If by "fully functional" you mean "probably snorted enough cocaine during that time to make Elton John jealous", sure.
It was a few years before that show, but they recorded
Vol. 4 here in Los Angeles and they rented a mansion owned by John du Pont (the guy the movie
Foxcatcher was about) where they allegedly snorted enough blow to fill the Andes. Party like a rock star indeed...... From the Wikipedia article about the album:
And the drug use got
worse after that, wow.
Hahaha, totally blanked out on that one.
By the time they'd played the 4 nights at Wembley Arena on the BSS tour in April 1974, I would think they'd known they were going to take a long break after the tour ended in August. Why not get one or more of the shows professionally filmed so they had a quality concert film to show during the hiatus? I saw the 1970 Lyceum movie (given the horrible title of
Rock n' Roll Your Eyes at the time) in the summer of 1975 and even though I'd only been in to them for about a year, I knew that they didn't sound or look like that at all at the time. Oh well......
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