Godsmack drummer Shannon Larkin discussed his recovery from alcoholism on a recent episode of his bandmate Sully Erna's Internet show, called “Hometown Sessions.”
The 52-year-old drummer, who has been sober for four years, said, “My biggest fear of quitting the alcohol was thinking that I wouldn't have fun anymore — I wouldn't know how to have fun. So that's where my anxiety stems from . . . I'm supposed to be this rock and roller, man. I'm the one throwing the party, and now I'm gonna be this sober guy. They're gonna think I'm a weirdo. So I've got lots of anxiety.”
Larkin said he went to therapy and rehab when he “hit bottom,” worried he'd lose his family, friends and the band. He added that he also turned to meditation, saying, “It doesn't matter if your higher power is this lampshade — it's whatever you feel is greater than you that you can look to and know that you can go on and have fun and have a good time in life without any kind of alcohol or drugs, as long as you can get your inner self happy.”
Erna called Larkin “an inspiration” in an interview earlier this year, saying, “I'm glad he got help, because he needed to.”
Godsmack recently scrapped all 2020 touring plans in the wake of the ongoing coronavirus pandemic and will spend the rest of the year working on a new album.
