You can do this! The "small still voice" (your soul/higher self) from within is whispering- or perhaps shouting at this point - that it's time to be true to yourself and reach out for help and support with your self medicating. I've been where you are and trust me, when you finally acknowledge that you are hurting yourself more with substances than helping, your life will get so much better. Peace and love to you! 😁🌺

Sober for two years, not much fun and not a better person but it's good to be the same person day in and day out,

Still doing well? Good luck, good strength.

@@flugplatz21 Yes. Ngl it was a struggle for a couple days recently but I'm well. Thank you for your well wishes!

@@johnhulsker9123 Step up..

I'm bipolar and alcohol problems she would not at kept with me

Sheryl is the most wonderful, beautiful, supporting wife!! Alice would be dead long ago without her.

she saw money signs come hell or high water

Tracey ocgirl she is one of the best things that ever happened to alice she loves him and still loves him she always will dont ever think Cheryl is a gold digger because shes not

I'm on the constant look out for my Cheryl. Seriously, that is love right there.

@@sammyocgirl7411 that woman did not then does not now need Alice. She is smart enough good looking enough and capable enough (,she's a professional dancer.) to have plenty of other men.. Do your research dumb ass. They are a great couple.

I hope you are still going strong!

Yup! I’m 33 months sober now! Thanks SO MUCH for your support. 😎

@@camarossdriver that is AMAZING!

I have got alcohol problem too but like dipsomania not every day. 3 in a week but l have to hit the bottom.Then I went to doctor about my mental problems he said to me deep inside of alcohol problems and drugs addictions there is a mental problems like depression,ADD,anxiety,concentration problems he gave me some pills because he found that I have got serious hyperactivity and concentration problems now I m taking ritalin about 2 weeks and ıt helps my alcohol problem and my limits now I m controlling myself on drinking.Hope is everything. there is a little things effects everything

Great For You Alex !! I Was the Same Type of Drinker !! Just on Friday and Saturdays ~~ When your in a Bar Setting Your around Fun People !! Shootin the Bull with Chicks and Guys -Mostly Chicks if Their Around ? and it Gets Close too Closing Time and you Consumed about a Case of Beer ? A CASE OF BEER !!Ya its Easy Shooting Pool and just not Paying Attention too Time -about a case is about Right from 8;00 pm till 2;00 Am =Was Having A great Time =until the blue lights go on behind you at night and they are so Bright !! And you Lose your License and Dish out about $7,000 Bucks for a Lawyer = So its Been 10 Years and I haven't Drank any Alcohol --and I don't Miss it or Crave For it =LOVE WAKING UP IN THE MORNING SOBER !! Alex it gets Easier as Time Goes By !! Keep Your WILLPOWER BRO !! You Won't Miss it a Bit =Stay True too Yourself =CHEERIOS :)

Alex C. good job man! I had (have?) the same issue with booze. love the feeling, and absolutely can not have just one drink. it always had to be a party i guess. I eventually got to experimenting with drugs, and then the drugs and booze went hand in hand. I could simply not get drunk and NOT use cocaine, MDMA, any stimulant i guess. If I was drunk and my search for drugs didn't work out, I was a miserable asshole who couldn't have fun, party was over. Anyway, I eventually had to just not drink anymore. It's been several years now, and most of my friends etc know that I don't drink, and it's not an issue. I can be around it, I just don't drink it. Some people act like it's the weirdist thing, they don't get how somebody could just not drink. Anyway, sorry for the long winded story, but I saw a brother-in-arms and felt like sharing...

Alex C. I too have the same problem with drink. My tolerance levels are also very high. I have now tried to reduce my intake. It's difficult though. By the way this was a great watch. Thanks for sharing this.

Be careful the devil doesn't sneak up on you man! As in the Drug/Booze demon !! I used heroin and drunk until I was out cold for about 8 years, Totally destroyed my life my house and marriage I hit rock bottom crashing my car into a department store in broad daylight wasted outta my mind!!! Forced to go to rehab by the courts although it took me 5 times to not relapse you have to be careful you dont lose your footing on the slippery slope that is Drugs & Alcohol!

Me too !!

@@rancedodd That's great Rance!

Jack, back when aa first started, the recovery rate was drastically higher then as it is now. there was 1 giant meeting a week (in most areas) where people from miles would join for the magic. there was no dependance on meetings to keep us straight. so what kept all those guys sober back then? prayer. you prayed a LOT.

