Devo frontman: "I smoked angel dust with Michael Jackson and Andy Warhol"

Paul Krassner once took acid with Groucho Marx. Similarly Devo's Mark Mothersbaugh recounts smoking PCP with Michael Jackson and Andy Warhol. From The Big Issue:

“The only time in my life I smoked angel dust was by accident and it was on a double date with Andy Warhol and Michael Jackson,” laughs Mothersbaugh. “We all went to Studio 54 and people were passing drugs all over the place.

“Michael Jackson had just finished doing the movie The Wiz and still looked like Michael Jackson back then – he had an Afro and he was still black. He passed me a joint and I thought, well OK, we don’t have marijuana in Ohio so I’ll try it.”

Minutes later Mothersbaugh found himself on the dancefloor as pillars of light were swirling around “like weedcutters” knocking people over and cutting them up. He turned to his date in horror, only to hear her say: “You didn’t smoke any of that angel dust did you?”

Mark Mothersbaugh: "I smoked angel dust with Michael Jackson and Andy Warhol" (Via DoseNation)

Photo by Ingorrr. Creative Commons Attribution 2.0 Generic license.

• [Grey Devil]

  Chalk this up to one of those things i was not expecting to read today lol

• [mdh]

  Leaves me wondering who rolled it. Andy? or Michael?

• [hmprescott]

  Funny story, but I can’t believe they didn’t have weed at Kent State.

  • [torgortega]

    It all bypassed Ohio and went straight to Ann Arbor!

• [Ugly Canuck]

  Heh heh heh

• [Anonymous]

  I did that once when I was young and stupid. ONCE. It was the strangest, most dissociative experience I ever had; like watching yourself watch a slideshow of life. I would not recommend it to anyone, ever.

• [Manooshi]

  Naaaahhh!!! He was just a frickin’ lightweight! There was no angel dust in that joint. That’s what they ALL say. People forget: marijuana IS a hallucinogen.

  • [JonStewartMill]

    While it’s technically accurate to say that marijuana is classified as a hallucinogen, it’s extremely rare for it to produce actual hallucinations. If someone not prone to schizophrenic episodes says that he saw “pillars of light . . . swirling around ‘like weedcutters’ knocking people over and cutting them up” I think it’s safe to assume he didn’t get that way from marijuana.

• [Raven13]

  I’m bummed that Nick Jr. bumped “Yo Gabba Gabba” from the 6:30 slot. Now I never get to see Mothersbaugh drawing monkeys and pirates. That was often the highlight of my day, to my wife’s puzzlement.

• [pentomino]

  When you’re taking acid with Groucho Marx, how do you know when you’ve come down?

• [Andy]

  The rest of the article is actually more interesting than the drug stuff.

• [Anonymous]

  best.drug.ever

• [Anonymous]

  Hello, my name is Mark. Today we are going to draw a robot gorilla. I like robot gorillas.

• [jackdavinci]

  I supposedly smoked PCP once in college, assuming it was weed since it was passed to me in a weed pipe, but being corrected later. But I just remember it tasting slightly sweeter, and failing entirely to make me feel high at all.

• [torgortega]

  I’ve got tickets to see DEVO next Tuesday in Ann Arbor!!! It took me 30 years, but I finally get to see the spudboys!!!