MURDER, POLITICS, AND THE END OF THE JAZZ AGE
by Michael Wolraich
Even when white people do drugs, they still come out with a sheen - whether Wolf of Wall Street or the Velvets or those purebread drunken Guess Who types. Sam Bottoms is the surfer acid kid in Apocalypse Now - Lawrence Fishburne the inner city kid - who comes out on top? Even in pot legalization, the playing field's tilted.
Ah well, some day one day. [changed original "White Light/White Wheat" title, probably a lost tie-in to Wheatfield Soul and pot as bread and of course ubiquitous Weed and the quintessential album below]