Scott McNamara
π€ SpeakerAppearances Over Time
Podcast Appearances
But it almost took me out twice.
Yeah, definitely, yeah.
I mean, in my world at that time, I mean, I was in a boy band, right?
So obviously my friends would come in, my band members would come in.
The drummer was upset.
They weren't happy with me.
But they would come in and find my stash and they would like throw it away.
You know what I mean?
And they actually, my boy band members, they went to the local church, right?
And they told the local church that my mom was from, sort of connected, you know, I was connected loosely.
I went there as a kid and they knocked on the door and said, look, this guy's killing himself.
You got to help him.
So my friends, my band members who were atheists, they didn't believe in God, but they went to the local church to tell him, look, you got to help this guy.
He's killing himself, you know?
So, I mean, it was sparring out of control that way.
and even the alcoholism I remember doing a gig we you know in the boy band days we did a gig it was like the old yes the year and then the kind of band of tomorrow it was Wayne Fontana and the Mindbenders they did a groovy kind of love they had a hit with that and a few other songs so we were in this hotel very fancy hotel and I was like in the
in the fountain of like, you know, as you drive in, right, you've got this big fancy fountain.
I'm peeing in the fountain of this place.
I'm just out of it.
And the lead singer came to my band, said, your boy's got a drink problem.