Kevin Parker did not take his beta-blocker this morning.
He downs one most nights before he walks onstage with Tame Impala, the Kodachrome rock band he started two decades ago in a squalid house in Perth, Australia, the most remote capital city on earth. The pills help him forget his nerves for those all-important first five minutes, to break the cycle of anxiety that leads to sweaty palms and butterflies that lead to evermore anxiety.
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