For the past year he’d been drinking a half-gallon of vodka a day [...]. This massive consumption was made possible by the “sparks”: smoking crystal methamphetamine, maybe four or five times a day, maybe more. By dawn on the morning of the ’07-’08 Mavericks event, Flea hadn’t slept a wink
Flea famously tells the story of his first go-out at Mavs as a 20-year-old, and the half tab of acid that he'd dropped an hour before.
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