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PAUL WILLIAMS - AKRON, OH 2003 On this recording, singer, songwriter, and actor Paul Williams gives one of the best AA talks we've ever heard. Paul was here in Akron, Ohio for Founder's Day 2003. He gives a most entertaining, enthusiastic, and heartfelt talk. The large crowd obviously thinks so as well. Paul's sobriety date is March 15th, 1990. He says he was in Akron a few years back doing a movie and was able to talk his way into the Mayflower Hotel. He picked up the lobby phone and actually felt the spirit of Bill Wilson. He mentions several times in this talk about his gratitude to both Bill Wilson and Doctor Bob. Paul says his father was an alcoholic. He distinctly remembers an incident in 1952, when he was 12 years old. They were living in Lucasville, Ohio and his father, who was drunk, woke him up at about 4 AM and told him they were going to go to a Cleveland Indians game. His drunken father and his drunken friend were drinking all the way to the stadium. When they arrived, they were the only ones in the parking lot and his father said, "We're really gonna get great seats." Unfortunately they were in Cincinnati instead of Cleveland. His father never did find the rooms of AA. He was killed in an alcohol related accident when Paul was 13 years old. Paul was shipped off to live with relatives in Long Beach, California, but he was not a sun lover. What little color he had he says he got from the light in his refrigerator. Alcoholism for Paul was basically fear-based thinking. When he was drinking he feared everyone and everything. He saw people as being very evil. He made few friends. He liked girls better than boys as soon as he found out there was a difference - and he was the perfect height to discover the difference. At one time he stayed sober for 7 months through sheer will power. At 2 O'clock PM he was in Jamaica writing music by the pool when a waiter offered him a rum & coke. For some reason, he took it. The next thing he knew, it was 2 O'clock AM and he was at Bob Marley's grave explaining reggae music to a bunch of local black people. Paul talks about much, much, much more than this. This truly is a great talk, he really is an entertainer. Contents - 10 Tracks Length - 51 Minutes |
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