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Old 02-03-2017, 02:15 PM   #10 (permalink)
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I can't find it because I'm at work right now, but I remember seeing a video of him at NAMM or something playing one of the exclusive (at the time) Frankenstrat replicas and the dude was not even a little bit coherent. Maybe not as incoherent as Ozzy when it comes to speaking, but more blatantly drunk and less functional.
His decades long alcoholism has definitely taken a toll. He was 100% straight that day but the wear and tear was totally evident.
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