Posts by Danielle
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Our household is now in a blue funk: we await the anointing of President McCain. Sigh.
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And John Entwistle. And Keith Moon. The list is nearly endless. And poor old David Bowie can't remember several years of his life...
I mainly blame racquetball at 4am followed by a mighty bathroom visit for Elvis' demise, though. :)
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Oh, another example: the increasing use of E in the American hiphop community in the late 90s/early 00s. Timbaland and Missy and OutKast clearly added stuff to their production based on that drug.
(Actually, I think my entire argument can basically be boiled down to one Flaming Lips compilation title: Finally The Punk Rockers Are Taking Acid. Heh.)
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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.
Oh, I wouldn't. I'm not creative at all. And I couldn't say that the drugs caused the creativity in my list of drug-taking musicians, either. As we all know, correlation does not equal causality. It may very well be that all the creativity would have existed without the drug-taking.
What I *do* think is that the types of drugs the musicians are taking have an effect on the way in which the music is expressed. Look at the Beatles: the early albums are all amphetamine-fuelled; Help and Rubber Soul are the pot albums; Revolver and Sgt Pepper are the acid albums. All of Elvis Costello's early records are heavily informed by speed and alcohol, otherwise he wouldn't have been spitting out the words so damn fast (see also: The Who, pre-bombast). The Eagles and Fleetwood Mac and David Bowie all made records in which cocaine was a heavy influence.
Time and again I tell myself
I'll stay clean tonight
But the little green wheels keep following me
(Oh no, not again)
I'm stuck with a valuable friend
I'm happy, hope you're happy tooIt doesn't mean they're more creative because they're taking drugs. But the drugs are definitely an influence of some kind.
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Is this where we quote Bill Hicks?
(I started listing all the talented and successful drug-taking musicians, but then realised that my post was going to be so long that no one would read it...)
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Erm...
Searching for the Young Seoul Rebels
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If I may suggest some future post titles:
We Got More Seoul
Seoul Finger
Sweet Seoul Music -
Well, but that's not common-or-garden 'familiarity'. That's just being a rude jerk.
(It's so hard to find good help these days, isn't it?)
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Bring back the Zeppelin.
Oh, the humanity!
Lawrence Lessig, incidentally, is coming to speak to the LIANZA conference in Auckland in November. For those who are interested in that sort of thing.
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'Condition' is a song of badassery. I love it so much.
(The Supergrass version is good, too.)