Jimi Hendrix and the War Against Drugs
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About Kathy Etchingham +++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++ +++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++ ++ ++ ++ "All sorts" of drugs can and do cause death by inhalation of ++ ++ vomit." As an ER nurse for over ten years I can tell you all ++ ++ that something as simple as aspirin and booze can do the dirty ++ ++ deed. I've seen too many ODs like this. People's tolerance ++ ++ levels for drugs; prescribed, or otherwise, is different for ++ ++ everyone. But I truly believe Jimi was given enough Vesperex ++ ++ to kill an elephant. ++ ++ And Kathy E. brings some new and chilling news for everyone as ++ ++ well. I didn't know the Vesperex contained an antihistimine. ++ ++ This includes OTC drugs such as Sinutabs, Tylenol Sinus Cold ++ ++ Medicine, even nose spray for allergies, etc. ANY drug with ++ ++ antihistimines can cause terrible side effects in some people; ++ ++ severe shortness of breath, tachycardia (incredibly fast heart- ++ ++ beat), or bradycardia (very slow heartbeat.) This can, in it- ++ ++ self, cause spontaneous death in some patients. Please every- ++ ++ one read all drug warnings on any OTC products you purchase. ++ ++ Also check with your pharmacist for drug interactions. ++ ++ I've checked out my most recent Physician's Desk Reference ++ ++ which pertains only to the USA, and thankfully as of 1985 ++ ++ Vesperex is not in use. It still may be in Europe. ++ ++ --MB ++ ++ ++ +++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++ +++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++ OoOoOoOoOoOoOoOoOoOoOoOoOoOoOoOoOoOoOoOoOoOoOoOoOoOoOoOoOoOoOoOoOoOoOoOoOoO O O O Debunking the Urban Legend O O O OoOoOoOoOoOoOoOoOoOoOoOoOoOoOoOoOoOoOoOoOoOoOoOoOoOoOoOoOoOoOoOoOoOoOoOoOoO Jimi Hendrix was a junkie and died of a heroin overdose. This is a 'Big Lie'. 0000000000000000000000000000000000000000000000000000000000000000000 0 0 0 "The great masses of the people..will more easily fall 0 0 victims to a big lie than to a small one." 0 0 --A. Hitler 0 0 0 0000000000000000000000000000000000000000000000000000000000000000000 The 'Big Lie' was easy to accept because it confirmed so many prejudices. It was created by the right wing media/establishment of the 60's and is fueled by all the dogma of their anti-communist religion. The basic beliefs of this powerful elite were/are Racism, fanatical Nationalism and a longing for the promised land of a Police State; where dangerous ideas (those that appear contrary to those of white, anglo-saxon christians)can be controlled for the best interests of 'Society' (themselves). The racial basis for the USA's drug laws is apparent. The very first law prohibiting drugs (opium) was passed in 1875 (in Cal.) and was directed against the Chinese immigrant in that the only form of opium outlawed was smoking opium, the kind preferred by the Chinese. (No politician of the time would have dreamed of passing a law that would ban Grandma Murtles Wonder Elixir!) The white folks drank or ate their opium, unlike those terrible Chinese, who smoked it. Cocaine was first banned in the south to "prevent an uprising of cocainized Negroes". Today we are told that more Blacks and Hispanics 'do drugs' than white folks. This is inaccurate. (If you have an opinion to the contrary, e-mail me privately and I will be happy to provide you with further info....or just have another beer and forget it!) Hemp was grown in the USA from the 1600's until it began to be called Marijuana by W.R. Hearst during his anti-drug yellow journalism crusades of the thirties. (Marijuana being, of course, the Mexican word for Hemp; thus tainted as 'foreign') There are some that would rather deny or downplay Jimis' much documented penchant for mind-altering substances, and are thereby unwilling to take the bull by the tail and face the situation, so to speak. To my way of thinking, if the bull passes gas while I am thus engaged, curiosity would compel me to sniff for clues! OoOoOoOoOoOoOoOoOoOoOoOoOoOoOoOoOoOoOoOoOoOoOoOoOoOoOoOoOoOoOoOoOoOoO O O O And please pass me the peace weed, and take some heed. O O --Jimi Hendrix O O O OoOoOoOoOoOoOoOoOoOoOoOoOoOoOoOoOoOoOoOoOoOoOoOoOoOoOoOoOoOoOoOoOoOoO
Jimi obviously did 'do' drugs. According to the anti-drug dogma, ANY drug
use leads to addiction. Jimi was a VERY high profile artist. He was black.
