9 years ago

Richey Edwards of the Manic Street Preachers 'disappeared'. :(

Edwards vanished from his London hotel before he was due to travel to the airport. His room contained a box covered in literary quotes and collages, containing presents for a close female friend.

Also left in the room were a packet of Prozac and a suitcase containing all of Edwards' clothes.

It is known he drove to his flat in Cardiff, where he left his passport and other documents, before leaving his car close to the Severn Bridge, a common suicide point.

He has since been 'sighted' in Tenerife and again in India. His missing personsa file is kept open by request of the family.

....Just thought some poeple might want to know....and im hella bored [img]graemlins/ohwell.gif[/img]

I never knew that cus i'm not a big manic fan. Sounds like he tried to top himself [img]graemlins/ohwell.gif[/img]

[Captain Beefheart]

If you don't believe drugs have done good things for us, then go home and burn all your records, all your tapes, and all your CD's because every one of those artists who have made brilliant music and enhanced your lives! [img]graemlins/dunce.gif[/img]


<tt>RrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrEAL ****ing high on drugs RIGHT NOW.</tt>

(picks up sledgehammer) Die Chopin, Liszt[...] you drugged up bastards! :D

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Drugs don't make music. It just so happens that many great musicians Armstrong, Hendrix ( essentially all Jazz musicians as well as Rock artists between 1960-1990) have used them.

Screw the reasoning that "drugs were their inspiration". They were naturally gifted and worked hard.

I bring up the argument of correlation ≠ causality quite frequently, but it is a strong one.

As a general rule, people who use drugs are simian-freaks. [img]graemlins/flame.gif[/img]

[ February 03, 2004, 08:08 PM: Message edited by: Dennis: ]

[Captain Beefheart]

Bach had an uncluttered mind when he wrote his stuff,(he might have had a couple of beers though) so did the great baroque composers of his day and before. Perhaps Byrd and Jaco Pastorius could have played better but would they have even gotten up on stage at all without drugs.? [img]smile.gif[/img]

This is a hard subject to debate and there a probably NO FACTS about drugs that apply or relate to creativity, the pressures of the music biz, touring, total loss of anonimity, ego, fear etc. Creative people are driven by difficult things, lack of attention, abusive parents, genius, teenage awkwardness, loss etc. Is there anyway to really answer the question "what would *they* have done without being on drugs?" Or that the results were be better or worse?

I'm not aruguing for the use of them, it's just, like most things, not black and white, despite studies and personal first hand experiences. But, If you want to be clinical about it, you can take each of the drugs, you can analyse what they do to your body, and you can analyse what they have done to different parts of society that have used them, and depending on what your values are, and how much you appreciate the performance of a person in a society who is not drug-altered, you'll be doing these things in different ways. In otherwords, I think LSD IS bad, because it confuses a lot of people and causes brain damage.

[ February 03, 2004, 10:13 PM: Message edited by: Captain Beefheart ]

"RrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrEAL ****ing high on drugs RIGHT NOW." I caught the Tool reference ;)

[Captain Beefheart]

Yeah it's taken from a Bill Hick's sketch. The other sample is from Timothy Leary. ;)