@@an0therdimensi0n99 You're correct on all accounts my friend. I'm very fortunate to be 2 miles from an ALANO club, which prior to COVID, had 40+ meetings a week. There're also plentiful meetings within a 5-10 miles radius of my home. In March of this year when it had to close, my 6:30 AM meeting met in the parking lot rain or shine until the 2nd week of June. Other groups did the same. And of course, the solution is spiritual in whatever form that takes for the individual.

working on 2 years myself

I know and I wouldn't have found out about him

Indeed. Such a fantastic performer and (a rarity in his occupation) a true role model.

So very true. Hes amazing.

@CheapoBrand FruitPunch Who are you???

@CheapoBrand FruitPunch A good Alice Cooper song? Hmm... let's see: I'm Eighteen, School's Out, Under My Wheels, Halo Of Flies, Billion Dollar Babies, Generation Landslide, I Love The Dead, No More Mr. Nice Guy, Teenage Lament '74, Welcome To My Nightmare. Black Widow, Only Women Bleed, Cold Ethyl, Go To Hell, You And Me, How You Gonna See Me Now, Talk,Talk, Clones(We're All), Pain, Teenage Frankenstein, He's Back (The Man Behind The Mask), Roses On White Lace, Poison, Hey Stoopid, etc., etc., etc.. I mean that gets you through his 1st 20+ years not touching the last 20. So naming good Alice Cooper songs is really fucking EASY TO DO dude - what planet are you from? I was jamming Alice when I was in grade school! He was the man then much like he is now. Great performer & total class act. Not to mention a ONE OF A KIND TALENT & INDIVIDUAL! ALICE RULES THE ROOST OF CLASSIC ROCK LEGENDS! There is no one else remotely like him & never will be! Name a good Alice Cooper song...SMH TO THE MAX at that utterly RIDICULOUS comment!;;

stay strong man

@@henrikfortuzi3306 most certainly.. thanks brother

YEAH ALRIGHT !!!!

Let’s see...

God I love meth 😃

i've seen monster dog, prince of darkness and of course alice doing herod's song

the most humble living legend of all time. True rock God!!!!

Well, it IS "Till Death Do you part" ☺️

@@phillynott2459 not to mention rockstar money..

Mine sure did

@@kebr5837 :( sry bud

@@bobbyblazes1 true 😂👍👍

Amen to that 💪. But that's true Jesus really helps when you call on him and believe. I never had a addiction problem but I have more like mental problem and when I pray at night and woke up the next day, it feels little better. So it's nice to know that you have someone or something to lean on when things go wrong. I hope you are well 😀💪

Cool story! Thanks for the inspiration! 1 year, 5 months sober. I was also vomiting at the end of my alcohol addiction. Had to drink to function, a 1/2 gallon/day vodka. What a miserable life! But Jesus has come that I may have life, and that I might have it more abundantly. John 10:10. Without Jesus I would have no reason to live, no power over alcohol. I feel good, and believe I'm done, though I'm not so dumb to think I could never become alcoholic again. Love Alice Cooper's story here! I just saw him open up for The Original Misfits. A sold-out show at a 23k seat pavilion! I went to see Misfits & was surprised they were the headliners! Oh, wow! I just realized I know this video's creator! How cool! Thanks Billy!

@louisedow6489 That sounds like about the last thing on earth I'd want to watch. Big NOPE! Who is "Johnny Depp" anyway? "Amber Heard?" Never _heard_ of her!

+rbagel55 Keep going healthy and "clean"! You are aware of loses and consequences, you don;t deny - it's very good. B|est wishes on your old & new way of life. Never change it! YOU WILL COPE!

