Hi,
Big Soap Box Editorial!!!!!!!
I do not believe that drugs have anything to do with it, or drink. It might affect your motor sensibilities and your erection (sorry ladies!) but so what? ... nothing else does?
There is just as much in life that has nothing to do with drugs ... like you never had sex without drugs and ... ooooppppssss ... she got pregnant ... or ... you had 2 six packs with her and you now have a kid ... or a song! ... or a symphony! ... or a concerto ... or a bagatelle!
It's the samething in music ... SO WHAT?
There is only one issue ... we're not honest enough to talk about other things that some folks would rather hide as dirty and not discuss'able in this board in detail (... of course ... !!! except Bapu'ism!) ... but to say that in the end, drugs or not, sex or not, whatever ... is NOT the same person is not cool ... it's still the same mind, body and person ... but we refuse to accept "experience" in different areas and realms ... because they are "bad".
Enough!
I can not think a discussion more demeaning and insulting to the human spirit than the one to deny the actual experience that you went through ... drugs or not! ... or as Aleister Crowley once said ...
if you're going to deny your experience, you're already dead anyway! It doesn't matter to me if you drink, dope or whatever ... just what have you got for music, or artistic end? If you don't know that by now ... you will never be an artist of the heart that can create some exciting things ... you have to let go of all ideas and stupidity ... if you want to "play" and be a part of the "Magic Theater"!