He did ALOT of drugs! Their thinking (?) probably went something like this:
"Just like them Injuns with the fire-water, these Savages have no control.
Of course he is an addict!" It really pissed these racists off to see all
those white kids going to see a black performer. What other popular black
artist of the time had such an almost exclusively white following. Heck,
Jimi was the highest paid Rock act of the time, per performance. (And, of
course it helped that The Beatles were no longer touring). They felt that
Jimi was 'Public Enemy #1' in the fight for the hearts and minds, of their
own children. He represented everything 'white amerika' was afraid of. By
discrediting Jimi, they felt they were protecting 'The American Way'.
"But he's just an entertainer", you say?
Entertainers are important in a broad cultural context, not only in the
sense that they are often not merely a 'reflection' of their times, but
also leaders and trend setters as well. Youth idealize their music heroes
especially, and Jimi Hendrix was the most high profile black musician
that middle Americas white kids were flocking to see, attempting to dress
like, play guitar like and party like, and whose music they were cranking
as loud as the sound equipment of the time could amplify! His well known,
and only somewhat apocryphal industrial strength zest for life and all it's
pleasures and pains; his wild stage antics;his brilliant and poetic vision
of a world unshackled by blind convention; his simple honesty and willing-
-ness to speak his mind; all this made him anathema to everything middle
America was afraid of.
Jimi and those like him were definitely considered a threat by 'the estab-
lishment'(a term I hesitate to use, but everyone knows what I'm referring
to) owned and operated by mothers and fathers (except the occasional
Hoover). The right-wing fanatics of the time did feel that their power
structure was eroding and blamed said erosion on all the things they were
just not able to control to their satisfaction; the press,to a degree;
college professors lecture content; television shows; movies (though they
tried); music (again, they tried and are still trying); and most of all,
the minds of their children.
I don't think it's a stretch at all to say that people such as Nixon (a
father of two daughters) and Lyndon Johnson (the number of children varies)
and most members of congress and the clergy felt threatened by Jimi Hendrix
and those like him, for one reason or another. These were the folks who
'controlled' the power structure of the day. These virulent anti-communists
felt, for instance, that opposition to the Vietnam 'Police Action' was
subversive and therefore threatening to 'the power structure'. Many people
felt 'the power structure' was further threatened by anything considered
anti-christian (anything not christian) or anti-american (the precursors of
the Family Values types of present day fame).Jimi embodied in one person so
many of the things these unenlightened Americans of yesteryear were so
painfully afraid of.
Jimi Hendrix dressed in a way that seemed to further blur the distinctions
between the sexs that many felt was indicative of homo-sexuality and the
breakdown of the traditional family unit ("He dresses like a GIRL, Red!).
Ruffles and wild colors previously worn only by woman, peacocks and female
impersonators were cool and indescribably masculine when worn by the
powerful presence that was Jimi!
The blatant, unashamed sexuality of Jimi Hendrix threatened many in and of
'the power structure' for the simple reason that said structure was
exclusively manned and operated by white folks, the majority of which
harbored the same prejudices as the local populations of their regions of
origin. I mean, there's Mr. Jones's daughter staring dreamily at this wild-
haired, loud, squeaky-guitar playing negro who dresses like a girl!!! "As
my congressman, can't you do something about this before next election?
Downright un-american, ain't it!"
Unfortunately, I feel that this 'Big Lie' will be with us until
the underlying racist premise it's based on is overcome...somehow.
