Revealed: The Bruce Lee "Coke Spoon" Photo | The Kung Fu Genius
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- Alright peeps, on this non-podcast video, the KFG (Alex Richter) will be discuss his accidental discovery of the rare photo of Bruce Lee with a coke spoon around his neck. An interesting reveal just 2.5 years after the drug letters came out. If you have not seen the drug letters video, here is the link: • The Bruce Lee Drug Let...
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This video can be considered a follow-up to my drug letters video 2.5 years ago: ruclips.net/video/myP9DrKgZ_I/видео.htmlsi=_9bUDFvH7gnB5GVX
I had this book forty years ago people wore this all the time
@@andrewmorton1728Because everybody was doing it. Simple as.
@hapkido658 when you break 5 views on your kicking video then you know you've made it! You get butthurt about videos you voluntarily watch, yet somehow you think that is manly behavior. Another RUclips coward.
In one of his letters he intimated a desire to stop using drugs because they were interfering with his Jeet Kune Do. He probably found himself immersed in the Hollywood culture so fast that he hardly had time to realize what it was doing to him. Cocaine was especially pragmatic to him as a self medicating drug, given the insane schedule he was keeping, especially filming Way of the Dragon, which he wrote, directed, and starred in. He was burning the candle at both ends at that time of his life like few people ever have in their life. He had some work days that went twenty hours. Unfortunately he died before he could hit the calm waters and step away long enough to get right again. He was an amazing person.
Here i think he is talking more about anabolic steroids :1970 letter : _"I really don’t need them in my training. I feel that I have _*_“gained”_*_ in trying them, but excessive indulgence of them just isn’t in my road in Jeet Kune Do"_ he probably felt slower gaining weight and it was anyway against his JKD principle to hack away the unessential(what prevent him to reach his goal). From there (70 till his death in 73) he has started to lose more and more weight.
@@sicilienz I’m not sure it’s really been established that Bruce was even referring to steroids. That has been assumed but I’m not sure that’s clear in the language of the letter. The weight loss could be accounted for by a number of other things already well known. The heat in Hong Kong combined with Bruce’s insane work schedule. Known health issues. Cocaine use.
If it were steroids he’s still expressing a desire to place his Jeet Kune Do above present bad habits and he may have done this with all things had he survived the ordeal that took him.
@sicilienz your confirmation bias is nonsense. There is not one iota of evidence in any of the letters that Bob Baker was supplying with anabolic steroids. I know some weird people want to think that, but even Tom Bleecker in his accusations confused corticosteroids, which are anti-inflammatory with anabolic steroids. There is not an iota of evidence. And in 50+ letters which show that he used everything from weed to LSD to mushrooms to cocaine why would anabolic steroids not be mentioned? Also, the steroids available at that time had massive water retention properties and he was completely striated and stripped of weight. It doesn’t even make sense if you talk to a bodybuilder with knowledge of the anabolic of the late 60s and early 70s. But keep pushing your little pet theory that goes nowhere - he’s talking about cocaine in the quote you mentioned.
@@TheKungFuGenius well... The truth is nobody knows....some BL's friends commented one day once BL paid them a visit, he appeared huge as a "bodybuilder" and then 2-3 week later, he came back to its original size (because he felt slow and clumsy with the new muscle size) I can only think about one type of aas... Dianabol, which makes you gain crazy amount of weight quickly but 60% of it is water weight and when you stop within two weeks you lose half of what you gained. He wasn't probably a steroid user but we can hypothesis he might have tried. 70's was the golden era of aas, Joe Lewis (who looked heavily under AAS) had a big influence and support to coach Bruce Lee on its weight lifting routines and explained him what movement work which muscles, moreover dianabol was used and seen at that time as we see nowaday creatine : as a simple supplement.
He was born into the scene, being a child actor. Me Too, drugs etc was part of the Hong Kong movie industry too.
It helps us remember that no matter how influential people are, we are all just human.
absolutely
Great verbal skills on that considering NO edits, jump cuts or reading off script! Impressive and articulate.
Thanks, I did it off the cuff! I think I messed up the word "cumulatively" lol... Much appreciated!
@@TheKungFuGenius was bad ass, bro. Especially the trigger warning because it's unsettling to first take this in. When I watched your drug letter video 13 months ago, it unsettled me for a week.
I am looking forward to the comments you'll be getting on this😀😀
I appreciate that comment a lot. That’s exactly how I felt when I learned about the letters, it was as if me making a video was my attempt at processing it. It’s a learning process and the trigger warning here is definitely something I I’ve learned since doing the first video.
