nope, but beer makes me wanna rock
― electric sound of jim (electricsound), Friday, 22 November 2002 08:16 (twenty-three years ago)
Not
all, but more than most people who don't use drugs like to admit.
― Dan I., Friday, 22 November 2002 08:29 (twenty-three years ago)
all i know is, i got more flavour than a packet of macaroni!
― katie (katie), Friday, 22 November 2002 09:09 (twenty-three years ago)
I suspect that there's often a slight misperception going on, in that many artists known for their liberal drug-taking haven't actually produced the stuff they're known for whilst actually under the influence. In those cases where they have been, it's usually obvious and the product limited more by how interesting the effects of the drugs are than by the capacities of the artist. If the artist is of a stature to outshine the general effects of the drugs then one is left with the conclusion that the drug taking is less than necessary.
― Gordon (Gordon), Friday, 22 November 2002 12:12 (twenty-three years ago)
It doesn't. This is a total lie and totally unneccessary.
Correlation does NOT imply causation.
Yes, it's funny, great artists often take loads of drugs. But isn't it funny, great artists also often suffer from mental illness, depression, alienation, etc. People who suffer from mental illness often self medicate with drugs.
Three things are correlated - so which causes which, and which is the unfortunate by-product?
Is great art a by-product of drug abuse? Or is drug abuse a by-product of the sort of mental illness which also produces great art?
You do the maths...
My best art was produced on nothing more than strong coffee. I stronly reccomend that everyone right now go out and try strong coffee. But it may have strange by=products, like becoming obsessed with minor indie popstars' posteriors.
― kate, Friday, 22 November 2002 12:54 (twenty-three years ago)
There seem to me to be quite a few rock acts who have become utterly rub after giving up the drugs, but it might be that both are symptoms of coming to the end of the youthful passion phase, or something like that, rather than giving up drugs causing you to become dull.
― Martin Skidmore (Martin Skidmore), Friday, 22 November 2002 19:35 (twenty-three years ago)
the days after major drug-taking efforts have always been the best for me, the art i have created in those times is the stuff i am most happy with.
creating 'under the influence' just made me THINK it was great, with the sad reality coming home once it wore off.
i think martin might be right though, time and age alter the creative spark, coinciding with a 'letting off' of drug taking.
― donna (donna), Friday, 22 November 2002 20:16 (twenty-three years ago)