Honey Slides
Joe Allonby
joeallonby at gmail.com
Mon Apr 26 08:21:47 CDT 2010
A cheap coffee grinder works well. Chop it seeds and all. Add a little
butter to the pan. The fat dissolves the THC and makes it more
digestible.
On Sun, Apr 25, 2010 at 3:53 PM, rich <richard.romeo at gmail.com> wrote:
> anyone?
>
> In the Neil Young biography 'Shakey', there is a reference to a
> mysterious concoction known as a 'honey slide' that was heavily
> consumed during the 'On The Beach' sessions:
>
> "The high was debilitating. 'People passed out,' said Elliot Roberts.
> 'This stuff was, like, way worse than heroin. Much heavier. Rusty
> [Kershaw] would pour it down your throat and within ten minutes you
> were catatonic."
> Here's Neil's notorious recipe for "Honey Slides" as he described it
> at a concert at the Bottom Line Club in New York City, NY, May 16,
> 1974 while introducing the song "Motion Pictures".
>
> Neil: "Anyway, we're in this hotel room (harmonica), we're trying some
> honey-slides, you know....You know what a honey-slide is? (voice from
> audience: Yes!) Honey-slide, mmmmmmn!
>
> You know, poor grade marijuana (he's playing soft guitar all through
> this... Motion Pictures intro), worse than you get on the street, and
> you take it and you get your old lady, you know, if you got one, to
> cook it up on the stove, you know, put that stuff in the grinder, get
> it real fine, in a frying pan, put it on the stove, turn the heat up a
> little, wait till the grass just starts to smoke, just a little bit,
> take it off the heat, don't want to burn it too much (laughter and a
> few guitar bars), then you take the honey, you know, get a half a
> glass of honey about this big - I hope you ladies are listening to the
> recipies tonight - (audience laughter and a few words missing) just
> heat that honey up until it's slippery, you know, and mix that grass
> with it, you know the fine grass that you've cooked up just until it
> started to smoke and you took it off, mix those together and you get a
> spoon you know (voices from the audience and laughter).
>
> I think you should eat it after that. Just eat a little of it, you
> know, maybe a spoonful or two, you'll be surprised, it just makes you
> feel fine... (laughter) That cheap grass is great. You know, in these
> times, you have to think about prices and things like that (laughter).
>
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