Radcliffe Wrote:
At a record collector's swap meet recently, I found a Creem magazine from July '75 for a buck. Alice Cooper on the cover, headlines like Nilsson - Bar-hopping with John, Ringo, and Dylan, Eno Talks Tiger, and Rick Wakeman Gets Sloshed, and Lester Bangs was still on the writing staff. Anyway, in the "Rock 'n' Roll News" section there is this little tidbit:
"The rest of Lynyrd Skynyrd has bet lead singer Ronnie Van Zant $4,000 that he can't quit drinking for six months. Ronnie's doc ordered him to lay off the sauce or forget about having a future."
Maybe after this year is over I'll get back home and put that bottle down.
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Throughout his life, from childhood until death, he was beset by severe swings of mood. His depressions frequently encouraged, and were exacerbated by, his various vices. His character mixed a superficial Enlightenment sensibility for reason and taste with a genuine and somewhat Romantic love of the sublime and a propensity for occasionally puerile whimsy.
harry Wrote:
I understand that you, of all people, know this crisis and, in your own way, are working to address it. You, the madras-pantsed julip-sipping Southern cracker and me, the oldman hippie California fruit cake are brothers in the struggle to save our country.
FT Wrote:
LooGAR (the straw that stirs the drink)
