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DeeDee'slifestylecouldbejustasimpulsive.Heusedtopackupandchange
rooms in the Chelsea—he lived in a total of about five different rooms while I
was there.
For some reason, he would decide he didn't like a certain room. He would
say, “Meet you after school,” and I'd come home that day from work and he'd
call me and tell me his new room number for rehearsal. Or if he was going to
do dope—as long as we weren't rehearsing, he would occasionally allow him-
selfsomedrugs—hewouldrentanentirelydifferentroomtodothedrugsin,and
then afterward he'd go back to his own room. It was weird.
Also weird was the fact that you could set Dee Dee off and not even know
why. And then rehearsal would be over—he would just call it off. Or he'd have a
temper tantrum. Being around him could be really demanding.
TIM SULLIVAN
Dee Dee had been a heroin addict all of his life, since he was a teenager. So
he never really had the chance to develop emotionally to be able to handle
these stressful situations. As I got to know him, I understood that about him. He
couldn't control this rage that he had, and it would just burst out. Because of all
those years of pushing the anger down with the heroin, repressing it. So he really
had a tough time dealing with the pain of being alive. Because of that, he was
never able to develop the tools to deal with it.
One day he came down to Chelsea Music guitar store, where I worked. That
a joint in Washington Square Park. In the photo, he kind of looked like a crimin-
al.
I was kidding him, “Hey man, try to stay off the cover of the Post!” And he
got so mad that he threw a temper tantrum in the store. He started yelling at me!
About two hours later, he came in and apologized.
“Man, I'm really sorry. I get crazy sometimes.”
We became very good friends after that. He used to come up to my room and
we'dhangouthereorgoouttodinner.Atthatpoint,hewasinaverygoodplace
in his life. He was clean.
ROBERT CAMPBELL
Once I went over to Dee Dee's room at the Chelsea and he was jumping on the
bedlikealittlechild.Hehadthesenunchucksandhewasslammingthemaround
like he was Bruce Lee. He was really good at it, jamming on these nunchucks!
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