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I remember back when I was young, there was one of them country guys who did stand up, and he always had either scotch or whiskey during his routines. He belonged to the you might be a redneck...group.
Ron white. Huh I thought he was dead.
My high school music teacher went to a Dragonforce concert circa 2008. He said they were completely wasted, didn’t sound anything like the album, and barely knew where they were. Just an absolute waste of time. He got an autograph from one of them (must’ve paid for a VIP ticket or something) and they wrote “wish I didn’t have to meet you, asshole.”
He liked them a lot less after that
Doug Stanhope
Joe Cocker is famous for being pretty fucked up almost all the time. I watched a documentary, going to a concert of his was like maybe he'll be able to do more than one song.
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I saw JC twice during the 70s & 1 of those performances Cocker was sooo fn drunk he went behind the drummer & puked, then passed out!
The singer of Smash Mouth seemed to really hate that people only cared about All Star. His latest shows were) had some drunk rants. He's dead now
I'm an 80's boy, and a documentary was made about my rock stars and their drinking habits (among other things).
The Decline of Western Civilization Part II: The Metal Years
As an extra aside, I can't imagine that Lemmy spent any day sober since leaving Hawkwind until the day he died. When he was told he was sick and needed to stop drinking, he gave up whiskey and started drinking a case or more of wine every day. God, I miss Lemmy. 😁
Alestorm. They play pirate drinking metal, so it's pretty on brand
Ron White i believe
He got sober in the 90s, but Elton John was notorious for using shit-tons of cocaine back in the day and was an alcoholic as well.
Buddy of mine went to see Joe Cocker and dude passed out at the mic before singing anything. They refunded everyone.
Weirdly, killed by lung cancer instead...
I was listening to Knowledge Fight which isn't a regular listen for me, and it sounds to me like that Alex Jones dude is just shit faced at all times.
Bizzy Bone from Bone-Thugs-n-Harmony. Dude was a serious alcoholic. Saw his show back in like 2012 or 13, I forget the exact date, and he was completely shitfaced. He carried a handle of vodka and a bucket up onto the stage with him and alternated between drinking straight out of the bottle and then coughing/spitting/possibly puking into the bucket between songs. People in the crowd were like wtf man. It was disgusting. He had a fucked up childhood, so I'm not surprised he hit the bottle hard, but damn.
Dylan Moran, maybe not drunk necessarily but he is always drinking wine on the stage during his sets from memory.
As a kid I didn't get the drunk Dean Martin jokes on Bugs Bunny. Watching him on old roast videos, yeah, he was fucking hammered 24/7.
Go check some Don Rickels roasts! The man was fucking brutal, thought Sinatra was going to cap his ass on the spot when Don joked about Frank's mob ties. Kissing Sammy Davis Jr., "Did I get any black on me?"
Eddie Vedder drinks his share of wine on stage but I'm not sure if he's shitfaced. I think it would be hard to tell given his style of singing(i very much like his singing, not bashing him).
Shane MacGowan. Exhibit A: Irish Rover (he comes in around 0:38)
Pepper Coyote.
Apparently, the drunker he is by the end of the set, the funnier "No Cock, Like Horse Cock" gets. Unfortunately when I saw him live, he gave away all his booze to the audience! 😩
Was Sid Vicious ever sober?
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