Rockers Who Partied Way Too Hard

[Music] there's a reason why rock stars are synonymous with xs as a lot of them really have lived their lives as indulgently as you can imagine their exploits have become the stuff of legend but some of them like the following partied way too hard in many ways kiss is the definitive rock band most of their songs are arena ready anthems about rock and roll itself and their stage show is full of pyrotechnics and while they were rocking and rolling all night they also partied every day particularly long time guitarist ace fraley also known as space ace he started drinking at the age of 13 and spent most of his life struggling with addiction before kicking his habits for good in 2006. his moment of clarity happened when his daughter called him out on how he'd started drinking again and implored him to quit fraley's drinking days featured some notably audacious booze fueled moments in 1979 while kiss was on tom snyder's tomorrow show a visibly intoxicated fraley grumbled and drunkenly joked his way through the appearance to the annoyance of his bandmates but you're kind of like a spaceman huh no actually i'm a plumber there was also the time the band was riding in a limousine and fraley chugged a bottle of perfume after being told it technically contained alcohol despite his wild ways he's still alive and kicking in 2020. in the 1960s fleetwood mack was just one of many british blues rock groups but in the next decade they adopted a softer sound and became one of the most definitive rock bands of all time their new direction was smoother chiller and groovier and it totally belied how the group was fueled by cocaine drummer mick fleetwood first tried the drug around the time that the band was recording their 1975 self-titled album as the group got bigger the drug indulgence increased to the point that cocaine was purchased in bulk written off as an expense and handed out in packets to band and crew members alike each night fleetwood once made a list of rock music's biggest spenders specifically for how much money he'd spent on cocaine that figure was somewhere in the area of 60 million dollars he and some associates eventually determined exactly how much cocaine that was by figuring that he snorted an eighth of an ounce every day for 20 years that works out to a seven mile long line of cocaine mick fleetwood wasn't the only cocaine enthusiast in fleetwood mac stevie nicks used to consume the drug with as much fervor as she brings to wearing shawls and singing spooky songs as she described it to rolling stone in 2015 all of us were drug addicts but there was a point where i was the worst drug addict i was a girl i was fragile and i was doing a lot of coke and i had that hole in my nose so it was dangerous i used to carry a gram of cocaine in my boot at all times and it was the first thing i thought of when i woke up in the morning by 1985 nix had reportedly spent roughly one million dollars on cocaine that's evidently enough to literally blow a hole through a nose as nick snorted so much that it left an interior opening and led to regular nosebleeds by 1987 her body reacted to the constant influx of drugs cocaine and otherwise with blackouts and falls a doctor eventually told her that if she continued to snort cocaine at the rate at which she'd been accustomed she'd suffer a brain hemorrhage or another fatal health defect but she nevertheless kept going and only quit after seeking help at the betty ford center following an intervention from her band mates motorhead is a slang term that means a person who takes a lot of amphetamines thus the band motorhead was aptly named as front man lemmy kilmister was a long-time amphetamine enthusiast in his memoir white line fever he recalled the time when he accidentally ingested what he thought was amphetamine but was actually poisonous belladonna it was only a teaspoon but that was about 200 times the amount for an overdose he passed out and woke up in a hospital where a doctor told him that he was about an hour away from death had he not been treated in 1975 lemmy was arrested at the canadian american border with amphetamine sulfate in his pants after a night in jail the charge was dropped he was busted for cocaine not speed and was released on that technicality lemmy also liked booze as he drank a bottle of jack daniels every day for decades as he aged he had to scale back partly because it wasn't good for his diabetes in his later years he lived in los angeles a few blocks from the rainbow bar and grill he was such a frequent customer that after his death in 2015 the restaurant held a memorial service and erected a statue of him green day has evolved quite a bit from its early days as a sloppy punk band the power trio led by singer songwriter billy joe armstrong has gone on to produce some very unpunk things like a concept album power ballads and a broadway musical but they've still retained their punk spirit which was abundantly cleared during their set at the 2012 i heart radio festival they were on a crowded bill that also featured pop stars like taylor swift and rihanna all acts were required to adhere to a performance schedule and were alerted when the time in their set was running low via an onstage monitor when a one-minute remaining message flashed up during green day's set armstrong came undone and launched into a profanity-laced tirade he also smashed