes to Jesus Christ.

Art , and music is God given ... Drugs , and alcohol is not ... I believe it's cheating to take drugs , and alcohol to create ... But don't take my words to heart .

@@santosmadrigal3702 LOL cheating ok.

Many, many things at play here. Two important ones to help understand: 1) Most addiction is caused by major trauma & 2) Most great artists have had major traumas. They kind of go hand-in-hand.

Well they did have warner brothers and ted templeman (professional team of experts helping them) take that away and you see how "productive" they were....

That's the upside of cocaine and speed. Boosts your performance. I have recordings of me playing on speed. I'm lucky to play half as well /w out it. While on speed, my hands were playing faster than I could think. My drummer would laugh watching me play during recording. He'd say I'd be moaning like I was in pain. I did realize I was doing that.

That's it. Chicks are a distraction.

@@adamwarlock3530 it's a guess. If Valerie and Eddie get into an argument, or anything, and it effects their gigs, personal relationships with the rest of the band members who AREN'T bringing their significant others on the road, well. What people are paying for they're not getting. It's nothing personal at all. It's about a smooth business operation without personal conflicts arising from external factors of an equally personal nature. Nothing worse than fighting with your boyfriend girlfriend wife or husband, then trying to focus on your job. Good luck!!!!

The funny part is that in her first book Valerie talks about all the good times she had on the tour bus talking to DLR during those long stretches in between cities on tour

@@tommitchell7294 He ain't no dummy. That's a smart dude. He's one of those people who can quote verbatim whole passages from books. Under the DLR personality and when he turns that all off, he is probably a very interesting, intelligent, well read dude.

@@DrTomoculus yep for sure --- I read Dave's autobiography a couple times and it becomes apparent he's a very intelligent guy --- grew up with a surgeon father who taught him to be smart and explore the world and all it has to offer