The old "legalisation" versus "Criminalisation" has been debated to hangover, so let's look at it from a different point of view.
The title should read: Do people using various drugs create better art than people who don't use drugs?
Which is obviously too long for a proper title.
Let me use modern music as an example.
Nearly every great album was written under influence of at least alcohol and marijuana. And quite a lot of the greatest albums were influenced by LSD, coke or heroin.
From Dylan to Hendrix, from Lucy in the Sky with Diamonds to Love will tear us apart...
If drugs aren't dripping from the titles or the psychedelic artwork, then more often than not you can hear them in lyrics and interviews. From Tom Petty to The Stone Roses, from The 59th bridge street song to The drugs don't work...
And to make the case even stronger, what about bands that don't take drugs? Bands like "The Irish pipe band", "Gaia Epicus" and "New kids on the block"...
It would seem to me that music is inspired by people who use more drugs than an average touring funk band (thanks Bill), are smasheder out than Timothy Leary on a bender and as sober as Lou Reed in 1967.
What do you all think?
And do you think that considering the very obvious conclusions, that there is a case for allowing artists to use drugs, because they're then generally better?
Originally posted by shavixmirDo yóu make better music while on drugs ?
The old "legalisation" versus "Criminalisation" has been debated to hangover, so let's look at it from a different point of view.
The title should read: Do people using various drugs create better art than people who don't use drugs?
Which is obviously too long for a proper title.
Let me use modern music as an example.
Nearly every great album w ...[text shortened]... a case for allowing artists to use drugs, because they're then generally better?
Originally posted by shavixmir"New Kids on the Block"?
The old "legalisation" versus "Criminalisation" has been debated to hangover, so let's look at it from a different point of view.
The title should read: Do people using various drugs create better art than people who don't use drugs?
Which is obviously too long for a proper title.
Let me use modern music as an example.
Nearly every great album w ...[text shortened]... a case for allowing artists to use drugs, because they're then generally better?
Originally posted by shavixmirAre you telling me Tom Waites is on drugs?
The old "legalisation" versus "Criminalisation" has been debated to hangover, so let's look at it from a different point of view.
The title should read: Do people using various drugs create better art than people who don't use drugs?
Which is obviously too long for a proper title.
Let me use modern music as an example.
Nearly every great album w ...[text shortened]... a case for allowing artists to use drugs, because they're then generally better?
G.
I think it depends on the individual musician/artist. Frank Zappa supposedly never used drugs, and managed to be a very prolific artist. I often think that the role of drugs in art is usually overstated- after all, there an artist behind the creation, not a drug- even if the artist was under the influence of something- it still requires a human being back there pulling all the levers and pushing the buttons.
artists are generally of an experimental temperment, given to lusts for experiences- and drugs are an easy way to look at a mundane situation in a whole new light, so I think it's natural that artists would be drawn to playing fast and loose with brain chemistry- and if that new perspective grants an insight that can be translated into a creation- great- but it's still not necessary- many artists have gotten the same inspiration from staring at a brick wall.
Originally posted by shavixmirokay, I saw him on some interview when he said he didn't use drugs- and I wondered if he never even tried them, so this is more palatable to my sense of reality... thanks.
"I'm not going to be Bill Clinton and say I never inhaled. I did inhale. I liked tobacco a lot better."
- Frank Zappa -
http://en.wikiquote.org/wiki/Cannabis