Heroin and the great guitarists

[cmatthes]

Hey guys - this thread is getting a bit far-flung and potentially argumentative for the Main Board and becoming more "outer circle" stuff.

Salem - please try to limit your open-ended "discuss" threads, okay? If you have something relevant or really more Hamer/guitar/music related, let's stick to that okay?

[Matt Mattson]

"These people didn't do it all on their own."

Excellent point -- volumes of absolute garbage done on dope have been fixed in post by good producers just doing their jobs without fanfare.

[edgar_allan_poe]

Slim...don't assume people are talking directly to you. I did make a point on something you said, but others after me are commenting on the entire thread...not just your post.

[mudshark]

There were more folks hooked on opiates immediately after the Civil War than any other time in our history, and I don't see any skyrocketing creativity during that period. I would venture that most artists that did produce great stuff while hooked on stuff like that in later years would call messing with the stuff a mistake.

I just can't see where truly creative folks need any of that kind of stuff, and I'd say there's even more fantastically creative artists who never touched the stuff.

[Guest Buck Dharma]

I agree that most of my favorite albums were probably made while they were stoned in one way or another. But that was the times in the 60's and early 70's. The 80's pretty much sucked for music for what I like compared to earlier. But just to start some Flaming I think Eric Clapton is boring as hell since he stopped using Humbuckers and Heroin, coincidence? I think not!

[Disturber]

I Eric Clapton is boring as hell since he stopped using Humbuckers and Heroin, coincidence? I think not!

When he stopped using Heroin he

turned in to Phil Collins bearded brother.

(Help)

[salem]

There were more folks hooked on opiates immediately after the Civil War than any other time in our history, and I don't see any skyrocketing creativity during that period.

Some of my favorite albums were recorded during the Civil War.

[earachemyeye]

All my friends are skeletons, beat the rythm with their bones.

Joe

[hamertek98]

Of all the music listed before about the bands being on drugs.... I got high listening to a lot of it. I quit getting high years ago and a lot of the music lost it's "magic." A lot of music sounds even better now. Kinda listening for the first time, so to speak. I bring out old shit from time to time and find a lot of stuff I never really appreciated the first time around. If someone was cranked or not... only they know. All I can say is try and do better, without losing your family and life....