adorshki
Reverential Member
Fair enough. In '80 I wasn't looking, although I did have a couple of mushroom experiences by sheer chance. Now that you mention it I recall there was also some liquid out here in '77 that was reputed to be the analogue "ALD" so quasi-legal. One had to figure out how to get a dose out of the vial. Don't remember for sure how much a vial was but I'm thinking like 1000 mics? It was "pleasant" at a reasonable dose (about 150 mic), and I've had "unpleasant" in comparison.Sure there was plenty of crappy blotter and microdot floating around, but there was also plenty of great green pyramid gel, decent blotter (100+mcg) and liquid c. 1980 if you knew where to look.
It also occurred to me that CA (and the east coast and maybe midwest industrial region?) are typically a couple to five years ahead of the rest of the country in such matters, for me '78-about '82 seemed to be a period where cocaine was a deluge, here at least. I was even being offered at work. Led to a somewhat cock-eyed decision to leave the job since it was stressful (wholesale electronics parts telephone sales desk) and the remedy was right there too.
Thus my unemployed busking period from late '80 to mid '81 after I acquired Stringeater, my first steel string, a $99.00 Korean "Carlos" brand with an adjustable alloy bridge that ate .024 G strings in about 2 hours, leading to my love of .025 G's. Even then I developed a system of re-winding the broken saddle-end of a string back through the ball to get another few hours of play time off 'em. When that one finally got winding notches it was time for a new set.
Hand-relic'd by me: I mounted a make-shift strap peg on the neck that wouldn't let the strap slip while I carried it around neck-down on my back. (no case). One day in a gas station restroom I set it standing/leaning on a counter while I did my business. About 20 seconds in I hear the the crash-thud. Had a little ding on the neck but seemed unfazed. After a few years the neck warped but I had my Fender flattop by then. Fender got stolen, still have the Carlos in case I ever get around to practicing light repair like nut/saddle/fret work.
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