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Barefoot Grin2/28/2018 6:12:21 pm PST

re: #308 ObserverArt

I’ve been around a lot of local type bands and a decent regional band and for a good part of them it never got into anything really heavy, and never before playing. At the most someone might smoke a joint…maybe a beer or two. Thankfully.

I think you are a couple of years older than I am, but there was plenty of blow around our local scene in downstate central Illinois in the late 70s and early 80s. I saw a couple of folks lose it. I know of at least one guy who was emulating Johnny Thunders (ironically, he’s ok and manages to hold it together as a bartender in NYC these days). But you’re right. Of the people I know from back in the day, the drug that really defined things wasn’t heroin or pot, but alcohol.