The Legend Of Stormy Blue starts at the apex of a career achieved after years of clawing and scraping from the bottom of obscurity to fame and wealth. Twenty-plus years fighting against a corrupt and clique-laden business Stormy refused to quit and beat the odds. Along this journey, he started self-medicating to ease pain, facilitate sleep, or produce needed energy for long tours with lots of dates without significant amounts of time between appearances separated by multiple hundreds of miles. When Stormy was seemingly on a wave of success, his demons from drug and alcohol abuse started affecting his performance, reliability, and unpredictable temperament. He began losing his powerful business contacts, opportunities, and personal relationships. The band he'd been with for over a decade left him after continuing and more frequent drug and alcohol-induced outbursts and disastrous performances. His manager and most enduring friend, Johnny, gave him an ultimatum after concert promoters began canceling regularly and he saw his old friend spiraling down ever more rapidly. Johnny couldn't get Stormy any shows scheduled except for small club dates and struggled to manage Stormy's behavior by informing him that he, too, would leave him if he didn't get serious help immediately. As this chapter closes, Stormy goes from playing for crowds of twenty and thirty thousand people for tens of thousands of dollars to playing his hits to twenty-five to fifty people for a few hundred bucks and going to daily addiction and alcohol counseling and two AA and NA meetings a day while living with Johnny in something comparable to a parent-child relationship to work his way to a big come back.