Do You Think Drugs Have Influenced Many Musicians?

haha skoal is soo gross. like the lyrics arent even good in that music. At least if the insrumentals arent good make the lyrics good but there really isnt anything good about that music.
 
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the syd barret story, Pink floyd, drug affect his life and i believe roger waters says something about LSD and interstellar overdrive. its been a while since i've watched the documentary

 
Not just the drugs, but Syd was already a really weird kid...then he discovered psychedelics and used his hallucinogenic consciousness as an escape from conventional society, which he felt alienated by.
 
funny story about that album cover. jimi asked for an indian themed record label cover for bold as love intending for it to be native american indian since he's part native american. he got that cover back and was like, "well, it's cool art, might as well keep it...."

i'll just say it so nobody else does, cool story hansel.
 
yeah i watched that whole thing, syd was only there for there early shit, not there good stuff. Like animals or Dark Side of the Moon
 
yeah its true....the whole deal in the 50s/60s and the psychedelic movement with timothy leary and ken kesey and the merry pranksters was a reaction against the stamped suburban lifestyle of the 40s and early 50s like "leave it to beaver" and everyone was expected to do the same thing and live in the same house...and they wanted to find alternative realities to counter that. They beleived acid and all the other psychedelics opened different channels to the mind and then this culture naturally transfered into the arts and becuase people were veiwing reality differently the art they were creating was never even thought of before and it was amazing and interesting......read electric kool-aide acid by tom woolf becuase its about the transfer of the psychedelics into the the main stream culture and all the controversey surrounding that. he wrote it before the psychadelic culture was really understood becuase the "moral majority" just thought they were all looneytunes.

i would say drugs influencing musicians today isnt as prevalent as it was then becuase we've adopted the ideas more that came out of the 50/60s drug culture and can think of reality differently without the use of drugs? if that makes sense? but it still is an influence and to say that the two arent related is just ignorant. the real question is whether art should be connected to drugs and is it truly art or should it be judged the same if its created using more than natural occuring human thought?
 
saying animals and DSOTM is Floyd's best stuff is like saying the White Album and Revolver is the Beatles best stuff.

just because it's a greatest hit doesn't mean it's the greatest song.

no hate btw.
 
word good point....buuuuut i think the white album was the beatles best stuff...songs like while my guitar gently weeps, happiness is a warm gun, blackbird.....its life changing..hah
 
couldn't have said it better myself,

though DSOTM is probably my favorite floyd album, and i say probably because there are sooo many good ones... Atom Heart Mother or Saucerful of secrets anyone?

 
the doors(one of my favorite and most influential bands) for sure man, watch the movie "the doors" by oliver stone its a great example. and i think it was Bradley from sublime that said "i was always good at musical instruments, but i never became a musician until i did heroin" or something like that..... but yes the majority of good influential bands were influenced by drugs
 
i dont know man whats your favorite album then? Animals is my favorite and i think dark side of the moon is really good too. I like meddle as well and atom heart mother, i personally didnt like there earlier stuff like piper at the gates of dawn to me its not the pink floyd sound that I like.
 
like i said, that's your opinon and you're welcome to it. that's why music exists. but saying an album is your favorite doesn't mean it's their best. i always havea hard time picking out a favorite or best of any good artist but if i had to choose my favorite pink floyd album it'd be either Dark Side or Wish You Were Here
 
just to clear this up with everyone, Syd Barret was the only one in the band who did drugs. But the stuff that came out of his mind when it happened built up most of "Piper at the Gate of Dawn". He did LSD chronically though, it fucked him up and destroyed all of his mental being. He would always be out of it staring into space and detuning his guitar. Roger had to improve throughout the gigs since Syd was incapable.

After they made him leave, they didn't change thier music style, they kept it psychedelic and artsy.

There is a MAJOR difference in sound when you compare their first 2 albums.
 
ha, waters and gillmore definitely did some psychedelics themselves, just not nearly on the level of syd. and yeah, listening to piper and darkside is like listening to two completely different bands.
 
It was a combination of LSD and Mescaline. And the rest of the band DEFINITELY did psychedelics, they were just responsible about it and used them in moderation.
 
i geuss that would make sense.

I'm just pulling facts out of the autobiography im reading.

I read all about their early stuff back in April, so I guess most is fuzzy to me
 
with all the positivity this kid posts with, he deserves some karma. 10/10 for my poor excuse for a brother!
 
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