It was the missing piece to the puzzle for me when the Bob Baker letters came to light. The last 12-18 months of his life was a major rollercoaster.
Absolutely
I had this book too, probably when I was thirteen, I was and still am as big a Bruce Lee fan as there are. The letters and this, only endear him more to us, his humanity is something we all can relate too. KFG rocks!
I agree with you 100%. Bruce is a Legend, he was a great man not a perfect one
I must've looked at those photo's 100 times or more, owning two copies of that book. Never noticed to spoon before. Now can't unsee it. Makes sense and it is there. Well done for picking that up. Respect mate
Yeah, I have seen those photos before. I first saw it in some HK Bruce Lee magazines. A friend of mine told me that's a coke spoon he was wearing and i didnt believe it at the time, until all the letters came out
A famous guy may have used cocaine in a decade noted for heavy cocaine use by 99% of famous people? no way!
Context and words are hard
So I google coke spoon of 1970s.....I found a few that almost look like his. Yeah.....thats a coke spoon. It is what it is. He used it a lot....thats why he was so paranoid and carried a knife. Imagine.....fighting Bruce with a knife in his hands. I can't even imagine how many times a day he got challenge to a fight. It doesn't change a thing about Bruce for me......he'll be one of my heroes til I die.
Yeah I'd heard that Bruce Lee was extremely paranoid/depressed in the final months of His life
I read he carried gun. His style woudl allow that thought process. Best tool for situation. Even in ETD when he was talking to the G man, he said why not a gun (.45) Go in and bam Whatever worked best was his style.
@@mumbles215I think the interview your talking about is Bruce explaining why he doesn't brag about his fighting ability. Claiming that you can only be so fast but if they pull out a gun......bam! As for him carrying a gun......never heard that. People I watching talk about Bruce.....never talked about him having a gun.
Bruce owning one or two Derringers has been well attested to for years. This is hardly controversial or unknown.
@@TheKungFuGenius Lol I believe you KFG. Did he carry them on him?
Have to commend you of discretionary warning. I'm 63 and was a massive fan during my teen years when Bruce Lee first hit the scene. I literally had thousands of magazines and books on Bruce that would of been collectors items and rarities today. Back in the day I would not hear a bad or negative word said about Bruce Lee. So hearing this information back then would of been crushing to me. And I would of gone into denial. But as you get older you look at things in a more realistic light and with calm acceptance of human frailty. So I take my hat off to you for your consideration for todays Bruce Lee fan. To fans learn to accept things as they are and not as you would like to imagine them to be, no matter how painful.
I appreciate your comment!
NO ONE IS PERFECT.... HAPPY NEW YEAR KFG.
I’ve long been a Bruce Lee fan since I was a boy as yourself. The drug letters/usage are not flattering but having thought about this aspect of his life long enough, I realize that like all of us, who amongst us have not regretted things we’ve done in life and who among us would not prefer to be ‘judged’ on the totality of our lives, and not just the slices. Not to make excuses, but given he was always young, ambitious, determined, had been rejected by Hollywood, was in an industry/actor where opportunities for people of his ‘tribe’ were very few and very difficult to breakthrough, he had to work so hard and acutely felt the stress/pressure of being the only one at the time to do what he was doing. Drugs/stimulants can be often a coping mechanism of life’s pressures, albeit a bad one. And someone tell me just who in Hollywood or that industry was not using drugs in 1973 ? It was free candy and it was all around I’m certain. Elvis literally lived that way among many others too. I believe that if Bruce Lee had lived longer he would’ve discovered that drugs were a zero net gain to his life and much more of a liability. But he didn’t get that chance. One thing I know for sure, is that it was not possible to have become the caliber martial artist he was without the extreme and diligent work he did all those years. To conclude, at least for me, Bruce Lee was a much more quality human being than any vices he had. His totality lives on.
Great comment!
Nicely spotted Sifu Alex. I too have the book but haven't looked through it for years. I'm gonna go check it now 😊👍🙏 All the best for 2024!
Thank you! All the best for you as well!
