Chords for JD Sumner on Geraldo talking about Elvis Presley

[F#] What being addicted means doesn't mean using it means waking up one [Em] morning and your body telling you [N] not you saying
Oh, that's my surveillance, but your body's saying excuse me
I want them [F#] and need them and that's it's like having something inside you pulling and stretching and screaming
So that's horrible thing [A#] boy George.
He said I want them.
I need them.
I also
Love them Elvis is a great song leads appropriately to JD summer and that's to whom your question is directed, right JD
I was wondering did Elvis ever talked about
[B] That maybe he was gonna die young did he?
Did he know what he was doing to himself live fast die young that did he ever think that or didn't Elvis think he was?
invincible Elvis
_ _ [N] Considered himself to be an expert.
He was he was like he was his own doctor
he was well well read up on medicine and
He considered that he knew enough that he could do anything and stay within the bounds of that so he never knew that
He was addicted to anything.
I know he had a physician's desk reference the
Encyclopedia, so did you Mackenzie?
Yeah, really every year.
I got a new one
Is that right PDR?
Oh, yeah, I'm going to write out my PDR
Yeah, but you mentioned to start with that.
I was Elvis is drinking buddy
Elvis did not drink and all I knew Elvis from the time
He was 14 until he passed away little peach brandy one glass of peach brandy is all he ever drank
But did he use it to wash down quaaludes and percadent and you know things like that?
Well, the only thing that I knew that Elvis took was quaaludes sleeping pills and uppers and very strong uppers
He would fire you for using marijuana
He detested cocaine and he approved of me drinking because I sold him _
That my drinking enabled me to sang low
_ _ And I was a good salesman I was the only man that could drink on stage I
Actually had it to my right on stage.
I had
pure whiskey on stage
And I sold him that that enabled me to sang low.
I'm glad it didn't ruin your voice.
You're going on the wagon
But I got who I was drinking two fifths a day.
They say that the fifth a day will kill you that is wrong
I was drinking to say I was drinking two fifths a day and
Elvis called me in and talked to me about he said it's not hurting the show
But it's gonna kill you.
I'm concerned about it.
I want you to lighten up on your drinking
But I had to get to the rock bottom
myself like she said that
When you're in that condition when you're a drunk or an alcoholic
Nobody can tell you anything you've got to hit rock bottom, you know
_ _ Yeah, I have to interject not everybody hits that low of a bottom there are high bottom outs also
I mean recovering anything are all degrees
but the pathetic thing is that you really had to go to the bottom of your barrel a lot of people's have
up what we call a high bottom and
That is their own consciousness.
They're functioning.
They can function.
You've got them on the streets my god
I mean, please I
just was talking to someone the other day and
Making very good sense and he was stoned out of his mind, but you know, they're not functioning as themselves Right, exactly clear
_ I was never I [B] never got drunk
_ [N] You could talk to me just like I am right now you could not tell it unless you smelt it on my breath
I was the best alcoholic that ever lived.
What was it?
What was your bottom then?
Because when I got where I couldn't drink good I'd get off and rehearse.
I
Did a lot of drinking and you could not tell it.
I mean you got the hit you you yourself
You complaining you bragging now JD now.
I want to know what we couldn't tell but he could tell _ _
You've got to realize
Got a problem
You can solve it anytime you drink two-fifths of anything a day you got a problem
_ [G] _
_ _ _ [N] Just a comment on hitting bottom [F] if we have to wait till people reach that [B] themselves
[F] Then [N] intervention means nothing
I feel very strongly that if you can intervene on anybody at any stage of his drinking or drugging and
Force or course or get him into treatment
It is [G#] here where you can teach [F#] people that they don't have to go away way for a day that way down
Absolutely, and they are with folks like themselves
They can be taught that they are sick not evil what they have to hit is a moment of truth
Where they wish to decide to not drink more than drink because [F] I always tell people who feel they've hit their bottom
If you think you've reached bottom pick [G#] up a drink
[N] You'll find out what bottom JD.
That's just what would Elvis have said what would you have said?
If the Enquirer had picked up the story that you had raw whiskey
Alongside you during every concert and here's Elvis taking you know all these awards from the federal government for his stance against the addiction
How would you have reacted?
Well if David Duffy had called you up and said pick up the Enquirer next Monday, son.
I got news for you
It's pretty bad to how I probably would have reacted or Elvis either one because I don't think that they have the right to expose
Anybody what gives them the right just say that her out there you Haralda can I just?
Okay, I do believe that that as you said the freedom of speech and the freedom of the press
I don't necessarily agree with the the emotional personal issue of being outed so to speak but our
Constitution
allows for it _
Personally and emotionally it's not helpful to the image of the National Enquirer and this does happen
We do of course go around looking for things among celebrities.
We cover celebrities like you know the Washington Post covers politics
I'm gonna let you in a little secret from the chief snoop here
Sometimes I don't have to work very hard because you may not realize this Mackenzie probably does
_ Publicists producers will sometimes call me in desperation or call others on the Enquirer and
Rat out if you will their own stars because I was big star like Mackenzie Phillips with the problem
She caused on the set let's be honest.
She was impacting on other people
She was very important a lot of people's jobs depended on her and they would call in desperation
You know how many times I've been called up and told this star is getting too fat do a story, please
Try to wake her up did the people from one day at a time call you guys my lips are sealed
I'm in the business of telling secrets not telling
Some of the other people outed in the pages of the Enquirer drew Barrymore Gene Simmons of kiss
Obviously Liz Taylor Jerry Lee Lewis now.
There's a boy that had a severe problem
I don't know if he's over it yet boy George you saw him in the clip las Manelli and Dennis Quaid
Dennis Quaid you can tell us some of the stories behind this David
I've got to take a break and you're next again celebrity addicts _ _
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