Life's Pleasures Quote by Glenn Frey

1967 isn’t just a timestamp here; it’s an alibi and an origin story. Frey frames his drug experimentation as less a personal crisis than an ambient condition, something in the air like patchouli or protest chants. “The hippie thing was happening” does a lot of quiet work: it flattens an unruly cultural upheaval into a vaguely weather-like phenomenon, making his choices feel almost inevitable. That’s the subtextual bargain he’s offering the listener: don’t read this as moral failure or romantic rebellion, read it as a young person absorbing the era’s currents.

The line “I got into experimenting” is equally careful. Not “using,” not “abusing,” but “experimenting” - the language of curiosity, of labs and learning, a term that sanitizes risk and recasts hedonism as research. It also subtly preserves Frey’s later image: the disciplined craftsman-pop star who could channel chaos into clean, radio-ready narrative. Even in confession, there’s brand management.

Placing it “in college in Michigan” matters, too. Michigan signals distance from the mythic coastal centers of the counterculture; it suggests how quickly the movement metastasized into the American middle. Frey isn’t claiming a front-row seat at Haight-Ashbury so much as describing the counterculture’s secondhand diffusion - the way big cultural revolutions become local peer pressure.

The intent feels pragmatic: to contextualize rather than dramatize, to acknowledge participation without turning it into a defining wound. It’s a musician’s memory edited for readability, the kind of candidness that keeps the story human while keeping the edges safely sanded.