Some People Call Me A Space Cowboy
Many thanks to loyal Pipeline reader Chris Z, who forwarded the following story about alleged Smart abductor Brian Mitchell to me. It contains this quote:
Mitchell was described by his stepson, Derrick Thompson, as a "weird" man who had talked to God in the desert after taking 10 hits of LSD. "They said they weren't on drugs," Thompson told the Desert News of his stepfather and his mother, adding:
"But we think that was a lie. We think that's how they communicated with God, that and listen(ing) to the Steve Miller band."
That's proof right there that these people were nuts. The Steve Miller band? Now, I've never been a huge Steve Miller guy, but maybe I should have been taking more LSD. Does this revelation help or hurt Steve Miller's record sales? I'd love to know which songs, specifically, they were listening to. Jungle Love is a pretty OK song. I suppose Fly Like An Eagle might be kind of trippy if you've got headphones on and are freaked out on LSD. But what message is God sending to us via those songs, and what light do they shed on Mitchell's alleged abduction of Elizabeth Smart?
Perhaps Mitchell was listening to Abracadabra...
"Abra, Abracadabra...I wanna reach out and grab ya."
I'm not speaking from experience here, but I'm guessing that if you've ingested high quantities of LSD, and you already are predisposed to thinking that you have a direct line with God, that it wouldn't matter what you were listening to. God would talk to you through Prairie Home Companion, if that's what you were listening to.
I'll bet it was one of those deals where they are out in the desert, they've taken the acid, and they're all ready to turn on the tunes and get down with the "Talk To God Freakout", and one of them figures out that they forgot the Grateful Dead or Jimi Hendrix tapes.
"Shit. We forgot the tapes. All we have in the car is The Steve Miller Band's Greatest Hits, 1969-1974, or The Eagles Greatest Hits, 1971-1975, or The Best of the Guess Who". Which one do you want?"
"Oh, man. Remember that bad trip I had when I listened to Tequila Sunrise last time, and tried to drink the sun? That sucked. And if I hear American Woman one more time, I'll vomit. I guess it's time to Fly Like An Eagle."
