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Are musicians forced to give up their lives to drugs in order to become great?
Posted on 8/4/14 at 9:46 pm
Posted on 8/4/14 at 9:46 pm
I think about this every now and then. It seems like in order for MOST musicians to break into greatness they are required to fall off the deep end. Can anyone shed light on any great musicians that have not given into drugs to reach greatness?
Thoughts?
Thoughts?
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Posted on 8/4/14 at 9:49 pm to StickyFingaz
I think I recall Zappa being very against drugs and alcohol
Posted on 8/4/14 at 9:50 pm to StickyFingaz
Drugs make everything better. It turns all your bad feelings into good feelings.
It's science
It's science
Posted on 8/4/14 at 9:51 pm to StickyFingaz
quote:
Can anyone shed light on any great musicians that have not given into drugs to reach greatness?
Rush
For real though most musicians will tell you that while drugs are great and amazing and certainly provide a background and experiences for lyrics and experimenting, they always do their best work sober.
This post was edited on 8/4/14 at 9:52 pm
Posted on 8/4/14 at 9:51 pm to StickyFingaz
Posted on 8/4/14 at 9:51 pm to StickyFingaz
Frank Zappa
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Posted on 8/4/14 at 10:02 pm to StickyFingaz
Although Mick Jagger, Robert Plant and John Lennon did drugs. They didn't "fall off the deep end".
Posted on 8/4/14 at 10:18 pm to StickyFingaz
quote:John Bell
Can anyone shed light on any great musicians that have not given into drugs to reach greatness?
Posted on 8/4/14 at 10:19 pm to StickyFingaz
There's actually quite a lot who didn't go off the deep end or that never did drugs at all.
Posted on 8/4/14 at 10:44 pm to StickyFingaz
Angus Young
Second best selling album of all time and one of the most important band's ever; AC/DC mainman did it all without chemicals
Steve Albini
With music that concise drugs would be a definite hindrance.
Poly Styrene
One of the best lyric writers of the punk era, her amazing imagination was untouched by drugs. God bless.
Ian Mackaye
Famously invented Straight Edge and also recorded some great psychedelic records with late period Fugazi.
Ravi Shankar
Went really out there musically and a genuine master. No drugs.
Ian Anderson
First Jethro Tull album is brilliant, like a British Captain Beefheart.
Bruce Springsteen
Drug free producer of big anthems.
Kiss
More like a glammed up supermarket than a band, Kiss didn't take drugs.
J Mascis
May look like a wizard but was never a drug fiend.
Adam Ant
Don't drink, don't smoke, what do you do? Well, made arguably the most original album of the punk period that's as sow word that it should have been done on drugs.
Morrissey
Anti rock n roll Moz didn't need drugs to open up his amazing imagination.
Frank Zappa
Famously anti drug and loved by pot smokers world wide
John Mclaughlin
Like Zappa, no drugs but loved by drug heads...
Ted Nugent
Maybe the true inventor of Straight Edge, unpleasant man who had a brief period of rocking greatness.
Henry Rollins
No drugs here either and who's going to argue?
AFI
Glam horror punks with total tattoos and top 5 american album also no drugs.
Rage Against The Machine
Concise powerful music needs concise powerful minds.
Posted on 8/4/14 at 10:48 pm to StickyFingaz
It's a good question, but really, any music great gives up their life. With or without drugs.
Posted on 8/5/14 at 6:55 am to StickyFingaz
Drugs are used by musicians to keep it all going. Does not contribute to good musicianship, IMO.
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