Considering how long this book has been around & that it isn't really all that rare/hard to get a hold of (I bought a copy through Amazon probably 10 years or so ago, paid no more than 10 bucks, as I recall) I'm surprised that no fan apparently ever saw those pictures, put two & two together, & thought, hey, Bruce Lee must've used cocaine. Myself, I had no idea what a cocaine spoon was until you pointed it out, but surely not all Bruce Lee fans are as naive about such things as me! Anyway, it's interesting that we now have solid photographic evidence to go along with the Bob Baker letters. I'd be surprised if Shannon or Linda ever openly confirm Bruce's drug habits but I did see Shannon come as close as I'd expect from her recently; it was in a video here on RUclips, "A Life In Ten Pictures" or something like that in which she briefly hints at her father not having always dealt with the increasing pressures of stardom as best he might've, seemed like finally some tiny acknowledgement from the Lee Estate that Bruce (as he himself acknowledged) wasn't a saint!
When someone mentioned it in an old comment, I asked that person if they knew where the photo was and I believe (it's been a couple years) that they remember seeing the pic but didn't remember where. That's what set me on the mission to find it. I'm sure some coke insiders spotted it, and it's curious these pics haven't been used elsewhere. I doubt the Lee Estate will do anything other than bury their heads in the sand on this. Great comment by the way!
@hapkido658 as opposed to "real martial artists" like yourself who have emotional reactions about people who don't care, know, or talk about you. Go spend some time with friends, you need it.
Good find, KFG!
Thanks Dwight!
If you google, “Bruce Lee and Betty Ting Pei 1973” there is a photo that shows them together, with Bruce wearing what looks like the same maroon coloured top with the sweat patches under his arms and wearing the same bracelet and watch/bangle on his wrists as in these photos. He’s also wearing a similar necklace that could be the coke spoon but it’s tucked into his vest so you can’t see what it is. I think the pic could be taken the exact same day or at least around the same time as the coke spoon photos. (April 73?) Check it out.
Regarding the drug letters, I’d love to know if Shannon knew about them or if she was as shocked as the rest of us when they came to light!
Happy New Year!
Thank you for that! I know the photo you are talking about, that is the infamous “dank pits” photo, but he had his sweat glands removed in November 1972. It might be the same outfit. It’s a fun puzzle to try to solve.
This book was originally first published in the UK by the Kung Fu Monthly team, the one in the video is the American version.
Brilliant video.
Thanks for that
Love your work
Thank you! I appreciate your input
Someone said he got so big so fast that it scared him. Life, fame, competition and jealousy ( from others ) ramped its brand of bullshit against him and he tried to match it. He saw the end of that struggle coming with the premiere of ETD. He had meetings set up to for his future with Golden Harvest, his partnership with Chow, future media opportunities and endorsements...there was a strong possibility that he would move his family back to California. He had a lot on his plate. If only he had more time.
Another great video. Thank you very much for sharing it all with us. 🙏
According to Linda Lee in The Man Only I Knew, "throughout early 1973, Bruce was constantly on the go - arguing over scripts or talking for hours on the phone or holding conferences; towards the end he had so many problems in his head that he could not sleep". Now, thanks to you, we can have a much better understanding and even proper acceptance of the struggles he was going through. Much appreciated. 🙏🤙
Thanks for sharing!!
Great find Alex. I just did a Google image search on those photos, and there are other photos from the same shoot that can be seen online. Worth having a look.
Thanks!
What’s going on guys, Birdy here. Did I ever tell you I trained under Bruce Lee? Yes, he was on the 3rd floor. I was on the second! 🤣🤣🤣
hahaha!
And I know you read that in his voice lol. But seriously, great content, great research!
LOL
That spoon is BRUTAL!
Shit…. I read the comment with his voice 😅
Even he wasnt safe from super stardom. RIP to the legend
Alex, Great observation on pointing that out. I have had that book since 1974 and really the only picture that stood at out at the time was Bruce in his casket. I think this was the first book that had that picture beside the Coke Spoon ones. Great Job!! keep up the work on the channel.
Thank you!
Bruce Lee's Life remains inspirational to me. At this point, the estate should go balls to the wall and make a movie about the real Bruce Lee, flaws feats, obsessions, drugs, discipline and all. It is still an amazing story of an extraordinary man.
I wonder if the estate is at risk of legal issues since Linda Lee falsified life insurance documents regarding Bruce's drug use.
great opening...pretty much described my take on this. Good job.
Thanks!
Takes nothing away from Bruce Lee's contribution. What he did on drugs outshines a lot of us who don't partake. LIVE ON LIL DRAGON... Thank you
I studied bruce for over 30 years, people have to realize, bruce was among Hollywood types, rich, famous. Child actor, His family was filthy rich$$ growing up, a bit of an ego, even at a young age. Partying was a normal thing, especially back then, "flower child era." The most popular and very well-known thing of the 60s and 70s was drugs, there are ALOT of very well know celebrities especially back then who were very much so into drugs, but even to this day, alot of celebrities, ones you would never think would do drugs, partying like Rock stars.
