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  1. Newsgroups: rec.music.bluenote
  2. Path: sparky!uunet!think.com!enterpoop.mit.edu!bloom-picayune.mit.edu!athena.mit.edu!srcd
  3. From: srcd@athena.mit.edu (Solomon Douglas)
  4. Subject: Re: On Drugs, Bebop and The Wire
  5. Message-ID: <1992Dec31.100054.8155@athena.mit.edu>
  6. Sender: news@athena.mit.edu (News system)
  7. Nntp-Posting-Host: kangaroo.mit.edu
  8. Organization: Massachusetts Institute of Technology
  9. References: <RSHAPIRO.92Dec29154328@kariba.bbn.com> <1992Dec29.211926.11248@pony.Ingres.COM> <1992Dec31.070404.10836@cbnewsl.cb.att.com>
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  11. Date: Thu, 31 Dec 1992 10:00:54 GMT
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  13.  
  14. In article <1992Dec31.070404.10836@cbnewsl.cb.att.com> mingus@cbnewsl.cb.att.com (Damballah Wedo) writes:
  15. >As Bird himself said "when I'm on the needle, I
  16. >can't even finger the horn correctly, let alone play something creative."
  17.  
  18. Not to downplay the significance of that, but wasn't that also in the same
  19. down beat interview that he claimed that bebop was not derived from jazz?
  20.  
  21. >Why did he always tell people not to follow him into junk yet make no effort
  22. >to clean up himself? 
  23.  
  24. Well, because he was extremely intelligent, and knew that heroin was not
  25. the thing to do, but because he was nonetheless powerless against his own
  26. addiction?  That does not seem like a paradox, by any means.  He knew well
  27. that narcotics weren't helping him at all, but that knowledge didn't help
  28. him to shake the habit.
  29.  
  30. Sol
  31. --
  32.  Solomon <|>   srcd@mit.edu
  33.  Douglas /|\   srcd@faraday.physics.utoronto.ca
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