und ich hab noch was, eine Passage aus einem Coda Interview mit Red Mitchell von Dezember 1991 (auf archive.org kann man neuerdings einige Coda Exemplare durchsuchen)… Weiss gar nicht, ob mir eine andere Situation bekannt ist, in der Mal jemand einen Zeitzeugen gezielt nach Thompson gefragt hat (MC steht da fuer den Interviewer, aber ich hab nicht geprueft, ob das Cuscuna ist)
Q: In Hamp’s autobiography „Raise up off me“, he talks about Chuck being on the needle a lot.
Red Mitchell: Well not a lot: Hamp was clean then. Chuck, however, was the one person I ever knew who you could honestly call a ‚moderate‘ junky. He had a way of cooling it for long periods of time without ever getting in trouble with it.
Q: But for you, personally, was it difficult to be between the two of them. Hamp mentions elsewhere that you were watching over them.
Red Mitchell: Well I don’t think I was any kind of cop on the gig. I realized later that the fact I wasn’t using any of those chemical was part of the reason we stayed together. […] There was one gig we played in Long Beach for a month and I had to pick up Chuck in my car, but I had to bring him to some corner at least an hour before the gig so he could score. We’d head out then to the gig and he would just play like a God. And it was worth it to me. But I guess he started getting immoderate later on and it finally caught up with him and he eventually died in the early sixties.
wobei der letzte Satz so nicht stimmt wie wir inzwischen wissen…
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