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Replying through Yoshie, as I missed the original, or it was on the other
list.
Garcia may have not been oppressed, but he certainly was alienated.
Primarily because of his own lack of self-respect. The Garcia that
experimented with hashish, mushrooms, and LSD was not the same one who led
a long battle with heroin. Garcia eventually succumbed to his poor
health, aggravated by his heroin and junk-food addictions. The man had a
somewhat troubled soul - his guilt from being a poor father combined with
the guilt of being associated with the peace cum drug movement as well as
the concert family cum drug mob that followed the band.
Matt
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I like the switch of metaphors. What does it mean to say Garcia "battled" heroin, a physiologically benign--relatively speaking--drug unless you ain't got some ready to hand. Garcia just didn't play heroin the way he could play guitar. As for alienation, I think it's such a subjective term and don't want to get into a debate over it's ploysemy as we don't know what non-alienating[ion] is, or do we?
What's a soul?
Ian