Everclear singer Art Alexakis shared the story of his sobriety with a San Francisco audience at August Hall.
At a concert in San Francisco on Tuesday, Art Alexakis, frontman for 1990s rock band Everclear, said that a four-day bender in the city in 1989 eventually led to his sobriety. “On the fifth day, I got sober,” Alexakis told a packed house at Lower Nob Hill’s intimate August Hall. It was one of the final stops on a tour of over 25 concerts supported by the Ataris and the Pink Spiders that started in the summer and is slated to conclude Oct. 15 in Pioneertown.
“I had worked on getting clean for a while, but when I started drinking really heavily, I started going looking for dope,” he said in a 2019 interview. “My wife at the time and I were living in San Francisco, both making $25,000 a year each, which in 1988 or ’89 was a lot of money. With no kids, you could live a pretty good life unless you’re going out drinking and blowing money, and I was right on the edge of going down.
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