Why are there so many periods? It confuses me.

Easily confused, I take it?

They are convo dots.

Convo dots?

Yeah..convo...dots....they are my way of have making it look like I am talking to a person on a personal level..I know it makes no sense...but..its a habit.

i googled "convo" dots, and the only thing remotley close was aqua dots..

no convo dots though.

You pause that much when you talk in real life?

No, easily flustered.

And internet lingo and I are like oil and water.

Both liquid?;)

drugs and music? two words...Iggy pop.

Drugs have an affect on music. Just look at all the jazz musicians Louis Armstrong said he smoked marijuana every day, Charlie Parker was a major Heroin addict, so much so he named a song after his dealer, Dizzy Gillespie, Miles Davis. Pretty much up until Coleman Hawking came along jazz musicians thought that in order to be great you needed to be high on heroin. Also while he isn't a musician, William S. Burroughs is the most influential person when it comes to drugs and music. Any and everybody that did drugs or were drug bands were all influenced by Burroughs.

exactly, drugs and music go hand-in-hand....

Jimi hendrix came up with the song purple haze by having an acid trip

Thank you for this pertinent information, where would we be without you!?

You'd wake up in a desert in Arizona wondering why your butt hurts.

Because I wouldn't know Purple Haze was about acid, so I would have tried it and ended up in the situation you described. Good thinking champ.

The only drugs worth doing in my opinion are weed and mushrooms. Acid just ****s your head right up.

I think drugs and music go hand in hand, but you really need a balance. You also don't need drugs to be a great musician; there was a whole straight edge movement during the time of punk promoting the idea of being completely drug free. Drugs do, however, expand your perspectives and therefore enhance your creativity. The problem is that when you take too much, they start to kill it. Look at Syd Barrett for instance. Anyone seen any of his later live concerts with Floyd? He tripped so much he ended up getting on stage and playing random sounds from his guitar rather than the songs he was supposed to play.

Drugs and music? It's far easier to skin up on an LP than a CD. Unfortunately those days are behind me :(

Last time I got stoned was about two monthes ago and I had what I'm pretty sure was medicinal then walked around with some friends.

I put this song on and the lyric is "she won't start up" but I thought it said "she won't swallow" and I made everybody I was with listen to it with me and we thought it was the most hilarious thing ever.

Then this song came on and I was shaking my iPod. I thought the staticy sounding beats at the beginning were the iPod's response to me shaking it and I remember freezing and all the happiness draining out of me when I thought that I broke it. It faded away a moment later when the vocals started in and I laughed at myself.

Shit felt sooooo goooood.

if it wasn't for drugs and booze we'd all be listening to perry como or michael buble

Drugs are like sexuality, religion and politics. I don't care what behind-the-scenes influence they have on your music as long as you don't sing about them in every verse.

Sex and drugs are ugly, boring hippie shit!!!!!!!!

Well put. I hate artists who brag about chemical dependency, though when they capture the feel of being on drugs perfectly it draws me in a lot. It really comes down to originality.

But yeah this new wave of stoner rap (wiz khalifa, mac miller, smoke dza, currensy for the most part) is getting real cliche.

I'll take it over juggalo's reppin shasta or straight edge lyrics tho

As long as you use and control the drugs to your benefit verses "letting the drugs control you". I guess it is OK (for certain artist/people of course).

Enough said? I think so.

ditto

i never cared about the personal lives of the artists and i don't give a fine f**k what they do after their performances. so if they're into drugs and it inspires them, that's their deal not mine.

I might also add, I personally prefer getting "High" on the music itself :yeah: verses drugs.

So you don't like the artists with drug problems is what your saying?

whenever i smoke, i can write better reggae

otherwise it's pretty dull

the only music that i know which is most of the time associated with drugs is rap music. personally, i think of it as kind of degrading to the music. sending out wrong messages and all. but there's still some decent rap songs out there though.

Its not that I don't like them or their music, but when you look at so many good artist that have cut their life so short at a young age mainly because of drugs it can be quite disturbing at times. Jimi Hendrix, Jim Morrison, Kurt Cobain, and the list just goes on. What kind of music could have all of these artist went on to produce through the years, we will just never know.

that's just cause they did hard drugs which impede, rather than support the creative process

i don't think marijuana is any more harmful than cigarettes and alcohol

I see what your saying, but I personally think that alcohol is worse and more dangerous than most drugs are. (If your a lead vocalist..Kool-Aid or Gatorade).:laughing: Or a nice cup of hot tea with a little honey added...no wait, tea has caffeine in it. Oh hell! just drink whiskey strait, that's always a good remedy guaranteed to bring the best out of a lead vocalist:rolleyes:. (just kidding of course)

agree. all of them causes too much harm and bad influence on a person.

the beatles after doing drugs>the beatles before drugs

are you reading my post correctly?

i said marijuana is not as harmful as cigarettes or alcohol

smoke weed and listening to beetles, electronic, kid cudi it is the best

Far away in a land that most people don't inhabit anymore, they used to have a fishbowl on the piano in Jazz clubs in the 40's that would be full of roaches. Its been going on for along time, for better or worse and that said, drugs have been good for some and bad for others but the bottom line is that you should be able to perform without it, otherwise it's about the drugs and not the music.

David Crosby said in his autobiography that he got into it due to the boredom of waiting around to go for shows. Probably not every musician's rationale but it will serve.

I don't think that marijuana is bad in any way, shape or form for a performer. Drinking to excess is also bad during shows, but having a drink or two to loosen up isn't condemnable behavior in my eyes.

Nor is taking psychedelics when not performing. When taken in moderation, they really do allow for unrestricted, flowing thought processes and new ways of thinking / comprehending. It could aid in the creative process, but should by no means be necessary to the creative process.

Well... I'm pretty sure smoking anything (marijuana or otherwise) isn't very good for your lungs...

Is there actually any scientific proof of this? I keep hearing it weakens your creative process, but then I hear from others saying the opposite. Anyone care to shed some light on this?