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| barbinberkeley |
Posted - 27/08/2007 : 05:59:32
Why do musicians seem to have more substance abuse issues than other people, or is that really the case. I can see working late in places where there is alcohol, and the lonliness of touring, but is there something else? I was thinking of all the great musicians we've lost especially from alcohol and heroin. |
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| myoungish |
Posted - 05/09/2007 : 08:15:28
There's a perfect little gem by Iggy Pop called Some Weird Sin (on Lust for Life) which really sums up so much:
Things get too straight
I can't bear it
I feel stuck..stuck on a pin
That's when I want
SOME WEIRD SIN
just to relax with
Just some weird sin...
Michael Young |
| rocker |
Posted - 31/08/2007 : 14:25:41
..yeah...a howler! good article btw.... Keef..always one-up! I like his attitude..."I'm happy to be here. I'm happy to be anywhere". You know I think one of your respected bbc or good news reporters should get Keith in a studio for a couple of hours and do the "interview" for all time. What he has in that head of his I can only imagine.
I think he has to be up there as one of the greatest personalities in modern music. |
| John9 |
Posted - 31/08/2007 : 00:50:29
Rocker - I think you're right - Keith will probably see us all out. It seems incredible that it is now more than 36 years since he co-wrote and played on 'Sister Morphine'. I don't know whether or not you have seen this piece that appeared in 'The Independent' newspaper a couple of years back - but I especially like the Grim Reaper joke in the first paragraph:
http://news.independent.co.uk/people/profiles/article306495.ece |
| Alone Again |
Posted - 30/08/2007 : 19:28:28
quote:
Originally posted by barbinberkeley
Oh, he's been lookin like that fer years. what's really fun is to listen to him talk. Check out Weird Al Yankovics interview with Keith Richards on Google Video.
Didnt buy it myself i just had a flick through it.they have 50 drug stories from different books.theres also a few feature articles about artist and the different drugs that each took like Motley Crue-Heroin,Fleetwood Mac-Cocaine,Procol Harum-Psychedilia,Pink Floyd-LSD & AC/DC-Booze.dont know how much detail it went into about their addictions and why but it did seem like a good read.
Dont know if that issue is available in the US maybe in the next week or 2 as its only just out here now. |
| rocker |
Posted - 30/08/2007 : 16:54:25
...thx...he's a character..says he wants to live to 150...we won't be missing him soon!... |
| John9 |
Posted - 30/08/2007 : 16:36:55
Here in the UK there is a very popular TV show called 'Have I Got News For You'- it is a comical and satirical take on the week's events. Some years ago a photograph appeared on the screen showing six men shouldering a huge industrial syringe. The programme's caption - "Concern mounts at the increasing scale of Keith Richards' drugs habit." - elicited roars of laughter. |
| rocker |
Posted - 30/08/2007 : 14:19:50
..read that Keith et al maybe won't be playing again?..guess y'all be seeing him more now at Boots the chemist, eh?... . |
| barbinberkeley |
Posted - 30/08/2007 : 05:05:59
Hey Alone Again, I can't find that magazine Classic Rock. Could you summarize what they said about musicians using downers? Thanks, if you have the time. |
| barbinberkeley |
Posted - 30/08/2007 : 00:31:14
Oh, he's been lookin like that fer years. what's really fun is to listen to him talk. Check out Weird Al Yankovics interview with Keith Richards on Google Video. |
| John9 |
Posted - 29/08/2007 : 22:24:53
Yet another coincidence - Keith Richards has been in the news over here this very day. You can read all about it at the BBC:
http://news.bbc.co.uk/1/hi/entertainment/6968887.stm
But it can't really be Keith can it........not our Keith? As you can see from the photo, just like Jimmy Page he's been looking really good lately. |
| rocker |
Posted - 29/08/2007 : 21:14:29
heh heh yeah and that's why we've got to hear what keef, the old boy scout once, says...
"The music business has never been any different.It's a pool of piranhas. You want to get in there? You better be not tasty".
"I never go to bed. I just keep going until I pass out".
"Some doctor told me I had six months to live,and I went to their funeral..I don't trust doctors".
"The one thing I'll never do (again) is the dope..Everything else is up for grabs. Why wouldn't I do the dope again? Because I've been there and done that and it's (expletive deleted) painful, man. The other (idiots) are doing it all the time and I pity them".
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| jellybean |
Posted - 29/08/2007 : 16:48:43
I still stand by my theory that keef actually popped off years ago but he was that pickled that his organs carried on regardless and he floats round like some guitar playing ghoulie ghosty
you know i'm right  |
| rocker |
Posted - 29/08/2007 : 14:43:51
Keith..he's something, eh? Wonder what he's going to say in the bio he's said to be working on.
Drugs and rock'n'roll.....a combination that appears to go hand in hand. My own theory..the rock'n'roll life is a killer and it can take people into areas that they perhaps don't thave the wherewithal to handle the stresses. It's an atypical life on our planet. Many are called few are chosen to handle the grasping achievement of fame. |
| John9 |
Posted - 29/08/2007 : 09:01:23
It's probably difficult to generalise - but affluence and the attendant boredom I would imagine bring with them the need for continual sensory gratification - and with this any notion of safe boundaries goes out of the window. I especially admire two personalities in music who went against the current on this: Donovan, who in the sleevenotes to his album 'A Gift From A Flower To A Garden' urged young people to turn away from drugs - and Frank Zappa who actively enforced a strict ban on drugs within his band The Mothers Of Invention - this of course belied the 'counter culture' image projected by the group.
Barbinberkely - coincidentally, Jimmy Page was the subject of a 'University Challenge' quiz question in the UK on Monday. The riff from 'Whole Lotta Love' was played and the competing teams - from Oxford and Cambridge - were asked to identify the gutarist. One young hopeful buzzed in with "Jimmy Plant" - then the other team offered "Robert Plant". Mind you in a similar question Keith Richards reputation didn't fare any better! Keith Richards - now there's an epic tale of drugs survival - rock's very own Grim Reaper! |
| barbinberkeley |
Posted - 29/08/2007 : 00:58:39
I was specifically wondering about the use of downers, alcohol and heroin. Those are the ones that have finished off the most of them. I wasn't thinking so much of the psychedelics, because they have such a different effect, and don't result in death, unless you try to fly off a building.
Incidentally, Jimmy Page looks great lately. I saw him on a guitar magazine, and he looked so happy and healthy. At least he made it through when many others didn't. I will check out the Classic Rock drug issue if you recommend it, Alone Again. |
