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To: Libloather
Don Henry was a wild dude. I’ve got a great true story. When I was in college I did a lot of drugs, I don’t deny it. That’s not me now. But I was an officer in the IUSA, the student group at Indiana University that booked the concerts for the campus. We usually held a party after the show that we invited the bands to. We booked the Eagles and Don and Gleen Frey showed up at the after concert party.

At the party I had a gram of coke and asked Don if he wanted to go to the bathroom with me and do a bump. We did, and I put the entire gram on the counter and we snorted it up. We talked for a while and I told him I was an amature poet. He asked me to recite some of my stuff as he thought I was full of shit. I gave him my best stuff and he really liked it. He then pulled out a bag that had at least an ounce of coke in it and said let’s write. He had a pen and a little spiral notebook which I assume he wrote his thoughts on. We spent the next 8 hours snorting coke and writing song lyrics. All in that tiny little bathroom. He sat on the toilet and I sat on the edge of the bathtub. I helped him refine one poem that ultimately became the song “Johnny can’t Read”. I wrote two lines that ultimately made their way into his song Lilah. Man those were really good times. Absolutely true story.

38 posted on 02/16/2024 4:56:57 PM PST by circlecity
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To: circlecity

You forgot the sarcasm tag. Must be the ‘coke’.


39 posted on 02/16/2024 5:01:53 PM PST by antceecee
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To: circlecity

Dude, do you know Spicoli? You had a drug-induced brush with greatness.


81 posted on 02/16/2024 7:50:16 PM PST by crusty old prospector
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