Written about Ronald Reagan, of course, hated in his day as much as any President ever was.
Blaze Foley wasn't as well known. Clearly in large part it was drugs, but they all did lots of drugs. His instability went deeper. There was a great episode about him on Tales from the Tour Bus that captures what was great and tragic about him.
Funny. I was trying to remember how to play "Clay Pigeons" on guitar just before coming to the blog.
ReplyDeleteThat's a really great piece.
ReplyDeleteI used to occasionally dwell upon those men and women who had great talent and spent it in drugs and drink and wanton living. I used to feel some sense of dramatic tragedy, some kind of romantic nostalgia, maybe.
ReplyDeleteThen I took a graduate literature course in the Beat writers, focusing on Jack Kerouac, Allen Ginsberg, etc. That beat it out of me.