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Originally Posted by Unknown Soldier
Grace Slick was known for doing LSD but I`ve never heard of her passing out on stage.
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Me neither.
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Originally Posted by Unknown Soldier
As far as I know Jim Morrison never did heroin, he was an acid, pills and cocaine man. Jimi Hendrix was really just into LSD and pills and I`ve read varying accounts saying that he did heroin and others saying he never did it because of his hatred of needles.
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I think I'm right about Morrison. In the book,
Jim and I - Friends Until Death: Alain Ronay's account of Jim's passing Morrison's friend Pamela Courson is quoted as saying --
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The other night we can home right after the movie. When we arrived we immediately begain to sniff heroin and Jim began to play his songs. He played all of them, one after another, even The End. Then we went to bed. Jim asked me to give him some more stuff, that's how it happened that he took much more than me, especially since he'd taken some on his own during the day. We also did a little on the night before.
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Evidence of regular use of a narcotic supports an inference of addiction, if not conclusively.
As for Hendrix, I heard the heroin story so long ago I can't remember where I got it. In Tony Brown's
Hendrix: The Final Days, Hendrix' friend Monika Dannemann says he overdosed on her sleeping pills. There's yet another account that says his manager Mike Jeffery murdered him using sleeping pills.
But this is getting too far afield. My point is that it's implausible for the Beatles to have wanted a reputation lumping them together with narcotic-using musicians who passed out on stage, as RMR suggests.
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Originally Posted by Unknown Soldier
As far as the Beatles go, they were never seriously into drugs (It was mostly Lennon anyway) like some of the above and I`d call them dabblers because it was the cool thing to do at the time, rather than being serious users.
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The point at issue is whether they were pretending to be bigger drug users than they were. Isn't that like someone pretending to be a bigger idiot than he is? Also, I don't see the evidence for it.
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