peterchecksfield wrote:Perk wrote:He was certainly injecting some sort of drugs into his stomach during that era. But I think the worst mess he got into with drugs was in 1987. Linda Gail was telling everyone that Jerry would be dead by the end of the year, & he probably would've if he hadn't changed his ways a little.
I recall reading the drug he injected was called, ...erm it started with an "m" something? And was used to shoot straight into the stomach, arms and other parts of the body to reduce the pain from the overuse of the previous drugs.
But so glad to see the Killer doing well today, especially on the last Capitol Fourth show!!!
Methadone. Bizarrely, it's a drug they give to heroin users as a slightly safer substitute (there's no evidence that Jerry ever touched heroin so why he started on this I've no idea!).
I used to have on cassettes the uncut interviews that Jerry did with Charles White for his book in 1993, & at one point Charles asked Jerry about his "excess" days. Like you, Charles was more interested in his alcohol addictions & was very uncomfortable with take of drugs, but Jerry went into a looong ramble about what great times he had taking all those pills & how sorry he was that he couldn't find the kinda drugs that he & Elvis took in the 60s & 70s anymore! Charles tried to change the subject, but Jerry wasn't interested in talking about drinking, it was the DRUGS that were looked back on most fondly by him. It's a pity this wasn't in the book.
Hm? Interesting! Jerry has also said when he tried smoking marijuana, it made him so slow that it would take him forever to do Whole Lotta Shakin. It´s in one of the books.
You may perhaps not happen to still have those tapes? I know of a 90 minute Chas & Jerry interview tape that has been circulating since the early 80´s, but it has to be a much earlier one. I recall Mr Ebner had it on his "stone tapes" lists.
I doubt though that Jerry ever was on heroin. It´s not so easy to come back from that. As Lemmy in Motorhead said, most of his friends from the days as a roadie for Jimi Hendrix has all died. He never touched it himself. He counts that as the reason for him being alive today. Keith Richards came back from heroin use though. He is one of the rockers that made it back.