What really bothers me - even after all those years - is that if not for the drugs these guys would have gone so much further than they did. They had every opportunity, the tools, the brains, the timing and they fucked it all up.
Kind of reminds me of Phil Katz. Brilliant guy, but a raging drunk. When he died, Wired or somebody interviewed the strippers at the strip club he used to go to, who said that he was very lonely and looking for someone to talk to.
Possibly. For some, substance abuse is one escape—one way of dealing with inner demons. There are other destructive, occupying things than substances that can stop talent and productive potential from yielding much at all
