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Old 04-07-2015, 04:02 AM   #5 (permalink)
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I have no experience with drugs but I do remember being told once that Neil Young and (maybe) David Crosby --- Young certainly --- came to their manager with what they said was the greatest ever song they had written. It was just fabulous. He would not believe it they said. He played it and all it was was Young hitting a cowbell for several minutes while they both giggled insanely.

Yup: they had been high when recording this "amazing music".. !
Or, to illustrate it the Seth MacFarlane way...
Which of course discounts all of the countless other actually good songs that have been made under the influence of drugs. I don't know much about the drug habits of prog bands, but I imagine that for the guy in Genesis to dress up like a flower on stage, substance assistance was probably part of his creative process.
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