When I was playing six-nighters full time in the seventies and early eighties,
I saw a lot of guys who drank, smoked up, used pills and some needles.
When guys were losing it, unable to remember the songs they knew or the words,
they could walk away from their substance abuse and get it together.
If you didn't, it was dangerous for the band, getting fired and not paid for a gig,
having to get back to home base and find a replacement,
with bands breaking up more than keeping it together.
But by far, more than that, what drove everyone nuts was someone trying to quit tobacco.
It could even be the roadies girlfriend, and it still affected everybody.
And if you've ever come across a tobacco plant, getting cut and burning,
you could only think it was the most dangerous plant growing here.
Okay, okay, scooping up silver from the roots of the money tree growing in the river above Niagara Falls,
might seem more dangerous, but all you have to do is get dried off afterwards, not dried out.