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Originally Posted by The Listener  Are you sure about Buckley? Heroin?
Drugs expand your perception, it can be helpful, but within reason... or maybe not... maybe you should freak out (with or without drugs) and be a bit crazy to make something really classic...
There are many "sober" or "clean" classics, too, just not so many in jazz and rock'n'roll...
And also - I am quite sure that they performed and recorded in the more or less sober state - at least most of them...
Even most of Grateful Dead and Hendrix studio albums, I guess - you cannot play on such a level under acid...
So to add at least
Miles Davis - Bitches Brew
Grateful Dead - everything
The Doors - everything
Honestly - I am not a regular "abuser", but I hardly know a musician that doesn't smoke pot. It just does things to music perception that would be foolish not to experience from time to time... What do you think? But I have never seen anyone perform satisfactory while being stoned - feeling good, yes, but if you record it - not something special most of the time. But having that "expanded" experience and transfering it later in the sober state into art - that's what usually works fine. I am not so "experienced" though.  |
I definitely understand what you mean.
Mind you, I don't inject or take any of the really dirty drugs (meth, cocaine) or anything like that and I take pretty good care of my health.
I certainly will NEVER play guitar and bass guitar under the influence and never write under the influence, but the drugs I've consumed (acid and pot generally) have been influences on my music and expanding my mind in general in ways that wouldn't have been possible had I never taken them.
And mind you , this is from a guy who used to be really anti drug and believed that sort of stuff couldn't expand your mind. How wrong I was.