Everyone has turned into the superhero of Captain Hindsight, after these videos came out, but there wasn’t a peep about this particular usage before the original letters were revealed.
you know what i think is really weird, is that there are a lot of people, the ones who knew bruce lee, who trained with him, worked with him, hung out with him so on. After all these years, Still to this day, at least the ones still alive, they keep VERY hush hush about alot of things about bruce lee for some reason. Like who he sparred with, what actually happened behind closed doors with (who)good or bad, training/sparring very well known martial artists including Gene Lebel. Bruces philosophy was to train/spar full contact, so I am sure they went all out on eachother, bruce and June Ree, I believe are the ones who came up with the actual concept of sparring gear, which they got the idea from hockey players, so they can go full contact. Was Bruce really using drugs? coke hashish(weed), if so the chances of him using steroids is very possible. My big question is, did he? 🤔steroids was growing very popular at that time period, for a guy his size to have unexplained strength/crazy speed and power at around 135-140lbs. His body transformation from the green hornet compared to later movies like enter the dragon is unbelievable, Other people said this and bruce said so himself in an interview, is that he has a very short Temper, maybe steroid related🤣,maybe not. But fun to speculate, but you never know.
Great video, feels like a confession we needed to complete the puzzle …
Great video, man. =) Good find, too. Drug culture was huge back in the late 60s and 70s. Bruce was a product of his time and was down for a good time!
@KFG I'm pushing 60 yrs of age I have that magazine still and those photos are from when James Coburn visited Bruce in 1973 to try to get him to revisit The Silent Flute project. His hairstyle was the same when he made his last appearance on ENJOY YOURSELF TONIGHT to discuss the Lo Wei studio incident. He died 10 days after that appearance. He was extremely skinny at that time having lost a great deal of muscle mass. He was definitely strung out. I believe Linda was also.
Now i can see where the potential renal injury, that some researchers have suggested as contributing to his death, may have come from.
I wonder if I still have that book? Bought it when it came out. Yes I remember those photos but never thought anything about the necklace until those letters.
I actually always thought he was on something. Now that I think about it his famous nose touching before getting into his stance makes a lot of sense. That was him expressing himself honestly, as honestly as he could lol.
Now that I think about it, he screams like Scarface.
@@mozfonky Yeah you’re right. I forgot about that. Good observation.
KFG keeping it real as always! 💯
Just found your channel. Great video. Cool song at the end. Would like to hear the whole thing. What's a good way to reach you?
Spotify!
Great video. I’ve saved those photos previously from Pinterest on my pins and never noticed those are the coke spoon pictures before. Great spot. I’ve just viewed the set I have saved on Pinterest and yes … talk about missing something in plain sight
My cousin pointed out the coke spoon years ago. Bruce is wearing a tank top and sunglasses and you see the coke spoon necklace.
Sufi, it’s obvious his personality is one of curiosity, and open minded to try all things in this reality, and people with that mindset is very experimental in most aspects of their lives. This is not just about Lee, but all those with this type of character or personality.
I bought that book when it first came out - but never realized he was wearing a coke spoon. Interesting info!
Come to think of it now, there’s a lot of lesser known photos out there where Bruce looks stoned or dazed. There’s especially one with Nora Miao and his got sunglasses on but they are transparent so you can actually see his eyes and they look blazed.
I don't think too many people are aware, that at the time when Bruce Lee died
there was a fan club set up in Hong Kong, it was called the "Bruce Lee
Jeet-Kune-Do Club. They had a lot of items that a lot of Bruce Lee fans would want
they had 8 mm reels of all of Bruce Lee movies. and there were magazines
with information, that you wouldn't find anywhere.
Luckily we can watch them on Blu-ray now
ip man would approve his coke intake
Yip Man would have made Charlie Sheen look like Charlie Kirk.
Lou Wei was quoted as calling Bruce the Why dragon . Because anytime he told him to do something, Bruce would always respond w/ why? I read that in a recent biography.
Lo Wei was a hack who didn’t like his authority questioned, and tried whenever possible to wedge himself into his own films.
Well his Junkie-Fu is still the best style.
