Just how rife is cocaine use in the music industry?

Just how rife is petrol use in the haulage industry?

Chris Martin of Coldplay?

Coldplay? More like Cokeplay, innit

I do not sniff the coke I only smoke sinsemilla

It's rife in the UK in general anyway. At my local suburban spoonies there's fellas doing it in the cubicles on a Friday night.

i hardly ever actually see the stuff so when i do, like at a party the other week, i still get that sense of giddy catholic shock like i were a teenager again.

then i call the cops.

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On Brick Lane last Saturday for the Chromatics show, I saw 2 different groups of people doing key bumps out in the open of the street.
Literally - people everywhere, families walking out of restaurants, etc., and people just snorting coke. It wasn't even totally dark out yet!

Just how rife is petrol use in the haulage industry?

-- Matt DC, Wednesday, April 23, 2008 9:50 AM (8 hours ago) Bookmark Link

When musicians were coked up to the blowhole in the 70s they were making awesome records. So either todays coke is shit, or a lot of these rubes are getting ripped off, or a lot of peeps be lying about their intake.

It's because in the 70s it was, "Holy shit, I need to keep awake/alert in order to record all of this amazing music I've written!" whereas now it's "The novelty of me being a 'rock star' necessitates that I fall into every half-assed cliched trap possible."

(but the idea that there's actually some degree of stress involved in re-writing/re-recording Radiohead songs is actually pretty funny)

i am waiting for the first "casual mention" in this thread

If cocaine makes you casual, you're being ripped off.

I have never taken, nor ever wanted to take, cocaine, though I have spent some time around people loaded on it.

^^^ Close enough

^almost xpost lol

It's because in the 70s it was, "Holy shit, I need to keep awake/alert in order to record all of this amazing music I've written!"

I don't know about that

I used to always think that cocaine was a drug that made you into an asshole until I realized that 90% of the time, the people who take it are assholes to begin with.

bingo

Cocaine is so rife in Britain that it's fairly meaningless to talk about how much people in the music industry use it. It's rife in the construction industry, it's rife in call centres, it's rife with school kids etc.

How are we defining the word rife here?

ex: i have never seen so much cocaine in my rife!

The idea that there's any cause/effect relationship between doing coke and making great art is exactly the sort of delusion so popular with coke users. And the idea that 70s coked out musicians were more likely to make great music than their counterparts today is just nostalgia for hedonism. Cue the music studio scenes from Boogie Nights.

GODDAMN, it's almost like I said something stupid for a laugh.

Still, looking forward to Vince Hilaire and the Nikky Nakky Noos bringing out a Tusk.

this thread is the #9 hit for 'Coldplay cocaine'

#5 for chris martin cocaine

It's because in the 70s it was, "Holy shit, I need to keep awake/alert in order to record all of this amazing music I've written!"

Yeah, the '70's were awesome. Sure am glad Glenn Frey and Christine McVie were cokeheads . . .

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in the 70s we used the powers of cocaine only for good.

man, i was so fucking tooted up at the daycare my mom sent me to. the bathroom was like studio 54 in pro keds.

Pure marchin powder is sooo yesterday.

Any local govt worker/ freelancer worth their salt does crack or speedballs at their hot desk these days

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Yeah, the '70's were awesome. Sure am glad Glenn Frey and Christine McVie were cokeheads . . .

I didn't say the music was amazing; just that the artists thought it was amazing.

Oh, and Glenn Frey =/ Christine McVie. McVie crushes Frey without breaking a (coke-induced) sweat.

but then she gets shot in the back by sonny crockett!

A Michael Mann moment

cocaine is pretty fun and harmless for the most part, unless you let it take over. it not heroine where all you are is a junkie.

fun and harmless

It's because in the 70s it was, "Holy shit, I need to keep awake/alert in order to record all of this amazing music I've written!" whereas now it's "The novelty of me being a 'rock star' necessitates that I fall into every half-assed cliched trap possible."

-- Sara Sara Sara

Sara has really hit the nail on the head in my opinion. Glenn Frey's and Christine McVie's music was amazing to me - millions would disagree of course.

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casual mention

Oddly enough, I'm rereading Barney Hoskyns' "Hotel California", and this morning over breakfast I read a quote from Joni Mitchell about cocaine, something about it deadening your emotional centre - "great for a hitman, dreadful for making music".

What I've found disconcerting is that i've discovered there is a small posse of users within the call centre where I work, and they are a little bit too blatant about it, making deals over the phones et cetera. Maybe I've led a sheltered life but I've not come across users in offices before, and I'm a bit shocked.

I read that one too - such a wonderful book - on a plane on the way to LA, the first time I had ever been to that fascinating place. I remember that pungent quote.

I don't think the importance of coke on the evolution of inspirational rock music should be minimalised, any more than the influence of LSD or dope. Drugs are very important in the evolution of music.

