Music & Drugs: Does it affect creativity?

[Jack Zodiac]

All these stupid commercials with non weed smokers talking about how there friends who smoke weed miss out on life. . .BULLSHIT!

And then there was the whole "Spoken Word/Slam Poetry" campaign a few years back, with a bunch of Def Poetry Jam wannabes talking about how they'll never smoke weed, and how their friends who did smoke weed never became the artful poets they were meant to be. Which is all bullshit, because such subcultures are where you'll find an abundance of weed smokers!! Hell, most of those pseudo-bohemian deadlock 'n headwrap wearin' fools probably devoted whole poems to their love of the herb!

Yeah, those were the ads that pissed me off the most. What was arguably one of the greatest periods of time in America for new, creative, and imaginative music? The Sixties and Seventies. And ninety-nine point nine percent of those folk were at least smoking pot.

[IamtheRock3]

Yeah, those were the ads that pissed me off the most. What was arguably one of the greatest periods of time in America for new, creative, and imaginative music? The Sixties and Seventies. And ninety-nine point nine percent of those folk were at least smoking pot.

yes but to be fair

How many great artist have we lost to drugs

one might say "Well those drugs made them great"

Dont know If I agree with those people

[Jack Zodiac]

Who are you arguing with?

Argue? I was replying to Nerv's comment about how alcohol is more dangerous than marijuana, but still legal.

yes but to be fair

How many great artist have we lost to drugs

one might say "Well those drugs made them great"

Dont know If I agree with those people

Yeah, heroin. Coke. Booze, too. But not pot. No one in history has ever "overdosed" on marijuana.

[kmeyers]

yes but to be fair

How many great artist have we lost to drugs

one might say "Well those drugs made them great"

Dont know If I agree with those people

Your assumptions are ridiculous. Was it the artist, the person, or the drug.

They were creative first, second, third, drugs are a distant, unrelated factor, for most people.

[Phil Clark]

yes but to be fair

How many great artist have we lost to drugs

one might say "Well those drugs made them great"

Dont know If I agree with those people

Drugs have never made anyone great. Look at Aerosmith. They got onto drugs and their careers fell apart. Then Run DMC remade "Walk This Way" and used Tyler and Perry on the record and in the video. Then the band saw there was still interest in their music, cleaned up their acts, and BAM!!! Superstars again.

Drugs destroy peoples lives. Getting clean and staying clean is the only way to success.

[TheLazy]

Drugs have never made anyone great. Look at Aerosmith. They got onto drugs and their careers fell apart. Then Run DMC remade "Walk This Way" and used Tyler and Perry on the record and in the video. Then the band saw there was still interest in their music, cleaned up their acts, and BAM!!! Superstars again.

Drugs destroy peoples lives. Getting clean and staying clean is the only way to success.

Slash wrote 'Appitie for destruction' off of his face 24-7. Sure, people can write stuff clean, but do you really think Hendrix would have been as adventurous as to write All Along the Watchtower had he not been on the reefer?

Okay, he may have, but I dont personally believe he would have. It's the same reason why people go to Nightclubs to have sex, albiet not in the club, because altering ones mind, however slightly, breaks down inabitions. This makes people more willing to try new things. Look at Darkside of the Moon, acid trip if ever there was one.

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[DWEarhart]

I'd hate to say it, but

Metallica: Drunk = awesome

Metallica: Sober = SUCKS BIG ONES.

[The Zapper]

I can't believe people actually claim that drugs hurt an artists (any kind) work. It's just laughable.

[Dreadstar]

...do you really think Hendrix would have been as adventurous as to write All Along the Watchtower had he not been on the reefer?

Would someone else like to break it to him, or should I?

[Black Atom]

I can't believe people actually claim that drugs hurt an artists (any kind) work. It's just laughable.

Without this degenerating into the moral/ethical issue of drug use, it's just as laughable to claim the opposite or infer that drugs make someone more talented.

There are different drugs, different people and different habits. Some people who regularly use marijuana are quite successful, and some have never been off the couch since the first time they tried it.

[The Zapper]

The point I was trying to make is that artists have been doing drugs sense the beginning of time. It doesn't matter if it's paintings, sculpting, poetry, or music. The fact remains that a huge number of these artists created their art while on one form of mind-altering substance or another.

[I Must Break U]

I can't believe people actually claim that drugs hurt an artists (any kind) work. It's just laughable.

Yeah Ray charles actually stated that thought he didn't condone the use of drugs, he wrote some of his greatest songs while he was on drugs!

[SnowTrooper]

Most musicians make songs that they will be remembered for while on drugs. Like I Must Break U said, Ray Charles is one, Johnny Cash is another, im pretty sure that atleast 75% of 70's and 80's rock bands were on drugs at the time of their greatest hits.

[TheLazy]

Would someone else like to break it to him, or should I?

oops. Just clicked there. Fine, voodoo child then (checks wikipedia) yeah, Voodoo child.:rolleyes: :D

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[Jack Zodiac]

oops. Just clicked there. Fine, voodoo child then (checks wikipedia) yeah, Voodoo child.:rolleyes: :D

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Spanish Castle Magic. He was fried, no doubt, when he wrote that one.

Oddly enough, when Dylan wrote All Along the Watchtower, he was recovering from a bike accident and reading The Bible. So, he was probably off the junk at the time.