Anybody ever hear of George Jones, Tammy Wynette, Merle Haggard, Johnny Cash, Hank Williams, or some of the folks of this era? Where I played getting drunk was self-defense! It's called an "Altered State of Learning." If you learn it impaired you can only do it impaired. After I stopped drinking and drugging to excess I had to learn to play and sing all over again. Can't say I'm any better now than then. One person's opinion. And opinions are like buttholes - everybody has one. Kind of a shame to remember great singer/musicians for one or two negative performances and not the hundreds of good things they did - most likely while impaired. That's my butthole's worth :-)