Coke is an interesting one, like heroin. It had an influence of a certain kind. I think I disagree with the idea that it's 'dreadful for making music'. I am not so sure about that - I think there are exceptions.

cocaine is pretty fun and harmless for the most part, unless you let it take over. it not heroine where all you are is a junkie.

Inability to process any concept of 'harm' unless its happening to you = this is what happens when you take coke?

cocaine is pretty fun and harmless for the most part, unless you let it take over. it not heroine where all you are is a junkie.

Inability to process any concept of 'harm' unless its happening to you = this is what happens when you take coke?

Aye; I was just thinking about all the Columbian peasant farmers drowned in baths of acid at the start of the process that gets cocaine from a plant in South American to a powder on Brick Lane.

"great for a hitman, dreadful for making music".

The one time I did cocaine, it made me enjoy gangsta rap.

i could sure use a line right about now

i'd make some awesome music

is that casual enough

oh x-post fuck you about gangsta rap, go blow yourself

literally lol

Yo, Oh, Yo Rae... I can't feel my face
My heart pounding and shit (audible heart)
Paranoid as a motherfucker right now, who the fuck?
Close the blinds and shit! Who that? Captain Kirk?
The stark...enterprise, enterprise I was on and some shit?
..I need some pussy though I'm ready for a catwoman or something
f-fuck it, lets go!

Aiyyo shareefa go to the store for me. I need some razors and a fresh box of baggies, the ones with the tint in them!
Aiyyo son turn that water down a little bit, just a little bit..Thank You I need two waters, a dutch, and a cranberry Snapple

All around the world today, the Kilo is the measure
(Whoever got the kilos got the candy, man!)
A kilo is a thousand grams, its easy to remember
(You never catch the kid going hand to hand!)
All around the world today, the Kilo is the measure
(Once you got the funds you got the panties, man!)
A Kilo is a thousand grams, its easy to remember
(Throughout the I 9 to 5 I'm the Handyman)

Bricks, Tar caps, powder, cooked up crack
Phones is tapped over franklin's stacks
Kingpins put in bullpens, old connects get paro'
Break out of town when the Jakes take down the Pharoah
Reason, He was moving that peruvian white
blowing coolies into hoopties , slamming cuties and ice
big heavy pots over hot stoves
Mayonnaise jars of water with rocks in them got my whole projects out of order
A Kilo is a thousand grams
Beige, gold, brown, dirty, fluffy, tan, extract oil cut from cuban plants
The chemist is brolic, pyrex scholars
Professors at war over raw, killing partners for a million dollars

Yeah
Aiyyo peace to those cooking that raw, powder white
Get your sniff on, scarface niggaz, we getting right
some call it bricks, some call it birds
how many niggaz get they lives tooken playing with shit, then catch a curb
You would go to jail
get caught with this, niggaz'll grow to fail
Stop playing, pot slaying, baking soda and scales
They lived like brothers, word life, connects discovered
most niggaz get hard, from fucking with them pipes and hustlers
Kilos is one thousand grams
You know your ammo better be heavy 'cause soon kids is coming in camo
Protect your land daddy, I'm an announcer
you get caught with an ounce and its over
matter 'fact they takin you down, son

Some say a drug dealers destiny is reachin the ki'
I'd rather be the man behind the door, supplying the streets
A hundred birds go out, looking like textbooks
when they wrapped and stuffed
four days later straight cash, two million bucks
strictly powder, no cut
your coke is vialed in, whats up?
Y'all beefin over little shit, we sniff, the balance split up
In a plane or a penthouse, office or a warehouse
Tony's got it nice, we never heard of any big droughts
A Kilo is a thousand grams
A pile of sand is equivilant, to the eye
It's nice to have a thousand fans
Coke buyers, some be liars
therefore, you check for wires
dedicated dealers, during holidays we give 'em lighters

Red tops, blue tops, green tops, yellow tops
Purple tops, beige tops, white tops, grey tops
Black tops, clear tops, gold tops, pink tops
Silver tops, tan tops, aqua tops, orange tops
Salt tops, long tops, short tops, 12 12's
58 58's, weed bags, ziplocks
Big rocks, coke spots, big glocks, one OT's
Crumbs chopped, hot pots, one plate, crack Spot

it not heroine

man i've been working in the wrong call centres.

On Brick Lane last Saturday for the Chromatics show, I saw 2 different groups of people doing key bumps out in the open of the street.
Literally - people everywhere, families walking out of restaurants, etc., and people just snorting coke. It wasn't even totally dark out yet!

-- Savannah Smiles, Wednesday, 23 April 2008 18:41 (

They probably should have been less in the open with it. Couple people got thrown out of that show for doing (not selling) drugs

to be fair you probably need to be pretty cokey to dig the chromatics.

oh x-post fuck you about gangsta rap, go blow yourself

-- strgn, Thursday, 24 April 2008 09:52 (1 hour ago) Link

: D

Also, you were pretty spot-on - we were definitely listening to Ghost, but it was Ironman.

Ask Jay Reatard oh wait.

good bump

no pun intended