Werd
I know there have been books written about Jimi Hendrix and Jim Morrison’s final months, weeks, days…. Would it be worth it for an author to delve into Bruce Lee’s final months in great detail ? Is there enough material ? Because I only know bits and pieces, mainly through this wonderful channel, but honestly I have a fascination for that kind of stuff. Has the whole truth ever been revealed ? Or is there enough to lay an interesting puzzle ? Let’s call it the shadow side of fame and fortune. I find these exceptional icons, whether in music, movies, sports, painting, politics and warfare, … even more interesting because of that often deeply flawed humanity in them, so many personalities often full of contradictions and hidden vices, full of drama.
Thanks for the video, interesting as always.👍🏼
How can we process and accept this truth of a man we have admired? This can lead to "pathologies" of: refusal, acceptance or complete ignorance. Whether you are a fan since childhood, an adult admiring the work, a martial artist who respects and owes a large part of his passion to this man or simply an avid fan of movies. Nothing will be able to change the opinion we have, if we think of ourselves as human beings with our qualities and faults, our successes and failures...If we have the intelligence to not ignore the context, the time , the age and the incredible short life that this man lived, we put the elements together and this "aspect" into perspective 50 years later. This is exactly what the man Bruce Lee thought of himself, no more no less.
PS : Now the media will pounce on this news and this photo and collectors will seek out this holy grail of a spoon that Beerdy must surely have given Bruce as a gift.😂
Haha great comment!
I can’t wait to see how they’re going to do this new Bruce Lee movie. I am afraid they are going to mess it up like they do everything else🤦♂️
Yeesh, i hear ya!
Not many people like Bruce, let alone people capable of conveying/ comprehending his outlook and Philosophy accurately......
We can only hope for a great outcome 🙏
@@simonark1176 facts
@@simonark1176 I would be interested to get clarification on the "Not many people like Bruce" comment you made. I'm almost 50 years old and my entire life Bruce Lee has been revered in, not the Martial arts world, but in pop culture. Tons of tribute movies, thousands of books and posters. ESPN did a 30/30 documentary. To this day his merchandise still sells and supports the estate quite well. For the most part the "drug letters" story has been suppressed in main stream media. On the contrary I think many people like(love) Bruce Lee.
@@vedder10I mean there are not many people around that are like Bruce Lee...
He was one of a kind and I can't see how his genius and philosophy could be condensed down into one movie. He was incredibly talented
@@simonark1176 Oh I am soooo sorry. I misunderstood what you meant by "like" Bruce Lee. I read it as like=fond of as opposed to like=similar. My honest mistake.
you have the best content Bruce Lee and the right information compared to others. Keep up the good work 🙏🏻💪🏻
I appreciate that!
As a person who's had nerve damage in my back I don't judge , his back problem was due to him doing " good morning " workouts many people have jacked up their spine doing it ; when I was healing met someone who claims the weed smoked back in the day was preaty strong I tried and was not impressed so I would not be surprised if cain brought him some relief .
Yes (on the back injury part), except cocaine is not a pain reliever
maybe if it was smoked with weed , weed is what helped me ; in the mountains of Columbia the Natives eat raw { unprocesed } coca leafs to heal from hunger , depression etc . We don't know how he consumed it , another reason why we can't judge { the coce spoon could've been out of ignorance } . @@TheKungFuGenius
Internal memos indicate - cocaine during the day (to work), weed at night (to come back down)
We thought he just wore the coke spoon as peace sign necklaces were fashionable back then in the 60's and 70s
What’s crazy is how many people I know in my own life who’ve used cocaine to various extents and managed to keep a steady day job and do okay in life. I knew a guy once who used it for a while and quit cold turkey after he realized the potential harm to his wife and children.
Some of the most successful people in the world in all types professions use it recreationally.
Let’s also say that Bruce Lee might possibly have been going through a weight loss not seen since Karen carpenter
Karen’s weight decline came later that decade.
Hollywood is a cess pool im not suprised bruce did coke.still my hero
I guess my questions are, because we typically put celebs on pedestals do you think he fell off that pedestal for some? Does what a celeb does in their personal life really matter to us fans?
And even though I am a fan (not at your level) he didn’t fall for me it’s more like I want to know why. Was it because he wanted to fit in or was it just the thing to do at the time? I know we will never really know but it would be interesting to see if there are other clues besides the drug letters.
I'm really disappointed.........
That i wasn't born in time to party with him 😂
James Coburn said...Bruce did not know how to deal with his fame...
