Great news. The former axe slinger from Motorhead, Phil Campbell, is celebrating three years sober!
During an interview on a podcast called Scars and Guitars, former Motorhead guitarist Phil Campbell reveals he's three years sober. He doesn't reveal the date, for obvious privacy reasons, but it's good to hear he's taking care of himself
"I don't count days or nothing like that. I know it's about three years completely sober - without one drop." When he started talking about this, he had stated "I just thought that all them years was enough, really. It took me 10 years to actually try and stop completely, but I did it. I just got bored with it in the end. And I didn't have hangovers anyways. I just got fed up with it in the end. The first period after you stop drinking, you think you can never enjoy yourself again and you're really boring and you're really quiet, but slowly, you get to enjoy yourself more and more and you get into more normal things. Before you know it, you're having the same fun as you were when you were drinking. Then you think 'Shit, I'm not drinking, and I just had a great time.' But it is difficult. It took me 10 years to finally master it.
"You've gotta really wanna stop. Some people, meetings would be good for them, I guess. Everyone's different. Some people can do it without any support system. Some people need to support system. But it took me 10 years from thinking about it to actually [developing] the tools. So, it was a bit of a process. It definitely comes back, [but] slowly. The first part's the hardest. The immediate short time when you stop - the earlier months or weeks or years or whatever it is - are a bit harder, and it should get easier."
He didn't attend Alcoholics Anonymous meetings or any kind of rehab like most do. After the demise of Motorhead, he has focused on new music, with a new band called Phil Campbell and the Bastard Sons. Nov. 13 marks the release of their new album We're the Bastards.
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