Interesting topic .... One of my psychologist friends once told me that musicians struggle with compulsive disorders of various kinds and drug addiction falls into that category. Maybe it's the same gene that makes these people such great artists, their ability to follow their own impulses very freely, that also makes them vulnerable to become addicts. It's very sad. I often wonder how much more Jimi Hendrix would have created had he still been around, or Charlie Parker, or .... Some of them were just lucky enough to live through it an eventually pull out of the spiral, like Eric Clapton for instance. But I don't think that drug use made these artists any better than they really were. It was something that they were sucked into because of who they were. And it has destroyed many of these great artists. --Fife
