RE: (TV) Re: rumors /Just The Freakin Facts please / Prove It

["Casey, Leo J" <CaseyL@VOLPE.DOT.GOV>]

Paul, 

OK, but performing in NYC during that "scene" 
doesn't mean Verlaine was shooting up or encouraged 
or approved heroin's use/abuse.

Hey, it is common knowledge that TV has admitted 
that he used heroin on a *single* occasion when his 
friends gave him a shot after he had been mugged and 
received broken rib (the interview is on Keith's 
site (I think it's NY Rocker 1979 or maybe Boston Rock 1981?)
(And maybe there were even more uses[?])

But to claim that he was "... part of a scene that
included legendary heroin use/abuse and that 
traded on/played up that aspect of the scene" is sheer 
balderdash. 

TV was never part of any drug scene; Jesus, he pretty much wasn't 
even part of the music/social "scene" then. He was just as much the 
loner (paranoid individualist?) then as he is now; he 
didn't hang-out. Just the facts please, not the myth.

	Leo

ps: I could say more but I don't want to bring out the 
heavy evidence and artillery as yet.

-----Original Message-----
From: Dever, Paul (ELS) 
Sent: Thursday, May 23, 2002 2:35 PM
To: 'tv@obbard.com'
Subject: RE: (TV) Re: rumors 


tom verlaine
richard hell
johnny thunders
peter laughner
dee dee ramone
jim carrol
 . . . this list could go on and on . . .

they were all part of a scene that
included legendary heroin use/abuse
and that traded on/played up that 
aspect of the scene.

i don't think the question was ridiculous.

trying to distuinguish legend (or rumour) 
from truth is the fan's role. failure at 
that attempt sustains fandom.


> they ask such 
> ridiculous 
> questions or start such silly rumors

--paul
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