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I very much agree with Mark, ...and the fact that what binds us freaks together is the interest in loops, in some bizarre love/interest in repetion/hypnosis, in the making of music and/or sounds that by their very nature produce a trancelike (or mind altered) state. Of course the aim of all music is to produce an emotional response, and the particular response that we loopers are looking for is some shortcut to our unconscious. That said are we not the very same bunch of people who, while not necessarily taking drugs, should embrace and empathise with those artists who do, for they themselves are using drugs to reach a place where their inspiration is pure emotion in a primal way, and therfore continue to push the boundaries of art/music to evermore meaningfull heights. I myself have used drugs on some occasions and have stopped now (mostly) I care a little too much for my health/bank balance and the crappy feeling the next day. There are risks of course, and I suspect that many addict musicians get to that position but taking drugs as a replacement for the adrenalin high that one experiences from playing live, and that is a shame, but inspirational careful non abusive use, I can see many benefits. DOPE TALE #1 I once played a gig completely left handed after taking acid, I didnt do it for some kind of intellectual experiment, I just forgot that I was right handed, the result? Well... I guess you could say that an industrial indie band became kinda... um....jazz? MArk Francombe Red Mark Sottilaro wrote: > > For all recorded history there are tales of artists and drugs. It seems > to be an indelible part of art "lore." Should the list avoid the > topic? Some feel uncomfortable with the topic, due to either bad > personal experience or bad press, but how can we avoid this topic. The > stereotype of the drug addled musician didn't come from nowhere. > > Back to the Bulgarians... I was actually tripping the first time I heard > the Bulgarian Woman's Choir. It made me cry with joy. If I had not > been tripping, my emotional response would probably not have been that > acute. Why? Internal social "noise" imprinted in most male humans > stifles such behavior. What the LSD did was put my "filter" off-line > for a while and let it all stream out (in?) with out that little mental > traffic cop, I call Mr. Conscious, pointing the way. > > Now, should I have been able to "go there" without LSD? Of course. But > how can one go to a place that one doesn't know exists? The reason I > don't do drugs any longer is that they've served their purpose for me. > I can get there on my own. Bizarre social constructs block most > creative free form thinking. Face it, true artists are few and far > between. We should not need to use any substance to access this > integral part of ourselves, but we also should not get scolded for > "coloring outside the lines." I'm one generation away from a time when > nuns beat my father for writing with his left hand. > > So how does one leapfrog over such social hurdles? I used > psychedelics. Now I cry like a baby when I see the episode where Snoopy > runs away...has anyone... Oh, sorry. I know I could have gotten to > where I am without drugs. That's tough for a boy raised in the land of > Malls. But I'm not sorry for wanting to see what inspired I Am The > Walrus. Or the Giles, Giles and Fripp album, for that matter. If > Robert Fripp wasn't tripping in those days, I'd be amazed. And speaking > of our heroes, has anyone listened to Adrian Belew's "1967" on Mr. Music > Head? > > Let's face it: a very large proportion of the music that we listen to > was created under the influence of some drug. (I include alcohol in that > list.) Why is this? I'd love to hear anyone else's theories. > > Mark Sottilaro -- \ -\ --\ ---\ ----\ -----\ ------\ -------\ --------\ ---------\ ----------\ -----------\ ------------\ mark-red-----\ --------------\ ---------------\ work------------\ -----------------\ in2win------------\ -------------------\ multimedia-designer-\ ovre-slottsgate-5----\ 0157-oslo-------------\ tlf.--22-40-29-94------\ fax--22-42-14-24--------\ e-mail--mark@in2win.com--\ web--http-//www.in2win.com\ ---------------------------\ ----------------------------\ personal---------------------\ tlf.-22-43-10-79--------------\ mob.-91-56-99-88---------------\ mark@8day.com-------------------\ christine@8day.com---------------\ ----------------------------------\ -----------------------------------\ redweb------------------------------\ http-//www.8day.com/redweb-----------\ --------------------------------------\ ---------------------------------------\ icq-4531031-----------------------------\ -----------------------------------------\