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The Primal Scream frontman told NME that McGee introduced him to the scene in 1988.
Gillespie said: "[McGee] just went f**king crazy - one minute he was listening to Gram Parsons and the Stones and the Modern Lovers, and the next minute he was like this mad acid house guy.
"It was like seeing him have a religious conversion. All of a sudden he was begging you and going, 'Please, please listen to this music! Please, please take this new drug!'"
He added: "You were like, 'Alright, I'll take one,' and [McGee]'s like, 'Here, take another one, do you like it? Take another one... and another half'.
"That was my introduction to E. And then all of a sudden I'm listening to this record, turning the bass up, going, 'Oh! Ooh!'"
Gillespie claimed that the drug "opened everybody's minds" during the recording sessions for their 1991 album Screamadelica.
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