the Grande, drugs, the audience and the Blues

the Grande, drugs, the audience and the Blues

the Grande, drugs, the audience and the Blues creativity. But I’ve been getting very simple buzzes out of other things.

Creem — Do you think your creativity while you were taking drugs was inhanced?

Townsend — Not by it immediately. Some people can work when they’re really stoned, but I never could, but I think that it did spark trains of thought and things. I can’t deny it, I wouldn’t attempt to. Yet at the same time I think I would have been a fairly creative person even if I never smoked. The piLls were totally destructive to me, and I think with Keith came very close to the judgement day. I think today’s speed is even more vicious. It’s very sad.

Creem The impression I’ve gotten the times I go to the Grande is that the people are there for an experience, that the music is a part that can be done without sometimes, the music is there only as a part of the experience, and not the most important part of it.