Jay Addotta:
CLASS OF 1972
South Lake High SchoolClass of 1972
St. clair shores, MI
Jay's Story
afterGRADUATION=I HIT THE ROAD WITH A POP JAZZ-BAND AND PLAYEDAROUND UPPER MICHIGAN CLUBS AND ALL DUMPS FOR A COUPLE OF YRS AND CAME HOME WHEN I GOT ENOUGH EXPERIENCE AND THEN JOINED A MUSICIANS UNION A LOCAL 5 AND GOT A GOOD REPUTATION 4 FILLING IN 4 DESPERATE OTHER DRUMMERS WHOM NEEDED RELIEFE FROM THERE GIGS AND TIME AWAY FROM THE ROAD IT WAS A GOOD WAY TO KEEP A VARIABLE OF STYLES AND FRESH ALL THE TIME I WAS SURPRISED AT ALL THE WORK I GOT>>I NEVER MADE IT OUT OF THE COUNTRY I ADMIT I DID MAKE TO VEGAS AND PLAYEDIN AND OUT OF SOME OFF STRIP CLUBS THERE IT WAS STILL EXCITING 4 ME A 24 HR TOWN HEE HEE=THIS ONFROM WHEN I WAS 18 YRS OLD AT GRADUATION TIME IN 1972 UNTILL 2005=WHEN I COINDUDEDNTRACTEDPNUMONIA AND WAS HOSPITALIZED FOE 3 MNTHS AT HARPER HPSPITAL I WAS PUT IN TO A COMA INDUDED STATE SO I COULDSTOP FIGITING AND SLOW DOWN AND TRY TO HEEL MY SELFI WAS ALMOST A DEAD MAN= MY BL...Expand for more
OOD PRESSURE HIT A ALL TIME LOW AND SO THE DOCS THERE TOLD ALL CONCERENED TO PRPARE 4 THE WORST AND I DOSENT LOOK GOOD AND THIS MIGHT BE THE END OF THE ROAD FOR ME [BOOOO] WELL I GAINED CONSOUSNESS SERPRISINGLY ENOUGH AND HAD TO HAVE 2 OPERATIONS ONE TO REMOVE 30PERCENT OF RIGHT LUNG MATTER AS THE ACID LEVELS ROSE SO HIGH IT BURNED ME LUNGS SOME AND I HAD SOME RIBS IMPART REMOVED SO THEY COULD REACH MY RIGHT LUNG IT LEFT ME WITH A CRONIC ARTHERITIS VERY PAINFULL ALLTHE TIME AND BREATHLESS JUST WHAT A DRUMMER NEEDS HA HA HA=SO I CAN ONLY PLAY IN MY BASEMENT NOW AND THATS THE TRUTH SEE YA I AM ON D.S.I.SOC.SEC. INCOME AND LIVIN ALONE AND AS HAPPY AS CAN BE SEE YAI LIVE ON EGEWOOD N ENGLEHARTD OFF 9&MACK AREA IN GRANNIES HOUSE SHES 102 YRS OLD AND LIVIV WITH MY FOLKS IN THE SHORESSOMEWERE IM DOIN MY THING ALITTLERELUCTENT AS TO THISCRONIC OUTCOME SO WHAT SEE YA GUYS
STAND ON MY HEAD ALOT
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