+rbagel55 thanks home boy i am 41 been an alchoholic for 16 years i need to stop tanks for the testomony

Bet you could tell AA atale or 2 mmm, maybe others saw giggles different. ya do so sowned like ya wonna live forever.👽

rbagel55 --- you need to find a nice sandwich and settle down...

rbagel55 Since early childhood a false idea-image of a separate I/Me/Self has been planted and is still accumulating within our minds. Those who dare to question this acquired illusion provoke fear, and we angrily and violently react without even considering the possibility that what they are pointing to is a fact. Since this often occurs as we age from childhood, we increasingly become self-conscious (ego-centric not self-aware), feeling vunerable, and combatively defensive. This the result of accumulating more and more stuffed anger usually called rage, which intrusively explodes when our illusery idea-image of a separate self is again questioned. There is no freedom until this ongoing accumulation is questioned and deeply understood for what it is; Cultural conditioning. Mankind lives for experiences. The experience of being rich, the experience of drinking alcohol, smoking marijuana or ingesting other drugs to experience escape from the mundane, the experience of sex, of success, the list goes on. The issue of "choice" is vaugely apparent if there at all. It's part of the human condition. And the human condition is what it is, and does what it does with no "choice" in it and is one of the causes of dysfunction which leads to chemical dependancy and so we have 12 step societies to help with such things, but there we see human condition go awry too with sex predators haunting meetings looking to fulfill an empty need, people who argue about how one should approach and discover "God to get sober", sometimes war will break out with groups about it (Yes I've been through that while in AA). No choice in that either because it's about their lives so you either accept "their way and view" or become a victim, again no choice because your "good standing" as an "AA member" is in jeopardy and you will get drunk if you're excluded. Where is your "choice" then. Where is your dependance then? It'd better be rooted in something stronger than the fellowship as a whole because you're liable to end up dead if everything AA says is true, or escape into NA and that's possible but stories get around and things will be called into question because there's a rivalry of sorts between groups, so like I said, your dependancy had better be rooted in something stronger than the fellowship or else you're dead with no other "choice" in the matter. I'm an ex-member of A.A. and the steps did work for me, but the "God" that found me was beyond anyone's "understanding" and didn't match up to anything that was being said "in the rooms". So I looked into "outside controversial" spiritually based books like A Course In Miracles where it was about a "God" that isn't concerned about labels or symbols (chips, "group of drunks", logos, books, wall signs etc) but is concerned with YOU. I neither expected this nor asked for it. It just happened, and it looks like I'm not the only one Jiddu Krishnamurti had a breakdown, so did Eckhart Tolle...and none of them had substance abuse problems and it was the same spirituality I encountered as the result of the steps, but I started asking questions long before I found out about any of them. "God" is beyond "understanding" some would even say that there is nothing to "understand" at all. And if they do "develop a God of their own understanding" the only God that would make any sense is a God that is infinitely bigger than "AA as a whole" because the Big Book says "no HUMAN power could have relieved us from our alcoholism" Which leaves what? Something Beyond and Bigger than "AA as a whole" I.E. the so-called "Group Of Drunks" The One that stops "time" and shows there is no such thing. The One that doesn't care about churches or "AA as a whole" and everything that AA "is". The word God has become a closed concept. The moment the word is uttered, a mental image is created. Being has the advantage that it is an open concept. It does not reduce the infinite invisible to a finite entity. It is impossible to form a mental image of it. When you say the name Alcoholics Anonymous all sorts of mental images start cropping up; a "Group Of Drunks" Sponsor, chips, wall signage (12 steps and traditions), the money basket, The Big Book the list goes on "The drinking is a symptom, the bottle a symbol" ~ Alcoholics Anonymous ("The Big Book) Which includes the aforementioned "Group Of Drunks", sponsors, chips, ECT. All those are symbols of Alcoholics Anonymous. "Think Think Think" ~ Sign at AA meeting. THAT is your/the real problem the addiction to thinking. I don't even say the words "sober" or "sobriety" anymore all that stuff in A.A. were just stepping stones to be discarded once I got to where I needed to be. The spiritual masters say "Die before you die" or Die while you're still alive" well there's something to that because there you will find humility and acceptance and surrender. What was that lyric? "Freedom's just another word for nothing else to lose" I stopped doing meetings in 1993. Eckhart Tolle is right. You are not your mind, "alcoholic" or otherwise. All that ever was and all that ever will be is NOW and that doesn't need a meeting. It just IS. I post my experience with AA on Facebook and I always get banned from all the 12 step pages lol. Personally I find it very empowering. Real gratitude is living your life to the fullest and being beyond happy. There's a reason AA doesn't want you looking into "outside" material. They're afraid you might find some truth in there and you may ask questions. I knew a man in AA that had a near death experience as the result of a drunk driving accident. Never went into any real details about it, but he used to share some controversial stuff at meetings. One thing he liked to say was; "What if AA closed its doors for good with no meetings to go to?" I didn't put a judgement on it at the time but I sure get what he was saying now. "God" is Love in It's Purest Form yet formless, and since that's true it automatically cuts out the so-called Group Of Drunks out of the picture, so I don't have to waste my life "a day at a time". And of course "they" as in the fellowship of AA continue to help others, because they're programmed into "gratitude" of "the fellowship". The human race is programmed/conditioned by a lot of things in life which results into the "I have arrived" mindset and we see others drink and use with impunity and we're so battered by life by then we start using drugs to get by as teens and wind up as alcoholics or something else, like obese or anorexic, it's all the same result something to cover up our pain of living or being less than, so, if they're blessed or lucky they end up in a "program" where freedom is subjegatated into a lifetime of meetings run by what looks like solution... and could be, but end up on a hamster wheel of recovery, being told by a "caring" alcohol/drug counselor, 12 step member, or sponsor that "You're sick, you always will be sick, and you're going to stay sick for the rest of your life" How many times in how many forms have we heard that line, "You're worthless, you're always going to be worthless and no good"??? Pretty much how we started using, drinking, and self destructing in the first place with your mind so wrecked and pliable that you just end up a cog in the AA wheel parroting programmed rhetoric "one day at a time" frightened to death of a "boogie man" of "relapse" that doesn't exist. "The man behind the curtain in Oz" which is an illusionary hologram blowing a bunch of smoke with some con man running the controls. Today I don't have to depend on anyone for my happiness and joy because it doesn't come from some human source. It's exactly the same thing spiritual masters have been telling us for centuries waiting to be discovered.

