I hate to break this to you, but apparently...some rock stars are actually on HEROIN!
I don't wanna advocate heroin use, but I do want to write about why so many rock stars use heroin, and make this modern day deal with the devil.
You know a Rock Star even offered me Heroin once! I was lucky enough to actually capture it on video too. Here is is:
Kurt Cobain, Janis Joplin, Layne Staley, Shannon Hoon, Andrew Wood, Sid Vicious, Bradley Nowell...all dead junkies.
Others like, Jerry Garcia, Iggy Pop, Lou Reed, Nikki Sixx, Dave Navarro, Keith Richards, Duff McKagan, and basically all of the Red Hot Chili Peppers have had well documented histories with the drug. Even John Lennon had a brief period where he dabbled in Heroin. If you don't believe me here's a link to an article on The Daily Mail about it
My favorite Heroin Addict is former Guns N Roses drummer Steven Adler.
Do you fucking realize how much drugs you have to do to get kicked out of GUNS AND FUCKING ROSES!!!
SO WHY DO SO MANY ROCK STARS TAKE HEROIN?
1. IT MAKES YOU LOOK COOL. If you're a multimillionaire, jet-setting rock star who travels the world and is on magazines, television, & radio, there's not much you can do to get that coveted "bad boy" image that girls go wild about. Flirting with death on a daily basis is the the ultimate bad boy thing to do.
To be a rock star and a junkie is to rebel against society itself, and Rock n Roll is all about rebellion.
2. IT'S LEARNED BEHAVIOR.
The Rockers of 60's admired the old Blues & Jazz musicians that came before them who used heroin. Later generations of rockers admired and wanted to be like those 60's musicians and so on.
3. IT HELPS CREATIVITY. the old poets like Rimbaud, Keats, Shelly, Byron, Coleridge all experimented with Opiates and other substances.
“The road of excess leads to the palace of wisdom.”- William Blake
The old romantic poets believed that to live a nice comfortable life was fundamentally antagonistic to making real art.
It [heroin] slows life down and turns off the overrintellectualizing part of your brain - Steven Tyler
Creativity requires the absence of rational thought and civilized life is nothing, if not rational.
If the doors of perception were cleansed, everything would appear to man as it is, infinite - William Blake
4. IT'S HELPFUL. For a rock star who has a management team to handle every aspect of life that the rest of us deal with everyday like, food, clothes, bills, travel arrangements, the junkie rockstar is as far removed from the real world as the corner homeless junkie bum.
"the drug you do if you're
in a fuckin' four-star hotel and you can order all the goddamn room
service that you want and you can just lay in bed and drool all
over yourself because you've got a million bucks in the bank.
That's the drug you want to do if you want to be a kid forever." - Courtney Love on Heroin
If you're on the road playing to stadiums of sold out raving and drooling fans every night for two hours, heroin is there to even you out and calm you down.
When you have the boredom of waiting 22 hours everyday in hotels, airports, and buses for the only two hours of excitement of your day, Heroin is there help with that boredom.
When your entire life on tour is devoid of privacy because everybody wants something from you. Heroin is there to remove you from the world. It draws you into yourself.
And after touring for months or even years. Do you think its easy to suddenly go to a quiet, "normal" life at home with no excitement. Well heroin is there to help with that boredom too.
Whether you're a janitor, teacher, executive or stock broker, whatever your job may be, we all have our substances to help us manage, whether its a cold beer, a joint, a martini, a margarita or a line of coke.
The intense life of a rock star is not ordinary. Therefore no ordinary drug will do. Especially when money is no object.
Besides, I think rock music was at its most outrageous, most creative and innovative during the 60's and 70's when drug use was at it's height and rockers were dropping dead left and right.
The beatles, rolling stones, aerosmith, the eagles, 90's grunge, all made their best music on drugs.
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