Bassist Lee Sklar on 'Being Sober in The Music Industry' - Sunset Sound Roundtable
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- Опубліковано 19 січ 2024
- Legendary bassist Lee Sklar & Host Drew Dempsey sit down at Sunset Sound Recorders Studio 3 to discuss how living an alcohol free life has been a blessing throughput his 50 year career in the Music Industry. The iconic Bass Player also shares on how many numerous Rock Stars who partied hard back in the day have now changed their ways.
Guest: Lee Sklar : / leland.sklar
Host: Drew Dempsey: / dfdproductions
Filmed at Sunset Sound Recorders Studio 3 by Abel Bernachea
Audio Engineer : Zack Zajdel
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Lee is about as far from “boring” as I could imagine. Music is the drug.. Great video
Been a musician for 53 years - 45 of them professionally and I am exactly the same - I drink a beer or two on a gig occasionally, but I've never smoked pot (or cigarettes) or done drugs. I know it's rare among musicians, but I'm encouraged to hear Lee is the same.
OMG. I've been the designated 'chauffeur' all my life, too, for the same reason.
I took my 1st job as a bartender so I could be around friends without them bugging me to 'just have one'. Ditto rec drugs.
A few 'friends' dropped me for that reason.
I was hurt when I got shunned for no drugs or alcohol. But, at 75, like you, I have heartbreaking memories of friends who didn't make it. 😢
Thanks for being the kind of man who helped your friends while not giving up on who you are.
Lee you and Carole King two great artists who decided pursue your careers and live your lives sober 😊. Many blessings to you both.❤❤
Gene Simmons also never drank, smoked or did drugs.
RESPECT ❤❤❤❤❤❤❤❤ I wanna live in control of my life. Dear God, help alcoholics. Thank you for taking care of everyone, Leland😢
I have never seen anyone accomplish as much as Lee Sklar in a single 24 hour period
Love Leland Sklar!
I'm so sorry for your loss, Drew. I've been sober now for almost 30 years. Peace, from Florida.
Good onya! I'm coming up on 35. Miracles can happen.
Thanks much, and good on you, too! @@ol.grumpy.bastard
Hey Lee....being sober and straight doesn't make you boring
I feel a lot like Lee does. I did drink when I was a kid, but quit on my 19th birthday, 43 years ago. Never used any type of drugs. Yes, I was and often still am, always the designated driver.
I have the ultimate respect for him. He also has had the same wife all these years. After all these years of traveling he still is interested in every place he visits. I quit partying 33 years ago and lost mostly all my friends. I live around Milwaukee and not drinking is social suicide. Lee was born here but moved when he was 4 to LA area. Most rockers convey the image of being wild partiers but it i a serious business.
Such a great video. And really gutsy that you did it. I’m sorry about your dad.
Good for Lee!
Amazing he worked for one of the biggest junkies in the business---James Taylor. Though he has said Taylor never missed a beat, a note or a chord when on Methadone. Glad Lee made it through all that and stuck to his beliefs.
Lee … sorry for your loss 😊✌️❤️😊
I have so much admiration for Lee. Same hometown too!
I've been the designated driver my whole life too! I also saw so much negativity from substance abuse growing up that I just didn't want it.
Way to go! I like responsible content like this.
I have done drugs for 5 years. Weekend addict. In my twenties. Have seen and experienced amazing things and wouldn’t have missed it for the world but being clean for many many years now I’m glad I got rid of it. It surely destroys your life. Some times I talk about it with my buddy ( he has done the same ) both got rid of it but those very good memories stay with us the rest of our life’s. We were just lucky. Some of my old friends were not that lucky. Shame.
Well said. Sorry for your losses. Cheers! ✌️
I know the feeling of being the designated person, i wish everyone had that outlook "why would I want to do that" drugs booze were not meant for any of that crap.
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Lee and Frank ZAPPA never used drugs or alcohol.
As a newer performer, I think maybe a lot of performers used alcohol and drugs to get over stage fright.
Jeez - Leland NEVER had a beer or even a sip of Manishewitz wine? lol
drew ask paul if he remembers being in harp it was me. skip saylor. buddy from conway. terry from lion share. stagg street. the dee bros from cherokee paul from sunset there was a bunch of us we would meet in one of our rooms or Acapulco restaurant on sunset
People romanticize drugs and alcohol and/or say it won't happen to them. It will. It might be quick, it might be slow, but it'll happen.
Leland Sklar is phenomenal, as a player and a human.
Guitar genius Pat Metheny also never wasted brain cells on drugs or booze either. Obviously the idea those somehow add to creativity is a stupid idea. Younger Guitar phenom Lari Bassilo, who Leland worked with recently, is also almost certainly a non drug user. Such a tragedy to lose Jimi Hendrix to drugs.
My daughter is a lighting designer and she has done the lights for Mr Metheny,he lives in an alternate universe anyway.
Good for him. Boring is fine.
I hate what drugs/alcohol do to people. Tragic. Always a price to pay.
🙏 the streets of Philadelphia bro
I thought being buzzed or high was musically inspirational and was afraid getting sober would kill that. WRONG. I've been SO much more musically creative and productive these last 12 years sober.
Hard to believe Lee wasn't participating, given most people were using like coffee. They didn't call The Immediate Family "The Mighty Jitters" for nothing. "That band was really, really, really high all the time." Danny Kortchmar to Rolling Stone Magazine 2013. He, Gene Simmons and Ted Nugent are supposedly the only rockers who never did.
Not an angel never drank never drugs never cigarettes and I have a.handful of friends to different types of cancers. I did 30years 101ST AA 65 -95. Two tours of brutal combat duty in Vietnam as a CWO2 helio pilot. 8 more combat deployments retired CWO4. 25 years licensed union pipefitter and plumber. Same age 77 as Leland but I am tired and retired. I am no better than anyone but so thankful to the creator I never got involved into shit. I wouldn't be here today really honestly enjoying that four letter word life. Thanks for listening. GOOD LUCK IN YOUR LIFE.
He lived through the coked-out '70s without partaking? I'll tell Jackson Browne about that.
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