Those pictures of him are🤩🔥🔥🔥🔥🔥🔥🔥
The Kung Fu Genius is now the Kung Fu Detective. Now to find the pics of Bruce Lee training Bigfoot
Haha
Bruce Lee with canines is true. But the drugs were due to his back pain. Hence why he used coke at times. I am a massive Bruce Lee fan. My dad even named me after Bruce Lees Chinese name, dragon.
According to his own letters, that is not why he was taking these things. Cocaine is not a pain reliever. You do not need to find excuses or apologies for his drug use, and you also cannot possibly know the reason for his drug use. If he just did it because it felt good, that wouldn’t change anything else about him.
Those shots are probably from april 1973 when Coburn was visiting Hong Kong. Same clothes, necklace and haircut. Both Linda and Bruce wrote Baker about a resupply of coke in march and in april Linda asked again whether the money had been received and the goods sent, assuring Baker not to worry about Bruce’s coke habits… Coburn is also explicitly mentioned in some of the earlier letters. Btw, there are also a couple of photos with John Saxon where Bruce has a rolled up joint half concealed in his hand.
Interesting! Do you have a link to the hidden joint pic?
We made a thread about it in the good old Drunken Master BL forum back in the day, some 15 years ago, but I no longer collect photos etc so unfortunately I have no link. It was from the well known photo shoot in the couch doing chi sao with Saxon etc. Did a quick Google pic aearch now but couldn’t find it. Anyway, there was no doubt that it was a joint he was holding on to :)
If you ever come across it, please feel free to send it my way!
Will do ( hey there’s a good name for a martial art for you 🤣)
I believe I found the photo in question it's on JesusBajo St youtube channel -the video title is 李小龙 BRUCE LEE and John Saxon Conversations: Part III. Enter The Dragon 50th Anniversary ブルース・リー it appears at One minute Forty five seconds
...I think it could be the bandaid from the bottle cut ???? or just some tic tacs orange flavor was best!!
Sifu Alex, you should be a detective. Good Catch my friend. I love Bruce Lee but he sure had problems. Thank you for posting this my friend.
That's why he was so fast!
You time traveling, Tarantino sack riding, conspirator you!😜 Anyway back here on planet earth.. As a reformed Bruce Lee fan, lol(the teen years were horrific)I’ve grown to be an admirerer who gives Lee his due respect. I truly appreciate you using your mental WT to keep the bs from maintaining a center line and ever off balance! Your motivation is the same no matter the goal; truth is the ultimate pursuit and it comes through for your entire team. I don’t always agree but even then it’s about perspective, not truth because one has many and one IS the one. ‘Appreciate you; look forward to the KFG becoming a BFD!😜
Hahah great comment
Marvin Gaye had a coke spoon also🥶
So did Lennon. Lol
Bonjour Alex, bonjour The kungFuGenius. Petit commentaire en français. D'abord Félicitations pour ta chaine, j'adore. Des podcasts, des commentaires très très intéressants. Cela fait de longues années que je m’intéresse au personnage Bruce Lee (depuis 40 ans). Ta chaine est très intéressante, sincèrement ! Je l'ai découverte il n' y a pas très longtemps...c'est la première fois, désolé, que je laisse un commentaire. J'ai appris beaucoup de choses nouvelles sur Bruce Lee, parfois on pense avoir fait le tour, mais, non ! On en apprend tous les jours. Je suis en retard sur beaucoup de tes vidéos mais je me rattraperai !! Encore mille mercis pour ce que tu fais avec sincérité, cela doit représenter beaucoup de travail. Continues comme ça. David, Arras, France... PS : J’espère un jour te voir en France pour un séminaire par exemple... See you
Shannon and linda are probably pissed the letters even came out it tants his legacy and Linda and Shannon would never admit it even tho Linda wrote some of the letters .
@@BrianWellness yeah and no one is gonna call her or her momma on it publicly either so they’ll just keep making money and people will just keep buying the lies . Sad to see
What incidents is he referring to that happened his interviews in Hong Kong?
The coke spoon 🥄 pic of Lee Dai Kor broke my heart 😔 😆
Bruce Lee & Elvis Presley ….. both Kings in there own Craft & both Victims to there off Screen Weaknesses Drugs Fame & Women …… R.I.P
i think i mightve said this to you before, and if i did i apologize. but i find it facisnating that bruce lee's coke usage (obviously not to the extend we now know) was the only thing "dragon the bruce lee story" got right (for those who dont remember, after bruce arrives in the states and is working in the restaurant there is a breath scene of him doing a line.).
Hey KFG, did your source say what happened to Bruce on May 10th was the same thing that happened to him on the day he died?
