Gregg- I'm feeling great and lookin forward to gettin back out with some of my old friends for this holiday tour. I just had some melanoma spots removed from the sun but they were benign so I'm sporting a couple of shiners. Now that you mention it 2008 did kick my ass but I'm a survivor, I beat the Hep C and finally took care of my sciatic nerve in my leg, after all that I'm feelin great.
Ross CAT-While I understand the Hepatitis C treatments you underwent where extremely taxing physically, what was the down time like for you creatively, were you able to write?
Gregg -That's the thing about it, when I told my solo band what was going on, my keyboard player had already been through the treatments, he told me: "I've got some bad news on top of bad news for you; don't even think about inspiration or creation during treatment, brother I didn't even want to get laid". Boy he wasn't lying I didn't touch a pencil, my guitar or my piano the entire time. I just about had enough energy to pick up the phone to talk to my mother. It's that bad, it's basically watered down chemo is what it is, for those folks that have to endure full blown chemotherapy man I say a prayer for them every night. I've got to tell you I feel like I'm thirty again and can't wait to share the Holidays on this little tour with my Friends.
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