his guitar flipped the bird and stormed off he later reflected on the incident in an interview with rolling stone explaining that he'd been blackout drunk for the set and shortly thereafter he sought out professional help at a rehab clinic he also noted that he and his band mates agreed that they probably shouldn't have been playing at the fest in the first place as he put it once a punk always a punk is really what it comes down to in the early 2000s creed was one of the biggest bands in the world led by throaty singer scott stapp they combined sludgy riffs with spiritually inspired lyrics and scored a ton of big hits in the process but then they split up in 2004 and that had more than a little to do with stapp's wild behavior the breakup was telegraphed by the band's december 2002 show at allstate arena in rosemond illinois according to a source who spoke to blabbermouth stapp was high out of his mind and unable to sing he also spent most of the set leaning against a riser flying on his back and sweating intensely it was so bad that creed wrote an official apology to their fans that said in part the band has heard that you were unhappy with the quality of the recent creed show in chicago we apologize if you don't feel that the show was up to the very high standard set by our previous shows in chicago we also understand and appreciate the fact that there has been much concern about scott's health and we want to assure everyone that he is doing very well and is taking a much-needed break it was such a terrible performance that four fans sued to get reimbursed for the cost of their tickets and parking fees metal guitarist zack wilde got his big break around 1987 when ozzy osbourne selected the then 19 year old new jersey native to be part of his solo band he would go on to play on and write for a number of osborne's records and he later formed his own popular group black label society osborne gave wild his start not just in the highest levels of music but also in extreme partying as he recalled in a 2019 interview with jenny mccarthy that's when my drinking problem began but uh you know i drank until then and then it was just double fisted from that point on wild heavy drinking lasted into his early 40s when he had to quit due to a disorder that caused potentially fatal clots to develop weirdly enough though wild's prolific drinking actually prevented his premature death after developing severe leg and knee pain while on tour in 2009 he was prescribed oral blood thinners to prevent blood clots a mid tort checkup included a ct scan which revealed the presence of three clots that had already hit his heart and passed through safely alcohol thins the blood and a doctor believed that while years of drinking had successfully prevented large deadly clots from forming guns and roses straddled hard rock and hair metal which was a formula for staggering success a big part of the group's sound was the thundering percussion of drummer stephen adler who fully embraced the substance use element of the rock and roll lifestyle he was seriously addicted to heroin for seven years during which time he cheated death literally dozens of times on one occasion he injected a speedball which is a combination of heroin and cocaine as he later recalled i could feel my face hit the tile floor i felt my teeth loose and as they broke away from the gums i felt the lacerations on my face the last thing i remember was pounding my face into a pool of blood rushed to a hospital adler was diagnosed with a stroke he would go on to suffer another heroin induced stroke along with a heart attack and approximately 31 hospitalizations for overdoses he was prescribed an opiate blocker in 1990 which made him violently ill due to the heroin still in his system days later he was summoned to the studio to record with guns and roses he was so out of sorts that it took him about 25 takes to get his track somewhat right that's when his frustrated band mates kicked him out of the band he eventually turned things around though in a 2018 interview he announced my health is fabulous actually tomorrow i will have four years and four months of no drinking and i haven't done drugs since 2008 so i've never been happier if you survived the whole drug thing like what i went through you feel like changing it's like enough's enough amy winehouse emerged as one of the most celebrated news stars of the 21st century by making old music sound fresh evoking classic r b she packed a deeply soulful voice to sing songs of love heartbreak and her struggles with substance abuse she sold millions of records and won multiple grammys but all that success was overshadowed by her personal troubles which included arrests for drug offenses a viral video of her smoking what was reportedly crack cocaine and an emphysema diagnosis winehouse's demons tragically got the best of her in july 2011 she was pronounced dead at her london home a london coroner found no drugs in her system though it was determined that she died of alcohol poisoning following three weeks of sobriety she was only 27 years old if you or someone you know is struggling with addiction please call the substance abuse and mental health administration's 24 7 national helpline at 1-800-662-help that's 1-800-662-4357

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Id: JMWAeT-EB_A

Length: 10min 10sec (610 seconds)

Published: Fri Nov 13 2020