I don’t think that’s ever been in dispute by anyone with five brain cells
Sorry, the reason I asked was because if he knew cocaine was what caused his collapse why would he do it again. I guess he didn't know. Cocaine was new and no one knew much about it I guess. What is sad is his family new and have lied all these years . Thanks for sharing
@@Thereisnospoon49Because it was so damn good. So nice he had to do it twice.
Decades on our sports people are still having similar images of them in compromising situations . Unfortunately now posted on the web for instant demise . Unfortunate how some things will never change.
Demise? Is can absolutely not damage his reputation, it makes him more of an icon.
@@TheKungFuGenius not in 2024
So that explains the nose rub…watahhh!!
I had that book in the 70's
I had that book when I was 10 years old. I’m so mad I gave that book away.
With all this coke info being confirmed, I guess this sheds much light on how his sudden death at 32 occured. Of course I am just theorizing, but seems was probably due to having too many substances in his body.
I doubt he straight up ODd on just coke considering many rock stars go decades slamming coke and still come out alive. It's hard think just coke took him out, but more likely was a crazy combo of stimulants, pain killers and dehydration in the heat. That combo would be enough to take someone out.
Bruce was ambitious as hell and probably did the coke to get a major edge for stamina. He had that massive work load requiring insane amounts of stamina, plus he aspired to be awesome, so he saw the coke gave him a huge boost and he very likely was on hard core herbal stimulants, which he likely abused for maximum effect (toxic). We know he very likely slammed pain killers for back pain....so, now, we have:
Cocaine, heaps of herbal stimulants (toxic levels), pain killers, probably 1 other drug, dehydration and massive Hong Kong heat....that is a lethal combo that could end in death, unfortunately.
This could explain why his death was always sooo mysterious. Yeah, things were covered up and at the time, noone would push the drug theory because it would have sounded like the heresy of a madman.
Just theorizing, but this theory makes more sense than anything any biographer or documentary has come out with
I swear I've seen those photos before, just never noticed the coke spoon. And, yeah, I googled "coke spoon" and, yup, that there's a coke spoon 'round his neck, lol. For me, the drug letters took like a week to process…and then I was fine with it. Why? Because, along with the episode of Autopsy attributing his passing to cortisone, the letters provided closure for me on how and why he died. They also revealed the use of mushrooms, mescaline, and acid. Given his non-stop schedule, the energy boost provided by coke makes total sense, as does the "mind-expanding," very '60s lure of psychedelics-something no doubt appealing to the sometimes dashiki-wearing Lee, lol.
As for his paranoid, aggressive behavior, well, the aggression was always there from childhood and the paranoia of being attacked or taken advantage of was an understandable thing as the industry's "King of Kung Fu," but, yeah, a boatload of cocaine ain't gonna help keep that shit in check. Also, there's something Seattle student Doug Palmer brought up in his excellent bio and was told to him by Linda Lee, which is Bruce taking the opiate Darvon for his chronic back pain. Palmer's daughter and son-in-law are both doctors, and said that Lee's extreme behavior and weight and memory loss sound like addiction and withdrawal symptoms from the on-and-off use, or overuse, of a narcotic. If true, it's simply another in a line of dominoes that ended with his premature demise.
Still, absolutely no judgment from me. The Little Dragon did what he did to cope and live his life to the fullest and achieve things no one had achieved before or has come close to achieving since. I got nothin' but respect.
He didn't show off his physique in his last movie like he did in his others.
He didn’t show off his physique in Enter the Dragon? That’s news to me!
(Game of Death was not his last film, it was before ETD, and he only shot three fight scenes in the yellow track suit - hardly an indicator of anything as he didn’t shoot anything else in the film)
Yeah, what ever. I guess you didn't notice that he didn't quite fill in that pump suit.
Yeah whatever? Game of death is not his last movie so you got your facts wrong. But sure double down like everyone else does on the Internet when they’re wrong.
I’m going to guess you read that little gem in Tom Bleecker‘s book right? Maybe you should look at some of the GOD behind-the-scenes photos when Bruce did have his shirt off and he was quite fit and not emaciated as Mr. Bleecker so desperately tries to claim.
Yeah, “whatever”… We got some real experts in the comments here😆😆😆
Funny you should bring this up. I've had (and still have) that book since I was a teenager in the mid 70s. I picked it up shortly after it came out because I would get anything I could get my hands on about Bruce Lee back in the day. I remember an older friend looking at it and pointing out that Bruce was wearing a coke spoon on his necklace. I dismissed it claiming "no way, Bruce Lee didn't do drugs!" I was pretty naive back then. After all, Bruce was my hero. Never thought about it again until now. Good eye, man!
