“I like to say I only got drunk once — for thirty years.”
Joe Walsh, quoted in Rolling Stone : The Return of Joe Walsh, One of Rock’s Unsung Guitar Gods.
Walsh goes on to say “Coke really allowed me to focus, and alcohol took the edge off the cocaine.”
And that he always wanted to do an American Express commercial “in a completely trashed hotel room, with smoking embers and things sparking. And I’d go, ‘Hi, do you know who I am? I don’t have a clue.'”
Walsh joined The Eagles in 1976. The first album with Walsh in the band was Hotel California, which says all you ever need to know about both The Eagles and Joe Walsh.