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westen44:

--- Quote from: Chris P. on September 20, 2017, 04:21:20 AM ---I met him several times and the last couple of years he was hard to love. Drinking an awfull lot, being drunk in an hour, not functioning and leaving the party after an hour and a half, shouting, ... Maybe his abuse of alcohol has something to do with it. Still very sad.

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I know someone with it and alcohol was definitely not the cause since she never drank at all her whole life. 

uwe:
I have his 8-string custom shop LP Standard bass - one of two he owned. Very sad.  :-\ Had no idea, but had wondered why he was no longe heavily featured at Warwick bass clinics. I thought he was iconic in this vid here:





What a kick-ass band that was. Should have continued, it really was thinking man's metal (bit like Alcatrazz and Judas Priest having illicit sex with one another and that can't be a bad thing) and we all know how prolific the Vai-discovered singer (Devin Townsend, yes him!) became.

Dave W:

--- Quote from: Chris P. on September 20, 2017, 04:21:20 AM ---I met him several times and the last couple of years he was hard to love. Drinking an awfull lot, being drunk in an hour, not functioning and leaving the party after an hour and a half, shouting, ... Maybe his abuse of alcohol has something to do with it. Still very sad.

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--- Quote from: westen44 on September 20, 2017, 07:18:33 AM ---I know someone with it and alcohol was definitely not the cause since she never drank at all her whole life. 

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There is such a thing as alcoholic dementia and there are other alcohol related brain disorders. I've seen a few affected persons, including a relative. It's not Alzheimer's, but the symptoms can be the same. After all, alcohol is a neurotoxin.

Whether TM's current condition has anything to do with alcohol, it's a pity that he let drinking interfere with his music to that extent. He certainly isn't the first.

Basvarken:

--- Quote from: Dave W on September 20, 2017, 11:58:01 AM ---There is such a thing as alcoholic dementia and there are other alcohol related brain disorders. I've seen a few affected persons, including a relative. It's not Alzheimer's, but the symptoms can be the same. After all, alcohol is a neurotoxin.

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Korsakoff

uwe:
You can no doubt drink yourself dumb, there is even a German expression for it ("Er hat sich blöd gesoffen."). And some people can't handle an alcohol dosage healthwise that has no impact (or not one as severe) on others. And there are studies according to which, while African-Americans drink less alcohol than whites across the board, they handle alcoholism (when and where it does occur) worse. Judging from my time in Africa, I would also say that black men aren't as alcohol-hardened as white men.

And all those rock star deaths due to pancreatic cancer, there wasn't a single one of them that I heard of who was not a heavy drinker at a certain time in his life (Jon Lord, Trevor Bolder, John Wetton, David Bowie - he first drank heavily before the US tours got him on coke, he would see the aftereffects of both) - just like the severe coke users died of heart attacks decades later (even after they had kicked the habit), Robert Palmer, Rick Parfitt, John Entwistle ... Some damage you do to yourself cannot be repaired.

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