--W
(Some of the above was researched from 'Ain't Nobodys Business If I do' by Peter McWilliams)
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When the laws here in the U.S. against booze were repealed in the 30's,
there was an initial increase in alcohol consumption which began to taper
off after awhile and has been declining (long term) ever since. There are,
of course, those who never try drugs simply because they are illegal: to
these few souls, the drug laws ARE a deterrent. But,human nature being what
it is, even more try drugs because they are NOT legal ,as a form of protest
or rebellion against parents/teachers/government ...'whatever you say I
can't do,I'm doing' kind of thing. Once a young person tries one of these
forbidden substances, they often discover that most of what they have heard
from the antidrug crowd is garbage. With this realization comes the thought
that ALL laws just might be as hypocritical as the drug laws, further
eroding respect for the law. -W
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Bogart never said, "Play it again, Sam." (It's true!)
If I were to write a piece stating this fact, and someone were to dispute
it saying, "Of course he did, because everyone KNOWS he did", I would, of
course, ask to be directed to the precise point in Casablanca where he did,
indeed, say the line. If, instead of receiving this direction I should
instead receive the reply, "Your the one who said he didn't say it: Now
prove it!", I would consider that reply less than satisfactory.
This is due to the illogical nature of a challenge to prove a negative.-W
"Everyone KNOWS Jimi Hendrix was a junkie! Prove he wasn't!"
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:::::::::::::::::::::::::::::::::::::::::::::::::::::::::: :: :: :: Look over yonder :: :: Well, he's talkin' to my baby :: :: They found my peace pipe on her :: :: Now they're draggin' her away. :: :: Lord knows we don't need a devil like him :: :: Beatin' us around :: :: Well, he's knockin' on my door :: :: Now my house is tumbling down. :: :: --Jimi Hendrix :: :::::::::::::::::::::::::::::::::::::::::::::::::::::::::: OoOoOoOoOoOoOoOoOoOoOoOoOoOoOoOoOoOoOoOoOoOoOoOoOoOoOoOoOoOoOoOoOoOoOoOoOoO O O O Jimi and Drugs: 'What I Told My Kids.' by Bruce O'Donnell O O O OoOoOoOoOoOoOoOoOoOoOoOoOoOoOoOoOoOoOoOoOoOoOoOoOoOoOoOoOoOoOoOoOoOoOoOoOoO Let me add a few observations on the whole 'Jimi was a junkie' phenomena from a parents perspective. Firstly, you can't refute it. No way, not even by decree from God himself. Well, possibly if he did that cool Moses thing of lightning etching it into the tablets of stone with the burning bushes and all. Seriously, Jimi=drug addict or Jimi=junkie is firmly ingrained into the American pop-culture ideology and is rapidly becoming like a genetic imprint for each successive generation. First, understand that my kids have lived the reality of addiction first hand, as their mother has been through rehab no less than 8 times for prescription pain killers. The cause and effect is that it cost her two marriages and custody, but she's been clean and sober for two years and doing well. She isn't dead or living in a gutter like a crack addict. My kids also know the real story about Jimi because I've explained it to them ad nauseum, but I've heard them say otherwise when discussing Jimi with their friends and even with me. So they know that all addicts don't die and they also know that Jimi wasn't an addict. Despite all this, their perception of Jimi is that he was a drug addict who ended up dead. What gives? Because Jimi and all of the casualties are the poster-children for the 'Just Say No' anti-drug campaigns. And believe me, the courses are pretty damn effective, especially when you factor in peer pressure. You can't teach young kids the psychological and physiological effects of addiction, but you sure can show them how littered the road is with casualties. And you can't tell a kid that if he experiments or uses he might not suffer any ill effects, because that is not a deterent. So you beat them over the head with scare tactics of addiction and death. The schools are doing this today,as we speak. My son is in 'Just Say No' and a local Maryland program called D.A.R.E (Drug Abuse Resistance Education). I get this stuff sent home weekly to review. And believe me, the brighter their star shined and the more tragic the story, the more they are made an example of. No one's star shined brighter than Jimi's, and none was as tragic as Kurt Cobain's. But you can't teach from the perspective that you admire them as being great artists on the one hand and them vilify them for using drugs, because that plants the seed that maybe there is a correlation between drugs and stardom - a notion that permeates the entire music biz. So in order to sell this as evil, they label all drug and alcohol users as addicts and junkies to paint that crack-whore-living-in-a-gutter image. Another popular example (at least in the local Wash DC area) is Len Bias, a University of MD basketball star who died from a cocaine-induced heart attack the day after signing with the Boston Celtics for $1 zillion dollars. By all accounts it was the first time he'd used, and to these anti-drug zealots that is all the better. The message becomes 'Use once, Die'. Forego all the addiction and long-term effects discussion, because that is harder to teach and not as effective. But tell them that if they use, they die, and you can work that scared straight aspect for all its worth. I am afraid that the image of Jimi as the drug-fueled psychedelic wild man of 60's rock is more glamorous and marketable than the truth.--Bruce O.
