It's still hard to believe that Stuart Adamson's dead

[abcdefz]

Big Country's "Sailor" was just playing. (Now it's Beta Band's "Lion Thief.")

...but Stuart Adamson's been dead for ages now; hung himself about.... six years ago?

It just seems weird. He doesn't seem like one of those folks who should be dead yet. :(

[yeahwho]

I didn't even know he was dead. I just read the article on his death in the Guardian (http://www.guardian.co.uk/uk_news/story/0,3604,620291,00.html) and it's all new to me. I must of been busy in school or something because I do like some of the Big Country stuff.

Stuart had been sober for over a decade according to the reports, then began drinking again. This reminds me of something I was told when I cleaned up my act.

If your an alcoholic and you can stay sober for 1 year you have a 70% chance of staying sober the rest of your life

Then if you make it 5 years the odds increase to 80%

If you can manage 10 years of being clean and sober, the odds you'll stay sober are 90% the rest of your life and that is as good as it gets.

Stuart unfortunately fell on that 10% side. Damn. Spooky. Drug.

[abcdefz]

...when I was in AA, one of the guys who had been sober for thirty-seven years went out.

Thirty-seven years, man. Whoa.

[abcdefz]

....my eyes got watery reading that. So sad.

[DigitalB]

He was a legend in Dunfemline. I always remember him watching Dunfermline play football, he was a real down to earth guy.