You listened to his multitude of albums?

My very FIRST LP I bought was his greatest hits album, I was hooked ever since!

I know for a fact that it is. Problem is, you have to be sober every single day, with that voice telling "you can be normal, have a beer"

I am starting as of tomorrow. February 1. New month, new start. To Fresh February and beyond for me! Congratulations on being sober. My turn now!

I'm still working on it. I can do a week, a month. 2 months but there's always that " goal line" drink. Any advice?

God Bless You

@@bobbyblazes1 my advice is to take it one day at a time. Don’t focus on long term sobriety goals. Just make it your goal to be sober at the end of every day

I dont get it

@@MF-hs6fx me too

Thank you, S

Wtf?

@@MF-hs6fx r/wooosh :-/

stood out in what was left of katrina at the nys fair

Im so happy that you are with us today ..i have seen you so many times..ive been clean 4yrs! You are such an amazing artist and person

I grew up near Kent, OH and followed Joe for a looong time. I saw him at his worst: he fell down on stage several times and the band kept playing as if it was a regular occurance. He forgot his licks and lyrics. It was disgraceful. Years later, I saw him when he reunited The James Gang and was sober. What a difference in his music and physical appearance. We have to wish everyone who wants to recover: Health and Happiness.

So true! Killer guitarists.

Sheryl is born in 1956, but absolutely looks younger than her years.

The older the better

There are also people who enjoy an occasional beer. Or getting drunk like 2 times per year and thats fun. Because of the people with no discipline it should be illegal? No way. Peoples own responsebility.

@@axlrose2335 Well, it's a thing I very rarely hear of in the UK - people who can take a drink without it causing bother to themselves and/ or others. But your point is taken, there are people who can drink responsibly and for them it's ok. Addiction isn't an inability to be responsible either, it's hard to explain to someone who hasn't experienced it but it's like having diarrhea. When you have diarrhea, you just have to go, you just can't stop it. Being addicted is exactly like that, you're compelled or obsessed by using. And it's usually a relief when you do drink or use, like having diarrhea it's a relief when you go. Addicts are seeking relief.

@@axlrose2335 more than 4 million people died in the last year just because alcohol poisoning

I agree with you that Flush, Zipper and DaDa are very good albums, but in my opinion, Special forces is bad. It has some good songs, but he was trying something new that just didn't work out

I totally agree. I love the black out albums from '80 to '83, Da Da being one of my favourites. It was the late '80s metal period with Constrictor and Raise your Fist that got me into Alice. It's a shame that a lot of people only know the over played Schools Out and Poison.

Robert bishop Sheryl

Very classy gal, he's lucky

KEEP GOING!! DONT EVER GIVE UP

@@theseattlegreen1871 💖yup, only 2 more months!!

