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Byline: Allison Benedikt
Apr. 14--After his first tab of acid, dosed backstage at a 1986 Butthole Surfers' show in New York, the scrawny, scruffy and wide-eyed singer-songwriter Daniel Johnston smacked his manager with a pipe, putting him in the hospital, ran away to New Jersey, sent members of Sonic Youth on a wild goose chase after him, spent 24 hours in Bellevue, was released mistakenly due to a clerical error and opened at CBGB that night.
"In terms of creating a legend," says ex-girlfriend Kathy McCarty in Jeff Feuerzeig's excellent documentary, "The Devil and Daniel Johnston," "he's done absolutely everything right."
Feuerzeig, who makes wise and liberal use of Johnston's home Super 8 ...
Source: HighBeam Research, Portrait of the artist as a disturbed young man: 'THE DEVIL &...