Axl Rose embraces his inner has-been!

[SteyrAUG]

Pot doesn't make you talented, or help creative thoughts happen.

It makes you irritating, lazy, and hungry.

Hallucinogens are what helps creative thoughts happen.

Extreme examples: The Beatles, Smashing Pumpkins, and The Who. And most likely the Misfits.

I'm not really buying that one too much either. Otherwise every dirty hippy from the 60s would have been scary talented and Folk music would never have existed.

I think talented and creative people simply do drugs and bang hot chicks. But neither of those activities makes you creative or talented. Sure you can get "ideas", without a doubt we'd have never heard a peep about The Walrus were it not for drugs, but ideas aren't talent and creativity.

So I'm willing to accept drugs can provide inspiration and source material. I'm just saying without drugs these people would simply make good music that might actually be understood.

[Magic_Salad0892]

I'm not really buying that one too much either. Otherwise every dirty hippy from the 60s would have been scary talented and Folk music would never have existed.

I think talented and creative people simply do drugs and bang hot chicks. But neither of those activities makes you creative or talented. Sure you can get "ideas", without a doubt we'd have never heard a peep about The Walrus were it not for drugs, but ideas aren't talent and creativity.

So I'm willing to accept drugs can provide inspiration and source material. I'm just saying without drugs these people would simply make good music that might actually be understood.

This is what I was trying to say.

Music is definitely better with the drugs. IMHO.

[one]

Because he eats past the food and through his hands.

[Irish]

Hallucinogens are what helps creative thoughts happen.

Extreme examples: The Beatles, Smashing Pumpkins, and The Who. And most likely the Misfits.

Another extreme example would be the late Steve Jobs of Apple fame. http://politics.salon.com/2011/10/08...icy/singleton/

[SteyrAUG]

This is what I was trying to say.

Music is definitely better with the drugs. IMHO.

We'll probably never know. But we might have gotten a few more Hendrix albums were it not for drugs. I still believe a lucid Beatles would have produced albums equally remarkable. I just think drugs are a lifestyle of many creative people, I don't think drugs create creative people.

[Magic_Salad0892]

I just think drugs are a lifestyle of many creative people, I don't think drugs create creative people.

I don't think drugs CREATE creative people. I think it helps inspire them.

I understand what you're getting at though.

[montanadave]

In my experience, drugs can provide a novel experience which can prove revelatory. For the artistic and creative, the experience can be a rich source of inspiration. The problem arises when folks attempt to replicate that initial "novel" experience. It's only new once.

Like Heraclitus observed, you can't step in the same river twice. And those poor bastards that keep chasing the dragon generally end up either disillusioned or dead.

[Jake'sDad]

Soon, he'll be on the Indian casino circuit, doing Richard Cheese's act, doing him..........

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=0Dob-usX_rE

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Mr7EBuz-2xI

[Jake'sDad]

We'll probably never know. But we might have gotten a few more Hendrix albums were it not for drugs.

Or he might have just gone on to tour with Little Richard or the Isley Brothers for another 40 years......

Or just faded into funk history.....

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=IdWfd...eature=related

I still believe a lucid Beatles would have produced albums equally remarkable.

Afaik, none of the Beatles think or thought so.

40 years ago we were trying to convince Mom that the Beatles's songs weren't about drugs.

Turns out, even the one's we didn't think were about drugs, were.......

Got to get you into my life

[SteyrAUG]

Turns out, even the one's we didn't think were about drugs, were.......

Not all of them.

The Beatles - Masters Of Snipercraft...

Come together (bullet and target)
A story about a sniper on a mission to assassinate a ChiCom General



Here come old flattop
(Flattop, meaning he’s got an A3 upper or that he’s a jarhead)
he come grooving up slowly
(cool head, always checks his six)
He got joo-joo eyeball
(high power optic on his rifle)
he one holy roller
(top security clearance)
He got hair down to his knee
(wears his ghillie suit)
Got to be a joker he just do what he please
(definite covert op, Company disavows all knowledge of his activities)


He wear no shoeshine
(OD camo, blends in with the locals)
he got toe-jam football
(Codename for the mission)
He got monkey finger
(One shot, one kill trigger finger)
he shoot coca-cola
(HALO Jump insertion)
He say I know you, you know me
(He knows the recognition codes for extraction)
One thing I can tell you is you got to be free
(He’s ready to make the world safe for democracy)
Come together right now over me
(Visualizes the bullet hitting it’s target through his scope)


He bag production
(humping through the jungle to target)
he got walrus gumboot
(“Walrus” his spotter is with him)
He got ono sideboard
(His target is in sight)
he one spinal cracker
(A kill shot coming into view)
He got feet down below his knee
(in shooting position)
Hold you in his armchair you can feel his disease
(Target hit, and eliminated)
Come together right now over me
(Bullet and target have come together, objective reached)


He roller-coaster
(He’s high-tailing it out of there)
he got early warning
(He sees the enemy approaching)
He got muddy water
(Crosses stagnant river to get away from enemy)
he one mojo filter
(Calls in for suppressing fire)
He say one and one and one is three
(He sees the enemy dropping one by one)
Got to be good-looking ’cause he’s so hard to see
(He signals the chopper by popping smoke)
Come together right now over me
(Recaps the mission for his superiors. Mission accomplished.)