Blaze About His Alcoholism and Maiden Years
Former Iron Maiden/current B L A Z E frontman Blaze Bayley recently spoke to Sweden's Metalshrine.se about his battle with alcoholism. "Yeah, I have had some massive problems," he admitted. "The police phoned my wife and said, 'We have a man unconscious on the street and we think it is your husband.' After that, I had to take a pretty hard look at my life, and think why does that happen? Something inside my made me want to drink myself unconscious to the point of oblivion.(...)
With medication and with seeing a psychiatrist and things like that, I have been able to live a much more satisfied life, I have been a lot more happier and spend less time drunk and more time sober and working on the music and the things that I love, but unfortunately my marriage didn't survive. I survived it, I healed, but the marriage didn't. It's a shame really. You know these things happen.
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[Metalshrine]: You were once new in a band, Iron Maiden, did you learn anything from that experience now when you have two new guys in your band?
[Blaze]: Yeah, I suppose. A lot of the feelings I had back then were really uncomfortable, because Iron Maiden was a really big band. I try to keep it with my band to try to be a bit more human about things and basically just have a good time. As long as everybody understands that the single most important thing is the music and doing the best possible show you can for the fans, then that's it. To be doing this and make a living of it is fantastic. Whenever a new person comes in to the band we just try to make them feel comfortable, we all been there, don't worry too much. I'm really proud that the fans we have are so supportive and loyal. It's incredible."
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Source:MetalShrine.se
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