Yes,I have just watched his recent Super Duper documentary.....and there`s numerous very contradictory claims by him in this.

An Alice Cooper on the rocks! Sounds like a drink 🥃

No absolutely not. Alice looks like Alice. Steve looks like Steve.

God Bless you Julie. I also went through the similar despair of addiction . Im clean now thanks to JESUS !!!!!

its not a disease its an addiction.

Alcoholism IS a disease. Google is your friend. It'll help keep you from sounding like a moron. LMGTFY.com

So it's not just an addiction? You never hear about coffee addicts or cigarette smokers and their 'disease'. How is alcoholism different than any other addiction?

Unfortunately on a societal level cigarettes aren't looked at as a problem as alcohol, even though it could arguably kill you just as violently and could be the more expensive habit. One could go to rehab for cigarettes though you just don't hear about it. Coffee though isn't the addiction its the caffeine and people also go to rehab for that too. I personally am a caffeine addict. I used to down a whole pot of coffee, 3 monsters, 2 16oz redbulls and then polish it off with espresso shots. Now I might have 2-3 cups of coffee a day or more. What I had to cut was the Monsters. I didn't realize how bad it was until I actually read the back. I noticed it said "Serving size:2". I was confused, I asked a friend "Hey, what does that mean?" She said "Take the normal amount of everything in there(which is still awful for you) then multiply it by 2..." I was like "Oh my god". I still drink it, but I'm trying to cut back. I'm not gonna sit here and lie, I mean it be easy because its over the internet how would you know? But f I did that I'd be subsequently lying to myself lol I'm a far cry from where I was though, so with this I can be grateful. Another reason why you don't hear celebs with these problems, is because typically they go for ether the harder or the more expensive and addictive stuff, mixed with alcoholism is shockingly extremely common.

call on Jesus the christ he will save you from your sins and give you a different heart so you won't want to get drunk anymore !

I was like you for 25 years...just stopped one day in 2017. I don't have a come to jesus moment..just didn't go buy beer one day..and then the next..and then the next. I miss it every day. Its a habit..an awful habit.

@@briangarrett6510 thanks man, and good on you... still been at it, but really starting to feel the time of change comming... i know tje feeling, ive done it before and i will do it again... your message came to me on a good day to receive it

I think you're coming to terms with what defines you as a person. It sounds like you are closing in on making a decision to quit - but haven't figured out the timing or how to do it. Maybe you're still getting through the day ok and maybe you haven't got burned enough to be motivated - everything is still comfortable enough to continue. Been there. I was a regular drinker and honestly, I enjoyed my hazy little world. I isolated myself so I could keep a constant buzz going and not worry about keeping a sober face in public. My older years caught up with me. In my case, drinking caused bad Gastritis and was making me terribly ill. I had to quit drinking or die. Simple and brutal. No deferring to a higher power or other such. No need to feel guilt or regret at all the years spent in a haze. Had to cut the crap. I wish you luck in finding the motivation that will work for you.

@@nmcg2587 i agree with all that you said..especially the higher power part. Ive been sober 3.5 yrs now and I havent moved an inch. I have 2 AA friends who keep telling me that I'm not sober..just dry. I have to work the program. Maybe but i dont see the point. I really thought being sober this long I'd be in a better place mentally and I'm not. I see what i really am and its sad..drinking allowed me to function. Push me out into the World..a carrot and stick approach. I'm sure I'm depressed but i wont take pharmaceuticals.

Thanks for watching and listening to my songs, Thanks for your love ❤️and moral support. I hope you have been well entertained over the years?

More power to you. You can do it. You will feel drunk with sobriety on the other side. You just have to climb through a little hell to get there. Good luck.

this guy was drinking BUDWEISER!! its like water

You can do It

You straight up are gonna get good. It takes awhile to get back into your non alcoholic norm, and some back and forth, but it happens. My advice, walk your ass off. Walk and listen to audio books that get you hyped. Walk, walk walk. Walk and breathe. It sounds weird. But it works. :D

if you send me your address, i will send you an awesome book that helped me quit drinking. i was in and out of aa for 30 YEARS and could never stop. i quit drinking after the first page of this book. that was 12 years ago. the book is "rational recovery." i am happy to send copies to whoever needs one.

Agreed. Been there, done that, bought the T Shirt, as they say.