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n ‘We All Fall Down’ from The Dead there’s no handbook that kind of prepares taking drugs?
IDaisies’ ‘Make Some Noise’ album, you for the lifestyle. You think you know “I grew up in Mexico so I dabbled with
John Corabi sings ‘Do you like what you until you get on the road and you’re touring that stuff… in those days, if you think about
are’. Black Velvet begins by asking Marco if and the party starts happening and there’s it, it was abundant, it was part of the culture.
there was a time when he didn’t like himself. a bunch of drugs and alcohol and the If you were a kid, a teenager, there was no
“I had a tumultuous time in the business women and not sleeping. Let’s just say it way you could keep away from it. That’s a
when I started,” Marco remembers. “I took the best out of me and I found myself fact. And even today it’s a fact. They don’t
started very young and I’m like your text- addicted to heroin and cocaine and alcohol, talk about it, but there’s an undercurrent of
book guy that shows how not to do things pills and anything I could get my hands on that going on. I think I was 12 or 13 when I
because I did all the wrong things along the for a good ten years, I’d say.” started smoking, when I started taking ‘the
way. I was very young… 16 years old, and How old was he when he first started pot’. And what it did for me, personally, is it

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