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Enquiring minds, do tend to survey there options.
:) no I'm just waiting for clarification before I ask them to back up their vague assertions.
I've seen a lot of creative minds silence by substance induced stupors, but I can't say I've actually seen anyone getting more creative from said substances.
RB was extolling the virtues of acid for insight, and it may well have that effect on some, but it has yet to be proved that there is a direct link between drug consumption and creativity.
perhaps its better to differentiate between hallucinogenics and drugs as a whole though. The drugs that stop creatives in their tracks are typically mood altering ones, not mind altering.
and yeah, I have seen a lot of it first hand.
daniellle says she's got a list of drug taking successfuls, Id be interested in her opinion on whether the drug taking impacted positively on their creativity. but then again, how would she know.
Drugs are for people who can afford them.
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is your point that people are talented because they take drugs?
or do they take drugs because their talented?
and further to that are you asserting that their drug consumption is what makes them talented?
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I'm having difficulty interpreting the projection of this paragraph. robbery, are you talking about yourself.
maybe I was confused about your original point which I took to mean don't critise the artist unless you can prove you have fare better.
Its not about our achievements or not, its about theirs before, during and after drugs.
perhaps visual art works differently with drugs but its pretty well documented the effect it has on the creativity and productivity of ones career. There are exceptions, but not many.
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There's an old saying, most appropriate to that "when you point the finger, there's nine pointing back"
I don't see the relevance of that in this case. general public looking at the creative output of their artist elite. its irrelevant what the person making no creative claims has or hasn't done when commenting on the performance of others as an outsider, whether or not their miserable life has yielded little of value or not.
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or maybe its another music myth.
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for all this talk about the creative expansion that hard drugs offers, the reality appears to be that although you may be open to new and interesting ideas though drugs your inclination while on them is to do fuck all.
most artists creative peaks come when they're not tripping off their nuts or curled up in a stupor in the corner of their room with a needle hanging out their vein, simply because their in no state to produce anything while fucked out of their tree. Perhaps it's the period after the drug excess, but then again most recovering burn outs don't really produce anything of interest in their born again 12 steps completed phase either.
it must be the road to hard drugs that makes for good art then, or maybe there's no rule.
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if I write 'vinyl AK79'
duly noted as was the original geekness of the reference.
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mint condition vinyl AK79 or something?
They re released that on cd with bonus tracks seriously harming the value of the original vinyl version, but kudos for the reference, more obscure would have been the sausage records (four stars comp) which is ridiculously rare, even when it came out and houses a couple of bands which feature fran walsh of LOTR fame.
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If you ask me nicely, I can provide some trivia / an anecdote about their appearances at these venues...
I'd like to hear that, please
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how long does the Russell-Robbery-Off continue? It's been months now, hasn't it?
I'm conducting a media experiment.