Path: utzoo!attcan!utgpu!jarvis.csri.toronto.edu!mailrus!cwjcc!tut.cis.ohio-state.edu!bloom-beacon!GAFFA.MIT.EDU!Love-Hounds-request From: Love-Hounds-request@GAFFA.MIT.EDU Newsgroups: rec.music.gaffa Subject: Re: Peter Gabriel & Drugs Summary: Who Cares? Message-ID: <993@gould.doc.ic.ac.uk> Date: 21 Aug 89 16:41:43 GMT References: Sender: daemon@bloom-beacon.MIT.EDU Reply-To: Love-Hounds@GAFFA.MIT.EDU Organization: Dept. of Computing, Imperial College, London, UK. Lines: 36 Approved: love-hounds@eddie.mit.edu Really-From: John Precedo In article Love-Hounds@GAFFA.MIT.EDU writes: >Really-From: Matthew Tobias Diamond > >This is getting a little annoying. The "Pete never touches the stuff" >contingent has referred to articles that he is clean, at least in recent years. >The "Pete was a serious user" folks are using Lamb Lies Down on Broadway >as the primary justification for their opinion... >My personal opinion is that you can't really tell whether a musician >uses drugs or not solely on the basis of their work. OK, well here's my personal opinion. Who cares if a musician uses drugs or not? If an individual wishes to kill themselves slowly by using various pharmacutical substances, then it's their funeral, right? And if their music goes down the tubes, then they are not progressing as a musician. But why should the two be judged as one subject? Unless s/he specifically says "My music is lousy because I'm permanantly stoned". But they may use drugs and still produce good music...so worry about the music, not the drugs. If I listen to a (to me) totally new piece of music, I don't care if the artist was on drugs or hanging upside down from the roof eating a pineapple as long as it SOUNDS GOOD. Me, I'm still trying to overdose on caffeine! >I hope I'm not coming across too strongly here; just trying to make a point. Don't worry about that, so is everyone else! --John ============================================================================== Dept. of Computing JANET : jp@gould.doc.ic.ac.uk Imperial College 180 Queens Gate The above are all my opinions...but if I don't care London SW7 2BZ about them, why should you? ===============================================================================