The Eagles talk about the alcohol problems that they faced

According to an inteview with the UK newspaper The Telegraph, Joe Walsh stated: “I was a little uncomfortable with the old footage of me, when I was a mess,” admits Walsh. “But it was important that it was in there, ’cause we were trying to tell the truth. I ended up alcoholic and totally dependent on various other substances. I mean, I had a blast, we all pushed it, but I took it too far. I can’t comprehend how I could have done it, how I could have smoked a pack of cigarettes a day and all the rest, and stayed up all night and then gone to the next concert and played. But it has a way of convincing you that you can’t do anything without it. I played music high for so long, I didn’t know how to do it sober.”

When the Eagles reunited in 1994 after 14 years apart, it was on condition that Walsh cleaned up. “It was terrifying going on stage. I had to learn how to do everything all over again, sober. My sense of humour was maybe the last thing to come back. It’s better now. I’m so grateful that I’m alive, ’cause a lot aren’t. I hit bottom before I OD’d and a lot of my friends did it the other way around.” Walsh pauses, eyes misting up. “I don’t know why I’m here and they’re not but I am here, and part of my responsibility is to do a really good job and show people that there is life after total dependency.”

Source: The Telegraph