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Do you think they were on something during the concert?


Whenever I watch this and I note how crazy they act during the concert, my girlfriend just attributes it to the fact they were probably doing coke when they were performing. I think it's plausible but they could just be wacky. I'm a U2 fan myself and Bono has done some pretty crazy things on stage (especially during the Zoo TV era-my favorite part of U2 history) and he's never been into drugs. I guess I'm not really the authority when it comes to these things though because besides drinking and smoking pot maybe 5 times in my life, I've never bothered experimenting with drugs.

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There was a long thread on this board that seems to have disappeared. The consensus was that indeed there was cocaine being consumed up there during the concert, with Bernie Worrell being specifically singled out.

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If you can find the thread forward it to me if you could. Thanks.

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I believe that David Byrne scarsely touched a drug in his life.

Who's High Pitch?

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Apparently he summarises a decent amount of drug use in an essay he did for 1976-1992: Sand in the Vaseline. If genuinely intended its not a positive rumination on drugs but he's [apparently] very forthcoming that he's tried weed, angel dust, charlie and H. He also mentions quaaludes, bennies, speed and meth but I've no idea if he refs them as things he tried more than once. Apparently his opinion was that weed made him paranoid, coke was like 'matter meets anti-matter' making him secretive and talkative at the same time and not something to do long term. Heroin was cheap but too strong and he wasn't going to get much writing done.

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nuf said

ps: I'll have what they're having.

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