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88 Would Jimi have been able to do the same exact music if he 88
88 had not been experienced? Probably not exactly. Would he 88
88 have still been THE MAN? I fully believe he would have been. 88
88 Maybe a little different in some ways, but still the artist 88
88 that he was. He may have been a little more "into" his work 88
88 after the experiences, but isn't that the way it usually 88
88 works. We usually are molded by our experiences. He may have 88
88 not been exactly the same, but he would have still been a 88
88 "guitar playing genius" by all standards. Maybe he would 88
88 have done more songs like Little Wing, AATWT, Angel, etc... 88
88 Who can say? But then, maybe he wouldn't have done as many 88
88 like Fire, Come On, Voodoo Child (SR), or Woodstock's Star 88
88 Spangled Banner. Who is to say what we could have lost? 88
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Nobody dare deny that the psychedelic "experience" (oohhh, now I get it)
changed Jimi's views _forever_. It was 1965, LSD was available and not yet
banned, and it changed his vision of music. His guitar bespoke of the
"colors" in the sounds that he heard, and this is reminiscent of the
hallucinatory aspects of perception "under the influence." (or so I have
been told) It was part of every day life.
Today we stand at the brink of Totalitarianism, all in the name of The War
On Drugs. Mandatory sentencing, zero tolerance, search and seizure, no
knock raids in the dead of night by armed, masked, armored jackbooted
thugs; America, 1998, and you really should believe it.
Anyone reading these words in America can be targeted by the DEA, sometimes
unjustly, and often at the word of some junkie informant looking for an
out. Yet until some 70 years ago, human beings had peacably used narcotics
and herbs and hallucinogens from prehistoric times. After all, folks, you
find them there, growing all around you.
Homeopathic uses for marijuana are evident from any one suffering from
nausea or cramping, and its use has been documented for 6,000 years.
Mushrooms have been used in rituals and rites of passage, along with
peyote. Some people have actually speculated that it was the introduction
of this psychedelic influence that took primitive man beyond the con-
sciousness of his peers and into the modern age.
Regardless, I suffer from insomnia too, can't shut down the old computer,
yet if I don't get sleep I'm miserable the next day, sooooo, you know the
rest. If I am desperate, Tylenol PM will do, but I fear for my liver,
doncha know.
To make a long story longer, if it were a choice between a man-made
Pharmaceutical with all of the side effects and contra-indications, or an
herb that grows virtually anywhere on the planet, I'll take door number
two, thank you very much!
They say the songbird sings sweeter after eating marijuana seeds. A friend
of mine tells me that after toking he finds playing music all the more
enjoyable, almost a passion. Perhaps Jimi felt this too. It is undeniable
that he is heard toking on tape repeatedly, and he promoted toking at his
shows.
Opening the doors of perception is what the sixties were about, and Jimi
was part of the movement. He was not a pied piper, but perhaps a messenger,
a guide to a different path, a different way of seeing the world. In the
same way, many find hallucinogenics to be a guide to a different path.
Certainly not for everybody, and no one should recommend it, but the fact
remains that the intellectually curious will often take the road not taken.
Was Jimi an addict? Who knows? Who can judge any other human being? All I
know is that he put his trust in a woman who gave him a lethal dose of
barbiturates, and then was too bewildered to help him survive. He was a
victim of circumstances, not of his personal habits.
I would give anything to make this not so, but we must all accept our fate.
In many ways, I believe that Jimi was a skyrocket, bursting to the heavens
in a spectacular display, only to go out suddenly, leaving the rest of us
to ooh and aah, wishing there were more. So sad.
-Wally
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