VIDEO – AND IT WAS TIME TO QUIT –
Nov. 28, 2023 – There was a long romantic period where I wrote a lot. I was very creative. Alcohol had that effect on me at that point in time, and then it didn’t.
We were in the bars four or five nights a week and everything was nuts. So I thought ‘well, (when) I get off the road, this problem will solve itself.’ If I changed my schedule, then that should fix that.”
The main source of income for musicians can often be touring, and the act of traveling around and playing music can be extremely taxing on one’s life. It certainly had been for Felker, who suddenly fell out of love with music as a drinking problem surfaced in his life. It was only when he stopped playing music and ceased touring that he held himself accountable for the problem that had developed. It was then that he realize that it wasn’t the road that made him drink too much, it was another sobering (no pun intended) reality… he was an alcoholic.
He continued during the interview:
“Then I realized that I wasn’t drinking too much because I was on the road, I was drinking too much because I was an alcoholic, oddly enough. (The bars) certainly had their hand in it, but it was time to make another big change.
