Drug taking and rock music

[Arch Stanton]

I was reading Peter Hitchens who is scathing about 1960s pop culture as the rock musicians at the time explicitly condoned and reinforced an explosion in drug taking but rock musicians at the time never much spoke out against drugs or took any responsibility for the general population's drug use. Does he have a point ? We are talking relatively innocuous dope and acid in the 60s but it turned increasingly to the nastier stuff - coke and heroin in the 70s.

[laralatex]

Taking drugs effects the part of the brain associated with creativity and opens you up to ideas you may have rejected previously. Elton john is a prime case. His music went right down the pan after he gave up the old marching powder.

[Deuce Bigolo]

To put that era in perspective Doctors on TV ads were recommending you smoke cigarettes to improve your health

Can't see why Rockstars should have been the fools to speak out aggainst drugs when the authorities clearly couldn't carless

[Jonone]

Arch, drugs and popular music didn't coincide. You might as well frame the same question about the Romantic poets. Some people want to go over, under, sideways & down ... others don't. It's no biggie ..

[The Last Word]

laralatex wrote:

> Taking drugs effects the part of the brain associated with creativity and opens you up to ideas you may have rejected previously.

With good reason perhaps. Having worked in various creative fields (I still do) I can tell you two things drugs do to 'artistes': 1. miss deadlines, and 2. submit sub-par work.

[Deuce Bigolo]

Visit youtube for a few live performances and its easy to see the drugs at play

Makes me wish they were lip synching

[Deuce Bigolo]

Yellow submarine,underneath the sea