Famous Musicians and Drugs

Well incase you didnt know, my mom is making me see a drug counelor now. My councelor gave me the assignment of writing down 10 things from the internet I learned about musicians and drugs. So I'm trying to find 10 positive things, anybody wanna help me?

 

Try um, The Grateful Dead...

I dont know.

 

jim morrison

 

alcohol if you really want to call that a drug

 

usually, once the musicians get off the drugs, their music doesn't sound as good.




oh wait, positive.........

 

well since I know he wants me to say things like they got addicted and almsot died or over dosed and died or soemthing I wanna try and slap him in the face with something like "Acid was the coal that fueld the fire that powered the keln of my music" or some shit like that

 

Bob Dylan has altered more music history than anyone else, hell... creating the first music video (subterranean homesick blues) in 1966 (probably came to him when he was stoned), getting the beatles high for the first time, Everybody Must Get Stoned (Rainy Day Women #12 & 49... 12x49=420).

Champagne and Reefer by Muddy Waters... Also check out the jam version of Champagne and Reefer by SRV and Buddy Guy.

Reefer Man by Cab Calloway.

The Allman Bros. Band and shrooms . The lyrics to Blue Sky "You’re my blue sky, you’re my sunny day. Lord, you know it makes me high when you turn your love my way,"

Sublime... Bob Marley, Keller Williams (Stinky Green), Black Sabbath (Sweet Leaf), Led Zeppelin (Dazed and Confused), John Prine (Illegal Smile), Pink Floyd/Syd Barrett and acid, of course, the Grateful Dead and the acid tests. Phish and their lockdowns during the college days when they'd eat shrooms and write/jam, Van Morrison (And it Stoned Me), and Arlo Guthrie's Coming Into Los Angeles... etc. The pot leaf sticker on Alvin Lee's Gibson ES-335, Willie Nelson and NORML, Neil Young (Homegrown), Ray Charles, Billy Preston, Carlos Santana, David Crosby, etc.

Check out http://www.nndb.com You can find musicians who were busted for it. Just search for someone like Santana, then click on the list for "marijuana" and it'll show. Even Gregg was busted for possession.

 

This guy's going to be looking for positive things on society.
What positive effects ahve drug use give to society?

 

its not about society its baout the relatipnship between drugs and musicians

 

just tell him what he wants to hear...it'll make the whole process of bullshut "pot rehab" easier.

 

Yes, but once you have thoes, he's going to try to show you what deadbeats they are because they did nothing for society (Hey! Let's blame the drugs!).
Try to turn their musical accomplishments into something good for society.
I know how most conselor's work...

 

then I'll say who gives a shit about society, life shouldnt be about society and waht you did for it

 

Good on ya, mate!
Though you should care about society, this life is about personal growth.

 

Use what George said..

 

entire genre's were spawned from a drug kulture,

entire bands demographics existed because of drugs

smoking has molded all sorts of musicians voices into those that they used to make their money

lucy in the sky with diamonds......

white rabbit......

the song quoth the raven by the alan parsons project was based on a poem by edgar allen poe..... who happened to be a cocaine addict.....

the entire genre of drinking songs.......

my hat it has three corners (mr. rodgers used to sing it) is a drinking song.....

the band flogging molly do a great many drinking songs

as did the irish rovers

and great big sea

I'll bet you more than one gramming winning song has been written while the writer was drunk

or stoned

and I'll bet a lot of top 100's came out of smokers

or drinkers

or "junkies"

 

Give him a joint instead and some good music, and he shall se the good side.

 

or a bottle of vodka nad a karaoke machine.......

 

Vodka sucks.

 

but it'd get the job done......

 

Once, Keith Richards said: I made the best Stones' albums when I was on heroin.