Since When Are Drugs A Bad Thing?
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In just a short period of time I will be off to see the American hero himself, known to all as T6he Boss, the one and only Springsteen and his E Street Band (well what's left of the original band that is). Ever since childhood I have been a fan of the man through the length and breath of his astonishing career. Yet this is in a couple of months and not at this particular moment when I should be writing my next article for some scatterbrained website that finds my work too objective, it seems a reign of bad look has fallen upon me and me as od lately , but that is something to dwell upon at this point in time. My job as a writer (job been a loose term been that I feel that even at this point I have no right in saying such triviality) is to be fair, objective and willing to grant kudos to whatever subject I have decided to debate with myself on and anyone who dares to view there opinion. What is troubling me at the moment is the sheer concentration to one groups career then say another, I'll give an example that I'm sure a lot of music lovers in the know will agree with me, take Aerosmith in the seventies, a bunch of rag tailed, drug imbibing lunatics, who were hated by the musical press and adored by b teenager s and middle aged parents alike. Now this is something of a troubling matter that has left me awake many nights. Not only am I sick to the teeth of the output that this band is shoveling down the throats of there fans but the fact that they are respected for the fact that they have triumphed over addiction, near death experiences and all of the other things that been in a rock band is the coolest job ever. When did drugs become a bad thing? What happened so that nowadays rock stars are praised for seeking help over there addictions and there lacklustre music that has suffered because they are not imbibing natures evolutionary enhanced. Okay yeah there are some geniuses and bands out their that wrote inspiring, brilliant music and didn't need drugs to help them compose or live there lives and the one person who springs to mind who epitomises is Frank Zappa, a genius composer and guitarist who condemned drugs and republicans all in the same breathe, now myself I have indulged in drugs from time to time but found them overwhelmingly boring but that doesn't make me want to take a banner into the street and join there so called 'war on drugs' but it does make me wish that some bands that have lasted nearly thirty years (or more) would go back on them just so they can't start writing decent songs once again rather then seeking publicity just because they are teetotal or that they have been in fucking rehab which from what TV and popular culture has shown us dose nothing to help anyone get off it just gives people in turn an amount of blind faith. I am reminded by the old phrase by comedian Bill Hicks: "If you think that drugs have done no good for humanity then take all of your records, tapes and CD's and burn them!" That is a lesson that I stand by even though my attention is more focused on the musical side and the creative process of things then the wild myths that some bands are famous for. But I will say that if perchance a member of Aerosmith happens to read this then stop reading this trifle of opinion, find a dealer and srat the long recovery of writing good music because it is the right thing to do for you, your fans and the bands career. Do it!