Tonight I was having dinner at the landmark Lucy's El Adobe (memorialized in Jimmy Webb's song "Adios" - as sung by Linda Ronstadt) when I suddenly heard a girl across the aisle yelp excitedly to her boyfriend "What does Joni Mitchell say??!" Of course my ears perked up and I saw him laughing and tearing a page out of the LA Weekly. He muttered the quote but I couldn't hear him and then they were laughing at some other quotes. The current issue is an oversized issue packed through with articles on the "war on drugs." So I picked one up and found they interspersed many large quotes on drugs by famous musicians throughout the paper. Joni's is not too pithy - "There are entire albums that would have been very different if that drug [cocaine] didn't exist." Some funnier ones were Frank Zappa's "Speed will turn you into your parents" and Ted Nugent's "All you stoned idiots are not getting into my guitar playing." Lucy's is a great place and she was known to have fed many starving musicians in the who later made it big. It was mainly a hangout for Webb, the Eagles, Jackson Browne and Linda in the old days and their tributes to her line the walls. Great old fashioned Mexican food, too. Kakki NP: Linda Ronstadt - Adios "drinking margaritas all night in the old cantina out on the California coast...."