Great photos great book a true classic. As for his coke indulgence it don’t bother me one bit as I myself was an avid user of coke.
Would like to add Bruce’s coke use does not diminish my respect and admiration I have due him.
At first, I was quite discouraged to know about this new info, but I think it is a small matter as during the good old days, there is less medical information about this particular substance. Even his father uses opium during his acting career for a better voice performance.
For example, like Mike tyson. He uses this substance at a much younger age than him.
In my opinion, at least he isn't addicted or overabuse it during that period. Maybe he even stopped doing it.
I have that same book
U can't judge Bruce ,everyone likes coke now and then he just liked to sniff it I drank it so what😂
No judging here, just info
Coke is it as Bruce Lee Marvin Gaye and Rick James doc gooden can attest too
Cocaine’s a hell of a drug
Everyone knows Drugs ruins lives.
Btw, there are some rare Bruce Lee photos in these 2 books: ruclips.net/video/RemD1BbyyOs/видео.htmlsi=oWti4gfx78UBqhz5
Hi Alex. Excellent video. Talk about hiding in plain sight. I believe the set that the photos are taken from also includes the one showing him sweating profusely.😁💦🐉
I'm a fan of Bruce Lee and have a great deal of respect and admiration for what he did both in martial arts and in film. If you look at the era it's not surprising that someone involved in the film industry used drugs but at least we know the those involved in the music industry lead clean and healthy lifestyles.
Absolutely right 👍
Nobody judges Hendrix or The Doors yet somehow this G was meant to be some sort of exception? Whatever he chose to do recreationaly was up to him.
The fact that he shot to success despite the use of substances that can easily ruin a man speaks highly of his ambition and ability to reach his goals.
It just further affirms his place as a true inspiration ❤
It wouldn't surprise me if people involved with publicizing Bruce hid things like this to keep a perfect image of him. He was a hero to a lot of people. Especially the Hoisan and Cantonese in the USA. I vaguely remember hearing something about Raymond Chow trying to hide his death or the reason for it and that he would die as a hero. Ron Smoorenburg spoke about Jackie Chan being portrayed as perfect and not using stunt doubles. In truth he did use doubles so it isn't unheard of covering up the truth for Hong Kong stars.
Totally agree
I only wonder one thing: how a cocaine addict could be in such spectacular physical shape as he was! The strength, the speed, the resistance, during countless scenes and many filmings! How did he do it? Not many athletes are known to be successfully addicted to their disciplines. I think his cocaine use was recreational and occasional, but it increased more in the final months of his life. Most likely he died from an overdose..... there is no other explanation. But it was decided to disclose natural death due to misfortune, because of the life insurance he had...so that the family would not be harmed. Adrian Marshall the family lawyer took care of everything. All of this is very sad.
Woahhh...what...we now have a drug photo?? This is insane of Bruces drug habbit. On a side note...as an 80s kid...i used to wonder why Rock band guitarrists were in great thin shape.....never occured to me till i was an adult...they used cocaine!
Wow
So... I mean, did the guy just OD in that girl's apartment?
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🤔"These findings implicate cocaine use as a significant risk factor for fatal brain hemorrhage and may explain, in part, the increased incidence of hemorrhagic stroke in some drug-using cohorts. The lack of specific pathologic findings suggests that cocaine-associated intracranial hemorrhages are a consequence of the pharmacodynamic effect of cocaine and not a cocaine-induced vasculopathy."
@@TheKungFuGeniusDid you just confirm that 😮
Check out the ted Thomas interview photos he’s wearing a long ampule around his neck.
nice
Yeah i saw those photo's before bruce was into coke and other things but hey it was 60s 70s. i still love the guy and his movies. No wonder bob baker disappeared i suppose he could have got some backlash after bruce passed away
There is no backlash if no one knew. Linda couldn’t go after him because she was implicit in these drug dealings so I’m pretty sure he was safe.
@@TheKungFuGenius yeah she was involved with it too hollywood and fame I suppose
He was in a lot of pain ,his back injury never stoped giving him problems, not excusing his drug use ,but many people with chronic pain are drug users,legal or illegal. It doesn't matter really he was a flawed human being,no one is perfect but very few achieved what he did in his short life.
This is a common comment but cocaine is not a pain reliever