[kj] OT: Jane's WAS: New October File vid

B. Oliver Sheppard bigblackhair at sbcglobal.net
Tue Oct 9 18:08:49 EDT 2007


Heroin thin, one component, not the entirety.

If I recall, Bowie, Iggy, etc., had heroin problems. Johnny Thunders of
the New York Dolls. Well, he died from it, right? (Or something like it.
Livin' on a Chinese Rock, and all that?)

Iggy wrote "Lust for Life" about it. Are 70s Iggy and Bowie glam...? If
not, please define it for me, as I must have some idiosyncratic idea of
it in myhead no one shares. The cover of Raw Power is what I'm talkin'
'bout, Willis. There's no doubt in my mind that that was a vibe -- that
image -- that was something Perry Farrell and troupe riffing on.

-Oliver


Alexander Smith wrote:

> Okay, here we go...

>

> "If "glam" means original sense of heroin thin"

>

> Ummm.... what exactly gave you that idea? "Glam" is short for "glamor"

> -- I don't believe heroin has even the slightest thing to do with it.

> It had nothing to do with being "thin" (see ye Gary Glitter and the

> entirety of Slade).




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